US 2022/0090847 A1Published application

Refrigerator

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSeok Jun YOON, Young Jae SONG, Seung Yong YANG, Sung Sik MOON, Ho June JEON, Kyung Han JEONG

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Abstract

Provided is a refrigerator which allows a pivoting bar to pivot to seal a gap between a pair of doors regardless of whether the door at which the pivoting bar is not installed between the pair of doors is open or closed. The refrigerator includes a guide device which induces the pivoting bar to pivot. Here, the guide device includes a rack that is moved forward and backward linearly depending on opening and closing of the second door and includes a second magnet built therein, a pinion gear engaged with the rack and pivoting when the rack is moved linearly, and a guide unit which includes a guide groove guiding a guide protrusion and is engaged with the pinion gear to move linearly in a direction opposite to that of the rack to allow the pivoting bar to pivot when the pinion gear pivots.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A refrigerator comprising:

a body;
a storage compartment provided in the body and having a front side;
a first door and a second door coupled to the body to open or close the front side of the storage compartment;
a rotating bar coupled to the first door;
and
a guide assembly provided at the body to guide the rotating bar, wherein the guide assembly comprises:
a moveable member configured to move in a first direction as the second door is being opened, and to move in a second direction as the second door is being closed, the first direction being opposite to the second direction, and
a guide configured to move away from the front side as the moveable member moves in the first direction while the first door is closed so that the rotating bar rotates away from the second door, and to move toward the front side as the moveable member moves in the second direction while the first door is closed so that the rotating bar rotates toward the second door.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/544,421Filed 7 Dec 2021
Priority: KR 10-2014-00020117 Jan 2014
Published: 24 Mar 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

F25D 23/028
Doors; Covers: details
E06B 7/18
Sealing arrangements on wings or parts co-operating with the wings: by means of movable edgings, e.g. draught sealings additionally used for…
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

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