A clothes treating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a hanger on which clothes are hung and a blower unit having an air vent for blowing wind toward the clothes hung on the hanger. The hanger includes a supporter connected to the air vent of the blower unit, wherein a wind receiving space is formed inside the supporter, and a shoulder supporter extending from the supporter and forming a wind discharging space connected to the wind receiving space, wherein shoulder portions of the clothes are hung on the shoulder supporter. The wind discharging space includes a body wind path formed to blow wind toward a body portion of the clothes, and sleeve wind paths formed to blow wind toward sleeves of the clothes and diverging at an entrance of the body wind path. The body wind path includes an enlarged wind path portion which is formed at an exit of the body wind path and of which a wind path is enlarged downstream.

The present disclosure relates to a clothing treatment apparatus comprising: a first cabinet forming the outer appearance; a first drum of a cylindrical shape having open front and rear surfaces; a second cabinet located under the first cabinet; a tub located in the second cabinet; a second drum located in the tub to be rotatable and accommodating clothing; a first air suction duct for sucking the air in the first drum; a second air suction duct for sucking the air in the tub; a connection duct connected to the first air suction duct and the second air suction duct and including a heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the sucked air; a first exhaust duct for discharging the air, which has exchanged heat via the heat exchanger, to the first drum; and a second exhaust duct for discharging the air, which has exchanged heat via the heat exchanger, to the tub.

A clothes dryer including a cabinet including an inlet and a base; a drum inside the cabinet, a support frame including a front support frame supporting a front end portion of the drum, and having a laundry inlet, and a rear support frame supporting a rear end portion of the drum; a blow fan below the front support frame; and a guide portion behind the blow fan, and connected with the blow fan. The blow fan and the guide portion may be configured so that the blow fan is operable to move outside air to inside of the cabinet, and the guide portion guides a first portion of the outside air moved inside of the cabinet by the blow fan toward a gap between the drum and the front support frame to dry air leaking from between the drum and the front support frame.

A clothes dryer including a cabinet, a drum rotatably installed inside the cabinet, a heat pump provided to generate hot air to be supplied to the inside of the drum, a fan provided to induce the hot air generated by the heat pump to the inside of the drum, a hot air supply duct connected to a rear surface of the drum to guide the hot air induced by the fan to the inside of the drum, a scroll provided to accommodate the fan to guide the hot air discharged from the fan to the hot air supply duct, and a discharge duct provided to connect the scroll and the hot air supply duct, wherein a rear surface of the scroll is positioned in front of a rear surface of the hot air supply duct, and the scroll is disposed obliquely in a direction of facing the rear surface of the hot air supply duct.

A washing machine with drying function includes a cabinet, a tub inside the cabinet, and provided with a front opening to allow laundry to be introduced and removed and a back opening, a drum rotatable inside the tub. A heated air supplying device which includes a heat exchange part, an inlet duct disposed at one side of the tub, and formed to guide air that is introduced from a rear side of the heated air supplying device toward the heat exchange part, a supply duct disposed at another side of the tub, and formed to guide air that passed the heat exchange part to be discharged to a front side of the heated air supplying device, and a fan at a front side the tub, and configured to cause an airflow such that air being discharged from the supply duct is supplied to the front opening of the tub.

The present disclosure relates to a clothing treatment device capable of omitting a frame for structurally connecting an inner case and a cabinet by filling a foaming agent between the inner case and the cabinet forming an appearance. The clothing treatment device comprises a cabinet having an opening at the front thereof: a door which is rotatably provided in front of the opening to open and close the opening; an inner case which is provided in the cabinet to form an accommodation space in which clothes are accommodated, and a hot air supply unit which is provided at the lower portion of the inner case to supply at least one of hot air and moisture to the accommodation space, wherein the inner case is formed of a styrene resin that maintains adhesion to the foaming agent injected into the inner portion of the cabinet.

A drying appliance includes a cabinet. A drum processes articles of laundry. The drum is positioned for rotational operation within the cabinet. A blower directs process air through a recirculating airflow path that includes the drum. The drum and the blower are activated in an operating state and deactivated in an idle state. A first operable vent is positioned proximate a front of the cabinet. A second operable vent is positioned proximate a rear of the cabinet. The first and second operable vents define an open position after the drum and the blower define the idle state. The first and second operable vents define a closed position after the drum and the blower define the operating state.

Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a laundry treating apparatus, if a user selects a uniform course, including performing a preheating operation of a heater to generate steam, performing a first cooling operation to operate a blower unit and a moving hanger after the preheating operation has been terminated, performing a steam operation to operate the blower unit and a steam unit and to circulate steam to a treating chamber after the first cooling operation has been terminated, performing a standby operation to operate the blower unit after the steam operation has been terminated, performing a second cooling operation to operate the blower unit after the standby operation has been terminated, and performing a drying operation to operate the blower unit and a heat pump unit and to provide heat to the treating chamber to dry the treating chamber after the second cooling operation has been terminated.

The heat pump system and the electrical heating system of a clothes dryer are controlled to work cooperatively, thus allowing the clothes dryer to at least comprise a fast mode in which the electrical heating pipe of the heating system is turned on after the compressor of the heat pump system is turned on and operated stably. Air about to enter the clothes drying drum is controlled to be firstly heated by the condenser of the heat pump system and further heated by the electrical heating pipe, and then to enter the clothes drying drum, and the load of the heat pump system is reduced in an auxiliary condensing manner, when the load of the heat pump system is close to the maximum load. Therefore, simultaneous working of the electrical heating system and the heat pump system is ensured, and the clothes drying speed is improved.

A drain pump is provided that may include a pump motor; an impeller connected to a rotational shaft of the pump motor. The impeller may include a circular hub, an impeller shaft that extends from a center of a lower surface of the hub, and a plurality of blades that extends from an outer circumferential surface of the impeller shaft and the lower surface of the hub in a radial direction of the hub. The hub may have a longitudinal cross section in which a thickness of the hub gradually increases from the center of the lower surface toward an edge thereof.