Patent ID: 11932983
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC D  F | IPC D  F

Claim 0:
1. A clothes dryer comprising:
a cabinet;
a drum rotatably supported in the cabinet;
a supply port configured to guide air into the drum;
an exhaust port configured to guide the air in the drum to an outside of the drum; and
a lint removing apparatus configured to remove lint from the air passing through the exhaust port,
wherein the lint removing apparatus includes:
a lint filter configured to capture lint,
a screw conveyor rotatably installed to scrape and collect the lint captured in the lint filter,
a driving device including a motor, and configured to generate power,
a first coupler connected to the driving device to receive the power from the driving device,
a second coupler having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first coupler in order to directly couple to the first coupler to transmit the power to the screw conveyor and arranged with the first coupler along a direction in which the screw conveyor extends, and
an elastic member configured to elastically press the first coupler in a disengaged state with the second coupler to an engaged state with the second coupler.