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US 2011/0030412 A1Published application
Check valve for a refrigerator
OwnerJu Hyun Kiminventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a refrigerator (1) including a dispenser (10) mounted to door, a nozzle (17) mounted to the dispenser for discharging water to an outside of the dispenser, and a residual water preventive unit (20) mounted close to the nozzle for preventing residual water from dropping, thereby preventing residual water from being dropped from a nozzle of a dispenser in the door of the refrigerator.
Claims13
A refrigerator comprising:
- a dispenser mounted to a door;
- a nozzle mounted to the dispenser for discharging water to an outside of the dispenser;
- and
- a residual water preventive unit mounted close to the nozzle for preventing residual water from dropping.
1 more element
A refrigerator comprising:
- a dispenser mounted to a door;
- a nozzle mounted to the dispenser for discharging water to an outside of the dispenser;
- a check valve mounted close to an end of the nozzle for closing the nozzle if a water pressure drops below a predetermined pressure, and opening the nozzle if the water pressure rises above the predetermined pressure for preventing residual water from dropping;
- and
- a water supply valve for controlling water supply to the nozzle to make the check valve to be opened/closed, selectively.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.