Patent ID: 8405002

Claim:
An icemaker, comprising: an icemaking tray having a plurality of ice receiving portions in which water is stored to make ice, the icemaking tray comprising a material that generates heat when an electric current flows through the icemaking tray; a controller for providing an electric current through the icemaking tray to perform an ice body separation; and a housing surrounding the ice making tray and provided with a cold air inlet port through which cold air supplied from an upper part of the ice making tray flows to the ice making tray along a bent channel, and an ice outlet through which ice moved from the ice making tray is discharged along a bent passage at a lower side of the housing; wherein the cold air inlet port is a gap between spaced plates disposed at an upper part of the ice-making tray; and wherein the plates are positioned at different height and are parallel to each other.