CN101074820B

CN101074820B - Refrigerator

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Publication number: CN101074820B
Application number: CN2006100136967A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 梁彰完
Original assignee: Taizhou LG Electronics Refrigeration Co Ltd
Current assignee: Taizhou LG Electronics Refrigeration Co Ltd
Priority date: 2006-05-16
Filing date: 2006-05-16
Publication date: 2011-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 2026-05-16
Also published as: CN101074820A

Abstract

This invention relates to a refrigerator, it consists of freezing room, storage room besides the freezing room, the door of freezing and storage room which have option to open or close, and the ice house besides the door of the freezing room. This refrigerator also includes cold air pipe inside the wall of the storage room which introduces the air flowing between the freezing room and ice house, and cold air channel of the ice house which introduces the flowing of air between the different ice houses. The effect of this invention is that the user can be easy to get ice by the distributor, so this improves the using convenience of the refrigerator. In the storage room there is no need another separate steam and fan, the configuration becomes simply and the cost is low, and also it increases the storage room. Because the seal between the cold air channel and ice house can prevent the leakage of the cold air, so the air leakage-proof effect is good. At the same time, the material source of the channel in the ice house is made of heat-proof substance, so the heat-proof effect is good.

Description

Refrigerator

Technical field

The present invention relates to refrigerator, relate in particular to the refrigerator that has the ice-making compartment passage of guiding cold air in a side of the ice-making compartment that is arranged at refrigerating-chamber door.

Background technology

In general, refrigerator is with the cryopreservation of the food device as purpose, according to the state of want preserved food, carries out freezing or refrigeration and taking care of to food.The cold air that supplies to refrigerator inside produces by the heat exchange action of refrigerant, carry out the cyclic process of compression condensation-expansion-evaporation repeatedly and sustainable supply to the inside of refrigerator, the refrigerant that is supplied to evenly is delivered to the inside of refrigerator by convection current, and the food of refrigerator inside is stored with desired temperature.

Fig. 1 is the front elevation according to the door opening of the refrigerator of prior art, as shown in the figure, the body 10 of refrigerator forms with the lineal hexahedral shape, and the inboard of described body 10 is divided respectively in the upper and lower and is formed with refrigerating chamber 20 that food cold storage is stored and freezing and refrigerating chamber 30 storage.

Described refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30 form independently storage space respectively, and its front forms opening.The front of the body of described opening selectively opens and closes by

refrigerator doors

22,32, and described

refrigerator doors

22,32 is made of the refrigerating chamber door 32 of the refrigerating chamber 30 of the refrigerating-chamber door 22 of the refrigerating chamber 20 that opens and closes described body 10 tops and switching body 10 bottoms.

Described refrigerating-chamber door 22 is arranged on a left side/right both sides, and its both side ends is fixed on the body 10 and is rotatable, thus can a left side/right side selectively opens and closes the front of described refrigerating chamber 20.

The inside of described refrigerating chamber 20 and selectively opening and closing has the drawer food stored according to the characteristic of the food of all size and state, basketry, support etc. on the refrigerating-chamber door 22 of described refrigerating chamber.

The front lower of described body 10, the front of promptly described refrigerating chamber 30 openings selectively opens and closes by refrigerating chamber door 32.Described refrigerating chamber door 32 can be front/rear direction slide and open and close described refrigerating chamber 30 selectively, the top of described refrigerating chamber door 32 has the refrigerating chamber door handle, it forwards protrudes and forms and the user is held easily.

And the inboard of described refrigerating chamber 30 has a plurality of drawers and storing basket, therefore multiple food can be separated and store, and is provided with the ice machine 40 of manufacturing ice cube in a side of described refrigerating chamber 30.

But there are the following problems for aforesaid prior art.

The ice machine 40 of making ice cube in the refrigerator of prior art is arranged on 30 li of the refrigerating chambers of described body 10 downsides, so the user is when taking out ice cube, opens need stoop waist behind the refrigerating chamber door 32 and operate described ice machine 40, thereby causes the inconvenience used.

In addition, in order to solve the problem that exists as mentioned above, nowadays to study, described ice machine 40 is arranged on the described refrigerating-chamber door 22, downside at described ice machine 40 is provided with distributor (not shown), and makes the user can take out the refrigerator of ice cube from the outside of refrigerating-chamber door 22.

But these structures need to possess separately in addition to the ice-making compartment with described ice machine 40 (not shown) to be supplied with for the evaporimeter (not shown) of the cold air that carries out the ice making operation and makes the fan (not shown) of cold air forced flow.Therefore ice-making compartment occupied space on refrigerating-chamber door 22 is big, reduces whole storage space, simultaneously owing to increased number of components and increased manufacturing process and improved cost.

Summary of the invention

In order to address the above problem, the present invention its objective is the part that a kind of cold air from refrigerating chamber to the ice-making compartment guiding that is formed at refrigerating-chamber door one side that supply with is provided and the refrigerator that carries out the ice making operation.

Another object of the present invention provides the refrigerator that an a kind of side at the ice-making compartment that is arranged at refrigerating-chamber door has the ice-making compartment passage of guiding cold air.

In order to reach the foregoing invention purpose, the technical solution used in the present invention provides a kind of refrigerator, includes the refrigerating chamber as the space of the food that keeps in cold storage; Be formed on a side of described refrigerating chamber, as the refrigerating chamber in the space that refrigerates stored food; Selectively open and close the refrigerating chamber door and the refrigerating-chamber door of the front of described refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber opening; Be arranged on a side of described refrigerating-chamber door, as ice making and the ice-making compartment in the space of store ice blocks; Wherein: this refrigerator also includes the wall that is built in described refrigerating chamber and guides the cold air path of the cold air flow between described refrigerating chamber and the ice-making compartment; Be arranged on a side of the refrigerating-chamber door that is formed with described ice-making compartment, the ice-making compartment passage that guides the cold air between described cold air path and the ice-making compartment to flow into; At the sidewall of described ice-making compartment, opening is provided with and makes cold air the come in and go out inboard of described ice-making compartment and suction inlet and the outlet between the described cold air path respectively; The openings outer peripheral face of ice-making compartment passage is provided with interior stepped installation portion, by with the identical shaped support of installation portion with on the corresponding position that is arranged at described suction inlet and outlet of ice-making compartment passage.Described support is the support that has the ice-making compartment sealing ring that can prevent cooling gas leakage.

According to aforesaid the present invention, can improve the ease of use and the heat-insulating property of refrigerator.

Effect of the present invention is a basis refrigerator of the present invention as above, and the ice-making compartment of making ice cube is formed on the refrigerating-chamber door, and the user can take out ice cube by distributor as required easily, therefore improves the convenience that uses.And the cold air of refrigerating chamber is guided the ice-making compartment that is formed at described refrigerating-chamber door into by cold air path and is made ice cube, therefore need not to be provided with independent evaporimeter and fan in addition on refrigerating chamber or described refrigerating-chamber door again.And then structure becomes simple and reduces manufacturing cost, and the while also helps guaranteeing storage space and can increase storage space.

Moreover, also possess the ice-making compartment passage that the installation that can make the ice-making compartment sealing ring becomes easy support is being set, described ice-making compartment sealing ring can prevent the leakage of the cold air that flowing between described cold air path and ice-making compartment, the effect brilliance of therefore anti-cooling gas leakage, because described ice-making compartment passage constitutes with heat-barrier material, therefore has good effect of heat insulation really simultaneously.In addition, because before described refrigerating chamber passage filling with insulation material, the ice-making compartment passage of making in advance that is made of heat-barrier material is installed on the lining, therefore can cuts off because the heat-proof quality that filling with insulation material did not cause low from root.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the front elevation of the refrigerator doors opening of general refrigerator;

Fig. 2 is the stereogram of the door opening of refrigerator of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the partial perspective view of refrigerating-chamber door of the ice-making compartment of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the separate part stereogram of installment state of the ice-making compartment passage of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the exploded perspective view of formation of the ice-making compartment passage of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention.

Among the figure:

100. body 200. refrigerating chambers

220. refrigerating-chamber door 240. outside plates

260. door lining 280. door sealing circles

300. refrigerating chamber 320. refrigerating chamber doors

340. depository dish 360. freezer evaporators

400. ice-making compartment 410. suction inlets

420. outlet 430. ice-making compartment sealing rings

440. ice machine 450. storage chambers

460. ice-making compartment door 500. cold air paths

520. suction passage 522. suction outlets

540. passing away 524. is discharged inlet

600. ice-making compartment passage 640. installation portions

642. mounting groove 660. supports

The specific embodiment

It is following that the embodiment of the refrigerator of the present invention of structure is elaborated to having as mentioned above with reference to accompanying drawing.

Fig. 2 is the stereogram according to the door opening of refrigerator of the present invention, and as shown in the figure, the body 100 of refrigerator constitutes with about lineal hexahedral shape, and the inside of described body 100 is divided into refrigerating chamber 200 and refrigerating chamber 300.

Described refrigerating chamber 200 is formed on the top of described body 100, though there is not detailed icon, for the inside at described refrigerating chamber 200 effectively holds various foods, the space of the described refrigerating chamber 200 of divisions such as the basketry of different shape and support and drawer and being provided with.

The front openings of described refrigerating chamber 200 and forming, the front of described refrigerating chamber 200 openings is is selectively opened and closed by refrigerating-chamber door 220.Described refrigerating-chamber door 220 is installed in a left side/right both sides of described body 100 respectively, and the left side of described refrigerating-chamber door separately 220/right-hand end hinge is connected a left side/right-hand end of described body 100.

And then described refrigerating-chamber door 220 is the center rotation with hinged two side ends, and the front of described refrigerating chamber 200 openings is selectable the switching by the rotation of described refrigerating-chamber door 220.

In addition, the below of described refrigerating chamber 200, refrigerating chamber 300 is formed at the bottom that promptly constitutes the described body 100 in independent space with described refrigerating chamber 200 divisions.Described refrigerating chamber 300 is to fish or meat or needs the food of long-time storage carry out freezing and the place of preservation, and the inboard of described refrigerating chamber 300 has the food that keeps in cold storage according to size or state the classify drawer of keeping or basketry etc.

And the front of described refrigerating chamber 300 is provided with the refrigerating chamber door 320 of the inside that opens and closes described refrigerating chamber 300.The lower end of described refrigerating chamber door 320 is connected with the lower end hinge of the depository dish of stored food 340, described depository dish 340 can before and after slide, thus can with described refrigerating chamber door 320 together forwards, backwards direction pull out/push.

The rear of described refrigerating chamber 300 is provided with freezer evaporator 360, described freezer evaporator 360 produces cold air by the heat exchange between the air in the refrigerant and described freezer evaporator 360 outsides, and the cold air that results from described freezer evaporator 360 flow into described refrigerating chamber 300 and makes the powerful cooling capacity of described refrigerating chamber 300 performances.

Result from that a part flow into ice-making compartment 400 by cold air path 500 in the cold air of described freezer evaporator 360.Described ice-making compartment 400 is for making the space of ice cube, be formed in a left side/right side refrigerating-chamber door 220 of the front that is opening and closing described refrigerating chamber 200 openings one inboard, the cold air by the freezer evaporator 360 that flowed into by described cold air path 500 carries out the ice making operation.

In addition, described cold air path 500 is communicated with the path that constitutes guiding cold air with a side of the adjacent described refrigerating chamber 300 of described freezer evaporator 360 and described ice-making compartment 400, and it is by transmitting the suction passage 520 of cold air and constitute to the passing away 540 that described refrigerating chamber 300 transmits cold air from described ice-making compartment 400 to the inboard of described ice-making compartment 400 from described freezer evaporator 360.

Described cold air path 500 is built in that refrigerating-chamber door 220 hinges with ice-making compartment 400 connect and the side of the described body 100 that is provided with (left surface when Fig. 2 observes), more specifically, is built in the sidewall of described refrigerating chamber 200.

Be built-in with on the interior sidewall surface of refrigerating chamber 200 of described suction passage 520 and passing away 540, be formed with suction outlet 522 respectively and discharge inlet 524.Described suction outlet 522 is that the end of described suction passage 520 openings is exposed to the outside and forms, and its constitutes the outlet of suction passage 520 sides of guiding the cold air of described ice-making compartment 400 by described suction passage 520 into.

Described discharge inlet 524 is formed on the below of described suction passage 520, it is that the end of described passing away 540 openings is exposed to the outside and forms, and its constitutes the inlet of passing away 540 sides of guiding the described ice-making compartment 400 inner cold air of described refrigerating chamber 300 by described passing away 540 into.

In addition, the shape that described ice-making compartment 400 protrudes to described refrigerating chamber 200 from the medial surface of described refrigerating-chamber door 220 and forming, when closing described refrigerating-chamber door 220, a contacts side surfaces of described ice-making compartment 400 is to being formed with described suction outlet 522 and discharging a side of the described refrigerating chamber 200 of inlet 524.

At this moment, corresponding to forming suction inlet 410 on the side wall surface of the described ice-making compartment 400 of described suction outlet 522, form outlet 420 on the side wall surface corresponding to the described ice-making compartment 400 of described discharge inlet 524.

Described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 connect a side wall surface of described ice-making compartment 400 respectively and opening forms, flow into described ice-making compartment 400 by described suction inlet 410 by the cold air of the described freezer evaporator 360 of described suction passage 520 guiding, guided into passing away 540 and be back to refrigerating chamber 300 again by the cold air of heat exchange by described outlet 420.

And then described suction outlet 522 contacts selectively with outlet 420 with the suction inlet 410 of a side wall surface that is formed on described ice-making compartment 400 with the switching of discharging the described refrigerating-chamber door 220 of inlet 524 by being formed with described ice-making compartment 400 and transmits cold air.

Fig. 3 is the partial perspective view that has as the refrigerating-chamber door of the ice-making compartment of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention, and as shown in the figure, described refrigerating-chamber door 220 comprises, constitutes the outside plate 240 of the outward appearance of the front that is exposed to described refrigerating-chamber door 220 outsides and side periphery; With the back side that constitutes described refrigerating-chamber door 220 promptly towards the door lining 260 of the outward appearance of the back of refrigerating chamber.

And, the inner space of described refrigerating-chamber door 220, be to be filled with the heat-barrier material that can prevent that described refrigerating chamber 200 temperature inside from changing between outside plate 240 and the door lining 260, the left-hand end of meeting at described door lining 260 and outside plate 240 also is provided with and can prevents the door sealing circle 280 of cold air from leaking between the refrigerating-chamber door 220 on a described left side/right side as shown in Figure 3.

The top of described door lining 260 is formed with the ice-making compartment 400 that caves in to the inside and form, inside upper part at described ice-making compartment 400 has the ice machine 440 of making ice cube, and the below of described ice-making compartment 440 has the storage chamber 450 that can discharge the aequum ice cube when storing the ice cube that is manufactured in ice machine 440.

Be adjacent to as shown in Figure 3 as the right side of the described ice-making compartment 400 of an end of the described refrigerating chamber 200 of the rotating shaft of described refrigerating-chamber door 220, opening is formed with suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 respectively, and described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 are respectively formed at the upper and lower sides of described ice-making compartment 400 and make cold air flow into the inside of described ice-making compartment 400 and flow out to the outside.

In addition, one side of described ice-making compartment 400 also is provided with to direction and rotates and selectively open and close the ice-making compartment door 460 of the front of described ice-making compartment 400 openings, closes the front of described ice-making compartment 400 openings thus and makes temperature described refrigerating chamber 200 inequality and ice-making compartment 400 have independently space respectively.

Fig. 4 is the separate part stereogram of demonstration as the installment state of the ice-making compartment passage of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention, as shown in the figure, for basketrys etc. are installed or to described refrigerating-chamber door 220 for the space that forms ice-making compartment 400 is provided, be formed with the part of a plurality of protrusions and the part of depression on described door lining 260, these are all integrally formed with described door lining 260.

The top of described door lining 260 is recessed to form in order to form ice-making compartment 400, and the lateral surface of described ice-making compartment 400 forms for heat insulation mutually across a certain distance with the lateral surface of described refrigerating-chamber door 220.

And then a side that is formed with the side of described refrigerating-chamber door 220 of described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 and corresponding described ice-making compartment 400 with it can be mutually across a certain distance, and between described spacing clamping ice-making compartment passage 600.

Cold air between described ice-making compartment passage 600 described cold air paths 500 of guiding and the ice-making compartment 400 flows into, it is connected with described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 and the ice-making compartment 400 that makes the cold air of the cold air path 500 of described refrigerating chamber 200 inside guide described refrigerating-chamber door 220 inboards into, in contrast, also the cold air of described ice-making compartment 400 is guided into described cold air path 500.

Fig. 5 is the exploded perspective view of demonstration as the formation of the ice-making compartment passage of wanting portion's structure of refrigerator of the present invention, as shown in the figure, described ice-making compartment passage 600 forms with the size between the lateral surface of the lateral surface that can be connected in described refrigerating-chamber door 220 and described ice-making compartment 400, is formed with openings 620 with connecting respectively on described suction inlet 410 and the outlet 420 corresponding positions.

When described ice-making compartment passage 600 is installed between described refrigerating-chamber door 220 and the ice-making compartment 400, described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 are communicated to the inboard of described ice-making compartment 400 always, and cold air can flow by described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420 thus.

And, the big or small bigger support 660 of comparing described openings 620 is installed above the described openings 620.Described support 660 is for the works of described ice-making compartment sealing ring 430 is installed, it with can with a side of described ice-making compartment sealing ring 430 mutually the shape shape of closing form.

For the stable installation of described support 660, on the openings outer peripheral face of described ice-making compartment passage 600, be formed with installation portion 640.Described installation portion 640 is to make described support 660 stable positions of installing, and section is poor downwards with the shape identical with described support 660 for it, and is promptly stepped and form.

And, on described installation portion 640, be formed with a plurality of mounting grooves 642.Described mounting groove 642 caves in downwards and forms, it with a side of described support 660 mutually shape close and fixing described support 660.

The described ice-making compartment sealing ring 430 of the top installation of described support 660, described ice-making compartment sealing ring 430 are exposed to the outside of described refrigerating-chamber door 220 by described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420.

In addition, described ice-making compartment passage 600 is guiding and is passing through the cold air that described cold air path 500 flows into or flows out, and therefore for the loss that reduces cold air constitutes with heat-barrier material, should use to be easy to moulding and the good expanded polystyrene (EPS) of heat-proof quality.

The effect of the refrigerator of the present invention of structure describes as follows to having as mentioned above with reference to accompanying drawing.

After refrigerator was connected external power source, the refrigerating circulation system of body 100 inside of described refrigerator was started working, and described thus freezer evaporator 360 carries out heat exchange and produces cold air with the air of described refrigerating chamber 300 inboards.

The Quilt with air conditioning that results from described freezer evaporator 360 supplies to described refrigerating chamber 300 and the food of the described refrigerating chamber inside that keeps in cold storage.And, result from the cold air of described freezer evaporator 360 part by described cool-air feed fan (not shown) forced conveyance to described suction passage 520.

The cold air that is transported to described suction passage 520 flows upward along described suction passage 520, and the cold airflow of described suction outlet 522 that reaches described suction passage 520 ends is through flowing into described ice-making compartment 400 with described suction outlet 522 contacted described suction inlets 410 and described ice-making compartment passage 600.

The cold air flow that is transported to described ice-making compartment 400 is to the ice machine 440 of described ice-making compartment 400 inside, and the cold air and the water that flow into described ice machine 440 carry out heat exchange and finishes the ice making operation.

In addition, the cold air of heat exchange of finishing is discharged to the outlet 420 of described suction inlet 410 downsides, also flow through described ice-making compartment passage 600 and be discharged to described outlet 420 this moment, and by flowing into described passing away 540 with described outlet 420 contacted discharge inlets 524.

The cold air that flow into described passing away 540 flow into described refrigerating chamber 300 downwards by the guiding of described passing away 540.The cold air and the described freezer evaporator 360 that flow into described refrigerating chamber 300 carry out heat exchange again and continue circulation.

At this moment, described suction inlet 410 and described suction outlet 522 and described outlet 420 with discharge inlet 524 and be in contact with one another by closing of described refrigerating-chamber door 220, and be close to by the described ice-making compartment sealing ring 430 that is exposed to described suction inlet 410 and outlet 420, prevent the leakage of cold air with this.

And, ice cube after the ice making operation of the inside of described ice-making compartment 400 is over is stored in 450 li of described storage chambers, the ice cube of being stored is transplanted on the distributor (not shown) that is installed on described refrigerating-chamber door 220 outsides according to user's operation, can take out ice cube from the outside of refrigerating-chamber door 220 thus.

Scope of the present invention is not confined on the aforesaid embodiment, and in aforesaid technical scope, the those of ordinary skill in constructed field can be made multiple other distortion based on the present invention.

Claims

1. a refrigerator includes the refrigerating chamber as the space of the food that keeps in cold storage; Be formed on a side of described refrigerating chamber, as the refrigerating chamber in the space that refrigerates stored food; Selectively open and close the refrigerating chamber door and the refrigerating-chamber door of the front of described refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber opening; Be arranged on a side of described refrigerating-chamber door, as ice making and the ice-making compartment in the space of store ice blocks; It is characterized in that: this refrigerator also include the wall that is built in described refrigerating chamber (200) and guide described refrigerating chamber (300) and ice-making compartment (400) between the cold air path (500) of cold air flow; Be arranged on a side of the refrigerating-chamber door (220) that is formed with described ice-making compartment (400), the ice-making compartment passage (600) that guides the cold air between described cold air path (500) and the ice-making compartment (400) to flow into; Sidewall in described ice-making compartment (400), opening is provided with and makes cold air the come in and go out suction inlet (410) of inboard of described ice-making compartment (400) and outlet (420) and guide the cold air of described ice-making compartment into described cold air path (500) by the ice-making compartment passage respectively; At suction inlet (410) and outlet (420), connect respectively on the corresponding position and be formed with openings, described openings is provided with the support (660) that the ice-making compartment sealing ring that can prevent that cold air from revealing is installed.

2. refrigerator according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described ice-making compartment passage (600) is provided with openings (620), the outer peripheral face of described openings (620) is provided with interior stepped installation portion (640), by with the identical shaped support (660) of installation portion (640) with on the corresponding position that is arranged at described suction inlet (410) and outlet (420) of ice-making compartment passage (600), the openings (620) of described ice-making compartment passage (600) is communicated in suction inlet (410) and outlet (420), and is installed in corresponding on the position that forms suction inlet (410) and outlet (420).

3. refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described ice-making compartment sealing ring is exposed to the outside of described refrigerating-chamber door (220) by described suction inlet (410) and outlet (420).