Patent ID: 8398185

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising a cabinet having left and right storage compartments partitioned by an intermediate partition wall; left and right doors hingedly coupled to the cabinet to open and close front surfaces of the left and right storage compartments; and a gap formed between the left door and the right doors, wherein each of the left and right doors is provided at a front part thereof with a door opening device to assist a user to open each of the left and right doors, the door opening device comprises a handle mounted on a front surface of the door to move forward and backward according to user manipulation to open the door, a push kit mounted on a side portion of a side surface of the door to cooperate with the handle, and a cover mounted on the door to cover the push kit and to entirely cover the side surface of the door, the push kit has a pushrod bent at an outside of a gasket provided at a rear of the door so that the pushrod moves forward and backward to act on the intermediate partition wall and a rod guide to guide an operation of the pushrod, and the cover has a protruded portion protruded to cover the pushrod, the protruded portion of the right door and the protruded portion of the left door being protruded toward the gap and being located at different heights so that one of the left and right doors does not interfere with the other when opened the pushrod and rod guide are independently mounted on the door separately from the handle, and the handle is independently mounted on the door separately from the pushrod and the rod guide.