Patent ID: 7059693

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator compartment; an opening formed at a front of a door; a home bar provided in the opening so as to have a storage chamber disposed therein; a home bar door provided at the opening to selectively open or close the home bar; an automatic opening unit installed at an edge of the opening, and pushing the home bar door to a predetermined angle so that the home bar door is automatically opened by gravity; one or more hinge shafts; and a damping unit mounted to at least one position on a lower portion of the home bar door to reduce a rotating speed of the one or more hinge shafts when the home bar door is being opened, allowing the home bar door to controllably open, wherein an end of a respective one of the one or more hinge shafts is connected to the damping unit, to reduce the rotating speed of the respective one of the hinge shafts connected to the damping unit when the home bar door is opened.