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US 2017/0284730 A1Published application
Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsWoo Yeol YOO, Hyun Sang YOO, Byoung Mok KIM, Seong Woo KIM
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Abstract
A refrigerator capable of varying the positions of a plurality of door guards provided at an opening of a refrigerating door, in which when an outer door configured to open and close the opening is closed in a state that a door guard is withdrawn, the door guard comes into contact with the outer door and thus is automatically inserted.
Claims1
A refrigerator comprising:
- a body;
- a storage compartment provided at an inside of the body so as to be open at a front surface thereof, and having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment;
- an inner door formed with an opening in which a plurality of door guards are provided, the inner door being configured to open and close the refrigerating compartment;
- an outer door to open and close the opening provided at the inner door;
- a guide rail allowing at least one of the plurality of door guards to be inserted and withdrawn in a sliding manner;
- a slide unit connected to the at least one door guard, wherein the slide unit is capable of sliding along the guide rail such that the at least one door guard can be inserted or withdrawn;
- an elastic unit coupled to the slide unit to transmit a tensile force in a direction of the at least one door guard being inserted;
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- an automatic closing unit coupled to the at least one door guard, and configured to allow the elastic unit to transmit the tensile force to the at least one door guard when the outer door is closing, whereby the closing outer door comes into contact with the at least one door guard when the at least one door guard is withdrawn.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.