Refrigerator |
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申请号 | US11205051 | 申请日 | 2005-08-17 | 公开(公告)号 | US20060037356A1 | 公开(公告)日 | 2006-02-23 |
申请人 | Ji-hun Ahn; Lei Yu; | 发明人 | Ji-hun Ahn; Lei Yu; | ||||
摘要 | A refrigerator having a refrigerator body and a component chamber provided in the refrigerator body to accommodate components includes a condenser provided in the component chamber, and has a plurality of condensing parts positioned separately from each other. The refrigerator also includes at least one fan provided in the component chamber, to cool the condenser. Thus, the refrigerator has a condenser with an improved heat radiating efficiency. | ||||||
权利要求 | What is claimed is: |
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说明书全文 | This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2004-65183 filed on Aug. 18, 2004, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator having a condenser with an improved heat radiating efficiency. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having a cooling compartment and a freezing compartment. The cooling compartment and freezing compartment has a cooling compartment door and a freezing compartment door, respectively, to open and close front openings of the cooling compartment and freezing compartment. A component chamber is provided in a lower space of the refrigerating body. A compressor to compress a refrigerant and a condenser to condense the refrigerant from the compressor are installed within the component chamber. A cooling means to cool hot air generated in the compressor and the condenser is mounted on the component chamber. The cooling means includes an inlet provided on a rear cover and positioned adjacent to a condenser, an outlet provided on the rear cover and positioned adjacent to a compressor, and a cooling fan provided between the compressor and the condenser, to forcibly flow air inside the compartment chamber. However, the cooling fan is generally provided as a fan 102 to send air toward the condenser 103, as illustrated in The fan 102 sending the air toward the condenser, as illustrated in The fan 112 inhaling the air from the condenser 113, as illustrated in Accordingly, it is an aspect of the present invention to provide a refrigerator having a condenser with an improved heat radiating efficiency. Additional aspects and/or advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The foregoing and/or other aspects of the present invention are achieved by providing a refrigerator having a refrigerator body and a component chamber provided in the refrigerator body and accommodating components. The refrigerator includes a condenser provided in the component chamber, and has a plurality of condensing parts positioned separately from each other. The refrigerator also includes at least one fan provided in the component chamber to cool the condenser. According to an aspect of the present invention, the fan is provided between the plurality of condensing parts. According to an aspect of the present invention, the plurality of condensing parts are provided in a pair. According to an aspect of the present invention, the fan is interposed between the pair of condensing parts, to inhale air from any one of the pair of condensing parts and to send the air to the other of the pair of condensing parts. According to an aspect of the present invention, the pair of condensing parts are integrally connected. The above and/or other aspects and advantages of the invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which: Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below to explain the present invention by referring to the figures. As illustrated in A plurality of racks 23 and a plurality of receiving boxes 24 for the freezing compartment 20 are vertically displaced in the freezing compartment 20, which is provided in the left side of the refrigerator body 1. A plurality of racks 13 and a plurality of receiving boxes 14 for the cooling compartment 10 are vertically displaced in the cooling compartment 10, which is provided in the right side of the refrigerator body 1. Referring to The condenser 32 and the fan 33 are provided on a supporting plate 34 installed within the component chamber 30. The condenser 32 includes a first condensing part 32a and a second condensing part 32b. The fan 33 is displaced between the first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b. The first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b are integrally connected with a space to separate the first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b from each other, to thereby condense the refrigerant supplied from the compressor 31. The first condensing part 32a is displaced between the compressor 31 and the fan 33 and the fan 33 is displaced in a space between the first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b. As illustrated in The flow of air inside the component chamber 30 due to the fan 33 is shown in When a component such as the compressor 31 installed within the component chamber 30 is operated as an operation of the refrigerator starts operating, air inside the component chamber 30 is raised in temperature because of the heat generated as a result of operation of the component. The air inside the component chamber 30 is thereby circulated according to driving of the fan 33. According to the present invention, air is moved toward the first condensing part 32a through the second condensing part 32b from the fan 33 by the condenser 32. The condenser 32 includes the first and the second condensing parts 32a and 32b positioned separately from each other, and the fan 33 displaced between the first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b. As a result, the refrigerator according to the present invention has an improved efficiency of condensation in comparison with the conventional refrigerator as illustrated in The above-described features of the present invention may be more clearly ascertained by reference to a graph in According to the graph in As described above, the condensing efficiency of the refrigerator according to the present invention is remarkably improved by allowing the condenser 32 to include the first condensing part 32a and the second condensing part 32b displaced separately from each other, and the fan 33 to be interposed between the first and the second condensing parts. In the exemplary embodiment described above, a pair of condensing parts are provided. However, the number of condensing parts is not limited but may be increased as necessary. Likewise, a fan is interposed between the pair of condensing parts in the above-described embodiment, but the number of fans may be increased according to the number of condensers. Also in the above-described embodiment, a plurality of condensing parts are integrally connected. However, the plurality of condensing parts are manufactured independently and are then connected by a coupler. The present invention provides a refrigerator having a condenser whose heat radiating efficiency is improved according to the present invention. Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the claims and their equivalents. |