Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.

Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co., Ltd.

Toshinori Noda

Xiaobing Zhu

Jianru Liu

Hui Liu

Jing Wang

Jian Ma

Mengcheng Li

Shufei Ren

Yunxi Liu

Fa Zhao

Lei Liu

Weijie Li

Shujuan Wu

A refrigerator, including a cabinet in which a cooling chamber located at the lower part and at least one storage compartment located above the cooling chamber are defined; and an evaporator arranged in the cooling chamber and configured to cool airflow entering the cooling chamber to form cooling airflow, wherein a water pan is formed on a bottom wall of the cooling chamber below the evaporator, and used for receiving defrosted water generated by the evaporator, a slope structure is formed on an upper surface of the water pan, and the evaporator is obliquely arranged on the water pan. According to the refrigerator, the effective volume of the compartment is increased, and the overall height of the cooling chamber can be reduced.

Refrigerator with obliquely arranged evaporator

Disclosed is a refrigerator having a centrifugal fan with a volute, which includes a cabinet, an evaporator, a centrifugal fan, and an air supply duct. A cooling chamber located at a lower part and at least one storage compartment located above the cooling chamber are defined in the cabinet; the evaporator is disposed in the cooling chamber and is configured to cool airflow entering the cooling chamber to form cooled airflow; the centrifugal fan includes a volute and an impeller disposed in the volute; and the air supply duct is detachably connected with the volute, communicates with a volute air outlet, and is configured to deliver the cooled airflow into the at least one storage compartment. In the refrigerator of the present invention, the cooling chamber is located at a lower part of the cabinet, so that the cooling chamber occupies a lower space in the cabinet; the storage compartment is located above the cooling chamber, a compressor chamber may be defined behind the cooling chamber, and the storage compartment no longer needs to make room for the compressor chamber, thus guaranteeing the storage volume of the storage compartment. In addition, the air supply duct and the centrifugal fan adopt a split design, which implements modularization, is convenient for disassembly, assembly and transportation, and improves the yield rate.

Refrigerator having centrifugal fan with volute

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