Supercooling apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJoo Young Ha, Jae Seung Lee, Kyung Hee Hahm, Hye Ran Lee, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Chank Hak Lim, Won Jae Yoon, Jung Soo Lim, Yong Han Kim
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Abstract
A supercooling apparatus and a control method thereof. The method controls the supercooling apparatus having a storage compartment defined therein, and includes confirming beverages in the storage compartment, obtaining a proper supercooling temperature of each beverage, and controlling the storage compartment to have the proper supercooling temperature.
Claims14
A method for controlling a supercooling apparatus having a storage compartment to store a beverage and a refrigerating unit to refrigerate the storage compartment, comprising:
- confirming a kind of beverage stored in the storage compartment;
- determining a proper supercooling temperature for the beverage, based on the confirmed kind of the beverage;
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- controlling the refrigerating unit such that the storage compartment has a temperature reaching the determined proper supercooling temperature,
- wherein each of the beverages in the storage compartment is confirmed as a kind of beverage input by a user or by reading a barcode or a RFID tag attached to a container of the beverage,
- the proper supercooling temperatures is determined from data of proper supercooling temperature previously stored in a memory, and
- the data of proper supercooling temperature comprises a standard slush level, and a success ratio of each beverage corresponding to a temperature of the storage compartment.
A supercooling apparatus, comprising:
- a storage compartment to store beverages;
- a refrigerating unit to refrigerate the storage compartment;
- a controller to confirm a kind of beverage stored in the storage compartment, to determine a proper supercooling temperature for the beverage, based on the confirmed kind of the beverage, and to control the refrigerating unit such that the storage compartment has a temperature reaching an associated one of the determined proper supercooling temperature,
- wherein the proper supercooling temperatures is determined from data of proper supercooling temperature previously stored in a memory, and
- the data of proper supercooling temperature comprises a standard slush level, and a success ratio of each beverage corresponding to a supercooling temperature of the beverage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.