Patent ID: 8590337

Claim:
An appliance comprising: a machine room located at a rear lower side of the appliance and defined by a bottom portion, a top portion, a plurality of side walls, and a back wall of the appliance; an air intake located at a front lower side of the appliance and in fluid communication with the machine room and being separated from the machine room by an enclosed air channel that extends between the air intake and the machine room; an air mover for providing cooling air to the machine room via the air intake; and a condenser assembly located at a rear lower side of the appliance in the machine room in fluid communication with the air mover, and with the air intake via the air channel, the condenser assembly comprising: a condenser coil extending horizontally between an opposed pair of the plurality of side walls comprising: an array of tubing layers forming a plurality of vertically arranged rows extending between a bottom portion and a top portion of the machine room; and a plurality of connectors vertically attached to at least two of the vertically arranged rows, in thermal communication with the condenser coil, and oriented at an angle with respect to said at least two rows; and the appliance further comprising: at least one baffle disposed at an end of the air channel adjacent the machine room and configured to direct the flow of cooling air by extending from the air intake to the machine room, along a first direction between said opposed pair of the plurality of side walls and along at least a major horizontal portion of the condenser coil to thereby define a fluid path extending through a major horizontal portion of the condenser coil, wherein the at least one baffle thereby defines the fluid path as substantially continuously extending from the air intake, through the air channel, in the first direction along the condenser coil but separated from the condenser coil by the at least one baffle, against one sidewall of the machine room to change direction to a second direction, to a first end of the condenser assembly, through substantially the entire length of the condenser coil, and then to a second end of the condenser assembly.