Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsIll-Shin KIM, Seon-Il YU, Kun-Jun SEOK, Yong-Chol KWON
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Abstract
According to one aspect, there is provided a refrigerator including a refrigerating chamber formed at a relatively upper portion of a refrigerator body and a freezing chamber formed at a relatively lower portion of the refrigerator body, which comprises an ice-making chamber which is partitioned in the refrigerating chamber by insulating walls and includes an icemaker for making ice and an ice storage for storing the ice made in the icemaker. The temperature in the refrigerating chamber can be accurately controlled, the loss of cold air can be minimized and the structures for supplying water into the icemaker and the dispenser can be simplified.
Claims9
A refrigerator comprising:
- a refrigerating compartment;
- a freezer compartment located below the refrigerating compartment;
- an ice compartment located at an upper portion of the refrigerating compartment;
- an ice maker located within the ice compartment for freezing water into ice;
- a filter for purifying water supplied from an external water source;
- a water supply conduit extends to the filter;
- a water conduit for icemaker opened and closed by a first valve, wherein the water conduit for ice maker is arranged to pass through a top wall of the refrigerating compartment;
- a refrigerating compartment door configured to be open to enable frontal access and closed to inhibit frontal access to at least a portion of the refrigerating compartment;
- a dispenser, at least a portion of which being located on the refrigerating compartment door, configured to dispense water and/or ice;
- and
- a water conduit for dispenser opened and closed by a second valve, wherein the water conduit for dispenser is arranged to pass through an upper hinge of the refrigerating compartment door, and extend to the dispenser,
- wherein the water conduit for ice maker and the water conduit for dispenser branch of at a wall of the refrigerating compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.