Background technology
The domestic refrigerator of large volume capacity has the many doors that are used for each apotheca, is sold to satisfy various user's requests.This refrigerator utilizes various chambers to arrange with by commercialization, for example: the top refrigerating chamber arranges that refrigerating chamber is arranged on the refrigerated top therein; Middle refrigerating chamber arranges, refrigerating chamber is arranged between the refrigerated and the vegetable compartment on the bottom on the top therein; The bottom refrigerating chamber arranges, refrigerating chamber be arranged on therein by under the position; Below layout, wherein, refrigerating chamber and vegetable compartment are vertical length, and are arranged side by side below the refrigerated on the top; Be arranged side by side, wherein, compartment freezer and refrigerated are arranged side by side about being.
In this business environment, the following layout of compartment becomes leading recently aspect ease of use: refrigerated, and have big capacity, and often use, be arranged on the top; The vegetables compartment, be arranged on refrigerated below; And compartment freezer, be arranged on the bottom.In addition, for example disclosed following setting has become more and more to improve ease of use among the JP2004-037042A (Japanese Patent Application Publication No.2004-037042): the changeable chamber of ice-making compartment and temperature, volume is relatively little, is arranged between vegetable compartment and the refrigerating chamber.Simultaneously, the refrigerator of following setting is commercialization also: the ice-making compartment of low capacity and the changeable chamber of temperature etc. is arranged between refrigerated and the vegetable compartment, and described vegetable compartment is arranged on the pars intermedia office.
Same business-like is such refrigerator, and it has vegetable compartment in refrigerated.In this set, vegetable compartment mainly is configured to drawer, and it is placed on the shelf at place, refrigerated bottom, shown in JP1993 (H05)-157429A (Japanese Patent Application Publication No.H05 (1993)-157429).
Simultaneously, JP2003-185334A shows following setting: the dodge gate (flapper door) that is used to close the open front of refrigerated is fixed to the hinge on the upper and lower sides, can rotate freely simultaneously; Storage is put up on the inner surface that multilayer is arranged on hinged door; A nethermost storage rack is separated wall and is divided into the front and rear part, and is configured to hold highly bigger container.
Bottom refrigerating chamber setting shown in JP1993 (H05)-157429A has following point: refrigerating chamber and vegetable compartment, have big volume, be arranged on the top, thereby the convertible chamber of ice-making compartment and temperature be arranged on highly by under the position; Therefore be difficult to the chamber extraction of drawer structure and the article in the taking-up chamber; The top of the door of vegetable compartment is positioned at user's waist or the following person of belt height, thereby gives the such impression of observer: refrigerator seems highly lower and less, has therefore damaged the decorative appearance of refrigerator.
Apparent this defective occurs in the following arrangement equally: this arrangement has ice-making compartment and the convertible chamber of temperature between refrigerated and vegetable compartment, and described vegetable compartment is positioned at the pars intermedia office.In addition, only when the door that is used for vegetable compartment was unlocked, the user was just presented in the inside of vegetable compartment; Therefore, the user is not easy to notice the decline of vegetables freshness and may forgets and use them.
Device shown in JP1993 (H05)-157429A as shown in Figure 6.Low-temperature (low temperature) vessel 65 be placed in the refrigerated 56 by under the position; The vegetable container 63 of drawer structure is placed on the top of low-temperature (low temperature) vessel 65; The vertical size of the refrigerated 56 on the top is slightly greater than the refrigerating chamber on the bottom 57.In addition, refrigerating chamber 57 has hinged door 73, its horizontal hunting; And have a plurality of refrigerated container 75-78, their open tops and be drawer structure.Therefore, refrigerator has two doors that are positioned on top and the bottom; And these are hinged doors of horizontal hunting.As a result, this arrangement very simple and with differentiating shown in JP2004-037042A or other document, equally aspect ease of use.During these are provided with each all has merits and demerits.
Device shown in the JP2003-185334A has following shortcoming: the height dimension of refrigerated is limited, thus be used to store high bottle for example the storage rack of PET bottle be difficult to form two-layer more than.Therefore, the space that is used to hold high bottle can not fully obtain.High bottle can be stored in the vegetable compartment.Yet vegetable compartment mainly forms drawer structure, wherein when the door of vegetable compartment by outside tractive when opening, open-topped storage container is pulled out.And in order to satisfy the user's request of the abundant volume capacity of guaranteeing vegetable compartment, the depth dimensions of storage container is configured to the height greater than PET or vial.Therefore, bottle is stored in has shortcoming in the vegetable compartment: when bottle was pulled out, bottle must be raised bigger vertical distance.
The specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the embodiment of the invention is described.Fig. 1 shows the overall perspective of refrigerator main body 1; Fig. 2 shows the perspective view in the refrigerating-chamber door opening; Fig. 3 shows the vertical cutaway view of refrigerator.The refrigerator main body 1 of Fig. 1-3 is configured such that: heat insulation shell comprises: shell 2, and inner casing 3 and heat barrier foam 4 are filled between the inside and outside shell; The inside of heat insulation shell 2 is separated into refrigerated (fresh-food compartment) 6 that is positioned on the top side and the compartment freezer (freezer compartment) 7 that is positioned on the bottom side by heat insulation partition wall 5.
The open front of refrigerated 6 will be by a pair of dodge gate (flapper door, hinged door) 8 closures, and described door is appearance of french doors (french door) setting.Refrigerated 6 is divided into by top portion dividing plate 12 and bottom demarcation strip 14: be positioned at the refrigerating chamber (fresh-food chamber) 10 on the top, be provided with a plurality of shelves 9; Vegetable compartment 11 has the vegetable container 13 of drawer structure, as separating with refrigerating chamber 10 and in its lower section chamber being set; With the low temperature chamber 15 that is positioned on the bottom, it remains on about 0 ℃ to-3 ℃ temperature range; Top portion dividing plate 12 is formed by transparent resin and same shelf as the place, bottom that is positioned at refrigerating chamber 10, and bottom demarcation strip 14 is as the diapire of vegetable compartment 11.The refrigerated 6 that comprises vegetable compartment 11 has the vertical size that is not less than 900mm.
Vegetable container 13 is open-topped vessel, comprising: the short antetheca 13a of little vertical size and the wall around other; And can slide along fore-and-aft direction by the slide rail element, this slide rail element extends and is arranged on the left-hand side and right hand sidewall of inner casing 3 along fore-and-aft direction.
When vegetable container 13 was arranged to be contained in precalculated position in the refrigerated 6, the open top of vegetable container 13 was by top portion dividing plate 12 closures; Be formed on open front between the leading edge (fringe) of short antetheca 13a and top portion dividing plate 12 by lid 16 closures.Driven by seesawing of vegetable container 13 and with its interlock, lid 16 sealings and open open front.Lid 16 also can be closed by user's hand and open, and therefore can always be held open.Open-topped little article container 17 is arranged in the vegetable container 13, at its left-hand side; And the track on the left hand inside surface of side wall that is arranged on vegetable container 13 is supported, and is supported as the mode with cantilever, thereby can slide along fore-and-aft direction.
In compartment freezer 7, be provided with: ice-making compartment 18 is equipped with automatic ice-making mechanism; With the convertible chamber 19 of temperature; As Fig. 4.These chamber volume are relatively little, and be arranged on just abreast each other heat insulation partition wall 5 below, and be configured to drawer, thus along with the door on their front sides is pulled out.The convertible chamber 19 of temperature for example can remain on-18 ℃ and-9 ℃, in gentle cryogenic temperature scope; And can remain on-3 ℃ part cryogenic temperature, near zero non-meat cryogenic temperature,, between these temperature, switch in fresh food storage temperature and vegetables storage temperature.The convertible chamber 19 of temperature can only be used for second refrigerating chamber of freezing purpose replaces, and can be replaced by second vegetable compartment, and it for example only is used for fruit as independent chamber.If replaced by second refrigerating chamber, thermal wall need be between second refrigerating chamber and ice-making compartment 18.
Below ice-making compartment 18 that is arranged side by side and the convertible chamber 19 of temperature: refrigerating chamber 22, construct with drawer structure with the set-up mode identical equally, and separate from two chambers 19 and 18 by horizontal subdivision plate 21 with two chambers 19 and 18.The right left that refrigerating chamber 22 has to size equal (tantamount) refrigerator main body 1, and vertically be of a size of 350-550mm, it is greater than common refrigerator.
Refrigerating chamber 22 has: door 23, closure and the open front of opening refrigerating chamber 22; A pair of unshowned support frame is positioned on left-hand side and the right-hand side, and they are fastened on the inner surface of door 23; Orbit element is arranged on the right-hand side and left hand sidewall of refrigerating chamber 22, and extends along fore-and-aft direction; With storage container 25, be used to store frozen food, it is supported by support frame and orbit element, thus mode that can drawer slide along fore-and-aft direction, as Fig. 5.
Storage container 25 forms open-topped box by extruding of synthetic resin, has sizable depth dimensions; And have and be positioned at the flange portion that centers on the open-topped top.By flange portion, the container 26 in intermediate layer has the shape of relatively little depth dimensions and shallow plate, is coated on the storage container 25.Intermediate layer container 26 almost all covers the open top of storage container 25, and has recess backward on the leading edge of container 26, thereby the feeding bottle or other the high object that are used for ice making can be stored in storage container 25.
When refrigerating chamber door 23 was drawn back, intermediate layer container 26 was pulled out by orbit element with storage container 25, leave from the open front of refrigerating chamber 22 up to the rear end of intermediate layer container 26, thereby the open top of intermediate layer container 26 is by complete opening.Intermediate layer container 26 can slide by the flange portion along storage container 25 on fore-and-aft direction, thereby is drawn back and push in the open-topped mode of unlatching and closed storage container 25.Above storage and intermediate layer container 25,26, be provided with top layer container 27, it is pulled out and pushes from chamber interior, is independent of unlatching and the closure of refrigerating chamber door 23 and other container 25-26.
Therefore, refrigerating chamber 22 has three layers of container 25-27 of drawer structure.Top layer container 27 is arranged on the top of intermediate layer container 26, thereby supportedly can slide along fore-and-aft direction by following mechanism.Flange portion is formed on the open-topped left side and right side of top layer container 27, directly support by supporting track, described supporting track be from the right-hand side of refrigerating chamber 22 and left hand sidewall to inner process.Because this supporting construction, any that top layer container 27 can be in refrigerating chamber door 23, intermediate layer container 26 and bottom storage container 25 applies load; And the motion that is independent of refrigerating chamber door 23 is come out by tractive independently.When top layer container 27 tractives were come out, refrigerating chamber door 23 at first was pulled out, and top layer container 27 is pulled out from chamber individually then; Be pushed in the chamber afterwards.Top layer container 27 has handle on the part of the antetheca of facing the refrigerating chamber door inner surface; When top layer container 27 was drawn back, handle was booked.
Depth dimensions by changing space on the container and select them and the engagement/disengagement of refrigerating chamber door 23, food to be stored are classified in the space on the container.For example, big relatively and reusable article are stored in the bottom storage container 25; Relatively little and article frequent use are stored in the intermediate layer container 26.Because bottom storage and intermediate layer container 25,26 are by coming out refrigerating chamber door 23 tractives and being drawn back; Article are put into these container 25,26 neutralizations easily from wherein taking out.
Top layer container 27 can hold frozen goods, and they are big and with longer-term storage.Then, since the big depth dimensions of top layer container 27, the not storage of these article with being extruded.In addition, it is closed that top layer container 27 is held, irrelevant with the switching of refrigerating chamber door 23, and and if only if just drawn back when needing; Therefore, be suppressed from the influence of air themperature, article are maintained at good freezing state for a long time.
Therefore, according to the shape of food and/or size, the taking-up of food and the frequency of putting into and using and with the engagement/disengagement of the motion of refrigerating chamber door, the said vesse arrangement of drawer structure helps effectively to use memory space.
On the rear portion of refrigerated and compartment freezer 6 and 7, be respectively arranged with refrigeration and refrigerated cooler 28 and 29, be used for compartment separately, and be provided with fan 30 and 31, be used for corresponding cooler 28 and 29.Be cooled device 28 and 29 the cooling air be directed into compartment 6 and 7 by fan 30 and 31 by corresponding pipeline respectively.
Refrigeration and refrigerated cooler 28 and 29 are arranged in the unshowned refrigerator loop, and by it, the cooling agent of exporting from the outlet opening of compressor 32 alternately is directed to cooler 28 and 29, and described compressor is arranged on the bottom of refrigerator main body 1.Air by the heat exchange cooling is sent in the refrigerated 6 by fan 30, thereby refrigerating chamber and vegetable compartment 10 and 11 are cooled to the temperature that they are fit to.By importing the air of circulation in refrigerated 6, and simultaneously, by will just directly being imported by the part of air of refrigeration cooler 28 coolings, low temperature chamber 15 is cooled to the temperature lower than the other parts of refrigerated 6.
In freezing cooling down operation process, cold-producing medium directly is directed in the refrigerated cooler 29, thereby in low relatively temperature evaporation.The air that is cooled to not to be higher than-20 ℃ of temperature is sent refrigerating chamber and ice-making compartment 22 and 18 etc. by fan 31, thereby these chambers are remained on default separately temperature.
Controller with the temperature in the refrigerated 6 main with refrigerating chamber 22 in temperature relatively, and actuating compressor 32 and fan 30,31.When the temperature in the compartment becomes when being low to moderate preset temperature the conversion between described refrigerating chamber cooling down operation of controller actuating and the refrigerating chamber cooling down operation.For example, when the temperature that detects when the sensor in the refrigerated 8 becomes and is low to moderate 0 ℃, and when the temperature of the detection of the sensor in the refrigerating chamber 19 is low to moderate-20 ℃, change.In addition, when reaching Preset Time length, changes the duration of cooling down operation.For example reach 15-20 minute and when the duration of refrigerating chamber cooling down operation reaches 30-40 minute, change when the duration of refrigerating chamber cooling down operation.
In the freezing cooling down operation process, the surface of refrigeration cooler 28 has frost, and approximately-3 ℃ of temperature, even cold-producing medium flows through refrigeration cooler 22.By rotary fan 30 in this state, the cooling air in the refrigerated has the temperature that is not less than 0 ℃, flows along refrigeration cooler 28, therefore melts described frost.As a result, the cooling air with many moisture flows through refrigerated 8, flows into vegetable compartment 10 then.
Like this, vegetable compartment 10 inside can be cooled and be low to moderate about 2 ℃, keep 4 ℃ mean temperature.Because the inflow of wet air, the humidity in refrigerating chamber and vegetable compartment 8 and 10 becomes up to about 80%.In addition, when storing vegetable, owing to the steam from these, humidity becomes up to 90-95%.Therefore, even when lid 16 is held open, the humidity in the vegetable container 13 can remain on such level, suppresses vegetables exsiccation in the container 13.
As mentioned above, refrigerator main body 1 inside roughly is divided into four separating parts; By heat insulation partition wall 5, below refrigerated 6; By horizontal subdivision plate 21, its with refrigerating chamber 22 from ice making and the convertible chamber 18 of temperature with opened in 19 minutes; With by vertical separating plate 20, it is arranged between heat insulation partition wall 5 and the horizontal subdivision plate 21, and with ice-making compartment 18 from the convertible chamber 19 of temperature separately.
In common refrigerator, the inside of refrigerator main body 1 is divided into three separating parts simply; Door is arranged on the front side of each separating part.Then, it is big that the size of door and weight become, so the weight loading on the heat insulation shell increases.Therefore, the design strength of heat insulation shell should be high.On the contrary in refrigerator of the present invention, the stiffening device of side H shape forms by following structure: be positioned at the heat insulation partition wall 5 on the downside of refrigerator main body 1; Be positioned at the horizontal subdivision plate 21 on the top of refrigerating chamber 22; With vertical separating plate 20, space between partition wall 5 and the demarcation strip 21 is divided into right side and left side.Therefore, as rack (cabinet) thus structure rigidity and intensity increase.
In addition, one of them separating part that vertical separating plate 20 forms is an ice-making compartment 18, and therefore it separate with other chamber.And, to compare with general refrigerator, the height and position of ice-making compartment 18 is high relatively, because ice-making compartment 18 is arranged on the top of the refrigerating chamber 22 with large volume.Detailed, the top of ice-making compartment 18 reaches the approximately position of 700mm, top, floor, and refrigerator is placed on the floor.This position will be lower than user's stringcourse slightly; Therefore be easy to take out ice, do not need to bend over, thus easy to use.
Simultaneously, vegetable compartment 11 forms by following structure separation: vegetable container 13 is arranged on the bottom of refrigerated 6; With top portion dividing plate 12, be positioned on the top of vegetable container 13.Therefore, the common refrigerator that has vegetable compartment with pars intermedia office at the refrigerator main body height is compared, at least omitted any and the independent door of drawer structure of the heat insulation partition wall at upper and lower of the top that is arranged in vegetable compartment, and track structure, they need in general refrigerator.Therefore, Shi Ji storage volume has all increased along short transverse and left and right directions and fore-and-aft direction.In addition, by omitting independent door, and by simplifying rail mechanism, manufacturing cost significantly reduces.In addition, because the minimizing of the number of door, the frosting in the open front is suppressed; Heat radiation by open front is lowered, thereby power consumption reduces.
Because vegetable compartment 11 is positioned at refrigerated 6 inside, only the unlatching of refrigerating-chamber door 8 makes it possible to once put into FF and vegetables.This is opposite with common refrigerator, and general refrigerator need be opened the door of refrigerating-chamber door and vegetable compartment.When the lid 16 of vegetable compartment 11 always is held open as mentioned above, put into hand by passing open front, only the unlatching of refrigerating-chamber door 8 just can make it possible to directly take out and put into vegetables.Vegetable container 13 is drawn forward out when needs.Therefore, it is the same with the article of refrigerating chamber 10 with the convenience degree of therefrom taking out various vegetables to be put into vegetable container.Therefore, improved ease of use; Door is opened the duration and door opening times is reduced, and distributes thereby reduced heat.
The top of vegetable compartment 11 reaches the above the ground height of 700-1200mm, therefore than general refrigerator more near the informer.Equally in this, the article of storage are seen by user's eyes easily, thereby have reduced the inefficacy that article use, and have therefore improved ease of use.
As mentioned above, the bottom margin of refrigerated 6 reaches the position more higher slightly than user stringcourse, because vegetable compartment is arranged in the compartment 6, it is big that the size of refrigerating-chamber door 8 becomes.Therefore, the overall appearance of refrigerator has provided fresh impression, and has obtained brand-new outward appearance.When door was opened, aspect the capacity of compartment, user's impression was roomy and spacious.
In the present embodiment, because refrigerating-chamber door 8 is appearance of french doors settings, the vertical cut-off rule of outward appearance between vertical separator bar of outward appearance between right side and the offside door 8 and ice-making compartment and the convertible chamber 18 of temperature and 19 is continuous, thereby forms single straight line.Aesthetic appearance when therefore, having improved the door closure.In addition, because the appearance of french doors setting has reduced heat leak, just can shutter door with relatively little power.Because it is big that the vertical size of refrigerating-chamber door becomes, alleviated in the size restrictions that is provided with on the door frame (door pocket) 33, this size restrictions is big on the relativeness between the design size of the vertical size of article to be stored and frame simultaneously.For example, the door frame 35 that is used to hold higher PET bottle can be with double-deck set-up mode structure, and this is difficult to realize in common refrigerator.Like this, improved ease of use.
Detailed, the upside door frame 34 on two-layer and two-layer on downside door frame 35 be arranged on in right side and the offside door 8 each, almost on the whole width dimensions of door.These door frames connect being suspended between the right side and left side rib on each, thereby form the groove of door frame.Vertical distance between the downside door frame 35 is bigger, and the vertical distance between downside door frame 35 and the upside door frame 34 is bigger; Thereby higher container for example PET bottle and vial can be stored in the downside door frame 35.
Each upside and downside door frame 34,35 comprise preceding retaining wall, and it prevents that stores from falling.Especially, the preceding retaining wall that has of each downside door frame 35 is higher than upside door frame 34; And have partition wall, it extends along gate width direction, and the inside of frame is divided into front side and rear side separating part.Like this, higher container for example PET bottle and beer bottle is arranged in each of these separating parts, thus these containers become two rows be arranged on before and after on the side and stable storage.
The top of the preceding retaining wall on the door frame 35 in the orlop is arranged on the higher position, bottom than the antetheca of vegetable container 13.By this set, when vegetable container 13 was in the state of pulling out and refrigerating-chamber door 8 and closes, the preceding retaining wall of door frame 35 was resisted against on the antetheca 13a of vegetable container 13, thereby it is pushed in the vegetable compartment 11.
Therefore according to present embodiment, the door frame 34 and 35 of multilayer is arranged on the inner surface of refrigerating-chamber door 8; Many containers have big height, can be stored in door frame in the position that is easy to put into and take out; Therefore, ease of use is fabulous.On the contrary according to general refrigerator, in the time will guaranteeing that big quantity space is used to store the container of big height, the container with big height must be stored in the vegetable compartment, and it is drawer structure and separates with refrigerating chamber.Therefore, must just can put into and take out container by the big height distance of tractive that container is made progress.