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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2018
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Amit A. Avhale, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Taylor Clark, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Benjamin G. Jimenez, Burns Harbor, IN (US);
E. Calvin Pickles, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Richard Spletzer, St. Joseph, MI (US);
David Walter, Cleveland, TN (US);
Yan Zhang, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator includes an outer wrapper, a fresh food compartment defined by a liner within the wrapper and separated from an interior of the outer wrapper at least along a first side wall of the fresh food compartment to define a void, and a door at least partially enclosing an opening to the fresh food compartment when in a closed position. A door compartment is positioned along the door. The refrigerator further includes an evaporator compartment positioned at least partially within the fresh food compartment and a duct in fluid communication with the evaporator compartment at a first end thereof and in communication with the door compartment a second end thereof. The duct has a first portion that extends laterally from the first end along a portion of the evaporator compartment and a second portion extending through the void along the first side wall of the fresh food compartment.