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Pulse electrothermal mold release icemaker with safety baffles for refrigerator

  • US 8,405,002 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2008
  • Issued: 03/26/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An icemaker, comprising:

  • an icemaking tray having a plurality of ice receiving portions in which water is stored to make ice, the icemaking tray comprising a material that generates heat when an electric current flows through the icemaking tray;

    a controller for providing an electric current through the icemaking tray to perform an ice body separation; and

    a housing surrounding the ice making tray and provided with a cold air inlet port through which cold air supplied from an upper part of the ice making tray flows to the ice making tray along a bent channel, and an ice outlet through which ice moved from the ice making tray is discharged along a bent passage at a lower side of the housing;

    wherein the cold air inlet port is a gap between spaced plates disposed at an upper part of the ice-making tray; and

    wherein the plates are positioned at different height and are parallel to each other.

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