CN101490488A - Ice making apparatus and refregerator comprising the same - Google Patents

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CN101490488A
CN101490488A CNA2007800273882A CN200780027388A CN101490488A CN 101490488 A CN101490488 A CN 101490488A CN A2007800273882 A CNA2007800273882 A CN A2007800273882A CN 200780027388 A CN200780027388 A CN 200780027388A CN 101490488 A CN101490488 A CN 101490488A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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    • F25C5/04—Apparatus for disintegrating, removing or harvesting ice without the use of saws
    • F25C5/06—Apparatus for disintegrating, removing or harvesting ice without the use of saws by deforming bodies with which the ice is in contact, e.g. using inflatable members
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/02—Apparatus for disintegrating, removing or harvesting ice
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
    • F25D23/04—Doors; Covers with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Abstract

Provided are an ice maker and a refrigerator including the same. An ice maker is mounted on a rear side of a door. Flooding of water stored in an ice tray is prevented by a tray cover. Also, an ice bank storing ice made from the ice maker is taken in and out through a home bar provided to the door. Therefore, reduction in the storage capacity of the refrigerator is minimized, and simultaneously, the ice can be easily taken out.

Description

Ice maker and comprise the refrigerator of this ice maker
Technical field.
The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator, and relate more particularly to a kind of being arranged in the refrigerator in order to the ice maker of ice making and refrigerator with this ice maker.
Background technology
The refrigerator of introducing to the market in the recent period is provided with the ice maker that is used for ice making.Described ice maker is a kind of device that is used for automatic or manual ice making.As the example of ice maker, exist a kind of like this ice maker, it comprises: a plurality of ice cubes chamber (ice cube) is used for ice making; And ice pan, this ice pan can be reversed, in order to separate prepared ice from described ice cube chamber.The ice that is made by described ice maker is stored in the ice bank.
Yet, exist following limitation according to the ice maker of above-mentioned correlation technique.
At first, the ice maker of above-mentioned correlation technique is installed in the storage area of refrigerator usually.Therefore, owing to ice maker has taken a constant volume storage volume of refrigerator is significantly reduced.
And as indicated above, the ice maker in above-mentioned correlation technique comprises under the situation of ice pan, exists such possibility: the water impact because of external force before frozen that is stored in the ice cube chamber flows out to the outside.For example, because the impact that is produced in the process of opening/closing refrigerator doors can make the water that is stored in the described ice cube chamber spill into outside (being in the storage area of refrigerator).
In addition, need open the storage area and be stored in ice in the ice bank by opening refrigerator doors with use.Therefore, the use of the inconvenient ice cube of possibility.
Summary of the invention
Technical problem
The refrigerator that embodiments of the invention provide a kind of ice pan and comprised this ice pan, this ice pan are configured to make the reduction of refrigerator storage capacity to minimize.
The refrigerator that embodiments of the invention also provide a kind of ice pan and comprised this ice pan, this ice pan is configured to: in the process of opening/closing refrigerator doors, make the water that is used for ice making spill into outside phenomenon and be reduced to bottom line.
Technical scheme
In one embodiment, propose a kind of ice maker, comprising: ice pan, it is rotatably installed on the dorsal part of refrigerator doors, and comprises the ice cube chamber that is used for ice making; And disk cover, the rotation of itself and described ice pan is rotated synergistically, with the described ice cube of opening/closing chamber optionally.
In another embodiment, propose a kind of ice maker, comprising: support frame, it is installed on the dorsal part of refrigerator doors; Ice pan, it is pivotally mounted to described support frame, and stores the water that is used for ice making; And disk cover, it is installed as and can and prevents that the water that is stored in the described ice pan from overflowing with respect to described ice pan rotation.
In another embodiment, propose a kind of refrigerator, comprising: main body, it comprises the storage area; Door, it is used for the optionally described storage area of opening/closing; And according to each described ice maker in the claim 1 to 17, described ice maker is installed on the dorsal part of described door.
Beneficial effect
According to the present invention, the reduction of refrigerator storage capacity is minimized, and prevent that simultaneously the water that is used for ice making from spilling into the outside, and can easily put into and take out ice.
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Fig. 1 is the stereogram that the refrigerator outward appearance is shown, and described refrigerator comprises the ice maker according to an embodiment.
Fig. 2 is the stereogram that the inside of the refrigerator that comprises an embodiment is shown.
Fig. 3 is the stereogram that an embodiment is shown.
Fig. 4 illustrates according to the ice pan of an embodiment and the stereogram of disk cover.
Fig. 5 to Fig. 8 is the vertical cross-sectional that is used to illustrate according to the operating process of an embodiment.
Fig. 9 illustrates according to the ice pan of the formation ice maker of another embodiment and the stereogram of disk cover;
The specific embodiment
Now with reference to accompanying drawing, describe ice maker of the present invention in detail according to the embodiment of ice maker of the present invention.
Fig. 1 is the stereogram that the refrigerator outward appearance is shown, and described refrigerator comprises the ice maker according to an embodiment, and Fig. 2 is the stereogram that the inside of the refrigerator that comprises an embodiment is shown.
See figures.1.and.2, refrigerator comprises: main body 1, refrigerating chamber door 4 and refrigerating-chamber door 5.The inside of main body 1 is provided with the storage area that is used to store food.Cut apart to form refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 about described storage area quilt.Refrigerating chamber door 4 and refrigerating-chamber door 5 difference are opening/closing refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 optionally.Refrigerating chamber door 4 and refrigerating-chamber door 5 are rotatably installed on main body 1.
Simultaneously, refrigerating chamber door 4 (hereinafter being called door) is provided with bar desk (home bar) 6.Bar desk 6 is designed for need not to open door 4 just can put into or take out food under with the situation of opening refrigerating chamber 2.Bar desk 6 comprises bar desk housing 8 and bar door 7.Bar desk housing 8 is arranged on the dorsal part of door 4.Between the inboard of the dorsal part of door 4 and bar desk housing 8, be formed for storing the storage area of food.And rotate vertically around the lower end of the bar door 7 of door on 4 upper end of bar door 7, with opening/closing bar desk housing 8 optionally.
In addition, ice maker 10 is installed on the dorsal part of door 4.Ice maker 10 is designed for ice making, and will provide hereinafter the detailed description of this ice maker.
On the corresponding part ice bank 60 is being installed below the dorsal part of door 4 and the ice maker 10, ice bank 60 is installed as and can be placed into or takes out.Ice bank 60 stores the ice that is made by ice pan 30.Ice bank 60 can take off by the dorsal part from door 4 via bar desk 6.
Fig. 3 is the stereogram that an embodiment is shown, and Fig. 4 illustrates according to the ice pan of an embodiment and the stereogram of disk cover.
With reference to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, ice maker 10 comprises: support frame 20, and it is installed on the dorsal part of door 4; Ice pan 30, it is installed in rotation on the support frame 20; Disk cover 40 is used for optionally opening/closing ice pan 30; And control cabinet 50.
Support frame 20 forms the shape of rectangular frame.The upper surface of a long side of support frame 20 is provided with the installing component 21 on the dorsal part that is used to be installed to door 4.On the short side of support frame 20, be formed for rotating the supported hole 23 of ice pan 30.On a short side of support frame 20, hook sill (hooking threshold) (not shown) is set.Described hook sill flatly support ice pan 30, and the ice pan 30 that has rotated predetermined angular can be reversed.Because described hook sill belong to a kind of conspicuous structure that adopts in relevant twist mode ice maker, therefore omitted its detailed description.
In addition, support frame 20 long side is provided with stopper protrusion 25.Stopper protrusion 25 allows disk cover 40 to rotate with respect to ice pan 30.For this purpose, the front end of stopper protrusion 25 is positioned to depart from the rotary motion trace of ice pan 30 but overlaps with the rotary motion trace of disk cover 40.Therefore, described stopper protrusion 25 is not disturbed the rotation of ice pan 30, but disturbs the rotation of disk cover 40.
Ice pan 30 forms the inboard corresponding rectangular shape with support frame 20.Ice pan 30 comprises a plurality of ice cube chambers 31 that are used to store the water of ice making.On two short sides of ice pan 30, be respectively equipped with rotating shaft 33.Each rotating shaft 33 is inserted in the supported hole 23 and by supported hole 23 and supports.
Disk cover 40 prevents that fully the water that is stored in the described ice cube chamber 31 from spilling into the outside.For this purpose, disk cover 40 is opening/closing ice pan 30 optionally, more specifically, and the described ice cube of opening/closing chamber 31 optionally.In one embodiment, disk cover 40 forms and the corresponding semi-cylindrical shaped of the rotary motion trace of ice pan 30.
On disk cover 40, be provided with water supply opening 41.Described water supply opening 41 is designed for the water that stores in the described ice cube chamber 31.Water supply opening 41 is to form by a part of cutting ice pan 40.At least a portion overlaid in the projection of water supply opening 41 and all ice cube chamber 31.
Being provided with in interior week of disk cover 40 is used for the contact rib that optionally contacts with the top edge of ice pan 30.Contact rib 43 protrudes from the two ends on the interior week of disk cover 40.The height that contact rib 43 protrudes can determine the rotation that makes ice pan 30 not with contact rib 43 and takes place in the scope of interference.
Simultaneously, disk cover 40 is installed as with respect to ice pan 30 and rotates.For this purpose, disk cover 40 long side is connected on the long side of ice pan 30 rotationally by runner assembly 45 (with reference to Fig. 5).Here, the long side by runner assembly 45 ice pans 30 connected to one another and disk cover 40 is the ice pan 30 that separates with stopper protrusion 25 and the long side of disk cover 40.Runner assembly 45 can be arranged at ice pan 30 and ice sheet 40 on one of them jointed shaft and be arranged at ice pan 30 and ice sheet 40 in another on the hinge hole of ccontaining described jointed shaft.
In addition, control cabinet 50 is arranged on the outer surface of a short side of support frame 20.Be provided with a plurality of parts that comprise the motor (not shown) that is used to rotate ice pan 30 in the inside of control cabinet 50.That is to say, rotate ice pan 30 by the driving force that transmits by described motor.
Illustrate in greater detail operation below with reference to accompanying drawings according to the ice maker of an embodiment.
Fig. 5 to Fig. 8 is the vertical cross-sectional that is used to explain according to the operating process of an embodiment.
With reference to Fig. 5, when ice pan 30 supported with maintenance horizontal equilibrium state by described hook sill, ice cube chamber 31 was covered by disk cover 40.Here, contact rib 43 closely is fitted on the top edge of ice pan 30.Therefore, can more effectively utilize disk cover 40 to cover ice cube chamber 31.
With reference to Fig. 6, ice cube chamber 31 stores the water that is used for ice making.The water W that is stored in the ice cube chamber 31 provides by water supply opening 41.Therefore, when water W is supplied to ice cube chamber 31, avoid water W to spill into outside phenomenon by disk cover 40.
Consult Fig. 7, utilize the cooling air of circulation in refrigerating chamber 2 (with reference to Fig. 2) to come the water W of storage in the frozen ice block chamber 31, make ice thus.When ice I was made into, ice pan 30 was used to begin to rotate counterclockwise round rotating shaft 33 from the driving force of described motor.When ice pan 30 rotates, to watch from figure, disk cover 40 also rotates counterclockwise round rotating shaft 33 synergistically with ice pan 30.When ice pan 30 rotates counterclockwise predetermined angular, closely be fitted on the stopper protrusion 25 with a long side of the disk cover 40 of ice pan 30 synergic rotation.When a long side of disk cover 40 closely is fitted on the stopper protrusion 25, works in coordination with the rotation of the disk cover 40 that carries out with the rotation of ice pan 30 stopper protrusion 25 is disturbed.
Consult Fig. 8, when a long side of disk cover 40 closely is fitted on the stopper protrusion 25,, works in coordination with the rotation of the disk cover 40 that carries out with the rotation of ice pan 30 and also can disturb stopper protrusion 25 even ice pan 30 continues to rotate counterclockwise.Thereby disk cover 40 no longer rotates synergistically with ice pan 30.That is to say, when ice pan 30 when rotating shaft 33 clockwise rotates, disk cover 40 clockwise rotates round runner assembly 45 with respect to ice pan 30.Therefore, the ice cube chamber 31 of being covered by disk cover 40 is opened.In addition, the contact rib 43 of the top edge of contact ice pan 30 is separated from one another with the described top edge of ice pan.
When ice pan 30 continued to rotate counterclockwise, a side of ice pan 30 closely was fitted on the hook sill, and ice pan 30 is reversed, and the ice I that makes in the ice cube chamber 31 is 31 disengagings from the ice cube chamber.The ice I that detaches falls owing to its deadweight and is stored in (with reference to Fig. 2) in the ice bank 60.
At this moment, ice I is stored in the ice bank 60, and the user can take out ice bank 60 by bar desk 6 (seeing figures.1.and.2), to use ice I.Therefore, can when use is stored in ice I in the ice bank 60, make cooling air in the refrigerating chamber 2 leak into outside phenomenon and be reduced to bottom line.
Embodiments of the present invention
Describe according to the ice maker of another embodiment in more detail and comprise the refrigerator of this ice maker now with reference to accompanying drawing.
Fig. 9 illustrates according to the ice pan of the formation ice maker of another embodiment and the stereogram of disk cover.
Consult Fig. 9, disk cover 40 forms rectangular plate shape, and disk cover 40 is used for optionally covering the ice cube chamber 31 around the ice pan 30 of rotating shaft 33 rotations.Here, disk cover 40 can form the size that can extend to ice pan 30 outsides.In addition, on disk cover 40, form water supply opening 41, wait to be stored in water in the described ice cube chamber 31 in order to supply.Because the remaining part of the embodiment of Fig. 9 is identical with the parts of previous embodiment, therefore omitted detailed description to these parts.
Should be understood that those skilled in the art can visualize various other modification and the embodiment within the spirit and scope that fall into principle of the present invention.In addition, scope of the present invention should with as attached claim be that explain on the basis.
Industrial applicibility
The ice maker that discloses according to the present invention and comprise that the refrigerator of described ice maker provides following effect.
At first, according to an embodiment, ice maker is installed on the refrigerator doors.Thereby described ice maker has been avoided the minimizing of the storage volume in refrigerator storage space, thereby can store more food in refrigerator.
According to an embodiment, the water that disk cover is set to prevent to be stored in the ice pan overflows.Thereby, avoided owing to the impact that produces when the opening/closing refrigerator doors causes being stored in the phenomenon that the water in the ice pan overflows, thereby can more cleanly use refrigerator.
In addition, according to an embodiment, promptly can put into and take out the ice bank that stores ice by opening the bar desk, and need not to open refrigerator doors.Therefore, can take out ice more simply.
In addition, according to an embodiment, owing to can take out ice by the opening/closing bar door, thereby make the cooling leakage of air that in the storage area, flows minimize.Therefore, can use refrigerator more economically.

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1. ice maker comprises:
Ice pan, it is rotatably installed on the dorsal part of refrigerator doors, and comprises the ice cube chamber that is used for ice making; And
Disk cover, the rotation of itself and described ice pan is rotated synergistically, with the described ice cube of opening/closing chamber optionally.
2. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover are provided with the water supply opening that is used to supply water to described ice cube chamber.
3. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover is connected in described ice pan, so that described disk cover can rotate with respect to described ice pan.
4. ice maker according to claim 3 also comprises stop part, and described stop part makes the described disk cover that rotates synergistically with the rotation of described ice pan rotate with respect to described ice pan.
5. ice maker according to claim 4, at least a portion of wherein said stop part are positioned to depart from the rotary motion trace of described ice pan but overlap with the rotary motion trace of described ice sheet.
6. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover forms semi-cylindrical shaped, and described semi-cylindrical shaped has the horizontal semi-circular cross-section perpendicular with the extension line of described ice pan rotating shaft.
7. ice maker according to claim 6, wherein said disk cover are provided with and are used for the contact rib that contacts with the top edge of described ice pan.
8. ice maker according to claim 7, wherein said contact rib protrudes from described disk cover in interior week.
9. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein said disk cover forms tabular.
10. ice maker according to claim 9, the size of wherein said disk cover forms the outside that extends to described ice pan.
11. an ice maker comprises:
Support frame, it is installed on the dorsal part of refrigerator doors;
Ice pan, it is pivotally mounted to described support frame, and stores the water that is used for ice making; And
Disk cover, it is installed as and can rotates with respect to described ice pan, and prevents that the water that is stored in the described ice pan from overflowing.
12. ice maker according to claim 11, wherein said disk cover and the described ice pan co-operating of rotating with respect to described support frame, to rotate along the direction identical with the rotation direction of described ice pan, and described subsequently disk cover with respect to described ice pan along rotating, so that described ice is separated with the direction of the direction of rotation of described ice pan.
13. ice maker according to claim 11, wherein said support frame is provided with stop part, and when described disk cover and described ice pan rotated synergistically with respect to the rotation of described support frame, described stop part can rotate described disk cover with respect to described ice pan.
14. that ice maker according to claim 13, wherein said stop member are arranged on is corresponding with the position of rotary motion trace of departing from described ice pan, on the side of described support frame.
15. ice maker according to claim 11 also comprises a contact, described contact is used to make described ice pan closely to be fitted in described disk cover.
16. ice maker according to claim 15, wherein said contact comprises the contact rib, and described contact rib protrudes and contact the top edge of described ice pan from described disk cover.
17. ice maker according to claim 11, the driving force that wherein said ice pan utilizes motor to provide is rotated.
18. a refrigerator comprises:
Main body, it comprises the storage area;
Door, it is used for the optionally described storage area of opening/closing; And
According to each described ice maker in the claim 1 to 17, described ice maker is installed on the dorsal part of described door.
19. refrigerator according to claim 18, also comprise an ice bank, described ice bank be installed in the bottom of described ice maker below dorsal part corresponding, described door on so that put into and take out described ice bank, described ice bank stores the ice that is made by described ice maker.
20. described ice bank is put into and taken out to refrigerator according to claim 19 wherein by the bar desk that is arranged on the described door.
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