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US 11,445,740 B2Granted
Storage device
AssigneeQingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd.
InventorsXiaobing Zhu, Bo Jiang, Lei Wang, Hao Zhang, Ming Wang
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Abstract
The present invention provides a storage device, including: a box body, a gas separator, and a gas extractor, wherein the gas extractor is communicated with the gas separator. The storage device of the present invention may form a nitrogen-rich and oxygen-deficient atmosphere beneficial to food freshness preservation.
Claims9
A storage device, comprising:
- a box body, wherein the box body has at least one controlled-atmosphere freshness preservation space;
- a gas separator, wherein the gas separator has a controlled-atmosphere membrane, and is configured to:
- suck in a part of air outside the gas separator, and separate more oxygen than nitrogen from the part of air by means of the controlled-atmosphere membrane to form oxygen-rich gas, so that a remaining gas except the oxygen-rich gas in the part of air that enters the gas separator is fed into the controlled-atmosphere freshness preservation space;
- and
- a gas extractor, communicated to the gas separator via a pipe, and configured to enable the oxygen-rich gas to flow out of the gas separator;
- wherein the gas separator further comprises:
- a gas collection box, wherein a horizontally placed support frame is disposed in the gas collection box, the support frame and an upper half box body of the gas collection box together define a first gas collection cavity, and the support frame and a lower half box body of the gas collection box together define a second gas collection cavity;
- wherein
- the controlled-atmosphere membrane is horizontally disposed on the support frame, and is configured to:
- enable more oxygen than nitrogen in the air that enters the first gas collection cavity to pass through the controlled-atmosphere membrane to enter the second gas collection cavity, so as to form the oxygen-rich gas in the second gas collection cavity, and form the remaining gas in the first gas collection cavity;
- three vent holes controllable to be opened are formed in the gas collection box, and are respectively a first vent hole allowing the part of air to enter the first gas collection cavity of the gas separator, a second vent hole allowing the remaining gas to enter the controlled-atmosphere freshness preservation space, and a third vent hole allowing the oxygen-rich gas to flow out of the second gas collection cavity.
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