CN112833598A

CN112833598A - Ice making device and refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN112833598A
Application number: CN202110082425.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 廖虎; 王铭坤; 文翔; 郭琨; 钟泽健; 李信良
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2021-01-21
Filing date: 2021-01-21
Publication date: 2021-05-25

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an ice making device and a refrigerator, the ice making device including: the ice bucket is internally provided with a first baffle, the first baffle divides the inside of the ice bucket into a first chamber and a second chamber, and the second chamber is internally provided with an ice crushing device and can crush ice; the ice bucket is characterized in that a second baffle is further arranged inside the ice bucket, the lower end of the second baffle is connected with the upper end of the first baffle, the upper end of the second baffle can move to close the first cavity and open the second cavity at the same time, and the upper end of the second baffle can also move to close the second cavity and open the first cavity at the same time. According to the ice making device, whether the ice blocks enter the second chamber to be crushed into ice slag or enter the first chamber to continue to be presented in the form of the ice blocks can be controlled, and adaptive control is performed according to different requirements of users so as to prepare the ice slag or ice blocks and other structures meeting the requirements.

Description

Ice making device and refrigerator

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of refrigerators, in particular to an ice making device and a refrigerator.

Background

Generally, a refrigerator is an apparatus including a main body in which a storage chamber is provided, and a cool air supply system supplying cool air to the storage chamber to store food in a fresh state. The storage compartment includes: a refrigerating chamber for storing food in a refrigerating manner by maintaining indoor air at a temperature of about 0 to 5 ℃, and a freezing chamber for storing food in a freezing manner by maintaining indoor air at a temperature of about 0 to-30 ℃.

The refrigerator may include an ice maker to provide ice for convenient use. The refrigerator may include an automatic ice maker to automatically generate ice, store the generated ice, and discharge the stored ice.

An automatic ice maker includes: the ice maker includes an ice-making tray to make ice, an ice bucket to store the ice generated in the ice-making tray, a conveying member provided within the ice bucket to convey the ice in the ice bucket, an ice crushing device to discharge the previously conveyed ice into ice cubes or crushed ice according to a discharge mode, and a motor to drive the conveying member and the ice crushing device.

The ice produced by the ice maker of the existing refrigerator is usually large in volume, the ice needs to be broken into small pieces by the ice breaking device, but newly added ice blocks are mixed in the ice breaking process, so that the ice blocks with different volumes are discharged from the outlet of the ice breaking device, namely, the small ice pieces after the ice breaking and the ice blocks without the ice breaking are discharged together, so that the ice blocks with the same volume as the user wants cannot be obtained, for example, if the user needs to drink wine or drink cola, the medium volume or large volume ice blocks are required to be added, but if the user needs to make water ice or ice slush and other beverages, the small ice pieces such as ice pieces are required, so that the user cannot select the ice pieces according to the user needs, and the use experience degree or comfort degree of the user is poor, and the improvement is needed.

Because newly added ice cubes can be mixed in the ice maker of the refrigerator in the prior art in the ice crushing process, the ice cubes with different volumes can be discharged from the outlet of the ice crushing device, and the technical problems that a user cannot simply obtain the ice cubes with medium volume or large volume or independently obtain ice slag with small volume and the like are caused, the ice making device and the refrigerator are researched and designed.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT DISCLOSURE

Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the present disclosure is to overcome the defect that in the ice maker of the refrigerator in the prior art, newly added ice cubes are mixed in the process of crushing ice, and ice cubes with different volumes are discharged from the outlet of the ice crushing device, so that a user cannot simply obtain an ice cube with a medium volume or a large volume or separately obtain ice ballast with a small volume, thereby providing an ice making device and a refrigerator.

In order to solve the above problems, the present disclosure provides an ice making device, comprising:

the ice bucket is internally provided with a first baffle, the first baffle divides the inside of the ice bucket into a first chamber and a second chamber, and the second chamber is internally provided with an ice crushing device and can crush ice;

the ice bucket is characterized in that a second baffle is further arranged inside the ice bucket, the lower end of the second baffle is connected with the upper end of the first baffle, the upper end of the second baffle can move to close the first cavity and open the second cavity at the same time, and the upper end of the second baffle can also move to close the second cavity and open the first cavity at the same time.

In some embodiments, a rotating shaft is arranged at the lower end of the second baffle plate in a penetrating manner, and the upper end of the second baffle plate can rotate around the lower end of the rotating shaft; and/or the ice crushing device is of a rotary ice skate blade structure.

In some embodiments, a turntable is disposed at a lower end of the ice crushing device, the turntable can support the ice crushing device, the turntable can drive the ice crushing device to rotate to crush ice, and a plurality of channels for allowing crushed ice to fall are disposed on the turntable.

In some embodiments, the device further comprises a driving device and a transmission device, wherein the driving device can drive the transmission device to move, and the transmission device can drive the turntable to move.

In some embodiments, the driving device includes a motor disposed outside the ice bucket, and the transmission device includes a gear structure.

In some embodiments, the inner wall of the upper end of the ice bucket is a slope surface which inclines downwards, so that the ice bucket is formed into a funnel structure.

In some embodiments, the ice bucket further comprises an ice box disposed at a lower end of the ice bucket, a third baffle is disposed inside the ice box to divide an inner space of the ice box into a third chamber and a fourth chamber, and the third chamber is communicated with the first chamber and the fourth chamber is communicated with the second chamber.

In some embodiments, a bottom plate is further disposed at the bottom of the ice box, and the ice making device further includes a support plate, one end of the support plate is fixed to the ice bucket, and another portion of the support plate is fixedly connected to the bottom plate.

In some embodiments, the support plate is disposed outside the ice bucket.

The present disclosure also provides a refrigerator including the ice making device of any one of the foregoing.

The ice making device and the refrigerator provided by the disclosure have the following beneficial effects:

this disclosure is still through the first baffle that sets up inside the ice bucket, can divide into the first cavity that can supply the trash ice and the second cavity that does not carry out the trash ice with the ice bucket effectively, two cavities mutual isolation, can be broken into ice slag or ice cinder through the trash ice device in the second cavity to satisfy user's needs, and do not carry out the trash ice in the first cavity, form into the ice-cube, can satisfy different users' different needs, improve its suitable commonality. Through the arrangement of the second baffle plate, the first chamber or the second chamber can be effectively opened under the control of movement, so that whether ice blocks enter the second chamber and are crushed into ice slag or enter the first chamber to continue to be presented in the form of ice blocks is controlled, and adaptive control is performed according to different requirements of users to prepare ice slag or ice blocks and other structures meeting the requirements.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an external perspective view of an ice making device of a refrigerator of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is an internal perspective view of an ice making device of the refrigerator of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is an internal front view structure of an ice making device of the refrigerator of the present disclosure.

The reference numerals are represented as:

1. an ice bucket; 11. a first baffle plate; 12. a second baffle; 13. a first chamber; 14. a second chamber; 15. an ice crushing device; 16. a rotating shaft; 17. a turntable; 2. an ice box; 21. a third chamber; 22. a fourth chamber; 23. a third baffle plate; 3. a motor; 4. a gear structure; 5. a support plate; 6. a base plate.

Detailed Description

As shown in fig. 1-3, the present disclosure provides an ice making device, comprising:

the ice bucket 1 can contain ice, a first baffle 11 is arranged inside the ice bucket 1, the first baffle 11 divides the inside of the ice bucket 1 into a first chamber 13 and a second chamber 14, and an ice crushing device 15 is arranged in the second chamber 14 and can crush the ice;

the ice bucket 1 is further provided with a second baffle 12, the lower end of the second baffle 12 is connected with the upper end of the first baffle 11, the upper end of the second baffle 12 can move to close the first cavity 13 and simultaneously open the second cavity 14, and the upper end of the second baffle 12 can also move to close the second cavity 14 and simultaneously open the first cavity 13.

The ice crushing device is characterized in that more than two different ice conveying channels are arranged, a spiral ice crushing blade is arranged in one ice conveying channel and used for crushing ice and discharging the crushed ice through the channel, the other ice conveying channel does not crush ice and only conveys and discharges large-volume ice blocks which are not crushed, the upper streams of the two channels are communicated with one main channel, and a switching valve is arranged at the position where the main channel is connected with the two channels and can be automatically switched according to requirements so as to close the ice crushing channel and open the ice crushing channel or close the ice crushing channel and open the ice crushing channel. The main channel is located above and the two channels are located below the main channel.

In some embodiments, a rotating shaft 16 is provided through the lower end of the second baffle 12, and the upper end of the second baffle 12 can rotate around the lower end of the rotating shaft 16; and/or the ice crushing device 15 is a rotary ice blade structure. According to the device, the rotating shaft is arranged at the lower end of the second baffle plate, so that the second baffle plate can rotate around the rotating shaft, and the purposes of opening the first cavity, closing the second cavity, closing the first cavity and opening the second cavity are fulfilled; the rotary ice blade is the preferred structure of the ice crushing device, and is rotated to crush the ice.

In some embodiments, a rotating disc 17 is disposed at a lower end of the ice crushing device 15, the rotating disc 17 can support the ice crushing device 15, and the rotating disc 17 can drive the ice crushing device 15 to rotate to crush the ice, and a plurality of channels for containing the crushed ice to fall are disposed on the rotating disc. The channel is preferably a structure of a plurality of through holes or through grooves. This openly still through set up the carousel at trash ice device lower extreme, can also drive trash ice device and rotate when supporting trash ice device to accomplish the trash ice, a plurality of passageways on the rethread carousel leak the ice sediment after the trash ice.

In some embodiments, the device further comprises a driving device and a transmission device, wherein the driving device can drive the transmission device to move, and the transmission device can drive the turntable 17 to rotate. The driving device drives the transmission device to move so as to drive the turntable to rotate, and the ice crushing device is driven to rotate to cut ice.

In some embodiments, the driving means comprises a motor 3, the motor 3 is arranged outside the ice bucket 1, and the transmission means comprises a gear structure 4. This is the preferred structural style of the drive arrangement of this disclosure, and the gear structure is rotated to drive through the motor rotation, finally drives the carousel and rotates the motion.

In some embodiments, the inner wall of the upper end of the ice bucket 1 is a slope surface inclined downward, so that the ice bucket 1 is formed in a funnel structure. This is the further preferred form of construction of the ice bucket of this disclosure, and its upper end is internally formed to accommodate the main channel into which the ice from above enters, and below the main channel, there is connected the second baffle, the first chamber and the second chamber.

In some embodiments, the ice bucket further comprises an ice box 2 disposed at the lower end of the ice bucket 1, a third baffle 23 is disposed inside the ice box 2 to divide the inner space of the ice box 2 into a third chamber 21 and a fourth chamber 22, and the third chamber 21 is communicated with the first chamber 13 and the fourth chamber 22 is communicated with the second chamber 14. This openly ice box through ice bucket lower extreme setting can play the effect of the ice-cube or the ice cinder of effective storage after the ice bucket processing, and the third baffle also falls into the third chamber and the fourth chamber that are separated by with ice box inside, third chamber and first chamber intercommunication, can store the big piece ice that first chamber fell, fourth chamber and second chamber intercommunication, the ice cinder after the garrulous ice of garrulous ice device in can storing the second chamber, with the ice that finally supplies user's different demands and use different shapes.

In some embodiments, the bottom of the ice box 2 is further provided with a bottom plate 6, and the ice making device further comprises a support plate 5, wherein one end of the support plate 5 is fixed with the ice bucket 1, and the other part of the support plate 5 is fixedly connected with the bottom plate 6. This disclosure still can play the supporting role to the ice chest through the setting of bottom plate, still can support the ice bucket on the bottom plate effectively through the backup pad to the ice chest can be taken out therefrom, and supplies the use of different users or different demands with the ice of different volume forms.

In some embodiments, the support plate 5 is disposed outside the ice bucket 1.

As can be seen from fig. 1 to 3, when the device is in a standby state, the ice bucket 1, the supporting plate 5 and the bottom plate 6 are connected into a whole through screws, the inside of the ice bucket 1 is divided into a non-ice crushing channel and an ice crushing channel, the top of the ice bucket is provided with a second baffle plate 12 and a rotating shaft 16, the second baffle plate 12 and the rotating shaft 16 form a switching valve, the rotating shaft 16 drives the second baffle plate 12 to rotate, and the switching between the two channels can be realized according to the use requirement; a turntable 17 is arranged between the ice bucket 1 and the supporting plate 5, a gap is left at the buckling position of the ice bucket 1 and the supporting plate 5, the rotation of the turntable 17 cannot be influenced, and an ice crushing blade (an ice crushing device 15) is arranged on the turntable 17; the output shaft of driving motor 3 meshes with gear structure 4 mutually, and gear structure 4 meshes with carousel 17 outer wall tooth mutually, and driving motor 3 accessible gear structure 4 drives carousel 17 and the rotation of trash ice blade, begins to carry out the trash ice.

The device can be automatically switched into a non-ice crushing mode or an ice crushing mode according to requirements. When ice crushing is not needed, the rotating shaft 16 can be rotated clockwise, only the channel which does not crush ice is opened, and at the moment, ice blocks poured from the upper part can directly enter the ice box 2; when ice crushing is needed, the rotating shaft 16 can be rotated anticlockwise to open the ice crushing channel, the poured ice blocks fall on the rotating disc 17 and are crushed under the action of the ice crushing blade driven by the motor 3, and formed ice slush can enter the ice box 2 through the reserved sieve holes on the rotating disc 17.

This switch valve of this switching valve of this can be controlled as required and is sealed trash ice passageway or not trash ice passageway for the ice-cube is perhaps smashed for a short time and is discharged into small size, or is not smashed for a short time and discharges with bulky ice cube, prevents that the discharged ice-cube is the mixing state that the volume differs, improves user's use experience degree or comfort level.

The above description is only exemplary of the present disclosure and should not be taken as limiting the disclosure, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure should be included in the scope of the present disclosure. The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several modifications and variations can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present disclosure, and these modifications and variations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. An ice making device characterized by: the method comprises the following steps:

the ice bucket (1) can contain ice, a first baffle (11) is arranged inside the ice bucket (1), the first baffle (11) divides the inside of the ice bucket (1) into a first chamber (13) and a second chamber (14), and an ice crushing device (15) is arranged in the second chamber (14) and can crush the ice;

the ice bucket (1) is internally provided with a second baffle (12), the lower end of the second baffle (12) is connected with the upper end of the first baffle (11), the upper end of the second baffle (12) can move to close the first chamber (13) and open the second chamber (14), and the upper end of the second baffle (12) can also move to close the second chamber (14) and open the first chamber (13).

2. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

a rotating shaft (16) penetrates through the lower end of the second baffle (12), and the upper end of the second baffle (12) can rotate around the lower end of the rotating shaft (16); and/or the ice crushing device (15) is of a rotary ice skate blade structure.

3. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the lower extreme position of trash ice device (15) is provided with carousel (17), carousel (17) are in order to be right trash ice device (15) support, just carousel (17) can and drive trash ice device (15) rotate and carry out the trash ice, be provided with on the carousel and hold a plurality of passageways that the trash ice fell.

4. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

the automatic rotary table is characterized by further comprising a driving device and a transmission device, wherein the driving device can drive the transmission device to move, and the transmission device can drive the rotary table (17) to rotate.

5. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the driving device comprises a motor (3), the motor (3) is arranged outside the ice bucket (1), and the transmission device comprises a gear structure (4).

6. An ice making apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein:

the inner wall of the upper end of the ice bucket (1) is a slope surface which inclines downwards, so that the ice bucket (1) is formed into a funnel structure.

7. An ice making apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein:

the ice bucket is characterized by further comprising an ice box (2) arranged at the lower end of the ice bucket (1), a third baffle (23) is arranged inside the ice box (2) to divide the inner space of the ice box (2) into a third chamber (21) and a fourth chamber (22), the third chamber (21) is communicated with the first chamber (13), and the fourth chamber (22) is communicated with the second chamber (14).

8. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

the bottom of the ice box (2) is further provided with a bottom plate (6), the ice making device further comprises a supporting plate (5), one end of the supporting plate (5) is fixed with the ice bucket (1), and the other part of the supporting plate is fixedly connected with the bottom plate (6).

9. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein:

the supporting plate (5) is arranged outside the ice bucket (1).

10. A refrigerator, characterized in that: comprising the ice making apparatus of any of claims 1-9.