Refrigerator

• Main Author: CHO YOUNG J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.08.2006
• Subjects: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS; KEYS; LOCKS; SAFES; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS

A refrigerator having an auxiliary door installed on a door for allowing a user to take stored goods from the refrigerator without opening the door. The refrigerator includes a main body, one surface of which is opened, provided with a storage chamber therein; a door for opening and closing the storage chamber; an opening formed through one door; an auxiliary door, the lower end of which is rotatably installed at the lower end of the opening of the door, for opening and closing the opening; and hinge devices which rotatably mounts the auxiliary door at the opening. Since the hinge device elastically supports the auxiliary door from the point of time when the auxiliary door is opened to a designated angle, the opening speed of the auxiliary door is gradually increased until the auxiliary door is opened to the designated angle, and is decreased due to the elastic support of the auxiliary door by the hinge device from the point of time when the auxiliary door is opened above the designated angle. The hinge device reduces impact applied to the auxiliary door when the auxiliary door is completely opened.