Samsung patents fridge with pull-out freezer drawer
Samsung has been granted a patent for a refrigerator design where the bottom freezer section is a separate case that slides forward to open. Instead of a traditional hinged door, the freezer compartment pulls out from the main body, using magnets to seal it when closed.
In the filing’s own words
Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body including an opening formed in a front surface, a door rotatably coupled to the body and configured to open and close the opening of the body, a refrigerator compartment provided in a first inner space of the body, and a freezer compartment case provided with a freezer compartment to insert into or withdraw from a second inner space of the body that is disposed under the first inner space, and configured to slide in a forward-backward direction between an insertion position at which the freezer compartment case is inserted into the second inner space and closes the freezer compartment and a withdrawal position at which the freezer compartment case is withdrawn from the second inner space and opens the freezer compartment, and a front of the freezer compartment case is covered by the door at the insertion position in a state in which the door closes the opening of the body.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A refrigerator comprising: a body including: an opening formed in a front surface, a partition configured to partition the body into a first inner space and a second inner space so that the first inner space and the second inner space are insulated from each other, and the partition includes a partition insulator provided inside the partition, an outer case configured to form an exterior of the body, an inner case provided inside the outer case, and a body insulator foamed between the outer case and the inner case; a door rotatably coupled to the body and configured to open and close the opening of the body; a refrigerator compartment provided in the first inner space of the body; and a freezer compartment case provided with a freezer compartment to insert into or withdraw from the second inner space of the body that is disposed under the first inner space, and configured to: slide in a forward-backward direction between an insertion position at which the freezer compartment case is inserted into the second inner space and closes the freezer compartment and a withdrawal position at which the freezer compartment case is withdrawn from the second inner space and opens the freezer compartment, wherein a front of the freezer compartment case is covered by the door at the insertion position in a state in which the door closes the opening of the body, wherein the freezer compartment case includes a front portion configured to cover a front of the freezer compartment and a sealing member provided on a back surface of the front portion that faces the inner case and configured to seal between the front portion and the inner case and the partition at the insertion position, wherein at the insertion position, the front portion covers at least a portion of the partition from in front of the partition, and wherein the sealing member includes a first magnetic body and the inner case includes a second magnetic body corresponding to the first magnetic body and provided on an inner surface of the inner case that faces the body insulator, such that at the insertion position, the sealing member simultaneously contacts and is fixed to both the inner case and the partition by a magnetic force, and the partition includes a third magnetic body corresponding to the first magnetic body and provided on an inner surface of the partition that faces the partition insulator, such that at the insertion position, the sealing member is fixed to the partition by a magnetic force.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Refrigerator
- Patent number
- US12753966B2
- Application number
- 18336719
- Filed
- Jun 16, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
F25D 25/025 Mechanical engineeringA47B 88/467 Human necessitiesF25D 11/02 Mechanical engineeringF25D 17/065 Mechanical engineeringA47B 2088/4015 Human necessitiesF25D 23/021 Mechanical engineeringMore from Samsung in Other
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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