Patent ID: 8904817

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a body comprising a cooling compartment and a storage compartment provided in the cooling compartment to form a predetermined cooling space; a cool air generation compartment comprising a cooler that supplies cool air, wherein the cool air generation compartment is provided behind the cooling compartment and the cooler is provided in the cool air generation compartment; a partition plate that partitions a predetermined space into the cooling compartment and the cool air generation compartment, the partition plate comprising a main path that guides the cool air into the cooling compartment and a bypass path that guides the cool air to the storage compartment; a damper that controls the supply of the cool air to the cooling compartment by opening and closing the main path; a cool air control unit provided at the bypass path that controls the cool air supplied to the storage compartment via the bypass path, the cool air control unit comprising a closable member that selectively opens and closes the bypass path; an induction fan provided at an entrance of the bypass path; and a guiding part having a centrifugal fan disposed therein, wherein a shaft of the centrifugal fan is horizontally mounted in the guiding part over the cooler, the cool air is sucked in a shaft direction of the centrifugal fan and ventilated in a circumferential direction by the centrifugal fan, wherein the guiding part has a scroll shape having a predetermined thickness and a curved circumferential surface spaced a predetermined distance apart from the centrifugal fan that connects with the main path and the bypass path, respectively, wherein the guiding part guides the cool air supplied by the centrifugal fan into the main path and the bypass path selectively, wherein the damper is provided in an entrance of the main path connected to an upper surface of guiding part, wherein the closable member is pivotably mounted in the entrance of the bypass path, the entrance of the bypass path being provided on a side surface of the guiding part, and wherein the closable member forms a substantially smooth inner side surface of the guiding part when the closable member is closed.