Patent ID: 7127904

Claim:
A cooling appliance comprising a refrigeration compartment, a cold storage compartment and a freezer compartment ( 16 , 17 , 18 , 6 ), which are separated from one another by partition walls ( 5 , 8 ) and by at least one door ( 4 ) or flap, comprising an associated cooling air passage ( 14 ) in the refrigeration compartment ( 16 ) in whose run-in region a cooling fan ( 15 ) is arranged which sucks cooling air from the refrigeration compartment ( 16 ) and whose run-out opens into the cold storage compartment ( 17 , 18 ), a single evaporator of which one section ( 10 ) is associated with the freezer compartment ( 6 ) and one section ( 11 ) is associated with the cooling air passage ( 14 ), at least one of openings and gaps, positioned at least one of in between at least one of the partition wall ( 8 ) and door ( 4 ) which separate the refrigeration compartment ( 16 ) from the cold storage compartment ( 17 , 18 ), an environmental temperature sensor ( 27 ), and a control or regulating device ( 28 ) which controls at least one of the switched-on time and the speed of the cooling fan ( 15 ) the speed of the cooling fan ( 15 ) in dependence on the environmental temperature measured with the environmental temperature sensor ( 27 ).