Refrigerator compartment and method for accurately controlled temperature
This patent describes a combined refrigerator-freezer of the type including a compartmented cabinet including a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment, a controlled temperature compartment for extended storage of perishable items and formed as a separate compartment in the cabinet comprising: means for defining a plenum chamber within the separate compartment including first and second air openings providing communication between the separate compartment and the plenum chamber, first and second air conduits extending between and in communication with the separate compartment and the freezer compartment, means for driving an air flow through the first air opening from the plenum chamber, means for controlling the air flow driving means depending on the air temperature within the separate compartment.
- Assignee:
- Whirlpool Corp., Benton Harbor, MI
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4732009
- OSTI ID:
- 5006914
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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