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US 11,692,770 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJeongwon Park, Giseok Seong, Myungjin Chung, Kyungseok Kim, Jinho Kim, Tackwon Han
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a cabinet formed with a chamber, a partition wall configured to partition the chamber into a storage space and an air flow path and including a discharge port and a suction port, and a heat exchanger provided in the air flow path, in which the air flow path includes a discharge flow path to guide air discharged to the discharge port, the discharge flow path has an inlet closer to a first side edge of the partition wall, and the suction port is formed closer to a vertical centerline of the partition wall than either of a first or second side edge of the partition wall.
Claims19
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having an interior space;
- a wall configured to partition the interior space into a storage space and an air flow path, the wall including a discharge port and a suction port;
- a partition to separate the storage space into a first space and a second space, wherein the discharge port and the suction port communicate with the first space;
- a heat exchanger in communication with the air flow path, wherein the air flow path includes a discharge flow path that guides air to the discharge port, wherein the discharge flow path has an inlet formed closer to a first side edge of the wall than a second side edge of the wall, and wherein the suction port is positioned so that a vertical centerline of the wall extends through the suction port or a vertical centerline of the suction port is closer to the vertical centerline of the wall than to the first and second side edges of the wall;
- a fan disposed at an outlet side of the heat exchanger;
- and
- an inner cover configured to shield the heat exchanger and the fan, the inner cover including:
- a cover body to define an inner wall of the second space such that the cover body is exposed to the second space;
- and
- an additional discharge port formed in the cover body such that a first volume of the air passing through the fan flows to the discharge port and a second volume of the air passing through the fan flows to the additional discharge port, and
- wherein the additional discharge port includes an opening through which the air is directly discharged to the second space, and the vertical centerline of the wall extends through the opening.
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A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having a storage space;
- an air flow path provided on a wall of the cabinet and having discharge port and a suction port to the storage space;
- a refrigeration system provided in the air flow path to receive air via the suction port and to output air via the discharge port;
- and
- a door configured to open and close the storage space,
- wherein a distance between a vertical centerline of the suction port and a vertical centerline of the wall is less than horizontal distances between the vertical centerline of the suction port and one of first side or second side edges of the wall,
- wherein the refrigerator further comprises a return duct configured to guide air between the suction port and the refrigeration system, the return duct including:
- an inlet through which air is received from the suction port;
- an outlet through which air is discharged to the refrigeration system;
- and
- a duct section that is provided between the inlet and the outlet, the duct section including an overlap portion configured to overlap a fan of the refrigeration system in a horizontal direction such that at least a portion of the wall is interposed between the fan and the overlap portion,
- wherein the wall includes a fan motor mounter in which a motor for the fan is mounted, the fan motor mounter being positioned between the fan and the overlap portion such that the fan motor mounter overlaps the overlap portion, and
- wherein a size of the outlet is greater than that of the inlet.
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A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having an interior space;
- a wall configured to partition the interior space into a storage space and an air flow path, the wall including a discharge port through which air is discharged to the storage space and a suction port through which the air in the storage space is introduced;
- a heat exchanger in communication with the air flow path;
- and
- a fan configured to overlap the heat exchanger in a horizontal direction,
- wherein the air flow path includes a discharge flow path that guides air to the discharge port,
- wherein the discharge flow path includes an inlet formed closer to a first side edge of the wall than a second side edge of the wall and a plurality of branch flow paths extending towards the discharge port from the inlet,
- wherein the inlet of the discharge flow path is provided at an outlet side of the fan such that air passing through the fan is introduced into the plurality of branch flow paths via the inlet, and
- wherein the suction port is positioned so that a vertical centerline of the wall extends through the fan, and the inlet of the discharge flow path is opposed to the suction port with respect to the fan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.