TW201804122A - Refrigerator characterized by reducing the glare of the light in the refrigerator so as to soothe the user's eyes - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a refrigerator, which includes: a case body defined therein a space serving as a storage chamber; a door panel for being opened/closed to open or close the storage chamber; an illumination device for being turned off or turned on to emit light in the storage chamber when the door panel is opened, with a luminous flux smaller than that when the door panel is closed; a storage container disposed inside the storage chamber to store objects to be stored and provided with an opening hole to allow the light emitted from the illumination device to penetrate through an inner side of the storage container; and a container lid of the storage container. One portion of the container lid is provided with an opening with a light irradiation window for the container lid that allows the light emitted from the illumination device to penetrate through it. The light irradiation window for the container lid is shaped in such a manner that the position of an upper edge portion in the front-rear direction is closer to a front side by more than 15 degrees than that of the lower edge portion.

Description

refrigerator

The present invention relates to a refrigerator. Especially regarding lighting in storage rooms.

Conventional refrigerators include a storage chamber opened at the front of a refrigerator body filled with a heat insulating material between an inner case and an outer case, and a door piece that opens and closes an opening portion of the storage chamber. For example, the interior of the storage room includes an upper container and a lower container that are housed so as to be able to be pulled out in the front-rear direction, and a lamp in the store. In addition, the lamp inside the storage room irradiates the stored food, and has functions of maintaining the freshness of fruits and vegetables such as vegetables and increasing nutrients. Furthermore, there is a refrigerator (for example, refer to Patent Document 1), which has a function of notifying by a notification means so that a user can master the freshness maintenance of vegetables and fruits, the increase of nutrients, and the like. Use a light source or the like in the library to turn the light source on or off as a means of reporting.

Advance technical literature Patent literature

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2010-156531

As in the aforementioned notification means of Patent Document 1, the light source is configured such that when the door of the storage room is opened, the eyes of the user can look directly at the light source. Therefore, it poses a problem that users feel dazzling. In addition, to maintain the freshness of vegetables and fruits, The amount of light in the library lamp for the purpose of increasing nutrients and the like is stronger than the amount of light required for the library lamp for the purpose of illuminating the inside of the library and making it easy to see food storage. Therefore, even if the light source is arranged in a position where it cannot be viewed directly, the light reflected by the storage box or the like may cause a glare feeling.

This invention is made in order to solve the said subject, and it aims at providing the refrigerator provided with the interior lamp which does not make a user feel glare.

The refrigerator according to the present invention comprises a cabinet body which forms a space as a storage room inside; a door piece which is opened and closed to open or close the pre-storage storage room; and a lighting device which is smaller than when the pre-storage door piece is closed when it is opened. The amount of light emitted is turned on or off in the pre-storage storage room; the storage container is arranged in the pre-storage storage room to store the storage object, and has an opening hole through which the light emitted by the pre-story lighting device passes through the inner side of the pre-storage storage container; The container lid of the container; the container lid having a part of the opening and having a light irradiation window for the container cover that allows the light emitted by the pre-lighting device to pass through; 15 ° or more on the front side than the lower edge end.

In addition, the refrigerator of the present invention further includes a cover in the room, a cover in the room, a part of the opening, and a light irradiation window for the cover in the room that allows light emitted by the lighting device to pass through.

According to the refrigerator of the present invention, when the door of the storage room is opened, the amount of light emitted by the lighting device is reduced compared to when the door is closed, or the light is turned off, so that the user does not feel glare or the degree of glare is reduced.

In addition, since the lighting device is covered with a lampshade in the library, The user does not look directly at the light-emitting part of the lighting device, so that the user does not feel glare or can reduce the degree of glare.

1‧‧‧ refrigerator

2‧‧‧ Insulated Box

3‧‧‧ left door of refrigerator

4‧‧‧Right door of refrigerator

5‧‧‧ Door of ice making room

6‧‧‧ switch freezer door

7‧‧‧Freezer door

8‧‧‧Vegetable Room Door

9‧‧‧ operation panel

10‧‧‧ Refrigerator

11‧‧‧ Ice Making Room

12‧‧‧ Switch Room

13‧‧‧Freezer

14‧‧‧Vegetable Room

20‧‧‧compressor

21‧‧‧Cooler

22‧‧‧ cooling fan

30‧‧‧ Pipeline

31‧‧‧ return line

40‧‧‧control device

50‧‧‧ Shelf

60‧‧‧Fridge door shelf

71‧‧‧ Ice chamber storage container

72‧‧‧ Switching room storage container

73-1‧‧‧ Upper storage compartment of freezer

73-2‧‧‧Freezer storage container

74-1‧‧‧ Upper storage container for vegetable room

74-2‧‧‧ Storage container in lower section of vegetable room

75‧‧‧ open hole

84‧‧‧ Vegetable Room Partition

85‧‧‧ Vegetable cover

86-1‧‧‧Cunner lights

86-2‧‧‧ Irradiation range

87‧‧‧ Reed Switch

88‧‧‧Magnet

89‧‧‧illumination sensor

90‧‧‧ sight

91‧‧‧ Top of Vegetable Room

92‧‧‧Kunei Lampshade

93‧‧‧light window

94‧‧‧light window for container lid

95‧‧‧ upper edge end

96‧‧‧ lower edge end

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the internal configuration of the refrigerator 1 as viewed from the side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the inside of the refrigerator 1 as viewed from the front side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the outline of the internal structure of the vegetable compartment 14 in the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating a state in which the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened in the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating a vegetable cover 85 in the refrigerator 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the internal structure of the periphery of the vegetable compartment 14 viewed from the front side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating a state in which the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened in the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the interior lamp 86-1 in the vegetable compartment 14 in the refrigerator 1 in the third embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings and the like. In the following drawings, the same symbols are used to refer to the same or equivalent devices, and they are common throughout the embodiments described below. Furthermore, the forms of the constituent elements shown throughout the description are merely examples, and are not limited to the forms described in the description. In particular, the combination of constituent elements is not limited to the combination in each embodiment, and the constituent elements described in other embodiments may be used in other embodiments. In addition, in the following description, the upper part in the figure is "upper side" and the lower part is "lower side". Furthermore, for ease of understanding, terms (such as "right", "left", "front", "rear", etc.) indicating directions are appropriately used, but they are used for explanation, and these terms are not intended to limit the invention of the present invention. When the refrigerator is viewed from the front (front) side, the up-down direction is the height direction, the left-right direction is the wide direction, and the front-rear direction is the front-rear direction (depth direction). Moreover, the dimensional relationship of each constituent element in a drawing may differ from an actual device.

Embodiment 1.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In addition, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the inside of the refrigerator 1 as viewed from the side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The second figure shows the structure of the interior that can be seen when the plane (the A-A cross section shown in FIG. 1) is cut parallel to the side of the refrigerator 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the internal configuration of the refrigerator 1 as viewed from the front side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows the structure of the interior which can be seen when the plane parallel to the front surface of the refrigerator 1 is cut.

The refrigerator 1 according to Embodiment 1 stores stored items such as food, and refrigerates (for example, 10 ° C or lower) or freezes (for example, -12 ° C or lower). As shown in FIG. 1, the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 1 has the heat insulation box 2 which is a heat insulation box. The heat-insulating box 2 of Embodiment 1 includes an outer box made of steel and an inner box made of resin. Boxes and insulation materials that fill the space between the outer and inner boxes. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the heat-insulating box 2 has an opening on the front face (front face), and a space formed inside the inner box serves as a storage room for storing things such as food. In the refrigerator 1 according to the first embodiment, a plurality of storage compartments are formed by partitioning the space by one or a plurality of partition members.

The uppermost storage room of the refrigerator 1 according to the first embodiment is a refrigerating room 10. The storage compartment below the refrigerating compartment 10 is a switching compartment 12. In addition, the storage compartments arranged in parallel adjacent to the switching compartment 12 are the ice making compartments 11. A storage compartment below the switching compartment 12 and the ice-making compartment 11 is a freezing compartment 13. Further, the storage compartment located at the lowermost part below the freezer compartment 13 is a vegetable compartment 14.

The door piece covers the opening portion of each storage room in an openable and closable manner. By opening and closing the door, the storage compartment is opened or closed to a space outside the refrigerator 1. The left door piece 3 and the right door piece 4 of the refrigerating compartment are door pieces that cover the refrigerating compartment 10 and are formed by two left and right side-by-side type. An operation panel 9 is provided on the outer side surface of the left door piece 3 of the refrigerator compartment for the user to perform operations and the like.

The door 5 of the ice making room, the door 6 of the switching freezer compartment, the door 7 of the freezing compartment 7 and the door 8 of the vegetable compartment are drawer-type door pieces covering the ice making room 11, the switching room 12, the freezing room 13, and the vegetable room 14, respectively. . The drawer-type door is pulled out together with the storage box for storing the contents. A frame (not shown) fixed to the door panel is moved in parallel with a rail (not shown) formed horizontally on the left and right inner wall surfaces of each storage room, thereby making the drawer-type door panel together with the storage items. The storage box is opened and closed in the depth direction (front-rear direction) of the refrigerator 1.

In the refrigerator 1, a compressor 20, a cooler 21, a cooling fan 22, a line 30, and the like are provided on the rear side of the refrigerator 1 as a cooling mechanism for cooling each storage room. Piping connects compressor 20, cooler 21, condenser, capillary Pipes and the like to form a refrigerant circuit. The compressor 20 and the cooler 21 are shown in FIG. 2. The compressor 20 sucks the refrigerant, compresses it to a high temperature and high pressure state, and spit it out. Condensers heat the refrigerant and liquefy it. In addition, a capillary tube as an expansion device decompresses and expands the refrigerant passing therethrough. The cooler 21 exchanges heat between the refrigerant and the air, and evaporates and gasifies the refrigerant. The air cooled by the cooler 21 is blown by a cooling fan 22, and is supplied to the freezing compartment 13, the switching compartment 12, the ice making compartment 11, and the refrigerating compartment 10 through a line 30 on the back of the refrigerator 1. The returning cold air from the refrigerator compartment 10 is supplied to the vegetable compartment 14 via a return air duct (not shown) for the refrigerator compartment. The air supplied to the vegetable compartment 14 is returned to the cooler 21 through the return line 31.

Here, for example, isobutane (R600a) is used as a refrigerant for a refrigeration cycle apparatus. Other refrigerants can also be used, but isobutane has the following advantages: it will not destroy the ozone layer when discarded, and has a lower warming coefficient.

The refrigerator 1 includes a control device 40. The control device 40 is a device that performs management, control, and the like of the equipment in the refrigerator 1. For example, based on the temperature detected by a thermistor (not shown) installed in each storage room, the opening degree of the airlock (not shown) installed in the line 30, the number of revolutions of the compressor 20, and the cooling fan are controlled. The air supply amount of 22 and the like make the temperature of each storage room reach a set temperature. Here, as will be described later, control of the opening and closing operation of the vegetable compartment door 8 in the vegetable compartment 14 is performed.

The refrigerating room 10 contains a refrigerator door shelf 60 and the like inside the storage shelf 50 and the left door 3 and the right door 4 of the refrigerating compartment, and cools the storage placed on the shelf 50 . The ice-making chamber 11 includes an ice-making chamber storage container 71 that freezes water into ice and stores the ice. The switching chamber 12 includes a switching chamber storage container 72 which is a storage that can switch the temperature in the room to various temperature zones. The room includes, for example, a freezing temperature zone of about -18 ° C, a refrigerating temperature zone of about 3 ° C, a cooling temperature zone of about 0 ° C, and a weak freezing temperature zone of about -7 ° C. The freezer compartment 13 includes an upper freezer compartment storage container 73-1 and a lower freezer compartment storage container 73-2, and freezes the stored contents.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the outline of the internal structure of the vegetable compartment 14 in the first embodiment of the present invention. The vegetable room 14 is a space in which fruits and vegetables such as vegetables are stored as storage. The vegetable room door sheet 8 is a door sheet that covers the opening portion of the vegetable room 14. Inside the space of the vegetable room 14 in Embodiment 1, a vegetable room upper storage container 74-1, a vegetable room lower storage container 74-2, a vegetable room partition 84, and a vegetable cover 85 are stored. The upper vegetable compartment storage container 74-1 and the lower vegetable compartment storage container 74-2 are containers for storing vegetables and the like. The upper vegetable compartment storage container 74-1 and the lower vegetable compartment storage container 74-2 move in conjunction with the opening and closing of the vegetable compartment door 8 and are pulled out when the vegetable compartment door 8 is pulled open. Here, the lower part of the vegetable room storage container 74-2 has an opening 75 in the rear portion, so that the light emitted (emitted) by the interior lamp 86-1 as the lighting device is not blocked. The vegetable compartment partition 84 is a member having a substantially plate shape. The vegetable room partition 84 is engaged with and fixed to the vegetable room lower storage container 74-2.

A magnet 88 is provided on the upper part of the vegetable compartment door 8. A reed switch 87 is provided in front of the vegetable room top surface 91 at a position corresponding to the magnet 88, and the switch is switched when the magnet 88 approaches or moves away.

The vegetable cover 85 is a protective cover attached to the lower storage compartment 74-2 of the vegetable compartment so that the cold air blown to the vegetable compartment does not directly blow to the vegetables and the like stored in the lower storage compartment 74-2 of the vegetable compartment. The vegetable cover 85 of the first embodiment will be described later. Here, although the refrigerator 1 of Embodiment 1 has a vegetable cover 85, but it is not required.

The interior lamp 86-1 is a lighting device provided behind the vegetable cover 85 on the rear side of the vegetable room 14. The interior lamp 86-1 emits light from the rear side toward the front side to irradiate light into the vegetable compartment 14. The light irradiation by the in-room lamp 86-1 according to Embodiment 1 not only illuminates the inside of the room, but also irradiates vegetables and fruits stored in the vegetable compartment 14, thereby maintaining the freshness of vegetables and fruits and increasing nutrients such as vitamins. Functions. Therefore, even when the vegetable compartment door 8 is closed, the interior lamp 86-1 emits light. Therefore, in the state where the vegetable room door 8 is closed, the interior lamp 86-1 can irradiate light in the irradiation range 86-2.

Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating a state in which the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened in the first embodiment of the present invention. In the state where the vegetable room door 8 is open, the irradiation range 86-2 of the interior lamp 86-1 is as shown in FIG. 5. For example, suppose a user opens the vegetable compartment door 8 and wants to take out vegetables. The inside light 86-1 is arranged so that light does not directly enter the user's line of sight 90 when vegetables are to be taken out.

Next, operations such as lighting of the library lamp 86-1 will be described. When the vegetable compartment door 8 is closed and the magnetic reed switch 87 and the magnet 88 are in a close state, the control device 40 lights up the interior lamp 86-1. By lighting the interior lamp 86-1, it is possible to maintain the freshness of vegetables and fruits stored in the vegetable compartment 14 and increase nutrients.

In addition, when the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened, and the magnetic reed switch 87 and the magnet 88 are separated, the control device 40 reduces or extinguishes the light amount of the interior lamp 86-1. In the first embodiment, the amount of light is reduced to a preset amount of light so that it can irradiate vegetables and the like, and the user does not feel glare or reduce the degree of glare.

Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating a vegetable cover 85 in the refrigerator 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The vegetable lid 85 of Embodiment 1 has a light irradiation window for a container lid 94. The container cover light irradiation window 94 is a hole formed in a part of the vegetable cover 85, and is used to allow the light of the interior lamp 86-1 to penetrate into the storage container 74-2 in the lower section of the vegetable room without reducing the amount of light. As shown in FIG. 6, the shape of the container cover light irradiation window 94 is such that the upper edge end portion 95 is located closer to the front side than the lower edge end portion 96 in the front-rear direction. Specifically, when the refrigerator 1 is viewed from the side, an angle formed by a line connecting the upper edge end portion 95 and the lower edge end portion 96 and a line segment passing through the lower edge end portion 96 in a vertical direction is 15 ° or more. Therefore, for example, when a 150 cm user pulls out the vegetable compartment door 8 from the closed state by 400 mm, the portion of the vegetable cover 85 including the upper edge end portion 95 covers the container cover light irradiation window 94, and the user cannot see the container cover. The window 94 is illuminated with light. Therefore, the vegetable compartment 14 can be made more beautiful.

As described above, in the refrigerator 1 of Embodiment 1, compared with when the vegetable compartment door 8 is closed, when the vegetable compartment door 8 is open, the amount of light emitted from the interior lamp 86-1 is reduced to light or Turn off the light, so that the user does not feel glare or reduce the degree of glare. The light emitted by the light 86-1 in the room has functions such as maintaining the freshness of vegetables and fruits and increasing nutrients such as vitamins. The amount of light emitted when the door 8 of the vegetable compartment is closed is high, so reducing the amount of light or turning off the light is effective. of. The interior lamp 86-1 emits light from the rear side toward the front side, and therefore, it is possible to effectively perform illumination when the vegetable room door 8 is opened.

In addition, the lower storage compartment 74-2 of the vegetable room has an opening 75, so that it is possible to irradiate the fruits and vegetables such as vegetables stored in the container without blocking the light radiated by the interior lamp 86-1 as the lighting device. Furthermore, when the vegetable compartment 85 is attached to the lower storage container 74-2 of the vegetable compartment, the shape of the container cover light irradiation window 94 included in the vegetable lid 85 is such that the upper edge end portion 95 is lower in the front-rear direction. The edge end portion 96 is more than 15 ° closer to the front side, so that when the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened, Since the user cannot see the container cover light irradiation window 94, it can be more beautiful.

Embodiment 2.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the internal structure of the periphery of the vegetable compartment 14 viewed from the front side of the refrigerator 1 in Embodiment 2 of the present invention. In the refrigerator 1 of the second embodiment, the illuminance sensor 89 is provided on the top surface 91 portion of the vegetable compartment. The illuminance sensor 89 detects the illuminance of the set position. In a state where the vegetable compartment door sheet 8 is closed, it is provided at a shadowed position of the vegetable compartment door sheet 8. The control device 40 determines the open / close state of the vegetable compartment door 8 based on the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor 89.

Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating a state in which the vegetable compartment door 8 is opened in the second embodiment of the present invention. Next, operations such as lighting of the library lamp 86-1 will be described. When the control device 40 determines that the vegetable room door 8 is closed and the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor 89 is lower than a preset threshold, the control unit 40 turns on the interior lamp 86-1. By turning on the interior lamp 86-1, it is possible to maintain the freshness of vegetables and fruits stored in the vegetable room 14 and increase nutrients.

In addition, when the control device 40 determines that the vegetable room door 8 is opened and the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor 89 is higher than a preset threshold, the control unit 40 reduces the light amount in the interior lamp 86-1. In Embodiment 2, the control device 40 adjusts the light emission amount of the lamp 86-1 in the library based on the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor 89 so that it can irradiate vegetables and fruits such as vegetables, and prevents the user from feeling Glare or reduce the degree of glare.

As described above, the refrigerator 1 according to the second embodiment includes the illuminance sensor 89 and the control device 40. Based on the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor 89, the opening and closing of the vegetable room door 8 and the interior light 86-1 The amount of light is emitted so that the user does not feel glare or reduce the degree of glare.

Embodiment 3.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the interior lamp 86-1 in the vegetable compartment 14 in the refrigerator 1 in the third embodiment of the present invention. In the third embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, an in-house lamp cover 92 is provided to cover the in-house lamp 86-1. The interior lamp cover 92 is made of an opaque material. By reducing or blocking the light of the interior lamp 86-1, the light of the interior lamp 86-1 does not directly enter the user.

Further, the in-compartment lampshade 92 includes an in-compartment lampshade light irradiation window 93. The light irradiation window 93 for the in-house lampshade is a hole formed in a part of the in-house lampshade 92 to allow the light of the in-house lamp 86-1 to be guided to the vegetable room 14 without reducing the amount of light. Here, the hole of the light irradiation window 93 for a lampshade in a storehouse can be blocked with a transparent resin material or the like. By adjusting the size of the light irradiation window 93 for the lamp in the library, the irradiation range 86-2 of the light of the lamp 86-1 in the library can be adjusted. Here, the positional relationship between the light 86-1 inside the library and the light irradiation window 93 for the light inside the cover is adjusted so that the light irradiation direction through the light irradiation window 93 for the light inside the room is different from the direction of the user's line of sight. For example, the positional relationship between the library lamp 86-1 and the light irradiation window 93 for the lamp in the room is preferably such that the light passing through the window 93 for the lamp in the room is radiated obliquely downward toward the front side of the refrigerator 1.

As described above, according to the refrigerator 1 of Embodiment 3, the in-room lamp cover 92 is provided, and the size of the opening portion of the in-room lamp cover light irradiation window 93 included in the in-room lamp cover 92 and the positional relationship of the in-room lamp 86-1 are adjusted. Therefore, the irradiation range 86-2 of the light of the lamp 86-1 in the library can be arbitrarily set. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the user from looking directly into the interior lamp 86-1, and reduce the glare caused by the interior lamp.

Embodiment 4.

In the foregoing first to third embodiments, it was explained that most of them are for storing fruits and vegetables. The interior lights 86-1 of the vegetable room 14 are not limited to the vegetable room 14, and may be applied to other storage rooms.

It is also suitable for light other than light having functions such as maintaining freshness of vegetables and fruits and increasing nutrients such as vitamins.

2‧‧‧ Insulated Box

8‧‧‧Vegetable Room Door

74-1‧‧‧ Upper storage container for vegetable room

74-2‧‧‧ Storage container in lower section of vegetable room

75‧‧‧ open hole

84‧‧‧ Vegetable Room Partition

85‧‧‧ Vegetable cover

86-1‧‧‧Cunner lights

86-2‧‧‧ Irradiation range

87‧‧‧ Reed Switch

88‧‧‧Magnet

91‧‧‧ Top of Vegetable Room

Claims (10)

A refrigerator includes: a box body, which forms a space as a storage room inside; a door piece that is opened and closed to open or close a pre-storage storage room; and a lighting device that emits light less than when the pre-storage door piece is closed when the pre-storage door piece is opened. The storage volume is arranged in the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of the storage space of A container lid, the container lid having a part of an opening and having a container lid light irradiation window through which light emitted by the previous lighting device is transmitted; the shape of the container lid light irradiation window is such that the upper edge end portion in the front-back direction is positioned lower The edge end is more than 15 ° closer to the front side. According to the refrigerator described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, the pre-illuminating device, the pre-opening hole of the pre-storage container, and the pre-lighting window of the pre-storage container cover are sequentially arranged from the back side to the front side of the pre-storage room. In the refrigerator described in item 1 or 2 of the scope of patent application, the pre-illuminating device emits light having a function of at least one of maintaining the freshness and increasing nutrients of the contents stored in the pre-storing storage room. The refrigerator described in item 1 or 2 of the patent application scope further includes an illuminance sensor that detects the illuminance at the position where it is set, and the illuminance sensor adjusts the luminous amount of the pre-illuminating device based on the detected illuminance. In the refrigerator described in item 1 or 2 of the scope of patent application, the pre-illuminator emits light from the back side to the front side of the pre-storage room. The refrigerator described in item 1 or 2 of the scope of patent application, further includes a lampshade in the library covering the previous lighting device; the lampshade in the library, with a part of the opening, has a lampshade in the library through which the light emitted by the previous lighting device is transmitted and irradiated with light. window. The refrigerator described in item 3 of the scope of patent application, the pre-illuminating device emits light from the back side of the pre-storage room toward the front side. The refrigerator described in item 3 of the patent application scope further includes a lamp cover in the library covering the pre-lighting device. The lamp cover in the library has a part of the opening and has a light-illuminating window for the lamp cover in the library that allows light emitted by the pre-lighting device to pass through. The refrigerator described in item 4 of the scope of the patent application further includes a lamp cover in the library covering the pre-illuminating device. The lamp cover in the library has a part of the opening and has a light-illuminating window for the lamp in the library that allows light emitted by the pre-illuminating device to pass through. The refrigerator described in item 5 of the scope of the patent application further includes a lampshade in the library that covers the previous lighting device. The lampshade in the room, with a part of the opening, has a light irradiation window for the lamplight in the room that allows the light emitted by the previous lighting device to pass through.