Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerator and control method thereof
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Application No.: US15516613Application Date: 2015-08-07
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Publication No.: US10280061B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Kyung Tae Ko , Seung Wan Kang , Soo Kang Kim , Sung Ho Cho
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Staas & Halsey LLP
- Priority: KR10-2014-0132517 20141001
- International Application: PCT/KR2015/008303 WO 20150807
- International Announcement: WO2016/052857 WO 20160407
- Main IPC: B01F3/04
- IPC: B01F3/04 ; B67D1/08 ; F25D23/12 ; F25D31/00 ; A23L2/42 ; A23L2/54 ; B67D1/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator and a control method thereof. The refrigerator includes a purified water tank to store water, a flow sensor to detect an amount of water supplied to the purified water tank, a purified water supply valve to open/close a purified water supply flow path to guide water stored in the purified water tank to the carbonated water tank, a carbonated water discharge valve to open/close a carbonated water discharge flow path to guide the carbonated water to the outside of the refrigerator, and a controller to detect a position where water leakage occurs by sequentially opening the purified water supply valve and the carbonated water discharge valve in a water leakage mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170297891A1 REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2017-10-19
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