A touchless compartmentalized cooler includes set of individual refrigeration cubbies with private/securable access for individual users. It allows a person to access a cubby to place food/beverages into a single cubby with no other people's items. It is lockable by the user to keep their items secure until they unlock the cubby to access their items or permanently remove them. The use of the touchless compartmentalized cooler can be entirely contactless by using the mobile app associated with the touchless compartmentalized cooler or can be accessed on the single control panel on, or near, the touchless compartmentalized cooler.

A touchless compartmentalized cooler includes set of individual refrigeration cubbies with private/securable access for individual users. It allows a person to access a cubby to place food/beverages into a single cubby with no other people's items. It is lockable by the user to keep their items secure until they unlock the cubby to access their items or permanently remove them. The use of the touchless compartmentalized cooler can be entirely contactless by using the mobile app associated with the touchless compartmentalized cooler or can be accessed on the single control panel on, or near, the touchless compartmentalized cooler.

Disclosed herein is a refrigerator having a locker provided with a magnetic member to fix an ice bucket by use of magnetic attractive force and coupled to an upper wall of a body of the refrigerator. The ice bucket is removed by raising and then pulling it, while the locker is provided with an elastic guider to guide the removal of the ice bucket. The elastic guider is forced upward by the ice bucket during its removal and returns to its original position when the ice bucket is not forcing it upward.

An apparatus includes a flash tank, a load, a first compressor, a coil, a first pipe, and a second compressor. The flash tank stores a refrigerant. The load uses the refrigerant from the flash tank to cool a space proximate the load. The first compressor compresses the refrigerant from the load. The coil within the flash tank receives the refrigerant from the first compressor such that the received refrigerant is within the coil. The refrigerant stored within the flash tank cools the refrigerant within the coil. The first pipe is within the flash tank. The first pipe directs the refrigerant from within the coil out of the flash tank. The second compressor compresses the refrigerant directed out of the flash tank.

An apparatus includes a flash tank, a load, a first compressor, a coil, a first pipe, and a second compressor. The flash tank stores a refrigerant. The load uses the refrigerant from the flash tank to cool a space proximate the load. The first compressor compresses the refrigerant from the load. The coil within the flash tank receives the refrigerant from the first compressor such that the received refrigerant is within the coil. The refrigerant stored within the flash tank cools the refrigerant within the coil. The first pipe is within the flash tank. The first pipe directs the refrigerant from within the coil out of the flash tank. The second compressor compresses the refrigerant directed out of the flash tank.

A temperature controlled container storage system includes a cabinet. A sealed system is operable to chill or warm one or more of a plurality of receptacles within the cabinet. A latch is operable to lock a door on the cabinet in a closed position. A plurality of collapsible containers is shaped such that each container of the plurality of collapsible containers is complementary to and receivable within a respective one of the plurality of receptacles. A height of each container of the plurality of collapsible containers in an unfolded configuration is greater than the height of each container of the plurality of collapsible containers in a collapsed configuration.

A refrigerator appliance includes a cold side working fluid circuit that couples a cold side heat exchanger and a regenerator housing. A first hot side working fluid circuit couples a first hot side heat exchanger and the regenerator housing. A second hot side working fluid circuit couples a second hot side heat exchanger and the regenerator housing such that working fluid is flowable between the second hot side heat exchanger and the regenerator housing. An inlet of the second hot side working fluid circuit is positioned on the regenerator housing such that a temperature of the working fluid at the inlet of the second hot side working fluid circuit is greater than a temperature of the chilled chamber.

A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment, a quick-chilling chamber, and a compressor that supplies cold air to at least one of the freezing compartment, the refrigerating compartment, or the quick-chilling chamber. The quick-chilling chamber is cooled by first cold air introduced through the compressor or second cold air introduced through the freezing compartment.

A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment, a quick-chilling chamber, and a compressor that supplies cold air to at least one of the freezing compartment, the refrigerating compartment, or the quick-chilling chamber. The quick-chilling chamber is cooled by first cold air introduced through the compressor or second cold air introduced through the freezing compartment.

A blast cell system is disclosed that includes a plurality of bays that are spaced across the blast cell, arranged to hold items to be cooled, wherein each bay is separated from each other bay so as to prevent cross-flow of air from one bay to another bay; a plurality of louvers, each covering a different bay of the plurality of bays; one or more flow sensors, temperature sensors, or both positioned to sense conditions for each of the plurality of bays; and a controller programmed to modulate open-closed positions of each of the plurality of louvers separately from others of the plurality of louvers, so as to allow different volumes of cooling air to flow through each respective bay.