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US 11,136,798 B2Granted
Home appliance having leveling door handle
AssigneesSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seowon Korea Co., Ltd.
InventorsWan Gi Park, Ji-Hoon Choi, Young Jun Cho, Han Seong Kang, Hwa Gyu Reo, Simon Ireland, Byeong Woo Ahn, Pung Yeun Cho, June Young Lee
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Abstract
A home appliance in which an opening and closing operation of a door and a turning operation of a handle are connected through five joints, so that the turning operation of the handle can be performed smoothly, and a latch for fixing the door to a body moves to a position parallel to the door when the door is opened, so that a user is prevented from being interfered with the latch while opening the door and using a cavity of the home appliance.
Claims9
A home appliance comprising:
- a body having a cavity;
- a door rotatably coupled to the body to open and close the cavity;
- a handle rotataby coupled to a bracket on the door;
- a hinge bracket hingedly coupling the door to the body;
- a latch coupled to the door, the latch being configured to fix the door to the body when the door closes the cavity of the body of the home appliance in a latch position and to unfix the door from the body in an unlatched position;
- and
- first and second link rods positioned on the door, the first link rod having one end operatively coupled to the hinge bracket and an opposed end coupled to the second link rod, and an opposed end of the second link rod is operatively coupled to the bracket,
- wherein, when the handle is pulled in order to move the door to open the cavity,
- the hinge bracket linearly moves the first and second link rods toward the hinge bracket, and
- the handle is then capable of rotating, allowing a portion of the second link rod to press a portion of the latch in order to move the latch toward the unlatched position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.