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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2023
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Yonghyun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 5/08 (2005.12); F25C 1/04 (2017.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 5/08 (2012.12); F25C 1/04 (2012.12);
Abstract
A refrigerator includes a cabinet forming a storage space, a door configured to open or close the storage space, and an ice maker provided in the storage space or the door. The ice maker includes an upper tray including an upper chamber forming an upper portion of an ice chamber, a lower tray including a lower chamber forming a lower portion of the ice chamber, and an upper heater disposed along a circumference of the upper chamber so that at least two heating regions are formed at different positions in a vertical direction in the upper chamber.