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US 10,852,053 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYong Bum Seo, Keon Pyo Koo, Chun Youp Shin, Woo Yeol Yoo, Jeong Hyun Lee
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator which includes: a main body having an opening, and including a storage chamber therein; a door configured to open or close the opening; a camera unit disposed in the door, and configured to photograph the storage chamber, wherein the camera unit faces the storage chamber selectively by interworking with opening or closing of the door. With this configuration, it may look in the storage chamber of the refrigerator without opening any door and minimize exposure of the camera unit to the outside.
Claims13
A refrigerator comprising:
- a main body having a storage room;
- a first door and a second door configured to open or close the storage room;
- and
- a rotation bar rotatably coupled with the first door, the rotation bar being configured to cover a gap between the first door and the second door,
- wherein the rotation bar comprises:
- a case formed with an accommodating space and a hole through a side of the case,
- a camera assembly installed to the case, the camera assembly including a front side facing the hole, and
- an insulating member formed to be disposed in the accommodating space of the case and having a groove arranged so that the camera assembly installed in the case is seated in the groove of the insulating member to have the insulating member surround exterior sides of the camera assembly except the front side such that the front side of the camera assembly is uncovered by the insulating member, and
- wherein the camera assembly includes:
- a camera configured to photograph the storage room through the hole of the case while the camera is facing the storage room, and
- a heating device configured to generate heat to be transferred to the front side of the camera assembly,
- wherein the rotation bar rotates such that the front side of the camera assembly faces the storage room as the first door closes, and the rotation bar rotates such that the front side of the camera assembly faces away from the storage room as the first door opens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.