Heat exchanger for refrigerator

• Main Authors: Ha, Sam Chul, Sin, Jong Min, Choi, Bong Jun, Kim, Cheol Hwan, Ko, Young Hwan, Jeong, Young, Jeong, Seong Hai, Tikhonov, Alexei V
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.02.2005

The present invention relates to a heat exchanger in a refrigerator having a simple structure and an improved heat exchange performance. For this, the present invention includes refrigerant tubes having a plurality of straight parts and a plurality of curved parts connected between the straight parts arrange to form one or more columns perpendicular to each other, a plurality of straight plate type fins fitted to the straight parts of the refrigerant tubes by means of a plurality of through holes formed therein to form one or more than columns along a length direction, and one pair of reinforcing plates fitted to the straight parts of the refrigerant tubes on both sides of the fins, wherein ST=D/N, where D denotes a width of the reinforcing plate, ST denotes a distance between centers of the refrigerant tube in each column, N denotes a number of the columns of the refrigerant tubes.