Patent ID: 6945621

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet forming a refrigerator compartment; a door opening and closing the refrigerator compartment; and a hinge member including a hinge bracket having a first end provided with a plurality of elongated holes and connected to the door, and a second end connected to the cabinet, and a plurality of hinge pins connected to the door through the plurality of elongated holes of the hinge bracket, respectively, the hinge member rotatably connecting the door to the cabinet, and having a rotation axis varying in position depending on rotation angles of the door between a full open position at which the refrigerator compartment is fully opened and a closed position at which the refrigerator compartment is closed, wherein the plurality of hinge pins comprises first, second, and third hinge pins, and the plurality of elongated holes comprise a first elongated hole guiding the first hinge pin therein when the door is rotated from the closed position to the fully open position; a second elongated hole having an arc shape, spaced from the first elongated hole, and guiding the second hinge pin therein on the axis of the first hinge pin; and a third elongated hole having a radius of curvature larger than that of the second elongated hole, positioned outside the second elongated hole, and guiding the third hinge pin therein.