Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-16
2001-02-20
Yeung, George C. (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
C426S524000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06190712
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a kimchi jar and more particularly to a cold-storage method of kimchi jar by which kimchi in a jar is cold-stored for a predetermined period of time to thereafter be stored in refrigeration.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Generally, a refrigerator having a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber is used for storing deep-freezed and refrigerated foodstuffs.
However, in case kimchi is stored in the refrigerating chamber with other foodstuffs, odor generating from fermentation of kimchi makes other foodstuffs reek with fermenting kimchi odor, killing intrinsic flavors of other foodstuffs, which necessitates to store the kimchi in a separate storage.
In the former case, kimchi is stored in a jar buried under the ground for a very long time in the winter time. However it is very difficult and inconvenient nowadays for people living in apartments to bury a jar under the ground due to characteristic of the apartments.
In order to solve the afore-mentioned problems, various studies are being launched these days to keep the kimchi in a separate storage, and
FIGS. 1
,
2
and
3
show conventional kimchi jars.
As illustrated in
FIGS. 1 and 2
, a kimchi jar according to the prior art includes a body
10
and a door
20
.
The door
20
is disposed at an upper area thereof with a manipulating unit
32
for selectively inputting various courses of the jar, a control panel
30
including a display unit
34
, a handle
15
for carriage of the jar, and a door handle
25
for easy opening and closing of the door
20
.
Meanwhile,
FIG. 3
is a vertical sectional view taken along A-A′ of
FIG. 1
, where the body
10
is arranged therein with a compressor
12
and an evaporator
14
for transmitting the cool air generated in the course of coolant being evaporated into a cool chamber
40
, a heater
16
, hot wires
18
and a temperature detecting sensor
50
.
Now, operational process of the kimchi jar according to the prior art thus constructed will be described in accordance with
FIGS. 1
,
2
,
3
and
4
.
First of all, kimchi is put into the cool chamber
40
, the door
20
is closed, the kind of kimchi is selected by way of the manipulating unit
32
on the control panel
30
and a desired mode (by way of example, aging mode, refrigerated storage mode, etc) is selected and input.
Next, a control unit (not shown) generates a control signal for selectively driving the compressor
12
and the heater
16
according to the kind of the kimchi and mode to age or store the kimchi in cool state.
In other words, the kimchi is aged by the heat transmitted into the cool chamber
40
via the hot wires
18
, where the control unit keeps performing aging for an established aging period (T
1
in
FIG. 4
) by letting an ambient temperature of the hot wire
18
maintain an established aging temperature preferably
25
degrees celsius).
Furthermore, the compressor
12
is activated by the control signal from the control unit during refrigerated storage mode to circulate the coolant, which is in turn evaporated via the evaporator
18
, and the cool air generated therefrom is transferred to the cool chamber
40
to coolly store the kimchi. At this time, the control unit serves to discriminate an in-chamber temperature of the cool chamber
40
cooled by the ambient temperature of the evaporator
14
detected by the temperature detecting sensor
50
, where the in-chamber temperature thus discriminated is kept as a refrigerated storage temperature (preferably zero degree celsius) to thereby perform the refrigerated storage (T
2
in FIG.
4
).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a cold-storage method of kimchi jar by which kimchi is refrigerated in a kimchi jar for a predetermined period of time and is let to be aged for storage to thereby prevent an over-aging due to natural aging.
In accordance with the object of the present invention, there is provided a cold-storage method of kimchi jar for keeping in refrigeration the kimchi in the kimchi jar, the method comprising the steps of:
maintaining an in-chamber temperature at an established cold storage temperature for a cold storage period of time established by a manipulating unit to thereby refrigerate the kimchi; and
maintaining the in-chamber temperature at a refrigerated storage temperature when the established cold storage period of time lapses, to thaw and thereafter to cold storage the kimchi stored in the cool chamber.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5456164 (1995-10-01), Bang
patent: 5458186 (1995-10-01), Lee et al.
Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis L.L.P.
Kwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
Yeung George C.
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