| 摘要 |
A clothes dryer including a cabinet, a drum, a condenser, a sump, a drawer, a hose, a condensate pump, and a condensed water container. The drawer includes a bucket for receiving condensed water which overflows from the condensed water container, and a condensate discharge pipe formed at the bucket to discharge condensed water collected in the bucket. When the drawer is stored in the cabinet, the sump is connected to the condensate discharge pipe such that condensed water introduced through the condensate discharge pipe is returned to the sump. When the drawer is withdrawn from the cabinet, the sump includes a sump connection pipe separated from the condensate discharge pipe. |
| 主权项 |
1. A clothes dryer comprising:
a cabinet; a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet to accommodate clothes; a condenser, disposed in a circulation path, to condense humid air exhausted from the drum, the circulation path passing through the drum; a sump, disposed in the circulation path, to collect condensed water generated by the condenser; a drawer withdrawably stored in the cabinet; a condensed water container separably stored in the drawer; a hose connected to the sump; and a condensate pump to transfer condensed water in the sump through the hose to the condensed water container when the drawer is stored in the cabinet, wherein the drawer comprises: a bucket to receive condensed water which overflows from the condensed water container; and a condensate discharge pipe formed at the bucket to discharge condensed water collected in the bucket, wherein when the drawer is stored in the cabinet, the sump is connected to the condensate discharge pipe such that condensed water introduced through the condensate discharge pipe is returned to the sump, and when the drawer is withdrawn from the cabinet, the sump comprises a sump connection pipe separated from the condensate discharge pipe. |
