The door opener and refrigerator that are used for refrigerator with it
Technical field
The present invention relates to the refrigerator field, especially relate to a kind of refrigerator that is used for the door opener of clamshell doors refrigerator and has this door opener.
Background technology
Because the chamber door area of clamshell doors refrigerator is bigger, self is also heavier, and opening for a long time and closing owing to chamber door, make the refrigerator body pressure inside be lower than ambient pressure, in addition, the gasket that part door of refrigerator place uses has magnetic stripe, therefore, need overcome the inside and outside pressure reduction of refrigerator body and the magnetic force of gasket when opening chamber door, quite effort.For this reason, but on clamshell doors application machine power-assisted handle device.
Disclosed a kind of device for opening that is used for refrigerator in the Chinese patent application 200810127259.7, as shown in Figure 5, clamshell doors refrigerator with this door opening device comprises cabinet and is used to open and close the door of the front surface of cabinet, described door opening device comprises: handle, be installed on the front surface of door, to carry out seesaw movement; Pusher is installed on the side surface of door, operates with handle, and wherein, that part of the forming in door of mounting knob and pusher is recessed into.
There is following defective in the above-mentioned device for opening that is used for refrigerator:
1, handle is limit because of the space, it can only be laminated structure, during use, handle can't be held and hold, and the user can only stretch into the tip of four fingers the small space of handle rear side, all then opening forces all concentrate on finger tip, finger tip pressure is bigger, causes discomfort, when particularly being applied on the bigger clamshell doors product of a body, though arm obtains laborsaving, be bound to cause the finger tip discomfort;
2, the pusher of above-mentioned device for opening is located at a body column inboard, in the pre-assembled and foaming process of refrigerator door, the possibility of leaking bubble is bigger, and the door body that causes is thus scrapped also and can be increased production cost, and revealing the various technologies of taking for preventing to foam also can increase cost;
3, the outward appearance aspect causes not attractive in appearance owing to lacking the long handle of rod-type metal;
4, this structure needs double-deck column, causes the cost waste;
5, be subjected to the spatial constraints of its structural design, power arm is very short, and the ratio of power arm and resistance arm is also less, and the labor-saving effect is not obvious.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is intended to solve at least one of technical problem that exists in the prior art.For this reason, but one object of the present invention is to propose the door opener that a kind of labour-saving is used for refrigerator, and this door opener uses comfortable and specious.
A kind of door opener that is used for refrigerator of embodiment according to an aspect of the present invention, described refrigerator comprise casing and are used to open and close the chamber door of the opening of casing front that wherein, described door opener comprises: be installed in the fixed handle on the chamber door; Power-assisted handle, first end of described power-assisted handle is hinged on the chamber door with respect to described fixed handle pivotly; And ejecting mechanism, described ejecting mechanism is installed on the described chamber door and links with described power-assisted handle assists to open chamber door with described ejecting mechanism pushing tow casing when power-assisted handle pivots.
According to the device for opening that is used for refrigerator of the present invention, but use the labour-saving power-assisted handle, make original action of opening heaviness become light.In addition, power-assisted handle is the bright handle of rod-type, and the specious and globality that do not disfeature has stronger functional and practicality.Simple in structure, cost is lower.
In addition, the door opener that is used for refrigerator according to the present invention also has following additional technical feature:
The described door opener that is used for refrigerator further comprises the power-assisted handle pedestal, described power-assisted handle pedestal is installed on the described chamber door, and first end of wherein said power-assisted handle is hinged on the power-assisted handle pedestal and an end of fixed handle is installed on the described power-assisted handle seat.
Described power-assisted handle pedestal has the fixed handle fixed part, and an end of described fixed handle is fixedly mounted on the fixed handle fixed part.
Described power-assisted handle pedestal is formed with along the pedestal axis hole that laterally runs through the power-assisted handle pedestal, one end of described power-assisted handle is formed with along the handle axis hole that laterally runs through power-assisted handle, and first end of wherein said power-assisted handle is hinged on the described power-assisted handle pedestal pivotly by the handle axle of passing described pedestal axis hole and described handle axis hole.
The described door opener that is used for refrigerator further comprises elastic reset spare, described elastic reset spare is enclosed within on the described handle axle and is positioned at described power-assisted handle pedestal, fits so that second end of described power-assisted handle is pressed to chamber door with described power-assisted handle pedestal and described power-assisted handle respectively in the two ends of wherein said elastic reset spare.
Described elastic reset spare is a back-moving spring.
Described fixed handle comprises fixed handle and following fixed handle, wherein going up the upper end of fixed handle and the two ends of following fixed handle is fixed on the chamber door by the fixed handle pedestal respectively, wherein said lower end of going up fixed handle is fixed on the described power-assisted handle pedestal, the upper end of described power-assisted handle and power-assisted handle pedestal are hinged, and the upper surface of the lower surface of described power-assisted handle and following fixed handle fits.
The lower surface of described power-assisted handle and the described upper surface of fixed handle down form the surface that fits each other respectively.
The lower surface of described power-assisted handle is a compression fit with the upper surface of following fixed handle.Described ejecting mechanism comprises: strut slotware, described strut slotware are located on the side of described power-assisted handle pedestal and are formed with vertical strut groove; And strut, described strut longitudinally is located in the described strut groove slidably, the front end of described strut extends along horizontal projection to the direction of the described side of power-assisted handle pedestal, be formed with the slotted hole that cooperates with described projection on the wherein said power-assisted handle, the top that described slotted hole is positioned at described handle axis hole changes into the length travel of strut with the rotation displacement with described power-assisted handle.
Another object of the present invention is to propose a kind of attractive in appearance and open the labour-saving refrigerator.
A kind of refrigerator of embodiment comprises: casing according to a further aspect in the invention; Be used to open and close the chamber door of described casing front openings; And door opener, described door opener is arranged on and is used on the described chamber door assisting to open described chamber door, and wherein said door opener is aforesaid door opener.
In addition, also have following additional technical feature according to refrigerator of the present invention:
Described refrigerator is the clamshell doors refrigerator with left chamber door and right chamber door, wherein is respectively equipped with described door opener on described left chamber door and right chamber door.
Be provided with central sill on the described casing between left chamber door and right chamber door, wherein said ejecting mechanism is opened chamber door by the described central sill of pushing tow when power-assisted handle pivots.
According to refrigerator of the present invention, the user can grip power-assisted handle firmly, and the reaction force pressure that opens the door is evenly distributed on the whole palm, uses comfortable and laborsaving.In addition, central sill is located among the slit of left chamber door and right chamber door, simple structure, and assembling is simple, and foaming does not have the extra bubble that leaks may.
Additional aspect of the present invention and advantage part in the following description provide, and part will become obviously from the following description, or recognize by practice of the present invention.
Description of drawings
Above-mentioned and/or additional aspect of the present invention and advantage are from obviously and easily understanding becoming the description of embodiment in conjunction with following accompanying drawing, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the chamber door closed condition of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of the chamber door open mode of the refrigerator among Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 (a) is according to another embodiment of the invention the device for opening that the is used for refrigerator partial enlarged drawing when closing;
Fig. 3 (b) is the partial enlarged drawing of the device for opening that is used for refrigerator shown in Fig. 3 (a) when opening;
Fig. 4 is the three-dimensional explosive view of the power-assisted handle of the device for opening that is used for refrigerator shown in Fig. 3 (a); And
Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of the device for opening that is used for refrigerator in the existing patent documentation.
The specific embodiment
Describe embodiments of the invention below in detail, the example of described embodiment is shown in the drawings, and wherein identical from start to finish or similar label is represented identical or similar elements or the element with identical or similar functions.Below by the embodiment that is described with reference to the drawings is exemplary, only is used to explain the present invention, and can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention.
In description of the invention, term " vertically ", " laterally ", " on ", close the orientation of indications such as D score, " top ", " end " or position is based on orientation shown in the drawings or position relation, only be the present invention for convenience of description rather than require the present invention therefore can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention with specific orientation structure and operation.
Describe a kind of door opener that is used for refrigerator according to the embodiment of the invention below with reference to Fig. 1-Fig. 4, wherein refrigerator comprises casing and is used to open and close the chamber door of the opening of casing front.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, the door opener that is used for refrigerator according to the present invention comprises fixed handle 1, power-assisted handle 2 and ejecting mechanism 3.
As shown in Figure 1, fixed handle 1 is installed on the chamber door, comprises fixed handle 11 and following fixed handle 12, wherein goes up the upper end of fixed handle 11 and the two ends of following fixed handle 12 and is fixed on the chamber door by fixed handle 1 pedestal respectively.
First end of power-assisted handle 2 is hinged on the chamber door pivotly with respect to fixed handle 1, and the upper end with power-assisted handle 2 is that example describes for its first end below.Particularly, shown in Fig. 2-Fig. 3 (b), this door opener further comprises power-assisted handle pedestal 4, and power-assisted handle pedestal 4 is installed on the chamber door 6, and wherein first end of power-assisted handle 2 is hinged on the power-assisted handle pedestal 4.The lower end of last fixed handle 1 is installed on the power-assisted handle pedestal 4.In an example of the present invention, power-assisted handle pedestal 4 has the lower end that fixed handle fixed part 41 is used for fixing fixed handle 11.In an example of the present invention, fixed handle fixed part 41 is to be extended upward by power-assisted handle pedestal 4 to obtain, and is formed with fixed handle fixing hole 411 in the front portion of fixed handle fixed part 41, and alternatively, the number of fixed handle fixing hole 411 can be two.For example fixed handle fixing hole 411 is screws, and the lower end of last fixed handle 11 is strengthened connection by bolt and is fixedly mounted on the fixed handle fixed part 41.Certainly, last fixed handle 11 is not limited in the said fixing mode, can also be formed with on last fixed handle 11 and fixed handle fixing hole 411 corresponding fixed lobes, this fixed lobe is inserted in the fixed handle fixing hole 411 and is fixed on the power-assisted handle pedestal 4 with the lower end that will go up fixed handle 11.
As shown in Figure 4, be formed with on the power-assisted handle pedestal 4 along the pedestal axis hole 42 that laterally runs through power-assisted handle pedestal 4, one end of power-assisted handle 2 is formed with along the handle axis hole 42 that laterally runs through power-assisted handle 2, and wherein the upper end of power-assisted handle 2 is hinged on the power-assisted handle pedestal 4 pivotly by the handle axle 44 of passing pedestal axis hole 42 and handle axis hole 42.
In an example of the present invention, further comprise elastic reset spare 43, elastic reset spare is enclosed within on the handle axle 44 and is positioned at power-assisted handle pedestal 4, wherein fit so that chamber door is pressed in the lower end of power-assisted handle 2 with power-assisted handle pedestal 4 and power-assisted handle 2 respectively in the two ends of elastic reset spare 43, the lower surface 220 of power-assisted handle 2 fits with the upper surface 120 of following fixed handle 12 simultaneously, as shown in Figure 4.Particularly, the lower surface of power-assisted handle 2 is a compression fit with the upper surface of following fixed handle, wherein, causes the thrust of compression fit to come from elastic reset spare 43.
Alternatively, elastic reset spare 43 is a back-moving spring, fits with power-assisted handle pedestal 4 and power-assisted handle 2 respectively in the two ends of this back-moving spring 44, thereby in the lower surface 220 of power-assisted handle 2 and the upper surface formation thrust of following fixed handle 12.In another example of the present invention, shown in Fig. 3 (b), the lower surface 220 of power-assisted handle 2 forms the surface that is fitted to each other with 120 places, upper surface of following fixed handle 12, so that power-assisted handle 2 is when turning to down the top of fixed handle 12 and following fixed handle 12 fluid-tight engagement.Alternatively, the surface that is fitted to each other between the upper surface 120 of the lower surface 220 of power-assisted handle 2 and following fixed handle 12 can be cambered surface.Certainly, this surface that cooperatively interacts is not limited in cambered surface, can also be the tapered plane that can cooperatively interact or other any that work in coordination, can be because the thrust that elastic reset spare 43 provides and the surface that compresses mutually.
In another example of the present invention, as shown in Figure 4, the lower surface 110 of last fixed handle 11 forms the surface that is fitted to each other with 210 places, upper surface of power-assisted handle 2 so that power-assisted handle 2 is when turning to down the below of fixed handle 12, its upper surface 210 can with last fixed handle 11 fluid-tight engagement.And surperficial similar between the lower surface 220 of the power-assisted handle in the above-mentioned example 2 and the upper surface 120 of following fixed handle 12, the surface between the lower surface 110 of last fixed handle 11 and the upper surface 210 of power-assisted handle 2 also can for example be cambered surface or other surfaces that can work in coordination.
Shown in Fig. 3 (a) and Fig. 3 (b), ejecting mechanism 3 is installed on the chamber door and links with power-assisted handle 2 assists to open chamber door with ejecting mechanism 3 pushing tow casings when power-assisted handle 2 pivots.Ejecting mechanism 3 comprises strut slotware and strut.
The strut slotware is located on the lateral surface of power-assisted handle pedestal 4 and is formed with vertical strut groove 31, and strut 32 longitudinally is located in the strut groove 31 slidably.The front end of strut 32 extends along horizontal projection 33 to the direction of this lateral surface of power-assisted handle pedestal 4.
Correspondingly, on power-assisted handle 2, be formed with the slotted hole 24 that matches with projection 33, the top that slotted hole 24 is positioned at handle axis hole 42 changes into the length travel of strut 32 with the rotation displacement with power-assisted handle 2, this strut 32 ejects overcoming the magnetic force scope between chamber door 6 and the casing 5 to casing, thereby chamber door 6 is opened.
According to device for opening of the present invention, but use the labour-saving power-assisted handle, make original action of opening heaviness become light.In addition, power-assisted handle is the bright handle of rod-type, and the specious and globality that do not disfeature has stronger functional and practicality.Simple in structure, cost is lower.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, according to a kind of refrigerator of the present invention, comprise casing 5, be used to open and close the chamber door 6 and the door opener of casing 5 front openings.Door opener is arranged on the chamber door 6 and is used for assisting to open chamber door 6.Wherein door opener is the door opener in the previous embodiment.
In examples more of the present invention, refrigerator is the clamshell doors refrigerator with left chamber door and right chamber door, wherein is respectively equipped with door opener on left chamber door and right chamber door.And between left chamber door on the casing and right chamber door, be provided with central sill 7, wherein the axis extended line of the strut 32 of ejecting mechanism 3 and central sill 7 intersect vertically, like this, its rotation displacement changed into the vertical straight-line displacement towards central sill 7 of strut 32 in strut groove 31 when power-assisted handle 2 pivoted, and then, strut 32 pushing tow central sills 7 to be overcoming the suction-combining force that is positioned at the gasket on the chamber door, thereby open chamber door.
Below will be according to the opening procedure of Fig. 1-Fig. 5 detailed description according to refrigerator of the present invention.
When strut 32 turns to the state concordant with fixed handle 1 at power-assisted handle 2, strut 32 is pressed close to central sill 7 surfaces mutually near an end of central sill 7, shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 (a), there is the gap between strut 32 and the central sill 7 or do not have the active force applying, chamber door 6 is normally closed.And strut 32 exists under the state of angle α after handle axle 44 is rotated and with fixed handle 1 at power-assisted handle 2, strut 32 compresses near an end and the central sill 7 of central sill 7, shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 (b), when thrust when being positioned at the suction-combining force of the gasket on the chamber door, chamber door 6 by strut 32 supports from casing.
During use, the user spurs power-assisted handle 2, and power-assisted handle 2 rotates around handle axle 44, and by slotted hole 24 rotational displacement is converted into vertical straight-line displacement of strut 32, finally struts door of refrigerator 6 by strut 32.Power-assisted handle 2 is similar to a laborsaving lever, and power arm is very long, and the ratio of power arm and resistance arm is also bigger, can reach more labour-saving purpose.
According to refrigerator of the present invention, the user can grip power-assisted handle firmly, and the reaction force pressure that opens the door is evenly distributed on the whole palm, uses comfortable and laborsaving.In addition, central sill is located among the slit of left chamber door and right chamber door, simple structure, and assembling is simple, and foaming does not have the extra bubble that leaks may.
Although illustrated and described embodiments of the invention, those having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: can carry out multiple variation, modification, replacement and modification to these embodiment under the situation that does not break away from principle of the present invention and aim, scope of the present invention is limited by claim and equivalent thereof.