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US 12,716,640 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyungkwen Ham, Namsoo Park, Jaemin Park, Youngkyun Jeong
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door configured to open or close the cabinet; a fixing bracket fixed to the cabinet; a moving bracket under the fixing bracket to be movable with respect to the fixing bracket; a hinge bracket on the moving bracket and including a hinge shaft rotatably coupled to a lower end of the door; and a hinge shaft adjuster configured to move the moving bracket in a forward direction or a backward direction with respect to a front surface of the cabinet.
Claims8
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a door configured to open or close the cabinet;
- a fixing bracket fixed to the cabinet, the fixing bracket including an adjusting bolt hole;
- a moving bracket under the fixing bracket to be movable with respect to the fixing bracket, the moving bracket including an adjusting hole corresponding to the adjusting bolt hole;
- a hinge bracket fixed to the moving bracket, the hinge bracket including:
- a central hole corresponding to the adjusting hole of the moving bracket;
- and
- a hinge shaft rotatably coupled to a lower end of the door;
- and
- a hinge shaft adjuster configured to move the moving bracket in a forward direction or a rearward direction with respect to a front surface of the cabinet, the hinge shaft adjuster including a front and rear adjusting bolt fastened to the adjusting bolt hole of the fixing bracket and configured to move the moving bracket in a forward direction or a rearward direction with respect to the fixing bracket,
- wherein the front and rear adjusting bolt is accessible through the central hole of the hinge bracket and the adjusting hole of the moving bracket so that in response to turning the front and rear adjusting bolt, the moving bracket is moved in the forward direction or the rearward direction with respect to the fixing bracket, and
- based on the moving bracket moving in the forward direction or the rearward direction, the front and rear adjusting bolt moves in the forward direction or the rearward direction together with the moving bracket.
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