CN101929777B - Ice maker and refrigerator having the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are an ice maker and a refrigerator having the same. The ice maker includes an ice making tray including a plurality of ice making cells, a driving unit to rotate the ice making tray, a plurality of blades corresponding to the plurality of ice making cells to block the ice cubes made in the ice making cells and thus twist the ice making tray while removing the ice cubes from the ice making cells when the ice making tray is rotated, and a protrusion formed on the ice making tray to assist the removal of the ice cubes from the ice making cells. The ice maker removes the ice cubes from the ice making tray by a twisting-type deicing process using the plurality of blades and the protrusion.
Description
Technical field
Each embodiment relates to a kind of ice maker and has the refrigeration machine of described ice maker, and described ice maker has the deicing performance of improvement and not only applies indirect refrigeration type cooling means but also apply direct refrigeration mode cooling means.
Background technology
Usually, the storeroom storing various food for a long time with optimum state is arranged in refrigeration machine.Storeroom comprises refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber, and refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber are separated from each other.Recently, a kind of refrigeration machine be arranged on by the ice maker being used for making ice cube in storeroom has been developed.
Ice maker is divided into indirect refrigeration type ice maker and direct refrigeration mode ice maker, and described indirect refrigeration type ice maker utilizes the cold air circulated in refrigerating chamber to make ice cube, and described direct refrigeration mode ice maker utilizes the refrigerant pipe of kind of refrigeration cycle to make ice cube.Each in these ice makers comprise hold be used for the water making ice cube ice-making tray, remove the displacer of ice cube from ice-making tray and store the storage container of the ice cube removed by displacer.
The de-icing method with the ice maker of said structure is divided into hot type and meander configuration.Here, in hot type de-icing method, be arranged on the heater heating ice-making tray of the lower end of ice-making tray made of aluminum and thus melt ice cube surface, then rotate displacer and thus remove ice cube from ice-making tray.In meander configuration ice making method, the ice-making tray distortion be made of plastics also thus removes ice cube from ice-making tray.
But heated type de-icing method uses high energy heater in ice detachment, thus power consumption rate is high and cause the rising of the temperature of ice-making compartment or storeroom.
In addition, distortion formula de-icing method uses the ice-making tray be made of plastics, and thus causes being difficult to be applied to the ice maker comprising the ice-making tray be manufactured from aluminium.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, the refrigeration machine that an aspect of of the present present invention is to provide a kind of ice maker and has described ice maker, described ice maker has the deicing performance of improvement and not only applies indirect refrigeration formula cooling means but also apply direct refrigeration-type cooling means.
Other aspect and/or advantage will set forth a part in the following description, and part in addition will obviously draw from description or understand by implementing the present invention.
By providing a kind of refrigeration machine can realize foregoing teachings and/or other aspects, described refrigeration machine comprises: multiple storeroom; Ice maker, it is arranged in of storeroom to make ice cube.Ice maker comprises: ice-making tray, and it has multiple ice box, to hold water to make ice cube; Driver element, for rotating ice-making tray; Multiple blade, its corresponding ice box, to remove ice cube from ice box; Projection, it is formed in ice-making tray, removes ice cube with auxiliary from ice box.
Projection inwardly can be given prominence to from the end of the side of ice-making tray.
Projection can have at least one shape in taper, cylindricality and hemispherical.
When ice-making tray rotates, multiple blade can be blocked in the ice cube that makes in ice box and the therefore distortion ice-making tray when removing ice cube from ice box.
At least one in multiple blade can have different length.Along with multiple blade becomes away from driver element, multiple blade can have longer length.The length of length other blades comparable of the blade corresponding with the ice box being formed in ice-making tray two ends is short.
At least one in multiple blade can be formed with the angle being different from other blades, and at least one in multiple blade along the circumferential direction departs from other blades.Ice maker also can comprise cooling unit, the water-cooled being fed to ice-making tray to be frozen.Cooling unit can comprise heat exchanger and blower unit, so that cold air is fed to ice maker.
Cooling unit can comprise: ice making pipe, and cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe thus the water being fed to ice box is directly frozen into ice cube; Cooling housing, for holding ice making pipe.
Multiple blade can be arranged in above ice-making tray and to be fixed to cooling housing.
Cooling housing can be arranged in ice box at least partially.
By providing a kind of ice maker of refrigeration machine can realize foregoing teachings and/or other aspects, described ice maker comprises: ice-making tray, and it has multiple ice box, and water is fed to described ice box; Driver element, for rotating ice-making tray; Cooling unit, for being transformed into ice cube by the water being fed to ice-making tray; Multiple blade, it is fixed to cooling unit and corresponding with ice box, to remove ice cube when ice-making tray rotates from ice box; Projection, remove ice cube for auxiliary from ice box, described projection is formed in the upper end of the side of each of each ice box.
Projection inwardly can be given prominence to from the end of ice-making tray side.Described projection can have at least one shape in taper, cylindricality and hemispherical.When ice-making tray rotates, multiple blade can be blocked in the ice cube that makes in ice box and the therefore distortion ice-making tray when removing ice cube from ice box.
Cooling unit can comprise heat exchanger and blower unit, so that cold air is fed to ice maker.Cooling unit can comprise: ice making pipe, and cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe thus the water being fed to ice box is directly frozen into ice cube; Cooling housing, for holding ice making pipe.
By providing a kind of ice maker of refrigeration machine can realize foregoing teachings and/or other aspects, described ice maker comprises: ice-making tray, and it has multiple ice box, and water is fed to described ice box; Driver element, for rotating ice-making tray; Cooling unit, for being transformed into ice cube by the water being fed to ice-making tray; Displacer, it is fixed to a side surface of the cooling unit corresponding with ice box; Projection, it is formed in the upper end of the side of each of each ice box of ice-making tray, and wherein, the side of the described projection of the formation of each in each ice box is relative with the opposite side arranging displacer of each of each ice box.
Projection inwardly can be given prominence to from the end of ice-making tray side.Described projection can have at least one shape in taper, cylindricality and hemispherical.When ice-making tray rotates, multiple blade can be blocked in the ice cube made in ice box, thus when removing ice cube from ice box distortion ice-making tray.
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By the description carried out embodiment below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, these and/or other aspect will become obviously and be easier to understand, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the perspective view of the overall appearance of the refrigeration machine illustrated according to an embodiment;
Fig. 2 is the longitdinal cross-section diagram of the refrigerating chamber of the refrigeration machine of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the decomposition diagram of the ice maker of the refrigeration machine that Fig. 1 is shown;
Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 is the perspective view of the displacer of the ice maker that Fig. 3 is shown;
Fig. 6 is the perspective view of the ice-making tray shown in Fig. 3;
Fig. 7 A, Fig. 7 B and Fig. 7 C are the partial enlarged views of Fig. 6;
Fig. 8 A, Fig. 8 B and Fig. 8 C are the views of the ice detachment of the ice maker of the refrigeration machine illustrated according to embodiment.
Detailed description of the invention
To describe each embodiment in detail now, the example of each embodiment shown in the drawings, wherein, identical label indicates identical element all the time.
With reference to Fig. 1 and 2, refrigeration machine comprises: main body 10, and it forms the outward appearance of refrigeration machine; Multiple storeroom, it is formed in the main body 10.Multiple storeroom is separated from each other by dividing plate 15, and left storeroom is used as refrigerating chamber 30, and right storeroom is used as refrigerating chamber 20.
Heat exchanger 34 and blower fan 35, produce cold air and cold air is fed in refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30 each, described heat exchanger 34 and blower fan 35 to be arranged in refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30 each rear portion.In addition, Machine Room 36 is arranged on the lower area at the rear portion of main body 10, is arranged in Machine Room 36 for compressed refrigerant, the compressor being sent to heat exchanger 34 by compressed condensation of refrigerant and by the cold-producing medium of condensation and condenser.
Door 21 and 31 for optionally opening and closing the inside of refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30 is arranged on the front surface of refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30 respectively.Multiple protectors 22 and 32 for containing foodstuff are arranged in the multilayer on each rear surface of 21 and 31, and the containing component 23 and 33 of such as multiple frame and drawer is arranged in refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber 30.Shelf 11,12 is also arranged in refrigerating chamber 20 and refrigerating chamber respectively.
Refrigeration machine also comprises: ice maker 100, and it is arranged in refrigerating chamber 30 for making ice cube; Icebox 40, it is for storing the ice cube made by ice maker 100; Distributor 50, it is for discharging ice from icebox 40 to the front surface of door 31.Although employ term " ice cube ", the shape not necessarily cube of ice.Icebox 40 is identical with traditional dispensers with the traditional icebox used with distributor 50, will omit the detailed description to them.Recently, the refrigeration machine with the ice-making compartment be arranged in refrigerating chamber is put on market, the present embodiment can be applied to the ice-making compartment of such refrigeration machine.
Ice maker 100 comprises the support frame 110 on the top of the inner side being arranged on refrigerating chamber 30.As shown in Figure 3, ice-making tray 120, for rotate ice-making tray 120 driver element 130, for make in ice-making tray 120 ice cube cooling unit 140 and for remove from ice-making tray 120 ice cube displacer 150 be arranged on support frame 110.
First, semicircular multiple ice box 121 is formed in ice-making tray 120, and described ice box 121 holds the water supplied from outside by feed pipe, to make ice cube.In order to distortion ice-making tray 120 is to remove ice cube from each ice box 121, the ice-making tray 120 manufactured by plastics is more effective.Further, be formed in the side of the upper end of ice-making tray 120 for the auxiliary projection 123 removing ice, will the detailed description to it be provided subsequently.
Driver element 130 comprises drive motors 131, for rotating ice-making tray 120.As shown in Figure 3, driver element 130 axle journal is connected to (joumalled to) ice-making tray 120 and for carrying out the ice-making tray 120 in rotary support framework 110 according to the rotation of drive motor 131.Driver element 130 also comprise ice be full of sensing lever 133 whether be full of ice cube completely to sense icebox 40.
Cooling unit 140 comprises: ice making pipe 143, and it extends from heat exchanger 34, thus cold-producing medium flows along ice making pipe 143; Cooling housing 141, it is for holding ice making pipe 143.As mentioned above, ice making pipe 143 is for directly changing into ice cube by the water being fed to ice-making tray 120, and cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe 143.As shown in Figure 3, the lower end of cooling housing 141 is formed with semi-circular shape, and the specified portions of the lower end of cooling housing 141 is arranged in each ice box 121 of ice-making tray 120.
As shown in Figure 3, displacer 150 comprises: supporting member 151, and it is arranged on the side of cooling housing 141; Multiple blade 153, it extends to correspond to each ice box 121 from supporting member 151.When ice-making tray 120 rotates, multiple blade 153 is for being blocked in the ice cube of making in each ice box 121 and thus removing ice cube from each ice box 121.
In order to the distortion ice-making tray 120 when ice-making tray 120 rotates, multiple blade 153 extends from supporting member 151, and at least one making in multiple blade 153 has different length.Along with blade 153 becomes away from driver element 130, blade 153 has longer length.That is, in an embodiment, when ice-making tray 120 rotates, the ice cube made in each ice box 121 is sequentially stopped by the blade 153 away from driver element 130, thus therefore distortion ice-making tray 120 also removes ice cube from ice box 121.
Further, as shown in Figure 4, length other those blades 153 comparable of the blade 153a corresponding with the ice box 121 being formed in ice-making tray 120 two ends in multiple blade 153 are shorter.Be formed in ice-making tray 120 two ends the ice making speed of ice box 121 be slower than the speed of other ice boxes 121.Therefore, in order to keep the ice making speed of each ice box 121 equably, this structure makes the ice box 121 being formed in ice-making tray 120 two ends make the ice cube less than the size of the ice cube of other ice boxes 121 making.For this reason, the ice box 121 being formed in ice-making tray 120 two ends can have the size less than the size of other ice boxes 121.
Further, as shown in Figure 5, in order to the distortion ice-making tray 120 when ice-making tray 120 rotates, second blade 153 ' can be formed with different angles, and at least one in multiple second blade 153 ' can offset (circumferentially offset) other second blades circumferentially.
The ice cube made in each ice box 121 is attached to the lower end of cooling housing 141.Therefore, when removing the ice cube made in each ice box 121 from ice box 121, ice cube is separated from the lower end of cooling housing 141 with ice box 121.
For this reason, as shown in Figure 6, the projection 123 for being separated ice cube from the lower end of cooling housing 141 is formed in ice-making tray 120.Projection 123 is outstanding to the center of ice-making tray 120 from the side of ice-making tray 120 upper end, although ice cube is not separated from cooling unit 140 at the initial stage of ice detachment, but when ice-making tray 120 rotates over specified angle, ice cube is separated from cooling unit 140 by projection 123.
Further, as shown in Fig. 7 A to 7C, projection 123a, 123b or 123c can be formed with taper, cylindricality or hemispherical.Here, projection 123a, 123b or 123c give prominence to designated length, thus when ice-making tray 120 rotates, if the load that ice cube receives exceedes specific load, then ice cube does not rotate with the rotation of ice-making tray 120.
Although the exemplary cooling unit 140 described by being provided with ice making pipe 143 of this embodiment makes the direct refrigeration mode ice maker of ice cube in ice-making tray 120, be apparent that for a person skilled in the art: can adopt the cold air produced by heat exchanger 34 and blower fan 35 in ice-making tray 120, make the indirect refrigeration type ice maker of ice cube.Certainly, when indirect refrigeration type ice maker, do not need to form projection 123 in ice-making tray 120.
Below, the operation according to the refrigeration machine of embodiment and effect is described with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail.
As shown in Figure 8 A, in order to make ice cube, water is fed to each ice box 121 of ice-making tray 120.After water is fed to ice box 121, cold-producing medium flows along the ice making pipe 143 of cooling unit 140, and when after the fixed time, the water in each ice box 121 is frozen and thus converts the ice cube with specified size to.
Make ice cube in ice-making tray 120 after, ice cube is removed and falls into icebox 40 from ice-making tray 120.Now, the ice detachment of ice-making tray 120 will be described in detail.First, as seen in fig. 8b, control ice making pipe 143 thus cold-producing medium is not flowed along ice making pipe 143, operation driver element 130 rotates ice-making tray 120.When ice-making tray 120 rotates, the ice cube be formed in each ice box 121 also rotates.
If ice-making tray 120 has rotated over specified angle, then ice cube has been stopped by the multiple fixed blades 153 above ice-making tray 120.Here, described multiple blade 153 is configured to; Along with blade 153 is away from driver element 130, the length of blade 153 is longer.Therefore, the ice cube away from driver element 130 sequentially contacts blade 153.Therefore, as seen in fig. 8 c, when ice-making tray 120 rotates, ice cube by the distortion of multiple blade 153, thus is separated from ice box 121 by ice-making tray 120.
Further, in the ice detachment of ice box 121, ice cube is easily separated from cooling unit 140 with ice box 121, thus deicing performance improves.Therefore, in this embodiment, when ice-making tray 120 rotates over specified angle, ice cube is separated from cooling unit 140 (namely the lower end of cooling housing 141) by the projection 123 be formed in ice-making tray 120.
Correspondingly, owing to removing ice cube by the projection 123 of multiple blade 153 and ice-making tray 120 from ice-making tray 120, so compared with hot type de-icing method, the present embodiment improves deicing performance.In addition, when the de-icing method of the present embodiment uses together with heated type de-icing method, more effectively deicing can be realized.
Further, although present embodiment describes the distortion formula de-icing method using multiple blade 153, the present embodiment not only may be used on the direct refrigeration mode ice maker of use cooling unit but also may be used on using the indirect refrigeration type ice maker of cold air.
Can obviously draw from description above, according to the ice maker of an embodiment with have in the refrigeration machine of described ice maker, apply and utilize multiple blade twist formula de-icing method when ice-making tray rotates, therefore improve deicing performance, and can be applicable to utilize the direct refrigeration mode ice maker of cooling unit and utilize the indirect refrigeration type ice maker of cold air.
Although illustrate and described some embodiments; one skilled in the art will recognize that: when not departing from principle and the spirit of each embodiment; can make change in these embodiments, the protection domain of each embodiment is limited by claim and their equivalent.
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1. a refrigeration machine, described refrigeration machine comprises:
Multiple storeroom;
Ice maker, be arranged on to make ice cube in of storeroom, ice maker comprises: ice-making tray, and it has multiple ice box, to hold water to make ice cube; Driver element, for rotating ice-making tray; Cooling unit, cooling unit comprises ice making pipe and cooling housing, and cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe, cooling housing for holding ice making pipe, cooling housing be arranged in ice box at least partially; Multiple blade, it corresponds to ice box, and to remove ice cube from ice box, the length of each blade increases along with the increase of the distance to driver element; Projection, it is formed in ice-making tray,
Wherein, described multiple blade is fixed to cooling housing, described multiple leaf curling ice-making tray, and thus remove ice cube from described multiple ice box, when ice-making tray rotates, described projection assists ice cube to remove from ice box.
2. refrigeration machine according to claim 1, wherein, described projection has at least one shape in taper, cylindricality and hemispherical, and described projection is inwardly given prominence to from the end of ice-making tray side.
3. refrigeration machine according to claim 1, wherein, when ice-making tray rotates, the ice cube that described multiple leaf baffle makes in ice box.
4. refrigeration machine according to claim 1, wherein, at least one in multiple blade along the circumferential direction departs from other blades.
5. refrigeration machine according to claim 1, wherein, ice maker also comprises cooling unit, the water-cooled being fed to ice-making tray to be frozen.
6. refrigeration machine according to claim 5, wherein, cooling unit comprises heat exchanger and blower unit, so that cold air is fed to ice maker.
7. refrigeration machine according to claim 5, wherein, cooling unit comprises:
Ice making pipe, cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe thus the water being fed to ice box is directly frozen into ice cube;
Cooling housing, for holding ice making pipe.
8. refrigeration machine according to claim 7, wherein,
Multiple blade arrangement is above ice-making tray and be fixed to cooling housing;
Cooling housing be arranged in ice box at least partially.
9. an ice maker for refrigeration machine, described ice maker comprises:
Ice-making tray, it has multiple ice box, and water is fed to described ice box;
Driver element, for rotating ice-making tray;
Cooling unit, cooling unit comprises ice making pipe and cooling housing, and cold-producing medium flows along described ice making pipe, cooling housing for holding ice making pipe, cooling housing be arranged in ice box at least partially;
Multiple blade, it is fixed to cooling housing and corresponding with ice box, and to remove ice cube when ice-making tray rotates from ice box, the length of each blade increases along with the increase of the distance to driver element;
Projection, remove ice cube for auxiliary from ice box, described projection is formed in the upper end of the side of each of each ice box,
Wherein, described multiple blade is fixed to cooling housing, described multiple leaf curling ice-making tray, and thus remove ice cube from described multiple ice box, when ice-making tray rotates, described projection assists ice cube to remove from ice box.
10. ice maker according to claim 9, wherein, when ice-making tray rotates, the ice cube that multiple leaf baffle makes in ice box.
11. ice makers according to claim 9, wherein, the side of the described projection of the formation of each in each ice box is relative with the opposite side arranging displacer of each of each ice box.
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