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AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung Mo Kim, Jong Hoon Oh, Sang Hyuk Kang, Youn Tae Shin, Jae Kyoung Jang, Il Young Jung
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A refrigerator which improves the structure of an auto closing apparatus, increases the sealing ability of a door, and omits mounting of a separate spring. The refrigerator includes at least one door opening and closing at least one storage chamber provided in a main body, at least one upper hinge module including a body part and an extension part rotatably coupled to the at least one door, at least one lower hinge module, a door cap installed on an upper portion of the at least one door and including a hinge receiving part, an auto close lever coupled to the door cap and has elasticity to transmit elastic force to the door, and a cam member including a cam surface contacting the auto close lever so that the auto close lever accumulates elastic force and then transmits the elastic force to the door when the door is closed.
A refrigerator comprising:
A refrigerator which has a main body, at least one storage chamber having an opened front portion and provided in the main body, and at least one door rotatably coupled to the main body and opening and closing the at least one storage chamber, the refrigerator comprising:
A refrigerator comprising:
A semi-auto closing apparatus transmitting force to a door rotatably coupled to a refrigerator main body by an upper hinge module in a closing direction of the door when the door is closed, the semi-auto closing apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Closers or openers for wings, not otherwise provided for in this subclass
General constructional features
Doors; Covers: details
For swinging wings , e.g. counterbalance: with a leaf or similar spring
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This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2012-0037439, filed on Apr. 10, 2012 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semi-auto closing apparatus and a refrigerator having the same.
These and/or other aspects of the disclosure will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating combination of an auto close lever and a cam member with an upper hinge module and a door cap in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.
As shown in FIG. 1, a refrigerator in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a main body 10, storage chambers 20, each of which is provided with an opened front portion, provided in the main body 10, doors 30 opening and closing the storage chambers 20, a sliding apparatus 40 causing a freezing chamber door 33 opening and closing a freezing chamber 23 and provided in the lower portion of the main body 10 among the storage chambers 20 to be slidably installed with the main body 10, upper hinge modules 50 causing refrigerating chamber doors 31 opening and closing a refrigerating chamber 32 and provided in the upper portion of the main body 10 among the storage chambers 20 to be rotatably installed on the main body 10, lower hinge modules 70 installed on the main body 10 and rotatably coupled to a lower portion of the refrigerating chamber doors 31, door caps 60 installed on the upper portions of the refrigerating chamber doors 31, and semi-auto closing apparatuses 100 transmitting force to the refrigerating chamber doors 31 in a direction of closing the refrigerating chamber doors 31 when the refrigerating chamber doors 31 are closed. Further, the refrigerator may include a main body, at least one storage chamber, at least one door, at least one upper hinge module, at least one lower hinge module, a door cap, an auto close lever, and a cam member.
As shown in FIG. 1, the main body 10 includes an inner case (not shown) forming the storage chambers 20, an outer case (not shown) forming the external appearance of the main body 10, and a cold air supply apparatus (not shown) supplying cold air to the storage chambers 20.