Refrigerator with door handle

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator with door handles, which include buffer members for providing safety in use and good tactile sensations when opening or closing doors of the refrigerator, and deviating prevention members for preventing the buffer members from being deviated. The refrigerator of the present invention comprises doors for opening or closing storage chambers, door handles respectively provided at the doors, buffer members of an elastic material respectively provided for the door handles to make good tactile sensations when gripping the door handles, and deviating prevention members for preventing the buffer members from being deviated from the door handles.

1 . A refrigerator, comprising: doors for opening or closing storage chambers; door handles respectively provided at the doors; buffer members of an elastic material respectively provided for the door handles to make good tactile sensations when gripping the door handles; and deviating prevention members for preventing the buffer members from being deviated from the door handles.  
   
   
       2 . The refrigerator according to  claim 1 , wherein each of the door handles comprises: a fixing portion fixed to a free end of the door; a front extension, which extends in a front direction of the door from the fixing portion; a side extension, which is bent to extend from an end of the front extension to a center of rotation of the door; and an insertion groove formed at an inner surface of the side extension for inserting the buffer member and the deviating prevention member.  
   
   
       3 . The refrigerator according to  claim 2 , wherein the door handle and the insertion groove extend vertically along a lengthwise direction of the door; 
 the buffer member is vertically elongated along the lengthwise direction of the doors; and    the deviating prevention member is provided to support one or more ends of opposite ends of the buffer member.    
   
   
       4 . The refrigerator according to  claim 3 , wherein the buffer member is formed with an uneven portion for preventing slippage on an outer surface thereof to be gripped by the user.  
   
   
       5 . The refrigerator according to  claim 3 , wherein the deviating prevention member is provided with a fixing protrusion for fixing the deviating prevention member to the insertion groove, and the side extension member is formed with a fixing groove to be inserted by the fixing protrusion.  
   
   
       6 . The refrigerator according to  claim 5 , wherein the deviating prevention member is slidably supported, at opposite sides thereof, in the insertion groove, and provided, at a center thereof, with an elastic deformation portion, which deforms such that the fixing protrusion can be vertically varied.  
   
   
       7 . The refrigerator according to  claim 6 , wherein the deviating prevention member is provided with an uneven portion such that the deviating prevention member has the same outer surface as that of the uneven portion of the buffer member.