Refrigerator
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoungil SONG, Byoungmok KIM, Ilsung BAE, Jisu RHIE, Inyong HWANG
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a main body including a storage compartment, a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the storage compartment, and a front panel detachably coupled to the door body. The door body includes an upper cap including a trim receiving space. The front panel includes an upper trim inserted into the trim receiving space. A voice path is formed in the upper cap and a microphone module is provided in the upper trim to receive voice through the voice path.
Claims20
A refrigerator comprising:
- a main body having a storage compartment;
- a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and dose the storage compartment, the door body including:
- a door outer plate forming a front surface of the door body, and
- an upper cap coupled to an upper portion of the door outer plate, the upper cap having a fixer opening on an upper side of the upper cap, a trim opening on a front side of the upper door cap, and a trim receiving space;
- a front panel including an upper trim;
- a fixer;
- and
- a microphone module coupled to the upper trim,
- wherein the door body, the front panel, and the fixer are configured so that
- the upper trim is insertable into the trim receiving space through the trim opening, and,
- with the upper trim inserted into the trim receiving space through the trim opening, the fixer is insertable into the trim receiving space through the fixer opening to be coupled to the upper trim, to detachably couple the front panel to a front side of the door body with the microphone module disposed in the trim receiving space to receive voice through a voice path formed in the upper cap.
A refrigerator comprising:
- a main body comprising a storage compartment;
- a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and dose the storage compartment, the door body comprising a door outer plate forming a front surface of the door body and an upper cap coupled to an upper portion of the door outer plate and comprising a trim receiving space;
- a front panel detachably coupled to a front side of the door body and comprising an upper trim inserted into the trim receiving space through a trim opening formed on a front side of the upper cap;
- a fixer inserted into the trim receiving space through a fixer opening formed on an upper side of the upper cap, the fixer coupled to the upper trim;
- and
- a microphone module coupled to the upper trim and disposed in the trim receiving space together with the upper trim,
- wherein the upper cap comprises:
- a cap body,
- a front upper wall arranged on a front upper side of the cap body, and provided in such a way that the trim receiving space is formed below the front upper wall, and
- a stepped member formed by bending upward from the front upper wall to allow a voice path provided to receive voice to be formed between the front panel and the stepped member.
A home appliance comprising:
- a main body providing a cavity;
- a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the cavity, and having a trim receiving space in an upper portion of the door body;
- a front panel detachably coupled to a front side of the door body and including an upper trim protruding rearward from an upper portion of a rear surface of the front panel and received in the trim receiving space;
- and
- a microphone module coupled to the upper trim and disposed in the trim receiving space together with the upper trim,
- wherein the door body has a voice path between an outside of the door body and the trim receiving space to allow voice to be received by the microphone module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.