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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Sang Woon Jeon, Namyangju-si, KR;
Se Youn Park, Incheon, KR;
Sun Min Lee, Seoul, KR;
Jae Moon Lee, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A refrigerator in which a rotating bar installed to one of a pair of doors is rotated when the other door is opened or closed. The refrigerator includes a rotating bar to seal a gap between doors, and a guide device to guide rotation of the rotating bar. The guide device includes a base having a receptacle, a rotating unit mounted in the receptacle and rotated by a rotating shaft, a ramp structure fixed in the receptacle and having a ramp, a linkage unit linearly movably secured to the rotating unit and connected to the rotating bar so as to be linearly moved on the ramp and rotated along with the rotating unit about the rotating shaft, and an elastic unit supported by the rotating unit and adapted to transmit elastic force to the linkage unit to allow the linkage unit to move on the ramp.