Patent ID: 7422168
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: F25C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An ice bin of a refrigerator, comprising: a case which opens an upper surface to flow ice cubes into an inside and has a diffuser at one side of a bottom to eject the ice cubes to the outside; an auger installed at the inside of the case to transfer the flowed ice cubes; guides that guide the transferred ice cubes; a grinder that grinds the ice cubes guided by said guide; a shutter that opens and closes said diffuser to selectively eject the ice cubes to the outside of said case; and an ice ejecting control configured to control the amount of ice cubes ejected to the outside of said case, wherein said guide comprises: a first guide that is inclined downward from one side surface of said case toward the grinder and is separated by a certain distance from said grinder; a second guide that is inclined downward from a second side surface facing the one side surface of said case toward said grinder and extending to a location adjacent to said fixed blade; and said ice ejecting control is a flap that extends from one part of the first guide to a location adjacent to a rotating trace of the grinder and is configured to selectively eject the ice cubes that accumulate at a bottom of said ice ejecting control by the amount of the stacked ice cubes.