Refrigerator appliance ice making and dispensing system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11421927
APP PUB NO 20210318050A1
SERIAL NO

16843158

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A refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a fresh food compartment, an ice storage compartment within the fresh food compartment and insulated from the fresh food compartment, a sealed system configured to circulate a refrigerant through a refrigerant conduit; an ice maker positioned in the fresh food compartment and being in direct thermal communication with the sealed system, and an insulated door configured to open and close the ice storage compartment to selectively allow ice from the icemaker to enter the ice storage compartment. Methods of using the refrigerator appliance are also provided.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mitchell, Alan Joseph Louisville, US 112 961

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