Sanitation device for refrigerator
AssigneeBSH Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsChenli Hu, Wei Zhong, Haiqing Zhou
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment and an air sanitation device mounted on a top wall of the storage compartment. The air sanitation device includes: a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a peripheral wall connecting the upper wall to the lower wall; an air channel disposed in the housing and has an air inlet and an air outlet; a fan disposed in the air channel to force air to enter the air channel from the air inlet and leave the air channel from the air outlet; and an air detection device and/or an air purification device disposed in the air channel. The air outlet is disposed on the peripheral wall, and the air channel is configured in such a way that the air is discharged out of the air outlet obliquely downward.
Claims13
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a storage compartment having a top wall;
- an air sanitation device mounted on said top wall of said storage compartment, said air sanitation device containing:
- a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a peripheral wall connecting said upper wall to said lower wall;
- an air channel disposed in said housing and having an air outlet and two air inlets opposite one another and transverse to said air outlet, said air outlet disposed on said peripheral wall, and said air channel is configured in such a way that air is discharged out of said air outlet obliquely downward;
- a fan disposed in said air channel, to force the air to enter said air channel from said two air inlets and leave said air channel from said air outlet;
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- an air detection device and/or an air purification device disposed in said air channel.
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a storage compartment having a top wall with a concave portion;
- an air sanitation device mounted to said concave portion, said air sanitation device containing:
- a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a peripheral wall connecting said upper wall to said lower wall;
- an air channel disposed in said housing and having an air inlet and an air outlet, said air outlet disposed on said peripheral wall and disposed outside said concave portion, said upper wall is at least partially disposed in said concave portion and having a guiding portion including a slope portion having an oblique extent directed downward toward said air outlet;
- an air purification device having an ion generator disposed in said air channel and with said oblique extent;
- an air detection device and/or said air purification device disposed in said air channel;
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- a fan disposed in said air channel, to force the air to enter said air channel from said air inlet and leave said air channel from said air outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.