WASHSTAND CABINET

• US 20180106026A1
• Filed: 10/13/2017
• Published: 04/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: JEON, Jinhyeon, YANG, Inhyung
• Granted Patent: US 10,501,918 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/48 Drying by means of hot air hair-drying devices A45D20/00; curative hot-air baths A61H33/06; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/04 Water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths valves, faucets, mixing valves, taps F16K
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/182 connected to the waste-pipe
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/326 resting on the floor
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 2201/90 Basins movable between several positions
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/14 built up of tilting members, e.g. louvre
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/28 Arrangement or mounting of filters
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2013/1433 with electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/10 combined with, or integrated in, furniture
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/18 combined with domestic apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/34 Heater, e.g. gas burner, electric air heater
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 5/0096 combined with domestic apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/001 Drying-air generating units, e.g. movable, independent of drying enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/003 Supply-air or gas filters
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/004 Nozzle assemblies; Air knives; Air distributors; Blow boxes F26B3/082, F26B13/104, F26B13/108, F26B21/006 take precedence

Abstract

Disclosed is a washstand cabinet. The washstand cabinet includes a washstand having a water supply valve and a washing bowl in which water is accommodated, a housing provided under the washstand to define an external shape thereof and having a modular space therein, and an air-conditioning module configured to discharge air outward from the housing or to move air into the modular space inside the housing.

Claims

1. A washstand cabinet comprising:

a washstand having a water supply valve and a washing bowl in which water is accommodated;

a housing provided under the washstand to define an external shape thereof and having a modular space therein; and

an dryer configured to selectively output a flow of air to an outside of the housing or into the modular space inside the housing.

2. The washstand cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the dryer includes:

a suction port into which air is input;

a discharge port from which air is discharged from the dryer; and

a vane configured to selectively open or close the discharge port, and

wherein the vane is moved to cause air to be selectively discharged from the discharge port in at least one of an upward direction or a downward direction.

3. The washstand cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the dryer includes:

a filter positioned in the suction port and configured to remove particles from air introduced into the dryer; and

a fan configured to suction the air into the suction port,

a connection flow path that connects the suction port and the discharge port, and

a heater positioned in the connection flow path and configured to heat air flowing through the connection flow path

4. The washstand cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the dryer includes:

an ionizer positioned in the connection flow path and configured to generate ions inserted in air to be discharged from the discharge port.

5. The washstand cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the vane includes:

a front vane provided in the discharge port to guide the direction in which the air is discharged;

a rear vane rearwardly spaced apart from the front vane and extending parallel to the front vane; and

one or more ribs configured to connect the front vane and the rear vane, and

wherein the vane has a guide hole formed between the front vane and the rear vane to guide the air to the discharge port.

6. The washstand cabinet according to claim 5, wherein the dryer further includes a motor connected to a side surface of the vane and configured to rotate the vane.

7. The washstand cabinet according to claim 6, wherein the vane further includes side surfaces formed on opposite ends of the front vane and the rear vane, and

wherein each side surface portion has a rotating shaft formed at a rear side adjacent to the rear vane, the vane being rotated around the rotating shaft.

8. The washstand cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the vane includes an upper vane configured to cover an upper side of the discharge port and a lower vane configured to cover a lower side of the discharge port, and

wherein the upper vane and the lower vane are movable relative to each other at a connection portion thereof.

9. The washstand cabinet according to claim 1, further comprising at least one module located in the modular space inside the housing,

wherein the dryer moves air into the module.

10. The washstand cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the dryer has a connection flow path formed between a suction port and a discharge port, and

wherein the connection flow path is provided with a communication hole, through which air moves from the connection flow path to the modular space inside the housing.

11. The washstand cabinet according to claim 10, wherein the connection flow path includes a guide surface to direct a movement of air to the communication hole.

12. The washstand cabinet according to claim 11, wherein the guide surface extends in a direction opposite a direction of a flow of air in the connection flow path.

13. The washstand cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the housing includes a module case configured to divide the space inside the housing into two or more spaces, and

wherein the module case has a module suction port into which air is introduced from the dryer.

14. The washstand cabinet according to claim 13, wherein at least one module is accommodated in the module case, and

wherein the module has a communication hole formed therein at a position corresponding to the module suction port.

15. The washstand cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the dryer is configured to be separable from a horizontal surface of the housing.

16. The washstand cabinet according to claim 15, wherein

the horizontal surface of the housing is provided with a holder recess, and

the dryer is provided on a top thereof with a hook that is received in the holder recess to releasably mount the dryer to the horizontal surface of the housing.

17. A cabinet comprising:

a housing provided under a basin to accommodate water;

a module case provided inside the housing;

a dryer to generate an air flow, the dryer having a discharge port in communications with an exterior of the cabinet and a communication hole in communications with the module case; and

a vane positioned at the discharge port of the dryer, wherein dryer outputs the air flow to the exterior of the cabinet when the vane is moved to expose at least a portion of the discharge port.

18. The cabinet of claim 17, further comprising:

a motor configured to move the vane between a first position where the vane blocks the discharge port and at least one of a second position where an upper portion of the discharge port is exposed or a third position where a lower portion of the discharge port is exposed.

19. The cabinet of claim 18, wherein vane includes an upper vane positioned in the upper portion of the discharge port and a lower vane positioned in the lower portion of the discharge port, and

wherein motor moves the upper vane to cause the dryer to output the air flow in an upward direction, moves the lower vane to cause the dryer to output the air flow in a downward direction, and moves both the upper and lower vanes to cause the dryer to output the air flow in both the upward and downward directions.

20. The cabinet of claim 17, wherein the dryer includes:

a heater to warm the air flow.