KR20080077890A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

A refrigerator is provided to facilitate storage of thin and wide contents by standing the contents in a drawer. A refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body having a storage space, a door opening/closing the storage space, and a drawer(20). The drawer includes a drawer door(13), a storage basket(30) having a storage room(31) for storing objects and accommodated in the storage space, and an auxiliary basket(40) having an insertion groove and installed apart from the bottom of the storage basket.

Description

Refrigerator {Refrigerator}

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

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

Figure 3 is a perspective view schematically showing a removable bracket of the storage device shown in FIG.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing that the removable bracket shown in Figure 3 is coupled to the door.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view schematically illustrating an auxiliary basket of the storage device illustrated in FIG. 2.

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

7 and 8 are a perspective view and a side cross-sectional view showing that the thin article is accommodated in the storage device shown in FIG.

9 is a perspective view schematically showing another type of storage device.

<Description of Signs of Major Parts of Drawings>

10 ... Fridge body 13 ... Drawer door

15, 16 ... 1,2 coupling member 17 ... fixing member

20 ... Storage unit 21 ... Removable bracket

23, 24 ... 1st and 2nd coupling groove 25 ... fixing groove

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

33.Accepting groove 40 ... Auxiliary basket

41 ... frame 42 ... top floor

43.Inset groove 44.Lower bottom

45 ... fixing hole 47 ... shaft support member

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

52.Hinge shaft 53.Other end

54.Fixed projection 55 ... Handle

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator capable of effectively storing a wide and thin article such as a pizza box.

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

Generally, a refrigerator used for home use may be classified into a general type, a double door type, a mixed type, and the like according to the arrangement of the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment and the installation structure of the door. Most commonly used refrigerators have a freezer compartment at the top, and a freezer compartment at the bottom of the freezer compartment, and a freezer compartment door and a refrigerator compartment door are arranged up and down.

In the double door refrigerator, the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment are placed to the left and right, and the freezer compartment door and the refrigerating compartment door are arranged to the left and right. The freezer is provided with an ice maker for making ice, and the freezer door is equipped with a dispenser for easily discharging the ice made in the ice maker outside the freezer door. This double door refrigerator is suitable for a large capacity with a large freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment.

In the mixed refrigerator, the freezer compartment is located at the bottom and the refrigerating compartment is placed at the top of the freezer compartment. The freezer 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 from side to side. The mixed refrigerator has an advantage that the water supplied to the ice maker does not freeze compared to the double door type in which the ice maker is installed in the refrigerator compartment and the dispenser is installed in the refrigerator compartment door.

An example of such a mixed refrigerator is disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2005-117536. In the mixed 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 refrigerator compartment is opened and closed by a pair of refrigerator compartment doors and the freezer compartment is opened and closed by a drawer-type door.

However, such a conventional refrigerator does not have a separate space for storing a wide and thin item such as a pizza box in the freezer compartment. Therefore, in the related art, an article such as a pizza box is placed on the bottom of a freezer compartment and stored. In this case, if another article is placed thereon, a problem of removing it again occurs. In addition, if other items are stored away from an article such as a pizza box, the upper space of the article such as a pizza box may not be utilized, thereby causing a problem that the space utilization of the entire freezer compartment is inferior.

As such, a wide and thin article is inconvenient to store unless a separate storage space is provided, and occupies a large amount of space in the storage compartment even though it is not bulky.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator that can efficiently and easily accommodate a wide and thin article, such as a pizza box.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator that can effectively utilize the space of the storage device for storing the article.

The refrigerator according to the present invention for achieving the above object 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. It characterized in that it comprises a storage basket having a storage compartment for storing the squeezed article and an auxiliary basket spaced apart from the bottom of the storage basket and having an insertion groove into which the thin article is inserted so that the thin article can be stored upright in the storage compartment.

Here, the auxiliary basket may be provided with an opening and closing member for opening and closing the insertion groove.

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

In addition, the refrigerator according to the present invention further includes a fixing means for fixing the opening and closing member to the insertion groove in a sealed state, wherein the fixing means has a fixing hole provided in any one of the auxiliary basket and the opening and closing member. It may be provided, and may include a fixing protrusion provided in any one of the other to be pressed into the fixing hole.

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

In addition, the refrigerator according to the present invention further includes a detachable bracket detachably installed on the storage basket to support the auxiliary basket, and the auxiliary basket is rotatably coupled to the detachable bracket so as to be inclined at an angle. Can be.

In addition, any one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket may be provided with a coupling member protruding, and the other one may be provided with a coupling groove to which the coupling member is coupled.

In addition, the bottom of the storage basket may be provided with a receiving groove for receiving the lower portion of the thin article erected on the storage basket.

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

In addition, the receiving device may be installed in the door.

In addition, the auxiliary basket may be detachably installed on the door.

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

As shown in FIG. 1, the refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a refrigerator main body 10 having a storage space in which items such as a refrigerating chamber (not shown), a freezing chamber 11, and the like, and a refrigerator main body 10. A pair of hinged doors 12 for opening and closing a refrigerating compartment provided at an upper portion of the refrigerator), a drawer door 13 for opening and closing a freezing compartment 11 provided at a lower portion of the refrigerator body 10, and a drawer door 13 It includes a storage device 20 is installed in. In addition, the inside of the refrigerator main body 10 is provided with a cold air generating device (not shown) for generating cold air and various electrical appliances (not shown).

Here, since the rest of the configuration except for the storage device 20 is the same as the conventional one, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the storage device 20 is coupled to a drawer-type door 13 that is slidably installed under the refrigerator body 10 so as to be accommodated in the freezing compartment 11. 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 an upper portion of the storage basket 30.

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

The auxiliary basket 40 supports the goods which are placed in the storage basket 30 so that the wide and thin articles such as the pizza box B can be stored in the storage basket 30 upright. The auxiliary basket 40 may be inclined at an angle (for example, 30 degrees) to a pair of detachable brackets 21 provided at both inner sides of the drawer-type door 13 so as to be positioned above the storage basket 30. Is installed. Support shafts 48 protrude from the left and right ends of the auxiliary basket 40, and each of the detachable brackets 21 includes insertion holes 22 through which the support shafts 48 are rotatably inserted.

Each removable bracket 21 is detachably coupled to both sides of the drawer-type door 13, respectively. The first coupling member 15, the second coupling member 16, and the fixing member 17 are provided at both sides of the drawer-type door 13 so that the detachable bracket 21 can be detachably coupled to the drawer-type door 13. ) Are protruded from each other, and the detachable bracket 21 is provided with a first coupling groove 23, a second coupling groove 24, and a fixing groove 25. The first coupling member 15 is inserted into the first coupling groove 23, the second coupling member 16 is inserted into the second coupling groove 24, and the fixing member 17 is inserted into the fixing groove 25. Is inserted. In addition, the fixing member 17 is provided with an inclined surface 17a inclined from the upper side to the lower direction, and the lower end of the fixing groove 25, the locking step to prevent the fixing member 17 from exiting the fixing groove 25 26 is provided.

When the removable bracket 21 is coupled to the drawer-type door 13, it is coupled from the top to the bottom direction, and when separated, it is separated from the bottom to the top direction. When the detachable bracket 21 is coupled to the drawer-type door 13 from top to bottom, as shown in FIG. 4, the first coupling member 15 slides into the first coupling groove 23. The second coupling member 16 slides into the second coupling 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 locking jaw 26 slides along the inclined surface 17a and the surface 17b of the fixing member 17 and then the It adheres to the lower end. Accordingly, the fixing member 17 is not easily detached from the fixing groove 25 by the lower end thereof caught by the locking jaw 26, and is released from the fixing groove 25 when the user pulls the detachable bracket 21 upward. .

As such, 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 may be separated from the drawer-type door 13 in some cases. The storage space of the storage basket 30 can be increased.

In the coupling structure of the detachable bracket 21 that can be separated from the drawer-type door 13 and the drawer-type door 13, the first and second coupling members 16 and the fixing member 17 are detachable brackets 21. Is provided in, the first and second coupling groove 24 and the fixing groove 25 is also provided in the drawer-type door (13) is possible.

As shown in FIG. 5, the auxiliary basket 40 is rotatable with a frame 41 having a rectangular storage space 40a therein and a predetermined angle (eg, 90 degrees) inside the storage space 40a. Rectangle plate-shaped opening and closing member 50 is installed.

Inside the frame 41 is provided an upper bottom 42 having an insertion groove 43 of a predetermined size, and a lower bottom 44 lying below the upper bottom 42 so as to step with the upper bottom 42. The upper bottom 42 is provided with a through hole 42a through which cold air can flow. A pair of shaft support members 47 is provided on the bottom bottom 44, and the opening and closing member 50 is supported by these shaft support members 47 so as to be rotatable at an angle (eg, 90 degrees). One end portion 51 of the opening and closing member 50 supported by the shaft supporting member 47 is provided with a pair of hinge shafts 52 rotatably coupled to the respective shaft supporting members 47, and the opening and closing member 50 is provided. The other end 53 of the) is provided with a handle 55 for the user operation.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the fixing basket 49 is provided in the auxiliary basket 40 to fix the opening / closing member 50 in the closed state of the insertion groove 43. The fixing means 49 is a pair of fixing holes 45 provided in the upper bottom 42 of the frame 41 and the other end 53 of the opening and closing member 50 so as to be press-fit into each fixing hole 45. It includes a pair of fixing projections 54 provided in). As the fixing protrusion 54 of the opening and closing member 50 is pressed into the fixing hole 45, the opening and closing member 50 is fixed in a state of covering the insertion groove 43. At this time, since the upper bottom 42 and the opening and closing member 50 of the frame 41 forms the bottom of the storage space 40a, the small article P may be placed in the storage space 40a. The opening and closing member 50 is also provided with a through hole 50a through which cold air can flow.

The boss portion 46 protrudes from the 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 may be stably fixed to the frame 41.

In addition, the boss portion 46 also has a function of reinforcing the upper bottom 42 of the frame 41. When the fixing protrusion 54 is inserted into or removed from the fixing hole 45, an impact is applied to the upper bottom 42 of the frame 41. The periphery of the fixing hole 45 is different due to the boss portion 46. It is thicker so that the upper bottom 42 is not easily deformed or broken by the impact.

In order to store a thin article such as a pizza box B in the storage basket 30, as shown in FIG. 6B, the handle P of the opening / closing member 50 is removed after removing the article P from the storage space 40a. 55 and the insertion groove 43 is opened by pulling the other end 53 of the opening and closing member 50.

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

When storing the wide and thin pizza box (B) in the storage basket (30), grab the handle portion 55 provided in the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket (40) and pull the opening and closing member (55) The insertion groove 43 of the auxiliary basket 40 is opened. Thereafter, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket 40 is completely folded, and then the pizza box B is erected and inserted into the insertion groove 43.

When inserting the pizza box B into the insertion groove 43, the auxiliary basket 40 can be tilted backward to easily insert the pizza box B into the insertion groove 43. The pizza box B inserted into the insertion groove 43 of the auxiliary basket 40 has a lower portion thereof received in the receiving groove 33 of the storage basket 30 and an upper circumference thereof supported by the auxiliary basket 40. Therefore, the pizza box B is stored in the storage basket 30 in an upright state, and the storage basket 30 does not fall even if it is moved with the drawer-type door 13.

As described above, since the wide and thin pizza box B can be stored upright using the auxiliary basket 40, the storage basket 30 is laid down compared to the conventional case in which the pizza box B is laid down and stored in the storage basket 30. Space of the storage compartment 31 can be efficiently utilized.

Then, after removing the pizza box (B), the opening and closing member 50 of the auxiliary basket 40 is fixed to the upper bottom 42 by replacing the small article (P; see Fig. 6a) in the auxiliary basket (40) You can store it.

On the other hand, since the auxiliary basket 40 can be removed from the drawer-type door 13, when the auxiliary basket 40 is removed from the drawer-type door 13, the storage compartment 31 of the storage basket 30 can be used more widely. Can be.

On the other hand, Figure 9 shows an embodiment in which the auxiliary basket 40 'is detachably installed in the interior of the storage basket (30). In this case, the pair of detachable brackets 21 'are detachably coupled to the storage basket 30. As in the above embodiment, the detachable bracket 21 'can be detachably coupled to the storage basket 30, and the detachable bracket 21' has a coupling groove 24 (see FIG. 4) and a fixing groove 25 (FIG. 4) is provided, and the coupling member 16 (see FIG. 4) and the fixing member 17 (see FIG. 4) inserted into the coupling groove 24 and the fixing groove 25 at both sides of the storage basket 30. It may be provided. Of course, the coupling structure that can detachably attach the detachable bracket 21 'to the storage basket 30 can be used a variety of known methods.

On the other hand, while the storage device 20 according to the present invention has been described as being accommodated in the freezing chamber 11, the storage device 20 according to the present invention may be installed in the refrigerator compartment.

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

In addition, the present invention can effectively utilize the space of the storage device for storing the article.

The present invention described above is not limited to the configuration and operation as illustrated and described. That is, the present invention is capable of various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims (12)

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, the storage basket having a storage compartment for storing the article, and an auxiliary basket spaced apart from the bottom of the storage basket, having an insertion groove into which the thin article is inserted so as to store the thin article upright in the storage compartment; Refrigerator comprising a storage device. The method of claim 1, The auxiliary basket is a refrigerator, characterized in that the opening and closing member for opening and closing the insertion groove is installed. The method of claim 2, The opening and closing member is a refrigerator characterized in that the hinge is coupled to the auxiliary basket. The method of claim 3, wherein The refrigerator further comprises a fixing means for fixing the opening and closing member in the sealed state. The method of claim 4, wherein The fixing means is a refrigerator, characterized in that it comprises a fixing hole provided in any one of the auxiliary basket and the opening and closing member, and the fixing protrusion provided in any one of the fixing hole to be pressed into the fixing hole. The method of claim 1, The auxiliary basket is a refrigerator, characterized in that detachably installed in the storage basket. The method of claim 6, And a detachable bracket detachably mounted to the storage basket to support the auxiliary basket, wherein the auxiliary basket is rotatably coupled to the detachable bracket so as to be inclined at an angle. The method of claim 7, wherein Any one of the storage basket and the detachable bracket is provided with a coupling member protruding, the other one of the refrigerator characterized in that the coupling groove is provided with the coupling member is provided. The method of claim 1, Refrigerator, characterized in that the bottom of the storage basket is provided with a receiving groove for receiving the lower portion of the thin article erected in the storage basket. The method of claim 1, The auxiliary basket is a refrigerator, characterized in that it has a receiving space for accommodating the article. The method of claim 1, The storage device is a refrigerator, characterized in that installed in the door. The method of claim 11, The auxiliary basket is a refrigerator, characterized in that detachable to the door.

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