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US 12,650,252 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSanggoo Park, Jeongwon Yoo
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Abstract
Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a main body having a storage space and an evaporator accommodated in the main body and configured to cool cold air supplied to the storage space. The evaporator includes a pair of headers facing each other, a plurality of flat tubes which have both ends respectively connected to the pair of headers and through which a refrigerant flows, and a plurality of plate-shaped heat dissipation fins penetrated by the plurality of flat tubes. Each of the flat tubes has a plate shape and is coupled to each of the headers in a state of being inclined at a set angle.
Claims17
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body having a storage space;
- and
- an evaporator disposed in the body and configured to cool air supplied to the storage space, the air passing in a flow direction from a lower end of the evaporator to an upper end of the evaporator,
- wherein the evaporator comprises:
- a first header having a central line that extends in a first direction;
- a second header that faces the first header;
- a plurality of flat tubes coupled to the first header and the second header, and configured such that a refrigerant flows through the plurality of flat tubes;
- and
- a plurality of plate-shaped heat dissipation fins each penetrated by at least one of the plurality of flat tubes,
- wherein each of the plurality of flat tubes has a plate shape and is coupled to the first header and to the second header at an incline having a set angle,
- wherein the plurality of flat tubes is arranged along the first header or the second header in the first direction,
- wherein the plurality of heat dissipation fins is arranged in the first direction spaced apart from each other at set intervals, the set intervals forming a spacing between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of heat dissipation fins between two adjacent flat tubes of the plurality of flat tubes, and
- wherein a spacing distance between the adjacent heat dissipation fins in the first direction is smaller than a length of each of the heat dissipation fins in the first direction.
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A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body having a storage space;
- and
- an evaporator disposed in the body and configured to cool air that passes in a flow direction from a lower end of the evaporator to an upper end of the evaporator,
- wherein the evaporator comprises:
- a first header that extends in a first direction;
- a second header that faces the first header and that extends in a second direction parallel to the first direction;
- a plurality of tubes having a flat shape, each of the tubes separately coupled to the first header and to the second header;
- and
- a plurality of heat dissipation fins each provided along a different one of the plurality of tubes,
- wherein each of the tubes is separately coupled to the first and second headers at an inclined angle with respect to the first direction,
- wherein the plurality of tubes is arranged along the first header or the second header in the first direction,
- wherein the plurality of heat dissipation fins is arranged in the first direction spaced apart from each other at set intervals, the set intervals forming a spacing between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of heat dissipation fins between two adjacent tubes of the plurality of tubes,
- wherein a spacing distance between the adjacent heat dissipation fins in the first direction is smaller than a length of each of the heat dissipation fins in the first direction.
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A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body having a storage space;
- and
- an evaporator disposed in the body and configured to cool air that passes in a flow direction from a lower end of the evaporator to an upper end of the evaporator,
- wherein the evaporator comprises:
- a first header that extends in a first direction;
- a second header that faces the first header and that extends in a second direction parallel to the first direction;
- a plurality of flat tubes connected to the first header and the second header, each flat tube having a front surface, a rear surface, an upper surface, and a lower surface;
- and
- a plurality of plate-shaped heat dissipation fins each penetrated by a different one of the plurality of flat tubes,
- wherein each of the flat tubes is separately coupled to each of the first and second headers at an inclined angle defined based on the front surface and the first direction,
- wherein the plurality of flat tubes is arranged along the first header or the second header in the first direction,
- wherein the plurality of heat dissipation fins is arranged in the first direction spaced apart from each other at set intervals, the set intervals forming a spacing between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of heat dissipation fins between two adjacent flat tubes of the plurality of flat tubes, and
- wherein a spacing distance between the adjacent heat dissipation fins in the first direction is smaller than a length of each of the heat dissipation fins in the first direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.