US 11,932,983 B2
Lint removing apparatus and clothes dryer having the same
Juyeong Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Daesung Ki, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunuk Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Dongpil Seo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/119,763.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0166523 (KR), filed on Dec. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0180240 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 58/22 (2006.01); D06F 58/04 (2006.01); F26B 13/10 (2006.01); F26B 13/14 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 58/22 (2013.01) [D06F 58/04 (2013.01); F26B 13/108 (2013.01); F26B 13/14 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes dryer comprising:
a cabinet;
a drum rotatably supported in the cabinet;
a supply port configured to guide air into the drum;
an exhaust port configured to guide the air in the drum to an outside of the drum; and
a lint removing apparatus configured to remove lint from the air passing through the exhaust port,
wherein the lint removing apparatus includes:
a lint filter configured to capture lint,
a screw conveyor rotatably installed to scrape and collect the lint captured in the lint filter,
a driving device including a motor, and configured to generate power,
a first coupler connected to the driving device to receive the power from the driving device,
a second coupler having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first coupler in order to directly couple to the first coupler to transmit the power to the screw conveyor and arranged with the first coupler along a direction in which the screw conveyor extends, and
an elastic member configured to elastically press the first coupler in a disengaged state with the second coupler to an engaged state with the second coupler.