Ice maker
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorsShunji Saito, Katsuhiko Hayashi
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Abstract
To provide an ice maker capable of suppressing damage to a frame. In an ice maker, an ice making tray, and a driving unit structured to cause the ice making tray to perform a flip operation and a twist operation are supported by a frame. With the frame, in an inner wall of a first side plate unit, there are provided a first inner wall portion extending in a first direction along the driving unit, and a second inner wall portion extending in the first direction along the ice making tray on the other side in a second direction with respect to the first inner wall portion, and in a step unit connecting the first inner wall portion and the second inner wall portion, there is provided a cutout serving as a through unit for passing a wire connected to the driving unit.
Claims7
An ice maker comprising:
- an ice making tray including a water storage concave unit arranged to face upward;
- a driving unit arranged on one side of a first direction and the first direction being along a longitudinal axis of the ice making tray, and the driving unit being structured to cause the ice making tray to perform a flip operation and a twist operation around the longitudinal axis, wherein the driving unit comprises a casing;
- a frame structured to support the ice making tray and the driving unit;
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- a wire passing through a through unit of the frame from the driving unit and drawn out of the frame,
- wherein the frame includes a first wall unit configured on the one side of the first direction, a second wall unit configured on an opposite side of the first direction and opposite to the first wall unit, a first side plate unit extending in the first direction on one side of a second direction and including an inner wall facing the ice making tray and the driving unit, wherein the second direction intersects the first direction and the first and second directions extend on a same plane, and an up-down direction intersects the plane, and a second side plate unit extending in the first direction is located on an opposite side of the second direction and opposite to the first side plate unit,
- the inner wall includes a first inner wall portion extending in the first direction along the driving unit, a second inner wall portion extending in the first direction along the ice making tray and being located closer to the opposite side of the second direction with respect to the first inner wall portion, and a step unit extending in a direction intersecting the first direction to connect the first inner wall portion and the second inner wall portion, and
- the through unit is provided in the step unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.