Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Byung Suk An

Jin Tae Jeong

Do Hyung Kim

Bong Su Son

Do Yun Jang

Sang Hyun Park

Kook Jeong Seo

Dong Hoon Lee

Kyoung Ki Park

Qasim Sarwar Khan

A refrigerator includes a body, a storage compartment provided in the body, a door to open and close the storage compartment, an icemaker provided to one side of the storage compartment, an ice bucket provided under the icemaker, and a crusher provided to the rear surface of the door and having an inlet disposed under the outlet of the ice bucket when the door is closed. The crusher may be provided separately from the ice bucket and may independently mounted and detached to and from the rear surface of the door. The ice bucket may have a slimmer design. The space utilization and usability of the storage compartments and the rear surface of the doors may be enhanced.

Refrigerator

A refrigerator includes a driving coupler to transmit a driving force and a connecting member to transmit the driving force of the driving coupler to a transfer member. The connecting member is rotated when interference with the driving coupler occurs in a process of connecting with the driving coupler and idles within a predetermined angle range regardless of the transfer member. With this constitution, even when ice cubes are loaded by the transfer member, the connecting member may be smoothly rotated. Thus, the driving coupler and the connecting member may be smoothly connected without an impact.

Coupling mechanism for an ice bucket and refrigerator having the ice bucket

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Byung Suk An