Patent ID: 7866181

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator body having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein; an ice-making compartment mounted at one side of the refrigerating compartment, the ice-making compartment having an opening formed at a front thereof; an ice-making compartment cover to open and close the opening of the ice-making compartment and being detachably coupled to a front wall of the ice-making compartment when the ice-making compartment cover closes the opening; a rotary lever mounted at the ice-making compartment cover; latching hooks rotatable along with the rotation of the rotary lever, the latching hooks including a first latching hook mounted at one side of the ice-making compartment cover and a second latching hook mounted at the other side of the ice-making compartment cover; a rotary shaft connected between the first latching hook and the second latching hook such that the rotary shaft is rotated simultaneously with the rotation of the first latching hook and the second latching hook; and latching projections defined within a front of a side wall of the ice-making compartment, the latching hooks capable of being coupled with the latching projections, wherein the ice-making compartment cover is only secured to the ice-making compartment by the latching hooks and latching projections.