Patent ID: 7861551

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet within which is defined a freezer compartment; a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet for selectively accessing the freezer compartment; and an ice and water dispensing system including: a water inlet exposed to the freezer compartment; a dispenser assembly including an interface that allows user selections for dispensing ice and water; a supercooling chamber arranged in the freezer compartment and defining a passageway, having an upper inlet and a lower outlet, extending through the chamber; and a control system for both establishing a supercooled environment in the chamber and regulating a delivery of water from the water inlet; wherein, when a supercooled environment having a temperature lower than a temperature of said freezer compartment is established in the chamber and water is delivered from the water inlet into the upper inlet of the passageway, the water freezes while traveling through the chamber in order to establish ice which is directed to the dispenser assembly.