Patent ID: 8726689

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a storage compartment; a door for opening/closing a front surface of the storage compartment; a cold storage unit provided in a storage space defined in the storage compartment, the cold storage unit including: a cold storage pack provided at one side thereof with a handle groove section; an upper frame coupled with a top surface of the cold storage pack; and a lower frame coupled with a bottom surface of the cold storage pack, wherein at least one of the upper and lower frames forms a handle section in cooperation with the cold storage pack, and wherein the cold storage pack is located between the upper frame and the lower frame and the cold storage pack is filled with cold storage material to prevent an internal temperature of the storage compartment from excessively rising upon an electricity failure; a support member rotatable coupled to the door by a hinge, the support member being formed with an insertion groove to receive the cold storage unit, wherein the cold storage unit is removably accommodated in the support member and the cold storage unit serves as a shelf when the cold storage unit rotates into the storage space defined in the storage compartment, wherein the cold storage unit and the support member are received in a recess formed in the door, the cold storage unit being detachably coupled to the support member while having a portion of the cold storage unit accommodated in the insertion groove of the support member.