Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Hirokuni Tamai

Hisao Sagara

Atsushi Todoroki

Hirotaka Nakano

Norikazu Ogushi

Yasunari Ishihara

Provided is a low temperature display case, which comprises: a duct that is so formed that it communicates with a rear and a lower portion of a storage chamber having an opening at the front, an evaporator that is provided upright in a duct at a rear location, a blower for discharging, from an upper edge of the opening of the storage chamber, air that is cooled at the evaporator by heat exchange, a drain pan that is located at a bottom level of the duct and that is inclined downward toward a drain hole, defrosting heaters that are provided in a lower portion of the duct and that are located forward of a position under the evaporator, and a sharply sloped portion that is provided on the drain pan below the evaporator and that is inclined at a greater angle toward the drain hole than is the drain pan; wherein to defrost the evaporator a refrigerant at a high temperature is fed into the evaporator, and heat is generated by the defrosting heaters.

Low temperature display case

The object of the present invention is to provide a defrosting device, for a low temperature display case, that can effectively prevent incomplete defrosting, and that can reduce the temperature increase in a storage chamber during defrosting to the minimum. According to the present invention, a defrosting device comprises: defrosting heaters provided in a duct; a first defrost recovery temperature sensor for detecting an air temperature in the duct; a second defrost recovery temperature sensor for detecting a temperature at the evaporator; and a controller for, during a defrosting operation for the evaporator, rendering the defrosting heaters conductive, supplying a high temperature refrigerant to the evaporator, and for rendering the defrosting heaters nonconductive, based on an output of the first defrost recovery temperature sensor, and halting a flow of the high temperature refrigerant to the evaporator, based on an output of the second defrost recovery temperature sensor.

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