CN1199457A - Ice making apparatus for use in refrigerator - Google Patents
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Abstract
An ice making apparatus adapted in a refrigerator includes a water supply tank (7) and a frame portion (8), where the water supply tank (7) is comprised of a tank main body (15) and a lid body (16), and the lid body (16) is provided with a sealing member (20) securely fixed onto an outer peripheral face (19a) of a side wall (19), and where a side wall of said tank main body (15) has an inclined face (17) at its inner peripheral top portion thereof. The frame portion (8) includes a tank attachment portion (22) and a pump placing portion (23), where the tank attachment portion (22) has a substrate plate (34) and a joint tubular member (35) which is engaged with a discharge tube (27) of the water supply tank (7). Thus, the side wall (19) of the lid body (16) is easily guided to the fitted condition and engaged with the tank main body (15) without using any locking member, with reduction of the spaces and number of manufacturing processes and number of parts, increasing a volume of a water supply tank without restricting a food storage capacity in the refrigerator.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to a kind of refrigerator, particularly, relates to the ice maker of using in the refrigerator.
Technical background
Recently, ice maker is widely used in the refrigerator.Below in conjunction with Figure 13 and 14 a routine traditional ice maker that is disclosed among the Japanese publication number No.7-077371 is described.
Figure 13 schematically shows the structure of traditional ice maker used in the refrigerator, and Figure 14 shows the water supply tank that a lid is installed on it.
Shown in Figure 13 and 14, this refrigerator comprises that mainly the refrigerating chamber and that plays cooling reservoir effect plays the refrigerating chamber of freezing chamber effect, and wherein ice maker 200 mainly comprises an ice maker container 201, is used for ice tray 203 that upset assembly 202, with the ice maker container upset is used to deposit ice cube, one water delivered to the pump 204 of ice maker container 201 by a water-supply-pipe 206 from water supply tank 205.In this structure, ice maker container 201, upset assembly 202 and ice tray 203 all are arranged in refrigerating chamber, and remaining pump 204, water supply tank 205 and water-supply-pipe 206 usually are arranged in refrigerating chamber.
In ice maker container 201, send into wherein water and be frozen and make ice.Upset assembly 202 with a gear structure is put upside down ice maker container, and ice maker container rotates or is subjected to rotational load like this, thereby ice cube is moved on to the ice tray 203 from ice maker container.
Water supply tank 205 is made of a tank body 207 and a lid 208.Lid 208 has a seal 210 that is positioned on its inner circumference part, and seal 210 is corresponding to the top edge of tank body 207 sidewalls like this.Water supply tank 205 also has a pair of snap close piece 209 at its vertical sidepiece, when lid 208 is shut securely by snap close piece 209 and is cooperated with tank body 207, snap close piece 209 snaps into lid 208 on the tank body 207, and seal 210 can be pressed in securely and be engaged between the respective lower of tank body 207 top edges and lid 208 like this.
Ice maker 200 also has a frame assembly 213, it comprises that one is used for the jar installation portion 211 that water supply tank 205 is mounted thereon and has a pump placement section 212, this pump placement section 212 has the inner surface that covers by shockproof 214, is installed in pump in the pump placement section in order to covering.Frame assembly 213 has a pressing piece 215, be used for water supply tank 205 by being pressed in jar installation portion 211, and water-supply-pipe 206 is firmly held on the framework by a pair of pipe clamp (not shown).
Yet, in this traditional ice maker 200, have following problem, promptly owing to there being pair of catches part 209 to lock lid, so in device, need certain space to hold snap close piece 209.
And, in order to be releasably attached to water supply tank 205 on jar installation portion 211 and, and need a spatial accommodation 216 to hold water supply tank 205 from its dismounting.So, the volume of water supply tank 205 is restricted.
In addition, owing to be arranged on topped firmly pump 204 in the pump placement section 212 for shockproof 214, also need space and work in addition to provide shockproof.
In addition, owing to need Pipe clip article that pipe fitting is fixed on the framework, so also need other space and operation that Pipe clip article is provided.
The announcement of invention
So the present invention is in order to solve existing the problems referred to above in the conventional apparatus, its main purpose provides a kind of improved ice maker that can increase the water supply tank volume and can not limit the food storage capacity in the refrigerator.
In order to realize this purpose, according to a first aspect of the invention, a kind of in refrigerator with a refrigerating chamber and a refrigerating chamber used ice maker comprise: being used for seasoning will be at the ice maker container of the freezing water of refrigerating chamber; And be arranged in refrigerating chamber, be used for water is transported to the water supply tank of ice maker container through water-supply-pipe by a pump, described water supply tank is made up of a tank body and a lid, wherein, described lid has a seal that is fixed firmly on the neighboring face of covered body wall, and the peripheral within it top of described tank wall has an inclined plane.
According to a second aspect of the invention, a kind of ice maker comprises: be arranged in refrigerating chamber, have a water supply tank drainpipe, be used for water is transported to ice maker container through water-supply-pipe by a pump; And the frame section with a substrate and side plate, comprise jar installation portion and the pump placement section that is arranged in refrigerating chamber, wherein, the described jar of tubular connection that installation portion has a substrate and cooperates with the drainpipe of water supply tank.
In this structure, the substrate of framework has a pair of protruded stigma that is inserted in the substrate orientation hole with cooperation with it respectively, and substrate (34) is located securely.The substrate of framework has a pair of positioning end, and the side plate of framework also has another to positioning end, the perisporium of positioning end pressurization fixing base like this, thus jar installation portion is located on all around and three-dimensional up and down securely.The leading section of framework side plate is inserted in the groove of substrate, and with its secure fit.
And, be in suspended state between the upper and lower pipe of pump in the pump placement section.Last pipe is supported by the rib on the substrate of framework, and following pipe is by the nozzle support that is positioned in the partition wall.
In addition, frame section also has the pressing piece that is used to push water supply tank when jar is installed on jar installation portion, and this pressing piece can pivot around an axle that is fixed on the framework.Axle has securely around thereon elastic component and to the pressing piece pressurization, and pressing piece is forwards upwards pushed water supply tank by the twisting resistance of elastic component what the jar installation portion was recalled like this.Pressing piece has the shape of similar rectangle, and when water supply tank is pressurizeed by pressing piece, contact point therebetween changes to second press points from first press points, thereby changes the plus-pressure of the pressing piece that is produced by elastomer torsional by the distance of change from the axle to the pressure point.
Effect of the present invention is as follows: according to a first aspect of the invention, because the inner peripheral surface of tank body top end wall portion forms an inclined plane, so covered body wall is easy to slide and enter the state that cooperates with the tank body open circumferential, only lid is cooperated securely with tank body, and need not adopt any snap close piece by lid is coupled to.
And, owing to having omitted the advantage that the is obtained while that snap close piece is saved the space, reduced number of spare parts,, also can improve the sealing property between lid and the tank body by providing seal on the peripheral surface outside.
In a second aspect of the present invention, because a jar fixed part is to be mounted on downwards on the frame assembly by projection, positioning end and groove, does not therefore need other fixture, compares with traditional structure, along with the decline of part number, can dwindle the space and reduce mechanical processing process.
And owing to be in suspended state between the upper and lower pipe of pump in the pump placement section, the operation noise of pump and vibrations can disappear in outside being suppressed, thereby need not provide shockproof.So the width of pump placement section can be reduced to the width of pump, the space that is reduced can be effectively utilized.
In addition, because pressing piece has the shape of a special similar rectangle, contact point therebetween can change to second pressure point from first pressure point.Thereby, only just can change to the distance of pressure point by the plus-pressure that reverses caused pressing piece of elastic component, thereby adjusting is to the plus-pressure of water supply tank by changing axle.Because this structure can obtain bigger plus-pressure when reducing the space.
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By below in conjunction with the description of accompanying drawing to preferred embodiment of the present invention, can further understanding be arranged to these and other objects of the present invention, characteristics, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the ice maker of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the partial sectional view that first embodiment of ice maker is shown;
Fig. 3 is the cutaway view that is used for the water supply tank of Fig. 2 ice maker;
Fig. 4 is the enlarged drawing of Fig. 3 water supply tank front end;
Fig. 5 is the enlarged drawing of Fig. 3 water supply tank rear end;
Fig. 6 is the front view of the cap on the water supply tank shown in Figure 3;
Fig. 7 is the sectional view of the cylinder body of water supply tank among first embodiment;
Fig. 8 is the exploded perspective view that shows the water supply tank internal structure;
Fig. 9 is the side view of water supply tank;
Figure 10 is the front view that shows the water supply tank periphery;
Figure 11 is the stereogram of a critical piece of ice maker of the present invention;
Figure 12 is the plane that shows jar installation portion periphery among the present invention;
Figure 13 is the schematic diagram of traditional ice maker; And
Figure 14 is the cutaway view that shows traditional water supply cover portion structure.
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At first note that because the basic structure of these embodiment all is similarly, so all same sections all illustrate with same numeral in institute's drawings attached.
(first embodiment)
First preferred embodiment of ice maker is described below in conjunction with Fig. 1 to 10.
Fig. 1 schematically shows the ice maker structure that is used for a refrigerator, and this refrigerator for example has upper and lower two two-layer storage structures.This refrigerator comprises that mainly they are separated by a partition wall 50 as the refrigerating chamber 11 of a upper chamber with as the refrigerating chamber in lower floor chamber.
In Fig. 1 and 2, ice maker 1 mainly comprises an ice maker container 2, the upset assembly 3 of the ice maker container that is used for overturning, be used to deposit ice cube ice tray 5, be used for water being delivered to through water-supply-pipe 4,9 water supply tank 7 of ice maker container 2 by a pump 6.Last pipe 4 upstreams that are arranged on pump 6 are used for mechanically being connected between water supply tank 7 and the pump 6, and pipe 9 is arranged on pump 6 downstreams down, under manage 9 and have a nozzle 13, one outlet is arranged just being positioned at the nozzle lower end of locating above ice maker container 2 inlets, the water from water supply tank 7 injects ice maker containers 2 through pump 6 like this.
In the used ice maker of two-layer refrigerator, ice maker container 2, upset assembly 3 and ice tray 5 all are arranged in the refrigerating chamber 10 of lower floor substantially, and pump 6 and water supply tank 7 all are arranged in the refrigerating chamber 11 on upper strata substantially.In this structure, the structure of ice maker container 2 and flip component 3 all with the conventional apparatus shown in Figure 13 and 14 in structural similarity.
The characteristics of first preferred embodiment are the structure of water supply tank 7.In detail, shown in Fig. 3 to 7, water supply tank 7 is containers that a kind of its top has opening 18, jars 7 by tank body 15, lid 16 and its accessory, constitute as filter mantle 28 etc.Lid 16 is made of a plate, all sidewalls 19 that have a lamina tecti 16a and cooperate with tank body 15 openings 18.One seal 20 is arranged on the outer peripheral face 19a of lid 16 sidewalls 19, and when jar 7 openings 18 were closely shut by lid 16, seal 20 contacted with the inner rim face 15a compression of tank body 15 sidewall upper portions like this.
Figure 10 shows the diagrammatic elevation view of water supply tank 7 structures, has the tank body 15 and the lid 16 that are positioned at part refrigerating chamber Supreme Being limit.
In preferred embodiment, shown in Figure 4 and 5, outer peripheral face 19a is a concave part, the vertical inner peripheral surface 19b of this groove part opposing sidewalls 19 tilts sidewall 19 attenuation gradually downwards like this.Therefore, the seal 20 around neighboring concave surface 19a also is oblique.The base of sidewall 19 has outwards outstanding jut 19c to form the concave part of neighboring face 19a.Because this structure, the cooperation of lid and operating characteristics can be improved.
Particularly, shown in Fig. 3 to 5, when lid 16 fits closely to the opening 18 of tank body 15, the seal 20 of pushing the neighboring groove 19a that centers on sidewall 19 inclinations is with the gap between the neighboring face 19a of sealing and filling tank body 16 upper end wall inner rim face 15a and lid 16 sidewalls 19, tank body 15 closely cooperates with lid 16 like this, and has excellent sealing performance.
In this structure, shown in Figure 4 and 5, the inner rim face 15a of tank body 15 upper end wall preferably constitutes an inclined plane 17, and when lid was installed on the tank body 15, the sidewall 19 of lid 16 was easy to slide and enter the state that cooperates with the periphery of tank body 15 openings 18 like this.In this preferred embodiment, inclined-plane 17 can the limit end-grain cutting be cut or round and form so that its interior edge has a curved surface.
By this structure, only by lid 16 being cooperated with tank body 15 openings 18 and not needing any snap close piece that lid 16 is cooperated with tank body 15 securely.And, by providing seal 20 on the peripheral surface 19a outside, can save the advantage while in space obtaining to avoid using snap close piece, improve the sealing property between lid 16 and the tank body 15.
In this preferred embodiment, seal 20 is made by a kind of elastomeric material, for example silicon rubber, synthetic rubber and similar material with spring function, and the elastic force of seal changes with the inclination of neighboring face 19a.Therefore, when lid cooperated with tank body, owing to form a space between seal 20 bases and the inner rim face 15a of tank wall portion, described seal 20 and the neighboring face 19a of can preventing effectively threw off.
And because the spring function of seal 20, the thickness of seal 20 can be adjusted with the coordinate force between control lid 16 and the tank body 15.
In the structure shown in Fig. 2,3 and 5, the top cover 16a of lid 16 is formed with the concave part 21 that plays handle or handle effect, so only catches recessed handle portion 21 water supply tanks 7 just can be installed on jar installation portion 22 easily by finger and dismounting from it.Because this structure, the space 216 that provides shown in Figure 13 needn't be provided be used for being installed to or catching water supply tank during from 22 dismountings of jar installation portion, so this space can be used as the water storage volume effectively when jar.Thereby, can reduce the width of water supply tank 7.Equally, recessed portion 21 can be used as one the handle or handle be used for when water supply tank is opened, pulling down lid 16 from tank body 15.
In this structure, lid 16 has in the bead 24 of its front side edge to outer process, so only by upwards lifting bead 24 or catch recess 21 simultaneously and bead 24 just can be opened lid 16 easily from tank body 15 with finger.
In the preferred construction shown in Fig. 6 and 8, lid 16 also has lid sidewall 25 that relative vertical line L tilts having a curved surface around its crestal line 25a, and reduces planar section.Therefore, water supply tank 7 can cover and move with square from it easily the catching of hand, thereby prevents the top surface of making dirty, and has the advantage of being convenient to its outer surface clean operation.
Shown in Fig. 7 and 8, on the sidewall of tank body 15, be formed with a pair of recess 26, so that catch and move water supply tank 7 with hand.When lid 16 cooperated with tank body 15, recess 26 also can be used as a sign and cooperates direction with definite, and determines installation direction when water supply tank is installed on jar installation portion 22.
In the structure shown in Fig. 3 and 8, water supply tank 7 has a filter mantle 28 and the efferent duct on lid 16 27 in being included in jar, and this efferent duct stretches out backward and stretches to jar installation portion 22.Efferent duct 27 is mechanically connected on the suction pipe 30 that inserts in the filter mantle 28, and efferent duct 27 is communicated with by the filtration members 29 that is put in filter mantle 28 bottoms with water supply tank 7 inside like this.The end of suction pipe 30 has a plurality of projections 31, places a plurality of limbers 32 on the filtration members 29 with formation.Thereby, can reduce when what water produced when water supply tank 7 is delivered to the ice maker container 2 and send water noise.Owing to be provided with projection 31 at suction pipe 30 ends,, also can avoid limbers 32 to stop up, thereby guarantee have enough water to send into ice maker container 2 even when abnormal metamorphosis is on filtration members 29.
Can notice that herein the end of suction pipe 30 can have recess to replace projection 31.
As shown in Figure 9, the sign 33 of symbol and the like can be printed directly on the sidewall of tank body 15, Biao Shi symbol seems eye-catching especially on background surface like this, thereby this sign can be kept semipermanently, and can not peeled off by water.Adopt this structure,, thereby can reduce manufacturing process and part number because can avoid sealant or similar sheet material are added to process on the sidewall.
(second embodiment)
Below in conjunction with Fig. 2, second embodiment of 11 and 12 pairs of ice makers is described.
Shown in Fig. 2 and 11, the frame assembly 8 with substrate 41 and side plate 43 is fixed in the refrigerating chamber 11, and wherein frame assembly 8 is made up of spaced apart from each other jar of installation portion 22 and pump placement section 23.
In this structure, jar installation portion 22 comprises that a substrate 34, cylindrical connecting tube 35, cooperate end plate 36 and block piece 37, wherein the rearwardly projecting end of the water-supply-pipe 27 of water supply tank 7 engages with the connecting tube 35 of jar installation portion 22, substrate 34 has the perisporium 34b and 39 that a basal wall 34a and rises from it vertically upward, and wherein the basal wall 34a of substrate constitutes a pair of locating hole 38 and a pair of groove 40 that is formed at perisporium 34b both sides.The substrate 41 of framework 8 has a pair of protruded stigma 42 that is inserted in respectively in substrate 34 locating holes 38, and substrate 34 is located securely by the cooperation between protruded stigma 42 and the locating hole 38 like this.
The substrate 41 of framework 8 has a pair of positioning end 44a, and the side plate 43 of framework 8 also has another to positioning end 44b, the perisporium 34a and 39 of positioning end 44a and 44b pressurization fixing base 34 like this, thus with jar installation portion 22 in all around, location securely on three directions up and down.And the leading section of the side plate 43 of framework 8 is inserted in the groove 40 of substrate 34, and cooperates securely with it.
In this structure,, in jar installation portion 22, need enough intensity and sealing because a jar installation portion 22 is equipped with the water supply tank 7 that is used to send water.So, only jar installation portion 22 is installed downwards from framework 8 tops, just can be fixed on the frame assembly 8, and not need other fixture, so compare the quantity that in ground part number, can reduce space and manufacturing process with conventional apparatus by protruded stigma 22, positioning end 44a and 44b and groove 40.
In this preferred embodiment, pump 6 is in suspended state between upper and lower pipe 4 and 9 in pump placement section 23.Last pipe 4 is supported by a rib 45 at substrate 41 places that are arranged on framework 8, and pipe 9 is supported by the nozzle 13 that is fixed in the partition wall 50 down.Pipe 4 and 9 is preferably made by the packing of for example rubber blanket.
Since this structure, thus the operation noise of pump is suppressed with shaking externally to disappear, and need not provide shockproof 214.So the width of pump placement section 23 can reduce to the width of pump 6, the space of being reduced can be effectively utilized.
Because pressing piece 46 has the shape of a special similar rectangle, so when water supply tank 7 is pressed part 46 when pushing, contact point therebetween changes to second press points 49 ' from first press points 49, thereby, only distance just can change the pressing force that reverses the pressing piece 46 that is produced owing to spring part 48 by changing from axle 47 to press points (from 49 to 49 '), thereby adjusting is to the pressing force of water supply tank 7, by this structure, can obtain bigger pressing force, and reduce the space thus.
In preferred embodiment as illustrated in fig. 1 and 2, pipe 9 spray nozzle part 13 firmly fixes by the space that is formed in the partition wall 50, and flip component 3 and ice maker container 2 also are fixed on the partition wall 50.So the water of being carried from water supply tank 7 can be transported to the ice maker container 2 reliably.And, because nozzle 13 is directly located by partition wall 50,, therefore can save a used for this reason keeper and a space, and have the advantage that reduces number of spare parts and assembling procedure quantity so the position of nozzle 13 can firmly fix.
According to a first aspect of the invention, because the inner rim face 15a of tank body 15 top end walls forms an inclined plane, the sidewall 19 of lid 16 can slide and enter the state that cooperates with opening 18 peripheries of tank body 15 easily, lid 16 only just can cooperate with tank body 15 securely by lid 16 being coupled on tank body 15 openings 18, and need not use snap close piece.
And, by on outer peripheral face 19a, seal being set,, can improve the sealing property between tank body and the tank body 15 by when saving snap close piece, reducing the superiority in number of spare parts acquisition space.
And, because seal 20 is made by the elastomeric material with spring function, can prevent that like this seal 20 breaks away from outer peripheral face 19a, the thickness of seal 20 can be adjusted to the coordinate force between control lid 16 and the tank body 15.Because the outer peripheral face 19a of recess tilts, the seal that is provided with thereon also tilts, thereby can improve the cooperation and the operating characteristics of lid.
And the top cover 16a of lid 16 is formed with a recess 21, and water supply tank 7 is easy to dismantle, and only catches recessed handle portion 21 just can be installed on jar installation portion 22 easily with finger and dismounting from it.Because this structure, the unnecessary space that provides is used for catching water supply tank, so this space can be used as the water storage volume effectively.Thereby, can reduce the width of water supply tank 7.Equally, recessed portion 21 can be used as a handle or a handle, is used for unloading lower cover 16 from tank body 15 when water supply tank is opened.
And, because lid 16 has bead 24 to outer process in its front side edge, so only by upwards lifting bead 24 or catch recess 21 simultaneously and bead 24 just can unload lid 16 easily from tank body 15 with pointing.
And the lid sidewall 25 that lid 16 also has an inclination to be having a curved surface around its crestal line 25a, and reduces planar section.Therefore, can catch water supply tank 7 with hand easily from it and move, thereby prevent to make dirty top surface, and have the advantage of being convenient to its outer surface clean operation.
And, on the sidewall of tank body 15, be formed with a pair of recess 26 so that catch and move water supply tank 7 with hand.Recess 26 also can be used as a sign, is used to determine the direction of engagement when lid 16 and tank body 15 are, and determines installation direction when water supply tank is installed on jar installation portion 22.
And the end of suction pipe 30 has projection 31, is positioned at a plurality of limbers 32 on the filtration members 29 with formation.Thereby, can reduce water supply caused by operations noise, even and when abnormal metamorphosis is on filtration members 29, also can avoid limbers 32 to stop up, send into ice maker container 2 thereby maintain enough water.
Because the sign 33 of symbol and the like is printed directly on the sidewall of tank body 15, and Biao Shi symbol seems eye-catching especially on background surface like this, thereby this sign can be kept, and can not peeled off by water semipermanently.Adopt this structure,, thereby can reduce the quantity and the number of spare parts of manufacturing process because can avoid sealant or similar sheet material are installed to technology on the sidewall.
According to a second aspect of the invention, because a jar installation portion 22 only installs and fixes jar installation portion 22 downwards on the frame assembly 8 by protruded stigma 42, positioning end 44a, and do not need other fixture, so compare the quantity that when reducing the part number, can reduce space and manufacturing process with conventional apparatus.
And because pump 6 is in suspended state between upper and lower pipe 4 and 9 in pump placement section 23, thereby the operation noise of pump and vibrations can be suppressed from the outside disappearance, and need not provide shockproof.So the width of pump placement section 23 can reduce to the width of pump 6, the space of being reduced can be effectively utilized.
In addition, because pressing piece 46 has the shape of a special similar rectangle, contact point therebetween changes to second press points 49 ' from first press points 49, thereby, can be only change to press points (from 49 to 49 ') distance by the pressing force of spring part 48 caused pressing pieces 46, thereby regulate pressing force water supply tank 7 by changing from axle 47.By this structure, can obtain bigger pressing force, and reduce used space.
In addition, owing to the spray nozzle part 13 of managing 9 firmly fixes by the space that is formed in the partition wall 50, so the water of being carried from water supply tank 7 can be transported to the ice maker container 2 reliably.And, because nozzle 13 directly locate by partition wall 50, thus the position of nozzle 13 can firmly fix, thereby can save used for this reason positioning piece and space, and have the advantage of minimizing number of spare parts and assembling procedure quantity.
Though in conjunction with the accompanying drawings example has been carried out sufficient description, for those of ordinary skill in the art, has obviously also had multiple variation and modification.So unless these variations and modification run off the scope of the invention that appended claims limits, otherwise they will be interpreted as comprising in the present invention.
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1. used ice maker, described refrigerator comprises a refrigerating chamber (11) and a refrigerating chamber (10) in the refrigerator, comprising:
The ice maker container (2) that is used for the water that seasoning will be frozen at refrigerating chamber; And
Be arranged in refrigerating chamber, pass through the water supply tank (7) that water-supply-pipe (4,9) is used for water is transported to ice maker container (2) by a pump (6), described water supply tank (7) is made up of a tank body (15) and a lid (16),
Wherein, described lid (16) has a seal (20) that is fixed firmly on the neighboring face (19a) of sidewall (19) of lid (16), and the peripheral within it top of the sidewall of described tank body (15) has an inclined plane (17).
2. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, all within it top margins corner, described inclined plane (17) has a circular surface.
3. ice maker as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described neighboring face (19a) is the recess that the vertical plane of the sidewall (19) of a relative lid (16) tilts, and the seal (20) that surrounds the inclination neighboring recess (19a) of sidewall (19) so also tilts.
4. ice maker as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the sidewall (19) of described lid (16) has one at the outwards outstanding jut (19c) in its place, base, thereby forms the recess of neighboring (19c).
5. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described seal (20) is made by the elastomeric material with spring function.
6. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described lid (16) has a top cover (16a), and described top cover is formed with the recess (21) that plays handle or handle effect.
7. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described lid (16) has one in the outwards outstanding lip portions (24) of its front side edge.
8. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described lid (16) has one and is inclined to the side cover wall (25) with a curved surface.
9. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, each sidewall of tank body (15) has the recess (26) that a usefulness hand can be caught, and the sign effect of determining its direction of engagement and installation direction also can be played by the female portion.
10. ice maker as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described water supply tank (7) has the discharge pipe (27) of filter mantle (28) and on lid (16) that is contained in wherein, discharge pipe has rearwardly projecting jut and has suction pipe (30) with its mechanical connection, described suction pipe inserts in the filter mantle (28), and filtration members (29) is positioned over the filter mantle bottom.
11. ice maker as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, reaches pipe (30) and has a plurality of projections in its lower end, thereby go up formation a plurality of limbers (32) in filtration members (29).
12. ice maker as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the sign of symbol and the like (33) directly is printed on the sidewall of tank body (15).
13. used ice maker, the described refrigerator of refrigerator comprises by a partition wall (50) refrigerating chamber spaced apart from each other (11) and refrigerating chamber (10), comprising:
The ice maker container (2) that is used for the water that seasoning will be frozen at refrigerating chamber; And
Be arranged in refrigerating chamber, have a drainpipe (27), be used for water is transported to the water supply tank (7) of ice maker container (2) by a pump (6) through water-supply-pipe (4,9); And
Frame section (8) with a substrate (41) and side plate (43) comprises the jar installation portion (22) and the pump placement section (23) that are arranged in refrigerating chamber,
Wherein, described jar installation portion (22) tubular connection (35) that has a substrate (34) and engage with the drainpipe (27) of water supply tank (7).
14. ice maker as claimed in claim 13, it is characterized in that, substrate (34) has a basal wall (34a) and a perisporium of vertical lifting (34b) and (39) from it, and wherein the basal wall of substrate (34a) is formed with a pair of locating hole (38) and a pair of groove (40) in the both sides of perisporium (34b).
15. ice maker as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that, the substrate (41) of framework (8) has the protruded stigma (42) in a pair of locating hole (38) that is inserted in substrate (34), cooperating with it respectively, and substrate (34) is located securely.
16. ice maker as claimed in claim 13, it is characterized in that, the substrate (41) of framework (8) has a pair of positioning end (44a), and the side plate (43) of framework (8) also has another to positioning end (44b), positioning end (44a) and (44b) perisporium (34a) and (39) of pressurization fixing base (34) like this, thus a jar installation portion (22) is located on all around and three-dimensional up and down securely.
17. ice maker as claimed in claim 14 is characterized in that, the leading section of the side plate (43) of framework (8) is inserted in the groove (40) of substrate (34), and with its secure fit.
18. ice maker as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that, water-supply-pipe comprises pipe (4,9) up and down, is in suspended state between the upper and lower pipe (4 and 9) of pump (6) in pump placement section (23).
19. ice maker as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, last pipe (4) is supported by the rib (45) on the substrate (41) of framework (8), and pipe (9) is supported by the nozzle (13) that is positioned in the partition wall (50) down.
20. ice maker as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that, described pipe (4,9) is made by Shockproof rubber.
21. ice maker as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that, described framework (8) also have one when jar installation portion (22) is gone up the pressing piece (46) of pressurization water supply tank (7).
22. ice maker as claimed in claim 21 is characterized in that, described pressing piece (46) pivots around one (47) being fixed on the framework (8).
23. ice maker as claimed in claim 22, it is characterized in that, described axle (47) has and is used for to pressing piece (46) pressurization, reliably around thereon spring part (48), like this pressing piece (46) by the twisting resistance of spring part (48) along jar installation portion (22) recall forwards to the water supply tank (7) that pressurizes.
24. ice maker as claimed in claim 23, it is characterized in that, pressing piece (46) has the shape of a similar rectangle, when water supply tank (7) is pressurizeed by pressing piece (46), contact point therebetween changes to second press points (49 ') from first press points (49), thereby changes the pressing force that reverses caused pressing piece (46) by spring part (48) by changing distance from axle (47) to press points.
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