ICE MAKER, REFRIGERATOR HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING ICE THEREOF

Title:

ICE MAKER, REFRIGERATOR HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING ICE THEREOF

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/105791

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

Disclosed are an ice maker, a refrigerator having the ice maker, and a method for supplying ice of the refrigerator. When the ice making container is rotated, ice of the ice making container freefalls to be released, thus reducing the size of the ice maker and making a refrigerator slimmer. Also, since a partition wall is not provided on an inner circumferential surface of the ice making container, the roughness of the inner circumferential surface of the ice making container can be enhanced, and accordingly, heat can be evenly transferred from an ice releasing heater to reduce a generation amount of residual water. In addition, since ice can be released without using the ice releasing heater, power consumption can be reduced and residual water which can be generated in case of using the heater can be further reduced.

Inventors:

KIM SEONGJAE (KR)
KIM BONGJIN (KR)

Application Number:

PCT/KR2011/001239

Publication Date:

January 19, 2012

Filing Date:

February 23, 2011

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC (KR)
KIM SEONGJAE (KR)
KIM BONGJIN (KR)

International Classes:

F25C1/24; F25C5/02; F25C5/08; F25C5/18

Foreign References:

KR20000007728U	2000-05-06
KR100808171B1	2008-03-03
EP1865276A1	2007-12-12

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