Compact ice making system for slimline ice compartment
AssigneesBSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsNilton Bertolini, Alexander Görz, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Vishal Vekariya
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Abstract
A refrigerator including a fresh food compartment; a freezer compartment; an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment; an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker including an ice maker tray, a separate fin evaporator, and a cooling tube which is assembled between the ice maker tray and the fin evaporator, such that the cooling tube is in direct contact with the ice maker tray and the fin evaporator; and an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment.
Claims29
A refrigerator comprising:
- a fresh food compartment;
- an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment;
- an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker including an ice maker tray, a separate fin evaporator, and a cooling tube at least a portion of which is assembled between the ice maker tray and the fin evaporator, such that the cooling tube is in direct contact with the ice maker tray and the fin evaporator;
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- an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment.
The refrigerator of claim1, further comprising a sensor to sense an amount of ice in the ice bucket.
A refrigerator comprising:
- a fresh food compartment;
- an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment;
- an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker including an ice maker tray and an evaporator cooling tube which is embedded in the ice maker tray, such that the evaporator cooling tube is in direct contact with the ice maker tray and an evaporator;
- an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment;
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- a refrigerant circuit including a bypass line with a refrigerant valve which is located prior to an inlet of the evaporator cooling tube in order to bypass the evaporator cooling tube and communicate a refrigerant to a further evaporator,
- wherein during ice making, the refrigerant valve directs the refrigerant through the evaporator cooling tube that is in direct contact with the at least one outer surface of the ice maker tray.
A refrigerator comprising:
- a fresh food compartment;
- an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment;
- an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker including an ice maker tray, an evaporator cooling tube, and a separate evaporator cooling tube holder, at least a portion of the evaporator cooling tube being assembled between the ice maker tray and the separate evaporator cooling tube holder, such that the evaporator cooling tube is in direct contact with the ice maker tray and the separate evaporator cooling tube holder, with at least one fin extending from at least one of the ice maker tray and the separate evaporator cooling tube holder;
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- an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment.
A refrigerator comprising:
- a fresh food compartment;
- an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment;
- an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker including an ice maker tray, an evaporator cooling tube, and at least one fin extending from the ice maker tray, wherein the evaporator cooling tube is embedded in the ice maker tray, such that the evaporator cooling tube is in direct contact with the ice maker tray and an evaporator;
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- an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.