Patent ID: 8418496

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator body; a freezing compartment disposed within the refrigerator body; a refrigerating compartment disposed above the freezing compartment; a door for selectively opening and closing the refrigerating compartment; an additional compartment defined on a rear surface of the door, the additional compartment having a space for storing ice; a heat exchanger located within the refrigerator body to generate cold air to cool down at least one of the compartments; a duct unit extending along a wall constituting the refrigerator body, to allow the additional compartment to fluidly communicate with the freezing compartment; and a dispenser for discharging the ice stored in the additional compartment to an outside of the refrigerator body, wherein the duct unit includes at least one of or both of a supply duct supplying the cold air generated by the heat exchanger to the additional compartment and a return duct returning the air within the additional compartment to the freezing compartment.