Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorHyungkyu PARK
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage space; a door opening and closing the storage space and filled with an insulator therein; a cap decoration forming at least a portion of a circumferential surface of the door and having a recessed handle; and a door opening device provided on the door and operated by a user to open the door, in which the door opening device includes a case mounted on the cap decoration and forming a space independent of the insulator inside the door; and an operating member operably mounted inside the case, and a handle opening communicating with the case and the handle is formed in the cap decoration, and the operating member passes through the handle opening and extends into the handle.
Claims20
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having a storage space;
- a door configured to open and close the storage space, the door including:
- an insulator located within the door;
- a cap decoration defining at least a portion of a perimeter of the door, the cap decoration having:
- a recessed handle;
- and
- a handle opening communicating with the case and the handle;
- a door opening device provided on the door, the door opening device being configured to be operated by a user to open the door, the door opening device including:
- a case mounted on the cap decoration, the case defining a space independent of the insulator and inside the door;
- and
- an operating member operably mounted in the space of the case, the operating member passing through the handle opening and extending into the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.