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US 11,112,170 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasukiyo Murata, Morio Yoshimoto
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Abstract
A door driving system and a refrigerator having the door driving system according to the present invention are provided with a motor, a power transmitting device for transmitting the power generated by the motor to the hinge, and an auxiliary device for receiving the power generated by the motor and generating an auxiliary force to move a door positioned in a closing position in an opening direction, so that the torque to be applied to the hinge of the door for opening and closing the door may be reduced.
Claims14
A refrigerator comprising:
- a housing including a storage chamber, the storage chamber including at least one side wall and a rear wall;
- a door configured to open and close the storage chamber and including:
- an inside facing the storage chamber,
- a throat portion protruding outward from the inside of the door, and
- a storage pocket mounted to the throat portion on the inside of the door;
- a hinge rotatably coupling the door to the housing;
- a driver including at least one motor for automatically opening and closing the door;
- a camera casing disposed on a side of the throat portion;
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- a camera disposed inside the camera casing and facing in a direction opposite to the side of the throat portion, wherein the side is adjacent to the hinge such that an optical axis of the camera is directed to the at least one side wall of the storage chamber when the door is in a closed position, the camera configured to photograph the storage chamber when the door is opened to a predetermined angle greater than 90 degrees by the driver.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.