US 11,815,302 B2
Sanitation device for refrigerator
Chenli Hu, Nanjing (CN); Wei Zhong, Nanjing (CN); and Haiqing Zhou, Nanjing (CN)
Assigned to BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed by BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,897.
Claims priority of application No. 202011586986.7 (CN), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0205700 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. F25D 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC F25D 17/042 (2013.01) [F25D 2317/0415 (2013.01); F25D 2317/0416 (2013.01); F25D 2317/0417 (2013.01); F25D 2317/04111 (2013.01); F25D 2700/12 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator, comprising:
a storage compartment having a top wall;
an air sanitation device mounted on said top wall of said storage compartment, said air sanitation device containing:
a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a peripheral wall connecting said upper wall to said lower wall;
an air channel disposed in said housing and having an air outlet and two air inlets opposite one another and transverse to said air outlet, said air outlet disposed on said peripheral wall, and said air channel is configured in such a way that air is discharged out of said air outlet obliquely downward;
a fan disposed in said air channel, to force the air to enter said air channel from said two air inlets and leave said air channel from said air outlet; and
an air detection device and/or an air purification device disposed in said air channel.