CN100436985C

CN100436985C - Storage apparatus for food in refrigerator and refrigerator comprising the same

Info

Publication number: CN100436985C
Application number: CNB2006100743137A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 裴钟友; 南正晚
Original assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2005-11-09
Filing date: 2006-04-06
Publication date: 2008-11-26
Anticipated expiration: 2026-04-06
Also published as: KR20070049853A; KR101161120B1; CN1963353A

Abstract

A refrigerator includes a body for limiting the storeroom therein, a door opening or closing the storeroom, and a food storage apparatus locating in the storeroom. The food storage apparatus includes: a tray for processing linear moving along the body and a limited storage space for housing food, a front side opening and a sliding groove included therein; and a front side opening for opening or closing the tray having a tray lid respectively rotary joint with the cardinal axis of the groove. When the tray enters the body, one end of the tray lid is hitched by the block projecting from the reality surface, and the other end of the tray lid rotates around the cardinal axis to open the front side opening of the tray.

Description

Be used for the food preservation device of refrigerator and comprise the refrigerator of this device

The cross reference of related application

The application requires the right that had for 2005-0107094 number to the Korean Patent of Korea S Department of Intellectual Property application on November 9th, 2005, here in conjunction with its disclosure as a reference.

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator, relate in particular to a kind of food preservation device that is used for refrigerator, this food preservation device comprises a soft freezing chamber, is used for not freezing and for example stores fish and similar food and the refrigerator that comprises this food preservation device with fresh state.

Background technology

Usually, refrigerator comprises body, refrigerating chamber and the refrigerating chamber that defines an outward appearance, and refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber separate in body.Refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber are opened or closed by the door of its front side.

Refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber comprise the shelf that holds food respectively.In the refrigerator of producing recently, refrigerating chamber has independent storage space, thereby its temperature range that is used to keep specific provides best temperature for the different foods that are stored at wherein.These storage spaces comprise vegetable storage chamber and soft freezing chamber.

Vegetable storage chamber is limited to collection case inside, and this vegetable storage chamber is positioned at the bottom of refrigerating chamber, is the form of drawer, is used for by keeping about 5-10 ℃ temperature range to store vegetables or fruit with fresh state for a long time.Soft freezing chamber is limited in the dish, and the top that it is positioned at refrigerating chamber is used for by not keeping about 1 ℃ temperature range freezing and with fresh state storage fish.This dish comprises the disk cover that is positioned at the dish front, is used to open or close this soft freezing chamber.

The Korean Utility Model that the present patent application people submits to openly applies for disclosing for 1995-20222 number a kind of refrigerator that comprises soft freezing chamber.

In Korean Utility Model was openly applied for 1995-20222 number refrigerator, disk cover hingedly was connected on the inwall of refrigerator body, is used to open or close this soft freezing chamber.For this purpose, a hinge pin is extended in the both sides of disk cover, provides support element on the left side of body and the right side inwall respectively and is used for hingedly supporting this hinge pin.Support component be positioned at body left side and be connected with connecting hole on the inwall of right side.

Simultaneously, when making this conventional refrigerator, must form connecting hole on the inwall of the both sides of body after processing the body of refrigerator, also must seal this connecting hole, this has just increased manufacturing time and cost.In addition, the support component that is used to connect disk cover and body has also increased manufacturing cost.

Summary of the invention

Therefore, one aspect of the present invention provides a kind of refrigerator that reduces the improvement refrigerator food preservation device of manufacturing time and cost and comprise this device, this food preservation device comprises a soft freezing chamber, is used for not freezing and for example stores fish and similar food with fresh state.

Another aspect of the present invention and/or advantage will partly be set forth in the following description, and will partly obviously, perhaps can enforcement according to the present invention recognize according to this explanation.

Aforementioned and other aspects of the present invention can obtain by the food preservation device that a kind of refrigerator is provided, this food preservation device comprises: dish, and described dish can move and comprises and be limited to wherein storage space, front openings and the sliding recess to hold food along the body opposed inner walls is linear; And disk cover, be used to open or close dish front openings, comprise the hinge of the sliding recess that is rotatably connected respectively, wherein, when coiling when body interior is advanced, one end of disk cover is highlighted into, and the block of body interior hooks, and the other end of disk cover is hinged around hinge, is used to open the front openings of dish.

Dish can comprise the sliding recess that a pair of moving direction that is parallel to dish on the opposed inner walls of dish extends, and a pair of hinge that extends out from the opposite side of disk cover, thereby makes this hinge can insert sliding recess, and slides along groove respectively.

Disk cover may further include the carriage to the storage space extension of dish, dish may further include the lid support level that is formed on the dish opposed inner walls, be used for hingedly and when opening the front openings of dish, prevent that by Support bracket disk cover from rotating to the home position when disk cover.

Disk cover may further include the locking clamp that goes out from a distal process of disk cover, is used for contacting respectively carriage.

Be extruded with a pair of carriage from the inner surface of body, they are separated from each other, and disk cover can comprise a pair of locking clamp that corresponds respectively to carriage.

Disk cover may further include the auxiliary locking clamp that separates with the locking clamp, is used for defining about the locking clamp respectively the space of assembling carriage, thereby prevents that disk cover from rotating to the home position.

According to a further aspect in the invention, refrigerator comprises the body with the storeroom that limits therein, the food preservation device that opens or closes the door of storeroom and be positioned at storeroom, wherein this food preservation device comprises: dish, can move along the body opposed inner walls is linear, and be included in and wherein be defined for storage space, front openings and the sliding recess that holds food; And disk cover, be used to open or close the front openings of dish, and comprise the hinge of the sliding recess that can be rotatably connected respectively, wherein when dish advances in body, one end of disk cover is highlighted into intrinsic block and hooks, and the other end of disk cover is hinged around hinge, is used to open the front openings of dish.

Description of drawings

These and/or other aspect of the present invention and advantage will be according to becoming apparent and are more readily understood below with reference to the explanation of accompanying drawing to embodiment, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the decomposition diagram that schematically illustrates the refrigerator that comprises the food preservation device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the front view of critical piece of the refrigerator of this embodiment of explanation;

Fig. 3 A is the side cross-sectional, view that the food preservation device operation of refrigerator in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is described to 3C.

The specific embodiment

Now will be in detail with reference to embodiments of the invention, these embodiment will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, identical reference marker is represented components identical in the wherein whole accompanying drawing.Below with reference to accompanying drawing embodiment is described with explanation the present invention.

Fig. 1 is the decomposition diagram that schematically illustrates the refrigerator of the food preservation device that comprises in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 2 is the front view of critical piece of the refrigerator of this embodiment of explanation; Fig. 3 A is the side cross-sectional, view that the operation of refrigerator food preservation device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is described to 3C.

As illustrated in fig. 1 and 2, the refrigerator of this embodiment comprises having the body 100 that limits storeroom 110 therein, be arranged to the food preservation device 300 that body 100 is used to open or close the door 200 of storeroom 110 and is positioned at storeroom 110.

The opposed inner walls 120 of body 100 is provided with paired guide rail 130 to face with each other.Every pair of guide rail 130 all comprises first guide rail 131 and second guide rail 132 that preset distance spaced in parallel to each other is provided with.In addition, be extruded with a pair of block 140, be intervally installed from the upper surface of the storeroom 110 of body 100.When making refrigerator, block 140 and body 100 whole formation.

Food preservation device 300 is as independent storage space, is used for not freezing and stores for example food of fish with fresh state.The food preservation device comprise a dish 320 that wherein defines the soft freezing chamber 310 that is used for stored food and with the dish 320 hinged disk covers 330 that are provided for opening or closing soft freezing chamber 310.Soft freezing chamber 310 is maintained at about 1 ℃ temperature, thereby does not store for example food of fish not freezingly.

Dish 320 side and front side is thereon opened, and has the front openings 321 that is defined in the front side.Dish 320 comprise be positioned at that front openings 321 bottoms are used for can be when operating this dish by the handle 322 of user's handling.In addition, dish 320 is included in the relatively supporting rail 323 corresponding to each guide rail 130 of body 100 that forms of the outside of dish 320.Each supporting rail 323 is all continuous with relevant pair of guide rails 130, thereby dish 320 can be moved along 130 linearities of the guide rail in the storeroom 110.Dish 320 further comprises sliding recess 324 and is respectively formed at lid support level 326 on the opposed inner walls of dish.The moving direction that each sliding recess 324 all is parallel to dish 320 extends, and each lid support level 326 all protrudes a little towards the soft freezing chamber 310 of relevant sliding recess 324 belows.

Disk cover 330 comprise carriage 332 that the cover plate 331 that is used to cover dish 320 front openings 321, a pair of opposite side from cover plate 331 extend to the soft freezing chamber 310 of dish 320, a pair of respectively from the outstanding hinge 333 of the outer surface of carriage 332, a pair of relative direction at soft freezing chamber 310 from the outstanding locking clamp 334 of cover plate 331 opposite sides, and a pair of auxiliary locking clamp 335, each auxiliary locking clamp is all outstanding from the opposite side of cover plate 331, and separates with relevant locking clamp 334.

Owing to have a said structure, disk cover 330 is by respectively with the sliding recess 324 of hinge 333 insertion dishes 320 and hinged with dish 320.The diameter of each hinge 333 all height with relevant sliding recess 324 is equal substantially.Therefore, although hinge 333 can rotate in sliding recess 324 and can slide along sliding recess 324, they can not move vertically to sliding recess 324 inside.

Each locking clamp 334 all has the cross section of right angled triangle, and the end of each locking clamp 334 all contacts with the relevant block 140 of body 100.

Each auxiliary locking clamp 335 all has and locking clamp 334 corresponding shapes, thereby and preset distance with interval relative with auxiliary locking clamp 334.Therefore, just define a space between a side of a side of each the locking clamp 334 that faces with each other and each auxiliary locking clamp 335, this space allows relevant block 140 to be assemblied in this.This space has and the essentially identical width of the width of block 140.When disk cover 330 rotation about 90 was spent, each block 140 all was assemblied on the space between locking clamp 334 and the auxiliary locking clamp 335.At this moment, a side of locking clamp 334 and a side of auxiliary locking clamp 335 contact with front side, the rear side of block, have stoped the rotation of disk cover 330.

Disk cover 330 can be arranged on the dish 320, thereby can be slight mobile along with moving of dish 320.Yet,, thereby wish that still locking clamp 334 contacts minimizing all the time owing to colliding the noise that produces with block 140 with block 140 even in this case.

With reference now to Fig. 3 A, describes operation in detail to 3C according to the refrigerator food preservation device of the preferred embodiment.

As shown in Figure 3A, the dish 320 with disk cover 330 is assemblied on the guide rail 130 of body 100 inside, thereby can move in body 100 internal linear.Here, when basically forming a right angle with respect to guide rail 130, disk cover 330 covers the front openings 321 of dish 320.At this moment, lid each hinge 333 of 330 all is positioned at the front side of relevant sliding recess 324.

Shown in Fig. 3 B, when utilizing handle 322 will coil 320 when the front side of storeroom 110 spurs, dish 320 is along guide rail 130 linear moving.At this moment, because the upper end of disk cover 330 is because the interference of locking clamp 334 and block 140 and can not advancing, and the bottom of each locking clamp 334 power all therefore being subjected to coiling 320 forwards, so cover 330 about hinge 333 rotations.

When disk cover 330 counterclockwise rotates about 90 when spending, a side of each auxiliary locking clamp 335 all with the preceding side contacts of block 140.At this moment, because a side of locking clamp 334 and the back side contacts of block 140, so each block 140 all is assemblied between locking clamp 334 and the auxiliary clamp 335.As a result, just stoped the rotation of disk cover 330 clockwise directions.

Because the disk cover 330 parallel sliding recess 324 that are articulated in, when dish 320 is spurred by continuous front side to storeroom 110, the hinge 333 of disk cover 330 vertically slides along sliding recess 324, and dish 320 is exposed to the outside of storeroom 110 at last, and disk cover 330 is opened the front openings 321 of dish 320.When dish 320 was exposed to storeroom 110 outsides, two carriages 332 of disk cover 330 tegmentum support levels 326 respectively supported, thereby have prevented that disk cover 330 from rotating under open mode.

On the contrary, when dish 320 was pushed into storeroom 110, dish 320 was returned to its home position in storeroom 110 inside, and disk cover 330 clockwise directions rotate, and cover the front openings 321 of dish 320 then.

Like this, disk cover 330 front openings that opens or closes dish 320 automatically by coiling 320 linearities in storeroom 110 and moving.

By foregoing description as can be known, because disk cover 330 is hinged to open or close the soft freezing chamber 310 of dish 320 with dish 320, so the present invention is different from conventional art, need in refrigerator body, not form the processing or the encapsulation process of connecting hole, thereby not need disk cover and connecting hole are coupled together the support component of assembling disk cover yet.Therefore compare with conventional art, the present invention can reduce manufacturing time and cost.

Although illustrated and described some embodiments of the present invention, but it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, can carry out multiple improvement, interpolation and replacement to these embodiment under the prerequisite that does not break away from principle of the present invention and essence, the scope of principle of the present invention and essence is by claim and equivalent definition thereof.

Claims

1, a kind of food preservation device that is set to the storeroom in the refrigerator body, this device comprises:

The dish that can move linearly along the relative inwall of body is included in the storage space that is used to hold food, front openings and the sliding recess that wherein limit; And

Open or close the disk cover of the front openings of dish, comprise the hinge that can be rotatably connected to described sliding recess respectively,

Wherein, when dish advanced in body, an end of disk cover was hooked from the outstanding block of the inner surface of body, and the other end of disk cover is hinged to open the front openings of dish around hinge.

2, food preservation device according to claim 1, wherein said dish comprises sliding recess and a pair of hinge that extends out from the opposite side of disk cover that a pair of moving direction that is parallel to dish on the relative inwall of dish extends, and hinge can insert sliding recess respectively and can slide along sliding recess.

3, food preservation device according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover further comprises the carriage to the storage space extension of dish, dish further comprises and covers support level, described lid support level be formed on be used on the opposed inner walls of dish hinged and prevent that by supporting described carriage disk cover from rotating to the home position when opening the front openings of dish when disk cover.

4, food preservation device according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover further comprise respectively from a distal process of disk cover and go out locking clamp to contact with block.

5, food preservation device according to claim 4, wherein the inner surface from body is extruded with a pair of block, and they are separated from each other, and described disk cover comprises a pair of locking clamp that corresponds respectively to block.

6, food preservation device according to claim 4, thus wherein said disk cover further comprise with the locking clamp and separate the auxiliary locking clamp that is defined for respectively with respect to the space of locking clamp assembling block, be used to stop disk cover to rotate to the home position.

7, a kind of refrigerator comprises having the body that limits storeroom therein, open or close the door of storeroom and be positioned at the food preservation device of storeroom,

Wherein said food preservation device comprises the dish that can move linearly along the relative inwall of body, this dish is included in the storage space that is used to hold food, front openings and the sliding recess that wherein limits, and the disk cover that opens or closes the front openings of dish, disk cover comprises the hinge that is rotatably connected to sliding recess respectively, wherein, when dish advances in body, one end of disk cover is hooked from the outstanding block of the inner surface of body, and the other end of disk cover is hinged to open the front openings of dish around hinge.

8, refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein said dish comprises sliding recess and a pair of hinge that extends out from the opposite side of disk cover that a pair of moving direction that is parallel to dish on the relative inwall of dish extends, and hinge can be inserted into respectively in the sliding recess and along sliding recess and slide.

9, refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein said disk cover further comprises the carriage to the storage space extension of dish, described dish further comprises and covers support level, described lid support level be formed on be used on the relative inwall of dish hinged and prevent that by supporting described carriage disk cover from rotating to the home position when opening the front openings of dish when disk cover.

10, refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein said disk cover further comprise respectively from a distal process of disk cover and go out locking clamp with the contact block.

11, refrigerator according to claim 10, wherein the inner surface from body is extruded with a pair of block, and they are separated from each other, and described disk cover comprises a pair of locking clamp that corresponds respectively to described block.

12, refrigerator according to claim 10, thus wherein said disk cover further comprise with the locking clamp and separate the auxiliary locking clamp that is defined for respectively with respect to the space of locking clamp assembling block, be used to stop disk cover to rotate to the home position.