US 11,692,770 B2
Refrigerator
Jeongwon Park, Seoul (KR); Giseok Seong, Seoul (KR); Myungjin Chung, Seoul (KR); Kyungseok Kim, Seoul (KR); Jinho Kim, Seoul (KR); and Tackwon Han, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/725,271.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0003590 (KR), filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0224963 A1, Jul. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. F25D 31/00 (2006.01); F25D 11/02 (2006.01); F25D 17/06 (2006.01); F25D 17/08 (2006.01); F25D 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC F25D 31/005 (2013.01) [F25D 11/02 (2013.01); F25D 17/062 (2013.01); F25D 17/067 (2013.01); F25D 17/08 (2013.01); F25D 23/028 (2013.01); F25D 2317/061 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a cabinet having an interior space;
a wall configured to partition the interior space into a storage space and an air flow path, the wall including a discharge port and a suction port;
a partition to separate the storage space into a first space and a second space, wherein the discharge port and the suction port communicate with the first space;
a heat exchanger in communication with the air flow path, wherein the air flow path includes a discharge flow path that guides air to the discharge port, wherein the discharge flow path has an inlet formed closer to a first side edge of the wall than a second side edge of the wall, and wherein the suction port is positioned so that a vertical centerline of the wall extends through the suction port or a vertical centerline of the suction port is closer to the vertical centerline of the wall than to the first and second side edges of the wall;
a fan disposed at an outlet side of the heat exchanger; and
an inner cover configured to shield the heat exchanger and the fan, the inner cover including:
a cover body to define an inner wall of the second space such that the cover body is exposed to the second space; and
an additional discharge port formed in the cover body such that a first volume of the air passing through the fan flows to the discharge port and a second volume of the air passing through the fan flows to the additional discharge port, and
wherein the additional discharge port includes an opening through which the air is directly discharged to the second space, and the vertical centerline of the wall extends through the opening.