Patent ID: 7377124
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: F25D

Abstract:
1. A refrigerator comprising: freezing and cooling chambers, each of the freezing and cooling chambers configured to provide at least one space for receiving an article; an evaporator; a cooling air transmitter that transmits cooling air that has been heat-exchanged with the evaporator into each of the freezing and cooling chambers, the transmitter comprising a blower fan; a partition provided to separate the freezing and cooling chambers, the partition being configured to define a predetermined space therein and to provide cooling air outlets to the freezing and cooling chambers, the evaporator and the blower fan being positioned within the predetermined space provided within the partition, the predetermined space defining a cooling air passage, a portion of the cooling air passage defined by side walls of the partition and above the blower motor being narrowed to increase a velocity of a stream of cooling air output by the blower fan to the freezing and cooling chambers; a diverter positioned at a top of the cooling air passage to direct the cooling air into the freezing and cooling chambers, the diverter having a vertex facing the blower fan; the evaporator, the blower fan, and the cooling air outlets from the predetermined space to the freezing and cooling chambers being arranged in this order from a lower portion of the predetermined space and the cooling air outlets to the freezing and cooling chambers being symmetrically arranged about a rotational axis of the blower fan.