Abstract: A vacuum cleaner and an intake port unit thereof are disclosed, by which a steam cleaning can be conducted together with a vacuum cleaning. The intake port unit includes a housing. A vacuum intake passage is provided within the housing for passage of air sucked in from the exterior of the housing, and a steam generator is provided within the housing to generate steam. A steam discharge passage is provided within the housing for passage of steam discharged to the exterior of the housing. The steam discharge passage is partitioned from the vacuum intake passage.

Abstract: A cleaner is disclosed, by which a floorcloth is attached to a correct position on a bottom of the cleaner, and by which a floorcloth can be attached to a correct position without turning a cleaner body upside down, thereby preventing a hazardous condition. The present invention includes a body configured as a cleaner head, an electric magnet provided adjacent to one side of a bottom of the body to generate a magnetic field during application of an electrical signal, and a floorcloth having a conductive body provided at a position opposing the electric magnet.

Abstract: A switched reluctance motor includes: a stator including a cylindrical body, a plurality of salient poles coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical body and provided with a winding coil, and an exterior member formed as a cylindrical shape by encompassing an assembly formed by coupling of the cylindrical body, the salient poles and the like; a rotor rotatably inserted inside the exterior member of the stator; a rotary shaft coupled to the rotor; and a phase indication magnet coupled to the rotor or the rotary shaft. Accordingly, an external structure of the motor is simplified, and the number of components and the number of assembling processes are remarkably reduced.

Abstract: A water heating apparatus using electrodes is provided. The water heating apparatus includes a heating tank in which electrolyte solution is stored and a plurality pairs of heating electrodes composed of positive electrodes and negative electrodes arranged in the heating tank at uniform intervals. Since the plurality of pairs of electrodes are arranged in the heating tank at uniform intervals, the heating operation can be always performed in a state where the electrolyte solution of no less than the minimum water level is stored regardless of the direction of the heating tank so that it is possible to heat water or to generate steam. Therefore, the water heating apparatus can be easily applied to a product that is inclined or upset and that is not in a specific direction.

Abstract: A cleaner is disclosed, by which a floorcloth is attached to a correct position on a bottom of the cleaner, and by which a floorcloth can be attached to a correct position without turning a cleaner body upside down, thereby preventing a hazardous condition. The present invention includes a body configured as a cleaner head, an electric magnet provided adjacent to one side of a bottom of the body to generate a magnetic field during application of an electrical signal, and a floorcloth having a conductive body provided at a position opposing the electric magnet.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner and an intake port unit thereof are disclosed, by which a steam cleaning can be conducted together with a vacuum cleaning. The intake port unit includes a housing. A vacuum intake passage is provided within the housing for passage of air sucked in from the exterior of the housing, and a steam generator is provided within the housing to generate steam. A steam discharge passage is provided within the housing for passage of steam discharged to the exterior of the housing. The steam discharge passage is partitioned from the vacuum intake passage.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body provide with a storage compartment and a door for opening and closing the compartment, a display unit installed on the door, for displaying an image of a television, and a heat discharging unit installed at one side of the display unit, for releasing heat generated from the display unit. Accordingly, overheating of the display unit and deterioration of refrigeration performance can be prevented.

Abstract: A switched reluctance motor includes: a stator including a cylindrical body, a plurality of salient poles coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical body and provided with a winding coil, and an exterior member formed as a cylindrical shape by encompassing an assembly formed by coupling of the cylindrical body, the salient poles and the like; a rotor rotatably inserted inside the exterior member of the stator; a rotary shaft coupled to the rotor; and a phase indication magnet coupled to the rotor or the rotary shaft. Accordingly, an external structure of the motor is simplified, and the number of components and the number of assembling processes are remarkably reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wet and dry pump, comprising: a housing having an inlet and an outlet of fluid; an impeller rotatably set in the housing; and a motor including a rotating shaft connected to the impeller, a stator fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the housing and having a damp-proof-processed winding coil therein, and a rotor fixed to an outer circumference of the rotating shaft with maintaining a certain gap with an inner circumference of the stator. Therefore, it can be advantageous to improve characteristics of power consumption and noise by making wet air or liquid pass through a passage between the stator and the rotor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a temperature control method for a refrigerator which can minimize a deviation in refrigerant compartment temperature while minimizing the power consumption of the refrigerator.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprises a main body provide with a storage compartment and a door for opening and closing the compartment, a display unit installed on the door, for displaying an image of a television, and a heat discharging unit installed at one side of the display unit, for releasing heat generated from the display unit. Accordingly, overheating of the display unit and deterioration of refrigeration performance can be prevented.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator that is capable of rapidly handling a load in a freezing chamber of the refrigerator or a refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator, and preventing stored goods in a rapid cooling chamber from being excessively cooled. The present invention also provides a method of controlling such a refrigerator. The refrigerator comprises a rapid cooling chamber mounted in at least one of the freezing and refrigerating chambers, a rapid cooling channel having one end communicating with an entering channel of the refrigerating chamber and the other end communicating with the rapid cooling channel, and a damper for controlling the flow of cool air passing through the entering channel of the refrigerating chamber and the rapid cooling channel. The damper is controlled on the basis of the load in the freezing or refrigerating chamber and a load in the rapid cooling chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus controls cool air for directedly cooling a section which is weakly cooled or which stores new loads. The apparatus discharges the cool air by rotating a drive body in accordance with a variation of visual images taken by visual image generator before and after the load is stored. The cool air can also be discharged into a specific storage space by rotating cool air injection nozzles based upon the temperature variation of door baskets detected by temperature sensors. Therefore, a uniform temperature distribution can be maintained in the cooling device to substantially reduce an amount of power consumption.

Abstract: A concentrated cooling apparatus of a refrigerator is capable of improving the reliability of an infrared sensor by preventing moisture from being condensed onto the surface of the infrared sensor. The concentrated cooling apparatus includes a nozzle rotationally supported by a cold air guide path, the nozzle intensively jetting cold air to a high-temperature load region when a high-temperature load is placed inside a chilling chamber of the refrigerator. An infrared sensor is installed at the front of the nozzle, and the infrared sensor senses the high-temperature load region while being rotated together with the nozzle. A moisture removing device is formed at a side of the nozzle, the moisture removing device jetting cold air on the surface of the infrared sensor to remove moisture condensed on the surface of the infrared sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a temperature control method for a refrigerator which can minimize a deviation in refrigerant compartment temperature while minimizing the power consumption of the refrigerator.

Abstract: A concentration cooling apparatus for a refrigerator, including a housing which is respectively mounted in one or more cold air guiding paths formed on a side wall of the chilling chamber to guide cold air to the side wall of the chilling chamber, a nozzle which is rotatably supported in the housing, for concentratedly injecting cold air to a region where a high temperature load is occurred in the chilling chamber, a temperature sensor which is mounted at the front of the nozzle, for sensing the region where the high temperature load is occurred, rotating together with the nozzle, and a nozzle driving portion for rotating the nozzle up and down as well as in the circumferential direction of the nozzle, can swiftly maintain a temperature inside of a chilling chamber as a uniform temperature by concentratedly discharging cold air into a region where a high temperature load is occurred inside the chilling chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed are an infrared sensor assembly and a refrigerator having the infrared sensor, in which a location where a heat source is generated is precisely detected by narrowing a receiving angle of an infrared sensor. To this end, the infrared sensor assembly comprises: an infrared sensor fixed to a supporting frame for receiving infrared rays generated at a heat source; a case having the infrared sensor mounted therein and an infrared filter mounted at an upper surface thereof, the infrared filter transmits only the infrared rays; and a receiving range limiting means prolonged from an outer circumference surface of the case with a predetermined height for limiting a range of the infrared rays received into the infrared sensor so as to precisely detect a location of the heat source.

Abstract: A concentration cooling apparatus for a refrigerator includes a housing which is mounted in a cold air guiding path, and a nozzle which is rotatably supported in the housing, for concentratedly injecting cold air to a region where a high temperature load is generated when the high temperature load is generated in a predetermined region inside a cooling chamber. An infrared sensor is mounted at the front of the nozzle, for sensing the region where the high temperature load is generated. The sensor rotates together with the nozzle and a frost drying sensor is installed on the upper surface of the nozzle, for drying frost on the surface of the infrared sensor. Thus, the reliability of the infrared sensor can be improved by preventing the formation of frost on the surface of the lens of the infrared sensor which detects whether the high temperature load is generated.

Abstract: A concentration cooling apparatus of a refrigerator including housings respectively installed to cold air guide path formed at the side wall of a chilling chamber; a nozzle rotatably supported by the housings and jetting cold air intensively to a high-temperature load occurred region; a nozzle support member arranged with a certain distance from the outer circumference of the nozzle, connected to the nozzle through a connection rod extended from the both sides of the nozzle; an infrared temperature sensor installed on the front of the nozzle; a first driving unit for rotating the nozzle in the circumferential direction by rotating the nozzle support member; and a second driving unit for rotating the nozzle up and down by rotating the connection rod rotated according to the rotation direction of the nozzle, thereby discharging cold air intensively onto a high temperature load occurred region, cooling instantly the high temperature load.

Abstract: A concentration cooling apparatus for a refrigerator, including a housing which is respectively mounted in one or more cold air guiding paths formed on a side wall of the chilling chamber to guide cold air to the side wall of the chilling chamber, a nozzle which is rotatably supported in the housing, for concentratedly injecting cold air to a region where a high temperature load is occurred in the chilling chamber, a temperature sensor which is mounted at the front of the nozzle, for sensing the region where the high temperature load is occurred, rotating together with the nozzle, and a nozzle driving portion for rotating the nozzle up and down as well as in the circumferential direction of the nozzle, can swiftly maintain a temperature inside of a chilling chamber as a uniform temperature by concentratedly discharging cold air into a region where a high temperature load is occurred inside the chilling chamber.