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US 2024/0255206 A1Published application
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 configured to make ice;
- a drawer configured to be retracted into and extended from the freezing compartment;
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- an ice bin for storing ice, the ice bin being disposed below the ice-maker to receive ice released from the ice-maker, and disposed in the drawer and retracted and extended 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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