| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator provided with an ice making machine which can provide transparent ice with small power consumption. <P>SOLUTION: The refrigerator has the ice making machine 20 having a flexible ice making tray 21 which has a plurality of ice making pockets 22 to which water is supplied from openings open on an upper face, and which is provided to be rotatable, a cover 25 which has a bottom face portion 25a that covers a lower portion of the ice making tray 21 and a lateral face portion 25b that extends upward from the bottom face portion 25a and covers 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, and the lateral face portion 25b is formed so as to extend from the bottom face portion 25a to an upper portion of the ice making pockets 22. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
