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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
Myung Ryul Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seung Hwan OH, Gunpo-si, KR;
Myung Ryul Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seung Hwan Oh, Gunpo-si, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention provides a refrigerator, in which cold-storage () and freezer rooms () are situated at upper and lower parts, respectively, in which ice made at the freezer room () of the lower part is dispensed at the cold-storage room () of the upper part, and by which a user can pick up the ice without bending over to enhance user's convenience. The present invention includes a body (B) having a cold-storage room () provided to an upper part and a freezer room () provided to a lower part, an ice maker () provided to the freezer room to make ice, an ice bank () receiving the ice made by the ice maker, and a transport mechanism sending the ice discharged from the ice bank () toward the cold-storage room () via an ice transport passage (). Therefore, the present invention sufficiently secures the spaces of the cold-storage and freezer rooms to raise spatial efficiency.