Refrigeration – Cooled enclosure
Reexamination Certificate
2002-04-26
2003-11-04
Doerrler, William C. (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Cooled enclosure
C062S180000, C062S215000, C062S229000, C062S441000, C062S457100, C062S249000, C062S457500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06640581
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a property box of cabinet/wall-hanging type requiring low temperature, and more particularly to a property box of cabinet/wall-hanging type requiring low temperature, which comprises an air cooler and is attachable to a wall surface or a corner of living space such as newly-built or existing apartments, houses or lodgings so as to store and make easily available of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, films, beverage, beer or wine requiring low temperature whenever necessary.
BACKGROUND OF THE RELATED ART
Refrigerators are commonly used for the purpose of storing and avoiding degeneration of food for a long period of time at households or restaurants. In general, the refrigerators are manufactured in large size so as to store food requiring freezing or cooling in a massive scale. Such refrigerators are large in size and heavy in weight, thereby posing inconvenience in transportation and installation.
Also, since the refrigerators are conventionally installed in commonly shared space such as kitchens or living rooms, aesthetic factors can hardly be considered in the course of installation to be balanced with the surrounding circumstances within the living space. Moreover, cooked stuff, vegetables or meat requiring low temperature for the storage is stored together with pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, films in the same space at the same time. Therefore, a careless management of the cooling compartment is liable to result in insanitation due to a bad smell self-generated by the food and kinds of stuff stored therein.
It is the recent trend of living culture to avoid an exposure of a married couple's or an individual's private life to the extent of securing a bathroom for a couple's use only. Under these circumstances, it poses inconvenience for the one who desires to retain a nude state if he or she has to wear clothes and walking toward a refrigerator located in the shared living space for drinking water or beverage or making up one's face after taking a shower.
For this reason, a need has arisen to store pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or films requiring low temperature in a place apart from a refrigerator. Additional use of a small-sized refrigerator for that purpose rather result in narrowing the living space due to its extra occupation of a space despite its small size.
The problem of narrowing the living space is of significance when it comes to the lodgings or shops estimated about millions per square meter even if the space occupied by a small refrigerator is less than a square meter. It is apparent that the value of the occupied space is enormous. Accordingly, the most urgent task to be solved is to maximize the utility of a living space even if it is less than a square meter.
To solve the above problems, the applicant of the present invention filed Korean Patent Application No. 99-30784 on Jul. 28, 1999 and Utility Model Application Nos. 99-15247 and 99-15249, which are dual applications of the patent application.
Referring to
FIGS. 1 and 2
, the above Korean patent application and utility model applications disclose a constitution, comprising a cabinet
1
formed on a wall surface of a living space such as an ordinary house or a lodging in a predetermined size; a frame
2
inserted into an inner surface of the cabinet
1
, tightly fixed to have a receiving space of a predetermined size and an exit; an opening/closing door
5
coupled with a hinge formed on the frame
2
and having an air cooler
3
on a lower portion thereof so as to discharge cool air as well as a housing section
4
inwardly formed to house properties, characterized in that the frame
2
has a prominence and depression groove
6
on a rear surface thereof, and an guiding bracket
7
is formed on the wall surface so as to be slidably coupled therewith from a side surface thereof.
In the conventional property box constituted above, cool air is generated by the air cooler
3
installed at the lower portion of the opening/closing door
5
so as to be supplied to the housing section
4
. The cool air supplied from the air cooler
3
is discharged to a cool air discharge hole
9
along a cool air path
8
.
The cool air discharged to the cool air discharge hole
9
is directly transferred to each housing section
4
formed in the opening/closing door
5
so that the properties (film, cosmetics, beverage, etc.) requiring cool air can maintain a predetermined temperature.
However, the property box
10
described above has drawbacks. To be specific, due to a formation of the air cooler
3
at the lower portion of the opening/closing door
5
, frequent opening and closing of the opening/closing door
5
generate minute shakes transferred to and accumulated in the air cooler. This impedes a smooth operation of the air cooler when used for a long period of time or when exposed to a high humidity such as in a bathroom. Therefore, a continuous exposure to a high humidity may drive the property box into an abnormal operation, thereby deteriorating a quality of the product.
Furthermore, formation of the air cooler
3
in the opening/closing door
5
is also liable to cause a loss of heat due to a mixture of the cool air generated from the air cooler with the air from outside. This results in a significant waste of electric power.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
To solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a property box, which can prevent transferring of a shock to the air cooler generated by frequent opening and closing of the opening/closing door, and can avoid a direct contact of the humidity with the air cooler even under a humid atmosphere such as in a bathroom.
Another object of the present invention is to maximize availability of the living space when installing a property box.
To achieve the above and other objects of the present invention, there is provided a property box, comprising: a cabinet frame
101
of a predetermined size formed on a wall surface of a living space such an apartment, an ordinary house or a lodging; a first housing main body
104
a
having a housing for being inserted into the cabinet frame
101
and a predetermined housing space
102
as well as an exit
103
; a fist air cooler
105
a
received and coupled with a predetermined space on a lower portion of the first housing main body
104
a
to generate low temperature; a first cool air path
107
a
for linking at least one or more first cool air discharging outlet
106
a
formed on an inner wall of the housing space
102
to supply cool air generated from the first air cooler
105
a
to the housing space
102
with the first air cooler
105
a
; and a first opening/closing door
108
a
rotatably hinge-coupled with the exit
103
of the first housing main body
104
a
for receiving predetermined properties.
The first air cooler
105
a
preferably includes a cryogenic semiconductor
111
operated by a power supply applied from a power supply section (not shown in the drawings) for generating cool and hot air.
The first air cooler
105
a
preferably includes a compressor (not shown in the drawings), a capillary tube (not shown in the drawings), and a vaporizer (not shown in the drawings) so as to circulate a coolant in a predetermined freezing cycle.
The first opening/closing door
108
a
preferably includes at least one or more first receiving shelf
109
a
attachably and detachably installed on a front surface of the external side thereof for receiving predetermined properties.
The housing space
102
preferably includes a second receiving section
110
b
for receiving properties to be in optimal contact with the cool air discharged to the first cool air discharging outlet
106
a
of the first housing main body
104
a.
The first air cooler
105
a
further includes a first collecting section
113
a
slidably coupled with a lower portion thereof for guiding and collecting water generated inside of the first air cooler
105
a
and the housing space
102
to a collecting hole
112
.
The first air cooler
105
further includes an external casing
114
fixedly in
Doerrler William C.
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Shulman Mark
Yoo-Pyung Corporation
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