US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Door opening device and refrigerator having the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,967, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Door opening device and refrigerator having the same" was invented by Suhyeong Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changgu Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunsung Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door opening device for opening a drawer type door of a refrigerator includes: a handle lever rotatably assembled with a door cap and including a rotating and pressing portion; a transfer lever positioned behind the handle lever to rotate by the handle lever, and including a sliding surface inclined such that the rotating a...