Lg Electronics Inc.

Yeon-Yi Hwang

Eun-Jeong Kim

Sang-Ik Lee

Jong-Min Shin

Eun-Young Park

Deul-Re Min

Kwan-Shik Cho

A food keeping refrigerator is provided. The food keeping refrigerator keeps food in refrigerating and freezing chambers and refrigerates and freezes the food through a cooling device. The food keeping refrigerator preserves the freshness and nutrition of food for an extended period of time by emitting appropriate light to the food stored in the refrigerating and freezing chambers of the food keeping refrigerator. The food keeping refrigerator includes a storing device that stores food keeping information, a light generating device mounted inside the refrigerating and freezing chambers that generates light and emits the light to the food, and a controller that reads the food keeping information corresponding to the food from the storing device and controls the light generating device to emit the light according to the food keeping information.

Food keeping refrigerator

A vegetable room for a refrigerator is provided. The vegetable room includes a vegetable box disposed inside a refrigerator in which a cooling air supply unit is provided to circulate cooling air therein and a plurality of shelves is provided, and having a receptacle space that receives food items therein opened upwardly, a box cover that covers an opening side of the vegetable box to close the receptacle space of the vegetable box and having a plurality of cooling air ventilating holes formed at one side thereof to introduce cooling air into the vegetable box, a cover support unit interposed between the box cover and the shelf to support the box cover at the shelf, a plurality of opening and closing members that open and close the cooling air ventilating holes of the box cover, and an operating unit that operates the opening and closing members simultaneously.

Vegetable room for refrigerator

A vegetable room for a refrigerator includes: a vegetable box () disposed inside a refrigerator in which cooling air is supplied and circulated and which a shelf () for receiving food item is provided, having a receptacle space () for receiving food items formed to be opened upwardly; a box cover () for covering an opening side of the vegetable box () to close the receptacle space () of the vegetable box () and having a cooling air ventilating hole () formed at one side thereof to allow cooling air to be introduced into the receptacle space (); and a cooling air opening and closing unit () for selectively opening and closing the cooling air ventilating hole () of the box cover (). A preservation condition of food items stored in a vegetable room can be optimized regardless of an environment outside a refrigerator.

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Busan, South Korea

Yeon-Yi Hwang