CN101487653A

CN101487653A - Refrigerator

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Publication number: CN101487653A
Application number: CNA200810184726XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 东口惠一; 合野一彰
Original assignee: Toshiba Corp; Toshiba Consumer Electronics Holdings Corp; Toshiba Home Appliances Corp
Current assignee: Toshiba Corp; Toshiba Lifestyle Products and Services Corp
Priority date: 2008-01-17
Filing date: 2008-12-29
Publication date: 2009-07-22
Anticipated expiration: 2028-12-29
Also published as: RU2394193C1; JP4950906B2; CN101487653B; JP2009168364A; TWI350906B; TW200933108A

Abstract

The invention provides a refrigerator which arranges a fan used by a refrigerating chamber at an unobvious position, and restricts the protruding at the back of the refrigerating chamber to lengthen partial shelves to expand the food receiving volume, and give wide feeling rather than constriction feeling to users, wherein it comprises a refrigerating chamber (5) equipped on the refrigerator host (15); a cooler for refrigerating (15) equipped at the back inside the refrigerating chamber and cooling the refrigerating chamber; a fan for refrigerating (20) equipped at the back of the refrigerating chamber and supplying air cooled by the cooler for refrigerating (15) to the refrigerating chamber; a water-receiving box (30) receiving the defrost water from the cooler for refrigerating; and a cover body (16) at least covering the cooler for refrigerating and the fan for refrigerating.

Description

Refrigerator

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator, will be to the cooler and the back of fan arrangement in refrigerating chamber of cooling off in the refrigerating chamber, and cover the refrigerator of its front surface with lid.

Background technology

The type of refrigerator in recent years mostly is, its profilograph of representing as Fig. 6, maximum and capacious refrigerating chamber (55) is configured in topmost with usage frequency, promptly take in the fresh-keeping chamber (59) of greengrocery at the refrigerating space that its underpart setting and refrigerating chamber (55) are same, further in its underpart and put temperature and switch chamber (58) and not shown ice-making compartment, below, dispose refrigerating chamber (60).

And, back at refrigerating chamber (55) disposes refrigeration cooler (65) and the fan (70) that refrigerating space is cooled off via lid (66), below the position corresponding to the back of refrigerating chamber (60) on dispose temperature transition chamber (58) and ice-making compartment, what refrigerating chamber reefer spaces such as (60) cooled off is freezing with cooler (71) and fan (72), by transfer valve make cold-producing medium from the compressor (73) of the Machine Room that is arranged on lower body part alternately flow into above-mentioned refrigeration with and freezing with in the cooler (65) (71), and by the cold air that each fan (70) (72) is made the temperature that is cooled to stipulate respectively in each storage space, circulate (for example with reference to patent documentation 1).

And above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (55) is with rotary type goalkeeper front surface opening obturation, and said temperature switch room (58) and ice-making compartment, fresh-keeping chamber (59) and refrigerating chamber (60) utilize guide rail that drawer type door and container are forwards pulled out.

And, can carry out following mode selects: use on cooler (65) and the part of refrigeration with the air coolant tube (67) of the cooler chamber of fan (70) in the refrigeration that is provided with above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (55) back, as described in above-mentioned patent documentation 1, fan (70) is configured on the downstream of cold airflow with cooler (65) with respect to refrigeration, and cold air is blown out in refrigerating chamber (55) from fan (70); Otherwise, though not shown, as described in patent documentation 2, with the upstream side of fan arrangement, cold air is sucked to fan in storeroom, and blow out to indoor via cooler at cooler, but, under any situation, mostly at the top of cooler (65) configuration fan (70).

And, as shown in Figure 7, fan (90) than cooler (85) be present in the upstream side of the cold airflow shown in the arrow, the position of fan (90) is illustrated in the patent documentation 3 than the low example of cooler (85).This is that the configuration on the top, Machine Room of refrigerating chamber (75) lower backside is constituted, and fan (90) is as from anterior superimposedly the disposing of the cold air suction fan in the refrigerating chamber (75) at cooler (85).

Patent documentation 1: 2005-No. 265296 communiques of TOHKEMY

Patent documentation 2: 2001-No. 56175 communiques of TOHKEMY

Patent documentation 3: 2001-No. 27469 communiques of TOHKEMY

Yet, above-mentioned

patent documentation

1 and 2 described formations, because all the topmost configuration at refrigerating chamber (55) back refrigerates with fan (70), therefore, the depth of fan (70) part is provided with size and becomes big, and make lid (66) outstanding greatly because of it becomes to the indoor, can make when opening the door above-mentioned protuberance be positioned at the user eyes height near, have the disadvantage that gives user's constriction thus.

And the amount of protuberance because the depth length that is arranged on the screen work (61) on the ledge shortens exists because the locational eye-catching shortcoming of feeling more than the narrow reality of chamber volume.

For patent documentation 3, cooler of appropriate section (85) and fan (90) are arranged on the lower backside of refrigerating chamber (75) and constitute, but, because above-mentioned cooler (85) is superimposed on depth direction with fan (90), and the depth length of taking in product mounting portion is shortened because of it, reduce very big food and taken in volume.

Summary of the invention

The present invention considers above-mentioned situation and carries out, its purpose is to provide a kind of refrigerator, the fan arrangement that refrigerating chamber is used is on not eye-catching position and suppress upper rear portion outstanding of refrigerating chamber, the depth length of screen work that makes this part is elongated and enlarge food and take in volume, and can not give user's constriction and obtain indoor broad sense.

In order to address the above problem, refrigerator of the present invention has: be configured in the refrigerating chamber (5) on the refrigerator main body (1); The refrigeration cooler (15) that is arranged on the back in the above-mentioned refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber is cooled off; Be arranged on the back of above-mentioned refrigerating chamber and the refrigeration usefulness fan (20) that will in refrigerating chamber, blow with the cooled cold air of cooler by above-mentioned refrigeration; Reception is from the water spilage tray (30) of above-mentioned refrigeration with the defrost water of cooler; And cover above-mentioned refrigeration cooler and the above-mentioned refrigeration lid (16) of fan at least, above-mentioned refrigeration is disposed from top respectively with fan, above-mentioned water spilage tray successively with cooler, above-mentioned refrigeration.

According to the present invention, in the upper rear portion of refrigerating chamber fan is not set, therefore, top forms the par and suppresses constriction from protuberance overleaf, and fan is configured on the not eye-catching position effectively, can access the broad sense in the refrigerating chamber.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the profilograph of the refrigerator of expression one embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is that the refrigerator of Fig. 1 is removed general principal view behind the door.

Fig. 3 is the detailed cross sectional view of the refrigeration of presentation graphs 1 with the fan part of cooler below.

Fig. 4 is the drawing in side sectional elevation of the fan part of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is expression other the profilograph of main portion of embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a profilograph of representing that refrigerator in the past constitutes.

Fig. 7 is the profilograph that other the position of cooler in the past and fan of expression concerns.

Symbol description

1 refrigerator main body

Case in 3

5 refrigerating chambers

11,11 screen works

12 low-temperature (low temperature) vessels

14,32 lamp inside the box

15 refrigeration coolers

16,16 ' lid

17 conduits

18 V conduits

19 cold air blow-off outlets

20,22 fans

The 21 freezing coolers of using

25 fan guards

26 horn mouths

27 suck the space

28 suction inlets

29 inclined guide surfaces

30 water spilage trays

31 guide cards

32 lamp inside the box

The 32a working flare

The 32b lampshade

The specific embodiment

Below, with reference to the accompanying drawings one embodiment of the present invention is described.Fig. 1 is the profilograph of refrigerator, Fig. 2 is the general principal view of removing door of the cold air flow of expression refrigeration storage space, by outer container (2) and interior case (3), and the body of thermal insulating box that constitutes by the heat-insulating material that is filled into the spatial portion between the outer container in these (4) form refrigerator main body (1), with the inside of this refrigerator main body (1) as storage space, at topmost refrigerating chamber (5) is set, thereunder (6) and be equipped with ice-making compartment (7) with the less automatic ice maker of volume and temperature transition chamber (8) across adiabatic spaced walls.

Make the fresh-keeping chamber (9) below these, further the refrigerating chamber (10) of below configuration independently respectively.Between above-mentioned fresh-keeping chamber (9) and refrigerating chamber (10), also be provided with adiabatic spaced walls, special-purpose separately door and freely openable ground be set on the front surface opening of each storeroom carry out obturation.

Above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (5) because take in the volume maximum and usage frequency the highest, therefore, be provided with the indoor screen work (11) of multilayer and the low-temperature (low temperature) vessel (12) of foot of being divided into, and, by the pivot suspension opposite opened door (13) and peristome is carried out obturation freely to rotate of the hinge on the both sides that are arranged on the front surface peristome.(14) be to utilize that the door of above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (5) is open lights a lamp and to the indoor lamp inside the box that throws light on.And (11 ') is to represent the screen work of below.

Ice-making compartment (7), temperature transition chamber (8) and the fresh-keeping chamber (9) of the bottom except that refrigerating chamber (5) configuration, refrigerating chamber storerooms such as (10) to take in volumetric ratio refrigerating chamber (5) little, and the ease of use angle that height and position produces is set from it, make the support frame that kept container when being fixed in door, utilize the track segment that is arranged on indoor wall to slide forwards, backwards, and the drawer type door mode of in the action of opening the door, taking in and taking out to outdoor pulling out and with food opening above container.

Back in above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (5) utilizes the high back wall of the height dimension of wide cut as having improved the surface area of height than wide cut, thereby disposes and make as the finned tubular type refrigeration of the thickness attenuation of depth size with cooler (15).

In the indoor of this refrigeration with cooler (15), the lid that configuration is formed by synthetic resin board (16), all form the back of refrigerating chamber (5) by the back side that roughly covers refrigerating chamber (5), and air coolant tube (17) and V conduit (18) be set, this air coolant tube (17) prolongs with the top of cooler (15) and left and right sides ground discharge cold air and formed by moulding such as foam styrene thermal insulation material to refrigerating chamber (5) in from refrigeration, one one of this V conduit (18) branch's air coolant tube (17) and downwards fresh-keeping chamber (9) is supplied with, on the position corresponding to the top of above-mentioned screen work (11) of above-mentioned lid (16), be equipped with cold air blow-off outlet (19) respectively.

And, be provided with the cold air suction of circulation in refrigerating chamber (5) and the refrigeration fan (20) that blows afloat with cooler (15) below in above-mentioned refrigeration.

And, to above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (9) and ice-making compartment (7), the spaces that keeps in cold storage such as (8), temperature transition chamber cool off freezing with cooler (21) and the fan (22) that fan guard (25) in, disposes, by constituting with the same heat exchanger of cooler (15), and prolong and the configuration dorsad of above-mentioned ice-making compartment (7) and temperature transition chamber (8) and fresh-keeping chamber (9) with above-mentioned refrigeration.

Each refrigerate and keep in cold storage the space by by above-mentioned refrigeration with and freezingly cool off with cooler (15) (21) and the freeze cycle that is configured in the compressor formations such as (23) in the Machine Room, the detected temperatures of the not shown temperature sensor by being arranged on refrigerating chamber (5) and refrigerating chamber (9) etc. is controlled above-mentioned freeze cycle and is turned round.

Use and freezing rotation by above-mentioned refrigeration with fan (20) (22), to supply with to the refrigerating chamber (5) and the spaces that keep in cold storage such as the refrigeration storage space of fresh-keeping chamber (9), the refrigerating chamber (9) that reaches low temperature side and ice-making compartment (7) of high temperature side at the cold air that each cooler is made, and each be cooled off control independently with set point of temperature.

Refrigeration with and freezing above-mentioned each cooler (15) (21) respectively as keep in cold storage the space with and refrigerate storage space and use and exclusively disposed, by making refrigeration with for-13 ℃, freezing usefulness are the approximate as far as possible evaporating temperature of about-30 ℃ corresponding storage space temperature with each, keep freeze cycle expeditiously and economize on electricity running.

Above-mentioned refrigeration is axial flow fan with fan (20), back configuration opposed to each other mutually with above-mentioned low-temperature (low temperature) vessel (12), shown in its drawing in side sectional elevation of the amplification profilograph of Fig. 3, Fig. 4, configuration fan (20) in fan guard (25), peripheral part at the blade of fan (20) forms horn mouth (bellmouth) (26), forms at the rear portion of horn mouth (26) to suck space (27) and suction inlet (28) is set in its side.

And form, the cold air that sucks in the refrigerating chamber (5) blown out to the front portion from the rear, and blow afloat at the rear portion upward along inclined guide surface (29), this inclined guide surface (29) on the lid (16) on said fan cover (25) top upward the rear portion be formed obliquely.

By the cold air that blown afloat from upright be located in the lid (16) refrigeration with between the fin of cooler (15) by, and further deliver on one side with being cooled above, in refrigerating chamber (5), blow out and carry out cooling effect from above-mentioned cold air blow-off outlet (19) separately.In addition, make the opening of the cold air blow-off outlet (19) that is arranged between above-mentioned each screen work big more more upward, thereby make from the cold air amount of blowing out of top manyly, cool off more equably as totally making in the refrigerating chamber (5).

Make above-mentioned refrigeration be provided with cooler (15) that the space is communicated with, the below is communicated with the water spilage tray (30) of the bottom that is positioned at fan (20) with the top in the gap between the back wall (5a) of the fan guard (25) at fan (20) back and refrigerating chamber (5) and refrigeration, the defrost water that goes up, dissolves by the defrosting action with cooler (15) attached to refrigeration forms, synform becomes under the top clan of fan guard (25) of ceiling face of fan (20), with its back side serves as that guiding flows down, and is directed to above-mentioned water spilage tray (30).

In order not lose from refrigeration with fan (20), be provided with along above-mentioned inclined guide surface (29) and the guide card (31) that tilts to the top, rear portion at the leading section of the upper surface of said fan cover (25) to the cold air flow of refrigeration with cooler (15).

The outstanding length of the inclined end portion above the rear portion of this guide card (31) is, to be made as under the situation of a apart from the distance of the front surface portion of said fan cover (25), making from the refrigeration of front surface portion to above-mentioned inclined guide surface (29) top of this fan cover (25) longer than above-mentioned apart from a with the distance b of the front-end edge of cooler (15).

If be described in further detail, longer than above-mentioned by making apart from a with the distance b of the front-end edge of the not shown fin of cooler (15) to refrigeration, even the defrost water during defrosting falls from the fin ora terminalis, do not invade fan (20) portion yet, can be directed to water spilage tray (30) along its back side from the ceiling face of fan guard (25) and carry out draining to the outside, can guarantee the draining pathway, and can prevent because defrost water intrusion fan (20) freezes, makes fan motor the generation of significant problem such as to cut out by drainage mechanism.

Therefore, above-mentioned refrigeration is provided with the depth size of part with fan (20) darker with cooler (15) and conduit (17) portion than the refrigeration of top, by making water spilage tray (30) be positioned at the below of fan (20), can deduct water spilage tray (30) amount the depth size and roughly as the amount of the depth length of fan (20), thereby can suppress to the inboard outstanding length of refrigerating chamber (5), and the amount that will suppress outstanding length enlarge and take in internal volume.

And, the part of the inclined guide surface (29) of this fan guard (25) is positioned at the bottom surface portions of refrigerating chamber (5), promptly quite lean on the position of below than the height of user eyes, therefore, even fan guard (25) is outstanding to the indoor, not eye-catching on visual sense yet, do not give user's constriction, and become the formation of pulling out length of the low-temperature (low temperature) vessel (12) that is suitable for drawer type, the screen work (11 ') of the below of the refrigerating chamber (5) by making the ceiling floor that forms low-temperature (low temperature) vessel (12) is consistent with inclined guide surface (29), and the depth length that can make screen work (11 ') deepens and increases the amount of taking in such as food.

The protuberance that to eliminate refrigerating chamber (5) upper portion is as purpose, the refrigeration that depth length is deepened is arranged on indoor bottom surface sections with fan (20), with on the contrary in the past, to refrigerate under the situation that is configured in fan (20) top with cooler (15), for the defrost water of accepting to drip with cooler (15) from refrigeration, when between refrigeration is with cooler (15) and fan (20), water spilage tray (30) being set, the sidepiece configuration cold air that then is created in water spilage tray (30) is by the necessity with conduit, and, under the situation that fan (20) and water spilage tray (30) front and back are disposed superimposedly, the outstanding length in refrigerating chamber (5) and the top/bottom latitude of ledge also can become big, the storage internal volume is reduced, but, according to above-mentioned formation, can suppress the increase of depth size, and do not take place refrigeration with the defrost water of cooler (15) invade fan (20) part defective and can importing to water spilage tray (30) in swimmingly.

Then, according to Fig. 5, other embodiment of the present invention is described.As illustrating among the above-mentioned embodiment, the lid (16 ') that has worn cold air blow-off outlet (19) is set on the back wall of refrigerating chamber (5).And, owing to not being provided with fan (20) as constituting in the past, the upper portion at this lid (16 ') is provided with tabular surface, therefore, the lamp inside the box (32) in the illumination refrigerating chamber (5) is set on the par that can form in the top of this lid (16 ').

For prolong and the whole width of refrigerating chamber (5) ground on the top of lid (16 ') luminous, lamp inside the box (32) is located at the working flare (32a) of a plurality of LED formations such as (light emitting diode) on the width by row and prolongs and the transmitance resin of indoor whole width ground configuration constitutes and the lampshade (32b) of light diffusion is formed at its front surface, because can be to extensively throwing light on equably in the refrigerating chamber (5), therefore, can look well and recognize taking in food etc.

And, above-mentioned lamp inside the box (32) part by when opening the door, make lampshade (32b) part and prolong and the whole width ground of refrigerating chamber (5) upper rear portion luminous, can bring into play illumination and decoration design effect outstanding concerning the user.

And, in the above-described embodiments, lampshade (32b) is prolonged and the setting of width ground, but be not limited to this, also can form lengthways and be provided with, and cold air is blown out from the blow-off outlet (19) that is formed on its both sides, further, also can be, by form a plurality of screen works (11 ') in the above-mentioned refrigerating chamber (5) by the transmitance resin, and the rearward end separately of this screen work (11 ') is closely contacted or closely configuration with the anterior of above-mentioned lampshade (32b), and the light of the plate portion of alight cover (32b) is transmitted to screen work (11 '), and make screen work (11 ') whole luminous.

In addition, in the above-described embodiments, the layout of each storeroom is configured to, topmost is refrigerating chamber (5), and next makes ice-making compartment (7) with temperature transition chamber (8) and put, and its underpart is fresh-keeping chamber (9), and foot is refrigerating chamber (10), but the present invention is not limited to this.

Claims

1, a kind of refrigerator is characterized in that,

Have:

Be configured in the refrigerating chamber on the refrigerator main body;

Be arranged on back in the above-mentioned refrigerating chamber and the refrigeration cooler that refrigerating chamber is cooled off;

Be arranged on the back of above-mentioned refrigerating chamber and the refrigeration fan that will blow in refrigerating chamber with the cooled cold air of cooler by above-mentioned refrigeration;

Reception is from the water spilage tray of above-mentioned refrigeration with the defrost water of cooler; And

At least cover above-mentioned refrigeration cooler and the above-mentioned refrigeration lid of fan,

Above-mentioned refrigeration is disposed from top respectively with fan, above-mentioned water spilage tray successively with cooler, above-mentioned refrigeration.

2, refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Fan guard is set, this fan guard will be blown with the cooler side with the circulation cold air above-mentioned refrigeration upward that fan forwards blows out from above-mentioned refrigeration, the above-mentioned refrigeration that makes this fan guard is positioned at the front side of above-mentioned refrigeration with cooler with the end edge of cooler side, makes from above-mentioned refrigeration and does not invade above-mentioned refrigeration fan with the defrost water of cooler.

3, refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Make the rear end that is arranged on the undermost screen work in the above-mentioned refrigerating chamber opposed and be positioned on this inclined guide surface with inclined guide surface, this inclined guide surface from the top of the antetheca of above-mentioned refrigeration usefulness fan towards the rear portion, top that links to each other with above-mentioned lid.

4, refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

At the top of above-mentioned lid configuration lamp inside the box, this lamp inside the box prolongs and the width ground of above-mentioned refrigerating chamber throws light on to indoor.