Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Chang-Nyeun Kim

Yoon-Young Kim

Jae-Seung Lee

Jae-seung Lee

Myung-Wouk Kim

Hak-Gyun Bae

Jun-Hyoun Kwon

Eung-Ryeol Seo

Gun-ho Hong

Rae-Eun Park

Minoru Yonemura

Chun-Taeg Kim

Yonemura Minoru

The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, a first expanding unit, a second expanding unit, a third expanding unit, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator; a first refrigerant circuit containing refrigerant discharged from the compressor and flowing into a suction side of the compressor through the condenser, the first expanding unit, the first evaporator, the second expanding unit and the second evaporator; a second refrigerant circuit containing the refrigerant passing through the condenser flowing into the suction side of the compressor through the third expanding unit and the second evaporator; a flow path control unit installed at a discharge side of the condenser, switching a refrigerant flow path so that the refrigerant passing through the condenser flows through at least one of the first and second refrigerant circuits; and a control unit selectively opening and closing the flow path control unit. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the apparatus.

Time division multi-cycle type cooling apparatus and method for controlling the same

A refrigerator with an evaporator having a refrigerant pipe, and a defrosting heater placed below the evaporator and defrosting the evaporator, wherein the refrigerant pipe includes a main refrigerant pipe evaporating a refrigerant, and a heat-transfer refrigerant pipe extended from a lower part of the main refrigerant pipe so as to exchange heat, and disposed adjacent to the defrosting heater. Therefore, the refrigerator can defrost an evaporator quickly and uniformly.

Refrigerator with an evaporator

A refrigerator having a cooling compartment provides a memory storing data about a user and data on food items stored in the cooling compartment; a user recognition device recognizing a present user; a controller reading the food item data corresponding to the user data relevant to the present user recognized by the user recognition device; and a display displaying the food item data read by controller. Thus, the refrigerator may be provided, which displays food item information appropriate to a user and reflecting the user's taste, physical constitution and health condition.

User-interactive refrigerator and control method thereof

A two-compartment cooling apparatus which achieves a plurality of refrigeration cycles by controlling refrigerant paths, thus increasing cooling efficiency and cooling speed of the cooling apparatus. A compressed refrigerant provided by a compressor is selectively provided to first and/or second evaporators via first, second and third expansion units and a path control unit. The path control unit controls the flow of the refrigerant through the expansion units and the evaporators to vary the cooling in the respective compartments in response to temperature measurements made in the respective compartments.

Cooling apparatus

A storage box with a thermoelement is disclosed. This storage box is operable in a frozen-storage mode operation, in addition to a cool-storage mode and a hot-storage mode. During a cool-storage mode operation of the storage box, the main compartment ( ) is primarily cooled by a main thermoelement ( ) to be kept at a low temperature. The temperature difference between the areas around the two junctions ( ) of the sub-thermoelement ( ) of a sub-storage unit ( ) installed within the main compartment ( ) is sufficiently smaller than that between the areas around the two junctions of the main thermoelement irrespective of a consideration of an addition of heat produced from heat exchanging units provided at the two junctions of each thermoelement. The sub-thermoelement ( ) is thus significantly improved in its cooling capacity. The temperature of the sub-compartment ( ) of the sub-storage unit ( ) is thus reduced lower than 0&deg; C., and so the sub-compartment is kept in a frozen-storage mode. The sub-storage unit ( ) is removable from the main compartment ( ), thus allowing a user to use it independently from the storage box in, for example, a car.

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Seoul, South Korea

Chang-Nyeun Kim