Whirlpool Corporation

Salvatore De Caprio

Stefano Tavolazzi

Giuseppina Arresta

Roberto Malnati

Luigi Sessa

Paolo Sicher

Silvano Monti

Valerio Bresolin

Daniele Ragazzon

Anna Fusi

Tony Koeningsknecht

A device for rapidly defrosting a refrigerator compartment, such as a freezer compartment or the like, said compartment comprising a plurality of adjacent walls, in correspondence with at least one of said walls there being arranged a hairpin coil evaporator for a static refrigerator, or a part of an evaporator of forced-air type, within a refrigeration circuit comprising a motor-compressor unit, said device comprising heating means arranged in correspondence with at least one of said walls and/or with the evaporator, said heating means being electrically powered via an electrical supply circuit associated with the refrigerator; the heating means are at least one resistance element of PTF (polymer thin/thick film) type.

Device for defrosting evaporator in a refrigerator compartment

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Varese, Italy

Salvatore De Caprio