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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1999
Jin-Oh Seok, Kwangju, KR;
Yun-Seog Kang, Kwangju, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
An operation control method for a refrigerator after a power-supply comeback due to a power-failure that performs a re-operation according to operation information stored before the power-failure. The operation control method includes the steps of: (a) reading stored operation information when power is reapplied to the refrigerator; (b) determining whether the operation information includes a compartment set temperature information and an accumulated information of a compressor operation time; (c) if the compartment set temperature information and the accumulated information of the compressor operation time are found in the step (b), automatically setting an operation mode according to the compartment set temperature information, and detecting a compartment temperature of the refrigerator and an evaporator surface temperature; (d) determining whether the compartment temperature is lower than a predetermined compartment temperature to determine a power failure of a long time, or the evaporator surface temperature is lower than a predetermined surface temperature to determine a power-failure of a long time; (e) if the compartment temperature is lower than the predetermined compartment temperature or the evaporator surface temperature is lower than the predetermined surface temperature in the step (d), accumulating a compressor operation time in addition to the stored compressor operation time; and (f) if the compartment temperature is not lower than the predetermined compartment temperature and the evaporator surface temperature is not lower than the predetermined surface temperature in the step (d), deleting the stored compressor operation time accumulation information, and newly accumulating a compressor operation time.
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