Smart ice machine with separately fabricated cups for the ice tray
US11598568B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 19, 2017 |
| Grant date | Mar 7, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 16, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF25C2700/00
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An ice-tray for ice-making machines is formed by modular fabricated cups that can assembled together within a frame to create an ice-tray of arbitrary dimensions allowing a sharing of components among a variety of ice-tray sizes. Individual cups may include ice formation sensors or heaters or may be heated by an induction heating system.
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