Patent ID: 7210302

Claim:
A no-frost refrigerator, comprising: at least one storage compartment; heat insulation; an evaporator disposed separate from said at least one storage compartment with said heat insulation; and a fan for driving an exchange of air between said storage compartment and said evaporator, at least one of said evaporator and said fan being operable while the other of said evaporator and said fan is switched off; a control circuit connected to said evaporator and said fan for controlling operation of said evaporator and said fan, said circuit regulating operation of said evaporator when said fan has been switched off to keep a temperature of said evaporator at least one of below a temperature of said storage compartment and below 0° C.; and said control circuit having an operating-mode selector switch switching over said control circuit between at least two operating states selected from the group consisting of: a) operation of said evaporator when said fan has been switched on and, at least temporarily, when said fan has been switched off; b) simultaneous operation of said evaporator and said fan; and c) operation of said fan when said evaporator has been switched on and, at least temporarily, when said evaporator has been switched off.