REFRIGERATOR

• Main Author: YAMAMOTO HARUYOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.10.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BLASTING; COLD ROOMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT COVERED BY ANY OTHERSUBCLASS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; ICE-BOXES; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; REFRIGERATORS; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the resistance of cold air, which is accompanied by a long duct, by a method wherein an ice storage chamber and a storage chamber are arranged in left-and-right direction to each other at the same height while a first fan is arranged at the center of the height of a refrigerator. SOLUTION: Cold air, cooled by a cooler 31, ascends through a suction duct 45 and arrives at a first fan 32. The cold air, arriving at the first fan 32, is distributed into ducts communicated with respective storage chambers and is guided to respective storage chambers. Cold air, sent to a refrigerating chamber 20, flows into a refrigerating chamber duct 46 and is ventilated into the refrigerating chamber 20 through a refrigerating damper device 47 whereby an indoor temperature is cooled to the refrigerating temperature of 4 deg.C. The cold air, which has cooled the inside of the refrigerating chamber to a predetermined temperature, enters a returning duct and returns into the cooler 31. In this case, the first fan 32 is positioned at the center of the height of the refrigerator substantially whereby a refrigerating chamber duct 45, communicated with the refrigerating chamber 20, becomes shorter compared with the length of duct for a refrigerator provided with the fan arranged near the lower part of the refrigerating chamber thereby reducing the resistance of the cold air upon passing through the duct.