Refrigerator

Abstract

The invention provides a refrigerator provided with an automatic ice maker using an ice tray making ice with favorable appearance, and capable of providing a suitable water supply amount even when the water supply amount is variable. The refrigerator is provided with the automatic ice maker carrying out ice making by supplying water in a water supply tank installed in a refrigeration chamber to the ice tray installed in a freezing chamber. In the ice tray, a longitudinal direction is partitioned into a plurality of rows by perpendicular partition walls, and each row partitioned by the perpendicular partition walls is partitioned into a plurality of ice making blocks by a lateral partition wall. A driving part is provided for turning the ice tray around a center axis between one row and another row of the plurality of partitioned rows, an outer wall of the ice making block is composed to abut at a plurality of portions on a circle formed by a turning locus of the ice tray turning around the center axis, and wall parts other than the outer wall of the ice making block are also shaped to match the outer wall shape to form the ice making block in a polygonal shape.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a refrigerator equipped with an automatic ice maker. Background technique [0002] As a refrigerator equipped with an automatic ice maker, there is a technique described in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2002-174475). Patent Document 1 discloses a structure in which an ice tray is horizontally supported in an ice compartment of a refrigerator, and an ice maker that rotates around an axis positioned at the center of the width to release ice is disposed above an ice storage box. In this configuration, in order to prevent detached ice from concentrating somewhere in the ice storage box and improve ice storage efficiency, the ice maker can be rotated forward and backward according to the ice storage state in the ice storage box. [0003] That is, a refrigerator equipped with an automatic ice maker can be equipped with an automatic ice maker equipped with an ice maker in the freezer, and a cer...

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Problems solved by technology

Therefore, this also limits the ability to make larger ice

That is, there is a problem that the installation space of the automatic ice maker becomes larger if a large, medium, or small ice tray from which ice can be selected is manufactured.

[0024] Furthermore, if the size of the ice can be selected, the amount of water supplied decreases when making small-sized ice, and there is a problem that water cannot flow to the entire ice-making tray as described above.

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