CN1435627A - Water supply system for refrigerator - Google Patents

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CN1435627A
CN1435627A CN 02100534 CN02100534A CN1435627A CN 1435627 A CN1435627 A CN 1435627A CN 02100534 CN02100534 CN 02100534 CN 02100534 A CN02100534 A CN 02100534A CN 1435627 A CN1435627 A CN 1435627A
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李沅福
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A water supply system for refrigerator is composed of water valve connected to external water supply pipe, short internal water supply pipe with more bents, and water storage part. Its advantages are low cost, less electric consumption, and not blocking the pipe by ice.

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Water supply system for refrigerator
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of water supply system of refrigerator.
Background technology
Accompanying drawing the 1,2, the 3rd is provided with the relevant major part structure of feedwater in the existing refrigerator of ice machine.Feed pipe 1 links with outside water-supply source, and feed pipe and penstock 3 link, and penstock one side and opposite side link the water pipe that can carry from penstock flowing water respectively, and water pipe 4 ` that are attached at penstock one side are attached in the water pot 5 that can store water.Be attached at water pot water pipe 4 feed-tank 7 bindings preceding of side in addition, supply water to feed-tank with being located at refrigerator.Water pot is side and feed pipe 10 bindings outside the case that the refrigerator rear side upwards prolongs in addition, link with case internal feed pipe 12 on the outer feed pipe of case.In order easily to supply water in ice clathrate ice pan 14, case internal feed pipe 12 is obliquely installed downwards.The ice pan side is provided with temperature sensor 16, and temperature sensor is an icing degree of measuring water in the ice pan.The ice pan below is provided with ice pan tube 18, the ice that the ice pan tube forms in order to the storage of ice dish.
For preventing that low temperature freezes the case internal feed pipe in the refrigerator, privileged site twines heater 20 is set on the case internal feed pipe.The water of feed pipe 1 supply through linking with outside water-supply source flows to water pot and the outer feed pipe of case that links with water pipe by penstock.Can flow to and manage by water pipe 4 ` and link the feed-tank 7 that is located at before the refrigerator owing to be stored in water in the water pot, can be according to user's requirement supply work water.
The water that feed pipe is carried to refrigerator top outside case flows to ice pan by the case internal feed pipe that is located at the refrigerator inboard.Water in the ice pan drives through freeze cycle and becomes ice, and the ice keeping is in the ice pan tube.
Drive by water supply pipe heater, prevent from the refrigerator that low temperature makes to be flowing in the feed pipe water and to build-up ice and block feed pipe, drive the water that is thawed by water supply pipe heater and discharge.There is following shortcoming in existing refrigerator with said structure.The case internal feed pipe is a linear, and the case internal feed pipe can be blocked by the residual ice that the intermediate portion is left, and makes the water of supply can not pass through the case internal feed pipe.Though use the water supply pipe heater that is wrapped on the case internal feed pipe to solve, the use of heater brings cost to rise and power consumption rising problem.Using breaking out of fire easily under the relatively shorter case internal feed pipe situation of length, can design the heat of water supply pipe heater smaller in order to protect product.To the water supply pipe heater thermal design, can adopt and under certain voltage, strengthen resistance drop method low in calories; But increasing resistance will form the water supply pipe heater diameter of wire and dwindle, and the design of dwindling diameter of wire is had limitation.Though, brought fee of material rising problem by two water supply pipe heaters are connected with power supply and can be solved.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to avoid weak point of the prior art, and provide a kind of case internal feed pipe that prevents, form the water supply system for refrigerator of smooth water supply environment by the ice stake of its internal junction.
Can take following technical scheme to realize purpose.
A kind of water supply system for refrigerator comprises the penstock that obtains supplying water from water-supply source; Be arranged on the outer feed pipe of case on the refrigerator lateral surface, outer feed pipe of this case and water valve link; The case internal feed pipe; It is characterized in that described case internal feed pipe is formed by a plurality of bends, this case internal feed pipe is located in the refrigerator, and the outer feed pipe of case internal feed pipe and case links, and stores the water through the supply of case internal feed pipe in the space that feedwater storage portion forms.
Aforesaid water supply system for refrigerator, wherein the feed pipe bend forms the upper angled pipe with special angle, is provided with the connecting piece at bigger inclination angle, and connecting piece and upper angled pipe link; The angle that the lower tilt pipe is identical with the upper angled pipe tilts, and lower tilt pipe and connecting piece link.
Aforesaid water supply system for refrigerator wherein is provided with a plurality of case internal feed pipes with bend that are connected.
Aforementioned water supply system for refrigerator, its raising middle flask internal feed pipe bend are provided with the fixing fixed structure of screw.
The relative prior art of the technical program has following advantage and effect:
Can prevent that the case internal feed pipe from being blocked by the ice of internal junction, form the environment that supplies water smoothly; Can reduce manufacturing cost, reduce power consumption; Can use relatively shorter case internal feed pipe safely; By the bend of case internal feed pipe, bootable case internal feed pipe inside was left after water supply finished water and residual ice are discharged naturally, and making supplies water waltzs through the case internal feed pipe; Prevent from the heater that freezes to have reduced product cost and power consumption owing to removed; Use short case internal feed pipe, heater can be avoided breaking out of fire, has improved the stability of product.
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Fig. 1 is the primary structure oblique view relevant with water supply system in the existing refrigerator;
Fig. 2 is the sectional drawing that the feed pipe state is set in the existing refrigerator;
Fig. 3 is a water supply system for refrigerator structure oblique view of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is an example case internal feed pipe state sectional drawing of the present invention;
Fig. 5 is an example case internal feed pipe shape sectional drawing of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
In conjunction with the accompanying drawings, embodiment is described in further detail the content of the technical program.
As shown in Figure 3, the feed pipe 22 and the penstock 23 that link with outside water-supply source link, the flow direction of penstock control water.Link with the water pipe 24 of penstock one side binding and a side of water pot 25, water pot 25 forms water spaces.The water pipe 26 and the feed-tank 28 that link to each other with other side of water pot are connected, and feed-tank 28 is located at the refrigerator front; The effect of water pipe 26 is to supply water in feed-tank.Penstock is side and outer feed pipe 30 bindings of case in addition, and the effect of the outer feed pipe 30 of case is that the water that will supply upwards transmits, and feed pipe 30 is located at the refrigerator outside outside the case.Outer feed pipe 30 tops, one end of case and 40 bindings of case internal feed pipe, case internal feed pipe 40 are that its effect of round tube is to supply water in the automatic ice maker in being located at refrigerator.
Shown in the accompanying drawing 4, with the downward-sloping setting of case internal feed pipe, the pars intermedia of case internal feed pipe 40 is provided with bend 45, sets the bend number according to length of tube.The structure of bend 45: be formed slopely upper angled pipe 46 with special angle, have the connecting piece 47 at bigger inclination angle, upper angled pipe and 47 is connected; Lower tilt pipe 48 tilts with identical angle with the upper angled pipe, and lower tilt pipe and connecting piece are connected.
Fig. 5 is a case internal feed pipe shape sectional drawing.Another example refrigerator internal feed pipe is identical with the example shape, but the diameter of pipe is littler than example diameter of the present invention, is linked by a plurality of pipes to form.In order to make the case internal feed pipe easily, connecting piece portion is provided with screw fixing combination portion 60 in the middle of bend.Example of the present invention is not limited to the joint portion, all can adopt as long as be suitable for the fixed of example.
Case internal feed pipe bottom is provided with to making the ice pan 50 that ice forms with given shape, stores the water through the supply of case internal feed pipe in the ice pan 50.The ice pan side is provided with temperature detecting sensor 52, and its effect is to measure the icing degree that is contained in water in the ice pan.The ice pan bottom is provided with ice pan tube 54, and the space of ice pan tube 54 stores the ice that ice pan produces.
Flow to penstock from the water of outside water-supply source supply through feed pipe 22.According to the control signal that is installed in the refrigerator, penstock is supplied to outer feed pipe 30 of case or water pipe 24 with water.Water to the water pipe supply that is attached at penstock one side is stored in the water pot 25, supplies water through the feed-tank 28 of water pipe 26 before being located at refrigerator by user's requirement.Feed pipe transmits to the case internal feed pipe that is located at the refrigerator inboard to the water of refrigerator top supply outside case.Pass to the water of case internal feed pipe, the case internal feed pipe through being obliquely installed downwards flow to the automatic ice maker ice pan that is located in the refrigerator in.By the time of filling water in the ice pan, stop to ice pan supply water; At this moment, the water that is scattered of case internal feed pipe inside flows to together that the back forms the globule.
The globule of case internal feed pipe is deposited in each bend upper angled pipe after the case internal feed pipe of downward-sloping setting flows, and to the bottom tipping tube generation motive force that drops, water is flowed downward by connecting piece 47 along the case internal feed pipe.The globule on case internal feed pipe top flows by the way and the other globule converges the bigger motive force of formation, finally to the outside discharge of case internal feed pipe.In addition, the residual ice of a part that is formed on above-mentioned case internal feed pipe 40 inside that is not discharged from also is to the outside discharge of case internal feed pipe by said method.
The case internal feed pipe diameter of another example is littler than the case internal feed pipe diameter of above-mentioned example, stays after the water supply in the process of the inner globule of case internal feed pipe and can form bigger cohesiveness, compares draining with the diameter bassoon and can easily carry out.
The joint portion that is located at the connecting piece position by screw fixing can with upper angled pipe and lower tilt pipe jointing, screw is fixed on when making the case internal feed pipe and comprises that bend and case internal feed pipe are made into the method for using under the more difficult situation of one.Through the ice pan of case internal feed pipe supply storage water, by freeze cycle running ice making, ice is by the sensor senses temperature.The temperature perceptual signal is passed to control part, and signal control part is sent enabling signal, and the ice that forms in the ice pan is taken care of in the ice pan tube, supplies water by the case internal feed pipe to ice pan again afterwards.
The example water supply system need not be established heater in addition, and by being located at the bend on the case internal feed pipe, the water and the residual ice that leave in the bootable case internal feed pipe are discharged naturally, and water supply can be passed through the case internal feed pipe smoothly.Owing to can remove in the prior art, twine the water supply pipe heater that is located on the case internal feed pipe for preventing to freeze in the case internal feed pipe, so reduced product cost, reduced power consumption.
For the water supply system of using relatively shorter case internal feed pipe, by using the little heater deicing of heat a lot of difficulties are arranged, but use case internal feed pipe of the present invention at an easy rate water to be discharged.
The serviceability of accompanying drawing illustrated embodiment, effect are good.

Claims (4)

1, a kind of water supply system for refrigerator comprises the penstock that obtains supplying water from water-supply source; Be arranged on the outer feed pipe of case on the refrigerator lateral surface, outer feed pipe of this case and water valve link; The case internal feed pipe; It is characterized in that described case internal feed pipe is formed by a plurality of bends, this case internal feed pipe is located in the refrigerator, and the outer feed pipe of case internal feed pipe and case links, and stores the water through the supply of case internal feed pipe in the space that feedwater storage portion forms.
2, water supply system for refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the feed pipe bend forms the upper angled pipe with special angle, is provided with the connecting piece at bigger inclination angle, and connecting piece and upper angled pipe link; The angle that the lower tilt pipe is identical with the upper angled pipe tilts, and lower tilt pipe and connecting piece link.
3, water supply system for refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that: a plurality of case internal feed pipes with bend that are connected are set.
4, according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 described water supply system for refrigerator, it is characterized in that: case internal feed pipe bend is provided with the fixing fixed structure of screw.
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US10760844B1 (en) 2019-05-17 2020-09-01 Hefei Midea Refrigerator Co., Ltd. Heating control method, device and ice maker
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CN112013585A (en) * 2019-05-28 2020-12-01 青岛海尔电冰箱有限公司 Ice making assembly and refrigerator with same
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