Icemaker and freezer
AssigneeNidec Servo Corporation
InventorsEiji Kuroda, Kenji Sugaya, Hironobu Yoshikawa, Hideaki Ito
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Abstract
An icemaker includes an ice-making tray in which ice is produced, an ice-discharging mechanism that removes the ice from the ice-making tray, a driver that drives the ice-discharging mechanism and that is attached to the ice-making tray on a front side in a front-rear direction, and a lighting unit that emits light. The lighting unit emits the light toward a rear side in the front-rear direction.
Claims13
An icemaker that is disposable in a freezer, and, when power is supplied, that makes ice by using cold air of a freezing chamber to freeze water that has been poured into an ice-making tray and that discharges the ice, the icemaker comprising:
- an ice-making tray in which ice is produced;
- an ice-discharging mechanism that removes the ice from the ice-making tray;
- a driver that drives the ice-discharging mechanism and that is attached to the ice-making tray on a front side in a front-rear direction of the freezes;
- and a lighting unit that emits light;
- wherein the lighting unit emits the light toward a rear side in the front-rear direction.
A freezer comprising:
- a freezer body that is box-shaped and that includes an opening on a front side in a front-rear direction;
- a door that opens and closes the opening;
- and
- an icemaker attached to a side surface on one side in a left-right direction perpendicular to both the front-rear direction and a top-bottom direction among inner side surfaces of the freezer body;
- wherein
- the icemaker includes an ice-making tray in which ice is produced, an ice-discharging mechanism that removes the ice from the ice-making tray, a driver that drives the ice-discharging mechanism and that is attached to the ice-making tray on the front side, and a lighting unit that emits light;
- wherein
- the lighting unit includes a light source and a circuit board to which the light source is attached, and emits the light toward a rear side in the front-rear direction;
- an attachment surface of the circuit board to which the light source is attached faces the rear side;
- and
- when viewed in the top-bottom direction, an inclination of a first imaginary line with respect to the left-right direction, the first imaginary line connecting an end portion of the attachment surface on a first side in the left-right direction and an end portion of the opening on a second side in the left-right direction, is equal to or less than an inclination of a second imaginary line with respect to the left-right direction, the second imaginary line connecting the light source and the end portion of the opening on the second side in the left-right direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.