Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyeonkyu Lim

Hyunuk Park

Juyeong Kim

Daesung Ki

Chanyoung Park

Hyungkwen Ham

A refrigerator including a water supplier; an ice-making housing in a storage compartment; a first tray in the ice-making housing and including a first ice-making cell, and a first sealing portion formed along an edge of the first ice-making cell; and a second tray including a second ice-making cell, and a second sealing portion formed along an edge of the second ice-making cell, wherein the second tray is movable horizontally to engage with the first tray and couple the first and second ice-making cell, and while the second tray is engaged with the first tray, the second sealing portion overlaps the first sealing portion to prevent leakage from the first and second ice-making cells, the first ice-making cell forms a first portion of ice with water from the water supplier, and the second ice-making cell forms a second portion of the ice with water from the water supplier.

Refrigerator

A refrigerator including an ice maker that includes a pressurizing member, a first tray including a first main ice-making cell and a first auxiliary ice-making cell. The ice maker includes a second tray coupleable to the first tray to form a spherical ice chamber, the second tray includes a second main ice-making cell coupleable to the first main ice-making cell to form a spherical ice chamber and a second auxiliary ice-making cell formed to extend upward from the second main ice-making cell and having a portion that contacts the first auxiliary ice-making cell, where, as the second tray is moved to separate the second main ice-making cell of the second tray coupled to the first main ice-making cell of the first tray that form the spherical ice chamber, the pressurizing member applies pressure to the second auxiliary ice-making cell of the second tray.

A refrigerator including an inner door rotatably coupleable to a cabinet to open and close a storage compartment, the inner door having an opening, an outer door rotatably coupleable to the front of the inner door to open and close the opening of the inner door, a hook locking groove formed on the inner door, a manipulation handle provided to be rotatable with respect to a transverse shaft coupleable to the outer door and including a movable contact part, and a locking member provided to be rotatable with respect to a longitudinal shaft coupled to the outer door, wherein the locking member includes a hook lockable to and unlockable from the hook locking groove, and a passive contact part to selectively contact with the movable contact part.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Hyeonkyu Lim