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Granted Patent B2
US 8,656,731 · App. 13/147,507 · Granted Feb 25, 2014

Refrigerator

Inventor: Young-Jin Kim (Gyeongsangnam-do, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,656,731
App. No.
13/147,507
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a main body defining a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, a door selectively closing the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment, respectively, a plurality of receiving members spaced apart vertically from each other in the refrigerator compartment, and a dispenser between upper and lower spaces of the receiving members, the dispenser supplying drinking water.

Claims (29)

1. A refrigerator comprising:

a main body defining a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, the refrigerator compartment being positioned at an upper portion of the main body;

first and second refrigerator compartment doors selectively opening and closing the refrigerator compartment, the first and second refrigerator compartment doors hinged to both edges of the main body;

a freezer compartment door selectively opening and closing the freezer compartment;

first and second drawers provided at the lower portion of the refrigerator compartment, the first and second drawers being disposed on the left and right sides and spaced apart from each other;

a cover table covering the top surface of the first and second drawers;

a dispenser provided to the refrigerator;

a case installed in a space defined by the cover and the first and the second drawers;

a water filter disposed within the case;

a water supply pipe connected to the water filter and passing through a wall of the refrigerator compartment; and

a water tank connected to the filter and configured to cool water,

wherein the first refrigerator compartment door covers the first drawer and the second refrigerator compartment door covers the second drawer.

2. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser has a height corresponding to a height of the first and the second drawer.

3. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser has a lateral width corresponding to a lateral distance between the first and the second drawers.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser has a front surface that is flush with a front surface of at least one of the first and the second drawers.

5. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the water tank is disposed behind the dispenser.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the filter is disposed behind the dispenser.

7. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser has a lower end that is in contact with a barrier, and the barrier divides an inner space of the main body into the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment to be disposed on upper and lower sides, respectively.

8. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein at least one portion of a front surface of the dispenser is inclined.

9. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser comprises:

a dispenser plate mounted between the first and the second drawers;

a dispensing member protruding toward a front side of the dispenser plate and supplying the water; and

an operation member on a side adjacent to the dispensing member, the operation member selectively opening the dispensing member.

10. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the water tank is exposed into the refrigerator compartment.

11. The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the dispenser plate is disposed at a position corresponding to a front end of the first and the second drawers.

12. The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the operation member is disposed vertically below the dispensing member.

13. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is provided on a front portion of the case.

14. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the water tank is provided within the case.

15. The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the case is installed at a middle portion of the refrigerator compartment in a horizontal direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2011
From: KIM, YOUNG-JIN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120024003A1 · Feb 2, 2012