Patent ID: 7181921

Claim:
A refrigerating appliance, comprising: at least a first, a second and a third refrigerating area, having respectively a low, an average and/or a high storage temperature; each of said first, second and third refrigerating areas, having a respective evaporator; a compressor and a refrigerant circuit to supply compressed refrigerant to said evaporators and returned expanded refrigerant to said compressor; said refrigerant circuit including at least two branches and at least one switching element to guide said refrigerant through one of said two branches; said evaporators of said first and third refrigerating areas are sequentially connected in a first one of said two branches; said evaporators of said first, second and third refrigerating areas are sequentially connected in the second one of said two branches; and said second refrigerant circuit branch only extends over a portion of the surface of said evaporator of said third refrigerating area.