Refrigerator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10240854-B2
Application number	US-201715465721-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2017
Priority date	Mar 23, 2016
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

A refrigerator includes: a cabinet having a storage space formed therein; a door mounted to the cabinet to open/close the storage space; a mounting projection formed at a rear surface of the door; and a door basket attachably/detachably mounted at the rear surface of the door by the mounting projection, wherein the door basket includes: a storage part formed of a transparent material to allow the inside thereof to be seen, the storage part forming a space in which foods are stored; and a frame part formed at a bottom end of the storage part, the frame part being coupled to the mounting projection to support the door basket and simultaneously shield the mounting projection at the outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A refrigerator comprising:
a cabinet having a storage space formed therein;
a door mounted to the cabinet to open/close the storage space;
mounting projections formed at a rear surface of the door; and
a door basket attachably/detachably mounted at the rear surface of the door by the mounting projections,
wherein the door basket includes:
a storage part formed of a transparent material to allow the inside thereof to be seen, the storage part forming a space in which foods are stored; and
a frame part formed at a bottom end of the storage part, the frame part being coupled to the mounting projections to support the door basket and simultaneously shield the mounting projections at the outside,

wherein the door includes door dikes protruding at both left and right sides of the door and the mounting projections are formed at the door dikes, each mounting projection extending in a direction horizontal to a bottom surface of the door basket, and
wherein the frame part includes:
mounting parts respectively extending downward at both side surfaces of the frame part corresponding to positions of inner surfaces of the mounting projections to cover the mounting projections in a lateral direction, and
a top surface extending outward at a top end of the mounting parts to be mounted on a top surface of the mounting projections.

2. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the frame part is formed of an opaque material, and is mounted at a bottom surface of the storage part.

3. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the frame part allows the bottom end of the storage part to be opaque through any one of metal deposition, painting, printing, and coating.

4. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the mounting projections are integrally formed in molding of a door liner that forms the rear surface of the door.

5. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein the mounting projections include:
side surface parts respectively formed at inner surfaces of the door dikes protruding at both edges of the rear surface of the door; and
a rear surface part connecting between both the side surface parts.

6. The refrigerator of claim 5 , wherein a supporting rib that protrudes rearward and is held and restricted to a bottom end of the rear surface part is formed at a rear surface of the door basket.

7. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein an inclined surface is formed at a front end of each mounting projection such that a thickness of each mounting projection is thickened as approaching a rear end of each mounting projection,
wherein a fixing groove recessed or penetrated in a top-bottom direction is formed at the rear of the inclined surface.

8. The refrigerator of claim 7 , wherein a guide groove opened rearward such that the mounting projections are inserted thereinto is formed in the frame part,
wherein an elastic part that is elastically deformed in the top-bottom direction while being in contact with the mounting projections is formed at a bottom surface of the guide groove.

9. The refrigerator of claim 8 , wherein the fixing projection extending downward is formed above the elastic part, and a gap between the fixing projection and the elastic part is formed narrower than the thickness of the mounting projections,
wherein the fixing projection is formed at a position at which the fixing groove is inserted in a state in which the door basket is mounted.

10. The refrigerator of claim 9 , wherein each of the fixing projection and the fixing groove is formed in plurality spaced apart from each other in an insertion direction of the door basket.

11. The refrigerator of claim 8 , wherein a slit is formed between the mounting parts and the elastic part to facilitate elastic deformation of the elastic part.

12. The refrigerator of claim 11 , wherein the elastic part includes:
an inclination part connected to the frame part, the inclination part having an inclination corresponding to the inclined surface;
an extension part extending from the inclination part, the extension part being in contact with a bottom surface of the mounting projections; and
an entrance part extending from the extension part to form a spacing space with the fixing projection,
wherein the spacing space is greater than a thickness of the front end of the inclined surface and smaller than a thickness of the rear end of the inclined surface.

13. The refrigerator of claim 8 , wherein the elastic part extends rearward of the fixing projection, and is formed with a vertical gap narrower than the thickness of the mounting projections to press-fix the mounting projections in the mounting of the door basket.

14. The refrigerator of claim 1 , wherein a rim extending to accommodate the frame part is formed along a circumference of the bottom end of the storage part.

15. The refrigerator of claim 14 , wherein a fixing projection coupled to the mounting projections is formed at the frame part, and a mounting part is formed to cover the mounting projections,
wherein a cut-out part opened in a shape corresponding to a region of the mounting parts is formed at the rim corresponding to the mounting parts.

16. The refrigerator of claim 14 , wherein the frame part includes:
an inner part formed in a shape of a quadrangular frame;
a rib-shaped outer part spaced apart from the inner part, the outer part being in contact with the rim; and
a rib-shaped inner part spaced apart from the outer part,
wherein top ends of the outer and inner parts are connected to each other, and are in contact with the bottom surface of the storage part.

17. The refrigerator of claim 16 , wherein a restricting rib protruding to be in contact with an inner surface of the inner part is formed at the bottom surface of the storage part,
wherein a restricting projection protruding to be in contact with a bottom end of the outer part is formed at the inside of the rim to restrict the frame part.

18. The refrigerator of claim 17 , wherein the mounting parts that are coupled to the mounting projections and shield the mounting projections are formed at the inner part,
wherein a portion of the outer part, which corresponds to the mounting parts, is cut out such that the mounting projections enter therethrough in the mounting of the door basket.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Jung Yongki
• Pae Chanju

Classifications

• F25D23/04 Primary

  with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners · CPC title

• F25D25/022 Primary

  Baskets · CPC title

• F25D2323/021

  French doors · CPC title

• F25D2323/02

  Details of doors or covers not otherwise covered · CPC title

• F25D2323/023

  Door in door constructions · CPC title