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US 7,815,269 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsUdo Wenning, Hermann Stegmaier, Rudolf Schmidt, Irena Sonnenfroh, Hans-Frieder Eberhardt, Michael Neumann, Jörg Stelzer
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a heat-insulating housing and at least one heat-insulating door fastened thereto. The door and the housing each have an outer cladding, an inner cladding, and a heat insulation layer produced therebetween by foaming and into which is introduced vacuum insulation panels on the door and/or on the housing. Vacuum insulation panels are disposed on the inner claddings of the doors and housings.
Claims6
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a heat-insulating housing;
- and
- a heat-insulating door fastened to the housing;
- at least one of the housing and the door comprising:
- an outer cladding;
- an inner cladding;
- a heat insulation layer between the outer cladding and the inner cladding;
- a vacuum insulation panel between the outer cladding and the inner cladding and disposed closer to the inner cladding than the outer cladding;
- and
- an intermediate layer provided between a non-planar surface of the inner cladding and a substantially planar surface of the vacuum insulation panel in order to prevent distortions in the outer cladding due to different coefficients of expansion between the vacuum insulation panel and the heat insulation layer, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a shape that is separately molded from the inner surface of the inner cladding.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.