General Electric Company

Venkataramana Rachakonda

Martin Mitchell Zentner

Sanjay Manohar Anikhindi

Anand Ganesh Joshi

Debra Miozza

Venkata Ramakrishna Ramayanam

John Kenneth Hooker

Warren F Bessler

Omar Haidar

A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment, a refrigerator door coupled to the refrigerator compartment, the refrigerator door has an inner surface. The refrigerator further includes a bin for storing items therein mounted to the inner surface of the refrigerator door and at least one thermoelectric module operationally coupled to the bin, such that the bin is temperature controlled independent of the refrigerator compartment.

Methods and apparatus for controlling refrigerators

A temperature controlled apparatus comprises a reversible solid state device having a first section and a second section; portions of the first and the second sections are disposed in intimate contact. The first section is disposed adjacent to a portion of an external wall surface of a compartment and the second section is disposed adjacent to a portion of an internal wall surface of the compartment. A compartment fan is disposed within the compartment. The reversible solid state device and the compartment fan are coupled to a controller. The controller is configured to modify a compartment air temperature inside the compartment by controlling the reversible solid state device and the compartment fan to flow a compartment air across the second section. The controller is configured to control the reversible solid state device and the compartment fan in at least one temperature operational mode.

Temperature controlled compartment apparatus and method of controlling temperature

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Venkataramana Rachakonda