| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic ice making device for a refrigerator provided with a method of storing ice blocks removed from respective ice making pans, a method of detecting either overs and shorts of the stored ice blocks and a method of supplying water into the ice making pans from which the ice blocks are removed, in the automatic ice making device having a plurality of ice making pans. SOLUTION: The automatic ice making device is provided with a switching valve 20 for conducting water flowing into the valve 20 from a pump 19 arranged on the way from the pump 19 for pumping the water to the ice making pans 11, 12, to flow out to the predetermined positions of the ice making pans 11, 12; ice making sensors provided in respective ice making pans 11, 12 to detect whether ice making is finished or not; ice storage boxes 14 arranged below respective ice making pans to store ice blocks in respective ice making pans 11, 12; and ice detecting means 15 provided in respective ice storage boxes 14 to detect whether the ice blocks stored in respective ice storage boxes 14 are too much or too short. The switching valve 20 is operated after detecting whether the ice blocks detected by the ice detecting means 15 are too much or too short with respect to the ice storage boxes below the ice making pans, in which the finish of ice making has been detected by the ice making sensor.
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