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US 11,635,247 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByoung Mok Kim, Jae Young Choi, Yong Bum Seo, Sang Gyu Jung, Jeong Hyun Lee
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator in which the structure of a door is improved. The refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open or close the storage compartment and having a door frame, a coupling member coupled to the door frame, and a door handle coupled with the coupling member in a sliding manner.
Claims5
A refrigerator comprising:
- a main body having a storage compartment;
- an inner door rotatably couplable to the main body to open and close the storage compartment, and having an inner door frame including a first coupling hole and a second coupling hole passing through a front surface of the inner door frame, and the second coupling hole formed to extend from the first coupling hole and larger than the first coupling hole;
- an outer door rotatably couplable to the inner door;
- an inner door handle couplable to the inner door frame to open the inner door together with the outer door;
- an outer door handle, provided at the outer door to open the outer door, and configured to cover the inner door handle;
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- a coupling member including a first coupling portion couplable to the first coupling hole and a second coupling portion formed to be extended upward from the first coupling portion and having a smaller length protruding forward than the first coupling portion, the coupling member further including a supporting portion couplable to a rear surface of the inner door frame, and a frame engaging portion extended forward from the supporting portion and disposed at the front surface of the inner door frame so that the coupling member is couplable to the inner door frame in a sliding manner,
- wherein the first coupling portion comprises a handle engaging portion extended forward from the frame engaging portion so that the inner door handle is coupled to the coupling member in a sliding manner,
- wherein the inner door handle includes a receiving portion couplable with the coupling member, the receiving portion comprising a first receiving portion in which the frame engaging portion is receivable and a second receiving portion in which the handle engaging portion is receivable, and a protruding portion protruding inward of the receiving portion between the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion to prevent the inner door handle from being detached from the coupling member along a forward direction, and
- wherein a width of the frame engaging portion is larger than a width of the first coupling hole, and smaller than a width of the second coupling hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.