Refrigerator having the partition member

Abstract

A refrigerator having a partition member, including a refrigerator main body having a cooling chamber therein; a partition member disposed at a front surface of the cooling chamber so as to divide an opening of the cooling chamber into a plurality of smaller openings; and a plurality of doors for opening and closing the plurality of smaller openings, whereby the opening of the cooling chamber is divided into a plurality of smaller openings and each smaller opening is selectively open and closed, thereby facilitating opening and closing operations and preventing a leakage of cooling air.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELDThe present invention relates to a refrigerator having a partition member, and more particularly, to a refrigerator having a partition member which can divide an opening of a cooling chamber into a plurality of smaller openings and selectively open and close each of the smaller openings.BACKGROUND ARTIn general, a refrigerator stores foods such as meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, drinks, and the like in a fresh condition.A refrigerator includes a refrigerator main body having cooling chambers such as a freezing chamber, a refrigerating chamber, a vegetable compartment, etc., doors for opening and closing the cooling chambers, and a refrigeration cycle device for supplying cooling air to the cooling chambers.The refrigeration cycle device is generally implemented as a vapor compression refrigeration cycle which is comprised of a compressor for compressing a refrigerant, a condenser for radiating the compressed refrigerant, an expansion unit for expanding the refrigerant...

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Benefits of technology

As so far described, according to the present invention, the front opening of the cooling chamber is divided into a plurality of smaller openings and each smaller opening is selectively open and closed, thereby reducing the size of the doors for opening and closing the smaller openings thus to facilitate the opening and closing operations. The smaller openings are open and closed using small-sized doors, thereby preventing the leakage of the cooling air.

In addition, the front opening of the cooling chamber is divided into smaller openings, and the doors for opening and closing the smaller openings are configured to be slidable and / or rotatable, thereby easily opening and closing the smaller openings and efficiently utilizing the inner space.

In addition, the partition member is positioned in right and left directions or up and down directions so as to implement various layouts of the inner space, thereby utilizing the inner space thus to meet user s various needs.

In addition, the gasket is provided to contact the doors each disposed at both sides of the partition member, thereby preventing the leakage of the cooling air as well as dewfall of the partition member.

In addition, the door gaskets and the gaskets are provided so as to respectively contact the doors and the partition member, thereby more effectively preventing the leakage of the cooling air.

Problems solved by technology

Meanwhile, a loss of cooling air may be caused when a user opens the door for opening the refrigerating chamber or the freezing chamber.

In particular, the freezing chamber has a great difference in temperature from an outside, thereby causing more loss of the cooling air.

In this structure, however, a freezing chamber door is configured to entirely open a front opening of the freezing chamber, thereby causing great loss of the cooling air when a user opens the freezing chamber door to remove food kept in the refrigerator or store food therein.

Such drawer-type doors may cause great loss of cooling air since when the doors are open and closed, the freezing chamber door and food items stored therein are all drawn out from the freezing chamber.

Besides, food may be damaged by contacting hot air from the outside.

In addition, when the drawer-type freezing door is open and closed, food weight as well as load of the door itself is added to the drawer-type freezing door, thereby making it difficult to perform opening and closing operations.

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