The present disclosure provides a food management system 1000 that can accurately detect a food item contained in a refrigerator 1.

The food management system 1000 configured to manage a food item contained in the refrigerator 1 includes a refrigerator compartment camera 21 provided at an upper part of the refrigerator 1 and configured to capture an image of an image capturing range including an opening of a refrigerator compartment 11 of the refrigerator 1; a drawer camera 22 provided at the upper part of the refrigerator 1 and configured to capture an image of an image capturing range including a drawer pulled out of a housing compartment other than the refrigerator compartment 11; and a food detection unit configured to detect a food item taken into or out of the refrigerator 1 based on an image capturing result of at least one of the refrigerator compartment camera 21 and the drawer camera 22.

Provided are Aa method for controlling the temperature of a refrigerator, and a refrigerator. A refrigerato, comprising a cabinet, a thawing chamber, a refrigeration system and a micro-air-duct rotary disc (180), wherein a storage compartment is defined by the cabinet, and comprises a storage area and a thawing area, the thawing chamber is arranged in the thawing area The refrigeration system is started to generate cold airflow when the temperature of the storage area is greater than or equal to a preset storage start-up temperature threshold value, the guiding direction of the cold airflow is determined by means of comparing the temperature of the thawing chamber with a preset thawing shutdown temperature threshold value, and the directional guidance of the cold airflow is completed by means of the micro-air-duct rotary disc .

An ice machine, a fault handling method and fault handling apparatus of the ice machine, and a refrigeration device. The ice machine includes an ice machine body, an ice making tray located in the ice machine body, a heating assembly, and an ice stirring assembly for stirring out ice made in the ice making tray. A fault of an ice stirring assembly is automatically removed by means of a heating treatment mode of gradually raising a heating temperature multiple times, the method and apparatus moving simply and quickly, wherein the satisfaction degree of users is improved.

A remote system for monitoring and controlling one or more devices for use in the cryogenic processing of a sample is provided. A remote server capable of transmitting freezing profile data to one or more freezers, transmitting transportation profile data to one or more transportation devices, and transmitting thawing profile data to one or more thawing devices. The remote server is also capable of receiving detected data from the one or more freezers relating to the freezing of a sample in accordance with the freezing profile data, receiving detected data from the one or more transportation devices relating to the transportation of a sample in accordance with the transportation profile data, and receiving detected data from the one or more thawing machines relating to the thawing of a sample in accordance with the thawing profile data.

A method of controlling a refrigerator that includes: operating a cool air supply means with a predetermined output; a controller determining the output of the cool air supply means based on a current temperature of a storage compartment sensed by a temperature sensor while the cool air supply means operates with the predetermined output; and the controller operating the cool air supply means with the determined output. The controller determines that the output of the cool air supply means is decreased or increased when an absolute value of a difference between a previous temperature and a current temperature of the storage compartment is equal to or greater than a first reference value, and wherein the output of the cool air supply means is decreased or increased again when the absolute value of the difference between a current temperature of the storage compartment sensed again after a predetermined time has elapses and the previous temperature of the storage compartment is equal to or greater than the first reference value.

A remote system for monitoring and controlling one or more devices for use in the cryogenic processing of a sample is provided. A remote server capable of transmitting freezing profile data to one or more freezers, transmitting transportation profile data to one or more transportation devices, and transmitting thawing profile data to one or more thawing devices. The remote server is also capable of receiving detected data from the one or more freezers relating to the freezing of a sample in accordance with the freezing profile data, receiving detected data from the one or more transportation devices relating to the transportation of a sample in accordance with the transportation profile data, and receiving detected data from the one or more thawing machines relating to the thawing of a sample in accordance with the thawing profile data.

Provided are a refrigerator preservation control method and a refrigerator. The refrigerator comprises a box body and a freezer preservation compartment. The box body defines at least one storage compartment. The freezer preservation compartment is arranged in the storage compartment. The refrigerator preservation control method comprises: detecting whether an object to be processed is placed in the freezer preservation compartment; if so, acquiring the temperature of the object; acquiring a preset correspondence between temperatures of the object and operating modes of the refrigerator; and controlling the refrigerator to operate in accordance with an operating mode corresponding to the temperature of the object. The use of the solution of the present invention may detect the temperature of the object placed in the freezer preservation compartment, and control the refrigerator to operate in accordance with different operating modes according to differences in the temperature of the object, thereby achieving instant preservation.

A method to manage defrosting of a refrigeration plant provided with at least one compressor and at least one evaporator, including defining a plurality of defrosting modes, which can be selected by the manufacturer and/or by the end user, which are based on one or more functioning parameters of the refrigeration plant; such functioning parameters are detected by detection probes provided in the refrigeration plant such as pressure switches, thermostats, timing devices or other, associated with the compressor and/or the evaporator, or other; and memorizing the plurality of defrosting modes in an electronic device to manage the defrosting.

One example of a method comprises identifying contents of a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment of a refrigeration appliance. The freezer compartment is separated from the refrigerator compartment by a barrier having a sealable aperture. The method further comprises predicting a use time for a first food item located in the freezer compartment based on user data related to the identified contents of the freezer compartment; calculating an amount of time needed to defrost the first food item in the refrigerator compartment based on sensor data received from the refrigeration appliance regarding environmental conditions of the refrigeration compartment; determining a transfer time based on the predicted use time and on the amount of time needed to defrost the first food item; and outputting instructions to automatically transfer the first food item from the freezer compartment through the sealable aperture to the refrigerator compartment at the determined transfer time.

The invention is directed to an energy efficient thermoelectric heat pump assembly. The thermoelectric heat pump assembly preferably includes two to nine thermoelectric unit layers capable of active use of the Peltier effect; and at least one capacitance spacer block suitable for storing heat and providing a delayed thermal reaction time of the assembly. The capacitance spacer block is thermally connected between the thermoelectric unit layers. The present invention further relates to a thermoelectric transport and storage devices for transporting or storing temperature sensitive goods, for example, vaccines, chemicals, biologicals, and other temperature sensitive goods. Preferably the transport or storage devices are configured and provide on-board energy storage for sustaining, for multiple days, at a constant-temperature, with an acceptable temperature variation band.