| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator provided with an ice making device which can provide large ice with small power consumption. <P>SOLUTION: The refrigerator has the ice making device 20 having a flexible ice making tray 21 which has a plurality of ice making pockets 22 with upper faces open and supplied with water, and which is rotatably arranged, a cover 25 which has a bottom face portion 25a covering a lower portion of the ice making tray 21 and a lateral face portion 25b extending upward from the bottom face portion 25a to cover a lateral portion of the ice making tray 21, and which is attached to the ice making tray 21, and an ice making heater 24 which is put between the bottom face of the ice making tray 21 and the bottom face portion 25a, ice is made by freezing water from an upper portion while water supplied to the ice making pockets 22 being heated by the ice making heater 24, the ice making tray 21 is rotated while being twisted to separate ice, at least part of the cover 25 intersects with a rotation trajectory D of an outermost periphery of an upper face of the ice making tray 21, and the ice making pockets 22 are made to contact the cover 25. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
