Patent ID: 8523302

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a refrigerator body; a door to open and close a front of the refrigerator body; and a door handle provided at one side of the door, wherein the door handle comprises a handle unit having a grip part to allow a user to grip the door handle, a guide base and a handle case coupled to the guide base to fixedly couple the door handle to one side of the door; an actuating rod fixed inside the handle unit such that the actuating rod is moved along with the handle unit; a guide unit fixedly located at the guide base to guide movement of the actuating rod; a gear unit, the gear unit comprising a gear shaft located at the guide base within the handle unit in a supported state, and gears fixed to opposite ends of the gear shaft such that the gears are simultaneously rotated with the gear shaft, the gears being provided at upper and lower portions of the handle unit, respectively; and a pusher configured to be advanced and retreated through movement relative to the actuating rod to push one side of the refrigerator body, the pusher having a toothed part engaging with the gears of the gear unit at only one of an upper or lower portion of the handle unit and moving according to forward movement of the handle unit, wherein the gear unit it disposed between the actuating rod and the pusher such that the gear unit is engaged with the actuating rod and the pusher.