A refrigerator including a storage chamber. The refrigerator also includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall arranged to form at least a portion of both side surfaces of the storage chamber. The refrigerator further includes a light source arranged on the first sidewall to illuminate an inside of the storage chamber. The refrigerator also includes a light guide member provided inside the storage chamber and formed to extend between the first sidewall and the second sidewall to guide light emitted from the light source. The light guide member includes an incident surface arranged to face the first sidewall and an exit surface through which the light guided by the light guide member is emitted to an outside of the light guide member.

A refrigerator includes an upper door, a lower door positioned below the upper door and configured to be extended out of and retracted into the lower storage chamber, wherein the lower door includes a drawer part having a storage space and a door part configured to open and close the lower storage chamber, respectively, a draw-out, an ascending and descending mechanism provided at the drawer part and configured to ascend and descend the storage space, a driving mechanism provided at the door part and configured to provide a driving force to the ascending and descending mechanism, a controller to control the driving mechanism, a microphone module provided at the upper door and configured to receive a voice input from a user, and a voice recognition module to allow the controller to control the driving mechanism in response to the voice input from the user.

Provided is a refrigerator having an opening/closing device with an improved structure which allows a storage box to be automatically inserted and withdrawn according to the opening and closing of a door and allows the storage box to be further pushed backward while the door is closed. The refrigerator includes a main body, a storage chamber having a front side that is open, and provided at an inside with a storage box that is movable in a front-rear direction, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the storage chamber, and provided at a rear surface with a pusher that protrudes in a direction toward the storage chamber, and an opening and closing device provided at one side of the storage box, and formed to allow the storage box to be moved in the front and rear direction according to the opening and closing of the door, wherein the opening and closing device includes a rack gear configured to move in a front and rear direction according to the opening and closing of the door, a locking member rotatably coupled to the rack gear to be locked with and released from the storage box, the locking member configured to move in the front and rear direction together with the rack gear, and a catcher configured to rotate to be caught with and released from the pusher according to the opening and closing of the door, wherein the catcher is rotated to be caught with the pusher when the door is a closed state to push the rack gear such that the rack gear is moved backward.

A refrigerator includes: a cabinet having a storage space; a door including a door unit to open or close the storage space and a drawer unit to provide a receiving space; a driving device disposed at the door unit and configured to provide power; and an elevation device disposed at the drawer unit, connected with the driving device, and configured to move up or down, in which the driving device includes: a motor assembly including a driving motor, a screw rotated by power from the driving motor and extending in an up-down direction, and a movable unit to move up and down along the screw; and a pair of lever units connected to the movable unit at both sides of the motor assembly, and each of the pair of lever units includes: a first lever connected to the movable unit; and a second lever connected with the first lever and connected with the elevation device.

A refrigerator including a storage compartment, a storage box, and a cover assembly. The cover assembly including a cover member to cover an upper portion of the storage box, a frame provided along the cover member and configured to fix the cover member and comprising an opening provided to communicate with the discharge port to allow cold air to flow into the storage box, a knob configured to be movable and disposed on a side of the frame, a connecting member configured to slide inside the frame and connected to the knob, a guide member configured to be movable inside the frame based on a movement of the knob. The guide member comprising a guide hole, and an opening and closing member configured to open and close the opening by moving in a vertical direction along the guide hole.

A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storeroom lifted when the storeroom is pulled out and giving a degree of freedom to a lifting method. The refrigerator includes a main body, a door arranged to be pulled out from the main body, a storeroom arranged to be pulled out from the main body along with the door, and a lift device arranged to lift or lower the storeroom in connection with pulling-out or pushing-in of the door, wherein the lift device includes a guide including a portion sloping upward or downward in a pull-out direction of the storeroom, and a guidee guided by the guide so that the storeroom is lifted when the guidee is moved along the guide.

A drawer assembly contains a drawer, a cap, and a sealing member. The drawer has an upward opening. The cap being capable of sliding forward and backward relative to the drawer to open or close the opening. The sealing member is disposed between the cap and the drawer and has a sealing surface between the sealing member and the drawer or the cap, and the sealing surface has a rough feature. More specifically, the sealing surface has the rough feature. Therefore, when the cap closes the opening, a contact area between the sealing member and the drawer or the cap is relatively reduced, binding is relatively weakened, and suction is relatively reduced. The cap can be easily pushed away by merely applying relatively little thrust to open the opening when the opening of the drawer needs to be opened, greatly facilitating use by a user.

A multilayer cover has a sandwich design for placement on a drawer of a vacuum drawer device, and the cover allows an evacuation of the drawer interior after sealing against the drawer. The cover has an outer air-tight cover layer and a core layer, recesses molded into the core layer and partly into one of the at least one outer cover layer, and an evacuation channel, a pump, and at least one sensor are arranged therein. The cover is to have a more compact design with a very low height, resulting in a minimal susceptibility to malfunction. This is achieved in that a printed circuit board is arranged on one of the at least one outer air-tight cover layers so as to face the core layer or the at least one outer air-tight cover layer is designed as a printed circuit board on which the core layer lies and on which the electric components integrated into the cover are mechanically held and are electrically connected.

A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a first fresh-preservation chamber, one or more adsorption towers, a valve, and an air pump. An air inlet of the air pump is in communication with the first fresh-preservation chamber, an air outlet of the air pump is in communication with an air inlet of each of the one or more adsorption towers through an air inlet channel of the valve, and the air inlet of each of the one or more adsorption towers is in communication with the first fresh-preservation chamber through an air outlet channel of the valve.

A device for dispensing items includes a cabinet, and a drawer within the cabinet. The drawer includes one or more compartments for storing items and a cooling system within the drawer. The cooling system is configured to maintain the one or more compartments in the drawer at a temperature below the temperature of the environment surrounding the cabinet. The drawer further includes thermal insulation at sides of the drawer and thermal insulation beneath the one or more compartments. The refrigeration system may be a thermoelectric cooling system.