Temperature regulating features for a refrigerator icebox
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsVineeth Vijayan, Alan Joseph Mitchell
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Abstract
An ice making assembly mounted to a door of a refrigerator appliance includes an icebox, an ice maker positioned within the icebox for forming ice cubes, and an ice storage bin positioned below the ice maker. The ice storage bin includes an outer shell defining an inner wall positioned against the door and an outer wall facing a chilled chamber of the refrigerator appliance, and a storage insert positioned within the outer shell, the storage insert defining a storage volume for storing the ice cubes, wherein bin insulation is positioned between the storage insert and an outer wall of the outer shell.
Claims17
A refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a chilled chamber;
- a door being rotatably mounted to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, the door at least partially defining an icebox;
- an ice making assembly positioned within the icebox for forming ice cubes;
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- an ice storage bin positioned below the ice making assembly and defining a storage volume for storing the ice cubes, wherein the ice storage bin defines an inner wall positioned against the door and an outer wall facing the chilled chamber, and wherein bin insulation is positioned between the storage volume and the outer wall of the ice storage bin, and wherein the ice storage bin further comprises an outer shell and a storage insert positioned within the outer shell, the storage insert defining the storage volume, wherein an inner wall of the storage insert is positioned directly against the inner wall of the outer shell along an entire area of the inner wall.
An ice making assembly mounted to a door of a refrigerator appliance, the ice making assembly comprising:
- an icebox;
- an ice maker positioned within the icebox for forming ice cubes;
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- an ice storage bin positioned below the ice maker and comprising:
- an outer shell defining an inner wall positioned against the door and an outer wall facing a chilled chamber of the refrigerator appliance;
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- a storage insert positioned within the outer shell, the storage insert defining a storage volume for storing the ice cubes, wherein bin insulation is positioned between the storage insert and an outer wall of the outer shell, and wherein the inner wall of the storage insert is positioned directly against the inner wall of the outer shell along an entire area of the inner wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.