Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsGi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Jae-Seung Lee
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Abstract
A refrigerator including a body provided therein with a storage chamber, an uplifted part projected from a rear portion of a top of the body so that a cooling room is formed to have a space extending above the storage chamber, a machine room provided above a front portion of the top of the body and in front of the uplifted part, a cooling unit removably disposed in the cooling room, an evaporator and a cold air circulating fan provided in a cold air passage of the cooling unit, and circulating passages formed in upper and rear portions of the storage chamber, respectively, to be connected to the cold air passage of the cooling unit.
Claims21
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body provided therein with a storage chamber;
- an uplifted part projected from a rear portion of a top of the body so that a cooling room is formed to have a space extending above the storage chamber;
- a machine room provided above a front portion of the top of the body and in front of the uplifted part;
- a cooling unit removably disposed in the cooling room;
- an evaporator and a cold air circulating fan provided in a cold air passage of the cooling unit;
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- circulating passages formed in upper and rear portions of the storage chamber, respectively, to be connected to the cold air passage of the cooling unit,
- wherein the cooling unit comprises:
- a unit casing containing the evaporator;
- an inlet formed in a front lower portion of the unit casing to be connected to the circulating passage formed in an upper portion of the storage chamber;
- an exit formed in an rear upper portion of the unit casing;
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- a discharge passage vertically formed in a rear side of the unit casing to connect the exit and the circulating passage formed in the rear portion of the storage chamber;
- wherein the cold air circulating fan is disposed in an upper portion of an interior of the unit casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.