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US 8,850,841 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsIll-Shin Kim, Seon-Il Yu, Kun-Jun Seok, Yong-Chol Kwon
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Abstract
A refrigerator including a refrigerating chamber formed at an upper portion of a refrigerator body and a freezing chamber formed at a lower portion of the refrigerator body, the refrigerator comprising an ice-making chamber partitioned from the refrigerating chamber by insulating walls, the ice-making chamber containing within it an icemaker and an ice storage area.
Claims20
A refrigerator, comprising:
- a refrigerator cabinet;
- a refrigerating compartment positioned at a relatively upper portion of the refrigerator cabinet;
- a freezing compartment positioned at a relatively lower portion of the refrigerator cabinet;
- a first door and a second door that are hinged side by side on the refrigerator cabinet and that are configured to open or close the refrigerating compartment;
- an ice compartment assembled to an inner wall of the refrigerating compartment, wherein the ice compartment is partitioned at an upper position within the refrigerating compartment by at least a front insulation wall, a first side insulation wall, and a bottom insulation wall, and has a width smaller than a width of the first door;
- an ice maker disposed within the ice compartment;
- an ice storage below the ice maker and configured to store ice delivered from the ice maker;
- a first ice discharge duct that is located at least partially in the front insulation wall and that communicates with the ice storage;
- an ice transporting mechanism disposed within the ice storage and configured to transport ice in the ice storage to the first ice discharge duct;
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- a dispenser located in the first door and including a second ice discharge duct that penetrates the first door,
- wherein, based on the first door being oriented in a closed position, the first ice discharge duct connects to the second ice discharge duct and, based on the first door being oriented in an opened position, the first ice discharge duct disconnects from the second ice discharge duct.
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A refrigerator, comprising:
- a refrigerator cabinet;
- a refrigerating compartment positioned at a relatively upper portion of the refrigerator cabinet;
- a freezing compartment positioned at a relatively lower portion of the refrigerator cabinet;
- a first door and a second door that are hinged side by side on the refrigerator cabinet and that are configured to open or close the refrigerating compartment;
- an ice compartment partitioned at an upper position within the refrigerating compartment by at least a front insulation wall, a side insulation wall, and a bottom insulation wall, the ice compartment having a width smaller than a width of the first door;
- an ice maker disposed within the ice compartment;
- an ice storage below the ice maker and configured to store ice delivered from the ice maker;
- a first ice discharge duct that is located at least partially in the front insulation wall, that communicates with the ice storage, and that has an inclined outlet surface;
- an ice transporting mechanism disposed within the ice storage and configured to transport ice in the ice storage to the first ice discharge duct;
- and
- a dispenser located in the first door and including a second ice discharge duct that penetrates the first door,
- wherein the second ice discharge duct has an inclined inlet surface, and
- wherein, based on the first door being oriented in a closed position, the inclined inlet surface of the second ice discharge duct contacts the inclined outlet surface of the first ice discharge duct.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.