US 12,460,857 B2
Refrigerator
Dongwoo Park, Seoul (KR); Juho Lee, Seoul (KR); and Juhye An, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/203,948.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0078426 (KR), filed on Jun. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0417481 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. F25D 23/06 (2006.01)
CPC F25D 23/062 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A refrigerator comprising:
a cabinet defining a storage space;
a door configured to open and close the storage space;
a hinge rotatably coupling the door to the cabinet;
a reinforcement member provided at a first side opposite to the hinge among left and right sides of a lower surface of the cabinet and configured to block deformation of the cabinet; and
a machine room provided at a lower end of a rear surface of the cabinet and having a base defining a bottom surface of the machine room and on which a compressor is received,
wherein the reinforcement member includes:
a lower surface portion received at the bottom surface of the machine room, and
a side portion that extends upward along a circumference of the lower surface portion and that contacts a side surface of the cabinet,
wherein the base includes:
a bottom portion defining an edge of the machine room, and
a recessed portion that is recessed downward from the bottom portion and in which the compressor is received, and
wherein the reinforcement member is disposed at the bottom portion of the base.