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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Matthew William Davis, Louisville, KY (US);
Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Louisville, KY (US);
Mark Wayne Wilson, Simpsonville, KY (US);
Gautam Subbarao, Louisvile, KY (US);
Anil Kumar Tummala, Louisville, KY (US);
Thiruvalan Venkatesan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Anand Ganesh Joshi, Bangalore, IN;
Hemachandran Umakanthan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Sanjay Manohar Anikhindi, Bangalore, IN;
Matthew William Davis, Louisville, KY (US);
Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Louisville, KY (US);
Mark Wayne Wilson, Simpsonville, KY (US);
Gautam Subbarao, Louisvile, KY (US);
Anil Kumar Tummala, Louisville, KY (US);
Thiruvalan Venkatesan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Anand Ganesh Joshi, Bangalore, IN;
Hemachandran Umakanthan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Sanjay Manohar Anikhindi, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator includes a housing having at least one refrigerator compartment, a door for accessing the at least one refrigerator compartment, and an ice-dispensing assembly. The ice-dispensing assembly includes an insulated housing arranged within the at least one refrigerator compartment, an ice-making device arranged within the insulated housing and configured to produce ice, an ice-storage container arranged within the insulated housing, and a dispenser arranged within the door and communicating with the ice-storage container, wherein the dispenser is configured to transfer ice from the ice-storage container to an external portion of the refrigerator.