Multi-functional child care storage and inner case thereof

Abstract

A child care storage for storing an infant food and/or product includes a plurality of functional compartments for refrigerating, heating and/or sterilizing the infant food and/or product in a main body, wherein the plurality of the functional compartments include a refrigerating compartment and a sterilizing compartment; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of the functional compartments. The plurality of the functional compartments includes a refrigerating compartment. The refrigerating compartment, partitioned by partitions in the main body, includes a refrigerating space capable of being opened and closed by a first door and refrigerates the refrigerating space by a thermoelectric element.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a multi-functional child care storage and an inner case thereof; and, more particularly, to a multi-functional child care storage including a plurality of functional compartments for storing or treating infant food or infant products in various ways, and an inner case thereof capable of preventing a leakage of an insulating material charged between the inner case and an outer case of the multi-functional child care storage, while minimizing a deformation of the outer case that might be caused by a load or an impact imposed thereon from the outside. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] In general, a refrigerator is used to keep food or beverage in a refrigerated or frozen state for a long time or to cool them rapidly. The refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment opened or closed by individual front doors. To supply cool air to the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment, the re...

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Benefits of technology

[0011] It is, therefore, a first object of the present invention to provide a multi-functional child care storage including a plurality of functional compartments for storing or treating infant food or infant products in various ways. By using this multi-functional child-care storage which enables various treatments of infant food or products within a single apparatus, the time and effort required for child care can be reduced, thus improving user convenience.

Problems solved by technology

Though such various types of special-purpose refrigerators have been developed, developments have rarely been made upon a storage apparatus for an exclusive use in baby or child care.

As a result, the quality of the infant food or the infant products will be deteriorated and, even worse, hygienic problems may be resulted.

Furthermore, in case of using a microwave to warm up, e.g., milk, the milk has to be warmed up, and it is difficult to maintain the temperature of the milk at a desired temperature for a long period of time.

Also, purchasing a heating cabinet to warm up the milk or store the warm milk is not economical because the heating cabinet is just for heating and cannot be utilized for other purposes.

Furthermore, since the heating cabinet is designed to be used in commercial environments such as hospitals, pharmacies, restaurants, and so forth, it is not suitable for use in home for the purpose of child care.

Moreover, given that a general household sterilizing device is usually designed to be used in sterilizing kitchenware such as dishware or utensils, using it to sterilize infant supplies such as feeding bottles, handkerchiefs, toys and the like is not proper.

Thus, it does not have features suitable for child care purpose.

However, most of these sterilizing devices are only for disinfecting feeding bottles, and they do not have a storage function for storing various infant products appropriately.

Further, if the multi-functional child care storage is configured such that it includes an inner case in which the plurality of the functional compartments are formed and a front-opened outer case for accommodating the inner case therein, a liquid state insulating material injected into a space between the inner case and the outer case to insulate the functional compartments from each other may leak outside before it is solidified by, e.g., a catalytic reaction, so that time and effort are required for dealing with this.

Besides, since the child care storage is of a small size compared to conventional refrigerator products, its case may be easily deformed by a torsion due to a load imposed thereon.

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