2722 results about "Freezing chamber" patented technology

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.

A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a main body which has a cooling chamber and a freezing chamber, a storage chamber which is provided in the cooling chamber to store foodstuffs, an irradiation device which irradiates light within a visible light region correspondingly to color of the foodstuffs stored in the storage chamber, an optical deodorization module which includes an ultraviolet light irradiation device which is mounted to the storage chamber to irradiate ultraviolet light and a photocatalyst filter which receives the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light irradiation device and is coated with a photocatalyst agent, and a control unit which controls the irradiation device and the ultraviolet light irradiation device.

A refrigerator has a freezing chamber at the bottom, and a refrigerating chamber over the freezing chamber. The refrigerator includes an ice making unit and an ice dispenser mounted in a refrigerating chamber door that allows ice to be dispensed without opening the door. A sub-PCB is mounted in the refrigerating chamber door for controlling operations of the ice making unit and the dispenser. A cold air supply duct supplies cold air from a cold air supply unit to the ice making unit.

A hollow aluminum alloy extrusion section bar starts sealing one opening of the extrusion hollow thin wall enclosing section bar to be bent, with the weld end upright roll down, filling sand from the upper opening till there is only a small distance unfilled space left, keeping the part upright, filling water from the opening till it is slightly higher than the sand level, putting it into the freezing chamber until the frozen of the sand and water to seal the opening with a ready made wedge, and lamping the above said parts in stretch benders or rolling bend machine. In this way, it avoids the convex and cave caused when the hollow section curves. It solves the deformation of the cross section in curving, retaining the same cross section area.

The invention relates to a defrosting control system and a defrosting control method of a refrigerator. The system comprises a controller, a circulating fan, and a defrosting temperature sensor, a refrigerating chamber temperature sensor, a freezing chamber temperature sensor and an environmental temperature sensor connected with the controller, wherein the circulating fan is arranged beside a refrigerator evaporator; an air flue where the circulating fan is positioned is provided with a freezing chamber air inlet and a refrigerating chamber air inlet, and the air inlets are provided with a freezing chamber air inlet electric air door and a refrigerating chamber air inlet electric air door respectively; the air flue where the other side of the refrigerator evaporator corresponding to the circulating fan is positioned is provided with a freezing chamber return air port and a refrigerating chamber return air port; and the freezing chamber return air port is provided with a freezing chamber return air port electric air door. Refrigeration and defrosting are controlled by controlling the electric air doors of each air port and the circulating fan so as to save electrical energy, avoid generating continuous high temperature to affect the temperature of the refrigerator and reduce the energy consumption; and the refrigerator evaporator is defrosted through relative hot air of the refrigerating chamber by using the temperature difference between the refrigerating chamber and the refrigerator evaporator, so the energy utilization rate is high and the energy consumption is saved.

In the related art refrigerator, its structure for supplying water to a dispenser and water tank was complicated. In addition, since an icemaker is installed in a refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator, there is a problem in that the water supplied into the icemaker is frozen. Furthermore, if the icemaker is installed in the freezing chamber of the refrigerator in which the refrigerating chamber is formed at a lower portion thereof and a refrigerating chamber is formed at an upper portion thereof, there is another problem in that it is difficult to control the temperature in the refrigerating chamber or ice-making capability of the icemaker is lowered. The present invention is directed to a refrigerator. According to an aspect of the present invention for solving the above problems, there is provided a refrigerator including a refrigerating chamber formed at a relatively upper portion of a refrigerator body and a freezing chamber formed at a relatively lower portion of the refrigerator body, which comprises an ice-making chamber which is partitioned in the refrigerating chamber by means of insulating walls and includes an icemaker for making ice and an ice storage for storing the ice made in the icemaker, a first heat exchanger for generating cold air to regulate the temperature in the ice-making chamber, and a second heat exchanger for generating cold air to regulate the temperature in the freezing and refrigerating chambers, wherein the first and second heat exchanger are components of a heat exchange cycle. According to the refrigerator of the present invention so configured, there are advantages in that the temperature in the refrigerating chamber can be accurately controlled, the loss of cold air can be minimized and the structures for supplying water into the icemaker and the dispenser can be simplified.

Disclosed is a structure for dispensing ice in a refrigerator, in which an automated ice-making device and an ice bank are installed at a door of a freezing chamber to thereby make its space utilization effectively. The structure of the present invention includes: an ice-making device installed in a door of a freezing chamber; an ice bank storing pieces of ice provided from the ice-making device; an ice transfer unit for transferring the pieces of the ice stored in the ice bank in a width direction; and an ice crushing part for crushing the pieces of the ice transferred by the ice transfer unit.

The invention relates to an air-cooling refrigerator control method. A refrigeration system of an air-cooling refrigerator comprises a compressor, a condenser, a freezing evaporator, a cold storage evaporator, a condensate fan, a freezing fan, a cold storage fan, a cold storage temperature sensor, a freezing temperature sensor, an environment temperature sensor and a controller, wherein the controller of the refrigerator controls the rotating speeds of the compressor, the condensate fan, the freezing fan and the cold storage fan according to the temperature of a cold storage chamber, the temperature of a freezing chamber and the temperature of the external environment detected by the cold storage temperature sensor, the freezing temperature sensor and the environment temperature sensor respectively. Due to the arrangement of the environment temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the external environment on the refrigerator, the rotating speeds of the compressor, the condensate fan, the freezing fan and the cold storage fan can be adjusted simultaneously according to the temperature of the external environment and the temperature of each internal chamber, the refrigeration system is optimized, the temperature in the refrigerator can be controlled more accurately and quickly, and energy consumption and noise are reduced to the lowest level.

A high-pressure side discharge port of a two-stage compressor (12A) and a condenser (14A) are connected, condenser (14A) and a PMV (15A) are connected, a refrigerating side exit of PMV (15A) is connected to a medium pressure side suction port of two-stage compressor (12A) via an R capillary tube (16A) and an F evaporator (18A), connected to an F evaporator (26A) via an F capillary tube (24A), F evaporator (26A) is connected to a low-pressure side suction port of two-stage compressor (12A) via a low-pressure suction pipe (28A), PMV (15A) can switch a simultaneous cooling mode and a freezing mode, and in the simultaneous cooling mode, a refrigerant flow rate toward R evaporator (18A) is adjusted by PMV (15A), and thereby a temperature difference control is performed so as to make a difference between an entrance temperature and an exit temperature of R evaporator (18A) equal to a preset temperature difference (for example, 4° C.).A controller (22), on the basis of the detection condition of a temperature sensor (23) for a freezing chamber and a temperature sensor (24) for a refrigerating chamber, controls a freezing cycle device (10). Here, controller (22) controls an opening of a regulating valve (12) so as to make a superheat amount which is a difference between an exit temperature and an entrance temperature of a refrigerating evaporator (5) equal to a target superheat amount, and thereby adjusts a refrigerant flow rate to refrigerating evaporator (5) in a limited state.In this case, when a power is turned on, the entrance temperature and the exit temperature of refrigerating evaporator (5) are the same, so that controller (22), when the power is turned on, calibrates detected temperatures of an entrance temperature sensor (27) and an exit temperature sensor (26) so as to coincide with each other, and thereby can execute surely the subsequent limiting adjustment of regulating valve (12) on the basis of the superheat amount.Further, in this case, when a refrigerant supply to refrigerating evaporator (5) is stopped and the temperature of refrigerating evaporator (5) rises suddenly, controller 22 increases an opening of a valve opening (42) to refrigerating evaporator (5) of regulating valve (12) to a predetermined return value, so that the refrigerant supply amount to refrigerating evaporator (5) is increased at a stretch, and thus the refrigerating evaporator can be cooled quickly.A refrigerator having a two-stage compressor (12A) for cooling efficiently both a refrigerating chamber (2A) and a freezing chamber (5A) will be provided.When limiting and adjusting a refrigerant flow rate to one evaporator according to an opening of a valve body so as to make a superheat amount of one evaporator appropriate on the basis of the superheat amount which is a difference between an exit temperature and an entrance temperature of one evaporator, a refrigerator for detecting accurately the entrance temperature and the exit temperature of one evaporator will be provided.When limiting and adjusting a refrigerant flow rate to one evaporator according to an opening of a valve body, a refrigerator for causing no delay in a refrigerant supply to one evaporator will be provided.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and / or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator / freezer doors, and / or the like.

An insulated icemaking compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The icemaking compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere in the fresh food compartment. A removable bin assembly with a front cover normally seals the icemaking compartment to maintain the temperature in the compartment. A cold air duct formed in the rear wall of the refrigerator supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the icemaking compartment. A return air duct directs a portion of the air from the icemaking compartment back to the freezer compartment. An air vent in the icemaking compartment directs another portion of air into the fresh food compartment. A control system provides for controlling refrigerator functions in a manner that promotes energy efficiency.

The invention relates to a control method for refrigerator, concretely, it relates to control method for a frequency variable refrigerator, the invention provides a method for time division work of freezing chamber and cold storage chamber in the process of temperature control, and through the cold quantity demands estimation, the frosting process includes the refrigerating process of the cold storage chamber. The variable frequency refrigerator includes: primary CPU, freezing chamber, cold storage chamber, temperature sensor, compressor, the invention introduces the concepts of temperature change rate and target approaching rate, the refrigerator can adjust the temperature change of the refrigerator according to the rate.

In an aspect of the invention, an apparatus for providing chilling in a localized area comprises a chiller compartment and an independent cooling source thermally coupled to the chiller compartment by a thermally conductive interface. The cooling source provides a separate controllable temperature to the chiller compartment, which is adapted to be removably positioned in a selected temperature controlled environment. In another aspect a refrigerator comprises a freezer unit, a fresh food unit and a chiller compartment adapted to be removably positioned in either the freezer unit or the fresh food unit as a secondary chilling compartment. In another aspect a method of chilling comprises cooling a modular chiller compartment using an independent cooling source, chiller compartment being removably positioned within a temperature controlled environment and the cooling source and the chiller compartment being thermally coupled.

The invention discloses an air-cooled refrigerator which comprises a refrigeration system, an electrical control device, a sensing device and an air duct system, wherein the sensing device comprises a refrigerating chamber temperature sensor, a freezing chamber temperature sensor and an evaporator temperature sensor; and a timing part arranged in the electrical control device comprises a compressor operation timer, a defrosting pre-preparation timer, an air return defrosting timer and an electrical-heated defrosting timer. The invention also provides an energy-saving defrosting control method of the air-cooled refrigerator. The energy-saving defrosting control method comprises the following steps of: entering a defrosting program; performing defrosting pre-preparation; performing air return defrosting; performing electrical-heated defrosting; and finishing defrosting. According to the air-cooled refrigerator and the air return defrosting control method thereof provided by the invention, signals of each sensor can be received by the electrical control device, the state of each timer can be monitored, fine control over a compressor, a fan and the like can be realized, over-high temperature of a refrigerating chamber, caused by air return defrosting, is prevented, a preservation effect of the refrigerator is reduced, and meanwhile, a closed-loop type poor working process is prevented.

A refrigerator comprises a refrigerating room(5)disposed in the upper part of a refrigerator body; a freezing room (9) disposed in the lower part of a refrigerator body; a vegetable room(7) provided between the refrigerating room and the freezing room; the ice making room (12) disposed in the corner of the bottom part of the refrigerating room having an automatic ice making device; and an ice making fan(31) provided in the rear part of the ice making room; The cooling air produced by the refrigeration cooler is sent to the ice making room via a duct(30) and the ice making fan(31), and a cooling air duct including the freezing fan and a return duct from the ice making room are jointly provided in the rear surface of the vegetable room; A weak freezing chamber (6) is disposed in a freezing space (40), and a damper (37) is disposed in a back face of the weak freezing chamber (6). wall in a freezing space (40) and a damper (37) is disposed in a back face of the weak freezing chamber (6). When weak freezing is performed for food in the weak freezing chamber (6), the damper (37) is made into an open state, cooling air is forced to flow in, resulting in a rapid freezing operation up to a maximum ice crystal generation zone or lower. Subsequently, a heater (43) is initiated and the food is maintained in the weak freezing temperature zone. The present invention provides a layout of a storage room of a usability, Furthermore, it may maintain fresh degree and taste of food with weak frozen temperature when preserving food.

A refrigerator includes an ice storage container coupled to a mounting space of an inner wall of a freezing chamber door, and the ice storage container is attachable to and detachable from the mounting space by elastic lever units to maintain and release locking of the ice storage container with the mounting space, and elastic coupling units to maintain coupling of the ice storage container to the mounting space by elastic deformation and restrict movement of the ice storage container in the horizontal direction of the mounting space when the ice storage container is mounted on the mounting space, thereby preventing abrasion and breakdown of components due to user's ease in the assembly of the ice storage container and increase in the fixing force of the ice storage container.

Refrigerator including a cold air duct for receiving cold air circulating insides 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 for selective emission of heat, a fan in the cold air duct, for selective direction of the cold air in upward or downward, a motor for driving the fan, and open / close means for closing a space having the evaporator, the defrosting heater, and the fan positioned therein selectively, thereby providing an improved defroster for an evaporator.

The invention discloses a drawer component. The drawer component comprises a drawer, a base and an X-shaped lifting frame, wherein the base is arranged below the drawer, and the upper end of the base is opened; the X-shaped lifting frame is capable of stretching up and down so as to be located; the X-shaped lifting frame is arranged in the base and controlled by a lifting motor to realize stretching; and the drawer is supported on the X-shaped lifting frame so as to be raised up or fallen down. According to the drawer component of the embodiment of the invention, the lifting motor controls the X-shaped lifting frame to raise up or fall down the drawer at a locked position; therefore, the drawer component can lift automatically, and has high safety, delicate structure and low cost. The invention also discloses a refrigerator having the drawer component. By arranging the drawer component, the drawer of a freezing chamber for accommodating food can be raised up to a predetermined distance when people need to take or put the food, so people can take or put the food without bending down or squatting; therefore, the invention is convenient to use, and the moving amplitude of people is reduced.

The invention relates to a refrigerator that the temperatures in the chill chamber and the freezing chamber can maintain within the fixed range and the control method, at the same time, it guarantees the lost cost, simple process, and high efficiency. The refrigerator is made up of freezing chamber and chill chamber, refrigerating system and control circuit, a temperature sensors are arranged in the freezing chamber and the chill chamber, the control circuit includes a primary control board, monitor and so on, the temperature sensors in the two chambers are connected to the primary control board in the control circuit; a temperature compensation device is arranged in the chill chamber, the device is connected to the primary control board, because of the temperature compensation device in the chill chamber, the control method is also changed, thus it realizes the automatic freezing and automatic frost eliminating functions in the two chambers with fixed temperature range, and the freezing speed and the ability are upgraded greatly.

The invention is about a refrigerator comprising a refrigerator body, an accommodating space and a refrigerator door, wherein the refrigerator body defines the whole external dimension of the refrigerator, the receiving space consists of the refrigerator body, is used for placing objects, and comprises a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, and the refrigerator door is installed on the refrigerator body and provided with a display device. The freezing chamber and the refrigerating chamber are internally provided with an image capturing device connected with the display device respectively; the two image capturing devices transmit captured image information inside the refrigerator to the display device; and the seamless splicing treatment for the obtained image is carried out and the obtained image is displayed by the display device. Though the display device or the food storage state in the refrigerator and the operating function and the temperature state information of the refrigerator, and the refrigerator is convenient to use and quick to operate, and also saves electrical energy.

Abstract of Disclosure A frozen beverage machine includes a mixing block having a plurality of inlets and an outlet coupled to a freezing chamber. The freezing chamber has a drain valve and a dispensing valve coupled thereto. Beverage ingredients are pumped into corresponding ingredient inlets of the mixing block such that the ingredients are mixed in the mixing block to form a product mixture, and the product mixture flows from the mixing block outlet into the freezing chamber. The freezing chamber and the mixing block are refrigerated. The product mixture is drained from the freezing chamber via the drain valve, and a cleaning solution is pumped into a cleaning solution inlet of the mixing block and into the freezing chamber. The cleaning solution is drained from the freezing chamber via the drain valve.

The invention relates to a method for controlling an air-cooled refrigerator. The air-cooled refrigerator comprises a cold storage chamber and a freezing chamber; a compressor, an evaporator, a fan motor and a freezing chamber temperature sensor are arranged in the freezing chamber; a cold storage chamber temperature sensor is arranged in the cold storage chamber, and a cold storage air door for controlling the temperature of the cold storage chamber is arranged in an air duct between the cold storage chamber and the freezing chamber; and the freezing chamber temperature sensor, the cold storage chamber temperature sensor and the cold storage air door are connected with a controller of the air-cooled refrigerator. The method for controlling the air-cooled refrigerator comprises the following steps of: acquiring temperatures of the chambers through the freezing chamber temperature sensor and the cold storage chamber temperature sensor, and controlling the compressor, the fan motor and the cold storage air door through the controller to realize synchronization of refrigerating cycles of the chambers, wherein start of the compressor is only controlled by the temperature of the freezing chamber, and operation and stop of the compressor are controlled by the temperature of each chamber. By the controlling method, the start time of the compressor can be reduced, the refrigerating efficiency is improved, and an aim of reducing the operating energy consumption of the refrigerator is fulfilled.

The present invention relates to a cooling utensil, which is a proof of freezing-crack and distortion. More particularly, an internal cavity of the utensil is fully filled the water to freeze in the freezer for cooling the serving food, such as a law fish, fruit, cold noodle or beer to feel fresh and tasty. For using the cooling bowl, the cooling cavity is filled the water or coolant for freezing. The cooling bowl is using for serving food. The cooling cavity is formed between the upper part and the lower part. The lower part is used a base to support the upper part. The upper part has same shape and size of the lower part for placing over the lower part. The elastic plate having flexibility and elastically restoring force is attached to the lower part, the upper part for assembling. Further, the cooling bowl having a cooling cavity is filled the water or coolant and freeze to use serving food. The lower part has built a dual wall to form a vacuum gap between the inner wall and the outer wall for insulation, so that the outer wall has no condensed water gained. The elastic tube (4k) having elastically restoring force is inserted through the water inlet (33). the plug bolt (5k) mounted at the mouth of the water inlet (33), for sealing the water filled cavity.

The invention provides a refrigerator improving driving reliability of blower. The refrigerator of the invention comprises a refrigerating chamber provided at the upper part of the refrigerator body, a freezing chamber provided at the lower part of the refrigerator body, a blower conveying cooling air to the refrigerator, a cooling air duct located at the upper part of the freezing chamber and provided with the blower, an air door located at the upper part of the blower for adjusting the supplying of the cooling air conveyed by the blower to the refrigerator, a baffle for rotatably providing the air door in the cooling air duct and controlling the cooling air passing in the cooling air duct; the blower comprises a fan and a fan cover provided around the fan and the blower is provided having tilt from upper part if the fan cover to the left and right directions viewing from the face of the refrigerator body; the cooling air duct has a tilt part at the upper part of the fan; the baffle rotates until the end of the baffle locating at the upper part of the tilt part.

An improved refrigerator with a cool select zone comprises a refrigerating room, a cold room, the cool select zone and a control part. The cool select zone is arranged in the cold room and provided with an air inlet and an air outlet. The refrigerator also comprises an induced duct, one end of which is connected with the refrigerating room and the other end of which is connected with the air inlet of the cool select zone; as well as an air quantity control structure connected with the induced duct. The control method for the refrigerator comprises: when T is more than Ts-0.5, a controller opens an electric air door to lead cooling air and the on-state of an evaporator fan is retained, if the fan stops, the fan is forcedly started to speed up the flow of cooling air and lower the temperature; when T is less than Ts-0.5, the controller closes the electric air door, the fan recovers to the normal operating state for heat preservation. The refrigerator can conveniently set the temperature to satisfy the fresh-keeping requirements of most daily food; moreover, the refrigerator has the advantages of simple structure, high speed of temperature change, wide regulation range, no remaining frost formation, etc..

Disclosed are a refrigerator and a controlling method of the same. A change amount of a refrigerating chamber temperature, or a change amount of a freezing chamber temperature may be calculated per time period, and a load corresponding driving may be executed based on the calculated change amount. This may allow the load corresponding driving to be executed more precisely, reduce power consumption, and enhance stability and efficiency of a system.

Provided is a refrigerator. According to the embodiments of the invention, the refrigerator includes a cabinet including a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment door opening or closing the refrigerating compartment, a dispenser disposed at the refrigerating compartment door to dispense water or ice pieces. The refrigerator also includes an ice bank disposed at a back surface of the refrigerating compartment door to supply the ice pieces to the dispenser, an ice maker disposed in the freezing compartment to make the ice pieces, and an ice transfer device disposed in the freezing compartment to transfer the ice pieces supplied from the ice maker into the ice bank. The ice transfer device includes a piston pushing the ice pieces supplied from the ice maker and an ice chute guiding the ice pieces supplied by the piston to the ice bank.

A method for controlling operation of a refrigerator to enable independent cooling of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber. The method prevents temperature rising of the refrigerator by controlling a refrigerant passage switching valve after stopping operation of a compressor, thereby reducing electricity consumption and increasing humidification effects of the refrigerator by controlling an operating time point of a refrigerating chamber fan. The method for controlling operation of the refrigerator, having a plurality of storage chambers, a plurality of evaporators installed in the respective storage chambers, and a refrigerant passage switching valve to switch refrigerant passages extending to the evaporators, includes the steps of sensing temperatures of the plurality of storage chambers and stopping operation of the compressor if the temperatures reach preset temperatures, and controlling the refrigerant passage switching valve after stopping operation of the compressor to close refrigerant passages to the plurality of evaporators.