Refrigerator having cooling air leakage preventing member

Abstract

Disclosed is a refrigerator having a cooling air leakage preventing member, the refrigerator including refrigerator a cabinet providing a storage space, a pair of doors disposed at right and left sides of a front surface of the cabinet and coupled to the cabinet by hinges, a cooling air leakage preventing member rotatably mounted to a free end portion of one of the doors and disposed longitudinal to the door, the cooling air leakage preventing member having a guide protrusion, and a guide installed at the cabinet and having a guide groove engaged with the guide protrusion upon opening or closing the door so as to rotate the cooling air leakage preventing member.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a cooling air leakage preventing member, and particularly, to a refrigerator having a member for preventing (or minimizing) cooling air from being leaked between doors of the refrigerator.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In general, a refrigerator includes a cabinet (or main body) providing a space functioning as a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, and doors for opening and closing each of the freezing chamber and the refrigerating chamber. Here, each chamber is typically provided with a single door, but for a large refrigerator used for a specific purpose, two doors may be installed at one freezing or refrigerating chamber. Such structure has been employed in home refrigerators in recent time, in which demands on the large refrigerator increase, as well as the refrigerator used for the specific purpose.[0003]With this structure, in order to make two doors smoothly rotated to be open or closed, a preset gap s...

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Benefits of technology

[0017]In accordance with the aspects of the present invention with the configuration, even when the door is closed in a state where the cooling air leakage preventing member is not at a fixed position, the inlet of the guide groove is extended by virtue of the restricting unit, thereby allowing the guide protrusion to be smoothly engaged into the guide groove without impact, resulting in preventing (or minimizing) the door from being closed properly or the cooling air leakage preventing member from being damaged.

Problems solved by technology

However, such gap may cause leakage of cooling air therethrough, so a member for preventing (or minimizing) the leakage of the cooling air through the gap is needed.

However, this type of cooling air leakage preventing member is in danger of damages.

Consequently, the door may not be closed properly, and in more serious cases, the door may be broken.

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