Refrigerator with drawer type door

Abstract

A refrigerator includes a drawer door installed at a refrigerator main body such that the drawing door is drawn out from the refrigerator main body, a main storage bin provided to be drawn out along with the drawer door, sub storage bins rotatably provide at an upper portion of the main storage bin, and a container opening unit for opening the sub storage bins toward an outer side of the refrigerator main body in a lateral direction when the drawer door is opened. When the drawer door is closed, the sub storage bins are restrained from being rotated by the refrigerator main body.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119 of Patent Application No. 10-2011-0005622, filed in Korea on Jan. 19, 2011, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Disclosure[0003]The specification relates to a refrigerator with a drawer door.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]A refrigerator is a device having a refrigerating cycle device and keeps storage items, such as food items, in storage at a certain temperature.[0006]Refrigerators may include a refrigerator main body divided into upper and lower portions to include a freezing chamber at the upper portion and a refrigerating chamber at the lower portion, and doors installed at the refrigerator main body to open and close the refrigerating chamber and the freezing chamber.[0007]Recently, in side-by-side refrigerators, an internal space of a refrigerator main body is divided in an upright mann...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]An object of the present disclosure is to provide a refrigerator having a drawer door capable of easily, separately storing food items, in particular, easily storing food items in a vertical direction.

[0010]According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a refrigerator having a drawer door, including a drawer door installed at a refrigerator main body such that the drawer is drawn out from the refrigerator main body; a main storage bin provided to be drawn out along with the drawer door; sub storage bins rotatably positioned at an upper portion of the main storage bin; and a container-opening unit for opening the sub storage bins toward an outer side of the refrigerator main body in a lateral direction when the drawer door is opened. In addition, the sub storage bins are restrained from being rotated by the refrigerator main body when the drawer door is closed.

[0011]In another aspect of the present disclosure, when the drawer door is opened, the sub storage bins are opened, whereby food items can be easily discriminately stored. In particular, since the sub storage bins are positioned at the upper portion of the main storage bin, food items can be discriminately stored in a vertical direction, thereby effectively using the storage space. Also, since the sub storage bins are opened to an outer side of the refrigerator main body in the lateral direction, the user can access the main storage bin and the sub storage bins separately, thus enhancing user convenience. In particular, the sub storage bins are configured to be rotatable such that they do not cover the upper portion of the main storage bin, and in this case, since the upper portions of the main storage bins and the sub storage bins are all open, the user can easily store or remove food items.

Problems solved by technology

However, when storing food items within the drawer, it is difficult to separately store different types of food items.

In particular, it is difficult to separately store food items in a vertical direction.

In order to solve this problem, a partition member is provided, but the drawback to this solution is that whenever a food item located at a lower layer is taken out, the partition member must be removed or opened.

Also, since an upper portion of the drawer is constantly open, cold air flows out when the drawer is drawn out.

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