Cooling appliance with circulated air cooling and cooling air injection

US7444832B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Home Appliances Corporation · US

Inventors

• Alexander Görz · Aalen, DE
• Hans Ihle · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Matthew Ricket · New Bern, US
• Ralf Spiller · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Martin Wagner · Nattheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2008
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25D2500/02
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A cooling appliance (1) with circulated air cooling, comprising at least one cooling chamber (2) for reception of stock (3) to be cooled, at least one channel (4) for cooling air (5) and a coldness generator (12) for generating cooling air (5), wherein the channel (4) provides a fluid-conducting connection of the coldness generator (12) with the cooling chamber (2) and opens into the cooling chamber (2) by an outlet opening (6), wherein a jet forming means (7) is provided and wherein the jet forming means (7) is formed by a nozzle element (18) and/or by a spacer (10), by which the stock (3) to be cooled is kept at a spacing from the outlet opening (6), at the outlet opening (6). A precise, uniform and energy-saving temperature conditioning of the stock (3), which is to be cooled, in the cooling chamber (2) is made possible by the invention.