CLOTHES DRYING MACHINE AND ITS OPERATING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the increase in a power consumption and to improve the efficiency of drying despite of a small amount of clothes placed in a heat pump type clothes drying machine. SOLUTION: This clothes drying machine is provided with: a heat pump device 6 having a compressor 7, a condenser 8, an evaporator 9 and a wringing device 10; a rotating drum 3 storing clothes 20 and supported rotatably; a condenser air blowing fan 14 provided in an air supply duct; an exhaust duct 16 communicating the rotating drum with the evaporator; and an evaporator air blowing fan 17 provided in the exhaust duct. This clothes drying machine is further provided with a control means 30 controlling the rotation speed of the condenser air blowing fan 14 and the rotating speed of the evaporator air blowing fan 17 according to the amount of the clothes and operating the heat pump device 6 by changing the heating force. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT