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US 2026/0098677 A1Published application
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJihyun IM, Yoomin Park, Jindong Kim
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Abstract
A refrigerator including a housing mounted at a rear surface of a door to define a storage space of food, a basket disposed inside the housing, a duct extending to the housing from one side of an evaporator to supply cold air generated by the evaporator into the storage space of the housing, and a fan assembly coupled to the duct to allow the cold air to be forcibly supplied.
Claims24
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein;
- an evaporator configured to cool air
- an evaporator fan configured to blow the cooled air into the storage compartment;
- a door configured to open or close at least a portion of the storage compartment, wherein the door includes an outer door and an inner door having an access hole;
- a housing provided for the inner door, and an upper surface of the housing having an opening, wherein the inner door and the housing define a door storage space, and the outer door is configured to allow access to the door storage space through the access hole;
- a grill provided over the opening of the upper surface;
- at least one basket disposed within the door storage space;
- and
- a blowing fan configured to draw the cooled air of the storage compartment through the grill,
- wherein the cooled air drawn in by the blowing fan is directed in opposite directions and blown into the door storage space.
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A refrigerator, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein;
- a door configured to open or close at least a portion of the storage compartment, wherein the door includes an outer door and an inner door having an access hole;
- a housing provided for the inner door, wherein the inner door and the housing define a door storage space, and the outer door is configured to allow access to the door storage space through the access hole;
- and
- at least one basket disposed within the door storage space,
- wherein the housing includes an air inlet to allow air from the storage compartment to enter the door storage space and an air outlet to allow air from the door storage space to escape into the storage compartment, the air outlet being positioned lower than the air inlet to stabilize temperatures between the storage compartment and the door storage space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.