Patent ID: 8464543

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a refrigerator cabinet; a door for providing access to a compartment within the refrigerator cabinet; an ice maker disposed in the compartment; an ice storage container removably mounted about an inside of the door; and an ice level detection device operatively mounted on the inside of the door adjacent the ice storage container and having an ice level detection arm and an ice storage container detection arm, the ice level detection arm being operatively connected to a mechanical motor for movement between an ice sensing position with the ice level detection arm extending at least partially into the ice storage container and an ice harvest position with the ice level detection arm being clear of the ice storage container, the ice storage container detection arm abutting the ice storage container while the ice storage container is mounted about the inside of the door; wherein the ice level detection arm transitions from the ice sensing position to the ice harvest position for ice harvest by the ice maker; wherein opening the door disables ice harvest by the ice maker; wherein upon removal of the ice storage container the ice level detection arm transitions to the ice harvest position and disables ice harvest by the ice maker.