Refrigerator with icemaker
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsMyung Ryul Lee, Seong Jae Kim, Chang Ho Seo, Sung Hoon Chung
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Abstract
Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.
Claims20
A refrigerator with an icemaker comprising:
- a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber;
- a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein;
- a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, a first part of the first duct being in the door in communication with the cavity;
- the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice;
- an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice;
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- a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity.
A refrigerator with an icemaker comprising:
- a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber;
- a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein;
- a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity;
- an icemaker in the cavity for producing ice;
- an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice;
- a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity;
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- a second duct having one end arranged adjacent to the evaporator, and the other end arranged in the refrigerating chamber, for supplying the cold air to the refrigerating chamber.
A refrigerator with an icemaker comprising:
- a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber;
- a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein;
- a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity;
- the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice;
- an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice;
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- a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity;
- a supplemental duct having one end in communication with the cavity, and the other end in communication with the freezing chamber, for supplying the cold air from the cavity to the freezing chamber.
A refrigerator with an icemaker comprising:
- a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber;
- a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein;
- a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity;
- the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice;
- an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice;
- a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity;
- a first fan adjacent to the evaporator for supplying cold air to the first duct;
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- a second fan in a bent part of the first duct for turning a flow direction of the cold air.
A refrigerator with an icemaker comprising:
- a cabinet having a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber therein;
- a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein;
- a first duct for supplying cold air around an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the first duct including a first part and a second part, the first part being in communication with the cavity, the second part being in communication with the evaporator, the first part and the second part being connected with each other when the door is closed and being disconnected from each other when the door is open;
- an icemaker in the cavity for producing ice;
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- a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.