Title:
REFRIGERATOR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2020/136807
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The present invention comprises: a refrigerator compartment; a water-supply tank that is disposed in the refrigerator compartment and has a tank container that retains water to be supplied to an ice making compartment; a storage compartment that is formed at a position adjacent to the water-supply tank in the width direction in the refrigerator compartment, and set at a lower temperature than the refrigerator compartment; an ice making device that is disposed in the ice making compartment and makes ice with water supplied from the water-supply tank; and a heating means for heating the water-supply tank so that the retained water does not freeze. The water-supply tank, when viewed from the front of the refrigerator compartment, has on the bottom of the tank container an inclined surface that is inclined downward from the end on the inner wall surface side of the refrigerator compartment toward the storage compartment and a horizontal surface that is formed from the inclined surface to the end on the storage compartment side.
Inventors:
ARAKI MASAO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2018/048155
Publication Date:
July 02, 2020
Filing Date:
December 27, 2018
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP (JP)
International Classes:
F25C1/25; F25D11/02
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2015064190A1 | 2015-05-07 |
Foreign References:
| JP2003075055A | 2003-03-12 | |||
| JPS49142371U | 1974-12-07 | |||
| US20120279246A1 | 2012-11-08 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
KISA PATENT & TRADEMARK FIRM (JP)
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