Clothes Cabinet Air Filtration for Odor and Dust Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing clothes treating apparatuses face challenges in optimizing air circulation, which can lead to the transfer of odors or dust from clothes to other items or apparatus parts, and do not effectively remove foreign substances and odors from the circulated air.
Innovation Solution
A clothes treating apparatus with a cabinet and an air supplying device that generates dry air, featuring a filter assembly at the inlet to filter out dust and odors, and a moisture supplying device to refresh clothes, ensuring uniform air distribution and effective removal of foreign substances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If air circulation is implemented in the clothes treating apparatus, then clothes can be dried and treated effectively, but odors and dust from clothes may be transferred to other clothes or apparatus parts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts harmful substances (odors and dust) from the air circulation system by installing a filter assembly at the inlet of the air supplying device. This removes the harmful factors before they can be redistributed to other clothes or apparatus parts, while maintaining the beneficial air circulation for drying and treatment.
Solution Approach 2:
The filter assembly acts as an intermediary component between the air circulation system and the clothes. It mediates the air flow by filtering out harmful substances while allowing clean air to pass through, thus enabling effective clothes treatment without odor and dust transfer.
2Productivity
If air circulation is used to treat clothes, then drying and wrinkle removal functions are achieved, but dust and nap are supplied to apparatus parts causing trouble
Solution Approach 1:
The filter assembly extracts dust and nap from the circulated air before these particles can reach and interfere with apparatus parts. This maintains the reliability of the apparatus while preserving the effective air circulation needed for treating clothes.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If filter assembly is installed in the inlet, then dust and odors are removed from circulated air, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The filter assembly is designed to be detachably installed in the inlet, allowing users to easily remove, clean, or replace the filter themselves. This self-service design minimizes the need for complex maintenance systems and reduces overall device complexity while maintaining air purity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus effectively refreshes clothes by uniformly distributing hot and dry air, removes foreign substances and odors from the air, and prevents dust and odors from being transferred to other clothes or apparatus parts.
Implementation Method 1
a filter assembly installed in the inlet, and filtering the air passing through the inlet
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a clothes treating apparatus, which treats clothes into a more wearable condition. A clothes treating apparatus includes a cabinet; an accommodating space defined in the cabinet to accommodate clothes, and maintained in a stationary state; an air supplying device generating dry air and supplying the dry air into the accommodating space such that the dry air is circulated in the accommodating space, wherein the air supplying device includes an inlet provided at a bottom of the accommodating space such that the air in the accommodating space flows into the air supplying device through the inlet; and a filter assembly installed in the inlet, and filtering the air passing through the inlet.