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US 8,418,485 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasayasu Nishita, Yoshinari Fujihara, Yasuji Ohshiro, Kayo Takashima
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Abstract
There is provided a temperature switching compartment 3 which can switch the internal temperature thereof between a low temperature side at which a storage material is kept in cold storage and a high temperature side maintained at 50° C., to 80° C. at which cooked food is kept warm, by cooling with a cooler 17 and heating with a heater 15.
Claims16
A refrigerator including at least one storage compartment for keeping a storage material in cold storage, comprising:
- a temperature switching compartment that can switch an internal temperature thereof, by cooling with a cooler and by heating with a heater, to a low temperature side at which the storage material is kept in cold storage and to a high temperature side at which cooked food is kept warm;
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- a temperature switching compartment blower for stirring air inside said temperature switching compartment, provided at a rear of said temperature switching compartment,
- wherein said temperature switching compartment blower is so inclined as to blow out air in a frontward-upward direction, and said temperature switching compartment blower is located in an upper to substantially middle part of the temperature switching compartment in an up/down direction thereof.
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