KR101446495B1 - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The refrigerator according to the present invention includes a refrigerator body having a storage space, a door installed in the refrigerator body to open and close the storage space, and a storage device accommodated in the storage space, wherein the storage device has a storage room for storing the article And an auxiliary basket having an insertion groove for inserting a thin article so as to store the thin article in the storage room and spaced apart from the bottom of the storage basket. According to the present invention, It is possible to conveniently store articles such as pizza boxes and efficiently utilize the storage space.

Refrigerator, door, storage, storage basket, secondary basket, pizza

Description

Refrigerator {Refrigerator}

1 is a perspective view schematically showing a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an exploded perspective view schematically showing a storage device for a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a perspective view schematically showing a detachable bracket of the storage device shown in Fig.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the detachable bracket shown in FIG. 3 coupled to a door. FIG.

5 is an exploded perspective view schematically showing the auxiliary basket of the storage device shown in Fig.

6A and 6B are side cross-sectional views for explaining the function of the auxiliary basket shown in Fig.

Figs. 7 and 8 are a perspective view and a side sectional view showing that a thin article is housed in the accommodating apparatus shown in Fig. 2. Fig.

9 is a perspective view schematically showing another type of accommodating apparatus.

Description of the Related Art [0002]

10 ... Refrigerator body 13 ... Drawer type door

15, 16 ... first and second coupling members 17 ... fixing member

20 ... storage unit 21 ... detachable bracket

23, 24 ... first and second engaging grooves 25 ... fixing grooves

30 ... storage basket 31 ... storage room

33 ... receiving groove 40 ... auxiliary basket

41 ... frame 42 ... upper floor

43 ... insertion groove 44 ... bottom floor

45 ... Fixing hole 47 ... Shaft support member

50 ... opening and closing member 51 ... one end

52 ... hinge shaft 53 ... other end

54 ... Fixing projection 55 ... Handle

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator which can effectively store a wide and thin article such as a pizza box.

The refrigerator has a refrigerating chamber capable of refrigerating various foods or beverages, a freezing chamber capable of refrigerating and storing frozen foods such as meat, fish, and ice cream, and a freezing generator for supplying cold air to the freezing chamber and the freezing chamber. The refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment are equipped with shelves or storage baskets on which various refrigerated or frozen foods can be placed. The cold air generating device includes an evaporator for cooling the ambient air and a blower for forcibly blowing the cooled air, and cool air is supplied to the freezing chamber and the freezing chamber to cool the freezing chamber and the freezing chamber.

Generally, a refrigerator used for domestic use can be classified into a general type, a double door type, a mixed type, and the like, depending on the arrangement of a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, and a door installation structure. In the most common type of refrigerator, the freezer compartment is located at the top, the refrigerator compartment is located at the bottom of the freezer compartment, and the freezer compartment door and the refrigerator compartment door are arranged vertically.

In the double door type refrigerator, the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment are located on the left and right sides, and the freezing compartment door and the refrigerating compartment door are disposed on the left and right sides. The freezer compartment has an ice maker to make ice, and the freezer compartment door has a dispenser that can easily discharge ice made from the ice maker outside the freezer compartment door. Such a side-by-side refrigerator is suitable for a large capacity of a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment.

In the mixed type refrigerator, the freezer compartment is located at the bottom, and the refrigerator compartment is located at the top of the freezer compartment. The freezing compartment is opened and closed by a drawer-type door, and the refrigerating compartment is opened and closed by a pair of refrigerating compartment doors arranged laterally. In the mixed type refrigerator, since the ice maker is installed in the refrigerating compartment and the dispenser is installed in the refrigerator compartment door, water supplied to the ice maker is not frozen as compared with a double door type in which the ice maker is installed in the freezing compartment.

An example of such a hybrid refrigerator is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 2005-117536. In the hybrid refrigerator disclosed in the above publication, a refrigerator compartment is provided at an upper portion of the refrigerator body, and a freezer compartment is provided at a lower portion thereof. The refrigerating chamber is opened / closed by a pair of refrigerating chamber doors, and the freezing chamber is opened / closed by a drawer type door.

However, such a conventional refrigerator does not have a separate space inside the freezer compartment for storing a wide and thin product such as a pizza box. Therefore, conventionally, an article such as a pizza box is stored on the floor of the freezer compartment. In this case, when the other article is placed thereon, there arises a problem that it becomes inconvenient to remove the article again. In addition, if other articles are stored while avoiding items such as a pizza box, the upper space of articles such as a pizza box can not be utilized, resulting in a problem that the space utilization of the entire freezing chamber is lowered.

As described above, a wide-width and thin-walled product is uncomfortable to store unless it is provided with a separate storage space suitable for it, and occupies a lot of space in the storage room even though it is not bulky.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator which can effectively and easily store a wide and thin article such as a pizza box.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator which can effectively utilize a space of a storage device for storing articles.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator including a refrigerator body having a storage space, a door installed in the refrigerator body to open and close the storage space, and a storage device accommodated in the storage space, A storage basket having a storage room for storing articles to be stitched, and an auxiliary basket having an insertion groove into which a thin article is inserted so that a thin article can be stored in the storage room, and spaced from the bottom of the storage basket.

Here, the auxiliary basket may be provided with an opening / closing member capable of opening / closing the insertion groove.

The opening and closing member may be hinged to the auxiliary basket.

Further, the refrigerator according to the present invention may further include fixing means for fixing the opening / closing member in a state in which the insertion groove is hermetically sealed, wherein the fixing means includes a fixing hole provided in any one of the auxiliary basket and the opening / And a fixing protrusion provided on one of the fixing holes to be press-fitted into the fixing hole.

In addition, the auxiliary basket may be detachably installed in the storage basket.

Further, the refrigerator according to the present invention may further include a detachable bracket detachably mounted on the storage basket to support the auxiliary basket, and the auxiliary basket may be rotatably coupled to the detachable bracket so as to be tilted at a predetermined angle .

In addition, a coupling member may protrude from one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket, and one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket may have a coupling groove to which the coupling member is coupled.

The bottom of the storage basket may be provided with a receiving groove for receiving a lower portion of the thin article to be placed on the storage basket.

In addition, the auxiliary basket may have a receiving space for receiving the article.

Further, the storage device can be installed in the door.

The auxiliary basket may be detachably mounted on the door.

Hereinafter, a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a refrigerator body 10 having a storage space such as a refrigerator compartment (not shown) and a freezer compartment 11, A drawer-type door 13 for opening and closing a freezer compartment 11 provided under the refrigerator body 10, a drawer-type door 13 for opening and closing the freezer compartment 11 provided below the refrigerator main body 10, a pair of hinge- And a storage device 20 installed in the housing. In addition, a cool air generating device (not shown) and various electrical components (not shown) for generating cold air are installed inside the refrigerator body 10.

Here, the rest of the configuration except for the accommodating device 20 is the same as that of the related art, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 and 2, the storage device 20 is coupled to a drawer-type door 13 slidably mounted on a lower portion of the refrigerator body 10 so as to be accommodated in the freezing chamber 11. As shown in FIG. The drawer type door (13) is provided with a handle (14). The storage device 20 includes a storage basket 30 having a storage compartment 31 and an auxiliary basket 40 provided on the storage basket 30.

The bottom 32 of the storage basket 30 is provided with a receiving groove 33 capable of accommodating a lower portion of a wide and thin article such as a pizza box B (see FIG. 7). The receiving grooves 33 are long in front of the storage basket 30 so as to be offset toward the drawer-type door 13. [

The auxiliary basket 40 supports the article placed on the storage basket 30 so that it can be stored on the storage basket 30, such as a pizza box B, having a wide width and a thin thickness. The auxiliary basket 40 may be tilted at a predetermined angle (for example, 30 degrees) to a pair of detachable brackets 21 provided on both inner sides of the drawer-type door 13 so as to be positioned at the upper portion of the storage basket 30 Respectively. A support shaft 48 protrudes from both left and right ends of the auxiliary basket 40 and each of the detachable brackets 21 is provided with an insertion hole 22 into which the support shaft 48 is rotatably inserted.

Each of the detachable brackets 21 is detachably coupled to both side portions of the drawer-type door 13. The first engaging member 15, the second engaging member 16 and the fixing member 17 (see FIG. 1) are provided on both sides of the drawer-type door 13 so that the removable bracket 21 can be detachably coupled to the drawer- And the detachable bracket 21 is provided with a first engaging groove 23, a second engaging groove 24, and a fixing groove 25, respectively. The first engaging member 15 is inserted into the first engaging groove 23 and the second engaging member 16 is inserted into the second engaging groove 24 and the fixing member 17 is inserted into the fixing groove 25 . The fixing member 17 is provided with an inclined surface 17a which is inclined in the downward direction from the upper side and a lower portion of the fixing groove 25 is provided with a locking protrusion 17a for preventing the fixing member 17 from coming out from the fixing groove 25, (Not shown).

The detachable bracket 21 is engaged from the top to the bottom when coupled to the drawer-type door 13, and is separated from the bottom to the top when detached. When the detachable bracket 21 is coupled to the drawer-type door 13 from the upper side to the lower side, as shown in Fig. 4, the first engaging member 15 slides into the first engaging groove 23, The second engaging member 16 slides into the second engaging groove 24 and the fixing member 17 slides into the fixing groove 25. [ When the fixing member 17 is inserted into the fixing groove 25, the engaging protrusion 26 slides along the inclined surface 17a and the surface 17b of the fixing member 17, And is brought into close contact with the lower end portion. Therefore, the lower end of the fixing member 17 is caught by the engaging jaw 26 and can not be easily removed from the fixing groove 25, and is released from the fixing groove 25 when the user pulls the removable bracket 21 in the upward direction .

In this way, since the auxiliary basket 40 can be separated from the drawer-type door 13 together with the pair of detachable brackets 21, the auxiliary basket 40 can be separated from the drawer-type door 13 The storage space of the storage basket 30 can be increased.

The first and second engaging members 16 and 17 are engaged with the separable bracket 21 in the engaging structure of the separable bracket 21 which can be separated from the drawer type door 13 and the drawer- And the first and second coupling grooves 24 and the fixing grooves 25 may be provided in the drawer-type door 13. [

5, the auxiliary basket 40 includes a frame 41 having a rectangular storage space 40a inside thereof, and a frame 41 having a rectangular shape having a predetermined angle (for example, 90 degrees) inside the storage space 40a And an opening / closing member 50 of a rectangular plate shape to be installed.

An upper floor 42 having an insertion groove 43 of a predetermined size and a lower floor 44 placed under the upper floor 42 so as to be stepped with the upper floor 42 are provided inside the frame 41. The upper floor 42 is provided with a through hole 42a through which cold air can flow. A pair of shaft supporting members 47 are provided on the lower floor 44 and the opening and closing member 50 is rotatably supported by these shaft supporting members 47 at a predetermined angle (for example, 90 degrees). A pair of hinge shafts 52 rotatably coupled to the respective shaft support members 47 are provided at one end portion 51 of the opening and closing member 50 supported by the shaft support member 47, The handle portion 55 is provided for the user's operation.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the auxiliary basket 40 is provided with fixing means 49 for fixing the opening / closing member 50 in a state where the insertion groove 43 is closed. The fixing means 49 includes a pair of fixing holes 45 provided in the upper bottom 42 of the frame 41 and a pair of fixing holes 45 formed at the other end portions 53 of the opening and closing member 50 (Not shown). The locking protrusion 54 of the opening and closing member 50 is pressed into the fixing hole 45 so that the opening and closing member 50 is fixed while covering the insertion groove 43. At this time, since the upper floor 42 of the frame 41 and the opening and closing member 50 form the bottom of the storage space 40a, the article P having a small size can be placed on the storage space 40a. The opening and closing member (50) is also provided with a through hole (50a) through which cool air can flow.

A boss portion 46 protrudes from a lower portion of the frame 41 corresponding to the fixing hole 45. The fixing hole 45 into which the fixing protrusion 54 of the opening and closing member 50 is inserted is provided at the center of the boss portion 46. Therefore, the opening and closing member 50 can be stably fixed to the frame 41. [

The boss portion 46 also has a function of reinforcing the upper floor 42 of the frame 41. An impact is applied to the upper floor 42 of the frame 41 when the fixing protrusion 54 is inserted into or removed from the fixing hole 45. Since the periphery of the fixing hole 45 is surrounded by the boss portion 46, So that the upper floor 42 is not easily deformed or damaged by the impact.

In order to store a thin article such as the pizza box B in the storage basket 30, after the article P is removed from the storage space 40a as shown in Fig. 6B, 55 and the other end 53 of the opening and closing member 50 is pulled to open the insertion groove 43. [

Hereinafter, the operation of the storage device 20 of the refrigerator according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

When the pizza box B having a wide width and a small thickness is stored in the storage basket 30, the opening portion 55 is pulled by holding the handle portion 55 provided on the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket 40 And the insertion groove 43 of the auxiliary basket 40 is opened. 7 and 8, the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket 40 is fully tilted, and then the pizza box B is set up and inserted into the insertion groove 43. Then, as shown in Figs.

The pizza box B can be easily inserted into the insertion groove 43 by tilting the auxiliary basket 40 backward when the pizza box B is inserted into the insertion groove 43. The lower portion of the pizza box B inserted into the insertion groove 43 of the auxiliary basket 40 is received in the receiving groove 33 of the storage basket 30 and the upper periphery thereof is supported by the auxiliary basket 40. Thus, the pizza box B is stored in the storage basket 30 in a raised state, and does not collapse even when the storage basket 30 is moved with the drawer-type door 13. [

Since the pizza box B having a wide width and a small thickness can be stored upright by using the auxiliary basket 40 as compared with the conventional method in which the pizza box B is laid down on the storage basket 30, The space of the storage chamber 31 can be efficiently utilized.

6A) to the auxiliary basket 40 by fixing the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket 40 to the upper floor 42 after the pizza box B is taken out. Can be stored.

Since the auxiliary basket 40 can be separated from the drawer-type door 13, when the auxiliary basket 40 is separated from the drawer-type door 13, the storage basket 31 of the storage basket 30 can be used more widely .

9 shows an embodiment in which the auxiliary basket 40 'is detachably installed inside the storage basket 30. In this case, the pair of detachable brackets 21 'are detachably coupled to the storage basket 30. The detachable bracket 21 'is provided with a coupling groove 24 (see FIG. 4) and a fixing groove 25 (see FIG. 4) such that the detachable bracket 21' can be detachably coupled to the storage basket 30, 4) and a fixing member 17 (see FIG. 4), which are inserted into the coupling groove 24 and the fixing groove 25, are formed on both sides of the storage basket 30 . Of course, various known methods can be used for the coupling structure for detachably coupling the detachable bracket 21 'to the storage basket 30.

In the meantime, although the storage device 20 according to the present invention is described as being accommodated in the freezing room 11, the storage device 20 according to the present invention may be installed in the freezing room.

According to the present invention described above, since a wide-width and thin-thickness article can be stored upright, an article such as a pizza box can be conveniently stored.

Further, the present invention can effectively utilize the space of the accommodating device for accommodating the article.

The present invention described above is not limited to the structure and operation as described and illustrated. In other words, the present invention is susceptible to various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims (26)

A refrigerator body having a storage space, A door installed in the refrigerator body to open and close the storage space, A storage basket accommodated in the storage space, having a storage basket having a storage room for storing the article, and an insertion groove into which the thin article is inserted so that the thin article can be stored in the storage room, the storage basket being detached from the floor of the storage basket, And a storage device having an auxiliary basket which is installed as far as possible, And a detachable bracket detachably mounted on the storage basket to support the auxiliary basket. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the auxiliary basket is provided with an opening / closing member for opening / closing the insertion groove. 3. The method of claim 2, And the opening / closing member is hinged to the auxiliary basket. The method of claim 3, Further comprising fixing means for fixing the opening / closing member in a state in which the insertion groove is hermetically sealed. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the fixing means includes a fixing hole provided on one of the auxiliary basket and the opening and closing member and a fixing protrusion provided on the remaining one of the fixing holes to be press-fitted into the fixing hole. delete The method according to claim 1, Wherein the auxiliary basket is rotatably coupled to the detachable bracket so as to be inclined at a predetermined angle. 8. The method of claim 7, Wherein one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket has a coupling member protruding from one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket, and the other coupling groove is formed in the other of the storage basket and the detachable bracket. The method according to claim 1, Wherein a bottom of the storage basket is provided with a receiving groove for receiving a lower portion of the thin article set on the storage basket. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the auxiliary basket has a receiving space for receiving the article. The method according to claim 1, And the storage device is installed in the door. 12. The method of claim 11, Wherein the auxiliary basket is detachably installed on the door. 1. A storage basket comprising: a main body having at least one storage chamber; a cool air generating device for generating cool air in the main body; and a storage basket accommodated in the storage chamber portion and accommodating a bottom portion of the product; And an auxiliary basket having an insertion groove for receiving an upper portion of the article, the auxiliary basket being detachably mounted on the storage basket, And a detachable bracket detachably coupled to the storage basket and the auxiliary basket. delete 14. The method of claim 13, Further comprising a door coupled to the storage basket, wherein the auxiliary basket is detachably coupled to the door. 14. The method of claim 13, Further comprising an opening / closing member coupled to the auxiliary basket, wherein the opening / closing member opens / closes the insertion groove, and the article supporting surface is formed when the opening / closing member is closed. delete 16. The method of claim 15, And a detachable bracket detachably coupled to the door and the auxiliary basket. 14. The method of claim 13, Wherein said detachable bracket comprises at least one groove and at least one latching jaw, said storage basket comprising at least one holding member having an inclined surface, said holding member being received in said at least one groove, Wherein the catching jaw is in contact with a lower portion of the fixing member and closely attaches the detachable bracket to the storage basket. 19. The method of claim 18, Wherein said detachable bracket comprises at least one groove and at least one latching jaw, said storage basket comprising at least one holding member having an inclined surface, said holding member being received in said at least one groove, Wherein the latching jaw is in contact with a lower portion of the fixing member and closely attaches the detachable bracket to the door. A refrigerator body having a storage space, A door installed in the refrigerator body to open and close the storage space, A storage basket accommodated in the storage space, having a storage basket having a storage room for storing the article, and an insertion groove into which a thin article is inserted so that the thin article can be stored in the storage room, the storage basket being detached from the floor of the storage basket, And a storage device having an auxiliary basket which is installed as far as possible, And a detachable bracket detachably mounted on the storage basket to support the auxiliary basket, Wherein one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket has a coupling member protruding from one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket, and the other coupling groove is formed in the other of the storage basket and the detachable bracket. delete delete delete delete delete

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