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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2019
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Jin Jeong, Suwon-si, KR;
Young Il Song, Suwon-si, KR;
Do Yun Jang, Suwon-si, KR;
Kook Jeong Seo, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator including a main body, a door, and an ice making chamber provided in the door and including an ice maker to make ice and an ice bucket to store the ice produced. The ice maker includes an ice making tray having a plurality of ice making cells for receiving water, an ice separation heater to heat the ice making tray so that ice is separated from the ice making tray, an ejector rotatably provided to transfer the ice separated to the outside of the ice making tray, and a water channel formed on partitions partitioning the plurality of ice making cells to allow water to flow between the partitions and configured such that at least one of surfaces in contact with ice has a tapered shape in which a thickness thereof gradually decreases in a direction of directing to the ice.