Refrigerator Partition Insulation for Uniform Multi-Chamber Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
As refrigerators increase in size, the partitions that divide the storage space into multiple chambers often do not receive uniform insulation, leading to inefficiencies in maintaining temperature and freshness.
Innovation Solution
The partitions are manufactured separately and coupled to the inner casing with specific recesses, allowing an insulator to fill the space between the inner and outer casings, and also fill the partitions themselves, ensuring uniform insulation across the storage chambers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
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If the insulator fills the space between the inner casing and the outer casing in a large refrigerator, then the storage space is insulated, but the partitions do not receive uniform insulation
Solution Approach 1:
The partition is divided into a first partition body and a second partition body that are separately formed and then coupled together. This segmentation allows the insulator to uniformly fill both partition sections, resolving the insulation uniformity issue in large refrigerators while maintaining the required storage space volume
Solution Approach 2:
The first and second partition bodies are preliminarily formed with insulator-filled cavities before being coupled to the inner casing. This preliminary insulation action ensures that when the partitions are assembled into the large refrigerator, uniform insulation is already in place, preventing the insulation deficiency that would otherwise occur
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach ensures improved insulating qualities of the partitions, maintaining temperature consistency and freshness across the storage chambers, even in larger refrigerators.
Implementation Method 1
An insulator fills a space between the inner casing and the outer casing in order to prevent outflow of cold air
Implementation Method 2
filling the partitions with the insulator by filling a space between the inner casing and the outer casing with the insulator
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AI summary
A refrigerator and a manufacturing method thereof including processes of separately manufacturing partitions dividing a storage space into a plurality of storage chambers from a main body including an inner casing and an outer casing, coupling the partitions to an inner surface of the inner casing, filling a space between the inner casing and the partitions with an insulator, and filling the partitions with the insulator by filling a space between the inner casing and the outer casing with the insulator. Since the insulator uniformly fills the partitions dividing the storage space into the plurality of storage chambers, the partitions may possess improved insulating qualities.