Patent ID: 8567013

Claim:
A door body holding structure having a housing including an ice storage house therein and a cabinet arranged at a rear portion of an upper surface of the ice storage house and that is pivotally supported at an upper end portion of a the housing to be pivotable in a vertical direction and configured to be pivoted between a closed position at which an opening portion formed in the housing is closed and an open position at which the opening portion is opened based on upward pivoting movement from the closed position, the door body holding structure comprising: a fixed-side hinge that is arranged on the housing; a movable-side hinge that is arranged at an upper end portion of the door body and pivotally supported on the fixed-side hinge in a pivotable manner; a sandwiched portion that is provided to the door body and configured to move on an outer side of the fixed-side hinge with the pivoting movement of the door body; a flange portion that is formed at an upper end portion of the door body over the entire length in a left-and-right direction, and left and right end portions of the flange portion are configured to function as the sandwiched portion; a holding portion that is provided to the housing at a front surface lower end portion of the cabinet and extending over the entire length of the cabinet in the left-and-right direction to define between the fixed-side hinge and itself a containing space configured to accommodate the sandwiched portion; and a sandwiching portion that is placed in the containing space and reduces a facing gap between the fixed-side hinge and the holding portion in the containing space to be smaller than a thickness dimension of the sandwiched portion, wherein the sandwiching portion is a projecting portion that is provided on an outer surface of the fixed-side hinge and projects toward the holding portion side and is provided at a position where the sandwiched portion is sandwiched and held between the sandwiching portion and the holding portion when the door body is at the open position, and an open end portion of the flange portion is placed in the containing space over the entire length to be apart from a front end of an arc-shaped portion of the holding when the door body is at the closed position.