US 11,953,254 B2
Refrigerator
Yonghyun Kim, Seoul (KR); Jinil Hong, Seoul (KR); and Hyunji Park, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/944,633.
Application 17/944,633 is a continuation of application No. 16/685,346, filed on Nov. 15, 2019, granted, now 11,480,377.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0142079 (KR), filed on Nov. 16, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0081730 (KR), filed on Jul. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0018118 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F25C 1/10 (2006.01); F25C 5/187 (2018.01); F25C 5/20 (2018.01)
CPC F25C 5/187 (2013.01) [F25C 1/10 (2013.01); F25C 5/22 (2018.01); F25C 2400/10 (2013.01); F25C 2700/02 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a cabinet having a freezing compartment defined therein;
an ice-maker disposed in the freezing compartment and configured to make ice;
a drawer configured to be retracted into and extended from the freezing compartment; and
an ice bin configured to store ice, the ice bin being disposed below the ice-maker and configured to receive ice released from the ice-maker, and disposed in the drawer and configured to be retracted and extended from the freezing compartment together with the drawer,
wherein a bottom of the ice-maker is located in an inner region of the ice bin and the drawer based on a retracted state in which the drawer is retracted into the freezing compartment.