CN104964499A - Ice making apparatus for a fridge or freezer - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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Abstract
An ice-making device for a refrigerator or freezer comprises: an ice-making tray having an upper side, a lower side, a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of said tray, wherein said ice-making tray is mounted so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation which is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the tray; a collecting container arranged underneath the ice-making tray for catching ice which falls out of said ice-making tray when the latter is in an emptying rotational position; a wall structure which, when the ice-making tray is in an ice-making rotational position, delimits a first air duct which runs underneath said ice-making tray and is open towards the underside of said tray, wherein said first air duct runs in the longitudinal direction of the tray and extends over substantially the entire length of the ice-making tray, wherein the wall structure has at least one wall element which, when the ice-making tray is in the ice-making rotational position, projects into a falling trajectory of the ice falling out of said ice-making tray and is arranged so as to be movable out of said falling trajectory; and a cold air supply system which is designed for the purpose of directing cold air into the first air duct in such a way that said cold air flows, within said first air duct, in the direction from a first longitudinal end of the tray to an opposite, second longitudinal end of said ice-making tray.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of ice maker for refrigerating equipment or freezing equipment.
Background technology
Be used for cooling the refrigerating equipment of preservation or freezen protective food or freezing equipment is configured with ice maker if desired in domestic environments, ice maker can make ice cube, and ice cube can be taken out by user when needed.In traditional ice maker, water is introduced in ice making box, and ice making box implements the depressed part of multiple pocketed.Ice cube is formed in each depressed part.Be frozen in impel water or this process auxiliary, produce cold air stream, cold air curtain coating ice making box and is guided.Water freezing when there is cold air stream than realizing quickly in the environment with still air.Once the water in ice making box is frozen in, then ice chest of turning.The ice cube produced is collected in receiving vessel (this receiving vessel in the art sometimes by with english term " Hopper (storage lattice) ") carrys out appellation.In order to ice chest of turning, following solution can be provided, wherein, rotate ice chest and additionally make himself twist (so-called " Twist-Tray (reverse plate) ice maker ").By applying this ice chest, the ice cube be arranged in wherein can be smashed from ice chest and split out; The torsion of ice chest guarantees that ice cube drops out from ice chest.
The example of traditional ice making equipment is shown in JP 2009-293872 A.According to this section of document, cold air stream transverse to ice making box (extending longitudinally be longer than width) extending longitudinally first guide via ice chest upper side, then turn to towards ice chest bottom side, and the last ice chest bottom side that extends back is guided, namely, same air first flows through ice chest upper side in succession, is then flowing through on the downside of ice chest.Additionally, scatter in the turn-around zone that a part for the cold air of ice chest upper side guiding turns to towards ice chest bottom side at air stream, thus cold air flow to the receiving vessel be in below ice chest, so as to make to be positioned at wherein, make complete ice cube and keep cooling.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to, the ice maker of the structure space that needs are relatively little is provided.
The invention provides a kind of ice maker for refrigerating equipment or freezing equipment, comprise: ice making box, described ice making box has ice chest upper side, ice chest bottom side, ice chest longitudinal direction and ice chest laterally, wherein, described ice making box is can support around the mode of the first pivot axis being parallel to described ice chest longitudinal direction, be arranged in below described ice making box, for receiving the collection container of ice, ice drops in the turned letter turned position of described ice making box from described ice making box, wall construction, described wall construction to define and extends below described ice making box in the ice making turned position of described ice making box, towards the first air duct that described ice chest bottom side opens wide, wherein, described first air duct extends and substantially extends in the whole length of described ice making box on ice chest is longitudinal, wherein, described wall construction has at least one wall elements, described wall elements to stretch in the path of dropping of the ice dropped from described ice making box and arranges in the mode that can move out from described path of dropping in the described ice making turned position of described ice making box, and cold air induction system, described cold air induction system is designed to be imported by cold air in the first air duct, and mode is: cold air flows along from the first ice chest longitudinal end of described ice making box to the direction of the second opposed ice chest longitudinal end in described first air duct.
In ice maker according to the present invention, the first air duct is along the extending longitudinally of ice making box and therefore need relatively little cross-sectional area.Cold air induction system can import at cold air correspondingly carefully narrow in the region in the first air duct and and then implement with saving structure space.The structure that can move of wall construction is guaranteed: when turning ice making box, the ice dropped from ice chest is not stopped by wall construction, but can fall in collection container in the clear.
The movement of wall construction can realize as follows according to a kind of embodiment: wall construction has at least in part to the wall elements that the first air duct is defined, and this wall elements is in order to rotatably arrange around the first pivot axis.According to another embodiment, wall construction can have at least in part to the wall elements that the first air duct is defined, and this wall elements is in order to rotatably arrange around the second pivot axis being parallel to the first pivot center.Be at ice making box in the top view of ice making turned position and observe, the second pivot center can in the region of longitudinal lateral edge of ice making box or the extension in the region of longitudinal lateral edge.
In one embodiment, wall construction comprises the first and second wall elements, described first and second wall elements define a part for the first air duct respectively, wherein, first wall elements is can arrange around the mode of the second pivot axis being parallel to the first pivot center, and the second wall elements is can arrange around the mode of the 3rd pivot axis being parallel to the first and second pivot centers.Second and second pivot center can be in the top view of ice making turned position at ice making box and observe, relative to ice making box longitudinal central axis line Mirror Symmetry and put.Be at ice making box in the top view of ice making turned position and observe, second pivot center can in the region of the longitudinal lateral edge of first of ice making box or the extension in the region of first longitudinal lateral edge, and the 3rd pivot center is in the region of second opposite longitudinal lateral edge of ice making box or the extension in the region of second longitudinal lateral edge.
In one embodiment, the cross-sectional area being defined the channel lumens on border between wall construction and the imaginary enveloping surface of ice chest bottom side of the first air duct is along reducing from the first ice chest longitudinal end to the direction of the second ice chest longitudinal end.This cross section reduces to have acceleration for the cold air flowed in channel lumens, and also ensure that the good cooling effect in the region of putting away from the first ice chest longitudinal end of ice making box.Cross section reduces such as can not hierarchically implement; This cross section reduces may alternatively or additionally also to be realized by one or more stepped transition portion.When referring to the imaginary enveloping surface of ice chest bottom side here, then this should consider following possibility: ice making box is implemented unevenly on its ice chest bottom side, this such as due to the existence of the depressed part of ice making box concave pocketed, wherein, makes ice cube respectively in depressed part.Enveloping surface is considered to, and supposes that the unevenness of ice chest bottom side is concealed.
In one embodiment, wall construction also to define in the ice making turned position of ice making box below ice making box along the second air duct that ice chest is extending longitudinally, in the second air duct, cold air is after flowing through the first air duct at least partially, along refluxing from the second ice chest longitudinal end to the direction of the first ice chest longitudinal end.In the region of the second ice chest longitudinal end, can steering surface be furnished with at this, turn to from the first air duct in order to make cold air and enter the second air duct.Steering surface can be formed by wall construction and can arrange with moving correspondingly.Alternatively it is envisaged that steering surface is arranged on the pedestal or housing arranged immovably, ice making box can be bearing on this pedestal or housing rotationally.
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Below, the present invention is explained in detail by accompanying drawing.Wherein:
Fig. 1 schematically illustrates the parts of the ice maker according to an embodiment,
Fig. 2 a and Fig. 2 b schematically illustrates ice-make condition according to the ice maker of Fig. 1 or empty state,
Fig. 3 with ice-make condition illustrate ice maker used, according to the perspective view of the ice making module of another embodiment,
Fig. 4 illustrates the perspective view of the ice making module according to another embodiment,
Fig. 5 illustrates the perspective view of the ice making module according to another embodiment,
Fig. 6 illustrates the perspective view of the ice making module according to another embodiment,
Fig. 7 a and Fig. 7 b illustrates perspective view according to the ice making module of another embodiment and sectional view.
Detailed description of the invention
First reference Fig. 1.Ice maker shown in Figure 1 indicates with 10 generally.This ice maker comprises the ice making box 12 be such as made up of synthetic material, in ice making box, make ice cube.For this reason, ice making box 12 has multiple ice cube in a not shown manner and makes recessed pocket, and ice cube makes recessed pocket and is respectively used to make ice cube.The length of ice making box 12 is greater than width; Ice making box 12 along its longitudinally have than along ice chest laterally more more number make recessed pocket by the ice cube arranged each other.Ice making box 12 such as implement along ice chest laterally each other by and two row's ice cubes of putting make recessed pocket, this ice cube makes recessed pocket and longitudinally such as has four, five of being close to each other respectively along ice chest or six ice cubes make recessed pocket.Ice cube makes recessed pocket and can such as be formed by the groove depression portion be on bottom ice making box 12 in known manner.
Can give ice making box 12 water filling by water delivery device 14, next water should be frozen into ice.Water delivery device 14 has tank 16 and feedwater part 18 in shown illustrative case, water controllably can be imported according to quantity in ice making box 12 from tank 16 by feedwater part.
Receiving vessel 20 is in the below of ice making box 12, and in receiving vessel, ice cube that is produced and that dish out from ice making box 12 is received and collects.
Cold air feeding system 22 is blown into air duct 24 for the cold air cold air source be never shown specifically extracted out, this air duct 24 extends along ice chest longitudinal (namely along the direction from the first longitudinal end 26 of ice making box 12 to the second opposed longitudinal end 28) below ice making box 12, and opens wide towards ice making box 12 (namely towards its ice chest bottom side).Cold air flows in air duct 24, cold air ejection from the mouthpiece 30 being arranged in the region of the first ice chest longitudinal end 26 of cold air feeding system 22, takes heat along ice chest bottom side and at this away from ice chest material and to be in ice making box 12 waterborne.By taking heat away and impel the water in ice chest 12 to freeze or at least auxiliary to some extent to this process.
Air duct 24 downward (namely towards the direction of receiving vessel 20) and also if desired also towards side (namely perpendicular to the map sheet plane of Fig. 1) by wall construction 32 limited boundary, wall construction extends substantially in the whole length of ice making box 12.The wall elements 34 (see Fig. 2 a, Fig. 2 b) that wall construction 32 (only schematically illustrating downward (namely towards the direction of receiving vessel 20) a part of wall construction to air duct 24 limited boundary in FIG) is constructed by groove pond shape or channel-like according to an embodiment is formed, and this wall elements to have bottom groove pond 36 and groove pool wall 38 opposite each other.In Fig. 2 a, Fig. 2 b it is seen that: groove pond sidewall 38 is raised along the longitudinal side wall of ice making box 12, wherein, can there is space (as in Fig. 2 a, Fig. 2 b) between groove pond sidewall 38 and the longitudinal side wall of ice making box 12, or replaceable geosyncline pond sidewall 38 can be resisted against on the longitudinal side wall of ice making box 12.In the case of the latter, closed ringwise on cross section cavity can be formed between ice making box 12 and wall elements 34.
The mode that ice making box 12 rotates with the rotation axis 42 (see Fig. 2 a, Fig. 2 b) that can rotate by such as electric drive unit 40 is arranged.This is rotatably necessary, in order to after completing a collection of ice cube of making, is dished out by ice cube from ice making box 12.Driver element 40 is by such as controlling by the control unit 44 of process control and ice making box 12 can being turned over 90 ° and also turn to the turned letter turned position schematically illustrated Fig. 2 b if desired further from the ice making turned position shown in Fig. 2 a, in this turned letter turned position, ice cube can be made to drop in receiving vessel 20 from ice making box 12.
In order to make wall elements 34 not keep off in the path of the ice cube dropped, this wall elements is by arrange with the ice making box 12 co-rotational mode of rotation axis 42 that rotates.When ice making box 12 rotates from ice making turned position towards the direction of turned letter turned position, wall elements 34 is together in company with rotating.When continuation operation driver element 40, from certain rotational angle, ice making box 12 is distorted (Verwindung), such that the ice cube that makes wherein is cracked from ice making box 12 to be dropped out.This technology being called as " Twist-Tray (reverse plate) " in the art is known; Therefore here do not explain in detail.
In order in the region away from the first ice chest longitudinal end 26, (namely near the second ice chest longitudinal end 28) also produces better cooling effect to the cold air of flowing in air duct 24, the cross-sectional area of air duct 24 reduces along with the increase apart from the first ice chest longitudinal end 26 distance.At this, according in the illustrative case of Fig. 1, the spacing bottom the groove pond of wall elements 34 between 36 and the bottom side of ice making box 12 reduces along with the increase apart from the first ice chest longitudinal end 26 distance.In order to easy, the ice making box 12 with smooth ice chest bottom side is shown in FIG.In practice, Ke Yiwei: ice making box 12 on its ice chest bottom side with very large, make recessed pocket due to ice cube existence and the unevenness caused implement.Air duct 24 reduces as mentioned cross-sectional area along with apart from the first ice chest longitudinal end 26 refer to apart from increasing: the reduction of the cross-sectional area of the cavity limited between the imaginary enveloping surface (wherein enveloping surface is levelling the unevenness mentioned) of wall elements 34 and ice chest bottom side.Such as, the cross-sectional area in air draught road 24 can reduce towards the second ice chest longitudinal end 28 continuously, specifically substantially reduces in the whole length of air duct 24 or only reduces in one or more segmentations of air duct.
In the other drawings, parts that are identical or that play phase same-action are provided with the Reference numeral identical with accompanying drawing above, and with the addition of lowercase.As long as differently do not illustrate later, in order to explain these parts, to the foregoing embodiments reference in addition of composition graphs 1, Fig. 2 a and Fig. 2 b.
Fig. 3 illustrates can as the ice making module 46a of construction unit assembled in advance, and this ice making module has the module frame 48a of tape frame end plate 50a, 52a.Ice making box 12a is rotatably bearing on module frame 48a.In addition, module frame 48a is used as cold air feeding system (such as according to the system 22 of Fig. 1) and the carrier for driver element 40a, and described driver element can be connected by the variable speed drive be not shown specifically and ice making box 12a.Electric control cable 54a with socket connection portion 56a guides to driver element 40a, control cable 54a can be connected with the control unit be not shown specifically in figure 3 (such as according to the control unit 44 of Fig. 1) by this socket connection portion.
The receiving vessel that the ice cube made in ice making box 12a is used and the water delivery device for water being injected ice making box 12a are not included in ice making module 46a.To this, can referring to according to the receiving vessel 20 of Fig. 1 and water delivery device 14.
Wall elements 34a as arranged according in the illustrative case of Fig. 2 a, Fig. 2 b, in order to rotate relative to module frame 48a around pivot center 42a together with ice making box 12a.
Bar 58a on module frame 48a can being installed in pivotally for identifying the occupied state in the receiving vessel (such as according to the receiving vessel 20 of Fig. 1) that is in below ice making module 46a, in this receiving vessel, collecting the ice of dishing out from ice chest 12a.According to the occupied state of receiving vessel filled with ice and surely, bar 58a occupies the pivot position different relative to module frame 48a.This bar such as can be connected with (not being shown specifically) electric switch, electric switch after reaching occupied state given in advance in receiving vessel to control unit output switching signal.Once produce this switching signal, this means: in receiving vessel, there is ice cube that enough degree deposit and therefore continue ice making and can be interrupted.
Ice making module 46b according to Fig. 4 is with the difference of the ice making module according to Fig. 3: wall elements 34b is can remain on this module frame relative to the mode that module frame 48b rotates around the pivot center 60b of the pivot center 42b being parallel to ice making box 12b.Pivot center 60b laterally extends (when ice making box is in it in the ice making turned position shown in Fig. 4) on ice making box 12b side.Ice making box 12b and both wall elements 34b keep driving with the driver element of ice making module 46b and are connected (this driver element is not shown specifically in the diagram).At this, drive connection to construct like this: wall elements 34b is rotated in the position shown in Fig. 4 at it, ice making box just starts to rotate towards the direction of its turned letter turned position afterwards.Alternatively, certainly it is possible that: opening of wall elements 34b occurs with the rotation of ice making box 12b substantially simultaneously (wall elements open namely move to unlimited ice cube drop in the turned position in path).Can well identification: also have ice making box 12b in the diagram with the structural scheme of multiple recessed pocket 62b, recessed pocket is here respectively used to make ice cube.
It is envisaged that interrupted according to length in the region of wall elements 34b 36b bottom groove pond, and the rotation axis 60b that can rotate in the groove pond half portion produced like this is kept rotationally, and the groove pond half portion that another produces can be assemblied on module frame 48b in the opposite vertical sideways region of ice making box 12b rotationally.This modification is shown in Figure 5.Wall construction 32c is here formed by two wall elements 34-1c, 34-2c, and these two wall elements form groove pond half portion respectively and are bearing on module frame 48c in the mode can rotated around respective pivot center 60-1c, 60-2c.These two pivot centers 60-1c, 60-2c arrange substantially relative to the pivot center 42c of ice making box 12c Mirror Symmetry.Wall elements 34-1c, 34-2c can move between open position shown in Figure 5 and closing position, in closing position, described wall elements defines the groove pond (be similar to situation Fig. 2 a shown in) closed at least as far as possible in the below of ice making box 12.
According in the embodiment of Fig. 6, wall elements 34d is not to be installed in rotationally on module frame 48d with embodiment before with distinguishing, but can such as transversely move (the passing arrow 64d along drawn) in the direction orthoscopic of the longitudinal direction of ice making box 12d by ratch guiding piece.Equally in this manner, when ice making box 12d should when empty, can make wall construction 32d move out from the path of dropping of ice cube.
According in the embodiment of Fig. 7 a, 7b, wall construction 32e forms air duct 66e with being additional to air duct 24e, in this air duct, drawn along returning in opposite direction from the first ice chest longitudinal end 26e to the cold air that the second ice chest longitudinal end 28e flows in air duct 24e at least partially.In the region of the second ice chest longitudinal end 28e, wall construction 32e defines steering surface 68e (see Fig. 7 b), and steering surface to make from air duct 24e cold air out turn to and enters air duct 66e.The flow direction of cold air in air duct 24e, 66e passes through drawn flow arrow to illustrate in fig .7b.
In order to form air duct 66e, wall construction 32e has another wall elements 70, and this wall elements arches upward around wall elements 34e in the below of wall elements 34e and creates the space apart from wall elements 34e.Air duct 66e extends in this space.
Mouthpiece cold air being therefrom blown into air duct 24e of cold air feeding system is not shown in Fig. 7 a, Fig. 7 b.Self-evidently, ice making module 46e can implement this mouthpiece.Such as, mouthpiece 30a according to Fig. 3 can adopt to correct for ice making module 10e: in this mouthpiece, be configured with independent air path, namely one for feeding air duct 24e by cold air, and another receives cold air for leading in 66e from air.Cold air feeding system be connected to part in this mouthpiece, with sending in the corresponding structural scheme of passage and loopback channel, required cold air (namely returning the cold air drawn in air duct 66e) directly can import in loopback channel via mouthpiece.
Wall construction 32e can be similar to the embodiment according to Fig. 3 relative to the movement (object is to make wall elements 34e, 70e move out from the path of dropping of ice cube) of module frame 48e, and the pivot center 42e that is wall construction 32e (comprises two wall elements 34e, 70e and steering surface 68e) as a whole and can be around ice making box 12e can rotate.
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1., for an ice maker for refrigerating equipment or freezing equipment, comprising:
Ice making box, described ice making box has ice chest upper side, ice chest bottom side, ice chest longitudinal direction and ice chest laterally, and wherein, described ice making box is can support around the mode of the first pivot axis being parallel to described ice chest longitudinal direction;
Be arranged in below described ice making box, for receiving the collection container of ice, ice drops in the turned letter turned position of described ice making box from described ice making box;
Wall construction, described wall construction to define and extends below described ice making box in the ice making turned position of described ice making box, towards the first air duct that described ice chest bottom side opens wide, wherein, described first air duct extends and substantially extends in the whole length of described ice making box on ice chest is longitudinal, wherein, described wall construction has at least one wall elements, described wall elements to stretch in the path of dropping of the ice dropped from described ice making box and arranges in the mode that can move out from described path of dropping in the described ice making turned position of described ice making box, and
Cold air induction system, described cold air induction system is designed to be imported by cold air in the first air duct, and mode is: cold air flows along from the first ice chest longitudinal end of described ice making box to the direction of the second opposed ice chest longitudinal end in described first air duct.
2. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein, described wall construction has the wall elements defining described first air duct at least in part, and described wall elements is in order to arrange rotationally around described first pivot axis.
3. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein, described wall construction has the wall elements defining described first air duct at least in part, and described wall elements is in order to arrange rotationally around the second pivot axis being parallel to described first pivot center.
4. ice maker according to claim 3, wherein, is at described ice making box in the top view of described ice making turned position and observes, and described second pivot center is in the region of longitudinal lateral edge of described ice making box or the extension of longitudinal lateral edge.
5. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein, described wall construction has the first and second wall elements, described first and second wall elements define a part for described first air duct respectively, wherein, described first wall elements is can arrange around the mode of the second pivot axis being parallel to described first pivot center, and described second wall elements is with can around being parallel to described first pivot center and the mode being parallel to the 3rd pivot axis of described second pivot center is arranged.
6. ice maker according to claim 5, wherein, is at described ice making box in the top view of described ice making turned position and observes, described second pivot center and described 3rd pivot center relative to described ice making box longitudinal central axis line Mirror Symmetry and put.
7. the ice maker according to claim 5 or 6, wherein, be at described ice making box in the top view of described ice making turned position and observe, described second pivot center is in the region of first longitudinal lateral edge of described ice making box or the extension of first longitudinal lateral edge, and described 3rd pivot center is in the region of second opposite longitudinal lateral edge of described ice making box or the extension of second longitudinal lateral edge.
8. according to the ice maker one of claim 1 to 7 Suo Shu, wherein, the cross-sectional area of the channel lumens defined between described wall construction and the enveloping surface of described ice chest bottom side of described first air duct is along reducing from described first ice chest longitudinal end to the direction of described second ice chest longitudinal end.
9. ice maker according to claim 8, wherein, the cross-sectional area of described channel lumens at least reduces continuously in the segmentation of the length of described first air duct.
10. according to the ice maker one of claim 1 to 9 Suo Shu, wherein, described wall construction also to define in the described ice making turned position of described ice making box below described ice making box along the second air duct that described ice chest is extending longitudinally, in described second air duct, cold air is after flowing through described first air duct at least partially, along refluxing from described second ice chest longitudinal end to the direction of described first ice chest longitudinal end, wherein, in the region of described second ice chest longitudinal end, be furnished with steering surface, redirect to described second air duct from described first air duct for making cold air.
11. ice makers according to claim 10, wherein, described steering surface is formed by described wall construction.
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