摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator having a simplified constitution only by fixing a hinge plate to an upper face of a refrigerator main body, and preventing the projection of a hinge device from the upper face of the refrigerator main body, even when a hinge cover is mounted to cover the hinge plate to improve the appearance, with respect to the technology for preventing the projection of the hinge plate from the upper face of the refrigerator main body to prevent the reduction of a ratio of an inner volume to an outer volume of the refrigerator wherein a door is rotatably journaled to the refrigerator main body by the hinge plate. SOLUTION: The hinge device comprises the hinge plate comprising a hinge shaft fixed in a recess formed on the upper face of the refrigerator main body at its rear part, and extended to an upper face of the rotary door at its front part for journaling the rotatable door, and the hinge cover accommodated in the recess at its rear part and covering the hinge plate from its upper part, and the hinge device has a height not projecting from the upper face of the refrigerator main body and the upper face of the rotary door in a state of covering the hinge plate by the hinge cover. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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