Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerator with an ice transfer flow duct
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Application No.: US13895436Application Date: 2013-05-16
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Publication No.: US09677800B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Dongjeong Kim , Donghoon Lee , Wookyong Lee , Juhyun Son , Donghoon Lee
- Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2012-0052112 20120516
- Main IPC: F25C5/18
- IPC: F25C5/18 ; F25C1/00 ; F25D23/06 ; F25C5/00

Abstract:
A refrigerator includes an ice bank installed on a refrigerating compartment door, a dispenser provided below the ice bank, and an ice maker provided in a freezing compartment. The refrigerator also includes a transfer element connected to a side of the ice maker and configured to transfer ice made by the ice maker to the ice bank. The refrigerator further includes a first duct connecting an outlet of the transfer element and the ice bank and a second duct connecting the ice bank and the freezing compartment. One of the first duct and the second duct is a cold air supplying duct that supplies cold air to the ice bank and another of the first duct and the second duct is a cold air return duct that returns cold air of the ice bank to the freezing compartment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130305771A1 REFRIGERATOR Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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