KR20120101822A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and its configuration includes: a main body provided with a storage compartment; And a separate member disposed in the storage compartment and having a refrigerant pipe through which the refrigerant passes. According to the above configuration, a separate member is provided at a portion where the doors of the storage compartment abut against each other, and in a separate member. Is equipped with a refrigerant pipe through which the refrigerant flows, thereby preventing cold air from leaking out between the gaps of the door to completely block the leakage of cold air, which can be realized as a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment, and to prevent dew condensation without using a heater. The power consumption can be minimized.

Description

Refrigerator {Refrigerator}

The present invention relates to a refrigerator for completely implementing a cold compartment and a freezer compartment by completely blocking outflow of cold air.

A conventional stand-type refrigerator is shown in FIG. Referring to FIG. 4, in the stand type refrigerator, an upper compartment storage compartment 2 and a lower compartment storage compartment 3 are respectively provided in the main body 1.

The upper compartment storage compartment 2 is comprised by one, and the double door type door 4 is provided by rotation, and the lower compartment storage compartment 3 is comprised by two, and the drawer-type door 5 is provided, respectively.

Among these, in order to prevent cold air from leaking out between the gaps of the double-door door 4 of the upper compartment storage chamber 2, as shown in FIG. 5, the gasket 6 is provided in the back of the door 4 along the edge.

Thus, the gasket 6 is provided, and as shown in FIG. 6, when the double door 4 is closed, the gasket 6 provided in the double door 4 is compressed while being sealed to each other.

However, the conventional refrigerator has the following problems.

Since the gaskets 6 provided on the double door 4 are easily pressed against each other, and thus are not completely prevented from leaking cold air, the gasket 6 may not be implemented as a freezer compartment and may be used only as a refrigerator compartment.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, by preventing the leakage of cold air between the gap of the door can be completely blocked by the leakage of cold air and can be implemented in the refrigerating compartment and the freezer, preventing dew condensation without using a heater. The purpose is to provide a refrigerator that can minimize the power consumption.

The present invention provides a storage compartment is provided; And a separate member disposed in the storage compartment and having a refrigerant pipe through which the refrigerant passes.

In the above, the separate member, the housing having an inner space and the heat insulating material filled in the inner space, wherein the refrigerant pipe is disposed in the central portion of the inner space, the heat insulating material is preferably provided surrounding the refrigerant pipe. Do.

In the above, the cross section of the housing is preferably rectangular.

In the above, the separate member is preferably disposed in front of the storage compartment.

In the above, the rear of the separate member is provided with a prefabricated partition for partitioning the storage compartment, the prefabricated partition is preferably detachable to the storage compartment.

In the above, it is preferable that the separate member is disposed longitudinally in the storage chamber.

In the above, the main body is preferably a stand type.

In the above, the storage chamber is preferably provided with a plurality of doors for opening and closing the front of the storage chamber.

In the above, it is preferable that the door is a pivoting door that rotates with respect to the main body.

According to the refrigerator of the present invention, the following effects are obtained.

A separate member is provided at the part where both doors of the storage chamber abut each other, and a refrigerant pipe through which the refrigerant passes is provided in the separate member, thereby preventing cold air from leaking out between the gaps of the door to completely block the leakage of cold air, It can be implemented as a freezer compartment and can prevent dew condensation without using a heater, thereby minimizing power consumption.

In addition, since the middle partition effect of dividing the storage compartment by the separate member can be achieved in the integrated storage compartment, the space of the storage compartment can be obtained through the integration of the storage compartment, thereby improving the design.

Furthermore, since a prefabricated partition is provided and a detachable partition is detached and used as needed, the integrated storage compartment can be divided into spaces by a prefabricated partition thinner than a conventional partition and can be utilized for various purposes.

1 is a perspective view illustrating a state in which a door is opened in a storage compartment of a refrigerator according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which a door is closed in a storage compartment of the refrigerator of FIG. 1.
Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the separate member of FIG.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a conventional stand-type refrigerator.
5 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which a door of the refrigerator of FIG. 4 is closed.
6 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which a door of the refrigerator of FIG. 4 is opened.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately The present invention should be construed in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, It is to be understood that equivalents and modifications are possible.

As shown in Fig. 1, the refrigerator of the present embodiment is preferably a refrigerator of a stand type.

The refrigerator of the stand type is provided with a plurality of storage compartments, and the uppermost compartment 110 is usually provided as one.

The storage compartment 110 is provided with a plurality of doors 500 for opening and closing the front of the storage compartment 110. In this embodiment, the double-door door 500 is provided to rotate with respect to the main body 100.

The rear surface of the door 500 is provided with a gasket 510 for sealing in a portion in contact with the main body 100, in the present embodiment, the gasket 510 is not provided in a portion in which the two doors 500 abut each other.

A separate member 200 is provided in the storage chamber 110, and the separate member 200 is preferably disposed in front of the storage chamber 110. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the separate member 200 is preferably disposed at the rear of the portion where the double door 500 is in contact with each other when the double door 500 is closed.

In addition, the separate member 200 according to the present exemplary embodiment is arranged vertically long in the center of the storage compartment 110 as shown in FIG.

As described above, the two-door door 500 is the same size, and the two-door door 500 is in contact with each other at the center of the storage compartment 110, so that a separate member 200 is disposed at the center of the storage compartment 110. However, when the sizes of the two-door door 500 are different from each other, the arrangement of the separate member 200 should be disposed at a portion where the two-door door 500 abuts each other, not the center portion of the storage compartment 110, so that the arrangement of the separate member 200 is seen. Of course, it may be different from the embodiment.

In addition, in the present exemplary embodiment, since the rotatable door 500 is provided, the separate member 200 is described as being vertically disposed with respect to the storage compartment 110, but a door (not shown) may be provided in a drawer type. In this case, the separate member 200 may be preferably disposed to be horizontally long with respect to the storage chamber 110.

As shown in FIG. 3, the separate member 200 includes a housing 210 having an internal space and a heat insulating material 230 filled in the internal space. The housing 210 preferably has a rectangular cross section, and the heat insulating material 230 may be formed of a material such as expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam.

Both ends of the housing 210 configured as described above are fixed to the main body 100, which is the outer side of the storage compartment 110.

The inner space of the separate member 200 is provided with a refrigerant pipe 300 through which the refrigerant passes, the refrigerant pipe 300 is disposed in the center of the internal space, the heat insulating material 230 surrounds the refrigerant pipe 300 It is preferable to provide.

On the other hand, the rear of the separate member 200, as shown in Figure 1, a prefabricated partition 400 for partitioning the storage compartment 110 may be provided. The prefabricated partition 400 may be attached to or detached from the storage compartment 110 according to a user's needs.

In the prefabricated partition 400, a plurality of protrusions 410 are horizontally provided at intervals from each other, such that a shelf (not shown) may be mounted on the protrusions 410.

As described above, a separate member 200 is provided at a portion where the two-door door 500 of the storage chamber 110 abuts each other, and a refrigerant pipe 300 through which a refrigerant passes is provided in the separate member 200, so that cold air By preventing leakage between the gaps of the door 500, the cold air leak can be completely blocked and implemented as a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber, and dew condensation can be prevented without using a heater, thereby minimizing power consumption.

In addition, since the storage compartment 110 may have an intermediate partition effect in which the storage compartment 110 is divided by the separate member 200, the space of the storage compartment 110 may be widened through the integration of the storage compartment 110. Can improve the design.

Furthermore, since the prefabricated partition 400 is provided and the detachable partition 400 is detached and used as needed, the integrated storage compartment 110 is divided by the prefabricated partition 400 that is thinner than a conventional partition. It can be used for many purposes.

The refrigerator according to the present embodiment may be applied to a kimchi refrigerator as well as a general refrigerator.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It is to be understood that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

100: main body 110: storage compartment
200: separate member 210: housing
230: heat insulating material 300: refrigerant pipe
400: prefabricated partition 500: door
510: Gasket

Claims (9)

A main body provided with a storage compartment; And
And a separate member disposed in the storage compartment and having a refrigerant pipe through which a refrigerant passes. The method of claim 1,
The separate member,
A housing having an inner space,
Insulating material filled in the inner space,
The refrigerant pipe is disposed in the center of the inner space, the heat insulating material is a refrigerator characterized in that it is provided surrounding the refrigerant pipe. The method of claim 2,
Refrigerator, characterized in that the cross section of the housing has a rectangular shape. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The separate member is a refrigerator, characterized in that disposed in front of the storage compartment. The method of claim 3,
The rear of the separate member is provided with a prefabricated partition for partitioning the storage compartment, wherein the prefabricated partition is removable in the storage compartment. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The separate member is a refrigerator, characterized in that it is arranged in the vertically long in the storage compartment. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The main body is a refrigerator, characterized in that the stand type. The method of claim 7, wherein
The storage compartment is provided with a plurality of doors for opening and closing the front of the storage compartment. The method of claim 8,
The door is a refrigerator, characterized in that the pivoting door rotates with respect to the main body.

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