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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Cheol-hee Kim, Kwangju, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator is provided, which includes a main body, an inner casing accommodated in the main body and formed with a plurality of storage chambers arranged up and down, a compressor provided in a machine room and isolated from the storage chambers, and a condenser for condensing a refrigerant supplied from the compressor. The refrigerator includes a plurality of evaporators surrounding the inner casing to form a refrigerant flow path toward the lower portion of each storage chamber from the upper portion thereof, a refrigerant valve installed at a refrigerant tube extended from the condenser to an inlet of each evaporator, a suction tube extended from an outlet of each evaporator to the compressor, and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in the upper portion of each storage chamber, for detecting the temperatures of the respective storage chambers.