Refrigerator and control method thereof
AssigneesQingdao Haier Refrigerator Co., Ltd., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
InventorsMingyong Liu, Ning Wang, Shidong Li, Yuan Wang, Heng Zhang
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a refrigerator and a control method thereof. The refrigerator comprises a door body with an inner door and an outer door, a locking mechanism for locking the outer door, an unlocking mechanism for unlocking the outer door, and a detection unit for detecting an open state and a closed state of the inner door. The present disclosure avoids damages caused by collision between the inner door and the outer door when the outer door is opened, and also avoids simultaneous opening of the inner door and outer door and facilitates the user to use and achieves an energy-saving effect.
Claims10
A refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door body which surrounds together with the cabinet to form a refrigerating compartment, and a control unit, the door body comprising an inner door and an outer door rotatably coupled to the cabinet, the refrigerator further comprising a locking mechanism for locking the outer door and an unlocking mechanism for unlocking the outer door, the unlocking mechanism comprising a sensor disposed on the outer door and configured to obtain a door-opening signal of the outer door, and an unlocking unit for unlocking the locking mechanism, the sensor and the unlocking unit being both communicatively connected with the control unit;
- wherein the refrigerator further comprises a detection unit which is configured to detect an open state or a closed state of the inner door and is communicatively connected with the control unit;
- the control unit controls the unlocking unit to unlock the locking mechanism upon receiving the door-opening signal of the sensor and judging that the inner door is in the closed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.