Refrigerator

Abstract

A refrigerator including an auxiliary receiving chamber is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a main body having a storage chamber, and a door which opens or closes the storage chamber and has a receiving space formed at a back side of the door. The door includes an auxiliary storage area having an opening to store goods, an auxiliary receiving chamber disposed in the auxiliary storage area to move back and forth, an auxiliary door to open or close the opening, and an opening / closing member to extract or retract the auxiliary receiving chamber.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2007-0004641, filed on Jan. 16, 2007 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Field[0003]The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator including an auxiliary receiving chamber.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Generally, a refrigerator comprises a housing including a cooling chamber and a freezing chamber respectively disposed in an upper portion and a lower portion of the housing. Recently, a so-called side-by-side refrigerator including a housing divided into left and right compartments is commercially available.[0006]The side-by-side refrigerator includes a cooling chamber and a freezing chamber respectively disposed in the left and right compartments separated by a partition. The side-by-side refrigerator further includes a cooling ...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems. It is an aspect of the invention to provide a refrigerator having a structure capable of improving space efficiency of a cooling chamber or a freezing chamber.

[0015]It is another aspect of the present invention to provide a refrigerator having a structure capable of facilitating the loading and unloading of goods.

[0016]It is yet another aspect of the present invention to provide a refrigerator having a structure capable of loading / unloading ice into / from a freezing chamber without opening a freezing chamber door, thereby reducing power consumption.

[0037]The opening / closing member is provided with a rotation axis portion to enable rotation of the opening / closing member and a stopper to prevent over-rotation of the opening / closing member, and a cover of the auxiliary receiving chamber is provided with a stopper guide formed over a predetermined region to guide movement of the stopper.

Problems solved by technology

Since each auxiliary storage area has a large height, when goods are stored in the auxiliary storage area, a void is generated in an upper portion of the auxiliary storage area, thereby reducing space efficiency.

Otherwise, the user has to take the ice storage area out of the freezing chamber to take the ice cubes and put the ice storage area back on the receiving shelf, causing inconvenience to the user.

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