US 7,600,832 B2
Refrigerator having basket lift apparatus
Seung-Hwan Oh, Gyeonggi-Do (Korea, Republic of); Kyung-Han Jeong, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Sang-Oh Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Sep. 02, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/217,355.
Application 11/217355 is a continuation of application No. 11/028633, filed on Jan. 05, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0055262 (KR), filed on Jul. 15, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0013676 A1, Jan. 19, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47B 96/04 (2006.01); A47B 95/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 312—404  [312/402; 312/319.5] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a body having a cooling chamber;
a door arranged at a front side of the cooling chamber;
a pair of lifting rails connected to a rear surface of the door; a basket received in the cooling chamber for storing food;
a lifting frame having a lifting portion movably connected to each of the pair of lifting rails, and a loading portion extending from the lifting portion for loading the basket; and
a driving unit for driving the lifting frame, the driving unit including:
a pair of driving arms, each driving arm contacting the lifting frame and being hinge-connected to the door, for lifting the lifting frame, each driving arm being provided with a roller roll-movably in contact with a lower surface of the loading portion of the lifting frame at one end thereof, the pair of driving arms being connected by a hinge shaft at extending therebetween, wherein the hinge shaft is rotatably supported by a supporting frame fixed to the rear surface of the door; and
a driving motor for generating a driving force to rotate the pair of driving arms,
wherein a distance between the connections of the lifting portion to the lifting rails measured in a lateral direction of the door is greater than a distance between the pair of driving arms measured in the lateral direction of the door.