Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerator with sealing apparatus for drawer
- Patent Title (中): 冰箱带抽屉密封装置
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Application No.: US13947678Application Date: 2013-07-22
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Publication No.: US09010889B2Publication Date: 2015-04-21
- Inventor: Moongyo Jung , Dullae Min , Sanggyun Lee , Ahreum Park
- Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
- Priority: KR10-2012-0080180 20120723
- Main IPC: A47B96/04
- IPC: A47B96/04 ; F25D25/02 ; F25D17/04

Abstract:
A refrigerator includes a refrigerator main body, a case forming a storage space with a front surface open, a drawer received in the case to be drawn out, a sealing apparatus having hooks disposed on the drawer and rotatable between a sealing position of maintaining a sealed state with being engaged with the case and a release position of releasing the engaged state with the case, and hook springs applying an elastic force to the hooks to be rotated to the sealing position, a manipulation handle rotatably disposed on the drawer and rotating the hooks to the release position when being pulled, and an operation bar to transfer a driving force of the manipulation handle to the hooks. Accordingly, reception and sealing of the drawer may be simultaneously realized and unsealing and drawing-out of the drawer may also be simultaneously realized.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140021846A1 REFRIGERATOR WITH SEALING APPARATUS FOR DRAWER Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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