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(11) | EP 2 650 629 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (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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