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US 2022/0307698 A1Published application
Door assembly and a cooking appliance therewith
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSiyoung RYU, Dongmin Lee
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Abstract
A cooling appliance including a locking mechanism configured to fix the door to the main body at a different position from the latch mechanism, in a state where the door fixed to the main body by the latch mechanism closes the cooking chamber, wherein the locking mechanism provided in the door may include a shaft moved to a fixing position, at which the shaft is coupled to the hinge member, or a releasing position, at which the shaft is released from the coupling state, by a repeated pressing manipulation.
Claims16
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a main body having a cooking chamber is formede;
- a hinge member disposed at a first lateral side of the main body;
- a door rotatably coupled to the hinge member and configured to open and close the cooking chamber;
- a latch mechanism provided in the door and configured to fix the door to the main body by engaging with the main body at a second lateral side of the main body;
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- a locking mechanism configured to fix the door to the main body at a different position from the latch mechanism, in a state where the cooking chamber is closed by the door fixed to the main body by the latch mechanism,
- wherein the locking mechanism provided in the door comprises a shaft configured to move to a fixing position, at which the shaft is coupled to the hinge member, or a releasing position, at which the shaft is released from the coupling state, by a user's pressing manipulation of the locking mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.