Samsung patents fridge shelf system that locks drawers in place
Samsung has filed a patent for a refrigerator interior design that uses specific rails to hold shelves and drawers securely. The system uses hooks and stoppers to ensure that when a top shelf is installed, it physically prevents the drawer below from moving up or down.
In the filing’s own words
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a storage compartment provided inside the cabinet, cover rails to be fixed to opposite side walls of the storage compartment, a variable temperature module to be assembled to the cover rails, and a pantry assembled to the cover rails such that while the pantry is assembled to the cover rails, the pantry is positioned at an upper end of the variable temperature module. The cover rails respectively include a stopper configured to secure the variable temperature module along a front-rear direction of the cabinet and a hook configured to secure the pantry to the cover rails, and based on the pantry being secured by the hook, the variable temperature module is secured to the cover rails such that a movement of the variable temperature module along an up-down direction of the cabinet is prevented by the pantry.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A refrigerator, comprising: a cabinet; a storage compartment to be provided inside the cabinet; cover rails to be respectively fixed to opposite side walls of the storage compartment; a variable temperature module to be assembled to the cover rails; and a pantry to be assembled to the cover rails such that while the pantry is assembled to the cover rails, the pantry is positioned at an upper end of the variable temperature module; wherein the cover rails respectively comprise: a stopper configured to secure the variable temperature module along a front-rear direction of the cabinet; and a hook configured to secure the pantry to the cover rails; and wherein, based on the pantry being secured by the hook, the variable temperature module is secured to the cover rails such that a movement of the variable temperature module along an up-down direction of the cabinet is prevented by the pantry.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- REFRIGERATOR
- Publication number
- US20260276285A1
- Application number
- 19680636
- Filed
- May 18, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 11
Classified under
F25D 11/02 Mechanical engineeringF25D 25/025 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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