Lg Electronics Inc.

Su Won Lee

Jong Min Shin

Jae Seng Sim

Dong Seok Kim

Sun Cheol Bae

Eun Young Park

Deok-Hyun Youn

Sung Hee Kang

Yong Tae Kim

Eun Jeong Kim

Yong Chol Kwon

Ku Young Son

Han Rim Song

Kyung Eun Lee

Byung Koo Kong

Deok Hyun Youn

Hyeung Ju Kim

The present invention relates to a refrigerator. The present invention improves a structure of a door and a storage basket, thereby making it possible to facilitate the storage and a drawing out of articles.

Refrigerator

A refrigerator includes a valve assembly located at a refrigerant path from a condenser to at least one expansion valve for controlling flow of a refrigerant from the condenser to the at least one expansion valve. The valve assembly includes a valve chamber, wherein the refrigerant drawn from the condenser is held in the valve chamber; at least one outlet hole through which the refrigerant held in the valve chamber is discharged to a corresponding outlet path connected to the at least one expansion valve; and a valve body for selectively opening and closing the at least one outlet hole as the valve body rotates, such that the refrigerant held in the valve chamber is selectively discharged to the corresponding outlet path.

Refrigerator for managing food by using RFID including a plurality of storage portions divided in the refrigerator for storing food, RFID devices each having storage information of each kind of food stored in the storage portions, and controller for reading the storage information and setting up the storage portion which maintains a storage condition suitable to the storage information read thus, thereby permitting easy storage of food in a storage portion having the storage condition by using the RFID device.

Refrigerator for managing food by using RFID

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Changwon-si, South Korea

Su Won Lee