Patent ID: 9279212
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: D06F

Claim Text:
1. A washer/dryer comprising a body, a drum situated inside the body, wherein a laundry is emplaced, a fan that aspirates humid air generated in the drum, a chamber configured as a volute wherein the humid air aspirated by the fan can circulate, at least one inlet orifice allowing inflow of the humid air into the chamber, at least one outlet orifice allowing the discharge of air and at least one thermoelectric module disposed in the chamber, having a cold side that contacts the humid air flow condensates the moisture by absorbing the heat in the surroundings for removing the moisture of the humid air received into the chamber and a hot side that subsequently heats the dehumidified dry air for delivery to the drum, and at least one flap disposed in the chamber that controls the flow rate of the air flowing over both the cold side and the hot side of the thermoelectric module and wherein the inlet orifice of the chamber and the outlet orifice of the chamber are connected so that inflow of humid air passes over both the cold side and the hot side of the thermoelectric module before leaving the outlet orifice for the drum, guides that direct the humid air circulating in the chamber and prevent the corner losses, and a control unit that controls the at least one flap and thus the flow rate of the air passing over the thermoelectric module and wherein the at least one inlet orifice allowing inflow of humid air into the chamber is at least two inlet orifices, and wherein the at least one thermoelectric module is at least two thermoelectric modules disposed in the chamber such that the hot side of each of the at least two thermoelectric modules face each other, and wherein the shape of the chamber is such that the air received into the chamber from each of the at least two inlet orifices first contact at least one of the cold side of at least two thermoelectric modules, and wherein the at least one outlet orifice is one outlet orifice that is positioned between a path formed between the hot sides of the at least two thermoelectric modules facing each other.