Home appliance having a door mechanism

Abstract

A home appliance has a body, a storage partition encircled by the body and a front opening providing access to the storage partition. A door mechanism is connected to the body and is rotatably movable between a closed position where the front opening can be completely covered and an open position where access is provided into the storage partition. The door mechanism contains an outer door panel facing the outer side and an inner door facing the storage partition in the closed position. The home appliance has a frame structure with vertical bracket parts provided in a manner extending in a vertical direction on a panel inner face of the outer door panel facing the inner door, horizontal bracket parts provided in a manner extending in a horizontal direction, and related corner bracket parts provided in the regions of the vertical bracket parts and of the horizontal bracket parts.

1 . A home appliance, comprising:
 a body encircling at least one storage partition, said body having a front opening formed therein in a manner providing access inside from outside into said at least one storage partition;   at least one door mechanism connected to said body and being rotatably movable between a closed position where said front opening being completely covered and an open position where at least partial access being provided into said storage partition through said front opening, wherein said at least one door mechanism has an outer door panel facing an outer side and an inner door facing said at least one storage partition in the closed position, said outer door panel having a panel inner face facing said inner door;   a frame structure having mutual vertical bracket parts provided in a manner extending in a vertical direction on said panel inner face of said outer door panel, mutual horizontal bracket parts provided in a manner extending in a horizontal direction which is in an orthogonal direction to the vertical direction, and related corner bracket parts provided in regions of end parts of said mutual vertical bracket parts and of said mutual horizontal bracket parts and embodied to connect said mutual vertical bracket parts and said mutual horizontal bracket parts to each other; and   said outer door panel further having peripheral wall parts in a manner defining a panel inner space, said peripheral wall parts including horizontal wall parts each having an inwardly bent part embodied to define a wall channel embodied to at least partially receive related parts of said frame structure where said mutual horizontal bracket parts exist.   
     
     
         2 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein said inwardly bent part is configured to have a form which is L-shaped. 
     
     
         3 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein said peripheral wall parts include vertical wall parts each having an outwardly bent part provided in a manner diverging from said frame structure. 
     
     
         4 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein said mutual vertical bracket parts and said mutual horizontal bracket parts each have a bracket inner channel where said related corner bracket parts are at least partially placed. 
     
     
         5 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein said related corner bracket parts each have a first bracket part which extends generally in a same direction as a related one of said mutual vertical bracket parts, a second bracket part which extends generally in a same direction as a related one of said mutual related horizontal bracket parts, and a bracket convolution part provided between said first bracket part and said second bracket part in a manner defining a corner part of said frame structure. 
     
     
         6 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 hinge mechanisms embodied to provide movement of said at least one door mechanism between the open position and the closed position;   a hinge connection element; and   at least one first bracket connection hole structure, wherein in order to connect one of said related corner bracket parts to one of said hinge mechanisms, to one of said peripheral wall parts and to one of said mutual horizontal bracket parts, there is said at least one first bracket connection hole structure through which said hinge connection element passes.   
     
     
         7 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 ,
 further comprising a first connection element;   wherein said related corner bracket parts have first connection holes formed therein; and   wherein said mutual vertical bracket parts and said mutual horizontal brackets part have second connection holes formed therein in a manner corresponding to said first connection holes, and in order to connect one of said related corner bracket parts to a related one of said mutual vertical bracket parts or to a related one of said mutual horizontal bracket parts and to said panel inner face, said first connection element passes through at least one of said first connection holes and through at least one of said second connection holes provided in said one related vertical bracket part or in said one related horizontal bracket part.   
     
     
         8 . The home appliance according to  claim 7 , wherein:
 said mutual vertical bracket parts each have a first connection flap; and   said related corner bracket parts each have a corresponding first connection flap provided at a side which is opposite to a side where said first connection holes are existing, and embodied to correspond to said first connection flap of said mutual vertical bracket parts, in order to connect said related corner bracket parts to said mutual vertical bracket parts.   
     
     
         9 . The home appliance according to  claim 7 , wherein:
 said mutual horizontal bracket parts each have a second connection flap; and   said related corner bracket parts each have a corresponding second connection flap provided at a side which is opposite to a side where said first connection holes are existing, and embodied to correspond to said second connection flap of said mutual horizontal bracket parts, in order to connect said related corner bracket parts to said mutual horizontal bracket parts.   
     
     
         10 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein said mutual vertical bracket parts each contain an upper bending part provided in a bent manner towards said panel inner face at a side which is far from said panel inner face. 
     
     
         11 . The home appliance according to  claim 10 , wherein said upper bending part is a bending part provided in a manner extending in the vertical direction of said mutual vertical bracket parts and at a side of said mutual vertical bracket parts where said related corner bracket parts do not exist. 
     
     
         12 . The home appliance according to  claim 10 , wherein said mutual vertical bracket parts each have a lower bending part embodied at an opposite side of said upper bending part and provided in a manner approaching said upper bending part. 
     
     
         13 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 said at least one door mechanism has a door opening auxiliary bracket; and   said mutual horizontal bracket parts each contain a related horizontal bracket middle part embodied such that said door opening auxiliary bracket of said door mechanism is connected thereon, and provided in a one-piece manner with a related one said mutual horizontal bracket parts.   
     
     
         14 . The home appliance according to  claim 13 ,
 further comprising a first auxiliary bracket connection element; and   wherein said related horizontal bracket middle part has at least one first connection hole formed therein and through which said first auxiliary bracket connection element passes in order to connect said door opening auxiliary bracket to said related horizontal bracket middle part.   
     
     
         15 . The home appliance according to  claim 13 ,
 further comprising a second auxiliary bracket connection element; and   wherein said related horizontal bracket middle part has at least one second connection hole formed therein and through which said second auxiliary bracket connection element passes in order to connect a respective one of said mutually horizontal bracket parts to said outer door panel.   
     
     
         16 . The home appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein the home appliance is a domestic cooling device.