Patent ID: 11918009
Assignee: HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  F | IPC A  F

Claim 10:
11. A refrigerator appliance comprising:
a cabinet defining a chilled chamber;
a door attached to the cabinet to selectively restrict access to the chilled chamber, the door comprising a door liner defining an icebox compartment, the door further comprising a chilled air supply opening, a chilled air return opening spaced apart from the chilled air supply opening, and a dispenser outlet spaced apart from the chilled air supply opening and the chilled air return opening;
a sealed cooling system in fluid communication with the icebox compartment to circulate air within the refrigerator appliance; and
an ice cream unit disposed within the icebox compartment, the ice cream unit comprising
a freezing tank,
a rotatable auger extending into the freezing tank,
a tank jacket receiving the freezing tank and defining a cooling passage extending about and thereby encircling the freezing tank from a top to a bottom of the freezing tank along a path from a jacket inlet to a jacket outlet, the jacket outlet being open to the icebox compartment to exhaust air from the cooling passage to the icebox compartment, and
a support base holding the tank jacket, the support base being disposed above and covering the dispenser outlet to block air from the icebox compartment.