Patent ID: 9587872
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: F25B,F25C,F25D

Claim:
1. A refrigerator that has a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment, and a door that provides access to the fresh food compartment, the refrigerator comprising: an icemaker mounted remotely from the freezer compartment, the icemaker including an ice mold with an icemaking cycle having a liquid to ice phase change; a thermoelectric device, the thermoelectric device having a cold side and a warm side; a controller in operable communication with an input to the thermoelectric device; a sensor in operable communication with the input to the thermoelectric device and the controller; a temperature feedback response from the input to the thermoelectric device for monitoring the liquid to ice phase change of the icemaking cycle; a heat sink in thermal contact with the warm side of the thermoelectric device, the sensor in thermal communication with the heat sink for providing a temperature reading to the controller; a substrate in thermal contact with the cold side of the thermoelectric device, the sensor in thermal communication with the substrate for providing a temperature reading to the controller for determining the liquid to ice phase change of the icemaking cycle; and a substrate having a high thermal conductivity in thermal contact with the warm side of the thermoelectric device.