Patent ID: 7302809

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a body having a freezing compartment defined therein; a freezing compartment door to open and close the freezing compartment; an ice tray to freeze water therein, thus forming ice cubes; an ice cube container disposed below the ice tray to contain the ice cubes; a shaved-ice maker positioned in the freezing compartment to produce shaved ice using the ice cubes supplied from the ice cube container; a shaved ice discharge port to discharge the shaved ice produced by the shaved-ice maker to an outside of the refrigerator through the freezing compartment door; and a shaved ice discharger to open the shaved ice discharge port for a predetermined time, wherein the shaved ice discharger comprises a damper hinged to one side of the shaved ice discharge port to open and close the shaved ice discharge port while hinging, and an opening/closing cam to transmit a rotational force to the damper according to a rotational angle of the opening/closing cam, thereby operating the damper to open the shaved ice discharge port.