Door assembly of a refrigerator appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsJeffery Allen Tupis, Brittany Willis
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Abstract
A door assembly for an appliance includes a door frame defining a perimeter of the door assembly, an outer door panel mounted to the door frame, wherein a magnetic material is applied to at least a portion of the outer door panel, and one or more magnets mounted to the door frame, the one or more magnets being mechanically coupled to the magnetic material to attach the outer door panel to the door frame.
Claims20
A refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the refrigerator appliance comprising:
- a cabinet defining a chilled chamber;
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- a door assembly rotatably mounted to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, the door assembly comprising:
- a door frame defining a perimeter of the door assembly;
- an outer door panel mounted to the door frame, wherein a magnetic material is applied to at least a portion of the outer door panel;
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- one or more magnets mounted to the door frame, the one or more magnets being mechanically coupled to the magnetic material to attach the outer door panel to the door frame.
A door assembly for an appliance, the appliance comprising a cabinet defining an internal chamber, the door assembly comprising:
- a door frame defining a perimeter of the door assembly;
- an outer door panel mounted to the door frame, wherein a magnetic material is applied to at least a portion of the outer door panel;
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- one or more magnets mounted to the door frame, the one or more magnets being mechanically coupled to the magnetic material to attach the outer door panel to the door frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.