Samsung patents fridge shelves that swap between drawers and fixed racks
Samsung has filed a patent for a refrigerator with side walls that allow users to switch between two types of shelf covers. One cover includes a rail system for sliding drawers, while the other acts as a fixed rack, letting users reconfigure the interior space as needed.
In the filing’s own words
A refrigerator in which an internal storage structure is changeable. The refrigerator comprises a main body; a storage chamber; and a plurality of seating portions on a side wall of the storage chamber along a height direction, and to which a first cover or a second cover is selectively coupleable. The first cover comprises a rail formed in the depth direction of the storage compartment to guide a storage box to be introduced into and withdrawn from the storage chamber, a fastening members coupleable to a groove among a plurality of fastening grooves formed in the seating portions, a stopper which at least partially protrudes in the height direction from the passage of the rail; and a latch which is arranged in an opening formed in the stopper and configured so that a hooking portion is fixable to and releasable from a hooking ledge provided on the seating portion.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A refrigerator comprising: a main body; a storage compartment, to be located inside the main body, having a front that is openable; and a seating portion to be provided in plurality along a height direction on a side wall of the storage compartment such that a first cover or a second cover is selectively couplable to the seating portion, wherein the first cover includes: a rail, formed along a depth direction of the storage compartment, to guide a storage box to be introduced into and withdrawn from the storage compartment, a fastening member coupleable with a fastening groove among a plurality of fastening grooves formed in the seating portion; a stopper having at least a portion protruding along the height direction along a path of the rail into which the storage box is introducible; and a latch, to be disposed in an opening formed inside the stopper, configured such that a hooking portion is one of fixable to and releasable from a hooking ledge provided in the seating portion.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- REFRIGERATOR
- Publication number
- US20260276296A1
- Application number
- 19673685
- Filed
- May 11, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
F25D 23/067 Mechanical engineeringF25D 11/00 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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