Kimchi refrigerator and control method of the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsEun Young Park, Yeon Yi Hwang, Jong Min Shin
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Abstract
A Kimchi refrigerator that applies cold shock to Kimchi stored therein at predetermined time intervals, while a keeping mode is performed, so as to improve the taste of the Kimchi, wherein the time intervals are changed, and a control method of the same are disclosed. The Kimchi refrigerator includes a cooling system to cool the interior of the refrigerator in which Kimchi is stored, and a control unit to control the cooling system to perform a cold shock operation in which the interior of the refrigerator is cooled to a cold shock temperature lower than a keeping temperature at predetermined time intervals, for a predetermined period of time, while a keeping mode is performed. The control unit changes the time intervals.
Claims31
A Kimchi refrigerator comprising:
- a cooling system to cool an interior of the refrigerator in which Kimchi is stored;
- and
- a control unit to control the cooling system to change from a fermentation mode to a keeping mode, and to repeatedly perform, in the keeping mode, a cold shock operation at predetermined time intervals, wherein in the cold shock operation the interior of the refrigerator is cooled for a predetermined period of time to a cold shock temperature lower than a keeping temperature of the keeping mode, wherein the control unit changes the time intervals of the cold shock operation, and
- wherein the fermentation mode is performed to ferment and ripen Kimchi, and the keeping mode is performed to store Kimchi after the fermentation mode, and
- wherein the control unit controls the cooling system such that the cold shock operation is performed when a mode change is completed from the fermentation mode to the keeping mode and when the keeping mode is performed, and the cold shock operation is repeatedly performed at the time intervals,
- wherein the control unit controls the cooling system such that the cold shock operation includes a plurality of cold shock operations, and a first cold shock operation is performed at a beginning of the keeping mode.
A control method of a Kimchi refrigerator, comprising:
- performing a fermentation mode and a keeping mode, wherein the fermentation mode is performed to ferment and ripen Kimchi, and the keeping mode is performed to store the Kimchi after the fermentation mode;
- repeatedly performing a cold shock operation at predetermined time intervals, wherein in the cold shock operation an interior of the refrigerator is cooled to a cold shock temperature lower than a keeping temperature of the keeping mode;
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- changing the time intervals of the cold shock operation,
- wherein the cold shock operation is performed when a mode change is completed from the fermentation mode to the keeping mode and when the keeping mode is performed, and the cold shock operation is repeatedly performed at the time intervals,
- wherein the cold shock operation includes a plurality of cold shock operations, and a first one of the plurality of cold shock operations is performed upon a beginning of the keeping mode.
A control method of a Kimchi refrigerator, comprising:
- performing a fermentation mode in the Kimchi refrigerator;
- performing a keeping mode in the Kimchi refrigerator;
- performing a first cold shock operation in the Kimchi refrigerator in response to a completion of a mode change of the Kimchi refrigerator from the fermentation mode to the keeping mode;
- performing a second cold shock operation after a time interval from the first cold shock operation;
- changing the time interval of the cold shock operation;
- and
- repeatedly performing a third shock operation at the changed time interval, wherein in the first, second and third cold shock operations an interior of the refrigerator is cooled to a cold shock temperature lower than a keeping temperature of the keeping mode,
- wherein the first cold shock operation is performed upon a beginning of the keeping mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.