US 11,255,600 B2Granted

Refrigerator

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsYoung Bae Hong, Sung Cheul Park, Youn Tae Shin, Oun Gu Lee

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Abstract

In a refrigerator including a sliding door configured to open and close a storage chamber, a storage basket provided on a rear portion of the sliding door, and a support frame configured to support the sliding door and the storage basket, sidewalls of the storage basket may be formed so as to protrude outwardly except a lower portion in which the support frame is disposed between an inner case and the sidewalls, thereby increasing a storage space of the storage basket. In addition, a front protrusion, an auxiliary protrusion, and a rear protrusion are formed in an upper portion of the storage basket, and therefore a relative position of an auxiliary basket to the storage basket may be limited, and the auxiliary basket may be drawn into and out in conjunction with drawn-in and -out movements of the storage basket.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A refrigerator comprising:

a main body;
a storage compartment provided in the main body and including an opening;
a door to open or close the opening of the storage compartment;
a storage basket which moves together with the door to be drawn into or out of the storage compartment;
and
an auxiliary basket supported by the storage basket, the auxiliary basket including a roller;
wherein the storage basket includes:
a roller support surface configured to support the roller on an upper portion of the storage basket,
a front protrusion protruding upward from a front portion of the roller support surface to restrict a forward movement of the auxiliary basket,
a rear protrusion protruding upward from a rear portion of the roller support surface to restrict a backward movement of the auxiliary basket, and
an auxiliary protrusion protruding upward from the roller support surface between the front protrusion and the rear protrusion with a level portion of the roller support surface being between the auxiliary protrusion and the front protrusion, to impede a movement of the roller such that the auxiliary basket is drawn out together with the storage basket when the door is being opened while the roller is disposed between the front protrusion and the auxiliary protrusion,
wherein the auxiliary protrusion includes:
a first portion formed in a shape such that a height of the first portion decreases toward a front of the storage compartment, and
a second portion formed in a shape such that a height of the second portion decreases toward a rear of the storage compartment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/928,771Filed 14 Jul 2020 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2012-003749910 Apr 2012
Published: US 2020/0340733 A129 Oct 2020
Granted: 22 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

F25D 25/025
Slidable shelves: drawers
A47B 88/75
Coupled drawers: the secondary drawer being in or above the primary drawer
F25D 11/02
Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic refrigerators: with cooling compartments at different temperatures
F25D 23/02
General constructional features: doors; Covers

Family

Application13/859,337Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Apr 2013
Application15/270,521Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Sep 2016
US 9,557,096 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Jan 2017
Application16/190,816Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Nov 2018
US 2020/0340733 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Oct 2020
US 10,782,064 B2Parent of this continuation
US 11,035,608 B2Related patent
US 2013/0264928 A1Published application
US 2017/0010039 A1Published application
US 2019/0078834 A1Published application
US 11,255,600 B2This patent

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