Patent ID: 8281613

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator main body having a storage chamber; a door coupled to the refrigerator main body to be opened or closed; a cool air supplying device installed at the refrigerator main body to generate cool air; an ice making compartment provided at a rear of the door; an ice maker installed in the ice making compartment provided at the rear of the door, the ice maker including an ice making tray to produce ice; a cool air discharge port provided on an upper wall of the refrigerator main body, the cool air discharge port disposed above the ice making compartment to discharge the cool air generated from the cool air supplying device downwardly toward the ice making compartment; a tray cover including an ice guide portion installed at a front discharge side of the ice making tray, which guides ice pieces discharged from the ice making tray by an elector into an ice storage container; a guide member coupled to the ice making tray to guide the cool air from the cool air discharge port to the ice making tray when the door is closed, the guide member including an upper distribution portion disposed above the ice making tray to allow the cool air flowing downward from the cool air discharge port to pass through openings formed in the upper distribution portion toward an upper side of the ice making tray, a rear distribution portion extending to a rear side of the ice making tray from the upper distribution portion to guide the cool air flowing downward from the cool air discharge port to the rear side of the ice making tray; and a partition wall is provided in the ice making compartment below the ice making tray in a spaced apart relationship such that the cool air flowing downward along the rear side flows between a bottom surface of the ice making tray and the partition wall to directly expose the bottom surface to the cool air, and then flows along the front side of the ice making tray through the tray cover, wherein the upper distribution portion of the guide member is spaced above the ice guide portion of the tray cover to allow ice pieces discharged from the ice making tray to pass between the upper distribution portion and the ice guide portion.