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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Taehwa Hong, Seoul, KR;
Hyuksoon Kim, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet; a door; an ice-making compartment mounted on an interior of the cabinet or on a back surface of the door, the ice-making compartment having an ice-making chamber and a cold air discharge hole; an ice tray located in the ice-making compartment; an ice bin arranged beneath the ice tray; a dispenser located at the door; a discharge duct located inside the door, the discharge duct having an entrance communicating with the ice-making compartment and an exit communicating with the dispenser; a thermoelectric element coupled to a bottom surface of the ice tray; a heat-radiating member forced against the thermoelectric element; and a cold air guide mounted on the bottom surface, the cold air guide defining a space that receives the thermoelectric element and the heat-radiating member, a cold air inlet, and a cold air outlet that communicates with the cold air discharge hole.