Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerator and method for controlling the same
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Application No.: US17282590Application Date: 2019-10-01
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Publication No.: US12031765B2Publication Date: 2024-07-09
- Inventor: Donghoon Lee , Donghoon Lee , Wookyong Lee , Seungseob Yeom , Yongjun Bae , Sunggyun Son , Chongyoung Park
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: KED & ASSOCIATES, LLP
- Priority: KR 20180117785 2018.10.02 KR 20180117819 2018.10.02 KR 20180117821 2018.10.02 KR 20180117822 2018.10.02 KR 20180142117 2018.11.16 KR 20190081718 2019.07.06 KR 20190081719 2019.07.06
- International Application: PCT/KR2019/012868 2019.10.01
- International Announcement: WO2020/071755A 2020.04.09
- Date entered country: 2021-04-02
- Main IPC: F25C5/08
- IPC: F25C5/08 ; F25C1/18 ; F25C1/24 ; F25C1/25 ; F25D29/00

Abstract:
A refrigerator according to the present invention includes a storage chamber configured to store food, a cold air supply part configured to supply cold air to the storage chamber, a tray configured to form an ice making cell being a space in which water is phase-changed into ice by the cold air, a temperature sensor configured to sense the temperature of water or ice in the ice making cell, a heater configured to provide heat to the tray, and a controller configured to control the heater, in which the controller controls the heater to be turned on so that ice can be easily separated from the tray when the ice making is completed, and the controller controls the heater to be turned off when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensor reaches a first turn-off reference temperature greater than zero after a first reference time elapses in a state in which the heater is turned on.
Public/Granted literature
- US12117227B2 Refrigerator and method for controlling the same Public/Granted day:2024-10-15
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