Refrigerator with icemaker
Abstract
Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet (50) having a dividing wall (64) for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber (52) and a refrigerating chamber (51), a case (61) provided to a door (52a) on the refrigerating chamber (51), having a cavity therein, a first duct (70) for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator (65) in the freezing chamber (51) to the cavity, the icemaker (10) in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container (20) in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser (55) in the door (52a) in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser (55) provided to the door (52a).

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Numbers
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- Publication, DOCDB
- 1517102
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- Application
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- Application, DOCDB
- 04250518
- Application, EPODOC
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Titles3
- German
- Kühlschrank mit Eiserzeuge
- English
- Refrigerator with icemaker
- French
- Réfrigérateur avec un générateur de glace
Classification
- CPC, 16
- F25C5/046
- F25C1/24
- F25C1/04
- F25C2400/10
- F25D17/065
- F25D23/087
- F25D2317/061
- F25D2317/062
- F25D2317/0666
- F25D2317/0682
- F25D2317/0683
- F25D2400/04
- F25D2400/06
- F25D2500/02
- F25C2305/024
- F25C1/18
- IPC, 7
- F25D17 08
- F25C1 04
- F25C1 24
- F25C5 04
- F25D11 02
- F25D17 06
- F25D23 04
Designated states31
- Contracting states, 27
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Portugal
- Romania
- Sweden
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- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 4
- Albania
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- North Macedonia