Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJimin You, Sangphil Choi
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Abstract
A refrigerator having a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment, the refrigerator including an icemaker provided at the freezer compartment door configured to open/close the freezer compartment, a dispenser provided at a refrigerator compartment door configured to open/close the refrigerator compartment, and a water tank provided at the refrigerator compartment door, the water tank having an inlet through which water is introduced into the water tank, a first outlet for supplying water to the dispenser, and a second outlet for supplying water to a pump, wherein the pump is configured to pump water from the water tank to the icemaker.
Claims20
A refrigerator comprising:
- an icemaker configured to make ice;
- a dispenser provided at a refrigerator door;
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- a water tank and a pump provided below the water tank, the water tank having an inlet through which water is replenished in the water tank, a first outlet configured to supply water via a first water path from the water tank to the dispenser, and a second outlet configured to supply water via a second water path from the water tank to the pump, wherein the pump is configured to pump water from the water tank to the icemaker, wherein the icemaker is provided above the water tank and the water tank is provided above the dispenser, and wherein the second outlet of the water tank is separately provided from the first outlet of the water tank, thereby the entire first water path from the water tank to the dispenser is separated from the entire second water path from the water tank to the icemaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.