Patent ID: 7387351
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: E05B,E05C,F25D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A storage device comprising: a main body having a storage compartment with an opening; and a door assembly accommodated in the storage compartment to slidably open/close the opening; and a door holding device including a hooking part on the door assembly to prevent a sliding of the door assembly when the door assembly opens/closes the opening, a hook on the main body a hinge shaft which rotatably supports the hook, with the hook being located on a side of the main body forming the storage compartment, wherein the hook rotates with respect to the hinge shaft between a first position at which the hook is hooked with the hooking part when the door assembly closes the opening and a second position at which the hook is released from the hooking part when the door assembly opens the opening, an elastic member to elastically rotate the hook with respect to the hinge shaft, and a roller directly connected to the elastic member and located between the hook and the elastic member to rollingly contact a part of the hook when the hook rotates with respect to the hooking part.