| 摘要 |
This refrigerator stores food, and is provided with: a storage chamber that opens at the front surface, which is the user side; a door that can operate between both a closed state that closes the front surface of the storage chamber and an open state that opens the front surface of the storage chamber; a cold-air pathway that has an entrance and an exit, the entrance and the exit each being connected to the inside of the storage chamber; a fan device that draws in air within the storage chamber from the entrance of the cold-air pathway into the cold-air pathway, and discharges the air drawn into the cold-air pathway into the storage chamber from the exit of the cold-air pathway; a cooler that cools the air flowing within the cold-air pathway; a filter that is provided within the cold-air pathway, has a plurality of holes through which the air flowing within the cold-air pathway can pass, and to which a photocatalyst that is reactive to visible light is adhered at the inner surfaces of the plurality of holes; and a light source that, to the filter, radiates visible light for exciting the photocatalyst of the filter when the door is in the closed state.
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