Embodiments of the present application belong to the technical field of clothes dryers and, in particular, to a gas-fired heating device and a gas-fired clothes dryer.
Gas-fired clothes dryer uses the heat generated by gas combustion to heat air, and the heated dry hot air enters a clothes drying drum and contacts with wet clothes in the clothes drying drum, thereby drying the clothes.
In the related art, a gas-fired clothes dryer includes a housing, a clothes drying drum, a blower fan and a gas-fired heating device. The housing is internally provided with an accommodating space, and the clothes drying drum, the blower fan and the gas-fired heating device are all disposed in the accommodating space. The gas-fired heating device includes a burner, a combustion cylinder and an igniter. The igniter is disposed close to the burner. A spray head of the burner is hemispherical, and an axis of the hemispherical spray head is parallel to a horizontal plane. A plurality of nozzles are provided on the surface of the hemispherical spray head, and each of the nozzles faces a different direction. The spray head and the igniter are both accommodated in the combustion cylinder. The gas ejected from the spray head is ignited by the igniter, the heat generated by gas combustion heats the air in the combustion cylinder, and the heated air enters the clothes drying drum under the action of the blower fan to dry the clothes in the clothes drying drum.
However, the gas ejected from the nozzles away from the igniter is difficult to be ignited, resulting in a decrease in the combustion efficiency of the gas.
The main purpose of embodiments of the present application is to provide a gas-fired heating device and a gas-fired clothes dryer to solve the problem that a related gas-fired clothes dryer has low combustion efficiency of the gas.
In order to achieve the above purpose, embodiments of the present application provide a gas-fired heating device, including a burner and an igniter, where the burner includes a body and a gas collecting plate, the gas collecting plate is concave upwards to form a gas collecting chamber, and the body has a combustion end provided with a nozzle; the gas collecting plate is connected with the combustion end, and the gas collecting plate is located above the nozzle, so that gas ejected from the nozzle enters the gas collecting chamber; the igniter is provided with an ignition end located outside the nozzle, and the ignition end extends into the gas collecting chamber.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, the body includes a first connecting plate and a second connecting plate, the first connecting plate is attached to the second connecting plate, the first connecting plate is provided with a first groove, and the first groove is concave away from the second connecting plate; the second connecting plate is provided with a second groove, the second groove is concave away from the first connecting plate, the second groove is right opposite to the first groove, and a gas channel is formed by being enclosed by the second groove and the first groove; the nozzle is formed at one end of the gas channel close to the gas collecting chamber, an inlet port is formed at the other end of the gas channel away from the gas collecting chamber, and the gas channel is connected with the gas collecting chamber through the nozzle.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, the first groove is provided with a first flow guide groove wall, the first flow guide groove wall is close to the gas collecting chamber, the first flow guide groove wall is disposed inclined relative to the first connecting plate, and a distance between the first flow guide groove wall and the inlet port increases from a groove bottom of the first groove to a groove opening of the first groove.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, the second groove is provided with a second flow guide groove wall, the second flow guide groove wall is close to the gas collecting chamber, the second flow guide groove wall is disposed inclined relative to the second connecting plate, and a distance between the second flow guide groove wall and the inlet port increases from a groove bottom of the second groove to a groove opening of the second groove.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, the gas collecting chamber includes a first side wall, a second side wall and a flow guide wall, the first side wall is perpendicular to the first connecting plate, and the first side wall is parallel to an axis of the gas channel; the second side wall and the first side wall are parallel and spaced apart from one another, and the first side wall and the second side wall are connected through the flow guide wall; the gas collecting chamber is formed by being enclosed by the first side wall, the second side wall and the flow guide wall, and one end of the flow guide wall close to the nozzle is connected with one end of the first flow guide groove wall close to the second connecting plate.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, a projection of the flow guide wall on a plane where the first side wall is located is in a circular arc shape.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, an angle between an axis of the igniter and a plane where the first connecting plate is located is an acute angle; the igniter further has a fixing end, and the fixing end is closer to the inlet port than the ignition end.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, two sides of the second connecting plate parallel to an axis of the gas channel is bent upward to form bent plates, slots are formed by being enclosed by the bent plates and the second connecting plate, and the first connecting plate is embedded into the slots.
In a technical solution of the above gas-fired heating device, the gas-fired heating device further includes a mounting bracket, and the burner and the igniter are both connected to the mounting bracket.
Embodiments of the present application further provide a gas-fired clothes dryer, including the above gas-fired heating device.
Those skilled in the art can understand that the gas-fired clothes dryer according to the embodiments of the present application includes the gas-fired heating device and the gas-fired heating device includes the burner and the igniter, where the burner includes the body and the gas collecting plate, the gas collecting plate is concave upwards to form the gas collecting chamber, and the body has the combustion end provided with the nozzle; the gas collecting plate is connected with the combustion end, and the gas collecting plate is located above the nozzle, so that gas ejected from the nozzle enters the gas collecting chamber; the igniter is provided with the ignition end located outside the nozzle, and the ignition end extends into the gas collecting chamber. By the above arrangement, the gas ejected from the nozzle is firstly gathered in the gas collecting chamber, and the gas collecting chamber can prevent the gas ejected from the nozzle from escaping to reduce the escaping amount of the gas, so that the gas ejected from the nozzle can be ignited by the igniter as much as possible, thereby improving the combustion efficiency of the gas.
Implementations of the gas-fired clothes dryer according to embodiments of the present application are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings are:
First of all, persons of ordinary skill in the art should understand that these embodiments are only used for explanation of the technical principle of embodiments of the present application, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of embodiments of the present application. Persons of ordinary skill may make adjustment as needed so as to adapt to specific application scenarios.
Secondly, it should be noted that in the description of embodiments of the present application, the terms for the direction or positional relationship indicated by the terms “inside” and “outside” and so on are based on the direction or positional relationship shown in the accompanying drawings, which is only for the convenience of description and not intended to indicate or imply that the device or component must be of a particular orientation, and be constructed and operate in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be understood as a limitation to embodiments of the present application.
In addition, it should also be noted that, in the description of embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise expressly specified and limited, the terms “connected/connecting” and “connection” should be understood in a broad sense. For example, “connection” may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; “connection” may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; “connection” may be a direct connection or an indirect connection through an intermediate medium; and “connection” may be the internal communication of two components. For persons of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in embodiments of the present application may be understood according to specific situations.
To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and comprehensively below with reference to the accompanying drawings for embodiments of the present application. Apparently, the described embodiments are merely a part of embodiments rather than all embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art based on embodiments of the present application without creative effort shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
A gas-fired clothes dryer in the related art includes a housing, a clothes drying drum, a blower fan and a gas-fired heating device. The housing is internally provided with an accommodating space, and the clothes drying drum, the blower fan and the gas-fired heating device are all disposed in the accommodating space. The gas-fired heating device includes a gas valve, an inlet tube, a burner, a combustion cylinder and an igniter. The gas valve is provided with an inlet port and an outlet port, the inlet port is connected with the inlet tube, and the outlet port is connected with the burner. The burner is provided with a combustion-supporting air inlet port and a spray head, the combustion-supporting air inlet port is used for enabling the combustion-supporting air to enter the inside of the burner, and the combustion-supporting air is mixed with the gas in the burner and then the mixed gas is ejected out from the spray head. The igniter is disposed close to the burner. The spray head and the igniter are both accommodated in the combustion cylinder. The gas ejected from the spray head is ignited by the igniter, the heat generated by gas combustion heats the air in the combustion cylinder, and the heated air enters the clothes drying drum under the action of the blower fan to dry the clothes in the clothes drying drum.
The spray head of the burner is generally hemispherical, and an axis of the hemispherical spray head is parallel to a horizontal plane. A plurality of nozzles are provided on the surface of the hemispherical spray head, and each of the nozzles faces a different direction. The gas is ejected from the nozzles. The gas ejected from the nozzles close to the igniter is easy to be ignited, while the gas ejected from the nozzles away from the igniter is difficult to be ignited by the igniter due to the long distance from the igniter and is easy to directly escape into the combustion cylinder without combustion, so that the gas ejected from the nozzles is not fully combusted, resulting in a decrease in the combustion efficiency of the gas and a waste of gas energy.
Embodiments of the present application provide a gas-fired heating device and a gas-fired clothes dryer, where a gas collecting chamber is disposed outside a nozzle of a burner, and an ignition end of an igniter extends into the gas collecting chamber to ignite the gas in the gas collecting chamber. The gas ejected from the nozzle is gathered in the gas collecting chamber, and the gas collecting chamber can prevent the gas ejected from the nozzle from escaping to reduce the escaping amount of the gas, so that the gas ejected from the nozzle can be more fully combusted, thereby improving the combustion efficiency of the gas.
The principles and features of embodiments of the present application are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the examples given are merely used for explaining embodiments of the present application, and are not used for limiting the scope of embodiments of the present application.
A gas-fired clothes dryer provided by an embodiment of the present application includes a housing, and a gas-fired heating device, a mounting bracket 300, a clothes drying drum and a blower fan which are disposed in the housing. The clothes drying drum is used for placement of clothes to be dried. The gas-fired heating device is detachably connected to the mounting bracket 300, and the mounting bracket 300 is connected to the housing.
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The gas collecting plate is concave upwards to form a gas collecting chamber 113. The gas collecting plate is connected with the combustion end, and the gas collecting plate is located above the nozzle 101, so that the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 may enter the gas collecting chamber 113, and the gas collecting chamber 113 can prevent the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 from escaping, so as to reduce the escaping amount of the gas.
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The gas in the burner 100 is ejected from the nozzle 101 and gathered in the gas collecting chamber 113, and the ignition end 201 of the igniter 200 extends into the gas collecting chamber 113, so that the gas is mainly combusted in the gas collecting chamber 113. The length of the generated flame in the direction parallel to the gas channel is short, and the flame is away from the inlet port of the air channel, thereby preventing the temperature of the air entering the clothes drying drum from becoming over high and damaging the clothes.
The body may include a first connecting plate 110 and a second connecting plate 120, and the first connecting plate 110 is attached to the second connecting plate 120. As shown in
The first connecting plate 110 may be flush with the gas collecting plate, and the first connecting plate 110 and the gas collecting plate may be integrally formed. The first groove 111 and the gas collecting chamber 113 are located on the same side of the second connecting plate 120 to make the structure of the burner 100 simpler.
In addition to the above structure of the burner 100, the burner 100 may also be formed by welding a gas collecting cover on the basis of a burner in the related art. That is, one end of the burner 100 away from the inlet port 102 is a hemispherical spray head, and an axis of the hemispherical spray head may be parallel to a horizontal plane. A plurality of nozzles 101 are provided on the surface of the hemispherical spray head, and each of the nozzles 101 faces a different direction. Gas is ejected from the nozzles 101. A gas collecting chamber 113 is provided under the gas collecting cover, and the ignition end 201 of the igniter 200 extends into the gas collecting chamber 113. The gas collecting cover in this embodiment can block the escape path of the gas to prevent the gas from escaping to the side of the gas collecting cover away from the igniter 200, so that the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 can be gathered in the gas collecting chamber 113 as much as possible and ignited by the igniter 200, thereby improving the combustion efficiency of the gas.
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Further, an angle between the axis of the igniter 200 and the plane where the first connecting plate 110 is located may be 18° to 30°, so that the contact area between the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 and the ignition end 201 may be increased, and the gas may be ignited by the igniter 200 as much as possible to increase the combustion efficiency of the gas.
In the implementation that the burner 100 includes the first connecting plate 110 and the second connecting plate 120, two sides of the second connecting plate 120 parallel to the axis of the gas channel is bent upwards to form bent plates 123 (as shown in
The first connecting plate 110 may be provided with a first connecting hole 117 (as shown in
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In other embodiments, the clamping part may include a fixing clip, which may clamp the ignition end 201 of the igniter 200, so as to fix the igniter 200 to the fixing bracket 400.
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In a case of high power conditions, high loads or poor air paths due to thread debris blockage, the temperature of the air in the combustion cylinder 800 may be too high. The air entering the air inlet barrel 500 from the air inlet clearance 501 is mixed with the air from the combustion cylinder 800 and then enters the clothes drying drum, so as to reduce the temperature of the air entering the clothes drying drum and avoid damage to the clothes when the temperature is too high.
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The gas used by the gas-fired clothes dryer may be natural gas or liquefied gas. The amount of combustion-supporting air required by the natural gas and the liquefied gas during combustion is greatly different. For combusting the same volume of natural gas and liquefied gas, the amount of combustion-supporting air required by the liquefied gas is greater than that required by the natural gas.
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When the gas used by the gas-fired clothes dryer needs to be changed, the flow area between the first adjusting opening 129 or the third adjusting opening 134 and the gas channel can be changed by simply rotating the combustion-supporting air conditioner 125 without replacing the gas valve.
Further, the first area may be three times the second area. Since the amount of combustion-supporting air required by the liquefied gas is about three times the amount of combustion-supporting air required by the natural gas when the same volume of natural gas and liquefied gas is combusted, by setting the first area to be three times the second area, the gas-fired clothes dryer can achieve a reasonable ratio of gas to combustion-supporting air under either natural gas or liquefied gas operating conditions.
To sum up, the gas-fired clothes dryer according to embodiments of the present application includes the gas-fired heating device, and the gas-fired heating device include a burner 100 and an igniter 200. The burner includes a body and a gas collecting plate, the gas collecting plate is concave upwards to form a gas collecting chamber 113. The body has a combustion end provided with a nozzle 101. The gas collecting plate is connected with the combustion end, and the gas collecting plate is located above the nozzle 101, so that gas ejected from the nozzle 101 enters the gas collecting chamber 113. The igniter 200 is provided with an ignition end 201 located outside the nozzle 101, and the ignition end 201 extends into the gas collecting chamber 113. By the above arrangement, the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 is firstly gathered in the gas collecting chamber 113, and the gas collecting chamber 113 can prevent the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 from escaping to reduce the escaping amount of the gas, so that the gas ejected from the nozzle 101 can be ignited by the igniter 200 as much as possible, thereby improving the combustion efficiency of the gas.
Finally, it should be noted that the foregoing embodiments are merely intended for describing the technical solutions of the present application rather than limiting the present application; although the present application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, persons of ordinary skill in the art should understand that modification may be made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or equivalent substitutions may be made to some or all technical features thereof; and these modifications and substitutions shall not cause the essence of the corresponding technical solutions to depart from the scope of the technical solutions of embodiments of the present application.
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202210181871.2 | Feb 2022 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2023/074145, filed on Feb. 1, 2023, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210181871.2, entitled “GAS-FIRED HEATING DEVICE AND GAS-FIRED CLOTHES DRYER”, and filed with the China National Intellectual Property Administration on Feb. 25, 2022. The disclosures of the aforementioned applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
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Parent | PCT/CN2023/074145 | Feb 2023 | WO |
Child | 18809271 | US |