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US 8,075,072 B2Granted
Home bar and refrigerator including the home bar
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorYoung Hoon Gwak
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Abstract
Provided are a home bar and a refrigerator including the home bar. The home bar includes a home-bar frame, a home-bar door, and a damping hinge. The home-bar frame is mounted on a refrigerator door around an opening formed through the refrigerator door. The home-bar door is rotatably mounted on the home-bar frame for selectively opening and closing the opening. The damping hinge is detachably installed on the home-bar frame and is coupled to a side of the home-bar door for dampening a rotation force of the home-bar door. Therefore, the home bar can be easily repaired or replaced with low costs.
Claims12
A home bar comprising:
- a home-bar frame mounted on a refrigerator door around an opening formed through the refrigerator door;
- a home-bar door rotatably mounted on the home-bar frame for selectively opening and closing the opening;
- a rotation shaft disposed at each side of the home-bar door for rotatably installing the home-bar door;
- an accommodation portion formed by recessing a portion of a side of the home-bar frame and opened toward the opening side of the home-bar frame;
- a damping hinge inserted in the accommodation portion and coupled with the rotation shaft for dampening rotation of the home-bar door;
- a shield member disposed at a side of the home-bar frame for selectively covering the damping hinge;
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- an insertion hole formed through the shield member so that the rotation shaft is inserted into the insertion hole to connect the damping hinge,
- wherein the shield member and damping hinge are detached from the home-bar frame through the opening of the home-bar frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.