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US 10,517,397 B2Granted
Drawer rail and home appliance including the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorHyeseong Min
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AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorHyeseong Min
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A drawer rail and a home appliance including the same are disclosed. The home appliance includes a drawer rail configured to withdraw an item accommodation unit provided in a storage chamber. The drawer rail includes a first rail mounted to the storage chamber, a second rail coupled to the item accommodation unit, a third rail disposed between the first rail and the second rail, a first retainer disposed between the first rail and the third rail to allow relative sliding movement, a second retainer disposed between the second rail and the third rail to allow relative sliding movement, a first stopper for limiting an allowable relative sliding distance between the first rail and the third rail, and a second stopper for limiting an allowable relative sliding distance between the second rail and the third rail.
A home appliance defining a storage chamber configured to receive an item accommodation unit, the home appliance comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Safety devices or the like for drawers: preventing complete withdrawal of the drawer
Braking devices, e.g. linear or rotational dampers or friction brakes; Buffers; End stops: buffers; End stops
With double extensible guides or parts: with rollers, ball bearings, wheels, or the like
Racks ; Baskets: arrangements for extracting racks, e.g. roller supports
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This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2017-0002098, filed on Jan. 5, 2017, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
The present invention relates to a drawer rail and a home appliance including the same.
Generally, a home appliance, such as a refrigerator, a dishwasher, etc., includes a drawer, a shelf or a basket in order to accommodate items therein. Such an item accommodation unit is provided so as to be movable forwards and backwards. For example, the item accommodation unit of a dishwasher is a basket. A user may draw out the basket by pulling the same to put or take dishes in or out of the basket. Thereafter, the user may push the basket into the dishwasher.
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principle of the invention. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 illustrates the appearance of a drawer rail according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is applicable to a home appliance;
FIG. 2 illustrates a first rail of the drawer rail shown in FIG. 1;
Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
Hereinafter, a drawer rail will be described in brief with reference to FIG. 1. For convenience of explanation, a home appliance to which the drawer rail according to the embodiment is mounted will be described as being a dishwasher by way of example. However, the disclosure is not limited thereto.
The drawer rail 100 may include a first rail 200, a second rail 300, and a third rail 400.