Ice machine

Abstract

An ice making machine comprising a housing, an evaporator connected to a freezing system, a base frame having a lower surface and a multiplicity of freezing cells for retaining water to be frozen, a freezing base plate provided adjacent to the evaporator and the freezing base plate having freezing fingers formed on the lower surface of the freezing base plate to be dipped into the water retained by the freezing cells, and an ultrasonic transducer for removing air bubbles inside the water by vibrating the water contained in the freezing cells with ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic transducer preferably is disposed on the lower surface of the base frame.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to an ice maker, and more particularly, to an ice maker capable of shortening the ice making time and minimizing the amount of wasted water. Background technique [0002] An ice maker is a device that makes ice cubes by freezing water supplied from an external water source. Recently, an ice maker capable of preventing cloudiness of ice cubes due to freezing of air bubbles in water has been proposed. [0003] figure 1 with 2 Shown is a conventional ice maker as disclosed in US Patent No. 5,425,243. Such as figure 1 with 2 As shown, a conventional ice maker includes a cabinet 10 , a freezing unit 20 and an air removal device 30 . [0004] The cabinet 10 of the ice maker includes an ice storage bin 11 for storing ice cubes made by the freezing unit 20 . The compressor 12 and the condenser 13 are placed below the ice storage bin 11 inside the cabinet 10 . [0005] Such as figure 2 As shown, the freezing uni...

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Problems solved by technology

[0012] Such conventional ice makers require more water than is actually frozen, and since the sink is designed to hold more water than is required to make ice cubes, a large amount of water directed into the water collection area 15 is wasted

[0013] In addition, since the freezing fingers 24 not only cool the water to be cooled, but also cool all the water in the tank 21, the time required to freeze the water around the freezing fingers 24 is unnecessarily prolonged, resulting in energy consume too much

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