Refrigerator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017191740-A1
Application number	US-201715397932-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 4, 2017
Priority date	Jan 5, 2016
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A refrigerator may include a cabinet disposed at a storage compartment, a door configured to open and close the storage compartment, a basket configured to accommodate goods, a moving frame coupled to a lower part of the basket, the moving frame being configured to support the basket, and to move vertically at the door in an integrated manner with the basket, a rail disposed at the door, and a supporter disposed between the moving frame and the rail to support the moving frame with respect to the rail.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A refrigerator comprising:
a cabinet disposed at a storage compartment; a door configured to open and close the storage compartment; a basket configured to accommodate goods; a moving frame coupled to a lower part of the basket, the moving frame being configured to support the basket, and to move vertically at the door in an integrated manner with the basket; a rail disposed at the door; and a supporter disposed between the moving frame and the rail to support the moving frame with respect to the rail.

2 . The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the supporter comprises a supporter frame including a plurality of rollers at upper and lower parts of the supporter, and wherein the moving frame comprises an extending frame coupled to the supporter frame.

3 . The refrigerator according to claim 2 , wherein the basket is seated at an upper part of the moving frame, and the moving frame is configured to be inserted into a lower part of the basket such that the moving frame supports load applied to the basket.

4 . The refrigerator according to claim 3 , wherein the basket includes insertion grooves which are configured to receive the extending frame.

5 . The refrigerator according to claim 4 , wherein the insertion grooves are formed at both left and right sides of the basket.

6 . The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the supporter comprises rollers disposed at upper and lower sides of the supporter, and wherein the rail comprises a roller guide configured to move the rollers vertically.

7 . The refrigerator according to claim 6 , wherein the roller guide includes a plurality of roller openings spaced a distance away from one another at one side of the roller guide.

8 . The refrigerator according to claim 7 , wherein the outer parts of the rollers include an elastic material, and
wherein the rollers are configured to elastically deform based on the rollers moving along the roller guide, and elastically restore at the roller openings to be partially inserted into the roller openings.

9 . The refrigerator according to claim 8 , wherein the supporter comprises a lever that is configured to be selectively inserted into the roller openings to limit the vertical movement of the moving frame.

10 . The refrigerator according to claim 9 , wherein the supporter comprises an operation unit that is configured to adjust displacement of the lever based on a user's input displacement.

11 . The refrigerator according to claim 10 , further comprising a spring disposed between the operation unit and the lever, the spring being configured to return the operation unit and the lever to an original position.

12 . The refrigerator according to claim 11 , wherein an the interlocking part is located between the operation unit and the lever, and wherein the interlocking part, the operation unit, and the spring are each accommodated in a supporter cover.

13 . The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the door comprises:
an outer door configured to define a front appearance of the door; a door dike configured to define a rear appearance of the door; and an inner space located between the outer door and the door dike, and wherein the rail is embedded in the inner space and configured to couple to the door dike.

14 . The refrigerator according to claim 13 , wherein the door dike includes a cut-shaped rail mount unit that is configured to couple to the rail at the inner space.

15 . The refrigerator according to claim 14 , wherein the rail and the rail mount unit are covered by a rail cover bracket disposed at the inner space.

16 . The refrigerator according to claim 15 , wherein the rail cover bracket is coupled to the rail, wider than the rail and the rail coupling unit, and completely covers the rail and the rail coupling unit.

17 . The refrigerator according to claim 16 , wherein, when the inner space is filled with a filler, the rail cover bracket is disposed to separate the inner space into a first space for the filler and a second space for accommodating the rail and the rail coupling unit.

18 . The refrigerator according to claim 17 , wherein the rail cover bracket includes a lattice rib at an outer surface of the rail cover bracket to increase a coupling area between the rail cover bracket and the filler.

19 . The refrigerator according to claim 13 , wherein the door dike includes a rail coupling opening through which the supporter is configured to move forward and rearward along the rail to be coupled to the rail.

20 . The refrigerator according to claim 19 , wherein the rail coupling opening is covered by a coupling cover after the supporter is coupled to the rail.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Jung Jaehun

Classifications

• A47B88/437

  Rollers for slides or guides · CPC title

• F25D25/022

  Baskets · CPC title

• F25D25/04

  by conveyors (in general B65G) · CPC title

• F25D23/067

  Supporting elements · CPC title

• A47B57/32

  consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls {(A47B57/545 takes precedence)} · CPC title