Patent ID: 8640482

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a main body having a storage chamber to store food; an ice maker disposed in an upper corner of the storage chamber a folding shelf disposed at a vertical wall of the ice maker to be folded in a vertical direction or unfolded in a horizontal direction; a shelf supporting member fixed to the vertical wall of the ice maker; a connecting member disposed at the folding shelf to be hinge-connected to the shelf supporting member; a contact member disposed between the shelf supporting member and the connecting member while being elastically supported by a pressing spring to press the contact member toward the shelf supporting member such that the contact member is movable forward and rearward; a contact member contact surface provided at the shelf supporting member to allow the contact member to slide along the contact member contact surface while coming into contact with the contact member contact surface when the folding shelf rotates; and a locking part extending from the contact surface to support the connecting member when the folding shelf is arranged in a horizontal direction, wherein the contact member contact surface includes a first locking groove to receive the contact member when the folding shelf is arranged in a vertical direction, a second locking groove to receive the contact member when the folding shelf is arranged in a horizontal direction, and a contact surface between the first locking groove and the second locking groove to allow the contact member to slide along the contact surface, a pair of temporary coupling grooves provided at the vertical wall of the ice maker to temporarily couple the shelf supporting member to the vertical wall of the ice maker, a pair of temporary coupling members provided at the shelf supporting member to be inserted into the temporary coupling grooves, and one of the temporary coupling members has a bent portion to engage with one of the temporary coupling grooves, so as to prevent the shelf supporting member temporarily coupled to the vertical wall from being separated from the vertical wall.