Patent ID: 8683711

Claim:
A clothes dryer comprising: a cabinet; a drying drum rotatably installed within the cabinet; a heat pump system that provides heat to target items to be dried received in the drying drum; and a heat pump system modularized housing that collectively modularizes a condenser, a compressor, an evaporator and an expansion valve that constitute the heat pump system, the housing including: a first space part providing a first flow path; a second space part providing a second flow path; and an intermediate part forming space between the first and second space part, wherein the first flow path is independent from the second flow path, wherein the first flow path is a pass through via the condenser, wherein the second flow path is a pass through via the evaporator, wherein a through hole is formed in a wall of the intermediate part, and wherein a first portion of air in the cabinet passes via the condenser along the first flow path and a second portion of air in the cabinet different from the first portion of air passes via the evaporator along the second flow path.