Household refrigerator with an icemaker unit and a cooling device having a pressure chamber for cooling the icemaker unit
AssigneeBSH Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsMICHAELA MALISI, ULRICH KRIEGSMANN
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Abstract
A household refrigerator has a housing formed with a receiving space. An icemaker unit for dispensing ice is arranged in the receiving space. The icemaker unit has a tray in which shaping regions are formed for specifying a shape of shaped ice elements that are produced from liquid poured into the tray. The icemaker unit has a cooling device with which a cooling air flow is produced for cooling the tray. The cooling device has an evaporator and a fan. A fan wheel of the fan blows the cold produced by the evaporator in a cooling air flow. The fan wheel is arranged in a separate pressure chamber.
Claims17
A household refrigerator, comprising:
- a housing formed with a receiving space;
- an icemaker unit disposed in said receiving space for dispensing ice, said icemaker unit including a tray formed with shaping regions for specifying a shape of shaped ice elements to be produced from liquid poured into said tray and a cooling device for producing a cooling air flow for cooling said tray;
- said cooling device including an evaporator and a fan with a fan wheel configured to generate the cooling air flow with cold produced by said evaporator;
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- said cooling device including a separate pressure chamber housing said fan wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.