Patent ID: 8459056

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a main body including at least a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber disposed under the refrigerating chamber; first and second refrigerating chamber doors for opening or closing the refrigerating chamber; an ice maker disposed within the refrigerating chamber so as to be located behind the first refrigerating chamber door; an ice bank mounted on the first refrigerating chamber door so as to be supplied with ice from the ice maker, wherein the ice bank is exposed to an interior of the refrigerating chamber; an auger rotatably provided in the ice bank to guide the ice of the ice bank; a motor to rotate the auger; a dispenser disposed in the first refrigerating chamber door so as to dispense the ice received in the ice bank; an evaporator disposed within the freezing chamber to supply cold air; and a cold air flow passage for supplying cold air from the freezing chamber to the ice bank in order to maintain the ice in the ice bank in a frozen state, wherein the cold air flow passage extends along a ceiling of the refrigerating chamber and wherein: one or more holes located at an end section of the cold air flow passage is the only hole or are the only holes that direct cold air into the refrigerating chamber, the cold air passage is separated from being in communication with an interior of the refrigerating chamber continuously from a first point to a second point, the first point corresponds to a point at which the cold air passage enters the refrigerating chamber and the second point corresponds to a point where the one or more holes are located, and the cold air passage includes no air intake ports in the refrigerating chamber between the first point and the second point.