Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mutsumi Kato

Katsumasa Sakamoto

Toshie Hiraoka

Hiroshige Konishi

Takenori Adachi

Kouichi Hashimoto

Hisashi Matsui

Keiko Igari

Kazu Yamamoto

Noriyuki Suda

Kunihiko Yagi

Isao Naito

A refrigerator having a main body; a refrigerating compartment arranged at an upper position in the main body to refrigerate foods; and at least three lower compartments vertically arranged under the refrigerating compartment; wherein at least one of the lower compartments is a freezer compartment for freezing foods, and one of the remaining lower compartments is a vegetable compartment to store vegetables or a switchable compartment to make a temperature zone therein switchable between a freezing temperature zone and a temperature zone for refrigerated foods, vegetables or chilled foods.

Refrigerator

To provide a refrigerator capable of uniforming the temperature in the refrigerator by rapidly lowering the temperature at the door side of the refrigerator when the temperature rises by opening and closing a refrigerator door. Therefore, a cold air channel 18 is provided for the side of a refrigerator 6 separately from a cold air channel 11 at the back of the refrigerator 6 to control the amount of cold air supplied from side cold-air blowoff ports 23 by a side temperature sensor 20 and a side temperature damper 19.

In a freezer-equipped refrigerator, a refrigerating chamber or freezing chamber is divided into a plurality of sections having substantially same temperature zone. A temperature element is provided in each section, and an open/close damper and a duct for supplying cool wind for each section are also provided. In such a structure, control is made on whether or not cool wind should be supplied or not in accordance with a detected temperature.

Freezer-equipped refrigerator

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Tokyo, Japan

Mutsumi Kato