US 12,480,698 B2
Refrigerator
Chunhua Yang, Guangdong (CN); Huimin Yao, Guangdong (CN); Yuhua Guo, Guangdong (CN); Xiaofen Long, Guangdong (CN); Zhidong Li, Guangdong (CN); Guisheng Chen, Guangdong (CN); Tengchang Li, Guangdong (CN); Jinying Yang, Guangdong (CN); Sheng Chen, Guangdong (CN); Yanwu Fan, Guangdong (CN); Yumin Liu, Guangdong (CN); Dongning Zhi, Guangdong (CN); Jiawei Zhu, Guangdong (CN); and Lei Huang, Guangdong (CN)
Assigned to HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., Foshan (CN)
Filed by HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/485,577.
Application 18/485,577 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/CN2022/083457, filed on Mar. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110575878.8 (CN), filed on May 25, 2021; application No. 202110598791.2 (CN), filed on May 28, 2021; application No. 202110605786.X (CN), filed on May 28, 2021; application No. 202110605811.4 (CN), filed on May 28, 2021; application No. 202121188877.X (CN), filed on May 28, 2021; application No. 202121190183.X (CN), filed on May 28, 2021; application No. 202110634423.9 (CN), filed on Jun. 7, 2021; application No. 202121266657.4 (CN), filed on Jun. 7, 2021; and application No. 202121268768.9 (CN), filed on Jun. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0035726 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. F25C 1/24 (2018.01)
CPC F25C 1/24 (2013.01) [F25C 2400/10 (2013.01); F25C 2400/14 (2013.01); F25C 2600/02 (2013.01); F25C 2600/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a refrigerator body including a chamber;
an ice maker located in the chamber, the ice maker being configured to make ice, and including two refrigerant pipes;
a refrigeration cycle system including at least one compressor, at least one condenser, and two cooling flow paths connected to the two refrigerant pipes, respectively, and the two cooling flow paths being configured to cool the ice maker; and
a controller configured to control the compressor to be turned on or off, and to control the two cooling flow paths to open or be closed, so as to cool the ice maker through at least one of the two refrigerant pipes;
wherein the ice maker includes an ice tray; the two refrigerant pipes include a first refrigerant pipe and a second refrigerant pipe, and the first refrigerant pipe and the second refrigerant pipe are located at a bottom portion of the ice tray, a portion of the first refrigerant pipe located within a range of the ice tray is at a same height as a portion of the second refrigerant pipe located within the range of the ice tray; in a height direction of the ice maker, a portion of the first refrigerant pipe located outside the range of the ice tray and a portion of the second refrigerant pipe located outside the range of the ice tray are located at different heights.