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(11) EP 2 650 629 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.10.2015 Bulletin 2015/43

(43) Date of publication A2:
16.10.2013 Bulletin 2013/42

(21) Application number: 13162046.0

(22) Date of filing: 03.04.2013
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
F25D 25/02(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME

(30) Priority: 12.04.2012 KR 20120037924

(71) Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Gyeonggi-do 443-742 (KR)

(72) Inventors:
  • Park, Sung Cheul
    Gwangju (KR)
  • Go, Hyoung Min
    Gwang-ju (KR)
  • Kim, Sang bum
    Gwangju (KR)

(74) Representative: Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB 
Leopoldstraße 4
80802 München
80802 München (DE)

   


(54) Sliding apparatus and refrigerator having the same


(57) Disclosed herein is a refrigerator which improves the structure of a sliding apparatus to reduce noise and warpage generated when a storage unit slides. The refrigerator includes storage units inserted into and extracted out of storage chambers in a sliding manner, cover rails combined with both side walls of the insides of the storage chambers and provided with rack gears and planar parts, slide units combined with both side surfaces of the storage units and including pinion gears moving in a state in which the pinion gears are engaged with the rack gears and moving in a state in which the pinion gears are suspended above the planar parts, a connection bar connected between the pinion gears to prevent movement of the storage units, and a reinforcing frame connected between the slide units to prevent warpage of the storage units generated when the pinion gears move above the planar parts.







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