Plural Cooled Compartments Patents (Class 62/441)
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Publication number: 20120031111Abstract: An appliance system that includes an appliance and a turbo-chilling chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the turbo-chilling chamber for chilling a beverage within a beverage container or a foodstuff is operably engaged to an interior surface of the appliance and typically includes a rigid outer wall; a flexible inner wall defining a coolant chamber; and at least one coolant spaced between the rigid outer wall and flexible inner wall in the coolant chamber. The flexible inner wall defines a receiving space, accommodates various sized beverage containers or foodstuffs, and moves between a first position and a second position. The coolant within the coolant chamber is typically at higher than atmospheric pressure when the flexible inner wall is in the second position and a lesser pressure when the flexible inner wall is in the first position. The method of turbo-chilling a beverage container/beverage/foodstuff within the turbo-chilling chamber is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: TUSHAR V. KULKARNI, GUOLIAN WU
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Publication number: 20120031138Abstract: A water supply apparatus arranged in a door of a refrigerator, for conveying water to an icemaker of the refrigerator. The apparatus has a water tube for delivering water from a water source, a support block attached to an inner surface of the door, a fill tube assembled to the support block and in fluid communication with the water tube, and a gasket disposed between the support block and the door for sealing an insulator in the door. The gasket has a hole through which the fill tube extends to convey the water from the water tube to the icemaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventor: Christopher David Hunter
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Publication number: 20120031129Abstract: A secondary loop temperature control circuit for a temperature-controlled region in a compartment of a refrigerator is shown. The secondary loop temperature control circuit has a reservoir, configured to have a medium flow there through. A first heat exchanger is in flow communication with the reservoir and is configured to have the medium flow there through. The first heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the temperature-controlled region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2007Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Ronald Scott Tarr, Matthew William Davis, Alvaro Delgado, Omar Haidar, Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Toby Whitaker, Martin Mitchell Zentner
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Publication number: 20120023987Abstract: A refrigerator comprises a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment and one or more power consuming features/functions including a refrigeration system for cooling the fresh food compartment and the freezer compartment. A controller is operatively connected to the one or more power consuming features/functions. The controller is configured to receive and process a signal indicative of current state of an associated energy supplying utility. The controller adjusts the temperature of the refrigerator and/or freezer from a normal setting to a higher point during an energy saving mode and then back to a normal temperature. The transition between low and high is controlled to reduce energy consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: John K. Besore, Timothy Dale Worthington, Michael F. Finch, Darin Franks, William Newton, Jeff Donald Drake
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Patent number: 8099975Abstract: An icemaker having a mold comprising at least one cavity and a cooling system. The cooling system has a first heat exchanger configured to have a medium flow there through. The first heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the mold to reduce the temperature of the mold below a predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Omar Haidar, Matthew William Davis, Krzysztof Struminski, Solomon Muthumani, Ronald Scott Tarr, Stephen Bischoff, Alvaro Delgado
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Publication number: 20120011879Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cold air supply device received in an insulating partition that defines a storage compartment into upper and lower storage compartments. As cold air is supplied into the storage compartment below the insulating partition through the cold air supply device, the refrigerator has enhanced productivity and interior volume efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang Yeol Gu
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Publication number: 20120011881Abstract: Provided are a cooling apparatus and a refrigerator having the same. The cooling apparatus includes a case configured to receive a container holding a liquid, and an agitating member that is positioned within the case and that is configured to agitate the container holding the liquid. The cooling apparatus also includes an electro-magnetic power generator that includes an electromagnet and that is configured to generate a driving force that causes the agitating member to agitate the container holding the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yeonwoo CHO, Yanggyu KIM, Younseok LEE
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Publication number: 20120011880Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a non-freezing apparatus which can be installed in a refrigerating chamber or a refrigerating chamber door and stably store food in a non-frozen state. A cooling apparatus includes a freezing chamber, a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber door, a refrigerating chamber door, and a non-freezing apparatus installed in the refrigerating chamber or the refrigerating chamber door and storing food in a non-frozen state. In the non-freezing apparatus, since a lower space is cooled by the cool air introduced from the freezing chamber and an upper space is cooled by the atmosphere of the refrigerating chamber, it is possible to reduce a heating value of a heater which is operated to maintain the temperature of the upper space to be higher than that of the lower space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Won-Young Chung, Jae-Hyun Soh, Deok-Hyun Youn, Cheol-Hwan Kim, Ju-Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 8087261Abstract: A refrigerator is provided that includes a cold air duct that receives cold air circulating inside of a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber, an evaporator in the cold air duct, at least one defrosting heater in the cold air duct that selectively emits heat, a fan in the cold air duct, that selectively directs the cold air in an upward or downward direction, a motor that drives the fan, and an open/close device that closes a space having the evaporator, the defrosting heater, and the fan positioned therein selectively, thereby providing an improved defroster for an evaporator.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang Ik Lee, Bong Jun Choi, Jong Min Sin, Youngsan Jeon, Jae Seong Sim, Young Jeong
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Publication number: 20110308269Abstract: An apparatus and refrigerator for creating ice pellets is disclosed. The apparatus and refrigerator include a compartment, an ice storage bin positioned in the compartment and configured to store whole ice cubes therein, and a pellet ice dispenser. The pellet ice dispenser includes a first motor, a first axle drivingly connected to a shaft of the first motor, a first ice cube auger drivingly connected to the first axle, a blade downstream of the first ice cube auger and configured to shave whole ice cubes into ice pieces, and an ice pelleter. The ice pelleter includes an extrusion die disposed downstream of the blade, a shaved ice auger disposed between the blade and the extrusion die and configured to move and compress the ice pieces through the extrusion die to form pellet ice.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Alan Joseph Mitchell, Brent Alden Junge
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Patent number: 8074468Abstract: A movement structure for a drawer of a refrigerator is provided that allows a storage box to be automatically withdrawn from or inserted into a main body of the refrigerator. The structure may include a rolling mechanism that rolls along a guide mechanism coupled to the storage box to facilitate and guide the movement of the storage box and maintain alignment relative to the main body of the refrigerator. A drive motor may provide a rotational force to the rolling mechanism to automate the movement of the storage box.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myung Keun Yoo, Yong Hwan Eom, Ok Sun Yu, Hyoun Jeong Shin
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Patent number: 8074469Abstract: A refrigerator includes a first compartment, a second compartment and a multi-functional compartment that is disposed between the first compartment and the second compartment and is adjustable between temperature modes selected from the group consisting of a fresh food temperature mode, a soft freeze mode, a freezer mode and a chiller temperature mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy Allen Hamel, Rita Barksdale, Chris George Bissig, John R. Brumleve, Jonathan Crosby, Rajesh Swarnkar, Thomas F. White, Martin Mitchell Zentner
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Publication number: 20110283727Abstract: A household refrigerator having three compartments: a freezer compartment, a refrigerator compartment, and a condiment compartment. Each compartment is accessed via its own door. In an illustrative embodiment, the refrigerator compartment is above the freezer compartment and the condiment compartment is adjacent the refrigerator compartment on the side of the refrigerator. The condiment compartment preferably includes movable shelves inside the condiment compartment as well as on the door to the condiment compartment. One or more electric fans are provided to circulate cold air from the refrigerator compartment into the condiment compartment. The fans are preferably controlled by a thermostat. The refrigerator is preferably designed so that the condiment compartment may be mounted on either the left or right side of the refrigerator compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventor: ANDREW L. GRACIE
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Patent number: 8061153Abstract: A distributed refrigeration appliance system for use in a residential kitchen and other locations in a dwelling and includes multiple separate refrigeration appliance modules, a central cooling system and a cooling circuit. The system can also include one or more satellite stations having a heat exchanger and arranged for supplying chilled air to one or more refrigeration appliance modules. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can include a thermal cascade cooling device to cool the module to lower temperatures than the cooling circuit can attain. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can be refrigeration/storage modules that can provide refrigerated, unconditioned or heated storage space. The central cooling system can be a vapor compression system having a refrigerant circuit connecting the modules. Alternately, the central cooling system can cool a secondary cooling medium circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Nihat O. Cur, Steven John Kuehl, John Joseph Vonderhaar, Diego Barone, Lorenzo Bianchi, Enrica Monticelli
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Publication number: 20110280750Abstract: A compressor (20) has a case (22) and a crankshaft (38). The case has a number of cylinders (30 32). For each of the cylinders, the compressor includes a piston (34) mounted for reciprocal movement at least partially within the cylinder. A connecting rod (36) couples each piston to the crankshaft. A pin (44) couples each connecting rod to the associated piston. Each pin has first (52) and second (53) end portions mounted to first (56) and second (57) receiving portions of the associated piston and a central portion (48) engaging the associated connecting rod. Each of the pistons is formed of a first cast iron. At each of the cylinders, the case is formed of second cast iron. One of the first cast iron and the second cast iron is a Meehanite type cast iron and the other of the first cast iron and the second cast iron is a gray cast iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Paul J. Flanigan
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Publication number: 20110277489Abstract: A cold tray for a container may have an interior. The cold tray may include a cold tray housing mountable within the container interior. A refrigerant may be mounted to the cold tray housing. An air flow source may be fluidly connectable to the cold tray housing and may draw air from the container interior into the cold tray housing such that the air passes over the refrigerant and is discharged back into the container interior.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: James P. Schalla, Karen L. Hills, Nino Senoadi, William Quan
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Publication number: 20110271703Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, a bypass pipe, and a valve device. The condenser condenses refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and the expansion valve expands the refrigerant condensed in the condenser. The evaporator evaporates the refrigerant expanded in the expansion valve, and the bypass pipe allows the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to move toward an inlet of the evaporator. The valve device allows the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to selectively move toward the bypass pipe or the condenser. The valve device comprises an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows into the inlet. The refrigerant is discharged toward the condenser through the first outlet, and is discharged toward the bypass pipe through the second outlet. The first outlet has a diameter larger than that of the second outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Yong-Joo Park, Jong-Min Shin, Bong-Jun Choi, Su-Won Lee, Gyu-Won Shin, Seok-Min Lim
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Patent number: 8042355Abstract: A distributed refrigeration appliance system for use in a residential kitchen and other locations in a dwelling and includes multiple separate refrigeration appliance modules, a central cooling system and a cooling circuit. The system can also include one or more satellite stations having a heat exchanger and arranged for supplying chilled air to one or more refrigeration appliance modules. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can include a thermal cascade cooling device to cool the module to lower temperatures than the cooling circuit can attain. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can be refrigeration/storage modules that can provide refrigerated, unconditioned or heated storage space. The central cooling system can be a vapor compression system having a refrigerant circuit connecting the modules. Alternately, the central cooling system can cool a secondary cooling medium circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Nihat O. Cur, Steven John Kuehl, John Joseph Vonderhaar, Diego Barone, Lorenzo Bianchi
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Patent number: 8037701Abstract: A refrigerator includes a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment and a refrigeration system. A duct, exposed to the freezer compartment, leads into the fresh food compartment. A damper is arranged within the duct to selectively allow the passage of cooling air into the fresh food compartment. The refrigerator also includes an air mixing fan arranged in the fresh food compartment, a freezer mounted ice maker, a user interface having a plurality of control elements and a controller operatively associated with the user interface. The controller includes a memory having stored therein a plurality of operating parameters for controlling various aspects or features of the refrigerator, including a temperature control mode, a super cool mode, a food saver mode and a quick ice mode, which can be synergistically combined to efficiently operate the refrigerator.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Thomas Carl Anell, Nelson J. Ferragut, II, Carl J. Franken, Alvin V. Miller, Mauro M. Oliveira, Todd E. Pritts, Alan G. Tarrant, Robert L. Wetekamp
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Patent number: 8033133Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator housing, a fresh food compartment disposed within the refrigerator housing, a door for providing access to the fresh food compartment, and an ice bin at the door, the ice bin having a window for viewing an ice level within the ice bin. An ice storage bin includes an ice storage bin body having an insulated front, a back, a bottom, opposite sides, and an open top, and a first window pane and a second window pane positioned at the front of the ice storage bin to allow for viewing the ice level within the ice storage bin. There may be an air gap between the first window pane and the second window pane.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Laura E. Flores, Michael A. Heaven, Bruce A. Kopf, Joseph M. Nurre
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Patent number: 8033130Abstract: A refrigerator having a body defined with a plurality of cooling compartments, a plate arranged to partition the cooling compartments, and a cold air supplier arranged at one wall of the plate, to supply a cold air to at least one of the cooling compartments.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Nam Soo Cho, Youn Seok Lee, Kyeong Yun Kim, Su Nam Chae, Sang Oh Kim, Jang Seok Lee
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Publication number: 20110232322Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet, a fresh food compartment disposed within the refrigerator compartment, a freezer compartment disposed within the refrigerator cabinet, a freezer door for providing access to the freezer compartment, a lower freezer basket, an upper freezer basket, a divider operatively connected to the lower freezer basket to divide the lower freezer basket, and guide surfaces on a top portion of the divider to allow for guiding the upper freezer basket forward and back.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: KEVIN L. NOEL, CHAD J. ROTTER
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Publication number: 20110233289Abstract: A system and method is provided for monitoring the humidity inside a refrigerator and increasing the humidity when desired. In an embodiment, the humidifier is an ultrasonic atomizer that receives supply water from a removable tank that is refilled by a consumer. An adaptive control system monitors the humidity level inside the refrigerator and actuates the ultrasonic atomizer when an increase in humidity is desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: ANDERSON BORTOLETTO, SANT RANJAN, GUOLIAN WU
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Publication number: 20110232303Abstract: A temperature regulation apparatus includes a dry ice module that encloses dry ice so that the module's outside surface is not hazardous to touch. Insulation, breathable material, or a combination of insulating and breathable materials, allows dry ice sublimation at a sufficiently slow rate within the attached dry ice module to control the ambient temperature in the area to be cooled. The dry ice module can be attached in a location that maximizes the dry ice cooling properties, typically at or near the top of the area to be cooled. Since sublimated carbon dioxide is heavier than normal air, it falls to the bottom of the area to be cooled and builds up. The venting placement in the dry ice module is based upon the make up of the dry ice module and the breathable materials inside of it.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventor: Robert E. Whewell, JR.
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Publication number: 20110219806Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes at least two compartments designed for different storage temperatures to define a first compartment and a second compartment, with the storage temperature of the first compartment exceeding the storage temperature of the second compartment. A refrigerant circuit has a first branch which is routed via an evaporator of the first compartment and a second branch which is routed via an evaporator of the second compartment. The evaporator of the second compartment includes a first refrigerant conduit which is connected upstream of the evaporator of the first compartment in the first branch, and a second refrigerant conduit which is associated with the second branch.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÃÄTE GMBHInventors: Wolfgang Nuiding, Simon Schechinger
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Publication number: 20110219807Abstract: Provided is a basket for storing food items in a temperature-controlled environment and a refrigeration appliance including such a basket. The basket includes a substantially-horizontal platform coupled to two or more upwardly-extending walls to form an open container for receiving the food items to be stored in the temperature-controlled environment. A partition is provided for dividing the basket into two or more storage regions. A guide is coupled to at least one of the platform and the walls, and extends substantially parallel to an upper perimeter of at least one of the walls to define a range of adjustment of the partition. A fastener securely couples the partition to the guide to be adjusted to two or more different locations where the partition is to divide the basket.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: William Lee Moody, Michael Bayne, Jeremiah Stamey
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Patent number: 8011195Abstract: A Kimchi refrigerator that applies cold shock to Kimchi stored therein at predetermined time intervals, while a keeping mode is performed, so as to improve the taste of the Kimchi, wherein the time intervals are changed, and a control method of the same are disclosed. The Kimchi refrigerator includes a cooling system to cool the interior of the refrigerator in which Kimchi is stored, and a control unit to control the cooling system to perform a cold shock operation in which the interior of the refrigerator is cooled to a cold shock temperature lower than a keeping temperature at predetermined time intervals, for a predetermined period of time, while a keeping mode is performed. The control unit changes the time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Eun Young Park, Yeon Yi Hwang, Jong Min Shin
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Patent number: 8011203Abstract: Provided is a refrigeration appliance including a cabinet defining a fresh-food compartment and a freezer compartment. The refrigeration appliance includes a refrigeration system that is operable to provide a cooling effect to an interior of the fresh-food and freezer compartments. A pair of doors is pivotally connected to the cabinet with a hinge assembly for restricting access to the interior of the fresh-food compartment. Each door includes a side portion extending between an exterior face and an interior portion of the door. The side portions of the doors generally oppose each other when the doors are closed. A user interface is also provided to the side portion of at least one of the doors comprising an input device to be manipulated by a user for controlling a target temperature within at least one of the fresh-food and freezer compartments.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Schenk, Cory Dale Simpson, Nilton Carlos Bertolini
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Publication number: 20110209493Abstract: Provided is a refrigeration appliance including a cabinet defining a fresh-food compartment and a freezer compartment. The refrigeration appliance includes a refrigeration system that is operable to provide a cooling effect to an interior of the fresh-food and freezer compartments. A pair of doors is pivotally connected to the cabinet with a hinge assembly for restricting access to the interior of the fresh-food compartment. Each door includes a side portion extending between an exterior face and an interior portion of the door. The side portions of the doors generally oppose each other when the doors are closed. A user interface is also provided to the side portion of at least one of the doors comprising an input device to be manipulated by a user for controlling a target temperature within at least one of the fresh-food and freezer compartments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Dennis Schenk, Cory Dale Simpson, Nilton Carlos Bertolini
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Publication number: 20110203305Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and a fresh food compartment which includes an ice chamber. The ice chamber includes an ice maker which includes a first heat exchanger for producing ice. The ice chamber further includes an ice container, a second heat exchanger, an air moving apparatus, and an enclosed loop passageway. The ice container is for storing ice produced by the ice maker and includes an exterior surface. The second heat exchanger is for controlling temperature at the ice container. The passageway forms an air flow path such that air travels in thermal contact with the second heat exchanger. The air moving apparatus is positioned to move air through the passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Dennis Schenk, Xiaoyong Fu
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Publication number: 20110197623Abstract: The present invention relates to a freezer 10 of the very low temperature vertical type. The freezer 10 comprises: a thermally insulating cabinet 12 comprising in turn two side walls 14 and 16, an upper wall 18, a lower wall 20 and a rear wall 22; a thermally conducting shelf 24 suitable for defining, inside the cabinet, an upper compartment 26 and a lower compartment 28; an upper door 30 for closing the upper compartment 26; and a lower door 32 for closing the lower compartment 28. The freezer comprises a single cooling plant 34 designed to cool the upper compartment and the lower compartment. Moreover, the thermally conducting shelf defines an air-tight closure between the upper compartment and the lower compartment. Finally, the cooling plant comprises a coil circuit 36 running through the upper wall, the side walls and the rear wall of the cabinet. The coils are distributed with a variable density along the height of the cabinet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: Angelantoni Industrie SPAInventors: Maurizio Ascani, Dario De Angelis
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Publication number: 20110179819Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. In the refrigerator, a manufacture cost for a buffer device to buffer a shock generated when opening a home bar door, can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventor: Moon-Seok Lee
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Patent number: 7984623Abstract: A refrigerator is provided including a freezing chamber having a first evaporator and a first fan provided inside, and a refrigerating chamber having a second evaporator and a second fan provided inside. Further, the first and second fans may be configured to direct cool air generated by the first and second evaporators to the freezing and refrigerating chambers, respectively. Additionally, plurality of cool-air ducts may be provided in at least one of the freezing and refrigerating chambers, the cool air ducts may be configured to provide cool air to the freezing and refrigerating chambers via operation of the first and second fans, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jun-Ho Bae, Soo-Kwan Lee, Chang-Joon Kim
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Publication number: 20110175742Abstract: A refrigerator and a control method of the refrigerator are discussed. According to an embodiment, a control method of a refrigerator connected to an electric power management network comprises steps of receiving power-rate information via the electric power management network; setting an over-cooling period and a power-saving period based on the received power-rate information; controlling at east one storage chamber to be over-cooled by over-cooling cold air during the over-cooling period; and controlling the other storage chamber to be over-cooled by the over-cooled cold air during the power-saving period. According to the present invention, the functions of the refrigerator are provided with minimal use of electricity and/or with reduced electricity charges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jong Min SHIN, Ji Young LEE, Woo Hyun PAIK
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Patent number: 7980091Abstract: A refrigeration device comprising two refrigerated regions, whose temperature is independently regulated and which are supplied with cold air from a common evaporator chamber. A flap is situated in one branch of a cold air conduit, which connects the refrigerated regions to the evaporator chamber, said flap being pivotable between two positions, each of which seals a respective branch of the conduit. The pivoting displacement of the flap is driven by an eccentric cam.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Patent number: 7971443Abstract: There is provided a temperature switching compartment 3 which can switch the internal temperature thereof between a low temperature side at which a storage material is kept in cold storage and a high temperature side maintained at 50° C., to 80° C. at which cooked food is kept warm, by cooling with a cooler 17 and heating with a heater 15.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayasu Nishita, Yoshinari Fujihara, Yasuji Ohshiro, Kayo Takashima
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Publication number: 20110146303Abstract: A refrigerator in which an evaporator is separately installed in each of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber such that operations of the freezing chamber and the refrigerating chamber are independently controlled, and a method of controlling an operation thereof. An operation of the freezing chamber is performed first when the refrigerator starts to be operated in a parallel cycle to convert a flow of a refrigerant such that operations of the freezing chamber and the refrigerating chamber are independently performed using a 3-way valve, thereby achieving energy savings. Further, a check valve to prevent the refrigerant from flowing to a freezing chamber evaporator is omitted, thereby achieving production cost reduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kook Jeong Seo, Won Jae Woon, Young Han Kim
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Publication number: 20110146333Abstract: The embodiment relates to a refrigerator. In the refrigerator, a freezing compartment is selectively partitioned into a plurality of spaces and some of the plurality of spaces can be used as a convertible compartment that can be converted into the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment. In addition, the refrigerator has a structure that an operation unit is provided at a door that opens and closes the convertible compartment and a cable that extends from a main body to the operation unit is clearly processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Min Bon KOO, Jong Wook AN
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Publication number: 20110146334Abstract: Provided are a refrigerator and a drawer for a refrigerator. The drawer for the refrigerator includes a receiving member received in the refrigerator to provide a receiving space for receiving foods, an induction member disposed inside the receiving member to induce a formation of moisture on a surface thereof, an indicating member disposed inside the receiving member, the indicating member comprising an indicating part for indicating a humidity state to the outside, and a transmission part providing a space through which the moisture flows, together with the indicating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Eunjeong KIM, Eunyoung PARK, Sangho OH, Jaehyun SOH
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Publication number: 20110146335Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator compartment, a refrigerator compartment door opening and closing the refrigerator compartment, and an ice compartment in which an ice maker is disposed. The ice compartment is defined as an insulation space within the refrigerator compartment door. The refrigerator also includes an ice compartment door opening and closing the ice compartment, and a receiving member disposed on the ice compartment door. The receiving member protrudes toward an inside of the refrigerator compartment to provide a receiving space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jae Hun JUNG, Do Wan KIM, Chan Ju PAE
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Patent number: 7950248Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body cabinet which includes an external cabinet, and an internal cabinet disposed inside the external cabinet and including a partition wall forming first and second storage compartments partitioned right and left, one of the first and second storage compartments being provided thereunder with a component compartment accommodating a compressor between the external cabinet and the internal cabinet but the other one being not provided thereunder with the component compartment; a bottom cabinet which is coupled to a bottom of the main body cabinet and accommodates a condenser for condensing a refrigerant received from the compressor accommodated in the component compartment. Thus, the capacity of the storage compartment increases, so that the inner space of the storage compartment can be efficiently used.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyu-su Cho
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Publication number: 20110120151Abstract: A system for use in freezing, thawing, transporting or storing biopharmaceutical materials which includes a container, a holder and plurality of heat transfer members. The container is configured to hold biopharmaceutical materials therein. The holder has a cavity for receiving the container and includes an interior surface bounding the cavity. A plurality of pockets contact outer surfaces of the container and is received in the cavity. Each pocket of the plurality of pockets includes a pocket cavity. A heat transfer member actively controls the temperature of biopharmaceutical materials held in the container and is received in the pocket cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SARTORIUS STEDIM SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Jonathan CUTTING, Isabelle GAY, Oscar Werner REIF
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Publication number: 20110113811Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
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Publication number: 20110113813Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
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Patent number: 7942012Abstract: A dual evaporator refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and a refrigeration compartment with an enclosed pan. A freezer evaporator with a freezer fan is in the freezer compartment for cooling the freezer compartment and a refrigeration evaporator with a first refrigeration fan is in the refrigeration compartment for cooling the refrigeration compartment. A compressor provides refrigerant flow to the freezer and the refrigeration evaporators. A second refrigeration fan moves air from the refrigeration evaporator to the enclosed pan.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sheena L. Ritchie, Mark Wilson, Alexander Rafalovich
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Publication number: 20110107788Abstract: Climate control unit with an interior section containing a storage space and with a closable access opening to the storage section whereby at least one part of the interior section is separated and sealed against the rest of the interior section thus forming a separate germ-proof section. The division takes place at least in part by a membrane that is permeable for water vapor and gas but impermeable for microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: THERMO ELECTRON LED GMBHInventors: Hermann Stahl, Olaf Broemsen, Ulrike Hohenthanner, Rainer Schuck, Waldemar Pieczarek
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Publication number: 20110094256Abstract: A refrigerator having a sub door which reduces energy loss and a method of manufacturing method the sub door. The refrigerator includes a main body provided with storage chambers formed therein, doors opening and closing the storage chambers, and provided with an opening, a sub door to open and close the opening, and a cooling unit provided on the rear surface of the sub door. When the sub door is opened, cool air of the cooling unit is transmitted to a stored article put on the rear surface of the sub door, and when the sub door is closed, relatively uniform temperature distribution in the storage chamber is achieved and thus storage performance of the refrigerator is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Hee Song, Jeong Wook Lee, Ha Jin Jeong
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Publication number: 20110094726Abstract: A refrigerator having a valve to control the supply of a refrigerant to a plurality of storage chambers and a control method of the same. An opening time rate of the valve is changed based on modes of the storage chambers to control the amount of the refrigerant supplied to the storage chambers, thereby avoiding concentration of the refrigerant in one of the storage chambers and thus preventing refrigerant shortage in the other storage chambers. Also, left and right temperature deviation of each storage chamber is reduced, thereby achieving uniform temperature distribution of each storage chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ha Jin Jeong, Hak Gyun Bae
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Patent number: 7926298Abstract: A refrigerator, including a cabinet having top, bottom, rear and opposing side walls that collectively define a freezer compartment and a fresh food compartment, employs a cooling system and an air plenum to deliver a cooling air flow into the freezer and fresh food compartments. The air plenum includes a variable position air damper having a first, substantially straight portion and a second arcuate portion that forms an air scoop. The air damper is slidably mounted within the air plenum between first and second positions. The variable position air damper is selectively arranged in the first position to efficiently deliver a volume of the cooling air flow into the freezer compartment, the second position to deliver the cooling airflow into the fresh food compartment or in an infinite number of intermediate positions to deliver the cooling airflow into both compartments.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Steven John Kuehl, James Charles Leslie Guarino
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Publication number: 20110083464Abstract: Refrigerators with at least one pullout refrigerator compartment that provides side access to one or more refrigerated items are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventor: Craig Kettles