Refrigerator and control method thereof

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2005-12-27

2005-12-27

Tapolcai, William E. (Department: 3744)

Refrigeration

Processes

Congealing flowable material, e.g., ice making

C062S188000, C062S347000, C137S487500

Reexamination Certificate

active

06978626

ABSTRACT:
A refrigerator for supplying a proper amount of water and a control method thereof. The refrigerator is optimally operated in ice-making and ice-separating modes based on the amount of water supplied for making ice cubes, and a control method thereof. The method includes the steps of (a) determining whether or not a proper amount of water is supplied to an ice cube tray in an earlier water supply mode; (b) maintaining the amount of the supplied water in the earlier water supply mode to the amount of the supplied water in a present water supply mode in case that the proper amount of the water is supplied to the ice cube tray in the earlier water supply mode, and resetting the amount of the supplied water in the present water supply mode by increasing the amount of the supplied water in the earlier water supply mode in case that the proper amount of the water is not supplied to the ice cube tray in the earlier water supply mode; and (c) supplying the water according to the amount of the supplied water in the present water supply mode.

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