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Smart ice system

A technology for ice machines and ice cubes, which is applied in ice making, ice making, ice storage/distribution, etc., and can solve problems such as processing costs

Active Publication Date: 2018-09-04
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
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When such different size ranges of ice cube trays are desired, manufacturing die cast metal ice trays of different sizes can incur significant tooling costs, for example in producing different metal molds

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[0054] now refer to figure 1 , the ice maker 10 may include an ice tray 12 for receiving water and molding it into frozen ice cubes 14 of any shape. Ice tray 12 may be positioned adjacent to ice collection drive 16 that communicates with electrical power and control signals from a refrigerator (not shown) via power lead 18 and with a water supply via water line 20 .

[0055] The ice collection drive 16 may fill the ice making tray 12 through, for example, the filling nozzle 22, and after the water is frozen, for example, by inverting the ice making tray 12 and heating the ice making tray 12 until the ice cubes 14 fall from the ice making tray 12, In order to eject ice cubes 14 from the ice tray 12 . The ice making tray 12 may be positioned above the ice bank 24 to receive the ice cubes 14 therein as they are ejected from the ice making tray 12 .

[0056] Ice collection drive 16 may provide a drive coupling 26 that is exposed at the front wall of the housing of ice collection...

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Abstract

An ice-tray for ice-making machines is formed by modular fabricated cups that can be assembled together within a frame to create an ice-tray of arbitrary dimensions allowing a sharing of components among a variety of ice-tray sizes. Individual cups may include ice formation sensors or heaters or may be heated by an induction heating system.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 288,652, filed January 29, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to ice making machines for domestic refrigerators and the like, and in particular to ice making trays for such machines which use a modular design to facilitate the production of ice making machines of different sizes. Background technique [0004] Domestic refrigerators typically include, for example, an automatic ice maker located in the freezer compartment. A typical ice maker provides an ice cube tray positioned to receive water from an electrically controlled valve that can be opened for as long as a predetermined time in order to fill the tray. Allow the water to cool until freezing is guaranteed. At this point, collect the ice from the tray into the ice bin located under the ice maker tray. The amount of ic...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): F25C1/24F25C5/08
CPCF25C5/08F25C2700/00F25C1/246F25C2305/0221
Inventor 埃里克·K·拉森威廉·D·沙泰勒胡安·巴雷尼亚马克·爱德华·布里尔达尔曼·B·科塔里贾罗德·史力克
Owner ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
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