US 12,407,966 B2
Refrigerator
Youngil Song, Suwon-si (KR); Byoungmok Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Ilsung Bae, Suwon-si (KR); Jisu Rhie, Suwon-si (KR); and Inyong Hwang, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/202,090.
Application 18/202,090 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2023/006439, filed on May 11, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0111039 (KR), filed on Sep. 1, 2022; and application No. 10-2022-0136029 (KR), filed on Oct. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0080596 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. H04R 1/02 (2006.01); F25D 23/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/028 (2013.01) [F25D 23/028 (2013.01); H04R 1/265 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a main body having a storage compartment;
a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the storage compartment, the door body including:
a door outer plate forming a front surface of the door body, and
an upper cap coupled to an upper portion of the door outer plate, the upper cap having a fixer opening on an upper side of the upper cap, a trim opening on a front side of the upper cap, and a trim receiving space;
a front panel including an upper trim, the upper trim including an upper trim body and a microphone module mounting member extending rearward from the upper trim body, and the microphone module mounting member including a microphone module mounting space on a lower surface of the microphone module mounting member;
a fixer; and
a microphone module mounted on the microphone module mounting member to be received in the microphone module mounting space to thereby be coupled to the upper trim,
wherein the door body, the front panel, and the fixer are configured so that
the upper trim is insertable into the trim receiving space through the trim opening, and,
with the upper trim inserted into the trim receiving space through the trim opening, the fixer is insertable into the trim receiving space through the fixer opening to be coupled to the upper trim, to detachably couple the front panel to a front side of the door body with the microphone module disposed in the trim receiving space to receive voice through a voice path formed in the upper cap.