Patent ID: 9702613
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A47B,E05D,E05F,F25D

Claim:
1. A refrigerator comprising: a body; a storage compartment at an inside of the body and open at a front surface thereof, and including a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment; an inner door formed with an opening including a plurality of door guards, the inner door being configured to open or close the refrigerating compartment; an outer door to open or close the opening of the inner door; a case coupled to a lower portion of at least one of the plurality of door guards; a guide rail allowing the at least one of the plurality of door guards to be inserted and withdrawn in a sliding manner and including a support part supported by both side walls of the opening of the inner door, and a plurality of rail parts extending from the support part to guide the at least one door guard and including a locking part protruding upward from at least one of the plurality of rail parts; a slide unit including at least one sliding part coupled to a lower portion of the case and at least one slide rail coupled to an upper portion of the at least one slide rail, wherein the slide unit is capable of sliding along the guide rail such that the at least one door guard can be inserted or withdrawn; an elastic unit including an elastic member having an end coupled to the slide unit to transmit a tensile force in a direction of the at least one door guard being inserted, a connection member coupled to an other end of the elastic member, and a rotator having one end of the rotator rotatably coupled to the connection member and a surface of an other end of the rotator releasably couplable to a side surface of the locking part; and an automatic closing unit including a first lever coupled to the case and a second lever linked to the first lever the automatic closing unit, configured to allow the elastic unit to transmit the tensile force to the at least one door guard when the outer door is closing, whereby the outer door when closing comes into contact with the first lever when the at least one door guard is withdrawn, such that the second lever contacts and rotates the rotator.