Refrigerator and operation control method thereof

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EP 2 339 276 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	23.05.2018 Bulletin 2018/21

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	29.06.2011 Bulletin 2011/26

(21)	Application number: 10193809.0

(22)	Date of filing: 06.12.2010

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

F25D 21/14^(2006.01)
F25D 21/04^(2006.01)

F25D 11/02^(2006.01)
F25B 5/00^(2006.01)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
	Designated Extension States:
	BA ME

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Priority:

22.12.2009 KR 20090129106

(71)	Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
	Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 443-742 (KR)

(72)	Inventors:
	Kim, Yong Han Chungnam (KR) Seo, Kook Jeong Gyeonggi-do (KR) Yoon, Won Jae Seoul (KR)

(74)	Representative: Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
	Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München 80802 München (DE)

(54)	Refrigerator and operation control method thereof

(57) Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. In a refrigeration cycle including a channel switching valve (34) to selectively supply a refrigerant to a first evaporator side (28) and/or a second evaporator (29) side and hot pipes (32,33), a hot pipe on a freezing chamber side and a hot pipe on a refrigerating chamber are disposed upstream and downstream of the channel switching valve (34), respectively to reduce unbalance in amounts of the refrigerant and in the amounts of generated heat.

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