Abstract:
A modular insulation panel provides insulation to a cabinet having lateral side walls, a back wall and a top wall. A main panel assembly insulates a lateral side wall, wherein the main panel assembly includes a framed double wall structure with a space therebetween for providing insulation to the lateral side wall. An auxiliary panel assembly insulates the back wall, wherein the auxiliary panel assembly includes a framed double wall structure with a space therebetween for providing insulation to the back wall. A hinge hingedly attaches the frame of the main panel assembly to the frame of the auxiliary panel assembly
Abstract:
An insulated icemaking compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The icemaking compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere in the fresh food compartment. A removable bin assembly with a front cover normally seals the icemaking compartment to maintain the temperature in the compartment. A cold air duct formed in the rear wall of the refrigerator supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the icemaking compartment. A return air duct directs a portion of the air from the icemaking compartment back to the freezer compartment. An air vent in the icemaking compartment directs another portion of air into the fresh food compartment. A control system provides for controlling refrigerator functions in a manner that promotes energy efficiency.
Abstract:
An insulated ice making compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The ice making compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere in the fresh food compartment. A removable bin assembly with a front cover normally seals the ice making compartment to maintain the temperature in the compartment. A cold air duct formed in the rear wall of the refrigerator supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the ice making compartment. A return air duct directs a portion of the air from the ice making compartment back to the freezer compartment. An air vent in the ice making compartment directs another portion of air into the fresh food compartment. A control system provides for controlling refrigerator functions in a manner that promotes energy efficiency. The refrigerator has an improved water fill tube for the ice maker.
Abstract:
A refrigerator includes a plurality of walls forming a refrigeration compartment, an evaporator is positioned proximate at least one of the walls, a thermal insulator is positioned proximate the evaporator, and an airflow duct is positioned proximate the thermal insulator such that the thermal insulator is between the evaporator and the airflow duct.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for accessing low temperature refrigeration systems is provided. In one embodiment, an access tunnel is provided and a heater, an access door, a vacuum insulation panel, a thermal break, a sealing gasket that mates with a sealing surface together or in part(s) helps to prevent condensation from forming on the exterior of the freezer.
Abstract:
A damper for refrigerators is disclosed. The damper of this invention effectively vaporizes moisture drops, condensed on a higher temperature surface of a damper's baffle due to a dewing phenomenon caused by a difference in temperature between opposite surfaces of the baffle, thus allowing the baffle to be almost free from freezing. In order to expose the moisture drops on the higher temperature surface of the baffle to cool air flowing through the cool air passage for the fresh compartment when the baffle is opened, the baffle is rotatably held by a rotating shaft installed on the central portion of the baffle or by a hinge pin spaced apart from the baffle by a distance. In the damper of this invention, the moisture drops, condensed on the higher temperature surface of the baffle due to a temperature difference between opposite surfaces of the baffle while the baffle is closed, are fully exposed to the dry cool air when the baffle is opened, and so it is possible for the moisture drops to be quickly evaporated and absorbed by the cool air. The damper of this invention thus effectively prevents its baffle from freezing due to the condensed moisture drops and allows the baffle to be smoothly operated without failure, and improves the operational reliability and market competitiveness of the refrigerators.
Abstract:
A magnetic field fresh-keeping apparatus and an air-cooled refrigeration device. The magnetic field fresh-keeping apparatus comprises a drawer container, a drawer, a magnet assembly, and a waterproof structure. The front side of the drawer container has an opening. The drawer is slidably mounted within the drawer container. The magnet assembly comprises a first magnet and a second magnet disposed on opposite sides of the drawer container. The magnet mounting cavity comprises a first mounting cavity for accommodating the first magnet and a second mounting cavity for accommodating the second magnet, and the first mounting cavity and the second mounting cavity are both configured to allow an airflow to pass through so as to cool the first magnet and the second magnet. The waterproof structure is configured to waterproof the magnet assembly.
Abstract:
A door for a home appliance, a home appliance, and a method for manufacturing the same, are disclosed. The door for a home appliance comprises a panel assembly; and a frame assembly defining a predetermined space having an opening connected with an edge of the panel assembly, and making a foaming space for receiving a thermal insulator by means of the predetermined space of the frame assembly and the edge of the panel assembly, wherein a foaming injection hole through which the thermal insulator is injected is provided on at least one of ends of an upper surface, a lower surface, a left side and a right side of the frame assembly.
Abstract:
A refrigerator comprising a cabinet, a door configured to open and close an opening of the cabinet, and an outside air heat inductor arrangeable inside the door to extend toward the cabinet from a front portion of the door. The outside air heat inductor includes a first heat transfer path forming member configured to transfer outside air heat from outside the refrigerator toward a surface of the cabinet, and a second heat transfer path forming member arrangeable between the first heat transfer path forming member and an inside of the cabinet such that while the second heat transfer path forming member is arranged between the first heat transfer path forming member and the inside of the cabinet, the second heat transfer path forming member receives the outside air heat and prevents cold air within the cabinet from being transferred to the first heat transfer path forming member.
Abstract:
A cooling device suitable for cooling paraffin tissue blocks with little or no moisture artefacts, as well as the use thereof to obtain good quality serial sections for microscope slides. The slides can be used in histology and anatomical pathology, for example. The cooling device may include a cold plate, a lid, and a sheet of insulating material over the cold plate.