US 11,725,333 B2
Multi-functional storage system for preventing water from condensing on inner side of door and method for drying inner side of door using same
Tae Kyung Kang, Seoul (KR); In Kyu Back, Seoul (KR); Hyo Sung Kim, Seoul (KR); Kyung Su Lee, Seoul (KR); Gyeongcheol Sin, Seoul (KR); Il Song Park, Seoul (KR); Dong Hun Lee, Seoul (KR); Jin Min Kim, Seoul (KR); Sung Hwan Heo, Seoul (KR); Hyun Kuk Choi, Seoul (KR); and Byung Soo Yun, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to COWAY CO., LTD., Gongju-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/257,430
Filed by COWAY CO., LTD., Gongju-si (KR)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/007495
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 31, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/009355, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0077268 (KR), filed on Jul. 3, 2018; and application No. 10-2018-0077269 (KR), filed on Jul. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0222350 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 73/02 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 58/22 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 58/10 (2013.01) [D06F 58/20 (2013.01); D06F 73/02 (2013.01); D06F 58/203 (2013.01); D06F 58/22 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-functional storage system, comprising:
a storage compartment;
a machine compartment provided at one side of the storage compartment;
a circulation air inlet and a circulation air outlet communicating the storage compartment with the machine compartment; and
a door provided at a foreside of the storage compartment and the machine compartment,
wherein the machine compartment comprises:
an intake port and an exhaust port communicating with outside air; and
a blower unit for drawing in the outside air through the intake port and exhausting it through the exhaust port, or drawing in the inside air through the circulation air inlet and exhausting it through the circulation air outlet,
wherein, while the door is closed and, the intake port and the exhaust port are open, and the circulation air inlet and the circulation air outlet are closed, the blower unit is operated to dry an inner side of the door.