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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2007
Myung-soo Kim, Gimhae, KR;
Yoon-min Park, Jinju, KR;
Oh-chul Kwon, Gimhae, KR;
Jong-gon Kim, Changwon, KR;
Bon-young Koo, Changwon, KR;
Young-hoon Gwak, Busan, KR;
Hyeon-po Cho, Busan, KR;
Myung-Soo Kim, Gimhae, KR;
Yoon-Min Park, Jinju, KR;
Oh-Chul Kwon, Gimhae, KR;
Jong-Gon Kim, Changwon, KR;
Bon-Young Koo, Changwon, KR;
Young-Hoon Gwak, Busan, KR;
Hyeon-Po Cho, Busan, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An ice-making device for a refrigerator includes an ice maker for making ice, which is provided on a backside of a door of the refrigerator; and an ice maker cover for selectively opening or closing the ice maker. Fixing recesses are formed to be open downwardly on outsides of both sides of the ice maker cover, and receive fixing protrusions provided at corresponding positions on opposite sides of a pair of support steps that protrude rearward from both side ends of the backside of the door by a predetermined length and are formed to be elongated in an up and down direction. Play prevention steps are provided at lower ends of both sides of the ice maker cover and are seated on play prevention ribs provided to be elongated in a horizontal direction at corresponding positions of the opposite sides of the support steps below the fixing protrusions.