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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Chongyoung Park, Seoul, KR;
Wookyong Lee, Seoul, KR;
Seungseob Yeom, Seoul, KR;
Donghoon Lee, Seoul, KR;
Donghoon Lee, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator according to the present disclosure includes a first tray configured to form a portion of an ice making cell, a second tray configured to form another portion of the ice making cell, a tray temperature sensor configured to sense the temperature of the ice making cell, a discharge spark generator disposed around one of the first tray and the second tray and including an electrode, and a controller configured to control the discharge spark generator to generate a spark from the electrode when it is determined that the water in the ice making cell is supercooled based on the temperature measured by the tray temperature sensor.