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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2021
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Giseok Seong, Seoul, KR;
Kyungseok Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kyeongyun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Seunguk Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Myungjin Chung, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator including a compressor, a condenser, a freezing chamber evaporator, a freezing chamber fan, a defrosting heater, a wine chamber evaporator, a wine chamber fan, a path switching device configured to guide the refrigerant condensed in the condenser to the freezing chamber evaporator in a freezing chamber mode and to guide the refrigerant condensed in the condenser to the wine chamber evaporator in a wine chamber mode, and a controller configured to turn on the defrosting heater to perform a freezing chamber defrosting mode for defrosting the freezing chamber evaporator, to control the path switching device to the wine chamber mode while the temperature of the wine chamber is dissatisfied when the temperature of the wine chamber is dissatisfied in the freezing chamber defrosting mode, and to drive the wine chamber fan.