Patent 7331193 was granted and assigned to Samsung on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A refrigerator including a refrigerating compartment evaporator cover to partition a storage space of a refrigerating compartment and a refrigerating compartment evaporator accommodator, a ventilator which is provided in a lower part of the refrigerating compartment evaporator cover, a damper which is provided in an upper part of the refrigerating compartment evaporator cover to control entrance and exit of cooling air to the ventilator, and a refrigerating compartment evaporator and a freezing compartment evaporator which are connected in serial. The refrigerator allows cooling air to flow smoothly and prevents cooling air continuously generated from a refrigerating compartment evaporator from being rapidly discharged to a refrigerating compartment when a refrigerating compartment stops operating.