Matsushita Refrigeration Company

Masatoshi Sasaki

Hiroshi Yamada

Takashi Aoki

Yoshiki Ohashi

Takeshi Onaka

Kouji Maeda

Kouji Yamamoto

Minoru Kobayashi

Yoshika Katoh

Yuji Kishinaka

Yohei Nomoto

Tadao Uno

A refrigerator is improved in storage environment by suppressing drying and oxidation and enhanced in volume efficiency and cooling efficiency. The refrigerator includes a refrigerating chamber, a vegetable chamber, and a freezing chamber in order from its top to its bottom. Cool air is introduced into the freezing chamber by a first cooler and a first fan, and is introduced into the refrigerating chamber by a second cooler and a second fan. These chambers function as a direct cooling chamber. The vegetable chamber functions as an indirect cooling chamber cooled by a cooling plate which is disposed at the top of the chamber and has a large thermal conductivity, which is cooled by forced convection by the second cooler and the second fan, producing the effects of low temperature radiation and natural convection in the chamber. This arrangement provides the refrigerator with quality maintaining effects in accordance with the suitability for storage of foods, and allows the refrigerator to assure high storing performance.

Refrigerator

A refrigerator door (,) includes an outer plate (,); an inner plate (,); a heat-insulating element (,) filling a gap between the outer plate (,) and the inner plate (,); and a gasket (,) provided between an outer housing (,) of a refrigerator main body (,) and a surface of the refrigerator door (,) facing the outer housing (,). The gasket (,) includes a housing engaging portion for sealing a gap between the outer housing (,) of the refrigerator main body (,) and the surface of the refrigerator door (,) facing the outer housing (,) and an anchor (,) for securing the gasket (,) in a groove (,) formed in the refrigerator door (,). The anchor (,) has a pair of fins (,), the fins of the pair projecting in opposite directions from each other, and is secured in the groove (,) by contact of the pair of fins (,) to inner walls of the groove (,) facing each other.

Refrigerator door

Temperature control device for refrigerators

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Kyoto, Japan

Masatoshi Sasaki