Patent ID: 7788822
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: F26B,H01L,H05K

Abstract:
1. A drying apparatus comprising: a hermetically sealed drying box positioned in a transportation passage on which a wet object is transferred after being washed with a liquid, the drying box having an entrance and an exit to allow the wet object to enter and leave the drying box; a first dry air discharge means for blowing and directing dry air at the wet object traveling on the transportation passage; and means for moving the first dry air discharge means rectilinearly in a direction parallel to the surface of the wet object and perpendicular to a transporting direction in which the wet object is transferred at the same time that the wet object is being transported through the drying box, wherein the means for moving the first dry air discharge means comprises a nozzle bracket having transverse ends spaced apart from one another, and wherein the first dry air discharge means comprise a plurality of spray nozzles mounted to the transverse ends of the nozzle bracket and comprising a discharge port in the form of an elongated slit extending in the transporting direction.