Patent ID: 6619058
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: F25D

Abstract:
A refrigerator for kimchi, including a main body having at least one cooling chamber, an evaporator for cooling the cooling chamber, a compressor for supplying a refrigerant to the evaporator, a refrigerant tube for supplying the refrigerant from the compressor to the evaporator, and a valve installed in the refrigerant tube for controlling the supply of the refrigerant, the kimchi refrigerator comprising:a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the cooling chamber; a heater installed in the main body, heating and defrosting the evaporator, wherein said heater is installed adjacent to said evaporator, to ripen said kimchi contained in said at least one cooling chamber; and a controller for controlling the heater to perform the defrosting operation when the temperature of the cooling chamber detected by the temperature sensor is not more than a predetermined temperature; and a counter for counting an on-and-off time of the valve, wherein the controller controls the heater to perform the defrosting operation when the counted valve on-time is not less than a perdetermined time and the temperature of the cooling chamber detected by the temperature sensor is not more than the predetermined temperature.