Lg Electronics Inc.

Kyungroc Moon

Youngmin Park

Gyuwon Shin

Jaekeun Lee

Jinwoo Kwag

Jongpil Park

A refrigerator includes a grille fan assembly provided behind a storage space and shielding an evaporator, and a machine room independent of the storage space. The grille fan assembly includes a case with an open front, a fan configured to force an air flow between the storage space and the heat exchange space, a grille panel shielding the open front of the case and having a discharge port for discharging cold air to the storage space and a suction port for suctioning air from the storage space, a partition dividing of the case into a cold air flow space and a heated air flow space, an exhaust member extending from the case to the machine room and communicating an inside of the case with of the machine room, and a machine room exhaust damper configured to open and close the exhaust member.

Refrigerator

The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a defrosting device, the refrigerator comprising: a refrigerator main body; an evaporator provided in the refrigerator main body; a defrosting heater provided at the lower side of the evaporator so as to emit heat when a power source is applied; and a heat pipe for transferring heat to the evaporator, one side of the heat pipe being arranged so as to be able to transfer heat to one side of the defrosting heater, and the other side of the heater pipe extending to the upper side along the vertical direction of the evaporator. Thereby, the present invention can shorten defrosting time and reduce power consumption.

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