Patent ID: 8806885
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: F25D

Abstract:
1. A food storage apparatus, comprising: a first food storage chamber provided in an upper portion of a main body; a second storage chamber provided in a lower portion of the main body; a first cooling device that generates cold air to supply the cold air to the first storage chamber; a second cooling device that generates cold air to supply the cold air to the first storage chamber; a duct that guides cold air from the first cooling device into the first storage chamber; a scroll-type fan housing mounted to a left or right side of the first cooling device when the food storage apparatus is viewed from a front of the food storage apparatus, wherein the scroll-type fan housing guides cold air from the first cooling device into the duct; and a fan mounted in the scroll-type fan housing, wherein the fan is a centrifugal fan that sucks air in an axial direction of the fan and discharges air in a radial direction of the fan; wherein a horizontal axis that passes through the fan passes through the first cooling device; wherein the first cooling device and the scroll-type fan housing are located adjacent a lower side of a rear wall of the first storage chamber; wherein the fan is a box fan and a motor of the fan is mounted inside a blade unit of the fan; wherein the duct is mounted above the first cooling device and the scroll-type fan housing and extends along a central portion of the rear wall of the first storage chamber, and the scroll-type fan housing is configured to direct air diagonally from a position to one side of the first cooling device to the centrally mounted duct; and wherein the radial direction is oriented diagonally from a position to one side of the first cooling device, upward toward the centrally mounted duct.