IP Library Granted Patent US 8,112,865
Granted Patent B2
US 8,112,865 · App. 12/138,940 · Granted Feb 14, 2012

Refrigerator cable ejection method

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,112,865
App. No.
12/138,940
Granted
Feb 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

The refrigerator cable ejection method is used to eject one end of a cable out of an outer liner through an ejection hole formed at the outer liner before a filling space is filled with a foam insulation material in a refrigerator constructed in a structure in which the outer liner is fitted outside an inner liner, the cable is distributed in the filling space defined between the inner liner and the outer liner, and the filling space is filled with a foam insulation material while the cable is distributed in the filling space. The method is performed to eject one end of the cable out of the outer liner through the ejection hole at the time of fitting the outer liner outside the inner liner using an ejector including a pass-through member mounted outside the inner liner corresponding to the ejection hole such that the cable passes through the member.

Claims (13)

1. A refrigerator cable ejection method to eject one end of a cable out of an outer liner through an ejection hole formed at the outer liner before a filling space is filled with a foam insulation material in a refrigerator constructed in a structure in which the outer liner is fitted outside an inner liner, the cable is distributed in the filling space defined between the inner liner and the outer liner, and the filling space is filled with a foam insulation material while the cable is distributed in the filling space, the refrigerator cable ejection method comprising:

ejecting one end of the cable out of the outer liner through the ejection hole at the time of fitting the outer liner outside the inner liner using an ejector including a pass-through member mounted outside the inner liner corresponding to the ejection hole such that the cable passes through the pass-through member and a guide member constructed in a hollow structure to receive the cable, passing through the pass-through member, the guide member being detachably coupled to the pass-through member such that the guide member is ejected out of the outer liner together with the cable received in the guide member through the ejection hole at the time of fitting the outer liner outside the inner liner, and, subsequently, the guide member is separated from the pass-through member,

wherein the ejector further includes a bracket mounted at the outside of the inner liner, and the pass-through member is mounted at the outside of the inner liner through the bracket.

2. The refrigerator cable ejection method according to claim 1 , wherein the bracket is mounted at the outside bottom of one corner of the inner liner adjacent to the outer liner in a supported fashion, and the ejection hole is formed at the outer liner corresponding to the bracket.

3. The refrigerator cable ejection method according to claim 1 , wherein

the pass-through member includes a bracket coupling part coupled to the bracket, a guide member coupling part to which the guide member is detachably coupled, the guide member coupling part being configured to be ejected out of the ejection hole together with the guide member, and an outer liner support part disposed between the bracket coupling part and the guide member coupling part, the outer liner support part being configured to be supported at the inside of the outer liner around the ejection hole in a state in which the guide member coupling part is ejected out of the ejection hole, and

the cable passes from the bracket coupling part to the guide member coupling part.

4. The refrigerator cable ejection method according to claim 3 , wherein

the bracket coupling part is rotatably coupled to the bracket,

the pass-through member further includes a rotation guide part disposed between the outer liner support part and the guide member coupling part, the rotation guide part being configured to be located at the ejection hole, in a state in which the guide member coupling part is ejected out of the ejection hole, to allow the rotation of the pass-through member, and

the ejection hole and the guide member coupling part are configured such that the guide member coupling part is fixed to the outer liner in a state in which the guide member coupling part and the ejection hole cross each other by rotating the pass-through member in a state in which the rotation guide part is located in the ejection hole.

5. The refrigerator cable ejection method according to claim 4 , wherein the ejection hole is formed in the shape of a long hole, and the guide member coupling part has a shape and size corresponding to the ejection hole.

6. The refrigerator cable ejection method according to claim 1 , wherein the guide member is provided at the ejection-direction end thereof, ejected through the ejection hole, with a tip end.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Apr 14, 2011
From: SAMSUNG GWANGJU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026126/0140 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE'S NAME FROM "...ELECTRONIS..." TO "...ELECTRONICS..." PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 021131 FRAME 0754. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST. Recorded Nov 19, 2008
From: JANG, JUNG DOO
To: SAMSUNG GWANGJU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021857/0120 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 13, 2008
From: JANG, JUNG DOO
To: SAMSUNG GWANGJU ELECTRONIS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021131/0754 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2007-0107063 · Oct 24, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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