CN204438658U - Refrigerator base and refrigerator - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a kind of refrigerator base and refrigerator, wherein refrigerator base comprises base body, first support member and the second support member, first support member comprises the first support and the first backplate, first backplate comprises four sides, two sides that wherein the first backplate is adjacent are fixedly connected with the first support, base body is provided with the first holding section and the second holding section towards the first backplate, first holding section comprises the first groove, second holding section comprises the second groove, and two other side of the first backplate is inserted in the first groove and the second groove respectively.The utility model by arranging the first holding section and the second holding section on base body, substitute traditional welding manner to hold fixing mode the first backplate is fixed, the solder joint place avoided because of refrigerator base easily comes off, easily gets rusty, exist hidden danger of quality and cause security incident to occur, reduce the production cost of refrigerator base and refrigerator, extend the service life of refrigerator, improve the practicality of refrigerator.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to the manufacturing field of refrigerator, particularly a kind of refrigerator base and refrigerator.
Background technology
Because refrigerator has food fresh keeping, cold storage function significantly, enter in the life of huge numbers of families as a kind of conventional household electrical appliance.The body structure of refrigerator is primarily of compositions such as outer container, inner bag, chamber door, adiabatic foaming layers, and wherein, outer container is generally form by U shell, backboard and refrigerator base are assembled, refrigerator base is fixed with the critical components such as compressor, and structure is comparatively complicated.
The base of current refrigerator is mainly panel beating base, and material is generally galvanized sheet or aluminium plating zinc plate, and this base is assembled by spot-welded technique by multiple sheet metal component.With reference to Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, existing refrigerator base 100 comprises left support part 102, left backplate 104, base body 101, right backplate 105, right support 103.The assembling process of this refrigerator base 100 is that left support part 102 welds with left backplate 104, right backplate 105 welds with right support 103, then the side of base body 101 is welded with left support part 102, and the opposite side of base body 101 welds with right support 103, and this assembling process is complicated, solder joint is many, point postwelding, solder joint place zinc coat easily comes off, and easily gets rusty in solder joint place, affect service life, there is hidden danger of quality.
Utility model content
Main purpose of the present utility model is to provide a kind of refrigerator base, and the solder joint place being intended to solve existing refrigerator base easily comes off, easily gets rusty, and there is the problem of hidden danger of quality.
The utility model proposes a kind of refrigerator base, comprise base body, and be arranged at the first support member of described base body side respectively, described first support member comprises the first support and the first backplate, described first backplate comprises four sides, two sides that wherein said first backplate is adjacent are fixedly connected with described first support, described base body is provided with the first holding section and the second holding section towards described first backplate, described first holding section comprises the first groove, described second holding section comprises the second groove, two other side of described first backplate is inserted in described first groove and the second groove respectively, described first backplate holds fixing by described first groove and the second groove by described first holding section and described second holding section.
Preferably, described refrigerator base also comprises the second support member, the opposite side of described base body is provided with described second support member be oppositely arranged with described first support member, described second support member comprises the second support and the second backplate, described second backplate comprises four sides, two sides that wherein said second backplate is adjacent are fixedly connected with described second support, described base body is provided with the 3rd holding section and the 4th holding section towards described second backplate, described 3rd holding section comprises the 3rd groove, described 4th holding section comprises the 4th groove, two other side of described second backplate is inserted in described 3rd groove and the 4th groove respectively, described first backplate holds fixing by described 3rd groove and the 4th groove by described 3rd holding section and described 4th holding section.
Preferably, described base body comprises base plate, gripper shoe and the loading plate parallel with described base plate, described gripper shoe comprises the two ends be oppositely arranged, wherein one end connects one end of described base plate, the other end connects one end of described loading plate, and described base plate and described loading plate are arranged at the heteropleural of described gripper shoe, described first support comprises the first fixed head and the first seat board, one end of described first fixed head connects one end of described first seat board, two sides of described first backplate are fixedly connected with the first seat board with described first fixed head respectively, described first seat board is also provided with the first installing plate, described first installing plate and described first backplate are all in the homonymy of described first seat board, described base plate is provided with the 5th holding section towards described first installing plate, described 5th holding section comprises the 5th groove, described first installing plate while be inserted in described 5th groove, described first installing plate holds fixing by described 5th groove by described 5th holding section.
Preferably, described second support comprises the second fixed head and the second seat board, one end of described second fixed head connects one end of described second seat board, two sides of described second backplate are fixedly connected with the second seat board with described second fixed head respectively, described second seat board is also provided with the second installing plate, described second installing plate and described second backplate are all in the homonymy of described second seat board, described base body is provided with the 6th holding section towards described second installing plate, described 6th holding section comprises the 6th groove, described first installing plate while be inserted in described 6th groove, described second installing plate holds fixing by described 6th groove by described 6th holding section.
Preferably, buffer board is provided with between described gripper shoe and described loading plate, described gripper shoe is fixedly connected with by described buffer board with described loading plate, the correspondence position of described first backplate and described buffer board is that chamfering is arranged, the correspondence position of described second backplate and described buffer board is that chamfering is arranged, described buffer board is provided with the 7th holding section towards described first backplate, described 7th holding section comprises the 7th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate is inserted in described 7th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate holds fixing by described 7th groove by described 7th holding section, described buffer board is provided with the 8th holding section towards described second backplate, described 8th holding section comprises the 8th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate is inserted in described 8th groove, and the chamfering place of described backplate holds fixing by described 8th groove by described 8th holding section.
Preferably, the base plate, gripper shoe and the loading plate that comprise of described base body is one-body molded.
Preferably, the first support of comprising of described first support member and the first backplate one-body molded; The second support member that described second support member comprises and the second backplate one-body molded.
Preferably, the width of described first groove and the second groove is less than the thickness of described first backplate.
For achieving the above object, the utility model also provides a kind of refrigerator to comprise outer container, and this refrigerator comprises outer container, described outer container comprises housing, backboard, and refrigerator base described above, described refrigerator base is installed on described backboard, and described backboard is fixedly connected with described housing.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the refrigerator base Split type structure schematic diagram of prior art;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation in Fig. 1 after refrigerator base assembling;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the refrigerator base being provided with sealant tape in Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the utility model refrigerator base one embodiment;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of the first support member of refrigerator base in Fig. 4;
Fig. 6 is the structural representation of the second support member of refrigerator base in Fig. 4;
Fig. 7 is the structural representation of the base body of refrigerator base in Fig. 4;
Fig. 8 is the top view of the base body of refrigerator base in Fig. 7;
Fig. 9 be in Fig. 8 base body along the sectional view of A-A line;
Figure 10 is the assembly structure schematic diagram of the backplate in Fig. 5 and the 3rd holding section in Fig. 9.
The realization of the utility model object, functional characteristics and advantage will in conjunction with the embodiments, are described further with reference to accompanying drawing.
Detailed description of the invention
Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the utility model, and be not used in restriction the utility model.
As shown in Figure 4, Fig. 4 is the structural representation of an embodiment of the utility model one embodiment refrigerator base 10.In this embodiment, described refrigerator base 10 comprises base body 11, and is arranged at the first support member 12 and the second support member 13 of the relative both sides of described base body 10 respectively.
With reference to Fig. 5, the first backplate 122 that described first support member 12 comprises the first support 121 and is connected with described first support 121, described first support 121 comprises the first seat board 1212 and the first fixed head 1211, one end of described first seat board 1212 is connected with one end of described first fixed head 1211, described first seat board 1212 is approximately perpendicular to described first fixed head 1211, described first backplate 122 comprises four sides, wherein, two of described first backplate 122 adjacent sides are fixedly connected with described first fixed head 1211 and the first seat board 1212.Described first fixed head 1211 also offers screw 12110, and this screw 12110 is for being fixed on back boards by the first support member 12 by screw; In addition, described first seat board 1212 is also provided with screw 12120, this screw 12120 is for being fixed on refrigerator substrate by described first support member 12.
With reference to Fig. 6, the second backplate 132 that described second support member 13 comprises the second support 131 and is connected with described second support 131, described second support 131 comprises the second seat board 1312 and the second fixed head 1311, one end of described second seat board 1312 is connected with one end of described second fixed head 1311, described second seat board 1312 is perpendicular to described second fixed head 1311, described second backplate 132 comprises four sides, wherein, two of described second backplate 132 adjacent sides are fixedly connected with described second fixed head 1311 and the second seat board 1312.This second support 131 is provided with equally the screw for being installed on by the second support member 13 on back boards and refrigerator substrate.
With reference to Fig. 7, described base body 11 comprises base plate 113, gripper shoe 111 and the loading plate 112 almost parallel with described base plate, described gripper shoe 111 comprises the two ends be oppositely arranged, wherein one end connects one end of described base plate 113, the other end connects one end of described loading plate 112, and described base plate 113 and described loading plate 112 are arranged at the heteropleural of described gripper shoe 111.Preferably, 111 is vertical with 113, and 111 is vertical with 112.
Described loading plate 112 is provided with the first holding section 1121 towards the side of described first backplate 122, described gripper shoe 111 is provided with the second holding section 1111 towards described first backplate 122, described first holding section 1121 comprises the first groove 1123 (with reference to Fig. 9), described second holding section 1111 comprises the second groove (similar with the first groove 1123), two other side of described first backplate 122 is inserted in described first groove 1123 and the second groove respectively, described first backplate 122 holds fixing by described first groove 1123 and the second groove by described first holding section 1121 and the second holding section 1111.The width of described first groove 1123 and the second groove is less than the thickness of described first backplate 122.
The utility model is by arranging the first holding section 1121 and the second holding section 1111 at base body 11 towards the first backplate 122, and by the first holding section 1121 and the second holding section 1111, described first backplate 122 is held fixing, traditional welding manner is substituted to hold fixing mode, the solder joint place avoided on traditional refrigerator base easily comes off, easily gets rusty, the accident that there is hidden danger of quality occurs, reduce the production cost of refrigerator base 10 and refrigerator, extend the service life of refrigerator, improve the practicality of refrigerator.
With reference to Fig. 7, in order to further simplify the production procedure of this refrigerator base 10, in the present embodiment, described base body 11 is provided with the 3rd holding section 1122 and the 4th holding section 1112 towards described second backplate 132, described 3rd holding section 1122 comprises the 3rd groove 1124 (with reference to Fig. 9 and Figure 10), described 4th holding section 1112 comprises the 4th groove (similar with the first groove 1123), two other side of described second backplate 132 is inserted in described 3rd groove 1124 and the 4th groove respectively, described second backplate 132 holds fixing by described 3rd groove 1124 and the 4th groove by described 3rd holding section 1122 and the 4th holding section 1112.
With reference to Fig. 5 and Fig. 7, described first seat board 1212 is also provided with the first installing plate 1213, described first installing plate 1213 and described first backplate 122 are all in the homonymy of described first seat board 1212, described base plate 113 is provided with the 5th holding section 1131 towards the side of described first installing plate 1213, described 5th holding section 1131 comprises the 5th groove (similar with the first groove 1123), described first installing plate 1213 while be inserted in described 5th groove, described first installing plate 1213 holds fixing by described 5th groove by described 5th holding section 1131.
Hold better effects if in order to what make the 5th holding section 1131 and described first installing plate 1213, the 5th groove of described 5th holding section 1131 extends towards the other end relative with above-mentioned link of base plate 113 from the link of described base plate 113 and described gripper shoe 111.With reference to Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, described second seat board 1312 is also provided with the second installing plate 1313, described second installing plate 1313 and described second backplate 132 are all in the homonymy of described second seat board 1312, described base plate 113 is provided with the 6th holding section 1132 towards the side of described second installing plate 1313, described 6th holding section 1132 comprises the 6th groove (similar with the first groove 1123), described second installing plate 1313 while be inserted in described 6th groove, described second installing plate 1313 holds fixing by described 6th groove by described 6th holding section 1132; Equally, hold better effects if in order to what make the 6th holding section 1132 and described second installing plate 1313, the 6th groove of described 6th holding section 1132 extends towards the other end relative with above-mentioned link of base plate 113 from the link of described base plate 113 and described gripper shoe 111.
If the junction of described loading plate 112 and described gripper shoe 111 is rectangular or acute angle is arranged, just the accident of flash is there is (as shown in Figure 3 during likely at refrigerator foaming at described loading plate 112 and the junction of gripper shoe 111, prior art produces the accident of flash in order to avoid refrigerator foaming, and refrigerator base 100 is provided with sealant tape 106).In order to avoid the generation of this accident, in the present embodiment, buffer board 114 is provided with between described gripper shoe 111 and described loading plate 112, described gripper shoe 111 is fixedly connected with by described buffer board 114 with described loading plate 112, described first backplate 122 is that chamfering is arranged with the correspondence position of described buffer board 114, described second backplate 132 is that chamfering is arranged with the correspondence position of described buffer board 114, described buffer board 114 is provided with the 7th holding section 1141 towards described first backplate 122, described 7th holding section 1141 comprises the 7th groove (similar with the first groove 1123), the chamfering place of described first backplate 122 is inserted in described 7th groove, the chamfering place of described first backplate 122 holds fixing by described 7th groove by described 7th holding section 1141, described buffer board 114 is provided with the 8th holding section 1142 towards described second backplate 132, described 8th holding section 1142 comprises the 8th groove (similar with the first groove 1123), the chamfering place of described second backplate 132 is inserted in described 8th groove, and the chamfering place of described second backplate 132 holds fixing by described 8th groove by described 8th holding section 1142.With reference to Fig. 8, Fig. 9 and Figure 10, when described second backplate 132 is inserted in the 3rd groove of described 3rd holding section 1122, the second backplate 132 closely holds by described 3rd holding section 1122.
Further, in order to simplify the assembling process of this refrigerator base 10, in the present embodiment, described first support member 12, second support member 13 and base body 11 all one-body molded.
It should be noted that, when in the groove that the outward flange on the first support member 12 snaps in (embedding) corresponding first holding section 1121, the 7th holding section 1111, holding section 1141, second and the 5th holding section 1131, can rivet the above-mentioned coupling part of the first support member 12 and base body 11 simultaneously, thus the first support member 12 can be made more firm with the connection of base body 11, and sealing is higher.Correspondingly, when the outward flange of the second support member 13 snaps in the groove in (embedding) corresponding 3rd holding section 1122, the 8th holding section 1142, the 4th holding section 1112 and the 6th holding section 1132, can rivet the above-mentioned coupling part of the second support member 13 and base body 11 simultaneously, thus the second support member 13 can be made more firm with the connection of base body 11, and sealing is higher.
Thus, the first support member 12, second support member 13 and base body 11 are riveted, sealing and bonding strength can be strengthened.Simultaneously, according to the refrigerator base 10 of the utility model embodiment, first support member 12, second support member 13 and base body 11 are by snap-fit and/or riveted joint assembling, the problem because welding destruction refrigerator base 10 Zinc coat caused can be avoided, and then improve the decay resistance of refrigerator base 10, and also improve structural strength and the structural stability of refrigerator base 10.
The utility model also provides a kind of refrigerator, and this refrigerator comprises outer container, inner bag, chamber door, adiabatic foaming layer, and described inner bag is arranged with in described outer container, and described chamber door is connected with described outer container, is describedly arranged in outer container with regard to heat foamable layer; Wherein said outer container comprises U-shaped housing, backboard, and the refrigerator base 10 described in above-mentioned any embodiment, and described refrigerator base 10 is installed on described backboard, and described backboard is fixedly connected with described housing.
Owing to being provided with described refrigerator base in this refrigerator, all these refrigerators of usefulness of described refrigerator base should one should to have, and do not repeat one by one at this.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present utility model; not thereby the scope of the claims of the present utility model is limited; every utilize the utility model description and accompanying drawing content to do equivalent structure or equivalent flow process conversion; or be directly or indirectly used in other relevant technical fields, be all in like manner included in scope of patent protection of the present utility model.
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1. a refrigerator base, comprise base body and be arranged at the first support member of described base body side respectively, it is characterized in that, described first support member comprises the first support and the first backplate, described first backplate comprises four sides, two sides that wherein said first backplate is adjacent are fixedly connected with described first support, described base body is provided with the first holding section and the second holding section towards described first backplate, described first holding section comprises the first groove, described second holding section comprises the second groove, two other side of described first backplate is inserted in described first groove and described second groove respectively, described first backplate holds fixing by described first groove and described second groove by described first holding section and described second holding section.
2. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, also comprise the second support member, the opposite side of described base body is provided with described second support member be oppositely arranged with described first support member, described second support member comprises the second support and the second backplate, described second backplate comprises four sides, two sides that wherein said second backplate is adjacent are fixedly connected with described second support, described base body is provided with the 3rd holding section and the 4th holding section towards described second backplate, described 3rd holding section comprises the 3rd groove, described 4th holding section comprises the 4th groove, two other side of described second backplate is inserted in described 3rd groove and described 4th groove respectively, described first backplate holds fixing by described 3rd groove and the 4th groove by described 3rd holding section and described 4th holding section.
3. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, described base body comprises base plate, gripper shoe and the loading plate parallel with described base plate, described gripper shoe comprises the two ends be oppositely arranged, wherein one end connects one end of described base plate, the other end connects one end of described loading plate, and described base plate and described loading plate are arranged at the heteropleural of described gripper shoe, described first support comprises the first fixed head and the first seat board, one end of described first fixed head connects one end of described first seat board, two sides of described first backplate are fixedly connected with the first seat board with described first fixed head respectively, described first seat board is also provided with the first installing plate, described first installing plate and described first backplate are all in the homonymy of described first seat board, described base plate is provided with the 5th holding section towards described first installing plate, described 5th holding section comprises the 5th groove, described first installing plate while be inserted in described 5th groove, described first installing plate holds fixing by described 5th groove by described 5th holding section.
4. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, described second support comprises the second fixed head and the second seat board, one end of described second fixed head connects one end of described second seat board, two sides of described second backplate are fixedly connected with the second seat board with described second fixed head respectively, described second seat board is also provided with the second installing plate, described second installing plate and described second backplate are all in the homonymy of described second seat board, described base body is provided with the 6th holding section towards described second installing plate, described 6th holding section comprises the 6th groove, described first installing plate while be inserted in described 6th groove, described second installing plate holds fixing by described 6th groove by described 6th holding section.
5. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, buffer board is provided with between described gripper shoe and described loading plate, described gripper shoe is fixedly connected with by described buffer board with described loading plate, the correspondence position of described first backplate and described buffer board is that chamfering is arranged, the correspondence position of described second backplate and described buffer board is that chamfering is arranged, described buffer board is provided with the 7th holding section towards described first backplate, described 7th holding section comprises the 7th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate is inserted in described 7th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate holds fixing by described 7th groove by described 7th holding section, described buffer board is provided with the 8th holding section towards described second backplate, described 8th holding section comprises the 8th groove, the chamfering place of described backplate is inserted in described 8th groove, and the chamfering place of described backplate holds fixing by described 8th groove by described 8th holding section.
6. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, the base plate that described base body comprises, gripper shoe and loading plate are one-body molded.
7. refrigerator base as claimed in claim 2, is characterized in that, the first support that described first support member comprises and the first backplate one-body molded; The second support member that described second support member comprises and the second backplate one-body molded.
8. the refrigerator base according to any one of claim 1-7, is characterized in that, the width of described first groove and the second groove is less than the thickness of described first backplate.
9. a refrigerator, is characterized in that, this refrigerator comprises outer container, and described outer container comprises housing, backboard, and the refrigerator base as described in any one of claim 1 to 7, and described refrigerator base is installed on described backboard, and described backboard is fixedly connected with described housing.
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