CN210712214U

CN210712214U - Washing machine

Info

Publication number: CN210712214U
Application number: CN201921090080.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姬生园; 杨龙
Original assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd; Chongqing Haier Front Loading Washing Machine Co Ltd
Current assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd; Chongqing Haier Front Loading Washing Machine Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-12
Filing date: 2019-07-12
Publication date: 2020-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 2029-07-12

Abstract

The utility model discloses a washing machine relates to domestic appliance technical field. The washing machine comprises an outer barrel and a balancing weight, wherein a mounting seat is arranged on the outer barrel; the opposite both sides of mount pad are provided with the reinforcing plate respectively with the balancing weight, the fastener pass in proper order behind the reinforcing plate with the mount pad with the balancing weight is connected, in order will the balancing weight is fixed in the mount pad. In the washing machine, the reinforcing plate is arranged between the mounting seat and the fastener, the acting force of the fastener is transmitted to the mounting seat through the reinforcing plate, and through the reinforcing plate, the stress area of the mounting seat can be increased, the rigidity of the mounting seat is improved, the probability of deformation and resonance of the mounting seat is reduced, so that the fixing effect of the balancing weight is improved, and the noise of the washing machine is reduced.

Description

Washing machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, especially, relate to a washing machine.

Background

The drum washing machine is provided with an outer drum and an inner drum which can be rotatably arranged in the outer drum, and clothes are repeatedly lifted and fallen down in the inner drum through the alternate bidirectional rotation of the inner drum, so that the clothes are washed. In order to reduce the vibration and noise when the inner cylinder rotates, the outer cylinder is sleeved outside the inner cylinder, and the outer cylinder is provided with a balancing weight, so that the stability of the washing machine is improved, and the vibration and noise are reduced.

In the prior art, the balancing weight is generally fixed on the outer cylinder through a screw and a gasket. Thus, the stressed position of the outer cylinder is mainly concentrated on the position contacted with the gasket. The stressed position is usually designed to be thin due to space and the like, and the stressed position is easy to deform. In addition, when the rotating speed of the inner cylinder is high, local resonance is easy to occur at the stressed position of the outer cylinder, so that large vibration of the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder is caused, and the overall noise of the washing machine is increased. Under the condition of multi-cycle operation, the stress position can be broken, damaged and the like, so that potential safety hazards are caused, and the performance of the washing machine is seriously influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a washing machine can avoid the urceolus to warp, damage because of the installation balancing weight, noise reduction.

To achieve the purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical proposal:

a washing machine comprises an outer barrel and a balancing weight, wherein a mounting seat is arranged on the outer barrel; the opposite both sides of mount pad are provided with the reinforcing plate respectively with the balancing weight, the fastener pass in proper order behind the reinforcing plate with the mount pad with the balancing weight is connected, in order will the balancing weight is fixed in the mount pad.

Wherein, the mount pad includes mounting panel and backup pad, the backup pad is connected the mounting panel with the urceolus, the balancing weight with the reinforcing plate is located respectively the relative both sides of mounting panel.

Wherein, the two opposite side edges of the mounting plate are bent to form the supporting plate.

Wherein, be provided with the breach that extends to the edge on the mounting panel, the fastener wears to locate in the breach.

Wherein, the mount pad with urceolus integrated into one piece.

Wherein, be provided with the strengthening rib on the urceolus, the strengthening rib extends to on the mount pad.

Wherein, the reinforcing plate is a sheet metal part.

The reinforcing plate is provided with a through hole, and the fastener penetrates through the through hole and is adjustable in position in the through hole.

The bottom surface of the balancing weight is provided with a groove capable of containing the mounting seat.

The side of the mounting seat is provided with a positioning part abutted with the balancing weight.

The utility model has the advantages that:

the utility model provides a washing machine. In the washing machine, the reinforcing plate is arranged between the mounting seat and the fastener, the acting force of the fastener is transmitted to the mounting seat through the reinforcing plate, and through the reinforcing plate, the stress area of the mounting seat can be increased, the rigidity of the mounting seat is improved, the probability of deformation and resonance of the mounting seat is reduced, so that the fixing effect of the balancing weight is improved, and the noise of the washing machine is reduced.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an exploded view of a partial structure of a washing machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a partial structure of an outer barrel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a partial structure of an outer tub according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a first schematic structural diagram of a counterweight block according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a front view of a weight member according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a second counterweight according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a reinforcing plate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein:

1. an outer cylinder; 11. a mounting seat; 111. a notch; 12. reinforcing ribs; 13. supporting ribs; 14. a positioning part; 2. a balancing weight; 21. a groove; 22. connecting holes; 23. a countersunk hole; 3. a reinforcing plate; 31. a through hole; 41. a bolt; 42. a gasket; 43. and a nut.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. Wherein the terms "first position" and "second position" are two different positions.

Unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "secured" are to be construed broadly and encompass, for example, both fixed and removable connections; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either in communication between the plates of the two elements or in interactive relationship between the two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

Unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may include the first feature being in direct contact with the second feature, or may include the first feature being in direct contact with the second feature but being in contact with the second feature by another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

The technical solution of the present invention is further explained by the following embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The present embodiment provides a washing machine, which may be a drum washing machine, as shown in fig. 1, the washing machine includes a cabinet (not shown in the figure), an outer tub 1 disposed in the cabinet, and an inner tub (not shown in the figure) rotatably disposed in the outer tub 1. When the clothes are washed, the clothes are placed in the inner drum, along with the rotation of the inner drum, the clothes are repeatedly lifted and then fall down, and the effect of washing the clothes is achieved by matching with water and a detergent.

In order to reduce the vibration and noise of the washing machine when the inner barrel rotates, the washing machine also comprises a balancing weight 2, and the balancing weight 2 is arranged on the outer barrel 1 and used for stabilizing the gravity center of the washing machine and reducing the vibration and noise of the washing machine. In the prior art, the balancing weight is fixed on the outer barrel through the screw and the gasket, so that the stress of the outer barrel is mainly concentrated at the contact position of the gasket, the stress area is small, and the outer barrel is easy to deform and break. In addition, when the rotating speed of the inner cylinder is high, local resonance is easy to occur at the stressed position of the outer cylinder, so that large vibration of the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder is caused, and the overall noise of the washing machine is increased.

In order to solve the above problem, in the present embodiment, the outer wall of the outer cylinder 1 is provided with a mounting seat 11, and the counterweight 2 is fixed on the mounting seat 11 by a fastener. By arranging the mounting seat 11, direct connection with the outer cylinder 1 can be avoided, and stress of the outer cylinder 1 is reduced, so that deformation and breakage of the outer cylinder 1 are avoided. Alternatively, the fastening member may include a bolt 41, a washer 42 and a nut 43, and the counterweight block 2 is fixed by the cooperation of the bolt 41 and the nut 43, so that the structure is simple and the fixing effect is reliable. The gasket 42 is arranged on the bolt 41 in a penetrating mode, fastening force of the fastening piece can be improved, and fixing effect of the balancing weight 2 is improved.

Optionally, one side of the mounting seat 11 departing from the counterweight block 2 is further provided with a reinforcing plate 3, and the fastener passes through the gasket 42, the reinforcing plate 3 and the mounting seat 11 in sequence and then is connected with the counterweight block 2, so as to fix the counterweight block 2 on the mounting seat 11. When installation balancing weight 2, bolt 41 passes reinforcing plate 3, mount pad 11 and balancing weight 2 in proper order to with the cooperation of nut 43, bolt 41 will constantly compress tightly reinforcing plate 3, through setting up reinforcing plate 3, reinforcing plate 3 is big with the area of contact of mount pad 11, can increase mount pad 11's lifting surface area, avoids mount pad 11 directly to bear the effort of fastener, is favorable to avoiding mount pad 11 atress to be out of shape. The reinforcing plate 3 can also improve the strength of the mounting seat 11, further reduce the probability of stress deformation of the mounting seat 11, reduce the possibility of resonance of the balancing weight 2 and reduce noise and potential safety hazards.

To facilitate the fitting of the bolt 41 with the mounting seat 11, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the mounting seat 11 may include a mounting plate for fixing the weight block 2 and a supporting plate for connecting the supporting plate and the outer cylinder 1. Through setting up the backup pad, can set up the mounting panel with urceolus 1 interval, make things convenient for bolt 41 to pass by the back of mounting panel (the mounting panel towards one side of urceolus 1) to cooperate with balancing weight 2. Reinforcing plate 3 and balancing weight 2 distribution set up in the relative both sides of mounting panel, and in this embodiment, reinforcing plate 3 sets up in the back of mounting panel, and balancing weight 2 sets up in the front of mounting panel, and 11 intensity of mount pad can be strengthened to reinforcing plate 3, improves the reliability of connecting.

To further improve the stability of the mounting seat 11, a plurality of supporting plates may be provided to improve the supporting effect on the mounting plate.

Optionally, the supporting plate may be formed by bending the edge of the mounting plate, so that the mounting seat 11 is of an integral structure, which is beneficial to improving the connection effect of the mounting plate and the supporting plate, and simplifying the structure and parts of the mounting seat 11.

In this embodiment, the mounting panel can be the rectangle, and three side edges of mounting panel buckle and form the backup pad, can improve the structural stability of mount pad 11 on the one hand, and on the other hand can also make bolt 41 pack into the below of mounting panel in the one side that mount pad 11 did not set up the backup pad, reduces the assembly degree of difficulty.

Optionally, a notch 111 is provided on the mounting plate, and an opening of the notch 111 extends to a side edge where the support plate is not provided, so that the bolt 41 can be engaged with and pass through the mounting plate through the notch 111. When installing balancing weight 2, at first cooperate bolt 41 with gasket 42 and reinforcing plate 3, later bolt 41 slides in breach 111, makes its screw rod wear out the mounting panel, puts balancing weight 2 on the mounting panel at last, and bolt 41 passes behind balancing weight 2 and cooperates with nut 43, accomplishes balancing weight 2's fixed.

In this embodiment, the size of the notch 111 is gradually reduced from outside to inside. The outer side of the notch 111 is larger, so that the bolt 41 can conveniently enter the notch 111 to be matched with the mounting plate; the inboard slope of breach 111 reduces, is favorable to improving the location effect to bolt 41, avoids bolt 41 to rock the regulation that influences balancing weight 2.

Alternatively, the mounting 11 may be integrally formed with the outer barrel 1, for example by injection moulding. Through integrated into one piece, can improve the reliability that urceolus 1 is connected with mount pad 11 to be favorable to improving the fixed effect of balancing weight 2.

Because mount pad 11 bears the weight of balancing weight 2, for the intensity that improves mount pad 11, reinforcing plate 3 can be the sheet metal component. The sheet metal part has the characteristics of light weight, high strength, low cost, good large-scale mass production performance and the like, and is beneficial to improving the strength of the mounting seat 11 and reducing the cost of the washing machine.

In order to further improve the strength of the outer cylinder 1, the outer cylinder 1 can be further provided with a reinforcing rib 12, and the reinforcing rib 12 can extend to the mounting base 11, which is beneficial to improving the connection effect of the mounting base 11 and the outer cylinder 1.

Optionally, a supporting rib 13 may be further disposed at a position on the outer cylinder 1 inside the mounting seat 11, and the supporting rib 13 may support the reinforcing plate 3, so as to improve the positioning and fixing effects of the reinforcing plate 3, and further enhance the strength of the outer cylinder 1.

In order to further improve the fixing effect of the counterweight block 2, as shown in fig. 4-6, the bottom surface of the counterweight block 2 is further provided with a groove 21 capable of accommodating the mounting seat 11. Through setting up recess 21, can strengthen the location effect to balancing weight 2, make things convenient for it and bolt 41 cooperation. The groove 21 can also limit the balancing weight 2 to shake, thereby further improving the fixing effect of the balancing weight 2.

In this embodiment, a positioning portion 14 (shown in fig. 2 and 3) abutting against the counterweight block 2 may be further disposed beside the mounting seat 11. When installing balancing weight 2, the one end of balancing weight 2 can with location portion 14 butt to the direction that is close to the mounting panel slides, restriction balancing weight 2's position, so that balancing weight 2 can cooperate with bolt 41 smoothly.

The weight member 2 is provided with a connection hole 22 for allowing the bolt 41 to pass through, so that the weight member 2 is locked to the mounting seat 11 after the bolt 41 is engaged with the nut 43.

Optionally, counter bore 23 is further formed in counterweight block 2, and nut 43 can be accommodated in counter bore 23, so that nut 43 is prevented from protruding out of counterweight block 2, the compactness of the washing machine structure is improved, and the space occupied by installation of counterweight block 2 is reduced.

As shown in fig. 7, the reinforcing plate 3 is provided with through holes 31 for fitting the bolts 41 so that the bolts 41 pass through the reinforcing plate 3. In order to avoid that the bolt 41 cannot be accurately matched with the connecting hole 22 on the counterweight block 2 after passing through the through hole 31 due to machining errors of the reinforcing plate 3, the position of the bolt 41 in the through hole 31 is adjustable. Alternatively, the cross-sectional dimension of the through hole 31 may be larger than the cross-sectional dimension of the bolt 41, so that the bolt 41 has a certain moving space in the through hole 31 to adjust the position of the bolt 41 in the through hole 31 according to the assembling requirement. In this embodiment, the through hole 31 may be a square hole, a circular hole, an elliptical hole, or other shapes as long as the bolt 41 can have a certain movement space in the through hole 31.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, there are variations on the detailed description and the application scope according to the idea of the present invention, and the content of the description should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A washing machine comprises an outer cylinder (1) and a balancing weight (2), and is characterized in that the outer cylinder (1) is provided with a mounting seat (11); the opposite both sides of mount pad (11) are provided with reinforcing plate (3) respectively with balancing weight (2), and the fastener passes in proper order reinforcing plate (3) with behind mount pad (11) with balancing weight (2) are connected, in order to incite somebody to action balancing weight (2) are fixed in mount pad (11).

2. A washing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said mounting seat (11) comprises a mounting plate and a supporting plate, said supporting plate connecting said mounting plate and said tub (1), said counterweight (2) and said reinforcing plate (3) being located on opposite sides of said mounting plate, respectively.

3. A washing machine as claimed in claim 2 wherein at least opposite side edges of the mounting plate are bent to form the support plate.

4. A washing machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the mounting plate is provided with a notch (111) extending to the edge, and the fastening member is arranged in the notch (111) in a penetrating manner.

5. A washing machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the mounting (11) is formed integrally with the tub (1).

6. A washing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the outer tub (1) is provided with a reinforcement (12), the reinforcement (12) extending to the mounting seat (11).

7. A washing machine as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the reinforcement plate (3) is a sheet metal part.

8. Washing machine according to any of claims 1-6, characterized in that the reinforcement plate (3) is provided with a through hole (31), and the fastening member is arranged through the through hole (31) and is adjustable in position in the through hole (31).

9. A washing machine as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the bottom surface of the counterweight (2) is provided with a recess (21) capable of receiving the mounting seat (11).

10. A washing machine as in any one of claims 1-6, characterized in that the side of the mounting seat (11) is provided with a positioning portion (14) abutting against the counterweight (2).