Refrigerator

Abstract

According to the present invention, a refrigerator comprises: a main body having a storage compartment; a refrigerating cycle apparatus for cooling the storage compartment; a quick cooling body which accommodates beverages inserted therein, and which has a plurality of jet-colliding holes for jet-colliding the cooling air in the storage compartment against the beverages; a quick cooling air blower which enables the cooling air in the storage compartment to flow toward the quick cooling body such that the cooling air in the storage compartment passes through the jet-colliding holes, is jet-collided against the beverages, and is then discharged to the storage compartment; and a quick cooling body moving mechanism mounted in the main body and connected to the quick cooling body to move the quick cooling body, thereby minimizing the quick cooling time of the beverages.

1 . A refrigerator, comprising:
 a main body including a storage compartment;   a refrigerating cycle apparatus for cooling the storage compartment;   a quick cooling body in which a beverage is inserted and accommodated and a plurality of impinging-jet holes for having the beverage impinged on and jetted to cooling air of the storage compartment is formed;   a quick cooling air blower for moving the cooling air of the storage compartment to the quick cooling body so that the cooling air of the storage compartment impinged on and jetted to the beverage through the impinging-jet holes and then discharged to the storage compartment;   a quick cooling body moving mechanism mounted on the main body, connected to the quick cooling body, and moving the quick cooling body:   an air blower mounter positioned and installed in the main body and having the quick cooling air blower installed therein; and   a flexible funnel member having the air blower mounter and the quick cooling body to communicate with each other and deformed when the quick cooling body moves.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the quick cooling bodies is connected to the flexible funnel member. 
     
     
         4 . The refrigerator of  claim 3 , wherein the quick cooling body moving mechanism is connected to one of the plurality of quick cooling bodies. 
     
     
         5 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the quick cooling body is movably connected on a lower side of the quick cooling body moving mechanism, and   the quick cooling air blower is positioned and mounted on a lower side of the quick cooling body.   
     
     
         6 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , wherein the quick cooling body moving mechanism comprises:
 a motor positioned and installed in the main body, and   a link fixedly connected to a shaft of the motor and rotatably connected to the quick cooling body and for eccentrically rotating the quick cooling body in a 3-D way when the motor is driven.   
     
     
         7 . The refrigerator of  claim 6 , wherein the link comprises:
 a shaft coupling unit to which the shaft of the motor is connected,   a quick cooling body connection unit rotatably connected to a coupling shaft formed in the quick cooling body, and   a horizontal unit coupling the shaft coupling unit and the quick cooling body connection unit.   
     
     
         8 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , further comprising a sprayer installed in the quick cooling body in order to vaporize a coolant and spray the vaporized coolant to an outside of a container of the beverage. 
     
     
         9 . The refrigerator of  claim 8 , further comprising a coolant supply hose connected to the sprayer and for supplying the coolant to the sprayer. 
     
     
         10 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , further comprising a cooling air guide for downwardly guiding air ventilated by the quick cooling air blower. 
     
     
         11 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the main body comprises a beverage entrance formed in front of the quick cooling body, and   a beverage door for opening and shutting the beverage entrance is installed in the main body.   
     
     
         12 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , further comprising an ice storage heat exchanger placed outside the quick cooling body, wherein the cooling air sucked from the storage compartment to the impinging-jet holes is cooled while passing through the ice storage heat exchanger. 
     
     
         13 . The refrigerator of  claim 12 , wherein the ice storage heat exchanger has concave-convex parts formed in the cooling air holes. 
     
     
         14 . The refrigerator of  claim 12 , wherein the ice storage heat exchanger comprises:
 a main ice storage unit spaced apart from the quick cooling body in front and rear directions, and   an auxiliary ice storage unit inclined and disposed on a left or right side of the main ice storage unit and spaced apart from the quick cooling body in left and right directions.   
     
     
         15 . The refrigerator of  claim 12 , wherein the quick cooling body comprises:
 a tub body having an opening formed on a side opposite to the ice storage heat exchanger, and   a body door opening and shutting the opening.   
     
     
         16 . The refrigerator of  claim 1 , further comprising an ice storage heat exchanger installed in the quick cooling body in such a way as to come in contact with the beverage and cooled by the cooling air, thus cooling the beverage. 
     
     
         17 . The refrigerator of  claim 16 , wherein the ice storage heat exchanger comprises:
 an ice storage pack containing an ice storage material; and   an ice storage pack holder placed within the quick cooling body so that the ice storage pack is seated in the ice storage pack holder.   
     
     
         18 . The refrigerator of  claim 16 , wherein a plurality of the ice storage heat exchangers is disposed within the quick cooling body in a cylindrical direction so that the plurality of ice storage heat exchangers is spaced apart from one another. 
     
     
         19 . The refrigerator of  claim 16 , further comprising elastic members placed and installed between the ice storage heat exchanger and the quick cooling body and for elastically supporting the ice storage heat exchanger in a direction of the beverage. 
     
     
         20 . The refrigerator of  claim 16 , further comprising at least one beverage holder installed in the quick cooling body and for supporting the beverage.