Anti-frosting refrigerator

Abstract

A refrigerator with a storage chamber, an evaporation chamber, and a fan for driving an air circulation from the evaporation chamber to the storage chamber. In an exemplary embodiment, the refrigerator may include a grid disposed to cross an elongated inlet opening of the storage chamber.

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       11 . A refrigerator, comprising:
 at least one storage chamber;   an evaporation chamber;   a fan structured to drive air circulation from the evaporation chamber to the storage chamber; and   one or more grids disposed to cross an elongated inlet opening of the storage chamber.   
   
   
       12 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein two or more grids are arranged in series at the elongated inlet opening. 
   
   
       13 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein openings of the two or more grids are offset from one another in relation to a surface normal of the one or more grids. 
   
   
       14 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein a surface of the one or more grids is 30%-60% open. 
   
   
       15 . The refrigerator as claimed  claim 11 , wherein the elongated inlet opening of the storage chamber extends over an entire width of the storage chamber. 
   
   
       16 . The refrigerator as claimed  claim 11 , wherein the elongated inlet opening of the storage chamber is a downstream end of a distributor passage, of which a length is smaller than a largest dimension of the elongated inlet opening, and wherein a largest cross-sectional dimension at an upstream end of the distributor passage is at most half as large as the largest dimension of the elongated inlet opening. 
   
   
       17 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein the length of the distributor passage is smaller than two thirds of the largest dimension of the elongated inlet opening. 
   
   
       18 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein in a largest cross-sectional dimension at a downstream end of the distributor passage is at most a third of the largest dimension of the elongated inlet opening. 
   
   
       19 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 11 , further comprising a distributor passage, and wherein the storage chamber and the distributor passage are delimited by a same inner container and are separated from each other by a partition wall installed in the inner container. 
   
   
       20 . The refrigerator as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the elongated inlet opening is oriented horizontally.