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US 10,502,473 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJin Jeong, Kyoung Ki Park, Bong Su Son, Do Yun Jang
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Abstract
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.
Claims19
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body;
- an ice-making compartment inside the body;
- an ice-making tray configured to generate ice and being located inside of the ice-making compartment;
- an ice bucket configured to store the generated ice and being removable from the ice-making compartment;
- a stopper, at a lower portion of the ice-making compartment, configured to restrain a horizontal movement of the ice bucket;
- and
- a locker coupled to an upper wall of the body, and comprising
- a magnet configured to fix the ice bucket in place by magnetic force and
- an elastic guider to guide a removal of the ice bucket from an installed position which the ice bucket is installed in the ice-making compartment,
- wherein when the ice bucket is in the installed position, the ice bucket is raised to release the ice bucket from the stopper so that the ice bucket is removed from the ice-making compartment, and in response to the ice bucket being raised, the elastic guider is pushed up from an initial position by the ice bucket being raised to guide the removal of the ice bucket from the inside of the ice-making compartment
- wherein the elastic guider is not pushed up from the initial position when the ice bucket is within the ice-making compartment or the elastic guider is not pushed up when the ice bucket is not present in the ice-making compartment.
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A refrigerator, comprising:
- a body;
- an ice-making compartment, having an opening, inside the body of the refrigerator;
- an ice-making tray inside the ice-making compartment, configured to generate ice;
- an ice bucket, configured to store the generated ice, attached to or detached from the ice-making compartment, and including a fixing protrusion;
- and
- a stopper, at a lower portion of the ice-making compartment, configured to fix the ice bucket by coupling with the fixing protrusion,
- wherein the stopper, when coupled to the fixing protrusion, is configured to be moved from a first position by the fixing protrusion when the ice bucket is pulled and to return to the first position when the fixing protrusion is uncoupled from to the stopper, and
- wherein the stopper is configured to move toward a front of the refrigerator when the ice bucket is pulled.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.