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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2016
Qingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd, Qingdao, CN;
QINGDAO HAIER JOINT STOCK CO., LTD, Qingdao, CN;
Abstract
A refrigerator and a branching air supply device for the refrigerator. The multipath air supply device for the refrigerator comprises: a housing having an air inlet and a plurality of air outlets; an adjustment member rotatably disposed in the housing to completely or partially block or completely expose each air outlet at different rotation positions, thereby adjusting respective air outlet areas of the plurality of air outlets; a baffle rotatably mounted at the air inlet; and a linkage device configured to transfer the rotational motion of the adjustment member to the baffle, so that the baffle moves to open or close the air inlet. A refrigerator having the branching air supply device. When a storage compartment does not need cold air, the air inlet of the branching air supply device can be completely closed to block an airflow passage for providing cold air for the storage compartment.