Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyoung LIM, Sung JHEE, Nam CHO
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Abstract
There is provided a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a compressor for compressing a refrigerant, a condenser for heat-exchanging the compressed refrigerant with ambient air, an expansion member for expanding the heat-exchanged refrigerant, a condensing pipe interconnecting the condenser and the expansion member, a vaporizer for heat-exchanging the expanded refrigerant with a cooling air in a freezing or cooling chamber, and a suction pipe interconnecting the vaporizer and the compressor and associated with the condensing pipe to allow a heat exchange between the suction pipe and the condensing pipe.
Claims19
A refrigerator comprising:
- a compressor for compressing a refrigerant;
- a condenser for heat-exchanging the compressed refrigerant with ambient air;
- an expansion member for expanding the heat-exchanged refrigerant;
- a condensing pipe interconnecting the condenser and the expansion member;
- a vaporizer for heat-exchanging the expanded refrigerant with a cool air in a freezing or cooling chamber;
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- a suction pipe interconnecting the vaporizer and the compressor and associated with the condensing pipe to allow a heat exchange between the suction pipe and the condensing pipe.
A refrigerator comprising:
- a compressor for compressing a refrigerant;
- a condenser for condensing the compressed refrigerant with ambient air;
- an expanding valve for expanding the condensed refrigerant;
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- a vaporizer for heat-exchanging the expanded refrigerant with cool air of a freezing or cooling chamber,
- wherein a portion of a suction pipe connected to an inlet of the compressor contacts a portion of a condensing pipe connected to an outlet of the condenser to allow for a heat exchange between the suction pipe and the condensing pipe.
A refrigerator comprising
- a suction pipe interconnecting a vaporizer and a compressor;
- an expansion member heat-exchanging with a refrigerant flowing along the suction pipe;
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- a condensing pipe heat-exchanging with the refrigerant flowing along the suction pipe at an inlet of the expansion member.
A refrigerator comprising:
- pipes connected to each other such that a refrigerant flowing toward an inlet of a compressor after passing through a vaporizer can be heat-exchanged but not mixed with a refrigerant passing through an expansion member and/or a refrigerant passed through a condenser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.