CN101563573B - Refrigeration device comprising an ice reservoir - Google Patents

Refrigeration device comprising an ice reservoir Download PDF

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CN101563573B
CN101563573B CN2007800473450A CN200780047345A CN101563573B CN 101563573 B CN101563573 B CN 101563573B CN 2007800473450 A CN2007800473450 A CN 2007800473450A CN 200780047345 A CN200780047345 A CN 200780047345A CN 101563573 B CN101563573 B CN 101563573B
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M·布赫施塔布
I·杜姆科
A·法伊诺尔
K·弗林纳
B·赫格尔
P·纳尔巴赫
K·亚赞
H·刘易斯
C·D·韦伯斯特
N·伦奇
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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
    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/18—Storing ice
    • F25C5/182—Ice bins therefor
    • 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
    • F25C5/20—Distributing ice
    • F25C5/22—Distributing ice particularly adapted for household refrigerators
    • 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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    • F25C2500/08—Sticking or clogging of ice

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Abstract

A refrigeration device comprises a housing (1, 2) enclosing an interior (3) and an ice reservoir (7), arranged in the interior (3), having an output opening (12) and accommodating a stirrer (9). The ice reservoir (7) can be pivoted between two positions that are different with respect to the height of the output opening (12).

Description

Refrigerating appliance with ice reservoir
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of the have refrigerating appliance of built-in ice dispenser, particularly domestic refrigerator or modular refrigeration-freezer unit.
Background technology
Such refrigerating appliance for example is known in US4176627A.Be arranged on ice dispenser in the inner space of refrigerating appliance and comprise ice cube storage bin and the agitator that can rotate around the axis that extends through storage bin.The bottom of elongated storage bin tilts towards one end thereof, makes that the ice cube that is stored in the storage bin trends towards moving towards this end when agitator rotates.At this end, dispensed chambers is connected to storage chamber, and ice cube moves in the passage via dispensed chambers, and described passage extends through the housing of refrigerating appliance and leads to space outerpace.Be arranged in the dispensed chambers blade can from ice cube can be in good condition mode of operation by dispensed chambers transform to the mode of operation that described blade pulverizes ice cube.
Ice cube is along with each rotation of agitator is brought in the dispensed chambers.Rotate if agitator can not reach at ice cube under the situation of space outerpace, can exist the danger of blocking takes place.If agitator only actually will divide timing just to rotate at ice, the period between the actuating in succession of agitator may become very long, thereby exists ice cube to freeze together the danger stuck with agitator in storage bin.
Another example with refrigerating appliance of ice dispenser is known in US6880355B2.At this, agitator is extend past storage bin longitudinally also, this storage bin one vertically end has dispense aperture.Agitator partly is implemented as helical form, part is implemented as worm screw, so that rotate the ice cube that promotes to be arranged in storage bin towards the direction of dispense aperture by it.At this, also have problems, agitator only can be assigned with Shi Caike at the ice that transmits and activated, thus if distribute ice for a long time, ice cube can freeze together in storage bin.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of refrigerating appliance with ice reservoir, wherein, even do not wish simultaneously to distribute ice, agitator also can activated.
According to the present invention, the realization of above-mentioned purpose is that under a kind of situation of refrigerating appliance, described refrigerating appliance has housing, and described housing crosses the inner space; And the storage bin with dispense aperture, described storage bin is arranged in the described inner space, and agitator is arranged in the described storage bin, and described ice reservoir can pivot between the two positions, and the difference of described two positions is the height of dispense aperture.The pivoting action of storage bin can be guaranteed, the ice cube that is driven by the motion of agitator trends towards away from dispense aperture or does not trend towards at least moving towards dispense aperture, and/or any transmission effect that may exist according to the design of agitator can be compensated by the inclination storage bin.
Expediently, be provided with actuation element, described actuation element is used to make ice reservoir to move pivotally between the two positions.When the user wished to distribute ice, by means of actuation element, ice reservoir can realize that towards the wing drop of the lower position of dispense aperture the branch timing when stopping to ice also can turn back to the higher position.
Agitator preferably can rotate around the axis along the longitudinal extension of storage bin.
According to first embodiment, described agitator is the bar that in one plane has the waveform profile.Such agitator itself does not have the transmission effect on the direction of its pivot center, but is used to make the inclination of the bottom that the preferred orientations of ice cube motion can be by ice reservoir to specify.Therefore, a position in two positions, the bottom of ice reservoir is downward-sloping towards dispense aperture expediently, and in another position, the bottom of ice reservoir raises towards dispense aperture.
According to second embodiment, agitator is spiral-shaped.As spiral-shaped function, the rotation of such agitator plays a part to transmit along the direction parallel with pivot center to the ice cube in the ice reservoir.If ice is not driven towards dispense aperture in order to ensure not wishing to distribute ice, agitator can rotate expediently in opposite direction.
The rotation direction of agitator expediently with the location association of ice reservoir.In order to use simple drive motors to activate agitator, the change gear mechanism with the location association of ice reservoir can be set between motor and agitator particularly with one-directional rotation.
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Below, referring to accompanying drawing the exemplary embodiment that is provided is described, with obvious further feature and advantage of the present invention, accompanying drawing comprises:
Fig. 1 shows by the schematic cross-section with family expenses refrigerating appliance of ice dispenser according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 shows that line A in Fig. 1 done passes through cross section according to the ice dispenser of first embodiment;
Fig. 3 show according to second embodiment with the similar cross section of Fig. 2; And
Fig. 4 shows the cross section of being done along the line B of Fig. 1 according to second embodiment.
The specific embodiment
Have adiabatic body 1 and door 2 with the refrigerating appliance shown in the schematic cross-section in Fig. 1, their gauges go out inner space 3.The temperature of inner space 3 is maintained at below 0 ℃ by means of evaporimeter, and described evaporimeter is contained in the independent evaporation chamber 4 of upper area of adiabatic body 1.Automatic ice maker 5 next-door neighbour's evaporation chambers 4 are arranged in the inner space 3, make described ice machine 5 can preferably stand the effect from the cold air of evaporation chamber 4.By the known manner that is not shown specifically among the figure, the device that ice machine 5 comprises a plurality of molded containers, is used for automatically supplying water to the device of molded container and is used for automatically evicting from from molded container the ice cube of finishing.The storage chamber 6 of ice distribution module 7 below ice machine 5, be provided with upwards towards opening, the ice cube of evicting from is collected in the described storage chamber 6.Ice distribution module 7 is extended on the major part of the degree of depth of inner space 3, and for example can is single part or be assembled by a plurality of injection moulding elements by injection-moulding plastic.The motor 10 that is used for activating agitator arm 9 is contained in the back recesses 8 of ice distribution module 7.Motor 10 can permanently be installed in the refrigerating appliance or can be integrally and be formed on removedly in the ice distribution module 7.Agitator arm 9 extends longitudinally through whole storage chamber 6 and/or extends on depth direction in the inner space 3.
Ice distribution module 7 can be suspended in the inner space 3 pivotally around horizontal axis 11, and among the embodiment shown in, described horizontal axis 11 vicinities are iced the rear ends of distribution module 7 herein.According to the setting of ice machine 5 in inner space 3, axis 11 also may be in other positions.By means of the actuation element (not shown), for example have the motor of worm gear, evaporation module 7 can pivot between rest position (illustrating with solid line among Fig. 1) and distribution locations (shown in broken lines).In rest position, the dispense aperture 12 that is arranged on the place, reveal end of icing distribution module 7 is all higher than the overwhelming majority of storage chamber 6.The bottom of storage chamber recedes on depth direction in body 1, makes the ice cube in the storage chamber 6 trend towards accumulating in the rear end of storage chamber 6.This can make agitator arm 9 and the user who distributes ice cube wish to rotate with the interval of appointment independently, thereby makes ice cube keep moving in storage chamber 6, when appropriate, makes them separated from one another and can not discharge via dispense aperture.As the other safeguard measure that anti-stagnant ice is gone out, the baffle plate (not shown) can be arranged on dispense aperture 12 places, and described dispense aperture 12 is closed when rest position, opens when distribution locations.
When the user shows that by the button 20 of pressing door 2 the outside they wish to distribute ice, the control loop (not shown) at first works by triggering actuation element, so that ice distribution module 7 tilts to position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, in this position, the bottom of storage chamber 6 tilts towards door 2, and dispense aperture 12 rests in passage 13 places, and described passage 13 extends through door 2 and arrives recess 14, and described recess 14 opens wide in its front side.Then, control loop is opened baffle plate 15, and described baffle plate 15 is arranged in the passage 13, and normally closed to prevent that hot extraneous air from entering in the inner space 3.Control loop also triggers motor 10, and the rotation of agitator arm 9 makes the ice cube in the storage chamber 6 move to dispense aperture 12.When distributing enough ice, the user is by discharging or pressing button 20 once more and send signal, and at this moment, control loop stops motor 10, and ice distribution module 7 is pivoted back to the position shown in the solid line.
At the rear wall place of recess 14, water tank 16 is embedded in the heat-insulating material that is used for door 2.Water tank 16 is similar to ice machine 5 in a side and is connected to the drinking water trunk line via supply pipe 17 and stop valve 18, is connected to coupling for faucet 19 in the recess 14 at opposite side.
Fig. 2 shows the cross section that passes through ice distribution module 7 along the A plane shown in Fig. 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.At this, agitator arm is implemented as metallic rod, described metallic rod on the plane parallel with its pivot center with the form bending of zigzag.This agitator arm does not have chirality, and therefore, the preferred movement direction of the ice cube that is stirred by described agitator arm is only by the inclination decision of the bottom of storage chamber 6.
Fig. 3 shows the cross section along the A plane shown in Fig. 1 according to a second embodiment of the present invention.At this, agitator arm 9 is spiral helicine, and its anticlockwise rotation drives ice cube in the storage chamber 6 towards the direction of dispense aperture 12.On the contrary, the clockwise motion of agitator arm 9 makes it away from dispense aperture 12 towards the direction promotion ice cube of the rear end of storage chamber 6.Therefore, the effect referring to the banking motion of the described ice distribution module 7 of Fig. 1 also can get help above, and in this case, the rotation direction of agitator arm 9 is controlled according to the ad-hoc location of ice distribution module 7.
Controlling rotation direction by this way can realize by electronic installation, if motor 10 is supported different rotation directions.Yet, also can adopt simple motor with fixing rotation direction, the rotation of described motor is delivered to agitator arm 9 according to the position of ice distribution module 7 via gear mechanism.
Fig. 4 shows the example of this gear mechanism by means of the cross section along plane B shown in Figure 1.Section extends through the gap between the rear wall of motor 10 and storage chamber 6.Toothed take turns 21 and wheel disc 22 be arranged in this gap, described toothed 21 places, end that are fixed on agitator arm 9 un-rotatably of taking turns, described wheel disc 22 is activated by motor 10.Front surface at wheel disc 22 towards storage chamber 6, wheel disc 22 has wide circumferential groove 23, described circumferential groove 23 is provided with tooth along its inner periphery and the outer periphery, the fabric width of groove be selected to make have tooth wheel 21 only can with one group of interlocking in two groups of teeth 24,25 in the groove 23.Although motor 10 and the installation of wheel disc 22 in inner space 3 are fixed, toothed change in location of taking turns 21 height according to ice distribution module 7.Collocation form shown in Figure 4 is corresponding towards the position that door raises with ice distribution module 7, in described collocation form, toothed take turns 21 with interior group of tooth 24 interlockings of wheel disc 22.The toothed number of teeth of taking turns on 21 equates with the number of teeth on the interior group of tooth 24, make agitator arm 9 slowly to rotate with high torque, and frozen any ice cube can easily break.If ice distribution module 7 is pivoted to its position towards the door inclination, toothed take turns 21 with 25 interlocks of outer group tooth, therefore, constant although the rotation direction of wheel disc 22 keeps, but toothedly take turns 21 and activated, make that the ice cube in the storage chamber 6 is sent to dispense aperture 12 with opposite rotation.And because the number of teeth on the outer group tooth 25 is many times of the number of teeth of interior group of tooth 24, in this case, the torque quick rotation of agitator arm 9 to reduce makes after motor 10 activated, and reaches to the ice cube little delay dispense aperture 12, and can be right after the distribution that lands.
In the above-described embodiments, ice cube directly moves to dispense aperture 12 from storage chamber 6.Obviously, also can be provided with between storage chamber 6 and dispense aperture and pulverize the chamber (not shown), ice cube must arrive dispense aperture 12 by way of the described chamber that pulverizes, and pulverizes in the chamber described, and ice cube can be pulverized by mill.

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1. refrigerating appliance, described refrigerating appliance has: housing (1,2), described housing cross inner space (3); With the ice reservoir with dispense aperture (12) (7), described ice reservoir is arranged in the described inner space (3), and agitator (9) is arranged in the described ice reservoir (7), wherein, ice reservoir (7) can pivot between the two positions, the difference of described two positions is the height of dispense aperture (12), it is characterized in that, ice reservoir (7) by means of actuation element can be between position distribution, that dispense aperture (12) is higher that can distribute position ice, that dispense aperture (12) is lower and stop to ice wing drop.
2. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, agitator (9) can rotate around the axis along the longitudinal extension of ice reservoir (7).
3. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, described agitator is the bar that in one plane has the waveform profile.
4. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, a position in described two positions, the bottom of ice reservoir (7) is downward-sloping towards dispense aperture (12), in another position, the bottom of ice reservoir (7) raises towards dispense aperture (12).
5. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, agitator (9) is spiral-shaped.
6. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, agitator (9) can rotate in opposite direction.
7. refrigerating appliance as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, the location association of the rotation direction of agitator (9) and ice reservoir (7).
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