| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator including an illumination apparatus for illuminating the interior of a storage compartment with optimum quantity of light. <P>SOLUTION: The refrigerator includes: interior lighting 8 that illuminates the interior of the storage compartments 4 which are partitioned by means of insulated walls 2 and insulated doors 3a, b; a lighting intensity sensor 7 that is provided on the insulated door of the uppermost of the multiple storage compartments, and that detects the intensity of the lighting outside of the refrigerator 1; a door opening/closing detection device 10 that detects the open/closed state of the insulated doors 3a, b; and a control device 11 that adjusts the amount of light of the interior lighting 8 in response to the lighting intensity detected by the lighting intensity sensor 7 just before and just after the door opening/closing detection device 10 detects that the insulated doors 3a, b have been opened. The refrigerator can illuminate the interior with optimum quantity of light depending on the brightness around a user, and the lighting that is highly energy saving, long life, and further easy on the eyes for the user is provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
