The document describes a refrigerator that uses two evaporators arranged in tandem to provide cooling to both the refrigerator compartments and an ice making system. The upstream evaporator cools air for a compartment, while the downstream evaporator receives some of the cooled air and further cools it to be used for cooling components of the ice making system. This allows both the refrigerator compartments and ice making system to be efficiently cooled using two sequentially arranged evaporators.
The document describes a refrigerator that uses two evaporators arranged in tandem to provide cooling to both the refrigerator compartments and an ice making system. The upstream evaporator cools air for a compartment, while the downstream evaporator receives some of the cooled air and further cools it to be used for cooling components of the ice making system. This allows both the refrigerator compartments and ice making system to be efficiently cooled using two sequentially arranged evaporators.
The document describes a refrigerator that uses two evaporators arranged in tandem to provide cooling to both the refrigerator compartments and an ice making system. The upstream evaporator cools air for a compartment, while the downstream evaporator receives some of the cooled air and further cools it to be used for cooling components of the ice making system. This allows both the refrigerator compartments and ice making system to be efficiently cooled using two sequentially arranged evaporators.
tandem evapo rators to provide cooling for both a compartment and an ice making system of a refrigerator . An upstream evaporator in the pair of tandem evaporators provides cooling for a compartment such as a freezer , fresh food , flexible cooling , or quick cooling compartment , while a downstream evapo rator is in fluid communication with the upstream evaporator to receive a portion of the air cooled by the upstream evaporator and further cool the received portion for use in cooling one or more components of the ice making system.
BACKGROUND:
Residential refrigerators generally include both
fresh food compartments and freezer compartments , with the former maintained at a temperature above freezing to store fresh foods and liquids , and the latter maintained at a temperature below freezing for longer - term storage of fro zen foods . For many years , most refrigerators have fallen in to one of two categories . Top mount refrigerators , for example , include a freezer compartment near the top of the refrigerator , either accessible via a separate external door from the external door for the fresh food compartment , or accessible via an internal door within the fresh food com partment . Side - by - side refrigerators , on the other hand , orient the freezer and fresh food compartments next to one another and extending generally along most of the height of the refrigerator . SUMMARY:
The herein - described embodiments address
these and other problems associated with the art by providing a refrigerator and method that utilize a pair of tandem evapo rators to provide cooling for both a compartment and an ice making system of a refrigerator . An upstream evaporator in the pair of tandem evaporators provides cooling for a compartment such as a freezer , fresh food , flexible cooling , or quick cooling compartment , while a downstream evapo rator is in fluid communication with the upstream evaporator to receive a portion of the air cooled by the upstream evaporator and further cool the received portion for use in cooling one or more components of the ice What is claimed is : making system . 1 . A refrigerator , comprising : a cabinet with a Therefore , consistent with one aspect of the freezer compartment and a fresh food inven tion , a refrigerator may include a cabinet compartment defined therein. with a freezer compartment and a fresh food 2 . The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the compartment defined therein , a door coupled door is a first fresh food door , and wherein the to the cabinet adjacent an opening of the fresh refrigerator further com prises a second fresh food compartment and configured to provide food door adjacent the opening of the fresh access to the fresh food compartment , an ice food compartment and arranged in a side - by - maker mold configured to produce ice , an ice side relationship with the first fresh food door. dispenser disposed on the door and configured to dispense ice produced by the ice maker mold 3 . The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the , a first evaporator in fluid communication with door is a fresh food door , wherein the fresh one of the freezer compartment and the fresh food compartment is disposed above the food compartment to cool air received thereby freezer compartment , and wherein the and supply a first portion of the cooled air to refrigerator further comprises a freezer door the one of the freezer compartment and the adjacent an opening of the freezer fresh food compartment , and a second compartment and below the fresh food door evaporator in fluid communica tion with the first evaporator to receive a second portion of REFERENCE: the cooled air and further cool the second United States Patent Application Pub . No . : US portion of the cooled air and supply at least a 2019 / 0003758 A1 Scalf et al . Pub . Date : Jan . portion of the further cooled. 3 , 2019 REFRIGERATOR WITH TANDEM EVAPORATORS