US 12,353,657 B2
Refrigerator including touch interface
Boeun Jang, Suwon-si (KR); Sangho Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Buyeong Kwak, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jan. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/413,802.
Application 18/413,802 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2024/000423, filed on Jan. 9, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0014416 (KR), filed on Feb. 2, 2023; and application No. 10-2023-0050047 (KR), filed on Apr. 17, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0264688 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); F25D 11/00 (2006.01); F25D 23/02 (2006.01); F25D 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0412 (2013.01) [F25D 11/00 (2013.01); F25D 23/028 (2013.01); F25D 27/00 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator, comprising:
a main body configured with a storage compartment;
a door configured to be rotatable to open and close the storage compartment;
a touch interface on the door, and configured to sense a touch of a user; and
a door opening device configured to rotate the door to open the storage compartment when the touch interface senses the touch of the user,
wherein the touch interface includes an indicator configured to emit light out of the touch interface to assist a user to locate the touch interface,
the touch interface includes a cover on a side surface of the door, and
the indicator is exposed to an outer side of the cover.