CN101231098A

CN101231098A - Refrigerator door handle

Info

Publication number: CN101231098A
Application number: CNA2007100565666A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 崔倡凤
Original assignee: Taizhou LG Electronics Refrigeration Co Ltd
Current assignee: Taizhou LG Electronics Refrigeration Co Ltd
Priority date: 2007-01-25
Filing date: 2007-01-25
Publication date: 2008-07-30

Abstract

The invention discloses a refrigerator door handle, which comprises a handle rod with a mounting groove formed at the front of the handle rod in the length direction and a semitransparent handle cover for covering the mounting groove, a decorative component which is arranged in the mounting groove and can be observed from the outside through the handle cover, a handle bracket which is arranged at two ends of the handle rod and is used for fixing the handle rod at one side of the refrigerator door to support the handle rod, and a body component which is arranged at two ends of the handle cover and forms a cover end connection strap bended and extended inward the handle rod, wherein, the handle cover is fixedly arranged at the handle rod through the cover end connection strap. The invention has the advantages that the handle rod body of a metal component and the handle cover of a plastic component are combined through a plurality of screws, avoiding easy deformation; the handle rod is stably attached to the refrigerator door, increasing the credence of the product, preventing the relative deformation occurring between the components of the handle rod due to temperature changes, preventing gap at joint or looseness between each component, and being capable of improving the stability of the product.

Description

The door handle of refrigerator

Technical field

What the present invention relates to is refrigerator, particularly be the door handle of refrigerator.

Background technology

Fig. 1 is a prior art door handle of refrigerator structural perspective.As shown in the figure, be formed with storage space 3 in the inside of refrigerator body 1.Described storage space 3 can be divided into the refrigerating chamber on body 1 top and the refrigerating chamber of bottom.At the upper front two ends of body 1, be provided with a pair of refrigerating-chamber door 5 that can open and close refrigerating chamber selectively, in the front, bottom of body 1, be provided with the refrigerating chamber door 7 that can open and close refrigerating chamber selectively.

On described refrigerating-chamber door 5 and refrigerating chamber door 7, be respectively arranged with door handle 5 ', 7 '.Described door handle 5 ', 7 ' comprising: rod bracket 6 ', 8 ', handle bar 6,8.Described rod bracket 6 ', 8 ' is supporting

handle bar

6,8 two ends respectively, and fixedly installs on the

refrigerator doors

5,7; The two ends of

handle bar

6,8 are inserted and are fixed in the rod bracket 6 ', 8 '.

Described

handle bar

6,8 is made of the body 6a, the 8a that constitute

handle bar

6,8 bodies and the decorative element 6b, the 8b that are decorating the front respectively.In general,

body

6a, 8a are made of metal materials such as aluminium; Described

decorative element

6b, 8b are made of plastic or other material.

But there are the following problems for the door handle of prior art refrigerator as mentioned above.

At first, constitute a just long rod of length of prior art door handle 5 ', 7 ' handle bar 6,8.When the user grasps handle bar 6 and when pulling, handle

bar

6,8 since strain and repeatedly distortion and recovering, in the use, handle

bar

6,8 and rod bracket 6 ', 8 ' combine and can fluff, appearance handle

bar

6,8 comes off or is loosening, can bring user's inconvenience thus.

In addition, because body 6a, the 8a of

handle bar

6,8 and

decorative element

6b, 8b are by different materials, promptly, metal and plastics constitute, therefore has different thermal coefficient of expansions, and then can be different, thereby can be easy to generate separation between the two according to the rate of change of body 6a, the 8a of indoor temperature change generated in case and decorative element 6b, 8b.Particularly, when the

handle bar

6,8 that will assemble under low-temperature condition is used in the relatively-high temperature state, constitutes

body

6a, 8a by metal material and can expand more longerly the thermal change sensitivity.And then

body

6a, 8a can promote rod bracket 6 ', 8 ', thereby can be separated or loosening to decorative element 6b, the 8b of thermal change relative insensitivity.

Summary of the invention

The objective of the invention is to overcome the deficiency of above-mentioned technology, a kind of door handle of strong bonded refrigerator each other that makes between the parts that constitute handle bar is provided.

The technical scheme that solves the problems of the technologies described above is:

A kind of door handle of refrigerator, the door handle of described refrigerator comprises: be formed with mounting groove alongst in front, translucent at least handle cover is hiding the handle bar of mounting groove; Be arranged on the inside of mounting groove, and by handle cover can from visual observation to decorative element; Be arranged on the two ends of handle bar, and handle bar be fixed to a side of refrigerator doors and the handle brackets that supports; At the two ends of handle cover, be formed with the lid end brace that prolongs to the internal bend of handle bar, thereby handle cover fixedly installs the body of handle bar by lid end brace.

Described handle bar constitutes with tubbiness and forms certain space in inside.

Described handle bar comprises: align mutually at the two ends in cross section and prolong and form the handle bar body articulate rib; Combine and be connected to lid pedestal on the handle bar body with the rib that articulates of described handle bar body; And on described lid pedestal, be formed with mounting groove, thereby decorative element and handle cover are installed.

Described lid end brace and handle bar are connected combination by the screw that is formed on through hole that covers the end brace and the connection rib that is formed on the handle bar body.

The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: at first, handle bar of the present invention fixedly secures on refrigerator doors by handle brackets, therefore is difficult for deforming, and handle bar improves the confidence level of product stably attached on the refrigerator doors.

Therefore in addition, the present invention is connected and strong bonded by screw with the handle cover that is made of plastic components by the handle bar body that metal parts constitutes, even if environment temperature changes, also can limit the distortion of each parts and remains one.And then, can suppress to prevent to occur between each parts slit or loosening owing to variations in temperature betides relative deformation between the handle bar component parts, can improve the stability of product.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a prior art door handle of refrigerator structural perspective;

Fig. 2 is the structural perspective of the door handle embodiment of refrigerator of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION stereogram of the embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 4 be the embodiment of the invention want portion's cutaway view.

* to the label declaration * of major part in the accompanying drawing

10: refrigerator doors 12: front panel

14: rod 16 is decorated in the side: bracket is installed

20: handle brackets 22: rack body

24: excellent mounting groove 26: stick end brace

27: connecting through hole 28: top cover

30: handle bar 31: the handle bar body

31 ': connection rib 32: articulate rib

33: articulate projection 34: the lid pedestal

35: articulate platform 36: mounting groove

38: connect recess 40: decorative element

42: handle cover 43: the lid projection

45: lid end brace 47: through hole

The specific embodiment

Embodiment to the door handle of refrigerator of the present invention is described in further detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.

Fig. 2 is the structural perspective of the door handle embodiment of refrigerator of the present invention; Fig. 3 is the STRUCTURE DECOMPOSITION stereogram of the embodiment of the invention; Fig. 4 be the embodiment of the invention want portion's cutaway view.

As shown in the figure, front panel 12 constitutes the front of the refrigerator doors 10 that is hiding the refrigerator storage space.The inside of plate 12 has the thermal insulation layer of refrigerator doors in front, and its lining (not shown) constitutes the back side of refrigerator doors 10.

Described side and the top and bottom of decorating rod (not shown) formation refrigerator doors 10.A side decorating rod is made of side decoration rod 14, and a part of edge that rod 14 hides front panel 12 is decorated in the side.Decorate in the side perforate on the rod 14 be formed with for install will handle brackets 20 described later through hole 15.Decorate the inner face of rod 14 in the side, be provided with the installation bracket 16 that is formed with through hole 16 ' corresponding to perforate on the position of through hole 15.Described installation bracket 16 together is connected to handle brackets 20 side by screw (not shown) and decorates on the rod 14.

Handle brackets 20 is installed in the side decoration rod 14 and is equivalent on the position in refrigerator doors 10 fronts.Handle brackets 20 has rack body 22.Rack body 22 approximately is long hexahedral shape.On rack body 22, alongst be formed with excellent mounting groove 24 more longways.Described excellent mounting groove 24 is formed on rack body 22 and decorates on the opposing face of rod 14 in conjunction with being arranged at the side.Perforate is formed with connecting hole 24 ' on the excellent mounting groove 24 of rack body 22, by connecting hole 24 ' utilize screw can with will handle bar 30 described later be connected.

Protrusion is formed with stick end brace 26 in an end of described rack body 22.The opposite direction that described stick end brace 26 is decorated rod 14 in an end of rack body 22 to the side is protruded more longways and is formed.Perforate is formed with connecting through hole 27 on stick end brace 26.By connecting through hole 27 make will lid pedestal 34 described later and handle cover 42 combine.Described connecting hole 27 hides by top cover 28.That is, top cover 28 hides connecting through hole 27, thereby does not externally observe the connecting portion that covers pedestal 34 and handle cover 42.Described top cover 28 is a disc-shape, has resilient legs 28 ' at its two ends, and in conjunction with the inside that is set to the connecting through hole 27 of stick end brace 26.

Handle bar 30 comprises: handle bar body 31; Lid pedestal 34.Certainly, can be integrally formed according to design condition handle bar body 31 and lid pedestal 34.At this, handle bar 30 is formed with certain space in inside.The effect that makes handle bar 30 on-deformable increase intensity is played in this space.Described handle bar 30, its both ends are in conjunction with being supported on the handle brackets 20.

Described handle bar body 31 along refrigerator doors 10 up and down or left and right directions prolong more longways and form, and its two ends are supported on refrigerator doors 10 in conjunction with being arranged on the handle brackets 20.Described handle bar body 31 can the extrusion metal materials and make.The structure in handle bar body 31 cross sections is alongst to prolong formation, in the present embodiment, is to align mutually and prolong certain-length as the crow flies and form in the both ends of semicircle tubbiness to handle bar body 31 end surface shape.That is, the two ends in handle bar body 31 cross sections articulate rib 32 and forwards prolong and form.The front end that articulates rib 32 be formed with articulate the projection 33.Articulate rib 32 and articulate projection 33 and prolong and form along the length direction of handle bar body 31 is more continuous.In the inner space of handle bar body 31, be formed with connection rib 31 '.Described connection rib 31 ' is connected with lid end brace 45 that will handle cover 42 described later.

Cover pedestal 34 articulating on the rib 32 of handle bar body 31 in conjunction with being provided with.Described lid pedestal 34 has the length identical with handle bar body 31, and the back that combines with handle bar 30 increases the intensity of handle bar 30.On lid pedestal 34, the two ends that are formed with its back alongst with articulate protruding 33 mutually clamping articulate platform 35.

In the front of described lid pedestal 34, alongst be formed with mounting groove 36 more longways.On the mounting groove 36 independent decorative element 40 can be installed.Can use various materials as decorative element 40.For example, have different colors, perhaps adopt different materials with handle bar 30 or lid pedestal 34, thus the outward appearance of change door handle.

In addition, can use, thereby make door handle seem more senior as jewels such as crystals as decorative element 40.Example as decorative element 40 has rock quartz.

In the mounting groove 36 of described lid pedestal 34, be formed with connection recess 38 on the position of disengaging decorative element 40 fronts.Described connection recess 38 prolongs more longways and forms along the length direction of lid pedestal 34.Connecting recess 38 is respectively formed on the position of mounting groove 36 opposite faces.

On the mounting groove 36 that decorative element 40 is installed, be provided with handle cover 42.Handle cover 42 is made of material transparent.For example, handle cover 42 can use transparent PC material injection mo(u)lding.On handle cover 42, be formed with and be installed to the lid projection 43 that connects recess 38.Described lid projection 43 is installed to and connects after the recess 38, and handle cover 42 can be attached to and cover on the pedestal 34.Lid projection 43 alongst prolongs more longways and forms along the two ends of handle cover 42.

The two ends of described handle cover 42 are formed with respectively covers end brace 45.Be formed with through hole 47 on the described lid end brace 45.Through hole 47 can make handle bar body 31 be connected with lid end brace 45.Be connected by between screw through hole 47 and the connection rib 31 ', through hole 47 interconnects with handle bar body 31.

Followingly be elaborated with reference to the effect and the assembling process of accompanying drawing to the door handle of the refrigerator of the present invention of said structure.

Mounting groove to lid pedestal 34 is installed decorative element 40 for 36 li.In order to make decorative element 40 be difficult for breaking away from mounting groove 36, should use double faced adhesive tape or alite paste.

Decorative element 40 is installed to covers after the pedestal 34, handle cover 42 is installed to covers on the pedestal 34.The lid projection 43 of mounting knob lid 42 on the connection recess 38 of mounting groove 36.

The following describes, will cover pedestal 34 and be assembled on the handle bar body 31.Also can finish installation exercise covering under the state that pedestal 34 is assembled into handle bar body 31 to decorative element 40 or handle cover 42.To the lid pedestal 34, both sides, its rear end articulate platform 35 snap fit onto be formed on handle bar body 31 articulate rib 32 articulate the projection 33 on, thereby be attached on the handle bar body 31.When lid pedestal 34 is assembled into handle bar 30, articulate rib 32 first strains and recover prototype more afterwards, thus fixed cap pedestal 34.When lid pedestal 34 when being assembled into handle bar body 31, the through hole 47 of lid end brace 45 can be positioned on the position corresponding to the connection rib 31 ' of handle bar body 31.In addition, can fixedly secure through hole 47 and connection rib 31 ' by screw.

The following describes, handle bar body 31 combines with handle brackets 20.The connecting hole 24 ' that screw connects the excellent mounting groove 24 be formed on handle brackets 20 is connected on the handle bar body 31 afterwards.By above-mentioned process, handle bar body 31 and handle brackets 20 interconnect.

The following describes, handle brackets 20 is decorated being connected of rod 14 with the side.That is, at the rack body 22 that the outside of side decoration rod 14 has handle brackets 20, face is provided with bracket 16 is installed within it, has connected the through hole 16 ' of installation bracket 16 and the screw of the through hole 15 of side decoration rod 14 and has been fastened on the rack body 22.By said process, handle brackets 20 is connected to the side and decorates on the rod 14.

In addition, after the connecting through hole 27 of the stick end brace 26 of screw perforation handle brackets 20, be fastened on the connection rib 31 ' that covers end brace 45 and handle bar body 31.By above-mentioned process, handle brackets 20, handle bar body 31 and handle cover 42 interconnect.Then, top covers 28 are installed, are not covered end brace 45 parts such as grade thereby externally observe to the connecting through hole 27 of the stick end brace 26 of handle brackets 20.

Certainly, according to design handle brackets 20 and handle cover 42 are not directly mutually combined.This is because handle bar body 31 is connected the cause of the handle body 22 of handle brackets 20 by screw.At this moment, need not on stick end brace 26, to form connecting through hole 27, thereby also need not to use top cover 28.

By above-mentioned mode, the handle brackets 20 that is arranged on handle bar 30 two ends is connected to the side decorates on the rod 14, door handle can be installed on the refrigerator doors 10 so.

In basic fundamental thought range of the present invention as mentioned above, the those of ordinary skill in constructed field can be made multiple other variant embodiment.

For example, handle bar 30 is not separated into handle bar body 31 and handle cover 42, but integrally formed, at this moment, front in the handle bar 30 that is equivalent to handle cover 42 is formed with mounting groove 36, and at this decorative element 40 is installed, and hides mounting groove 36 by transparent handle cover 42 at last.

In addition, described handle cover 42 might not be transparent fully, as long as translucent or transparent all harmless.

Claims

1. the door handle of a refrigerator is characterized in that, the door handle of described refrigerator comprises: be formed with mounting groove alongst in front, translucent at least handle cover is hiding the handle bar of mounting groove; Be arranged on the inside of mounting groove, and by handle cover can from visual observation to decorative element; Be arranged on the two ends of handle bar, and handle bar be fixed to a side of refrigerator doors and the handle brackets that supports; At the two ends of handle cover, be formed with the lid end brace that prolongs to the internal bend of handle bar, thereby handle cover fixedly installs the body of handle bar by lid end brace.

2. the door handle of refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described handle bar constitutes with tubbiness and forms certain space in inside.

3. the door handle of refrigerator according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described handle bar comprises: align mutually at the two ends in cross section and prolong and form the handle bar body articulate rib; Combine and be connected to lid pedestal on the handle bar body with the rib that articulates of described handle bar body; On described lid pedestal, be formed with the mounting groove that decorative element and handle cover are installed.

4. according to the door handle of any described refrigerator in the claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that described lid end brace and handle bar are connected combination by the screw that is formed on through hole that covers the end brace and the connection rib that is formed on the handle bar body.