Refrigerator

Abstract

A refrigerator comprises a cabinet providing a refrigerating compartment and a machine compartment isolated from the refrigerating compartment, said cabinet installed with a door for opening and closing the refrigerating compartment; and a refrigerating unit detachably installed in the machine compartment, for supplying cool air into the refrigerating compartment, and including mechanisms performing a refrigerating cycle of compression, condensation, expansion and evaporation, said mechanisms integrally installed in the machine compartment. Accordingly, a fabrication process of a refrigerator is simplified and cost and operating time for installation, maintenance and repair of the refrigerating unit can be reduced.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator which can be fabricated through a simplified process and can be easily maintained and repaired. [0003] 2. Description of the Background Art [0004] As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a conventional refrigerator includes: a main body 10 provided with a refrigerating compartment 12 in which cooled items or frozen items are stored and having a front surface where a door 19 is installed; and a refrigerating unit 20 constructed such that a compressor 32, a condenser 33, an expansion valve 34, an evaporator 42 and the like are connected by a refrigerant pipe 5 in order to cool the inside of the refrigerating compartment 12. [0005] As for the refrigerating unit 20, a high-temperature part 30 including the compressor 32, the expansion valve 34, the condenser 33 and the condenser fan 36 for cooling the condenser 33, and generating a high-tempera...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides a refrigerator that can be easily maintained and repaired by detachably installing a refrigerating unit for cooling the inside of a refrigerating compartment. The refrigerating unit includes mechanisms performing a refrigerating cycle of compression, condensation, expansion and evaporation, which are integrally installed in the machine compartment. This simplifies the process of fabricating and maintaining the refrigerator."

Problems solved by technology

However, the conventional refrigerator constructed and fabricated as above has following problems.

Accordingly, a fabrication process of a refrigerator becomes complicated.

In addition, in case that it is required to check and repair the refrigerating unit 20 while a refrigerator is being fabricated or used, since it is difficult to specially separate and repair only the refrigerating unit 20, an operation time due to the maintenance and the repair of the refrigerator, and a cost are increased.

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