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US 11,953,254 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYonghyun Kim, Jinil Hong, Hyunji Park
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Abstract
Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a freezing compartment defined therein, an ice-maker mounted in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice-maker makes spherical ice and removes the made spherical ice downwards, an ice bin disposed below the ice-maker, and retractable and extendable in a front and rear direction, wherein the removed ice is stored in the ice bin, and a cover plate extending downward from a rear face of the ice-maker, wherein the cover plate shields a space between the ice bin and the ice-maker.
Claims15
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having a freezing compartment defined therein;
- an ice-maker disposed in the freezing compartment and configured to make ice;
- a drawer configured to be retracted into and extended from the freezing compartment;
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- an ice bin configured to store ice, the ice bin being disposed below the ice-maker and configured to receive ice released from the ice-maker, and disposed in the drawer and configured to be retracted and extended from the freezing compartment together with the drawer,
- wherein a bottom of the ice-maker is located in an inner region of the ice bin and the drawer based on a retracted state in which the drawer is retracted into the freezing compartment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.