Patent ID: 6418729
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: F25B,F25D

Abstract:
A household refrigerator cooled with the Peltier effect, comprising:an enclosure to be cooled, said enclosure having at least one thermally insulated chamber with air circulating by natural convection, said at least one thermally insulated chamber having heat removed therefrom by evaporation of a fluid in said enclosure; and two cascade-coupled units for cooling said at least one thermally insulated chamber, each of said units including: Peltier effect pellets having cold faces and hot faces; two thermosyphons connected to each other and separated by said Peltier effect pellets, each of said two thermosyphons housing the fluid; one of said two thermosyphons condensing the fluid at least at one of said cold faces; and another of said two thermosyphons evaporating the fluid at least at one of said hot faces.