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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2023
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Seok Jun Yoon, Daegu, KR;
Young Jae Song, Gwangju, KR;
Seung Yong Yang, Gwangju, KR;
Sung Sik Moon, Gwangju, KR;
Ho June Jeon, Yongin-si, KR;
Kyung Han Jeong, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a refrigerator which allows a pivoting bar to pivot to seal a gap between a pair of doors regardless of whether the door at which the pivoting bar is not installed between the pair of doors is open or closed. The refrigerator includes a guide device which induces the pivoting bar to pivot. Here, the guide device includes a rack that is moved forward and backward linearly depending on opening and closing of the second door and includes a second magnet built therein, a pinion gear engaged with the rack and pivoting when the rack is moved linearly, and a guide unit which includes a guide groove guiding a guide protrusion and is engaged with the pinion gear to move linearly in a direction opposite to that of the rack to allow the pivoting bar to pivot when the pinion gear pivots.