REFRIGERATOR

• Main Authors: FUNAYAMA ATSUKO, TAKASAKI TOSHIE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.04.2012
• Subjects: BLASTING; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; COLD ROOMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT COVERED BY ANY OTHERSUBCLASS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; ICE-BOXES; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; REFRIGERATORS; SEPARATION; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator which is equipped with a small deodorizing/sterilizing device that efficiently generates many OH radicals and achieves high deodorization and/or sterilization.SOLUTION: The refrigerator includes a plurality of storages containing refrigeration temperature zone chambers 2 and 6 and freezing temperature zone chambers 4 and 5 for preserving foods, a compressor 24 for compressing a refrigerant, a cooling device 7 for cooling air using the refrigerant, and a child air flow path through which the air chilled by the cooling device 7 through heat exchange circulates within each storage. A water generating means 64 which collects water content for water generation from the air is provided in a machine room 19 in which the compressor 24 is arranged of which the temperature and humidity are higher than each storage in the refrigerator. An OH radical generator 27 consisting of an ultraviolet ray irradiation means and a water-retaining material arranged at the position facing the ultraviolet ray irradiation means is provided in such chilled air flow path 67 where a fluctuation of either temperature or humidity in the chilled air flow path is larger than that in a chilled air flow path return opening within the chilled air flow paths.