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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2002
Sang-ik Lee, Chungcheongbuk-Do, KR;
Eun-jeong Kim, Gyeongsangnam-Do, KR;
Yeon-yi Hwang, Busan, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A vegetable room for a refrigerator is provided. The vegetable room includes a vegetable box disposed inside a refrigerator in which a cooling air supply unit is provided to circulate cooling air therein and a plurality of shelves is provided, and having a receptacle space that receives food items therein opened upwardly, a box cover that covers an opening side of the vegetable box to close the receptacle space of the vegetable box and having a plurality of cooling air ventilating holes formed at one side thereof to introduce cooling air into the vegetable box, a cover support unit interposed between the box cover and the shelf to support the box cover at the shelf, a plurality of opening and closing members that open and close the cooling air ventilating holes of the box cover, and an operating unit that operates the opening and closing members simultaneously.