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US 7,001,005 B2Granted
Domestic refrigerator with improved thermal insulation
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsLuca Gamberoni, Jutta Ziermaier, Roberta Bernasconi
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Abstract
A domestic refrigerator or freezer has a food storage compartment delimited by insulated walls and by one or more access doors to the compartment. One or more walls or doors are provided with a metallic film, preferably a metallised polymeric film, capable of enhancing the performance of the refrigerator with regard to energy saving.
Claims7
A refrigerated appliance comprising:
- a condenser assembly;
- a plurality of insulated walls defining a food storage compartment, one of the walls separating the condenser assembly from the food storage compartment;
- at least one access door for selectively providing access to the food storage compartment;
- wherein the one of the walls located between the food storage compartment and the condenser assembly is provided with a metallic film such that the metallic film separates the food storage compartment from the condenser assembly to reflect heat from the condenser assembly away from the food storage compartment including a shielding layer interposed between the metallic film and the condenser assembly and further including a gap defined between the metallic film and the shielding layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.