CN108426413B

CN108426413B - Split door body assembly and refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN108426413B
Application number: CN201810355134.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭动; 梁龙旭; 刘磊
Original assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd; Chongqing Haier Refrigeration Electric Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-04-19
Filing date: 2018-04-19
Publication date: 2021-04-23
Anticipated expiration: 2038-04-19
Also published as: CN108426413A

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of refrigerators, and particularly provides a side-by-side combination door assembly and a refrigerator, wherein the side-by-side combination door assembly comprises: a set of split door bodies, a sealing air bag, an inflating device and at least one telescopic part. According to the split door body assembly, when the door body is closed by a user, the telescopic component pushes the sealing air bag to move towards the second door body, the inflating device starts to inflate air into the inflating channel, and the sealing air bag expands to seal a gap between the split doors. When the door body is opened, the telescopic component drives the sealing air bag to move away from the second door body, and the inflating device deflates the sealing air bag. The sealing air bag is contracted into the first concave cavity. According to the invention, the door body is more firmly sealed by inflating the sealing air bag, and meanwhile, the gap between the side-by-side combination doors is completely filled with the sealing air bag with high elasticity, so that the sealing and heat-insulating effects of the refrigerator are improved.

Description

Split door body assembly and refrigerator

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of refrigerators, in particular to a side-by-side combination door body assembly and a refrigerator.

Background

Side by side combination refrigerators are now on the market. Because the refrigerator has an inevitable gap in the middle of the side-by-side combination door, cold air in the refrigerator can leak out, and the refrigeration and food preservation effects of the refrigerator are affected. Meanwhile, the leakage of cold air increases the burden of a refrigeration system of the refrigerator and wastes electric energy.

In order to solve the above problems, some conventional side-by-side combination refrigerators have a vertical beam provided at an edge of one of the side-by-side combination doors to seal a gap between the side-by-side combination doors when the door bodies are closed. However, when the user opens the side-by-side combination door, the vertical beam structure cannot be hidden, and the user is influenced to take articles in the refrigerator compartment. Meanwhile, the appearance of the refrigerator is affected by the redundant structure of the vertical beam. Moreover, the vertical beam of the existing refrigerator is mostly made of rigid materials, and the telescopic performance is poor, so that the sealing effect on the gap of the side-by-side combination door is poor, and the leakage of cold air cannot be effectively prevented.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention has been made to provide a side-by-side door assembly and a refrigerator that overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.

A further object of the present invention is to improve the sealing effect of the refrigerator.

It is another further object of the present invention to facilitate the use of the refrigerator by the user.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a side-by-side door body assembly comprising: the end face of the first door body facing the second door body is provided with a first concave cavity extending along the vertical direction; the sealing air bag is arranged between the two door bodies in a vertically extending mode and used for sealing a gap between the two door bodies; the inflation device is directly or indirectly communicated with the sealed air bag and is configured to inflate or deflate the sealed air bag; at least one flexible part, the first cavity inner wall of one end fixed connection of every flexible part, the other end stretches out and connects sealed gasbag towards the direction of the second door body, and flexible part configures into controllably to stretch out and draw back to the sealed gasbag moves to the first preset position of contradicting the second door body terminal surface towards the direction of the second door body, or keeps away from the direction of the second door body and moves to the second preset position of hiding in first cavity.

Optionally, the telescopic component is a telescopic airbag, and the inflation device is further communicated with the telescopic airbag and inflates or deflates the telescopic airbag to control the telescopic airbag to stretch.

Optionally, the inflatable device is indirectly inflated or deflated to the sealed air bag through the inflatable air bag.

Optionally, the split door body assembly further comprises: the inflation channel is formed inside the first door body, the inlet of the inflation channel is arranged on the top surface of the first door body, and the outlet of the inflation channel is communicated with at least one telescopic air bag; the air charging device is arranged on the top surface of the first door body, and an air outlet of the air charging device is communicated with an inlet of the air charging channel.

Optionally, the split door body assembly further comprises: and at least one valve switch, wherein each valve switch is arranged at the communication part of the telescopic air bag and one sealing air bag and is configured to allow or prevent the telescopic air bag from being communicated with the sealing air bag.

Optionally, the number of the telescopic airbags is two, and the two telescopic airbags are respectively arranged at positions close to the top and the bottom of the first door body.

Optionally, the split door body assembly further comprises: and the air bag shell is coated outside the sealed air bag.

Optionally, a second cavity extending in the vertical direction is arranged on the end surface, facing the first door body, of the second door body, and the second cavity is used for partially accommodating the sealing airbag when the sealing airbag moves to the first preset position; the second cavity extends the same length as the first cavity.

Optionally, the split door body assembly further comprises: the detection device is arranged on the first door body or the second door body and is used for detecting the opening and closing states of the split door bodies; the inflating device is also configured to inflate the sealed airbag when the detecting device detects that the door body is closed; when the detection device detects that the door body is opened, the sealing air bag is deflated.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a refrigerator including: a refrigerator body, the interior of which forms a storage chamber of the refrigerator; and the split door body assembly is arranged on the front side of the box body and used for opening and closing the storage compartment.

The invention provides a split door body assembly, comprising: a set of split door bodies, a sealing air bag, an inflating device and at least one telescopic part. The sealing air bag is arranged between the two door bodies along the vertical extension to be used for sealing a gap between the two door bodies. One end of each telescopic component is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the first cavity, the other end of each telescopic component extends out towards the second door body and is connected with the sealing air bag, and the telescopic components stretch out and draw back controllably to drive the sealing air bag to move towards or away from the second door body. According to the split door body assembly, when the door body is closed by a user, the telescopic part pushes the sealing air bag to move towards the second door body, and the inflating device is started to inflate air into the inflating channel. The sealing airbag is inflated to seal the gap between the split doors. When the door body is opened, the telescopic component drives the sealing air bag to move away from the second door body, and the inflating device deflates the sealing air bag. The sealing air bag is contracted into the first concave cavity. According to the invention, the door body is more firmly sealed by inflating the sealing air bag, and meanwhile, the gap between the side-by-side combination doors is completely filled with the sealing air bag with high elasticity, so that the sealing and heat-insulating effects of the refrigerator are improved.

In addition, the thermal insulation performance of air is far stronger than that of the rigid material used for manufacturing the vertical beam in the prior art. When the door body of the refrigerator is closed, the air is filled into the sealing air bag, so that the air in the air bag is sufficient.

Furthermore, the telescopic part is a telescopic air bag, and the inflating device is also communicated with the telescopic air bag and inflates or deflates the telescopic air bag so as to control the telescopic air bag to stretch. The telescopic air bag can also be controlled to shrink by the inflating device, so that a telescopic device with a mechanical transmission structure is not required to be separately arranged. The split door body assembly can realize the expansion of the sealing air bag and the expansion of the expansion device at the same time only through one inflation device, so the split door body assembly has simpler structure and low manufacturing cost.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a split door body assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a split door body assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged top schematic view of the split door body assembly shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged top schematic view of the first door body and the second door body of the split door body assembly shown in FIG. 2; and

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present embodiment begins with a split door body assembly 100. As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the split door body assembly 100 includes: a set of split doors, a sealed airbag 130, an inflator 140, and at least one telescoping member. The "side-by-side door" refers to two pivotable door bodies arranged side by side, wherein the rotating shaft of the left door body is arranged at the left edge of the door body, and the rotating shaft of the right door body is arranged at the right edge, so that the side-by-side door structure allows a user to open the two door bodies from the middle position of the two door bodies, is well known to those skilled in the art, and is not described herein again.

Specifically, the above-mentioned split door includes: the first door body 110 and the second door body 120 are, in this embodiment, the first door body 110 refers to a left door body, and in other embodiments, the first door body may also be a right door body. An end surface of the first door body 110 facing the second door body 120 is provided with a first cavity 111 extending in a vertical direction. The first cavity 111 is formed therein with a rectangular space for accommodating the sealing bladder 130 and at least one expansion member. As shown in fig. 4, an end surface of the second door body 120 facing the first door body 110 is provided with a second cavity 121 extending in the vertical direction, the extending length of the second cavity 121 is the same as the extending length of the first cavity 111, and the depth of the second cavity 121 is smaller than that of the first cavity 111.

As shown in fig. 3, the sealing airbag 130 is vertically extended between the two door bodies to seal a gap between the two door bodies. The sealing bladder 130 extends less than the first cavity 111 to ensure that the sealing bladder 130 can enter the first cavity 111. In this embodiment, the sealed bladder 130 may be made of an elastomeric material such as PVC.

The inflator 140 is in direct or indirect communication with the sealed bladder 130 and is configured to inflate or deflate the sealed bladder 130. In the present embodiment, the inflator 140 is a micro inflator.

One end of each telescopic component is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the first cavity 111, the other end of each telescopic component extends out towards the second door body 120 and is connected with the sealing airbag 130, and the telescopic components are configured to be controllably telescopic so as to drive the sealing airbag 130 to move towards the second door body 120 to a first preset position abutting against the end face of the second door body 120, or move away from the second door body 120 to a second preset position hidden in the first cavity 111.

In the present embodiment, the telescopic member is a telescopic airbag 150, and the inflator 140 is in communication with the telescopic airbag 150 and inflates or deflates the telescopic airbag 150 to control the telescopic airbag 150 to expand or contract. The airbag 150 is a strip-shaped airbag extending in the transverse direction of the door body, and the airbag wall of the airbag 150 has a folded structure. When the bellows airbag 150 is inflated, the bellows structure is deployed and the bellows airbag 150 is extended; when the bellows 150 is deflated, the bellows structure compresses and the bellows 150 shortens. Preferably, the number of the bellows 150 is two, and the bellows is respectively disposed at positions close to the top and the bottom of the first door body 110. In other embodiments of the present invention, 3 or more than 3 telescopic bladders 150 may be provided in order to ensure smooth movement of the sealing bladder 130. Preferably, the plurality of airbags 150 are arranged at equal intervals along the vertical direction of the first door body 110.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the telescopic member may be a push rod driven mechanically. A step motor is arranged in the first cavity 111, one end of the push rod is fixedly connected with the side surface of the sealing air bag 130, and the other end of the push rod is connected with the step motor. The push rod drives the air bag 130 to move horizontally under the driving of the stepping motor. In this embodiment, the inflator 140 is in direct communication with the sealed bladder 130 and inflates or deflates the sealed bladder 130 directly.

In this embodiment, it is preferable that the bellows 150 is in controllable communication with the sealing balloon 130, and the inflator 140 indirectly inflates or deflates the sealing balloon 130 through the bellows 150. That is, the gas is first filled in the bellows 150 and then enters the sealing bag 130 from the bellows 150.

The split door body assembly 100 further includes: at least one valve switch 160. Each valve switch 160 is disposed at a communication of one of the bellows 150 with the sealed bladder 130 and is configured to allow or prevent communication of the bellows 150 with the sealed bladder 130. In this embodiment, the valve switch 160 may be one or more valves. When the telescopic air bag 150 and the sealing air bag 130 are both in the non-inflated state, the air valve is in the closed state, and the interiors of the telescopic air bag 150 and the sealing air bag 130 are not communicated with each other. When the air pressure inside the air bag 150 reaches a predetermined value after the air bag 150 is filled with a sufficient amount of air, the air valve is automatically opened, and the air in the air bag 150 flows into the air bag 130.

The split door body assembly 100 further includes: an inflation channel 170. The inflation channel 170 is formed inside the first door 110, an inlet of the inflation channel is opened on the top surface of the first door 110, a plurality of outlets of the inflation channel can be provided, and each outlet is communicated with one expansion airbag 150. The inflator 140 is disposed on the top surface of the first door body 110, and an outlet thereof communicates with an inlet of the inflation channel 170. In this embodiment, the inflation channel 170 includes a main channel 171 extending vertically, and two branch channels 172 horizontally connecting the main channel 171 and one end of the inner side of the bellows 150, and the inflator 140 inflates the air inside the main channel 171 and then enters the interiors of the bellows 150 through the branch channels 172.

The sealing airbag 130 is further covered with an airbag housing 180 for protecting and supporting the sealing airbag 130 to prevent the sealing airbag 130 from being deformed when it is contracted.

The split door body assembly 100 further includes: and (4) a detection device. The detection device is disposed on the first door 110 or the second door 120, and is configured to detect an open/close state of the split door. The inflator 140 is further configured to inflate the airbag 130 when the detection device detects that the door body is closed; when the detection device detects that the door body is opened, the sealing air bag 130 is deflated. In this embodiment, the detection device may specifically be a hall switch or a mechanical switch disposed at an edge of the door body, and the open/close state of the side-by-side door is determined by detecting the on-state.

The specific working principle of the split door body assembly 100 of the present embodiment is as follows: when the side-by-side door is in the open state, both the air bag 130 and the air bag 150 are in the uninflated state. When the user closes the side-by-side door, the detection means detects that the side-by-side door is closed, the inflator 140 is activated, and inflates the inflation channel 170 with gas. The airbag 150 is first inflated and gradually extended, and the airbag 150 horizontally pushes the airbag 130 from the second predetermined position to the first predetermined position. In this process, gas cannot enter the air bag 130 from the air bag 150 due to the valve switch 160, and therefore, the air bag 130 is still in the contracted state when it has just moved to the first preset position. When the inflator 140 further inflates the airbag 150 and the air pressure in the airbag 150 exceeds the preset air pressure value, the valve switch 160 is automatically opened, and the inflator 140 further inflates the airbag 130. The inflator 140 inflates the sealing airbag 130 for a preset time and then stops, at this time, the sealing airbag 130 fully expands and completely seals the gap between the first door body 110 and the second door body 120, and a part of the sealing airbag 130 in the expanded state is embedded into the second cavity 121, so as to ensure the sealing property of the gap between the door bodies. When the detection device detects that the side-by-side door is opened (or detects that the side-by-side door has an opening trend), the inflating device 140 starts to perform deflation operation on the sealing airbag 130 and the telescopic airbag 150, the sealing airbag 130 and the telescopic airbag 150 contract, the telescopic airbag 150 drives the sealing airbag 130 to retract to a second preset position, at the moment, the sealing airbag 130 is hidden in the first cavity 111, a user cannot observe the sealing airbag 130, and the sealing airbag 130 cannot influence the operation of the user.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the telescopic member may be a push rod driven mechanically. When the detection device detects that the side-by-side door is closed, the stepping motor starts the driving push rod to drive the sealing air bag 130 to move to the first preset position. A pressure sensor is provided inside the second cavity 121 to detect whether the sealing bladder 130 contacts the second door body 120. When the pressure sensor detects that the air bag 130 contacts the second door 120, the step motor stops operating, and the inflator 140 is restarted to directly inflate the air bag 130. When the detection device detects that the side-by-side door is opened, the inflator 140 is first activated to deflate the airbag 130. The stepping motor is restarted to drive the push rod to drive the sealing air bag 130 to move to a second preset position, and at the moment, the sealing air bag 130 is completely retracted into the first concave cavity 111.

The present invention also provides a refrigerator including: a case 200 and the split door body assembly 100. The cabinet 200 forms a storage compartment of the refrigerator therein. The split door assembly 100 is disposed at a front side of the cabinet 200 to open and close the storage compartment. According to the side-by-side combination refrigerator, the sealing air bag 130 in the side-by-side combination door body assembly 100 replaces a vertical beam structure in the prior art, the sealing performance of the side-by-side combination door is improved, and cold leakage of a storage chamber of the refrigerator is effectively prevented. In addition, when the side by side combination door is opened, the sealing air bag 130 and other auxiliary structures can be hidden inside the first cavity 111, so that the appearance of the refrigerator is more symmetrical and beautiful.

Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail herein, many other variations or modifications consistent with the principles of the invention may be directly determined or derived from the disclosure of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.

Claims

1. A split door body assembly comprising:

the door comprises a first door body and a second door body, wherein a first concave cavity extending along the vertical direction is arranged on the end face, facing the second door body, of the first door body;

the sealing air bag is arranged between the two door bodies in a vertically extending mode and used for sealing a gap between the two door bodies;

the inflation device is directly or indirectly communicated with the sealed air bag and is configured to inflate or deflate the sealed air bag;

at least one flexible part, every flexible part's one end fixed connection first cavity inner wall, the other end orientation the direction of the second door body stretches out and connects sealed gasbag, flexible part configures into controllable flexible, in order to drive sealed gasbag orientation the direction motion of the second door body is to contradicting the first position of predetermineeing of the second door body terminal surface, or keeps away from the direction motion of the second door body to hide in the second position of predetermineeing in the first cavity.

2. The split door body assembly of claim 1, wherein

The telescopic component is a telescopic air bag, and the inflating device is communicated with the telescopic air bag and inflates or deflates the telescopic air bag to control the telescopic air bag to stretch.

3. The split door body assembly of claim 2, wherein

The telescopic air bag is controllably communicated with the sealing air bag, and the inflating device indirectly inflates or deflates the sealing air bag through the telescopic air bag.

4. The split door body assembly of claim 3, further comprising:

the inflation channel is formed in the first door body, the inlet of the inflation channel is arranged on the top surface of the first door body, and the outlet of the inflation channel is communicated with at least one telescopic air bag; wherein

The air charging device is arranged on the top surface of the first door body, and an air outlet of the air charging device is communicated with an inlet of the air charging channel.

5. The split door body assembly of claim 3, further comprising:

at least one valve switch, each valve switch is arranged at the communication position of one telescopic air bag and the sealed air bag and is configured to allow or prevent the telescopic air bag from being communicated with the sealed air bag.

6. The split door body assembly of claim 5, wherein

The number of the telescopic air bags is two, and the two telescopic air bags are respectively arranged at positions close to the top and the bottom of the first door body.

7. The split door body assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

and the air bag shell is coated on the outer side of the sealed air bag.

8. The split door body assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein

The end face, facing the first door body, of the second door body is provided with a second cavity extending vertically, and the second cavity is used for partially accommodating the sealing airbag when the sealing airbag moves to a first preset position; wherein

The second cavity has the same extension as the first cavity.

9. The split door body assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

the detection device is arranged on the first door body or the second door body and is used for detecting the opening and closing states of the split door bodies; wherein

The inflating device is also configured to inflate the sealed airbag when the detecting device detects that the door body is closed; and when the detection device detects that the door body is opened, the sealing air bag is deflated.

10. A refrigerator, comprising:

a refrigerator body, the interior of which forms a storage chamber of the refrigerator; and

the split door body assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 9, disposed at a front side of the chest body, for opening and closing the storage compartment.