Patent ID: 7240397

Claim:
A refrigerator having a cabinet with a pair of hinge holes, a door having a pair of hinge shafts and being rotatably coupled to the cabinet by engagement between the pair of hinge shafts and the pair of hinge holes, and a door-closing device to allow the door to be automatically closed toward the cabinet, the door-closing device comprising: an auxiliary hinge shaft attached to a bottom of the door; a restoring unit in a bottom of the cabinet to bias the door toward the cabinet when the door is opened; a hinge lever connected between the auxiliary hinge shaft and the restoring unit and having a coupling hole in which the auxiliary hinge shaft fits; a cap fitted on an end of the hinge lever where the coupling hole is formed, wherein the cap comprises a slot at a side thereof to receive the hinge lever, upper and lower through-holes formed at upper and lower walls of the cap such that the auxiliary hinge shaft passes through the upper and lower through-holes of the cap and the coupling hole of the hinge lever; and a grommet fitted in the coupling hole of the hinge lever and receiving the auxiliary hinge shaft, an upper end of the grommet having a flange that radially extends from the grommet and that is supported on the hinge lever, with the cap being interposed between the flange and the hinge lever.