US 7,062,939 B2Granted

Built-in type refrigerator

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsEui Yeop Chung, Tae Hee Lee, Se Young Kim, Kyung Sik Kim, Yang Gyu Kim, Hi Chol Lee

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Abstract

Disclosed is a built-in refrigerator provided in a sink and effectively discharging heat from a condenser and a compressor. The built-in refrigerator includes a cabinet provided in the sink and a component chamber at a rear bottom thereof and a dust guard provided at a front bottom of the cabinet; a compressor provided in the component chamber; a condenser provided under a bottom surface of the cabinet; a ventilating passage communicating the component chamber with a bottom of the cabinet and outside of the dust guard for discharging heat generated from the condenser and the compressor to outside; and a cooling fan provided in the component chamber for cooling the compressor and the condenser.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A built-in refrigerator comprising:

a cabinet provided in a sink and having a component chamber at a rear bottom thereof;
a dust guard provided between a front bottom of the cabinet and a floor;
a compressor provided in the component chamber;
a condenser provided under a bottom surface of the cabinet;
a ventilation passage communicating the component chamber with a bottom of the cabinet and outside of the dust guard to discharge heat generated from the condenser and the compressor to outside;
and
a cooling fan provided in the component chamber to cool the condenser and the compressor,
wherein the condenser comprises a refrigerant tube that passes refrigerant therethrough, wherein a first side of the refrigerant tube is received in a receiving portion under the bottom surface of the cabinet and a second side of the refrigerant tube is exposed, and
a cooling fin having a first end connected to the refrigerant tube and a second end exposed to the ventilation passage.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/151,707Filed 14 Jun 2005 · division
Priority: KR P2002-004360224 Jul 2002
Published: US 2005/0229618 A120 Oct 2005
Granted: 20 Jun 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

F25D 23/003
General constructional features: for cooling refrigerating machinery
F25B 39/04
Evaporators; Condensers: condensers
F25D 23/10
General constructional features: arrangements for mounting in particular locations, e.g. for built-in type, for corner type
F25D 2323/00264
Characterised by the incoming air flow: through the front bottom part

Family

Application10/614,822Parent of this division · filed 9 Jul 2003
US 2005/0229618 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Oct 2005
US 6,925,836 B2Parent of this division
US 2004/0016256 A1Published application
US 7,062,939 B2This patent

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