CN100337078C - Refrigerator - Google Patents

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CN100337078C
CN100337078C CNB2005100998752A CN200510099875A CN100337078C CN 100337078 C CN100337078 C CN 100337078C CN B2005100998752 A CNB2005100998752 A CN B2005100998752A CN 200510099875 A CN200510099875 A CN 200510099875A CN 100337078 C CN100337078 C CN 100337078C
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朴容必
朴相珉
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25CPRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/02Apparatus for disintegrating, removing or harvesting ice
    • F25C5/04Apparatus for disintegrating, removing or harvesting ice without the use of saws
    • F25C5/046Ice-crusher machines
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25CPRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C1/00Producing ice
    • F25C1/22Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds
    • F25C1/24Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds for refrigerators, e.g. freezing trays
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25CPRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/18Storing ice
    • F25C5/182Ice bins therefor
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25CPRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C2400/00Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice
    • F25C2400/04Ice guide, e.g. for guiding ice blocks to storage tank
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25CPRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C2400/00Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice
    • F25C2400/08Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice for different type of ice

Abstract

A refrigerator including a shaved ice dispensing unit positioned within a freezing compartment door and plural ice dispensing units positioned in an ice cube container to selectively dispense ice cubes, crushed ice and shaved ice. First and second ice dispensing units are positioned in parallel in a freezing compartment. The first ice dispensing unit supplies ice cubes to the shaved ice dispensing unit, and the second ice dispensing unit selectively dispenses the ice cubes and crushed ice through an ice cube/crushed ice discharge port positioned in the freezing compartment door. The shaved ice dispensing unit includes a case having a shaved ice outlet formed therethrough, at least one blade positioned to the shaved ice outlet, a rotational barrel rotatably positioned within the case to be rotated by a driving motor and a reduction gear assembly. The rotational barrel includes a spiral wing provided on an inner peripheral surface of the rotational barrel to force the ice cubes to be conveyed to the blade and shaved into the shaved ice.

Description

Refrigerator
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator, more particularly, relate to a kind of comprising and be assemblied in the water ice allocation units that are used for distributing water ice in the refrigerating chamber door and be assemblied in the refrigerator that the ice cube container is used to distribute the ice allocation units of ice cube and trash ice.
Background technology
Usually, refrigerator comprises refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber, and it is spaced apart from each other, to store various foods for a long time with low temperature in proper state.Refrigerating chamber comprises various chilled foods, such as vegetables and fruit, and the storage that it need be on cold point, and refrigerating chamber comprises various frozen foods, such as pork, beef and fish, the storage that it need be under cold point.
Refrigerating chamber comprises automatic ice maker, produces preliminary dimension or bigger ice cube in order to being used in the cold air that circulates in the refrigerating chamber.Automatic ice maker comprises ice pan, becomes ice cube with automatic chilled water, and is arranged at the ice cube container under the ice pan, to be contained in the ice cube that produces in the ice pan.Automatic ice maker is arranged in water automatically supplied with and enters ice pan and form after the ice cube, ice cube is sent to the ice cube container automatically, and be contained in the ice cube container, and it is arranged under the situation of shortage of the ice cube in the ice cube container, enter the automated procedure that ice pan repeats generation ice cube above-mentioned by supplying with water.
Yet, do not make the ice cube that produces by automatic ice maker be used to distribute the water ice allocation units of water ice after becoming water ice because traditional refrigerator does not have, the user of conventional refrigerator is in the process of manufacturing water ice, for example, when utilizing water ice to make ice cream, it is very inconvenient.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, one aspect of the present invention provides a kind of refrigerator, and it is included in the water ice allocation units that assemble in the refrigerating chamber, distributing water ice, and is assemblied in the ice allocation units in the ice cube container, to distribute ice cube and trash ice.
Part is illustrated others of the present invention and/or advantage in the following description, and will be partly apparent from explanation, or by putting into practice the present invention's understanding.
Aforementioned and others of the present invention are achieved by a kind of refrigerator is provided, and described refrigerator comprises refrigerating chamber; The refrigerating chamber door that is used for the opening and closing refrigerator compartment; Be arranged in the ice machine that refrigerating chamber is used to produce ice cube; Be used to hold the ice cube container of the ice cube that produces by ice machine; Be arranged in the first and second ice allocation units of ice cube container; Be positioned at the water ice allocation units of the first ice allocation units front, it is used for making water ice from the ice cube that the first ice allocation units are supplied with; And control module, it is used for controlling the first and second ice allocation units with operation independently when producing water ice, and controls the first ice allocation units and the work each other of water ice allocation units with getting in touch.
The water ice allocation units are positioned in the refrigerating chamber door.
Described ice cube container comprises the dividing plate that vertically is arranged at wherein, to separate the first and second ice allocation units in the ice cube container.
The described second ice allocation units comprise outlet regulating device and a plurality of cutter, to allow optionally to distribute ice cube and trash ice by the second ice allocation units.
Described water ice allocation units comprise: box, and it has the water ice outlet that forms by described box; Be positioned at least one blade in water ice exit; Rotatably be arranged in the rotor of box, with towards blade sender ice cube; And the drive motor that is used to rotate rotor.
Described water ice allocation units further comprise the reduction gearing parts with the drive motor coupling, and around the outer peripheral surface formation of rotor and the ring gear that meshes with the reduction gearing parts, to allow rotor with constant speed rotation.
Described rotor is included in the screw wing that is equipped with on the inner peripheral surface of rotor, is transferred into blade to force ice cube, and is dug into water ice.
Described refrigerating chamber door comprises the groove part that is formed at wherein, holding the water ice allocation units, and the water ice allocation units further comprise with the shell of groove part coupling with fixed bin, drive motor and be positioned at wherein reduction gearing parts.
Described shell comprises that first hollow of the center that is formed on shell in the axial direction is outstanding, to penetrate the center of box, and rotor comprises the center that is formed on rotor and is installed to the second outstanding hollow of first hollow to be given prominence to, and stably rotates to allow rotor.
Described groove part comprises vertical outstanding by what be formed centrally in the groove part, thus make vertical outstanding on assembling first hollow outstanding, with fixed housing firmly in groove part.
Described refrigerating chamber door comprises the water ice discharging opening that is connected with the water ice allocation units, and is positioned at the ice cube/trash ice discharging opening under the second ice allocation units.
According to a further aspect in the invention, it provides a kind of refrigerator, and it comprises:
Refrigerating chamber;
The refrigerating chamber door that is used for the opening and closing refrigerator compartment;
Be arranged in the ice machine that refrigerating chamber is used to produce ice cube;
Be used to hold the ice cube container of the ice cube that produces by ice machine;
First and second of the positioned parallel ice allocation units in the ice cube container;
Be positioned at the water ice allocation units of the first ice allocation units front, it is used for making water ice from the ice cube that the first ice allocation units are supplied with;
Form water ice discharging opening, with the water ice that produces by the discharging of water ice allocation units by the refrigerating chamber door under the water ice allocation units; And
Form ice cube/trash ice discharging opening, with ice cube or the trash ice that produces by the second ice allocation units discharging by the refrigerating chamber door under the second ice allocation units.
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Explanation below the embodiment that obtains in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, these and/or others of the present invention and advantage will be apparent, and be more readily understood, wherein:
Fig. 1 illustrates the perspective view of the outward appearance of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is that it has illustrated the illustrative inner structure of refrigerator along the cross-sectional view of the line II-II acquisition of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 illustrates the perspective view of ice cube container shown in figure 2;
Fig. 4 illustrates the decomposition diagram of the structure of water ice allocation units shown in figure 2; And
Fig. 5 is the cross-sectional view that explanation is positioned at the water ice allocation units of the Fig. 4 in the refrigerating chamber door.
The specific embodiment
Example referring now to explanation in the accompanying drawings describes embodiments of the invention in detail, and wherein similar reference number runs through whole accompanying drawings represents like.The following describes embodiment, with by being explained with reference to the drawings the present invention.
Fig. 1 illustrates the perspective view of the outward appearance of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 2 is that it has illustrated the illustrative inner structure of refrigerator along the cross-sectional view of the line II-II acquisition of Fig. 1.
As illustrated in fig. 1 and 2, refrigerator is included in the main body 1 that the outward appearance of refrigerator was opened and defined in its front side.Main body 1 comprises the inner space that is divided into refrigerating chamber 4 and refrigerating chamber (not shown), by with the refrigerating chamber door 2 of the hinged coupling in front side of main body 1 and refrigerating-chamber door 3 that it is open and close respectively.
Refrigerator is included in the evaporimeter 5 that is used to produce cold air on the rear wall of main body 1, and the compressor reducer 6 that is used for compression refrigerant at the place, back of the bottom of main body 1, and the automatic ice maker 10 that is used for producing and supplying with automatically the ice cube of preliminary dimension on the top of refrigerating chamber 4.
Automatic ice maker 10 comprises the ice pan 11 that is used for after receiving water water-cooled being frozen into ice cube, be arranged on the ice cube container 20 that is used for holding the ice cube that is formed at ice pan 11 under the ice pan 11, and be connected with outside cistern and above ice pan 11, extend water is supplied with the feed pipe 12 that enters ice pan 11.
Refrigerating chamber door 2 comprises water ice allocation units 30, and it is used for and will distributing water ice after the ice cube that ice cube container 20 transmits is made water ice, and ice cube container 20 is provided with and is used to distribute ice cube to first of water ice allocation units 30 to ice allocation units 50.
Ice cube container 20 comprises the second ice allocation units 60 that the parallel first ice allocation units 50 are provided with, so that ice cube and trash ice are optionally distributed to the user.Refrigerating chamber door 2 comprises and is used to hold water ice allocation units 30 in groove part 17, water ice discharging opening 13 and ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 (see figure 3)s wherein.
Refrigerating chamber door 2 further comprises the water ice discharging rod 15 under water ice discharging opening 13 and ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 and ice cube/trash ice discharging rod 16 respectively.Control module 8 is provided in water ice discharging rod 15 and ice cube/trash ice discharging rod 16 tops on the outer surface of refrigerating chamber door 2.Control module 8 comprises water ice selector button, ice cube selector button and trash ice selector button.
Control module 8 control automatic ice makers 10, with automatic manufacturing ice cube, and when pushing water ice selector button, ice cube selector button and trash ice selector button one, one of control module 8 control water ice allocation units 30 and the first and second ice allocation units 50 and 60 is selectively operated, distributes water ice, ice cube or trash ice with the selection according to the user.
Therefore, after passing through the scheduled time,, circulate the Water freezes into ice in the ice pan 11 by the cold air in refrigerating chamber 4 because ice pan 11 is full of water by feed pipe 12.Then, transmit ice pan automatically, and fill up ice cube container 20 to ice cube container 20.By control module 8 these processes of control.
In this case, when the water ice selector button of pushing control module 8 and water ice discharging rod 15, control module 8 controls first ice allocation units 50 and the water ice allocation units 30 are to make water ice.Water ice is dispensed to the outside of refrigerating chamber door 2 by water ice discharging opening 13, and fills up cup 7.
In an identical manner, when the ice cube selector button of pushing control module 8 and ice cube/trash ice discharging rod 16, the control module 8 control second ice allocation units 60 are to make by ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 and to distribute the outside of ice cube to refrigerating chamber door 2.Naturally, when the trash ice selector button of pushing control module 8 and ice cube/trash ice discharging rod 16, the control module 8 controls second ice allocation units 60 are to pass through ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 manufacturings and to distribute the outside of trash ice to refrigerating chamber door 2.
Structure and operation with reference to Fig. 3 to 5 explanation water ice allocation units 30, the first ice allocation units 50 and the second ice allocation units 60.
Fig. 3 has illustrated ice cube container shown in figure 2 and the first and second ice allocation units that are arranged in the ice cube container.Fig. 4 has illustrated the structure of water ice allocation units shown in figure 2, and Fig. 5 has illustrated the water ice allocation units of the Fig. 4 that is arranged in refrigerating chamber door.
With reference to Fig. 3, the first and second ice allocation units 50 and 60 positioned parallel are in ice cube container 20.Vertically assemble the first and second ice allocation units 50 and 60 abreast in the ice cube container 20 between second end 22 of the ice cube container 20 that first end 21 and the contiguous refrigerating chamber door 2 of the ice cube container 20 that the rear wall of contiguous refrigerating chamber 4 is located are located.
For the ice cube that allows to be contained in the ice cube container 20 is sent to the first and second ice allocation units 50 and 60 respectively smoothly, the dividing plate 23 of predetermined altitude is set vertically between the first and second ice allocation units 50 and 60.
The first ice allocation units 50 comprise the drive motor 51 on first end 21 that is assemblied in ice cube container 20, and have and an end of drive motor 51 couplings and the spirally-guided 52 that extends the other end that is defined for the space that is guided on ice cube wherein simultaneously towards second end 22 of ice cube container 20.
The first ice allocation units 50 further comprise the outside of second end 22 that is arranged on ice cube container 20 and have the box 56 that forms by its ice cube outlet 57, the rotating shaft 53 that is connected with the other end of spirally-guided 52, extends towards box 56 simultaneously, with at least one screw wing 55 (spiral wing) of rotating shaft 53 couplings, and center on the guide cylinder 54 of the periphery of screw wing 55 with the conveying of guiding ice cube.
Therefore, when the spirally-guided 52 that is coupled when operation rotation by drive motor 51 and rotating shaft 53, rotating shaft 53 and screw wing 55, the ice cube of forcing to be contained in the ice cube container 20 by spirally-guided 52 enters guide cylinder 54, it is transmitted by guide cylinder 54 with screw wing 55, and discharge by the ice cube outlet 57 of box 56.Then, will export 56 ice cubes of discharging from ice cube and be sent to the water ice allocation units 30 (shown in Figure 2) that are arranged in refrigerating chamber door 2.
The second ice allocation units 60 have the first ice allocation units, the 50 similar structures with as above surface construction.Specifically, the second ice allocation units 60 comprise the drive motor 61 of drive motor 51 assemblings of the first ice allocation units 50 on first end 21 of parallel ice cube container 20, and have and an end of drive motor 61 couplings and the spirally-guided 62 that extends the other end that is defined for the space that is guided on ice cube wherein simultaneously towards second end 22 of ice cube container 20.
The second ice allocation units 60 further comprise the outside of second end 22 that is arranged on ice cube container 20 and have the box 66 of formation by its ice cube/trash ice outlet 67, the rotating shaft 63 that is connected with the other end of spirally-guided 62, extends towards box 66 simultaneously, with at least one screw wing 65 of rotating shaft 63 couplings, and center on the guide cylinder 64 of the periphery of screw wing 65 with the conveying of guiding ice cube.
The second ice allocation units 60 further are included in corresponding to the position of ice cube/trash ice outlet 67 and a pair of rotary cutter 68 of rotating shaft 63 couplings, and be fixed in ice cube/trash ice outlet 67 and sentence the fixed cutting tool vertical 69, thereby will be crushed to trash ice by the ice cube that screw wing 65 is transferred into ice cube/trash ice outlet 67 with rotary cutter.
The second ice allocation units 60 further comprise outlet regulating device 70, and it can regulate the size of ice cube/trash ice outlet 67, thereby allows non-trash ice, and just ice cube is with icing the trash ice of allocation units 60 by discharging from second.
Therefore, by utilize through control module 8 size that outlet regulating device 70 regulates ice cubes/trash ices outlet 67 with avoid ice cube through export 59 break away from after, drive motor 61 is driven, with rotating screw guiding 62, rotating shaft 63 and with the screw wing 65 of rotating shaft 63 couplings.Then, the ice cube that promotes to be contained in the ice cube container 20 enters guide cylinder 64, and wherein ice cube is transferred into the ice cube/trash ice outlet 67 of box 66 by screw wing 65.As a result, by the operation of cutter 68 and fixed cutting tool 69, ice cube is cut into the trash ice corresponding to the adjusting size of ice cube/trash ice outlet 67.Distribute the outside of trash ice by the ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 that is formed in the refrigerating chamber door 2 to refrigerating chamber door 2.
On the contrary, when drive motor 61 is driven, simultaneously by utilize outlet regulating device 60 to allow ice cube by outlet 67 o'clock the size adjustment of ice cube/trash ice outlet 67 through control module 8, by screw wing 65 ice cube is sent to ice cube/trash ice outlet 67, and by outlet 67, and not by cutter 68 and fixed cutting tool 69 crushing.Then, distribute the outside of ice cube by ice cube/trash ice discharging opening 14 to refrigerating chamber door 2.
As shown in Figure 4, water ice allocation units 30 comprise shell 31 according to an embodiment of the invention, described shell is housed inside in the refrigerating chamber door 2, be fixed to the groove part 17 that is connected with water ice discharging opening 13 simultaneously, and described shell comprises first installation region 45 and second installation region 46 that is defined in wherein; Be arranged at drive motor 32 corresponding to the outside of the shell 31 of second installation region 46; Be arranged in the reduction gearing parts 33 of second installation region 46 of drive motor 32 tops; Securely be assembled to the box 34 in first installation region 45 of shell 31; And rotatably be arranged at rotor 35 in the box 34.
Reduction gearing parts 33 comprise a plurality of reduction gearing, and it is engaged with each other, and with the axle coupling of drive motor 32, to reduce the rotary speed of motor 32 suitably.
Rotor 35 is located open at an upper portion thereof and at a lower portion thereof, and comprise ring gear (torus gear) 36 and at least one screw wing 37, wherein said ring gear forms around the peripheral surface on the top of rotor 35, and with reduction gearing parts 33 engagement, and described at least one screw wing 37 extends spirally on the inner peripheral surface of rotor 35.
Box 34 comprises the rotor 35 that rotatably is matched with wherein, and it is to locate shape open, that sealed by base plate 44 simultaneously at an upper portion thereof.Base plate 44 by box 34 forms water ice outlet 42.
In addition, blade 41 is fixed to the base plate 44 of box 34, and outstanding on water ice outlet 42.Water ice outlet 42 and blade 41 radially are arranged on the base plate 44, and combine with the generation water ice with screw wing 37 on the inner peripheral surface that is formed at rotor 35.
Shell 31 has the opening 43 of the preliminary dimension that forms the bottom by shell 31 in the position towards water ice outlet 42, thereby allows the water ice that forms to be assigned to the water ice discharging opening 13 that is formed in the refrigerating chamber door 2 by water ice outlet 42 by shell 31.
Although as an example blade 41 radially loadings are assigned to water ice outlet 42, a plurality of blades 41 can be assembled to equably water ice outlet 42, thereby can produce a large amount of water ices fast.
In addition, upwards be equipped with first hollow outstanding 38 in the center of first installing space 45 of shell 31, penetrating the centre bore 39 that is formed at shell 34 places, and be equipped with second hollow in the center of rotor 35 outstanding 40, with the outer peripheral surface of first hollow outstanding 38 that is coupled to shell 31.
Second hollow outstanding 40 is outstanding 38 less times greater than first hollow, so that rotor 35 can rotate freely in the states that second hollow outstanding 40 are mounted on first hollow outstanding 38.
Therefore, utilization penetrates first hollow outstanding 38 of shell 31 of the centre bore 39 of box 34, the outer peripheral surface of box 34 closely contacts with the inner peripheral surface of shell 31, and give prominence to 38 by second hollow outstanding 40 to first hollow of shell 31 of coupling rotor 35 then, rotor 35 is set in box 34, so that box 34 firmly is fixed to shell 31, allow this rotor 35 of rotation in box 34 simultaneously.
At this, box 34 firmly can be fixed to shell 31 by other fastening means, connect such as screw threads for fastening.Alternately, be to install in the box in the situation of the structure with drive motor 32 and reduction gearing parts 33, box 34 can serve as shell 31, thereby water ice allocation units 30 of the present invention can be provided, and does not need shell 31.
With reference to Fig. 5, the shape of groove part 17 is corresponding to the outward appearance of the shell 31 with the drive motor 32 that is assemblied in wherein, thereby makes water ice allocation units 30 be engaged to groove part 17 in refrigerating chamber door 2 inside.
Groove part 17 comprises the vertical outstanding 18 of the center that is formed on groove part 17, is installed on vertical outstanding 18 with first hollow space 38 that allows shell 31, and is being fixed to vertical outstanding 18 then.Therefore, give prominence on 18 when first hollow space 38 being installed to vertically, and the inner couplings of the outer peripheral surface of shell 31 and groove part 17, water ice allocation units 30 are fixed to the groove part 17 of refrigerating chamber door 2.
At this, by screw or other fastener in the state that is inserted into groove part 17, shell 31 can with the inner surface coupling of refrigerating chamber door 2.
So, the groove part 17 with the water ice allocation units 30 that are assemblied in wherein is connected with water ice discharging opening 13, will be directed to the outside of refrigerating chamber door 2 by the water ice that water ice allocation units 30 produce by groove part 17.Lid 19 hinge mounted are to the opening 43 of shell 31, and are operated by water ice discharging rod 15, with sealing opening 43.
Therefore, operation based on the water ice discharging rod 15 that on the outer surface of refrigerating chamber door 2, is equipped with, the lid 19 that is assembled to the opening 43 of shell 31 is rotated by pivot, to allow water ice allocation units 30 to be connected with water ice discharging opening 13, and, the ice cube transmission is entered the rotor 35 that is positioned the water ice allocation units 30 in refrigerating chamber door 2 inside by the first ice allocation units 50 that the second ice allocation units 60 in the ice cube container 20 of refrigerating chamber 4 are positioned.
In this state, based on the rotation of the drive motor 32 of water ice allocation units 30, the revolving force that reduction gearing parts 33 transmit drive motors 32 is to rotor 35, and rotates rotor 35 with proper speed.
Based on the rotation of rotor 35, the screw wing 37 that is arranged in rotor 35 is with respect to the bottom compression ice cube of box, and the blade 41 that therefore exports 42 places by the water ice on the base plate 44 that is arranged on box 34 becomes water ice with the square ice planer.Then, water ice outlet 42 and the opening 43 by shell 31 distributes water ice.
The water ice that produces by water ice allocation units as described above 30, and is assigned with and enters the cup 7 that is positioned at water ice discharging rod 15 side places continuously by the outside of discharging to refrigerating chamber door 2 by water ice discharging opening 13, and water ice distributes thereby allow easily.
As conspicuous from top specification, refrigerator according to the present invention has and is arranged in a plurality of ice allocation units that are equipped with to the ice cube container of refrigerating chamber, and the water ice allocation units that are arranged in refrigerating chamber door, thereby allow the distribution easily of water ice and trash ice, thereby make the user of refrigerator obtain the ice of different shape to the outside of refrigerating chamber door.
Although illustrated and illustrated some embodiments of the present invention, those having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that and to carry out various modifications, interpolation and alternative at these embodiment, as long as it does not break away from principle of the present invention and spirit, scope of the present invention is limited by claim and its equivalent.

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1. refrigerator, it comprises:
Refrigerating chamber;
The refrigerating chamber door that is used for the opening and closing refrigerator compartment;
Be arranged in the ice machine that refrigerating chamber is used to produce ice cube;
Be used to hold the ice cube container of the ice cube that produces by ice machine;
Be arranged in the first and second ice allocation units of ice cube container;
Be positioned at the water ice allocation units of the first ice allocation units front, it is used for making water ice from the ice cube that the first ice allocation units are supplied with; And
Control module, it is used to control the first and second ice allocation units with operation independently, and is used to control the first ice allocation units and the work each other of water ice allocation units when producing water ice with getting in touch.
2. according to the refrigerator of claim 1, it is characterized in that:
The water ice allocation units are positioned in the refrigerating chamber door.
3. according to the refrigerator of claim 1, it is characterized in that:
The ice cube container comprises the dividing plate that vertically is arranged at wherein, to separate the first and second ice allocation units in the ice cube container.
4. according to the refrigerator of claim 1, it is characterized in that:
The second ice allocation units comprise outlet regulating device and a plurality of cutter, to allow optionally to distribute ice cube and trash ice by the second ice allocation units.
5. according to the refrigerator of claim 1, it is characterized in that:
The water ice allocation units comprise: box, and it has the water ice outlet that forms by described box; Be positioned at least one blade in water ice exit; Rotatably be arranged in the rotor of box, with towards blade sender ice cube; And the drive motor that is used to rotate rotor.
6. according to the refrigerator of claim 5, it is characterized in that:
The water ice allocation units further comprise the reduction gearing parts with the drive motor coupling, and ring gear, and its outer peripheral surface around rotor forms and meshes with the reduction gearing parts, to allow rotor with constant speed rotation.
7. according to the refrigerator of claim 5, it is characterized in that:
Rotor is included in the screw wing that is equipped with on the inner peripheral surface of rotor, is transferred into blade to force ice cube, and is dug into water ice.
8. according to the refrigerator of claim 5, it is characterized in that:
Refrigerating chamber door comprises the groove part that is formed at wherein, holding the water ice allocation units, and the water ice allocation units further comprise with the shell of groove part coupling with fixed bin, drive motor and be positioned at wherein reduction gearing parts.
9. refrigerator according to Claim 8 is characterized in that:
Shell comprises that first hollow of the center that is formed on shell in the axial direction is outstanding, to penetrate the center of described box, and rotor comprises the center that is formed on rotor and is installed to the second outstanding hollow of first hollow to be given prominence to, and stably rotates to allow rotor.
10. according to the refrigerator of claim 9, it is characterized in that:
Groove part comprises the vertical outstanding of the center that forms by groove part, thus make vertical outstanding on assembling first hollow outstanding, with fixed housing firmly in groove part.
11. the refrigerator according to claim 3 is characterized in that:
Refrigerating chamber door comprises the water ice discharging opening that is connected with the water ice allocation units, and is positioned at the ice cube/trash ice discharging opening under the second ice allocation units.
12. a refrigerator, it comprises:
Refrigerating chamber;
The refrigerating chamber door that is used for the opening and closing refrigerator compartment;
Be arranged in the ice machine that refrigerating chamber is used to produce ice cube;
Be used to hold the ice cube container of the ice cube that produces by ice machine;
First and second of the positioned parallel ice allocation units in the ice cube container;
Be positioned at the water ice allocation units of the first ice allocation units front, it is used for making water ice from the ice cube that the first ice allocation units are supplied with;
Form water ice discharging opening, with the water ice that produces by the discharging of water ice allocation units by the refrigerating chamber door under the water ice allocation units; And
Form ice cube/trash ice discharging opening, with ice cube or the trash ice that produces by the second ice allocation units discharging by the refrigerating chamber door under the second ice allocation units.
13. the refrigerator according to claim 12 is characterized in that:
The ice cube container comprises the dividing plate between the first ice allocation units and the second ice allocation units, respectively ice cube is supplied with smoothly with permission and is entered the first ice allocation units and the second ice allocation units.
14. the refrigerator according to claim 12 is characterized in that:
The water ice allocation units comprise: box, and it has the water ice outlet that forms by described box; Be assemblied at least one blade in water ice exit; Rotatably be assemblied in the rotor in the box, with towards blade sender ice cube; And the drive motor that is used to rotate rotor.
15. the refrigerator according to claim 14 is characterized in that:
The water ice allocation units further comprise the reduction gearing parts with the drive motor coupling, and around the outer peripheral surface formation of rotor and the ring gear that meshes with the reduction gearing parts, to allow rotor with constant speed rotation.
16. the refrigerator according to claim 12 is characterized in that:
The second ice allocation units comprise outlet regulating device and a plurality of topping machanism, to allow optionally to distribute ice cube and trash ice by the second ice distributor.
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