Patent ID: 8302423
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: F25C,F25D

Abstract:
1. An ice-making device for a refrigerator, comprising: a water tank detachably mounted to a rear surface of a refrigerator door; an ice-making housing detachably mounted to the rear surface of the door below the water tank and provided with a predetermined installation space in the ice making housing; an ice tray mounted into the installation space and formed with a plurality of ice-making grooves in which water supplied from the water tank is frozen into ice; a valve assembly operating to selectively supply water stored in the water tank to the ice tray when the water tank is installed or withdrawn; an ice bank for storing ice made in the ice tray, wherein the ice bank is installed in the installation space to be received in or withdrawn out of the installation space, wherein the valve assembly includes: wherein the water tank is detachably installed in a mounting space defined between a bottom surface of a door basket provided on the rear surface of the door and a top surface of the ice-making housing; and the actuating protrusion is formed to extend a predetermined length on the bottom surface of the door basket or the top surface of the ice-making housing corresponding to the ceiling or bottom of the mounting space in a direction in which the water tank is received in or withdrawn out of the mounting space.