Summary of the invention
The present invention is intended to solve at least one of technical problem that exists in the prior art.
Further investigate the back through the inventor and find, food (for example vegetables, fruit) is fresh-keeping to be quite responsive to temperature fluctuation, particularly refrigerates the food fresh keeping of warm area.The temperature fluctuation meeting drives humidity and changes, and the water that from food, is evaporated can continue with the form of refrigeration condensation water to run off, thereby causes the fresh-keeping cycle of food to shorten widely.
For this reason, one object of the present invention is to propose a kind of excellent refrigerator of preserving moisture with fresh keeping property that has.
To achieve these goals, propose a kind of refrigerator according to embodiments of the invention, said refrigerator comprises: casing is limited with freezing compartment and refrigerator chamber in the said casing; Evaporimeter, said evaporimeter are located in the said freezing compartment; It is indoor and have air inlet and a return air inlet that heat exchanger, said heat exchanger are located at said refrigerator; Wind inlet channel and return airway; One end of said wind inlet channel is communicated with said air inlet and the other end of said wind inlet channel is communicated with said freezing compartment, and an end of said return airway is communicated with said return air inlet and the other end of said return airway is communicated with said freezing compartment; Frequency conversion fan, said frequency conversion fan are used to regulate from said freezing compartment and get into the cold in the said heat exchanger; Temperature Detector, it is indoor that said Temperature Detector is located at said refrigerator; And controller, said controller links to each other with said frequency conversion fan with said Temperature Detector respectively so that control the rotating speed of said frequency conversion fan according to the temperature detection value of said Temperature Detector.
According to the refrigerator of the embodiment of the invention through indoor said heat exchanger is set at said refrigerator, and through the said wind inlet channel that links to each other with the air inlet of said heat exchanger is set; Thereby can utilize said frequency conversion fan that the cold wind in the said freezing compartment is introduced in the said heat exchanger; The cold wind of introducing in the said heat exchanger carries out heat exchange being freezed in said refrigerator chamber through said heat exchanger and the indoor air of said refrigerator, and said subsequently cold wind is got back in the said freezing compartment through said return airway.Because the cold wind from said freezing compartment does not directly exchange convection current with the indoor air of said refrigerator, therefore can not take away by the moisture that said refrigerator is indoor, promptly can not reduce the humidity of said refrigerator chamber.
Said refrigerator is through being provided with said Temperature Detector and said frequency conversion fan, thereby temperature that can be indoor according to said refrigerator is controlled (comprising the temperature of the air that said refrigerator is indoor and the surface temperature of said heat exchanger) rotating speed of said frequency conversion fan and got into the cold in the said heat exchanger so that regulate from said freezing compartment.When the indoor temperature of said refrigerator was higher than setting value, said controller can be controlled said frequency conversion fan high speed rotating so that increase gets into the cold in the said heat exchanger from said freezing compartment, can reduce the indoor temperature of said refrigerator apace like this.When the indoor temperature of said refrigerator during near setting value; Said controller can reduce the rotating speed of said frequency conversion fan so that reduce and to get into the cold in the said heat exchanger from said freezing compartment, the indoor temperature of said refrigerator is reduced lentamente and reaches setting value.After the indoor temperature of said refrigerator reaches setting value; Said controller can be with rotating speed correction to an equilibrium valve of said frequency conversion fan; The cold and the said refrigerator chamber that under said equilibrium valve, are transported to said refrigerator chamber reach balance to the lost cold in the external world, and the indoor temperature of said refrigerator no longer fluctuates.Moisture in the indoor food (for example vegetables, fruit) of said like this refrigerator can not run off.Therefore said refrigerator has excellent preserving moisture and fresh keeping property, can prolong the fresh-keeping cycle of food widely.In addition, the production cost of said refrigerator is well below the frequency conversion refrigerator of ad eundem.
Close said refrigerator chamber if desired separately, then can be set to stop state by said frequency conversion fan.Because the density of cold air is very big, in said wind inlet channel, said heat exchanger and said return airway, can not form free convection, therefore can not freeze to said refrigerator chamber.And existing refrigerator need could realize closing individually said refrigerator chamber through magnetic valve is set.Therefore, refrigerator 10 not only can reduce production costs, and can reduce power consumption.
In addition, the refrigerator according to the embodiment of the invention can have following additional technical characterictic:
According to one embodiment of present invention, said evaporimeter is a kind of in evaporator fin, fiber tube evaporimeter, inflation type evaporimeter and the plate pipe evaporator.
According to one embodiment of present invention, said heat exchanger is the inner housing that is limited with cavity, and at least a portion of said housing is made up of metal.
According to one embodiment of present invention, said wind inlet channel and said return airway are processed by heat-barrier material.Can avoid like this producing condensed water on the surface of the indoor part of the said refrigerator of being positioned at of said wind inlet channel and said return airway.
According to one embodiment of present invention; Said air inlet is positioned at the bottom of said heat exchanger and the top that said return air inlet is positioned at said heat exchanger; The other end of said wind inlet channel is positioned at said evaporimeter top, and the other end of said return airway is positioned at said evaporimeter below.Can the cold wind that get into once more in the said heat exchanger be cooled off fully like this, reduced the temperature that gets into the cold wind in the said heat exchanger once more widely.
According to one embodiment of present invention, said heat exchanger is located at the indoor rear portion of said refrigerator.Can make the indoor structure of said refrigerator more reasonable like this.
According to one embodiment of present invention, said frequency conversion fan is located in the said freezing compartment and is relative with the other end of said wind inlet channel.Can reduce the installation difficulty of said frequency conversion fan so widely.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the other end of said wind inlet channel forms the air inducing portion that is limited with horn-like passage.Cold wind in the said freezing compartment is got in the said heat exchanger with being more prone to.
According to one embodiment of present invention; Said Temperature Detector is located on the outer surface of said heat exchanger so that detect the surface temperature of said heat exchanger, and wherein said controller is according to the rotating speed of the said frequency conversion fan of surface temperature control of the detected said heat exchanger of said Temperature Detector.Through said Temperature Detector being located on the outer surface of said heat exchanger, can detect temperature variation more sensitively.
According to one embodiment of present invention, be provided with freezing fan and the indoor refrigeration fan that is provided with of said refrigerator in the said freezing compartment.So not only can accelerate the refrigerating speed of said freezing compartment and said refrigerator chamber, and can be so that the temperature equalization of the indoor position of said freezing compartment and said refrigerator.
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 through practice of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
Describe embodiments of the invention below in detail, the example of said 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.Be exemplary through the embodiment that is described with reference to the drawings below, only be used to explain the present invention, and can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention.
In description of the invention; It will be appreciated that; Term " vertically ", " laterally ", " on ", the orientation of indications such as D score, " preceding ", " back ", " left side ", " right side ", " vertically ", " level ", " top ", " end " " interior ", " outward " or position relation be for based on orientation shown in the drawings or position relation; Only be to describe with simplifying for the ease of describing the present invention; Rather than the device or the element of indication or hint indication must have specific orientation, with specific azimuth configuration and operation, therefore can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention.
In addition, term " first ", " second " only are used to describe purpose, and can not be interpreted as indication or hint relative importance.
In description of the invention, unless otherwise prescribed and limit, need to prove; Term " installation ", " linking to each other ", " connection " should be done broad understanding, for example, can be mechanical connection or electrical connection; Also can be the connection of two element internals, can be directly to link to each other, and also can link to each other indirectly through intermediary; For those of ordinary skill in the art, can understand the concrete implication of above-mentioned term as the case may be.
Further investigate the back through the inventor and find, food (for example vegetables, fruit) is fresh-keeping to be quite responsive to temperature fluctuation, particularly refrigerates the food fresh keeping of warm area.The temperature fluctuation meeting drives humidity and changes, and the water that from food, is evaporated can continue with the form of refrigeration condensation water to run off, thereby causes the fresh-keeping cycle of food to shorten widely.
With reference to Fig. 1 the refrigerator 10 according to the embodiment of the invention is described below.As shown in Figure 1, refrigerator 10 comprises casing 100, evaporimeter 200, heat exchanger 300, wind inlet channel 400, return airway 500, frequency conversion fan 600, Temperature Detector 700 and controller (not shown).
Be limited with freezing compartment 110 and refrigerator chamber 120 in the casing 100, evaporimeter 200 is located in the freezing compartment 110.Heat exchanger 300 is located in the refrigerator chamber 120, and heat exchanger 300 has air inlet 320 and return air inlet 330.One end of wind inlet channel 400 is communicated with air inlet 320, and the other end of wind inlet channel 400 is communicated with freezing compartment 110, and an end of return airway 500 is communicated with return air inlet 330, and the other end of return airway 500 is communicated with freezing compartment 110.Frequency conversion fan 600 is used to regulate the cold that gets in the heat exchanger 300 from freezing compartment 110.Temperature Detector 700 is located in the refrigerator chamber 120.Said controller links to each other with frequency conversion fan 600 with Temperature Detector 700 respectively so that according to the rotating speed of the temperature detection value of Temperature Detector 700 control frequency conversion fan 600.
The wind inlet channel 400 of refrigerator 10 according to the embodiment of the invention through heat exchanger 300 being set in refrigerator chamber 120, also linking to each other with the air inlet 320 of heat exchanger 300 through setting; Thereby can utilize frequency conversion fan 600 (as long as open refrigerator chamber 120; Frequency conversion fan 600 turns round always) cold wind in the freezing compartment 110 is introduced in the heat exchanger 300; The cold wind of introducing in the heat exchanger 300 carries out heat exchange being freezed in refrigerator chamber 120 through heat exchanger 300 and refrigerator chamber 120 interior air, and said subsequently cold wind is got back in the freezing compartment 110 through return airway 500.Owing to the air in and the refrigerator chamber 120 direct from the cold wind of freezing compartment 110 exchange convection current, therefore can the moisture in the refrigerator chamber 120 not taken away, promptly can not reduce the humidity of refrigerator chamber 120.
Refrigerator 10 is through being provided with Temperature Detector 700 and frequency conversion fan 600, gets into the interior cold of heat exchangers 300 thereby can control the rotating speed of frequency conversion fan 600 according to the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 (temperature and the surface temperature of heat exchanger 300 that comprise the air in the refrigerator chamber 120) so that regulate from freezing compartment 110.When the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 was higher than setting value, said controller can be controlled frequency conversion fan 600 high speed rotating so that increase the cold that gets in the heat exchanger 300 from freezing compartment 110, can reduce the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 so apace.When the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 during near setting value; Said controller can reduce the rotating speed of frequency conversion fan 600 so that minimizing from the cold that freezing compartment 110 gets in the heat exchangers 300, can make refrigerator chamber 120 interior temperature reduce lentamente like this and reach setting value.After the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 reaches setting value; Said controller can be with rotating speed correction to an equilibrium valve of frequency conversion fan 600; The cold and the refrigerator chamber 120 that under said equilibrium valve, are transported to refrigerator chamber 120 reach balance to the lost cold in the external world, and the temperature in the refrigerator chamber 120 no longer fluctuate.Moisture in the food (for example vegetables, fruit) in the refrigerator chamber 120 can not run off like this.Therefore refrigerator 10 has excellent preserving moisture and fresh keeping property, can prolong the fresh-keeping cycle of food widely.And the production cost of refrigerator 10 is well below the frequency conversion refrigerator of ad eundem.
Southern area in China, often need not open refrigerator chamber 120 winter.Close refrigerator chamber 120 if desired separately, then can frequency conversion fan 600 be set to stop state.Because the density of cold air is very big, in wind inlet channel 400, heat exchanger 300 and return airway 500, can not form free convection, therefore can not freeze to refrigerator chamber 120.And existing refrigerator need could realize closing individually refrigerator chamber 120 through magnetic valve is set.Therefore, refrigerator 10 not only can reduce production costs, and can reduce power consumption.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2; In some embodiments of the invention; Heat exchanger 300 can be the housing that inside is limited with cavity 310, and at least a portion of said housing can be made up of so that the air in cold wind in the cavity 310 and the refrigerator chamber 120 carries out heat exchange metal (for example aluminium).Particularly, the front surface of said housing (being the front surface of heat exchanger 300) can be processed by the material with high heat conductance (for example aluminium), and the front surface of wherein said housing is meant the surface near the user of said housing.Advantageously, whole said housing can be processed by the material with high heat conductance (for example aluminium), can increase heat exchange area so widely and improve refrigerating efficiency.
In one embodiment of the invention, as depicted in figs. 1 and 2, heat exchanger 300 can be located at the rear portion in the refrigerator chamber 120.In other words, heat exchanger 300 can be close to the postnotum of refrigerator chamber 120, can make the structure in the refrigerator chamber 120 more reasonable like this, and make refrigerator chamber 120 have bigger spatial accommodation.Wherein, the back surface of heat exchanger 300 can be close to the postnotum of refrigerator chamber 120, also can be close on the postnotum of refrigerator chamber 120.The back surface of heat exchanger 300 is meant the surface away from the user of heat exchanger 300.
Particularly, heat exchanger 300 can be tabular, and the outline of heat exchanger 300 can be adaptive with the outline of the postnotum of refrigerator chamber 120.In other words; The top of heat exchanger 300 can be close to the top of refrigerator chamber 120; The bottom of heat exchanger 300 can be close to the bottom of refrigerator chamber 120, and the left end of heat exchanger 300 can be close to the left end of refrigerator chamber 120, and the right-hand member of heat exchanger 300 can be close to the right-hand member of refrigerator chamber 120.Can further increase heat exchange area like this and improve refrigerating efficiency.Wherein, left and right directions be meant with Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 in the direction of section quadrature of refrigerator 10.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, in a concrete example of the present invention, wind inlet channel 400 can be a tubulose with return airway 500.Particularly, wind inlet channel 400 can be processed by heat-barrier material with return airway 500.Because wind inlet channel 400 can be a tubulose with return airway 500; Therefore concentrated a large amount of cold wind in wind inlet channel 400 and the return airway 500; Can produce condensed water on the surface of the part that is positioned at refrigerator chamber 120 of wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500 like this, thereby cause the humidity in the refrigerator chamber 120 to reduce.Through utilizing heat-barrier material to process wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500, can avoid producing condensed water on the surface of the part that is positioned at refrigerator chamber 120 of wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500.
Particularly, can utilize sealant tape that wind inlet channel 400 and the junction of heat exchanger 300 and the junction of return airway 500 and heat exchanger 300 are sealed, thereby can avoid cold wind to leak in the refrigerator chamber 120.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, in examples more of the present invention, air inlet 320 can be positioned at the bottom of heat exchanger 300, and return air inlet 330 can be positioned at the top of heat exchanger 300.Can make the whole heat exchanger 300 of cold wind process like this, thereby can increase heat exchange area and improve refrigerating efficiency from freezing compartment 110.Particularly, the other end of wind inlet channel 400 can be positioned at evaporimeter 200 tops, and the other end of return airway 500 can be positioned at evaporimeter 200 belows.Cold wind in the heat exchanger 300 with refrigerator chamber 120 in air can get back in the freezing compartment 110 through return airway 500 after carrying out heat exchange.Because can being positioned at the other end of evaporimeter 200 tops and return airway 500, the other end of wind inlet channel 400 can be positioned at evaporimeter 200 belows; The cold wind of getting back to like this in the freezing compartment 110 can get in the heat exchanger 300 through wind inlet channel 400 through behind the whole evaporimeter 200 once more.Therefore can the cold wind that get into once more in the heat exchanger 300 be cooled off fully, reduced the temperature that gets into the cold wind in the heat exchanger 300 once more widely.
The air inlet 320 that it will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that heat exchanger 300 and return air inlet 330 be co-conversion mutually, and wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500 be co-conversion mutually also.For example, the method for operation of frequency conversion fan 600 is changed into exhausting by blowing, wind inlet channel 400 originally just changes return airway 500 into, and return airway 500 originally just changes wind inlet channel 400 into.Air inlet 320 originally just changes return air inlet 330 into, and return air inlet 330 originally just changes air inlet 320 into.
Frequency conversion fan 600 can be a plurality of, and can be located at least one in heat exchanger 300, wind inlet channel 400 and the return airway 500.Frequency conversion fan 600 can also with the other end of the other end of wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500 at least one is relative.In some embodiments of the invention, as depicted in figs. 1 and 2, frequency conversion fan 600 can be located in the freezing compartment 110, can reduce the installation difficulty of frequency conversion fan 600 so widely.Frequency conversion fan 600 can be relative with the other end of wind inlet channel 400.
Particularly, the other end of wind inlet channel 400 can form the air inducing portion that is limited with horn-like passage, and the cold wind in the freezing compartment 110 is got in the heat exchanger 300 with being more prone to.
As shown in Figure 2, Temperature Detector 700 can be located at the temperature that is used to detect the air in the refrigerator chamber 120 in the refrigerator chamber 120.As shown in Figure 1; In examples more of the present invention; Temperature Detector 700 can be located on the outer surface of heat exchanger 300 so that detect the surface temperature of heat exchanger 300, and wherein said controller can be according to the rotating speed of the surface temperature control frequency conversion fan 600 of Temperature Detector 700 detected heat exchangers 300.Through Temperature Detector 700 being located on the outer surface of heat exchanger 300, can detect temperature variation more sensitively.Consider between the temperature of the air in surface temperature and the refrigerator chamber 120 of heat exchanger 300 to have certain temperature difference, can in control program, provide compensation.For example when the surface temperature of heat exchanger 300 for-1 when spending, the temperature of the air in the refrigerator chamber 120 is 2 degree.This moment, heap added 3 degree as compensation again, makes that the surface temperature of Temperature Detector 700 detected heat exchangers 300 also is 2 degree after surface temperature that Temperature Detector 700 detects heat exchanger 300 is for-1 degree.When the user set refrigerated storage temperature and is 2 degree (be setting value be 2 degree), the temperature of the air in the refrigerator chamber 120 was just near 2 degree like this.
Particularly, Temperature Detector 700 can be a temperature sensor.
In some embodiments of the invention, freezing fan 111 can be provided with in the freezing compartment 110, and refrigeration fan 121 can be provided with in the refrigerator chamber 120.Through freezing fan 111 is set in freezing compartment 110, not only can accelerate the refrigerating speed of freezing compartment 110, and can be so that the temperature equalization of the position in the freezing compartment 110.Particularly; Can utilize that frequency conversion fan 600 is double makees freezing fan 111; This moment, the frequency conversion fan 600 can be located in the freezing compartment 110, and frequency conversion fan 600 can with the other end of the other end of wind inlet channel 400 and return airway 500 at least one is relative obliquely.Through refrigeration fan 121 is set in refrigerator chamber 120, not only can accelerate the refrigerating speed of refrigerator chamber 120, and can be so that the temperature equalization of the position in the refrigerator chamber 120.Particularly, freezing fan 111 can often change with predetermined rotating speed with refrigeration fan 121, also can rotate off and on predetermined rotating speed, can also speed change rotate.
In one embodiment of the invention, evaporimeter 200 can be any known evaporimeter.For example, evaporimeter 200 can be a kind of in evaporator fin, fiber tube evaporimeter, inflation type evaporimeter and the plate pipe evaporator.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that refrigerator 10 can also comprise a body, said door body can be known, therefore no longer describes in detail.
Refrigerator 10 according to the embodiment of the invention has excellent preserving moisture and fresh keeping property.
In the description of this specification, the description of reference term " embodiment ", " some embodiment ", " example ", " concrete example " or " some examples " etc. means the concrete characteristic, structure, material or the characteristics that combine this embodiment or example to describe and is contained at least one embodiment of the present invention or the example.In this manual, the schematic statement to above-mentioned term not necessarily refers to identical embodiment or example.And concrete characteristic, structure, material or the characteristics of description can combine with suitable manner in any one or more embodiment or example.
Although illustrated and described embodiments of the invention; Those having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: under the situation that does not break away from principle of the present invention and aim, can carry out multiple variation, modification, replacement and modification to these embodiment, scope of the present invention is limited claim and equivalent thereof.