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Drying method for a household appliance and household appliance for carrying the drying method

  • US 7,676,954 B2
  • Filed: 08/23/2005
  • Issued: 03/16/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A drying method for drying items to be treated in a household appliance treatment chamber filled with a fluid in a gas phase, the drying method comprising:

  • guiding the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber into contact with a heat-absorbing part of a Peltier element for removal of thermal energy from the gas phase fluid by the heat-absorbing part of the Peltier element, thereby resulting in corresponding condensation of moisture in the gas phase fluid; and

    supplying thermal energy to the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber via a heat-emitting part of the Peltier element in order to increase the moisture-absorbing capacity of the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber,the gas phase fluid contacting one of the heat-absorbing part in the household appliance treatment chamber, and a contact plate that is in the treatment chamber and is in thermal contact with the heat-absorbing part.

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