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US 2007/0180843 A1Published application
Kimchi refrigerator and control method of the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsEun Park, Yeon Hwang, Seok Lim, Eun Kim, Deul Min
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Abstract
A Kimchi refrigerator that emits light into a storage compartment, in which Kimchi is stored, to improve taste of the Kimchi and a control method of the same are disclosed. The Kimchi refrigerator according to the present invention includes an light emitting unit to emit light into the storage compartment. The light is emitted to Kimchi, whereby the taste of the Kimchi is improved.
Claims38
A Kimchi refrigerator comprising:
- an input unit that allows a user to select and input a desired taste;
- a cooling system to cool a storage compartment in which Kimchi is stored;
- a light emitting unit to emit light into the storage compartment;
- and
- a control unit to control the cooling system to perform a fermentation mode and a keeping mode and to control the light emitting unit to emit light into the storage compartment while the fermentation mode or the keeping mode is performed.
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A Kimchi refrigerator comprising:
- an input unit that allows a user to select and input a desired taste;
- a light emitting unit having at least two lights which emit different colors;
- a cooling system to cool a storage compartment;
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- a control unit to control, while a keeping mode is performed, the cooling system to perform a cold shock operation cooling the storage compartment to a cold shock temperature lower than a temperature of the keeping mode for a predetermined period of time, wherein
- the control unit controls the emitting unit to emit different colored light between at least one section of the keeping mode and at least one section of the cold shock operation.
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A control method of a Kimchi refrigerator, comprising steps of:
- performing a fermentation mode;
- performing a keeping mode;
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- emitting light into a storage compartment in the fermentation mode or in the keeping mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.