US 9,810,471 B2 · Refrigerator

Abstract

A refrigerator may include an ice container, a discharge unit, which is provided at the ice container and has an outlet through which ice cubes are discharged, an ice discharging unit, which is provided in the ice container in a manner of rotatable in forward and reverse directions so as to selectively discharge ice cubes, which move thereinto by their own weight, in an uncrushed state or a crushed state, a first ice agglomeration blocking member, which is disposed over the ice discharging unit and is rotated by rotation of the ice discharging unit, and a second ice agglomeration blocking member, which is disposed over the ice discharging unit and is rotated by rotation of the first ice agglomeration blocking member, and which is coupled at a portion thereof to the first ice agglomeration blocking member and at another portion thereof to the ice container.

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Dependent claims

A refrigerator comprising:

an ice container;
a discharge unit provided at the ice container and having an outlet to allow discharge of ice;
an ice discharging module provided in the ice container having at least one blade rotatable in forward and reverse directions to allow selective discharge of ice cubes in an uncrushed state or a crushed state;
a first ice agglomeration reduction member provided over the ice discharging module and rotated by rotation of the at least one gear;
and
a second ice agglomeration reduction member provided over the ice discharging module and is rotated by rotation of the first ice agglomeration reduction member, wherein one end of the second ice agglomeration reduction member is coupled to the first ice agglomeration reduction member and at least one other end of the second ice agglomeration reduction member is coupled to the ice container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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