CN105258421A - Ice making device and refrigerator - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an ice making device and a refrigerator. The ice making device comprises a body support, an ice making box rotationally installed in the body support, a temperature changing device and a lifting mechanism. The interior of the ice making box is divided into at least one ice making tray with an upward opening, and the ice making trays are used for containing water to make ice blocks. The temperature changing device is located above the body support and comprises semiconductor chilling plates. The lifting mechanism is connected with the temperature changing device and used for lowering the temperature changing device in the ice making process to the position where the temperature changing device partially stretches into the ice making box, and therefore the refrigerating capacity generated by the semiconductor chilling plates is transmitted into the water in the ice making box to form the ice blocks. According to the ice making device and the refrigerator, the refrigerating capacity generated by the semiconductor chilling plates in the ice making process is directly introduced into the water in the ice making box so that the water in the ice making box can be iced rapidly, and the purpose of instant icing is achieved.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to ice-making technology field, particularly relate to a kind of ice maker and refrigerator.
Background technology
Current family expenses torsional mode ice machine is generally adopt frostless refrigeration system to freeze, normally ice machine is directly installed on airtight indoor in the freezing compartment of refrigerator or refrigerating chamber, by blower fan, cold wind is directly blown on ice making box, the water in ice making box is build-up ice.After ice cube is fully formed, reverses ice making box by ice machine motor and ice cube is wherein come off under gravity.Usual this ice making mode ice making efficiency is low, and the water freezing in ice making box be generally from outer toward in, ice cube inside easily produces bubble, causes ice cube opaque.Along with the raising of human living standard, people increase the quality of ice cube and ice making rate request, thus cause this kind of torsional mode ice machine day by day to can not meet people's needs.
Summary of the invention
An object of first aspect present invention is intended to one of in view of the foregoing defects the prior art has, provide the ice maker that a kind of ice making efficiency is high.
First aspect present invention further object is that the ice cube transparency that ice maker will be made obtained is good.
An object of second aspect present invention to provide a kind of refrigerator with above-mentioned ice maker.
According to a first aspect of the invention, provide a kind of ice maker, comprising:
Main body rack;
Ice making box, is rotatably installed in described main body rack, is separated to form the ice box of at least one opening upwards in described ice making box, to hold water to make ice cube;
Be in the changing device above described main body rack, it comprises semiconductor chilling plate; And
Elevating mechanism, is connected with described changing device, making its part stretch into position in described ice making box, being passed in the water in described ice making box to form ice cube with the cold produced by described semiconductor chilling plate for being down to by described changing device in ice-making process.
Alternatively, described changing device also comprises:
First alternating temperature portion, its upper surface contacts with the bottom alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate; With
Second alternating temperature portion, its lower surface contacts with the top alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate,
The cold that described semiconductor chilling plate is configured to be produced in ice-making process is passed to described first alternating temperature portion;
Described elevating mechanism is configured to be down to by described changing device in ice-making process and makes the bottom in its first alternating temperature portion stretch into position in described ice making box.
Alternatively, described first alternating temperature portion comprises: the first heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, described first heat-conducting plate upper surface contacts with the bottom alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate, protrude at least one cooling rod downwards from the lower surface of described first heat-conducting plate, wherein each described cooling rod corresponds to a described ice box;
Described second alternating temperature portion comprises: the second heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, described second heat-conducting plate lower surface contacts with the top alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate, multiple spaced radiating fin is vertically upwards extended with from the upper surface of described second heat-conducting plate, and
Described elevating mechanism is also configured to: be down to by described changing device in ice-making process and make each cooling rod in its first alternating temperature portion stretch into position in corresponding ice box.
Alternatively, described semiconductor chilling plate is also configured to: the heat produced after finishing ice-making is passed to described first alternating temperature portion, thus the ice cube in described ice box is separated from described cooling rod draw heat with it; And
Described elevating mechanism is also configured to: after the ice cube draw heat in described ice box and described cooling rod are separated, described changing device is risen to the predeterminated position higher than described ice making box.
Alternatively, described elevating mechanism comprises:
Gear, is fixedly installed on the top of described main body rack;
Tooth bar, is meshed with described gear, and it vertically arranges and can vertically move up and down above described main body rack, and described changing device is arranged on described tooth bar bottom; And
Driving mechanism, for driving described pinion rotation, thus makes described changing device with described gear rack elevating to different vertical position.
Alternatively, wherein said driving mechanism comprises drive motors and gear transmission structure, and described drive motors drives described pinion rotation by described gear transmission structure.
Alternatively, described ice making box is made of plastics;
Described ice maker also comprises driven unit, for driving described ice making box to rotate, therefrom comes off to make the ice cube in described ice box.
Alternatively, described ice maker also comprises:
Refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system, is configured to controllably blow cold wind to dispel the heat to it to described second alternating temperature portion in ice-making process.
According to a second aspect of the invention, provide a kind of refrigerator, comprising:
Room between storing; With
As front arbitrary as described in ice maker, it to be arranged between described storing in room.
Alternatively, be provided with independently ice-making compartment between described storing in room, described ice maker is arranged in described ice-making compartment, and the air inlet flowed into for cooling blast is formed on the top of described ice-making compartment;
Described refrigerator also comprises:
Evaporimeter, cools the air flowing through it, with at least to supply cold air in room between described storing; With
Air-supply wind path, for being sent in described ice-making compartment by least part of air of described evaporator cools in ice-making process, thus dispels the heat to described second alternating temperature portion.
Alternatively, described refrigerator also comprises:
Air door, is arranged in described air-supply wind path, is configured to blow described in conducting wind path in ice-making process, to blow cold wind to described second alternating temperature portion; And after finishing ice-making, disconnect described air-supply wind path.
Alternatively, the return air inlet flowed out for air-flow is formed at the bottom of described ice-making compartment,
Described refrigerator also comprises return air wind path, and it is for cooling the pneumatic convey flowed out from described return air inlet to described evaporimeter.
Ice maker of the present invention, by directly introducing in the water in ice making box by the cold that semiconductor chilling plate produces in ice-making process, can make the water in ice making box freeze fast, to reach the object of freezing instantaneously.Because the water in ice making box freezes instantaneously from inside to outside, the ice bubble-free born, therefore the present invention can make the higher ice of transparency.
Particularly, the present invention, by becoming freeze surperficial (i.e. cold junction) with the alternating temperature surface of the first alternating temperature portion thermo-contact by semiconductor chilling plate in ice-making process, is passed to the first alternating temperature portion with the cold produced by semiconductor chilling plate; And then by the first alternating temperature portion is stretched in ice box, the cold that semiconductor chilling plate cold junction discharges directly is introduced in the water in ice making box, the water in ice making box can be made to freeze fast, to reach the object of freezing instantaneously.
Further, after ice cube is formed, by the polarity of semiconductor chilling plate electric current is exchanged, heat surface (i.e. hot junction) and refrigeration surface by semiconductor chilling plate are exchanged, thus make to become with the alternating temperature surface of the first alternating temperature portion thermo-contact to heat surface, moment can make the first alternating temperature portion and ice cube depart from.Being rotated by the ice making box of ice maker makes ice cube wherein drop under gravity in ice bank or other containers again, completes this ice making and deices.
Further, ice maker of the present invention and refrigerator dispel the heat by utilizing refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system to blow the surface that heats of cold wind to semiconductor chilling plate to the second alternating temperature portion, thus the temperature on the refrigeration surface of semiconductor chilling plate can be made lower, the cold produced is more, thus further increase ice making speed, can be made into the ice cube of highly transparent.
According to hereafter by reference to the accompanying drawings to the detailed description of the specific embodiment of the invention, those skilled in the art will understand above-mentioned and other objects, advantage and feature of the present invention more.
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Hereinafter describe specific embodiments more of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of example, and not by way of limitation in detail.Reference numeral identical in accompanying drawing denotes same or similar parts or part.It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that these accompanying drawings may not be drawn in proportion.In accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of ice maker according to an embodiment of the invention;
Schematic diagram when Fig. 2 is the ice making of ice maker shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the schematic cross sectional views of the changing device of ice maker shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is schematic diagram when ice maker deices shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 5 is the perspective schematic view of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of ice maker 100 according to an embodiment of the invention.See Fig. 1, ice maker 100 can comprise main body rack (not shown) in general manner and be rotatably installed in the ice making box 10 in main body rack.Ice making box 10 is upper surface open, by water filling device (not shown) to water filling in ice making box 10.The ice box 11 of at least one opening upwards is separated to form, to hold water to make ice cube in ice making box 10.Usually, multiple ice box 11 can be separated to form, such as 6,8 etc. in ice making box 10.Ice making box 10 can be made of plastics.Ice maker 100 also comprises driven unit, for driving ice making box 10 to rotate, therefrom comes off to make the ice cube in ice box 11.Driven unit generally includes the drive motors 22 that is arranged on main body rack one end and to be arranged on main body rack and the rotating shaft 24 be arranged on bottom ice making box 10, and it is connected with drive motors 22, rotates to drive ice making box 10.
The side cross sectional of ice box 11 is that inverted trapezoidal is therefrom to isolate ice cube.Ice making box 10 also can transversely twist in direction while rotation, is and turns round formula ice making box, thus the ice cube in ice box 11 is therefrom come off fast.Can arrange ice bank (not shown) under ice making box 10, due to the rotation of ice making box 10, isolated ice cube is stored in ice bank.
Especially, ice maker 100 also comprises the changing device 40 be in above main body rack and the elevating mechanism 30 be connected with changing device 40.Changing device 40 can comprise semiconductor chilling plate 43 (see Fig. 3).Those skilled in the art will appreciate that, semiconductor chilling plate 43 has two relative alternating temperature surfaces, and when semiconductor chilling plate 43 is energized, one of them alternating temperature surface temperature reduces, and forms refrigeration surface (i.e. cold junction); Another alternating temperature surface temperature raises, and is formed and heats surface (i.e. hot junction).The cold that the ice maker 100 of the embodiment of the present invention utilizes semiconductor chilling plate 43 (cold junction) to produce carrys out ice making.
Elevating mechanism 30 is elevated to different vertical position for driving changing device 40.In certain embodiments, elevating mechanism 30 can comprise gear 31, tooth bar 32 and driving mechanism.Gear 31 is fixedly installed on above main body rack.Tooth bar 32 is meshed with gear 31, and it is vertically arranged above main body rack, vertically moves up and down by the engagement between gear 31.Changing device 40 is arranged on tooth bar 32 bottom, thus vertically moves up and down with tooth bar 32.Driving mechanism is used for driven wheel 31 and rotates, thus changing device 40 is elevated to different vertical position with tooth bar 32.Driving mechanism can comprise drive motors 33 and gear transmission structure, and drive motors 33 is rotated by gear transmission structure driven wheel 31.Particularly, gear transmission structure can comprise the first gear 34 engaged with the output shaft of drive motors 33, the second gear 35 engaged with the first gear 34, first gear 34 and the second gear 35 all rotate in perpendicular, wherein the second gear 35 is connected with gear 31 by the power transmission shaft 36 extended in the horizontal direction, thus drive motors 33 can rotate by driven gear 31 in perpendicular.Drive motors 33 can be fixedly installed on above main body rack; Power transmission shaft 36 is fixedly installed on above main body rack by axle sleeve (not shown).In the illustrated embodiment in which, second gear 35 is set in the middle part of power transmission shaft 36, two gears 31 are set in the two ends of power transmission shaft 36 respectively, and each gear 31 engages with a tooth bar 32 respectively, and the two ends of changing device 40 are arranged on the bottom of two tooth bars 32 respectively.
Schematic diagram when Fig. 2 is 100 ice making of ice maker shown in Fig. 1.See Fig. 2, elevating mechanism 30 can be configured to be down to by changing device 40 in ice-making process (water namely in ice box 11 absorbs the process that cold is frozen into ice) and makes its part stretch into position in ice making box 10, is passed in the water in ice box 11 to form ice cube with the cold produced by semiconductor chilling plate 43.Because cold is directly passed in water by stretching in ice box 11 by changing device 40, therefore the water in ice box 11 freezes outward from interior, thus the ice cube of forming is comparatively transparent.
Fig. 3 is the schematic cross sectional views of the changing device 40 of ice maker 100 shown in Fig. 1.In certain embodiments, changing device 40 can comprise semiconductor chilling plate 43, first alternating temperature portion 41 and the second alternating temperature portion 42.The upper surface in the first alternating temperature portion 41 contacts with the bottom alternating temperature surface heat of semiconductor chilling plate 43, and the lower surface in the second alternating temperature portion 42 contacts with the top alternating temperature surface heat of semiconductor chilling plate 43.The cold that semiconductor chilling plate 43 is configured to be produced in ice-making process is passed to the first alternating temperature portion 41; Namely, in ice-making process, make the alternating temperature surface, bottom of semiconductor chilling plate 43 and the first alternating temperature portion 41 thermo-contact for freezing surface, surperficial for heating surface with the top alternating temperature of the second alternating temperature portion 42 thermo-contact.Elevating mechanism 30 is configured to be down to by changing device 40 in ice-making process and makes the bottom in its first alternating temperature portion 41 stretch into position in ice making box 10, thus makes the water entered in ice box 11 draw cold to form ice cube from the first alternating temperature portion 41.
See Fig. 3, in a preferred embodiment, the first alternating temperature portion 41 can comprise the first heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, and the first heat-conducting plate upper surface contacts with an alternating temperature surface heat of semiconductor chilling plate 43.Protrude at least one cooling rod 411 downwards from the lower surface of the first heat-conducting plate, wherein each cooling rod 411 corresponds to an ice box 11.Second alternating temperature portion 42 comprises the second heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, and the second heat-conducting plate lower surface contacts with another alternating temperature surface heat of semiconductor chilling plate 43.Multiple spaced radiating fin 421 is vertically upwards extended with from the upper surface of the second heat-conducting plate.By arranging radiating fin 421 at the upper surface of the second heat-conducting plate, adding the heat exchange area of the second alternating temperature portion 42 and air, thus improve radiating efficiency.
Correspondingly, elevating mechanism 30 is configured to be down to by changing device 40 in ice-making process and makes each cooling rod 411 in its first alternating temperature portion 41 stretch into position in corresponding ice box 11.
The material in the first alternating temperature portion 41 and the second alternating temperature portion 42 can be copper, copper alloy, aluminium, aluminium alloy, stainless steel or the good material of other heat conductivilitys.For the ease of installing, the upper surface of the first heat-conducting plate can be made to be recessed to form groove downwards, and semiconductor chilling plate 43 embeds in groove.Changing device 40 can arrange a semiconductor chilling plate 43; Also can arrange multiple semiconductor chilling plate 43, multiple semiconductor chilling plate 43 arranges in the horizontal direction, all embeds in the groove of the first heat-conducting plate.Setting can not be contacted, to prevent the first heat-conducting plate and the direct transferring heat of the second heat-conducting plate between the upper surface of the first heat-conducting plate and the lower surface of the second heat-conducting plate.
Further, semiconductor chilling plate 43 is also configured to the heat that (after namely forming ice cube) is produced after finishing ice-making and is passed to the first alternating temperature portion 41, thus the ice cube in ice box 11 is separated from cooling rod 411 draw heat with it.Namely after finishing ice-making, the alternating temperature surface of semiconductor chilling plate 43 and the first alternating temperature portion 41 thermo-contact is become and heats surface, become with the alternating temperature surface of the second alternating temperature portion 42 thermo-contact surface of freezing, thus the heat heating surface generation of semiconductor chilling plate 43 is passed to the cooling rod 411 in the first alternating temperature portion 41.Elevating mechanism 30 is also configured to: after the ice cube draw heat in ice box 11 and cooling rod 411 are separated, changing device 40 is risen to the predeterminated position higher than ice making box 10.It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the predeterminated position higher than ice making box 10 here, should at least ensure when ice making box 10 overturns, changing device 40 is non-interference with ice making box 10, see Fig. 4.
Cooling rod 411 by drawing cooling rod 411 from semiconductor chilling plate 43 cold junction, and stretches in ice making box 10 by the present invention, and the cold utilizing semiconductor chilling plate 43 cold junction to discharge makes the instant water in ice making box 10 freeze; After ice cube is formed, by the polarity of semiconductor chilling plate 43 electric current is exchanged, semiconductor chilling plate 43 hot junction and cold junction are exchanged, the heat in hot junction is passed to ice cube by cooling rod 411, ice making rod 411 and ice cube can be made instantaneously to depart from, by turning round formula ice making box 10 rotation, the ice cube in ice making box 10 being dropped in ice bank and other containers under gravity again, completing this ice making and deicing.
Present inventor finds, although adopt the ice maker 100 of said structure have ice making efficiency faster and can prepare comparatively transparent ice cube, but the transparency of obtained ice cube still has the space of lifting.In existing ice maker field, the one in semiconductor chilling plate and refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system (or be called compression refrigerating system or be called evaporator refrigeration system) is usually only adopted to provide cold for ice making box.And in the ice maker field utilizing semiconductor refrigerating, those skilled in the art not yet have recognized the need to utilize the heat surface of refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system to semiconductor chilling plate to dispel the heat, to obtain clear ice bodies.In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the second alternating temperature portion 42 of refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system to changing device 40 can be utilized to dispel the heat, thus obtain clear ice bodies.
Thus, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, ice maker 100 also can comprise refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system (not shown), is configured to controllably blow cold wind to dispel the heat to it to the second alternating temperature portion 42 in ice-making process.As those skilled in the art will appreciate that, refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system generally includes evaporimeter, compressor, condenser, restricting element (expansion valve or capillary), evaporimeter is connected with compressor, condenser, restricting element via coolant piping, form refrigeration cycle, lower the temperature when compressor start, to cool the air flowing through evaporimeter.In such embodiments, ice maker 100 also can arrange shell (not shown), and refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system is arranged in shell.In shell, also can arrange blower fan, supply air duct and return airway, the air via evaporator cools blows to the second alternating temperature portion 42 via supply air duct by blower fan; The heat that second alternating temperature portion 42 sheds is delivered to evaporimeter by return airway, evaporimeter by its recycle heat to compressor.
Below, the course of work of ice maker 100 is according to the preferred embodiment of the invention described see Fig. 1 to Fig. 4.
First, water filling in ice making box 10, changing device 40 is down to and is made its cooling rod 411 stretch into position (see Fig. 2) in corresponding ice box 11 by elevating mechanism 30.Semiconductor chilling plate 43 switches on power and starts working, simultaneously refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system work, flows to the second alternating temperature portion 42 of changing device 40, to dispel the heat to the hot junction of semiconductor chilling plate 43 via the cold wind of evaporator cools via supply air duct.The alternating temperature surface, bottom of semiconductor chilling plate 43 and the first alternating temperature portion 41 thermo-contact is as cold junction, and abrupt release cold makes cooling rod 411 temperature reduce rapidly, and the instant water now contacted with cooling rod 411 in ice box 11 freezes.When (after namely terminating in ice-making process) after ice cube is fully formed, refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system is closed down, and stops the second alternating temperature portion 42 transporting cold-air to changing device 40.Start the polarity switch of semiconductor chilling plate 43 electric current, semiconductor chilling plate 43 cold junction and hot junction are exchanged, ice cube moment is departed from ice making rod.Start drive motors 33, driven gear 31 rotates simultaneously, thus band carry-over bar 32 and changing device 40 move up, and namely drives cooling rod 411 to be separated (see Fig. 1) with the ice cube in ice making box 10.Now drive motors 22 starts, and twisting ice making box 10 makes ice cube drop to (see Fig. 4) in ice bank under gravity, completes this ice making and deices process.
In an alternative embodiment, ice maker 100 can not arrange separately refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system, but utilizes the second alternating temperature portion 42 that the refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system of refrigerator is ice maker 100 to dispel the heat.
Based on the ice maker 100 of aforementioned any embodiment, the present invention also can provide a kind of refrigerator.Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of refrigerator 1 according to an embodiment of the invention.Refrigerator 1 comprises the ice maker 100 between storing in room and aforementioned any embodiment, and ice maker 100 to be arranged between storing in room 200.In certain embodiments, between storing, room 200 can comprise refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber.Between the storing arranging ice maker 100, room 200 is preferably refrigerating chamber.
Refrigerator 1 also can comprise refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system, provides cold air for being at least room 200 between storing.Do not arrange separately in the embodiment of refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system at ice maker 100, between storing, can arrange independently ice-making compartment 300 in room 200, ice maker 100 is arranged in ice-making compartment 300.The air inlet flowed into for cooling blast is formed on the top of ice-making compartment 300.Refrigerator 1 can comprise air-supply wind path 410, sends in ice-making compartment 300, thus dispel the heat to the second alternating temperature portion 42 at least part of air cooled by the evaporimeter 400 in refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system in ice-making process.The return air inlet flowed out for air-flow is formed at the rear wall bottom of ice-making compartment 300.Refrigerator 1 also comprises return air wind path 420, and it is for cooling the pneumatic convey flowed out from ice-making compartment 300 return air inlet to evaporimeter 400.
In a further embodiment, refrigerator 1 also comprises air door 411, is arranged in air-supply wind path 410, is configured to conducting air-supply wind path 410 in ice-making process, dispels the heat to blow cold wind to the second alternating temperature portion 42.After finishing ice-making, air door 411 is closed, to disconnect air-supply wind path 410.
Particularly, when ice maker 100 starts ice making, if the compressor of refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system is in starting state, then open air door 411 with conducting air-supply wind path 410, cold air can flow in ice-making compartment 300 and dispel the heat to the second alternating temperature portion 42.When after finishing ice-making, close air door 411 to disconnect air-supply wind path 410.When ice maker 100 starts ice making, if compressor is in the state of closing down, then start compressor, open air door 411.When after finishing ice-making, close air door 411.If room does not need refrigeration between the storing such as refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber after finishing ice-making, then compressor can be closed down.
So far, those skilled in the art will recognize that, although multiple exemplary embodiment of the present invention is illustrate and described herein detailed, but, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, still can directly determine or derive other modification many or amendment of meeting the principle of the invention according to content disclosed by the invention.Therefore, scope of the present invention should be understood and regard as and cover all these other modification or amendments.
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1. an ice maker, comprising:
Main body rack;
Ice making box, is rotatably installed in described main body rack, is separated to form the ice box of at least one opening upwards in described ice making box, to hold water to make ice cube;
Be in the changing device above described main body rack, it comprises semiconductor chilling plate; And
Elevating mechanism, is connected with described changing device, making its part stretch into position in described ice making box, being passed in the water in described ice making box to form ice cube with the cold produced by described semiconductor chilling plate for being down to by described changing device in ice-making process.
2. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein
Described changing device also comprises:
First alternating temperature portion, its upper surface contacts with the bottom alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate; With
Second alternating temperature portion, its lower surface contacts with the top alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate,
The cold that described semiconductor chilling plate is configured to be produced in ice-making process is passed to described first alternating temperature portion;
Described elevating mechanism is configured to be down to by described changing device in ice-making process and makes the bottom in its first alternating temperature portion stretch into position in described ice making box.
3. ice maker according to claim 2, wherein
Described first alternating temperature portion comprises: the first heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, described first heat-conducting plate upper surface contacts with the bottom alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate, protrude at least one cooling rod downwards from the lower surface of described first heat-conducting plate, wherein each described cooling rod corresponds to a described ice box;
Described second alternating temperature portion comprises: the second heat-conducting plate extended in the horizontal direction, described second heat-conducting plate lower surface contacts with the top alternating temperature surface heat of described semiconductor chilling plate, multiple spaced radiating fin is vertically upwards extended with from the upper surface of described second heat-conducting plate, and
Described elevating mechanism is also configured to: be down to by described changing device in ice-making process and make each cooling rod in its first alternating temperature portion stretch into position in corresponding ice box.
4. ice maker according to claim 3, wherein
Described semiconductor chilling plate is also configured to: the heat produced after finishing ice-making is passed to described first alternating temperature portion, thus the ice cube in described ice box is separated from described cooling rod draw heat with it; And
Described elevating mechanism is also configured to: after the ice cube draw heat in described ice box and described cooling rod are separated, described changing device is risen to the predeterminated position higher than described ice making box.
5. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein said elevating mechanism comprises:
Gear, is fixedly installed on the top of described main body rack;
Tooth bar, is meshed with described gear, and it vertically arranges and can vertically move up and down above described main body rack, and described changing device is arranged on described tooth bar bottom; And
Driving mechanism, for driving described pinion rotation, thus makes described changing device with described gear rack elevating to different vertical position.
6. ice maker according to claim 5, wherein said driving mechanism comprises drive motors and gear transmission structure, and described drive motors drives described pinion rotation by described gear transmission structure.
7. ice maker according to claim 1, wherein
Described ice making box is made of plastics;
Described ice maker also comprises driven unit, for driving described ice making box to rotate, therefrom comes off to make the ice cube in described ice box.
8. ice maker according to claim 2, also comprises:
Refrigerant circulation type refrigeration system, is configured to controllably blow cold wind to dispel the heat to it to described second alternating temperature portion in ice-making process.
9. a refrigerator, comprising:
Room between storing; With
Ice maker according to any one of claim 1-7, it to be arranged between described storing in room.
10. refrigerator according to claim 9, wherein
Be provided with independently ice-making compartment in room between described storing, described ice maker is arranged in described ice-making compartment, and the air inlet flowed into for cooling blast is formed on the top of described ice-making compartment;
Described refrigerator also comprises:
Evaporimeter, cools the air flowing through it, with at least to supply cold air in room between described storing; With
Air-supply wind path, for being sent in described ice-making compartment by least part of air of described evaporator cools in ice-making process, thus dispels the heat to described second alternating temperature portion.
11. refrigerators according to claim 10, also comprise:
Air door, is arranged in described air-supply wind path, is configured to blow described in conducting wind path in ice-making process, to blow cold wind to described second alternating temperature portion; And after finishing ice-making, disconnect described air-supply wind path.
12. refrigerators according to claim 10, wherein
The return air inlet flowed out for air-flow is formed at the bottom of described ice-making compartment,
Described refrigerator also comprises return air wind path, and it is for cooling the pneumatic convey flowed out from described return air inlet to described evaporimeter.
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