US 12,071,801 B2
Refrigerator and controlling method thereof
Kitae Park, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/376,680.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0092413 (KR), filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0025690 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. E05F 15/611 (2015.01); E05F 15/79 (2015.01); F25D 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC E05F 15/611 (2015.01) [E05F 15/79 (2015.01); F25D 23/028 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/41 (2013.01); E05Y 2201/422 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/31 (2013.01); F25D 2323/021 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a main body;
a first door and a second door coupled to the main body;
a rotating bar rotatably combined with the second door for preventing refrigerated air in the refrigerator from leaking through a gap between the first door and the second door;
a first motor for opening the first door and a second motor for opening the second door;
memory storing one or more computer programs; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first motor, the second motor, and the memory,
wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the refrigerator to:
based on a user command for opening the first door and the second door being obtained, start driving the first motor to open the first door, and
after a first time from a time when the first motor has started being driven, start driving the second motor to open the second door, and
wherein the one or more computer programs further include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the refrigerator to:
start driving the second motor to close the second door, and
start driving the first motor to close the first door, after a second time from the time when the second motor has started being driven.