For Chinese consumers, Sharp is an extremely unpopular refrigerator brand, lacking official sales channels, and can only rely on overseas shopping. And in Japan, Sharp refrigerators have the second largest market share, second only to Panasonic. Acquired by Foxconn's parent company, Hon Hai, in 2016, Sharp is in a period of industry transition, with production of white goods halted in Japan, but design and R&D are still at its headquarters in Japan.
 
The exterior design of the Sharp refrigerator presents a simple and simple Japanese style as a whole, but the unique dark red and black are also boldly used in some models, which is believed to impress some consumers with distinctive personalities.
 
The pinnacle of moisturizing technology
 
Water loss is the enemy of food preservation, and Sharp has taken refrigerator hydration to the extreme.
 
Maintaining humidity is nothing more than "open source" and "throttling", and it is balanced. Open source is not blindly injected with water vapor, otherwise the bilge will accumulate too much water, so that the soaked food will accelerate the decay, Sharp mainly uses the door to open and close, through the moisturizing plate to absorb the water vapor in the air, appropriately increase the moisture in the warehouse. Throttling is the addition of a moisturizing cooling plate to the downwind outlet to block the loss of water vapor and reduce condensation, a technology that Samsung refrigerators later followed Sharp's example.
 
Of all the brands, this moisturizing technology from Sharp works best, effectively keeping cold moisture around food and inhibiting dryness. Other brands of moisturizing almost all use the damp wind all the time, which consumes electricity and is slightly less effective. Foods with plastic wrap are the best way to distinguish between the two, and the plastic wrap in Sharp refrigerators is less likely to show small droplets, while other refrigerators will condense small droplets.
 
Refrigerate hot food
 
The heat-dishing dish to the refrigerator increases the operating load to a certain extent, bringing in more heat and water vapor, which affects the preservation effect of other foods. However, from a hygienic point of view, putting hot dishes directly in the refrigerator can inhibit the growth of bacteria and prolong the storage time of cooked food.
 
Sharp refrigerators are designed to refrigerate hot dishes, offsetting the heat from hot food by improving the cooling effect in the short term. Dishes with a high temperature of around 60°C can also be placed in the Sharp refrigerator at will, locking in the delicious meal that has just been cooked.
 
Featured technology
 
Sharp's refrigerators with side-by-side door design do not use the conventional middle longitudinal beam structure, but adopt the sealing structure of the door seal and squeeze it. This structure seems to cut corners more, but in fact it is more technically difficult, because there are few moving components, which can greatly reduce the abnormality of opening and closing doors. Unlike all other brands, this is Sharp's most distinctive multi-door design.
 
Plasmacluster technology is Sharp's unique space purification technology. The principle of this technology is somewhat similar to that of Panasonic's Nanoe X, which generates a large number of positive and negative ions through plasma discharge technology to kill and decompose planktonic mold. Because most of the ions produced are hydrogen ions and hydroxyl ions that are harmless to the human body, and after sterilization, they can form a water-charged moisturizing medium, which is more efficient and safe than platinum, silver, copper and other heavy metal catalysis.
 
Sharp products with two-way doors
 
Most of Sharp's flagship products adhere to the Japanese multi-door type, and the functions are similar to those of other Japanese brands, except for the differences in details such as sterilization devices and door frames. Among the six Japanese doors with the same capacity, Hitachi has the highest price, followed by Toshiba, Sharp has the lowest price, and Panasonic refrigerators fluctuate in a wide range according to different pricing.
 
Two-way door opening is an exclusive design of Sharp, almost all one-way door refrigerators on the market have a left handle, open to the right, in some kitchen layouts, often inconvenient to open the door. The two-way door can be used at will, especially when multiple people use the kitchen, enhancing the use of collaboration. The refrigerator with this function is relatively compact, slim and tall, with a high utilization rate of family space, and the shape is more similar to the traditional upper and lower three-door refrigerator. Two-way doors are also designed to enhance the utilization of kitchen space.
 
Most Sharp refrigerators are not expensive and are cost-effective products among Japanese refrigerators. However, there are few purchase channels, and there is a lack of formal e-commerce official sales channels, so after-sales service is naturally impossible to talk about.