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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2001
Rae-Eun Park, Suwon, KR;
Jun-Hyoun Kwon, Seoul, KR;
Chang-Nyeun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Yoon-Young Kim, Suwon, KR;
Jae-Seung Lee, Suwon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A storage box with a thermoelement is disclosed. This storage box is operable in a frozen-storage mode operation, in addition to a cool-storage mode and a hot-storage mode. During a cool-storage mode operation of the storage box, the main compartment ( ) is primarily cooled by a main thermoelement ( ) to be kept at a low temperature. The temperature difference between the areas around the two junctions ( ) of the sub-thermoelement ( ) of a sub-storage unit ( ) installed within the main compartment ( ) is sufficiently smaller than that between the areas around the two junctions of the main thermoelement irrespective of a consideration of an addition of heat produced from heat exchanging units provided at the two junctions of each thermoelement. The sub-thermoelement ( ) is thus significantly improved in its cooling capacity. The temperature of the sub-compartment ( ) of the sub-storage unit ( ) is thus reduced lower than 0° C., and so the sub-compartment is kept in a frozen-storage mode. The sub-storage unit ( ) is removable from the main compartment ( ), thus allowing a user to use it independently from the storage box in, for example, a car.