Patent ID: 11859893
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a main body having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment;
a refrigerating compartment door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and to close at least a part of the refrigerating compartment;
an ice-making compartment formed on a front surface of the refrigerating compartment door so that the ice-making compartment is accessible while the refrigerating compartment door is closed;
an ice maker disposed in the ice-making compartment and including
an ice-making case,
an ice-making tray that is rotatably coupled to the ice-making case and rotatable about a rotation axis to an ice separation position and an ice generation position, and
a cold air guide extending below the ice-making tray and configured to form a cold air flow path between a bottom surface of the ice-making tray and the cold air guide to guide cold air along a direction in which the rotation axis extends, the cold air guide being deformable and restorable and fixed to the ice-making tray;

a dispenser on the refrigerating compartment door to dispense ice from the ice maker;
an auxiliary door disposed in front of the refrigerating compartment door and configured to open and to close the ice-making compartment, and having an opening corresponding to the dispenser so that the dispenser is accessible through the opening while the auxiliary door is closed; and
a cold air duct to connect the ice-making compartment to the freezing compartment so that air from the freezing compartment having a lower temperature than air from the refrigerating compartment flows to the ice-making compartment to cool the ice-making compartment,
wherein the cold air guide is configured to contact the ice-making case so as to be deformed by the ice-making case when the ice-making tray is rotated to the ice separation position and to remain in contact with the ice-making case in a deformed state while in the ice separation position, and configured to be restored from the deformed state when the ice-making tray is rotated to the ice generation position.