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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1986
Filed:
May. 08, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akio Mitani, Yokohama, JP;
Takao Ariga, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62156 ; 62276 ;
Abstract
A refrigerator with a freezing chamber has a freezing chamber, and cooling chamber having a forced air circulating path provided adjacent to the freezing chamber for intaking the air in the freezing chamber, cooling the intaken air by an evaporator and returning the cooled air to the freezing chamber. A damper plate for cutting off the air circulating path during the defrosting period of the evaporator is provided. The ON and OFF of this damper plate are controlled in response to the status change of the shape memory alloy memory which takes different statuses above and below a predetermined temperature.