Patent ID: 6604377
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: F25D

Abstract:
A refrigerator comprising,partition walls, a main compartment vertically partitioned into a plurality of spaces by means of the partition walls, one of the spaces at an uppermost part forming a refrigerating compartment, the other spaces in lower parts forming other storing compartments including a vegetable compartment and a freezer compartment, doors formed at the respective refrigerating compartment and storing compartments, a duct formed in the main compartment, extending from a back surface side of said main compartment over a top surface side, and containing a blower and a heat exchanger therein, a chilled air blow-off port formed at one end of said duct on a top surface side and having an opening located only at an upper part of a front surface of said refrigerating compartment on a door side, a plurality of shelf plates vertically partitioning the refrigerating compartment into storage portions to have independent air flow paths, and a plurality of first chilled air return ports formed in a back wall of the refrigerating compartment in each of the storage portions except for an uppermost storage portion, communicating to said duct, and being arranged along a vertical direction, chilled air generated by said heat exchanger flowing from the front surface side facing said door within said refrigerating compartment through the independent air flow paths of the refrigerating compartment toward a rear side, and being returned to the duct through each of the first chilled air return ports even when the door of the refrigerating compartment is closed.