发明名称 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLINCHED DOOR DESIGN
摘要 A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet and a refrigerator door for providing access to a compartment within the refrigerator cabinet, the refrigerator door includes a door pan and a plurality of corner brackets. The door pan includes a front surface, four sidewalls members extending rearwardly from the front surface thereby forming four corners, and an inwardly extending flange from each of the four side wall members. Each of the plurality of corner brackets is connected to two flanges of the door pan by clinching to thereby conceal the clinching from consumers of the refrigerator and to provide support to the door pan without welding. A method includes clinching a plurality of corner brackets to inwardly extending flanges of the prepainted door pan without welding to form a door pan assembly and assembling the refrigerator using the door pan assembly.
申请公布号 US2008174218(A1) 申请公布日期 2008.07.24
申请号 US20070624955 申请日期 2007.01.19
申请人 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION 发明人 LEIMKUEHLER SCOTT W.;MCELVAIN CHRISTOPHER R.;ROBERTSON ROBERT V.;SRIKANTH RAMAMOORTHY;STANDEFER JACK J.;WALKER RICHARD N.
分类号 A47B96/00 主分类号 A47B96/00
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