Aktiebolaget Electrolux

E2 Home Ab

Adam Fjaestad

Stefan Jonsson

Håkan Miefalk

Thomas Ohlsson

Jonathan Young

Lennart Johansson

Arne Stjernholm Madsen

H&aring;kan &angst;kerberg

Staffan Bj&ouml;rn

Karl Mattsson

Didier Chincholle

At a refrigerator or freezer cabinet () with a space for storing goods, an evaporator () extends along the rear wall () of the cabinet and confines in sidewards direction a chamber (), which is also confined by the rear wall () and an intermediate wall () arranged in front of the rear wall. An opening () is arranged in the intermediate wall (), through which opening an impeller () sucks in air from the space and blows the air out into the chamber (), the cross sectional area of which decreasing in vertical direction so that the air is evenly distributed along the evaporator () before the air in sidewards direction passes through the evaporator out into the space along the rear wall, from where the air circulates further on through the space between shelves located therein back to the opening ().

Refrigerator or freezer cabinet

A graphical user interface provides access to communications and other applications in a home environment by utilizing icons that are consistent with a refrigerator/magnet metaphor. A background is displayed on a touch screen, and one or more virtual magnets are displayed on the background. The virtual magnets may be dragged to new locations by a user. Tapping on a virtual magnet activates a corresponding application. The virtual magnets can further exhibit magnetic properties, such as alternatively repelling or attracting one another. When an application is activated, an application window is made to appear on the background, preferably in the form of a sheet of paper. The corresponding virtual magnet can be made to appear to be affixing the sheet of paper to the background, thereby reinforcing the refrigerator/magnet metaphor.

Graphical user interface for communications

A lamp (34) for a refrigerator or freezer cabinet is located forwardly and above a horizontal edge (38) of an access opening (16) to a storage space (12) for goods in the cabinet. The lamp (34) illuminates the space (12) through the access opening by means of a reflector (36). The reflector (36) includes a cylindrical part (52) having a semi-elliptical cross-sectional shape. A concave side of the cylindrical part (52) faces the access opening (16). The lamp has a filament (42) which shines in the shape of a line (44) running parallel to the edge (38) and through one (42) of the focal points of the ellipse. The other focal point (58) of the ellipse is located quite close to and outside the edge (38), so that the light from the filament (42) first is reflected by the cylindrical part (52) of the reflector (36) and then passes through the other focal point (58) on its way into the space (12).

Lighting arrangement at a refrigerator or freezer cabinet

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Adam Fjaestad