Cooling apparatus of kimchi refrigerator and method therefor
AssigneeDaewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJin Hwan Kim
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Abstract
A cooling apparatus of a kimchi refrigerator having a storage compartment includes a detector for detecting whether a door is opened or not; a timer for performing to count an opening time of a door when it is detected that the door is opened; a heat exchanger installed in the door for cooling down warm air flown into an upper part of the storage compartment to discharge the cooled air into the storage compartment; and a controller for calculating a driving time during which the heat exchanger is driven and providing a cooling control signal to the heart exchanger pursuant to the driving time when it is detected that the door is closed by the detector.
Claims20
A cooling apparatus of a kimchi refrigerator having a storage compartment, comprising:
- a detector for detecting whether a door is opened or not;
- a timer for performing to count an opening time of a door when it is detected that the door is opened;
- a heat exchanger installed in the door for cooling down warm air flown into an upper part of the storage compartment to discharge the cooled air into the storage compartment;
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- a controller for calculating a driving time during which the heat exchanger is driven and providing a cooling control signal to the heart exchanger pursuant to the driving time when it is detected that the door is closed by the detector.
A cooling apparatus of a kimchi refrigerator, comprising:
- a detector for detecting whether a door is opened or not;
- a temperature sensor for continuously detecting a current temperature in the upper part of the storage compartment when it is detected that the door is opened;
- a heat exchanger installed in the door for cooling down warm air flown into the upper part of the storage compartment to discharge the cooled air into the storage compartment;
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- a controller for providing a cooling control signal to the heat exchanger to drive it until the current temperature reach a predetermined temperature in the storage compartment when it is detected that the door is closed by the detector.
A cooling method of a kimchi refrigerator having a storage compartment, comprising:
- detecting whether a door is opened or not;
- performing to count an opening time of the door;
- calculating a driving time of a heat exchanger pursuant to the counted opening time;
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- driving the heat exchanger until the driving time is over when the door is closed so that warm air flown into the upper part of the storage compartment is cooled down and discharged into the storage compartment.
A cooling method of a kimchi refrigerator having a storage compartment, comprising:
- detecting whether a door is opened or not;
- sensing a current temperature in the storage compartment;
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- driving a heat exchanger until the current temperature reaches a predetermined temperature when the door is closed so that warm air flown into the upper part of the storage compartment is cooled down and discharged into the storage compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.