A refrigerator includes a cabinet with a plurality of walls and a compartment area for storing food within the cabinet. A door is configured to seal the compartment area. A refrigeration component is disposed within the cabinet. A wall panel is positioned within the cabinet and includes a three-dimensional molded surface with non-uniformly spaced peaks and valleys and a lighting structure. The wall panel extends from a lower end of the compartment area to an upper end of the compartment area. The wall panel separates the compartment area from the refrigeration component and is coextensive with one of the plurality of walls of the cabinet.

Provided is a refrigerator having an opening/closing device with an improved structure which allows a storage box to be automatically inserted and withdrawn according to the opening and closing of a door and allows the storage box to be further pushed backward while the door is closed. The refrigerator includes a main body, a storage chamber having a front side that is open, and provided at an inside with a storage box that is movable in a front-rear direction, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the storage chamber, and provided at a rear surface with a pusher that protrudes in a direction toward the storage chamber, and an opening and closing device provided at one side of the storage box, and formed to allow the storage box to be moved in the front and rear direction according to the opening and closing of the door, wherein the opening and closing device includes a rack gear configured to move in a front and rear direction according to the opening and closing of the door, a locking member rotatably coupled to the rack gear to be locked with and released from the storage box, the locking member configured to move in the front and rear direction together with the rack gear, and a catcher configured to rotate to be caught with and released from the pusher according to the opening and closing of the door, wherein the catcher is rotated to be caught with the pusher when the door is a closed state to push the rack gear such that the rack gear is moved backward.

A sealing assembly seals an area between a door and a cabinet of a cooling device having a refrigeration compartment with two doors and a rotating bar pivotally mounted to one of the doors. The sealing assembly having a magnet chamber which defines a receiving cavity for accommodating a magnetic element, a first air chamber provided at one side of the sealing assembly, an attachment portion for attaching the sealing assembly to the door of the cooling device, a second air chamber provided between the magnet chamber and the first air chamber; and a first sealing flap adapted to form a closed region for sealing a space thereof. The sealing assembly further contains a second sealing flap extending as a free end towards the rotating bar. Moreover, a cooling device ideally contains such sealing assemblies.

A water purifying apparatus including a head having a water inlet portion and a water outlet portion; a shaft provided in the head and rotatably mounted between the water inlet portion and the water outlet portion; a bypass flow path passing through a circumference of the shaft, and communicating the water inlet portion with the water outlet portion according to rotation of the shaft; a filter detachably mounted to the head, and having a filter inserting portion in which the shaft is inserted when being mounted on the head; and a filtering flow path in which an inlet port and an outlet port are formed on the circumference of the shaft in a direction intersecting the bypass flow path, and communicated between the filter, the water inlet portion and the water outlet portion with each other according to the rotation of the shaft.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for controlling a refrigerator, the refrigerator including an ice mater including a first tray and a second try provided in a storage space and coupled to each other to define a ice chamber and a driving part that rotates the second tray, a first heater provided in the first tray to heat the first tray, a second heater provided in the second tray to heat the second tray, and an ejector provided below the second tray to press an external portion of the second tray to separate ice from the second tray when the second tray is rotated for ice separation, and a controller that controls operation of the ice maker, the method including starting ice making by supplying water to the ice chamber; heating the second tray by turning on the second heater during ice making; heating the first tray by turning on the first heater for ice separation after completion of ice making; and heating the second tray by turning on the second heater for ice separation.

The present invention relates to a refrigerator and, particularly, to a refrigerator comprising: a body which comprises an outer case having an opening formed in the rear wall thereof, and inner case provided inside the outer case to provide an ice-making compartment and a refrigerating compartment in the upper portion thereof and provide a freezing compartment in the lower portion thereof; an evaporator case which is provided between the outer case and the inner case, and has an installation space communicating with the ice-making compartment and the opening; an evaporator which is installed in the installation space through the opening to provide cold air to the ice-making compartment; and a mounting part which is recessed inward in the inner case and to which the evaporator case is mounted, whereby the evaporator case, which allows the evaporator to be installed from outside the rear of the body, can be easily mounted at an exact position between the outer case and the inner case.

A refrigerator and method utilize a pair of tandem evaporators to provide cooling for both a compartment and an ice making system of a refrigerator. An upstream evaporator in the pair of tandem evaporators provides cooling for a compartment such as a freezer, fresh food, flexible cooling, or quick cooling compartment, while a downstream evaporator is in fluid communication with the upstream evaporator to receive a portion of the air cooled by the upstream evaporator and further cool the received portion for use in cooling one or more components of the ice making system.

A vacuum adiabatic body includes a conductive resistance sheet which blocks heat conduction between plate members, and a sealing frame which covers the conductive resistance sheet. The sealing frame includes a side surface part, an outer surface part which is bent and extends from a side of the side surface part, and an inner surface part which is bent and extends from the other side of the side surface part. The sealing frame is provided as a configuration of a concave groove in which the width between the outer surface part and the inner surface part is smaller than the width of the side surface part. According to the present invention, a peripheral portion of the vacuum adiabatic body can be stably maintained.

A water pocket with an open top side is filled with water, mounted in a regular position on a supporting frame, and tilts to supply the water stored in the water pocket to an ice making tray, thereby easily supplying a required amount of water to the ice making tray. A refrigerator includes an ice making tray provided to linearly move with rotation when ice of the ice making tray is separated, or includes a holding preventing member which prevents the ice from being caught by a lower ice making tray, thereby improving a forward-and-backward width of an ice maker. It is possible to easily withdraw ice stored in an ice bucket by pushing an ice discharge button in a state in which the ice bucket is not separated.

A refrigerator includes a body including a first storage compartment and a second storage compartment; an evaporator provided in the second storage compartment and configured to supply cold air to the first storage compartment and the second storage compartment; an evaporator cover mounted to the body to cover the evaporator and including at least a first return flow path communicably connected to the first storage compartment; and an insulating partition provided between the first storage compartment and the second storage compartment and including a partition return flow path communicably connecting the first storage compartment and the first return flow path.