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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Seong-Ho Cho, Seoul, KR;
In-Seop Lee, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
In-Won Lee, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Jae-Yong Sung, Seoul, KR;
Jay-Ho Choi, Seoul, KR;
Kwang-Hyup An, Seoul, KR;
Jeong-Ho Lee, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Young-Sok Nam, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A concentration cooling apparatus for a refrigerator includes a housing which is mounted in a cold air guiding path, and a nozzle which is rotatably supported in the housing, for concentratedly injecting cold air to a region where a high temperature load is generated when the high temperature load is generated in a predetermined region inside a cooling chamber. An infrared sensor is mounted at the front of the nozzle, for sensing the region where the high temperature load is generated. The sensor rotates together with the nozzle and a frost drying sensor is installed on the upper surface of the nozzle, for drying frost on the surface of the infrared sensor. Thus, the reliability of the infrared sensor can be improved by preventing the formation of frost on the surface of the lens of the infrared sensor which detects whether the high temperature load is generated.