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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Inventor:
Guolian L. Wu, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 11/02 (2006.01); F25B 25/00 (2006.01); F25D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 11/022 (2013.01); F25B 25/005 (2013.01); F25D 11/006 (2013.01); F25D 11/025 (2013.01); F25B 2400/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A refrigerator cooling system and method provides cooling to one or more features of a refrigerator by employing a secondary cooling loop that utilizes the excess cooling capacity of an evaporator to selectively provide supplemental cooling to the features when a thermal demand arises.