Samsung patents air dryer with baffled heater to guide airflow
Samsung has filed a patent for an air dryer that uses a heater with a specific internal layout to manage airflow. The design features baffles and flow guides inside the heater housing to direct air through distinct regions before it enters the main tank.
In the filing’s own words
Provided is an air dryer. The air dryer includes a first tank, and a heater connected to the first tank. The heater includes a housing extending in a first direction and having an internal space including a first guide region and a second guide region, which are spaced apart from one another in the first direction, a first baffle provided in the first guide region, a second baffle provided in the second guide region, and a first flow guide between the first guide region and the second guide region. Each of the first and second guide regions includes a first region and a second region, a portion of the second region of the first guide region is adjacent to the first region of the second guide region in the first direction, and the first flow guide is adjacent to the second region of the first guide region in the first direction.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An air dryer comprising: a first tank; and a heater connected to the first tank, wherein the heater comprises: a housing extending in a first direction and having an internal space comprising a first guide region and a second guide region, which are spaced apart from one another in the first direction; a first baffle provided in the first guide region; a second baffle provided in the second guide region; and a first flow guide between the first guide region and the second guide region, wherein each of the first and second guide regions comprises a first region and a second region, a portion of the second region of the first guide region is adjacent to the first region of the second guide region in the first direction, and the first flow guide is adjacent to the second region of the first guide region in the first direction.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- AIR DRYER
- Publication number
- US20260264003A1
- Application number
- 19349925
- Filed
- Oct 3, 2025
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
B01D 53/261 Operations & transportB01D 53/0438 Operations & transportB01D 53/0446 Operations & transportMore from Samsung in Other
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
Patent data and drawings: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Nebula is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USPTO.