Refrigerator
Patent
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OSTI ID:6737044
A refrigerator is described comprising: (a) a housing having a vent compartment and an insulated box having a cooler compartment and a freezer compartment; (b) a thermoelectric heat pump means mounted in the housing, the heat pump means including a finned heat sink of high temperature coefficient material mounted in the vent compartment. A hot plate is attached to the heat sink. A thermopile has a hot side connected to the hot plate and a cold side, a block of high temperature coefficient material is connected to the cold side. An L-shaped bracket of high temperature coefficient material having a vertical portion attached to the block and a horizontal portion extends into the freezer compartment. A freezer compartment of high temperature coefficient material has a bottom attached to the L-shaped horizontal portion. The bottom portion has walls forming an ice cube tray receiving recess whereby the continuous structure of high temperature coefficient material exists between the thermopile and ice cube tray receiving recess to produce a sub freezing temperature in the recess; and (c) an ice cube tray having a shape corresponding to that of the ice cube tray receiving recess whereby five sides of the ice cube tray are in freezing engagement with the bottom recess forming walls for freezing ice cubes.
- Assignee:
- Marlow Industries, Inc., Dallas, TX
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4644753
- OSTI ID:
- 6737044
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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