Storage device and door holder for same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJeong-man Nam
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Abstract
A storage device including: a body having a storage compartment with an opening; and a door assembly accommodated in the storage compartment to slidably open/close the opening; and a door holding device. The door holding device includes a hooking part on one of the door assembly and the body to prevent a sliding of the door assembly when the door assembly opens/closes the opening, and a hook on the other one of the door assembly and the main body and which rotates between a first position at which the hook is hooked with the hooking part when the door assembly closes the opening and a second position at which the hook is released from the hooking part when the door assembly opens the opening.
Claims25
A storage device comprising:
- a main body having a storage compartment with an opening;
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- a door assembly accommodated in the storage compartment to slidably open/close the opening;
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- a door holding device including
- a hooking part on the door assembly to prevent a sliding of the door assembly when the door assembly opens/closes the opening,
- a hook on the main body
- a hinge shaft which rotatably supports the hook, with the hook being located on a side of the main body forming the storage compartment, wherein the hook rotates with respect to the hinge shaft between a first position at which the hook is hooked with the hooking part when the door assembly closes the opening and a second position at which the hook is released from the hooking part when the door assembly opens the opening,
- an elastic member to elastically rotate the hook with respect to the hinge shaft, and
- a roller directly connected to the elastic member and located between the hook and the elastic member to rollingly contact a part of the hook when the hook rotates with respect to the hooking part.
A door holding device for a door assembly which opens/closes an opening in, a main body of an enclosure, comprising:
- a hooking part disposed on, the door assembly, to prevent the door assembly from sliding when the door assembly opens/closes the opening;
- a hook on the, main body;
- a hinge shaft which rotatably supports the hook, with the hook being located, on a side of the main body forming the storage compartment, wherein the hook, rotates with respect to the hinge shaft between a first position at which the hook is hooked with the looking part when the door assembly closes the opening and a second position at which the hook is released from the hooking part when the door assembly opens the opening;
- an elastic member to elastically rotate the hook with respect to the hinge shaft;
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- a roller directly connected to the elastic member and located between the hook and the elastic member to rollingly contact a part of the hook when the hook rotates with respect to the hooking part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.