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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900470 | Automatic icemaker An icemaker includes a body including an ice mode for receiving water and freezing water to ice. The ice mold has a first side surface, a second side surface and an arcuate bottom surface indisposed between the first side surface and the second side surface. An ice ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7823408 | Icemaker in refrigerator An icemaker in a refrigerator is disclosed, by which heat generated from a heater to detach ice is prevented from being transferred to an inside of the refrigerator. The present invention includes an icemaker body provided to a prescribed position of the refrigerato... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810346 | Icemaker and method for controlling the same An icemaker and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. An object of the present invention is to provide an icemaker and a method for controlling the same, which has an improved structure to make a lot of ice in a short time. an icemaker includes an ice tra... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7703300 | Pulse systems and methods for detaching ice A pulse system for detaching ice includes a power supply for applying a high-power heating pulse to the interface between ice and an object such as a cold plate of an ice making system, an ice-container, a heat-exchanger, a refrigerator surface or an airplane wing. ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7661275 | Ice making method and machine with PETD harvest An ice making has an ice making mold with a plurality of ice making cells opened at the bottom, a water tank, water spray nozzles adapted for spraying the water contained in the water tank towards the ice making cells, an ice bin adapted for storage of ice cubes for... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7493776 | Icemaker for refrigerator Disclosed is an icemaker for a refrigerator includes an ice mold for receiving water and freezing the water to ice, an ejector pivotally installed on the ice mold to eject the ice out of the ice mold, a motor for operating the ejector, a heater body disposed enclosi... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7444829 | Automatic ice making machine The peel off between an ice making plate and an insulating layer or between the insulating layer and heating means is prevented so that an ice making operation can be performed efficiently. Also, a metal plate is insulated from the heating means reliably. An ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7285255 | Deodorizing and sanitizing employing a wicking device A device and method for sanitizing and deodorizing including the selective transportation of a sanitizing composition by the capillary action of a wick to an acidic composition which may be held in a reservoir, or which also may be selectively transported through th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266973 | Refrigerator with improved icemaker having air flow control An improved icemaker is provided for a refrigerator. The improvements include tilting the ice mold to assure that the ice cavity nearest the thermostat is filled with water; controlling air flow to the mold to promote rapid freezing of water in the mold cavities; ra... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263854 | Ice supply system An icemaker for an ice supply system for preventing water from overflowing from the ice tray by vibration and/or shaking of the surrounding structure includes an icemaker, a container provided at a lower part of the icemaker and an ice chute for supplying the ice st... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7185508 | Refrigerator with compact icemaker A refrigerator/freezer with an ice maker having an ice cube tray in which are formed multiple ice cube recesses. The ice cube tray is movable between a fill position and a harvest position. The ice cube tray has a composite construction comprising a base layer and a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7152424 | Ice tray and ice making machine, refrigerator both using the ice tray An ice tray includes a tray section and a heater. The tray section has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The first face temporarily retains water and the water is cooled to make ice. The heater is unitarily molded with the tray section at th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146820 | Ice maker for refrigerator An ice maker for a refrigerator/freezer having a control module for more reliably driving a rotatable ice ejector for removing ice bodies from a mold of the ice maker and for refilling mold cavities with water. The control module has an ice ejector drive with a driv... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7131280 | Method for making ice in a compact ice maker A method of making ice cubes in a compact ice maker by setting a freeze time based on the determined volume of a mold for the ice maker. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7036332 | Heat exchanger arrangement Heat exchanger arrangement for a refrigerator apparatus, which evaporator comprises an evaporator tube (2) for conducting a refrigerating medium; a heat exchanger (5, 11) with at least one heat conducting member (7, 11), which is arranged in hea... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032391 | Method and device for stirring water during icemaking An icemaker assembly includes an ice tray has at least one ice forming compartment and an ice ejector having at least one ejector member. The ice ejector is operable to (i) stir water located within the at least one ice forming compartment with the at least one ejec... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017364 | Ice supply system An icemaker for an ice supply system for preventing water from overflowing from the ice tray by vibration and/or shaking of the surrounding structure includes an icemaker, a container provided at a lower part of the icemaker and an ice chute for supplying the ice st... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6971245 | Auger type ice making machine An auger type ice making machine is provided with a control unit for causing a hot gas valve to open and for causing a heater disposed in the vicinity of ice compression passages to perform heating for a time period longer than the opening period of the hot gas valv... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6945057 | Ice maker An ice maker capable of efficiently making and removing ice cubes. The ice maker includes first and second pulleys, a drive unit, an ice making conveyor, heat/light generating units, and a reflecting member. The first and second pulleys are spaced apart from each ot... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6895767 | Refrigerator and ice maker methods and apparatus An ice maker includes a mold including at least one cavity for containing water therein for freezing into ice, a water supply including at least one valve for controlling water flow into the mold, an ice removal heating element operationally coupled to the mold, and... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6889517 | Heated dispenser door and method A method of heating a dispenser door by applying direct heat to only a peripheral region of a front layer of the door at a rate sufficient to heat an edge surface of the door to a point above zero degrees Centigrade. In one embodiment this is done by placing a perim... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6857279 | Ice maker for refrigerator and method of testing the same The present invention relates to an ice maker for a refrigerator and a method of testing the ice maker, and more particularly, to an ice maker for use in a refrigerator for making and releasing ice and a method of testing the ice maker to determine whether the ice m... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6792770 | Ice maker with trays having rigid ice making recesses An ice maker having an ice making conveyor includes a pair of pulleys spaced apart from each other by a desired distance, a drive unit rotating the pulleys, a plurality of tray cells provided with ice making recesses capable of containing water, and an ice making co... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6658869 | Microcontroller ice maker The invention is an ice maker fitted within the freezer compartment of a refrigerator attached to an existing water and electrical source, the ice maker controlled by a microcontroller. A metal ice tray with partially deformed cups in line on a common bas... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6334318 | Automatic ice making apparatus An automatic ice making apparatus having a sensor which can detect continuously a temperature of an ice making tray is used as a temperature sensor. The temperature and a temperature variation rate of the ice making tray are detected by an electronic cont... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6134907 | Remote ice making machine A remote ice-making machine is disclosed having a compressor unit remote from an evaporator unit, a supply line for transferring refrigerant from the compressor unit to the remote evaporator unit, and a return line for returning refrigerant from the evapo... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6112540 | Ice maker An ice maker has an ice tray having at least one fluid receptor cavity for forming an ice mass therein. An ejector assembly conveniently has one or more ejector members corresponding in number and in register respectively with the cavities. The ejector as... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6060099 | Method of making soft ice cream on a commercial scale Pouring soft state ice cream as a precursor of hard state ice cream into a cone, cup or other shape made either one of paper, plastic resins or edible material and the thus poured ice cream is frozen to a hard state ice cream of -30° C. to -40° C. as it... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5953925 | Remote ice making machine A remote ice-making machine is disclosed having a compressor unit remote from an evaporator unit, a supply line for transferring refrigerant from the compressor unit-to the remote evaporator unit, and a return line for returning refrigerant from the evapo... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5787723 | Remote ice making machine A remote ice-making machine is disclosed having a compressor unit remote from an evaporator unit, a supply line for transferring refrigerant from the compressor unit to the remote evaporator unit, and a return line for returning refrigerant from the evapo... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5582754 | Heated tray A heated tray which can be activated to release a frozen liquid from compartments thereof. The tray includes an electrically insulative body having one or more compartments for receiving a liquid to be frozen. The tray also includes an electrically conduc... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5408844 | Ice maker subassembly for a refrigerator freezer A subassembly for an ice maker includes a plastic ice cube tray having a housing located within and attached to the refrigerator freezer. The housing has spaced-apart ice cube cavities. An electrically heatable metallic film coating is attached to and gen... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5375432 | Icemaker in refrigerator compartment of refrigerator freezer A refrigeration appliance is provided which has a freezer compartment, a fresh food compartment and a refrigeration system for cooling the two compartments. Two evaporators operating at different temperatures, or a single evaporator operating at sequentia... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5212954 | Frozen confection machine and heating apparatus and method therefore The present invention concerns improvements in electric defrost heaters used in frozen carbonated beverage machines. The frozen carbonated beverage machine includes freeze cylinders used to produce the frozen beverage. One or more tubes are secured in hea... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5187948 | Clear cube ice maker An ice maker for use in a domestic refrigerator/freezer makes clear ice bodies. The ice maker comprises a support arranged to have an ice body formed thereon. The support is refrigerated to a below-freezing temperature and a container adapted to hold a bo... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5160094 | Recoverable domestic ice maker An ice making apparatus includes a mold in which water is frozen to form an ice body. Also included are an electric motor and an ejector blade for ejecting the ice body from the mold. An electric heater in heat transfer association with the mold is operab... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5127236 | System and apparatus for the manufacture of clear ice pieces and control system therefor A coolant circuit, for example of a refrigerator or freezer unit, includes a coolant source at a very low temperature. A finger-type chilling member is thermoconductively connected to the coolant source and is adapted to be positioned within a tank contai... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5056321 | Half crescent shaped ice piece maker An ice maker comprising an elongated freezing tray (100) having arcuately shaped cross sectional configuration with equal-spaced separators (120) formed therein each in a plane normal to the axis of the elongated freezing tray (100) and comprising a rotat... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5056322 | Half crescent shaped ice piece maker A half crescent shaped ice piece maker comprising a freezing tray (100) having an inner surface arcuately shaped about a longitudinal radial axis and divided into crescent shaped water fillable cavities (112) in which the ice pieces are formed, and an eje... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5010738 | Ice maker with thermal protection An ice maker for use in freezing compartments of refrigerators and freezers provides a thermal cut-out or fuse to prevent damage in the event of overtemperature conditions. The thermal fuse is located in a closed compartment where it cannot be accidentall... | 04/30/1991 |
