Summary of the invention
Technical problem to be solved by this invention is, a kind of distributor heater of refrigerator is provided, and can provide when being heated to temperature required hot water, can not destroy the state of temperature of refrigerator inside.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the technical solution used in the present invention is: a kind of distributor heater of refrigerator, be arranged on the chamber door of refrigerator, comprise: be arranged at the distributor side, the heater assembly on feed pipe that heats water and the outer surface that is arranged at above-mentioned feed pipe is provided; Heater assembly comprises: by the lateral surface that is arranged at feed pipe, inside possesses the heat accumulation pipe of heat-storing material and is arranged at the outside of heat accumulation pipe, the 1st heating unit that the heater wire that utilizes electric energy to produce heat constitutes; By the end that is arranged at feed pipe, utilize electric energy transient heating that heater wire produces the 2nd heating unit that constitutes of the transient heating device of the water that flows of portion within it.
Also comprise being arranged at water pipe P, the last head piece of P`, the incrustation scale in the removing water produces the filter of composition.
Described filter comprises the filter that is made of polyphosphate.
Described filter has the filter that is made of ion exchange resin.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: after the water-supply source first-class from the fire hose obtained water, can utilize the distributor of refrigerator that it is become hot water and offer the user.Particularly, heater assembly H has been divided into the 1st heating unit and the 2nd heating unit, not only can have obtained temperature required hot water easily, can also prevent that the heat of heater from flowing into the inside of refrigerator.And, when adding hot water,, used filter in order to prevent the generation of incrustation scale, protected the passage of refrigerator inside effectively.Therefore, adopt when of the present invention, not only hot-water supply easily can also prevent to produce incrustation scale, at the reliability that fundamentally can improve product.
The specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments the present invention is described in further detail:
As shown in Figure 2, comprise in the refrigerator structure of the present invention's design: the filter 100 that the water that provides for water-supply source Ws filters; Utilize the ice machine I of the water ice making after purifying; And the distributor D of the water after the user provides purification.
Water-supply source Ws is meant the first-class water facilities of the picture fire hose.The water of water-supply source Ws at first passes through filter 100 by water pipe P1.Foreign matter in filter 100 filtered water makes it become the water that the user can drink.Filter 100 can use any filter.Example for filter 100 describes in detail in the back.And filter is used removable structure for 100 meters, is arranged on the inside of refrigerator storage space, and for example a certain side of refrigerating chamber is easy to replace and maintain.
Can be fed on ice machine I and the distributor D by water pipe P2 at the water that purifies on the filter 100.Here, the water pipe end to distributor D supply water of the present invention's design is provided with heater assembly H.Heater assembly H mainly is the device that to be fed to the water on the distributor D and to be provided with in order to heat.
According to above-mentioned explanation as can be known, behind the present invention's water that at first the polished feedwater source provides, utilize heater assembly H to add hot water, again hot water is offered the user by distributor D.Usually contain calcium ion and magnesium ion in running water, these ions can form incrustation scale on the inwall of refrigerator, and these phenomenons can be more obvious when particularly utilizing heater assembly H to add hot water.Therefore, when utilizing heater assembly H to heat, should use the filter that can filter the composition that forms incrustation scale.
As shown in Figure 3, in distributor D structure, heater assembly H is set at the end of water pipe P.Be provided with the water pipe P that is used to supply water above being arranged at the distributor D of chamber door front of refrigerator.And device and the present invention of being arranged at switch in the distributor D etc. of the valve of the current in the control water pipe P and by-pass valve control directly do not get in touch, so do not show among the figure.
Be connected with the water pipe P2 among Fig. 2, provide the lower end of the water pipe P of the water that purifies through filter 100 to be arranged at the upper end of distributor D.And the heater assembly H that is arranged at water pipe P lower end is made of the 1st heating unit 110 and the 2nd heating unit 200.
At first, describe for the 1st heating unit 110.The main effect of the 1st heating unit 110 is that the water that provides by water pipe P once is provided, and mainly is made of heat accumulation pipe 112 that is wrapping water pipe P and the heater wire that utilizes the electric energy evolution of heat 116 that wraps heat accumulation pipe 112.
Be provided with heat-storing material 114 in the inside of heat accumulation pipe 112.Heat-storing material 114 be so long as can keep the high-temperature temperature state when heater wire 116 heat releases, and with the material of the water that flows in the heat transferred water pipe P, Any shape can be used.
For example, heat-storing material 114 becomes the condition of high temperature under the effect of heater wire 116, can become liquid condition under the condition of high temperature, also can become gaseous state after phase transformation, and the interior water of heat transferred water pipe P at this moment just can be used.So, cause the heat-storing material 114 of phase transformation in the time of can using water in feed pipe P that heat is provided.
Described heat-storing material 114 can use the higher material of specific heat, as long as but possess certain heat accumulation function, just can use in the present invention, but also can use the heat-storing material 114 that has simple structure.When being heat-storing material 114 with water, utilize the heater wire 116 that under the effect of electric energy, generates heat, water is heated to certain high temperature.Then, when utilizing distributor D that water is provided in this state, the heat of heat-storing material 114 will be delivered in the water of water pipe P inside, and therefore the water that provides by distributor D is hot water.
As long as heat-storing material 114 has certain latent heat, when absorbing heat or emitting heat, cause phase transformation, and, just can use regardless of any form with heat transferred water pipe P inside.
When the heat accumulation pipe 112 of choosing built-in heat-storing material 114 big or small, consider that generally the amount of the water that takes out from distributor D can not cause dysgenic thermal capacity to refrigerator inside with its temperature.And, the temperature of heat-storing material 114 and utilize the temperature of the water of heat-storing material 114 heating also will consider the influence of the 2nd heating unit.
The heat accumulation pipe 112 of built-in heat-storing material 114 should adopt the good material of thermal conductivity, for example can adopt metal material to make.The water pipe P that is arranged at heat accumulation pipe 112 inside also will adopt the good material of thermal conductivity to make.
Water by the 1st heating unit 110 heating that are equipped with above-mentioned heat-storing material 114 is being heated to required temperature by the 2nd heating unit 200.The 2nd heating unit 200 is by constituting with the transient heating device 210 that is trapped among water pipe P` periphery with water pipe P water pipe connecting P`.
Water pipe P` also can form an integral body with the water pipe P of the 1st heating unit 110.And transient heating device 210 sends high heat in the moment of energising, is made of the heater wire at the water of transient heating water pipe P` inside.
Described the 2nd heating unit 200 has constituted will be heated to the structure of the real condition of high temperature once more by the water that the 1st heating unit 110 is heated to uniform temperature.And the 2nd heating unit 200 is work when water is discharged by water pipe P` only, adds hot water thus.
The present invention who is made of the 1st above-mentioned heating unit 110 and the 2nd heating unit 200 considers that following several points design:
In order to heat water to certain temperature at the 1st heating unit 110, heat-storing material 114 should be kept the temperature of the target temperature that is higher than water.If make heat-storing material 114 keep the certain high temperature state, then require the thermal capacity of heat-storing material 114 to want high, therefore in fact to increase heat-storing material 114.And if increase heat-storing material 114 then can be subjected to some influences of distributor itself.And when increase heat-storing material 114 made it keep the condition of high temperature, the heat of heat-storing material 114 just might flow in the storage space of refrigerator.
Therefore, utilize the first time among the present invention heat-storing material 114 at first to heat water to certain temperature in the heating process, pass through water pipe P at water then, start the 2nd heating unit 200 that possesses the transient heating device in the very short time that P` flows, obtain required hot water thus.
Below, for be fit to the present invention in the embodiment of the matching used filter 100 of heater assembly that uses describe.The main effect of filter 100 purifies the water that is fed on the above-mentioned heater assembly H, therefore will be arranged on water pipe P at least, the water inlet of P`.
Filter 100 should constitute the filter of the incrustation scale that produces on the water route that can remove refrigerator inside.That is, can comprise the composition that produces incrustation scale usually in the water that water-supply source provides, for example calcium ion and magnesium ion, these compositions can produce incrustation scale in large quantities when utilizing heater assembly H to add hot water.So distributor D goes up when heater H is installed, the filter of removing incrustation scale must be set, the thermal conductivity that this helps prolonging the life-span of equipment and improves heater.
In the embodiments of the invention, be provided with the filter that constitutes by ion exchange resin in the inside of filter 100.Ion exchange resin is to collect the calcium ion of generation incrustation scale and the resin of magnesium ion, is the filter that is used on the part water dispenser.Water on the water-supply source is when passing through the filter 100 that is made of ion exchange resin, and the calcium ion and the magnesium ion that are dissolved in the water will be eliminated.
And, on the basis of ion-exchange filter, can also increase the filter of collecting other foreign matters.For example, can use as after-filter, remove the various foreign matters in the water being usually used in the active carbon of water purification with filter.And our kind of the active carbon filter that can select also has much at present.For example, can use, can collect the filter of various foreign matters thus simultaneously in that active carbon is added the composition with particular filter effect in as element therein.The after-filter that is made of active carbon on this specification mixes the filter of other compositions that can collect specific foreign matter when being defined as with active carbon as main material in fact.
In another embodiment, filter 100 can be made of polyphosphate (Polyphosphate).It reaches side opposite (cation of polyphosphate and calcium and magnesium produces reaction) around polyphosphate covering calcium ion and the magnesium ion, so that can't condense.When from then on utilizing the morphotic polyphosphate that water is passed through by the particle shape with a certain size to constitute the inside of filter 100, water can flow by the space between the particle.And the cation of calcium ion that contains in these water and magnesium and polyphosphate produce reaction, thereby can't be condensed into incrustation scale.
By above explanation as can be known, in order to utilize distributor that hot water is provided, be major technology guiding theory among the present invention to adopt heat-storing material 114 and transient heating device 210.And, minimum for the incrustation scale that makes generation when utilizing the heater assembly heating, can optionally use the filter that constitutes by ion exchange resin or polyphosphate.
Knowledgeable people in the technical field under the present invention can technological guidance's thought according to the present invention carry out other variation, but any variation all should be explained within claim scope of the present invention.