Cooling apparatus of kimchi refrigerator and method therefor

Abstract

A cooling apparatus of a kimchi refrigerator having a storage compartment includes a detector for detecting whether a door is opened or not; a timer for performing to count an opening time of a door when it is detected that the door is opened; a heat exchanger installed in the door for cooling down warm air flown into an upper part of the storage compartment to discharge the cooled air into the storage compartment; and a controller for calculating a driving time during which the heat exchanger is driven and providing a cooling control signal to the heart exchanger pursuant to the driving time when it is detected that the door is closed by the detector.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a kimchi refrigerator, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a cooling device and cooling method for a kimchi refrigerator capable of rapidly cooling warm air flowing into an upper portion of a storage compartment when a door of the kimchi refrigerator is opened. Background technique [0002] In general, in order to store frozen food and refrigerated food or fermented food (such as kimchi and the like), a corresponding storage space is required to store them at an appropriate temperature. For this purpose, refrigerators have a freezer compartment and a cooling compartment, which are often used. [0003] Meanwhile, in the case of storing refrigerated food and fermented food together in the cooling room of the refrigerator, strong odors are generated in the cooling room due to fermentation of the fermented food, and these strong odors permeate into other refrigerated foods, thereby changing the temperatu...

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Problems solved by technology

[0009] However, there is a problem in this kimchi refrigerator in this field: when the door is opened, the compressor should be driven in order to lower the temperature of the outside warm air flowing into the upper part of the storage compartment.

Therefore, the efficiency of such refrigerators will be reduced due to the large amount of electricity consumed to drive the compressor

[00010] Furthermore, there is a problem with using a cooling fan to forcibly circulate warm air flowing into the upper part of the storage compartment to the lower part of the storage compartment before converting the warm air into cold air of a suitably predetermined temperature, Will destroy the status of stored items

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