Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Slawomir Pawel Bolek

Gregory William Hahn

Praveena Alangar Subramanya

David Gantt

Saravanan Rajamanickam

A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a food storage chamber. The food storage chamber extends between a front side and a back side in a first direction and between a floor and a ceiling in a second direction. The refrigerator appliance also includes a storage element positioned at the front side of the food storage chamber. An air flow path for chilled air to the storage element may be at least partially defined by a front portion of the ceiling, a back portion of the ceiling, and/or an external surface of a light fixture.

Refrigerator appliance with airflow features

Systems and compression assemblies thereof are provided. In one example aspect, a system includes a cooling fluid circuit and a piston slidably received within a chamber of a casing. The casing defines an inlet passage and an outlet passage. The inlet passage receives a cooling fluid, e.g. oil or a refrigerant, from the cooling fluid circuit. The cooling fluid flows into the inlet passage and downstream into an inlet groove defined by the piston along its outer surface. The cooling fluid flows downstream to a cooling channel defined by a piston head of the piston and thereafter into an outlet groove defined by piston along its outer surface. The cooling fluid then flows into outlet passage of casing and is returned to cooling fluid circuit. The passage of cooling fluid through the passages, grooves, and channels removes heat from the casing and the piston.

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Goshen, KY, United States of America

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