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US 6,314,746 B2Granted
Refrigerator with a freezer compartment and method of using it
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiji Ohya, Toshie Hiraoka, Yuki Nagai
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a new temperature zone of freezer compartment as a compartment having a new temperature zone not higher than a lower limit of a maximum ice forming temperature zone and higher than a freezing temperature zone. The new temperature zone may be added as one of selective temperature zones for a switchable compartment which can be switchable so as to have a refrigerating compartment temperature zone, an icing temperature zone, a vegetable compartment temperature zone and a freezer compartment temperature zone.
Claims9
A refrigerator comprising:
- a housing defining a volume;
- a freezer compartment in said volume and having a temperature colder than −15° C.;
- a refrigerating compartment in said volume and having a temperature higher than −5° C.;
- a cooling device configured to cool air to be supplied to each compartment;
- a new temperature zone freezer compartment in said volume, said new temperature zone freezer compartment receiving high temperature air from said refrigerating compartment and low temperature air directly from the cooling device;
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- a low temperature air controller including a damper positioned and adapted to control a flow of low temperature air to said new temperature zone freezer compartment so as to maintain a temperature in said new temperature zone freezer compartment between −5° C. and −15° C.
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