CN108120221B

CN108120221B - Drawer and refrigerator with same

Info

Publication number: CN108120221B
Application number: CN201711224911.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 岳跃周; 刘梁; 丰炳东; 杨东亚
Original assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Current assignee: Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-11-29
Filing date: 2017-11-29
Publication date: 2022-05-20
Anticipated expiration: 2037-11-29
Also published as: CN108120221A

Abstract

The invention provides a drawer for a refrigerator, which comprises a partition board, wherein a plurality of fixing parts for receiving the partition board are arranged on the drawer, and the partition board can be selectively fixed on one of the fixing parts to divide the storage space of the drawer. Compared with the prior art, the refrigerator and the drawer thereof provided by the invention are provided with the plurality of fixing parts, so that the partition plate can be selectively fixed on any fixing part, the flexibility is greatly improved, the fixing position of the partition plate can be conveniently adjusted according to the size of food, the internal space of the drawer is fully utilized, and the mutual smell mixing of foods with different flavors is effectively avoided.

Description

Drawer and refrigerator with same

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of refrigeration equipment, in particular to a refrigerator and a drawer thereof.

Background

Refrigerator on the existing market, the temperature-changing chamber generally adopts fixed volumetric drawer, does not set up subassembly such as baffle in the drawer and carries out the subregion to the drawer, and this causes the inside space utilization of temperature-changing chamber low, and the user of also being convenient for stores and takes the subregion of food, leads to the tainting of flavor between the different food easily, influences the new freshness of food.

In the prior art, the drawer is divided into a plurality of fixed storage spaces by the partition plates, so that various articles can be stored in a partitioned mode conveniently, but if large-size food is encountered, the food needs to be segmented firstly and then can be placed into the drawer in a segmented mode. Therefore, it is not inconsiderable to divide the drawer into several spaces of fixed small volume.

In addition, the temperature-changing chamber arranged independently generally has a higher height, so that the height of the temperature-changing drawer arranged in the temperature-changing chamber is also higher, and food stored in the temperature-changing drawer usually only occupies a smaller bottom space, so that the upper space of the drawer cannot be fully utilized, and space waste is caused.

In view of the above, it is desirable to provide a new drawer and a refrigerator having the same to solve the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a novel refrigerator and a drawer thereof, which can flexibly adjust the storage space of the drawer according to the requirement, avoid the food in the drawer from tainting odor mutually and improve the space utilization rate of the drawer.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: a drawer for a refrigerator comprises a partition board, wherein a plurality of fixing parts for receiving the partition board are arranged on the drawer, and the partition board can be selectively fixed on one of the fixing parts to divide the storage space of the drawer.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the partition plate is provided with a matching part matched with the fixing part, the matching part is arranged at one end of the partition plate, and the matching part and the fixing part are mutually inserted and matched.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the fixing portion includes a positioning post disposed at the bottom of the drawer, and the matching portion includes a groove disposed at the bottom end of the partition board, and the groove is operable to receive the positioning post.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the drawer includes two pairs of side walls disposed opposite to each other, each of the fixing portions includes a pair of positioning pillars, and each of the positioning pillars extends from one side wall to the other side wall disposed opposite to the side wall.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the other end of the clapboard is abutted and matched with the side wall of the drawer.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the other end of the clapboard is provided with a Y-shaped abutting part, the Y-shaped abutting part comprises a notch and an elastic sheet extending outwards from the notch, and the elastic sheet is pressed against the side wall under the bias of elastic force.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the elastic sheet is provided with a bulge, and the side wall is provided with a positioning hole for receiving the bulge.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the partition board is provided with a Y-shaped abutting part, the Y-shaped abutting part comprises a notch and an elastic sheet extending outwards from the notch, the elastic sheet is provided with a bulge, the fixing part comprises a positioning hole arranged on the side wall of the drawer, and when the elastic sheet is pressed against the side wall under the bias of elastic force, the positioning hole receives the bulge.

As a further improved technical scheme of the invention, the drawer also comprises a storage box, the storage box is slidably arranged at the upper part of the drawer, and the sum of the heights of the storage box and the partition plate is not more than the height of the drawer.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention further provides a refrigerator, which includes the drawer as described above.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: compared with the prior art, the refrigerator and the drawer thereof provided by the invention are provided with the plurality of fixing parts, so that the partition plate can be selectively fixed on any fixing part, the flexibility is greatly improved, the fixing position of the partition plate can be conveniently adjusted according to the size of food, the internal space of the drawer is fully utilized, and the mutual smell mixing of foods with different flavors is effectively avoided.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a temperature-varying chamber of a refrigerator in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a temperature-changing drawer of a refrigerator according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a temperature change drawer with a storage box removed according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a separator in a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a positional relationship between the storage box and the partition plate in the interior of the temperature-variable drawer according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments shown in the drawings. These embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and structural, methodological, or functional changes made by those skilled in the art according to these embodiments are included in the scope of the present invention.

Terms such as "upper," "above," "lower," "below," and the like, used herein to denote relative spatial positions, are used for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. The spatially relative positional terms may be intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" the other elements or features. Thus, the exemplary term "below" can encompass both an orientation of above and below. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly. Also, it should be understood that, although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements or structures, these described elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish these descriptive objects from one another.

As shown in fig. 1, a refrigerator according to the present invention includes a temperature-varying chamber 1, in this embodiment, the temperature-varying chamber 1 is a temperature-varying refrigerating chamber which is separately installed, and a drawer 2 is installed in the temperature-varying chamber 1 to facilitate a user to access food by pulling and pushing. In the present embodiment, the door body of the temperature changing chamber 1 and the outer side wall 21 of the drawer 2 are provided integrally, so that the temperature changing chamber 1 is opened while the drawer 2 is pulled open. Of course, in other embodiments, the door of the temperature-changing chamber 1 may be provided separately from the drawer 2, that is, when food needs to be stored in the temperature-changing chamber 1, the temperature-changing door needs to be opened first, and then the drawer 2 needs to be opened.

Of course, in other embodiments, the temperature-changing chamber 1 may be a separate refrigerating space provided in the freezing chamber or the refrigerating chamber, and the refrigerating space is sealed by the drawer 2 to achieve good temperature control. In addition, although the drawer 2 is applied to the temperature changing chamber 1 in the present embodiment, in other embodiments, the drawer 2 may be used in a refrigerating chamber or a freezing chamber as the functional drawer 2 for separately performing freshness keeping, freeze drying, or other related functions.

The interior of the existing common drawer 2 is not divided into spaces, so that different kinds of food in the drawer 2 are tainted with odor; there are also prior art to divide into several fixed storage spaces with drawer 2, and in such scheme, fixed storage space has restricted the size of putting article, if meet the article that needs to be deposited such as the great fish of size, ham, must cut the processing earlier and just can deposit in the corresponding space of drawer 2. Referring to fig. 2, which is a schematic structural diagram of a drawer 2 in the preferred embodiment, the drawer 2 includes a partition plate 3, a plurality of fixing portions for receiving the partition plate 3 are provided on the drawer 2, and the partition plate 3 is selectively fixed on one of the fixing portions to partition a storage space of the drawer 2. Be equipped with a plurality of fixed parts on the drawer 2 for baffle 3 optional is fixed on arbitrary fixed part, so, the flexibility improves greatly, is convenient for be used for according to food size adjustment baffle 3's fixed position, make full use of the inner space of drawer 2, has also effectively avoided the cross flavor each other of different flavor food. The present embodiment is only an example of the separator 3, and in other embodiments, a plurality of separators 3 may be provided.

Referring to fig. 2 to 4, the partition plate 3 is provided with a matching portion matching with the fixing portion, the matching portion is provided at one end of the partition plate 3, and the matching portion and the fixing portion are mutually inserted and matched. Specifically, the fixing portion includes a positioning post 22 disposed at the bottom of the drawer 2, and the matching portion includes a groove 31 disposed at the bottom end of the partition board 3, wherein the groove 31 is operable to receive the positioning post 22. The partition board 3 is inserted downwards in a direction perpendicular to the bottom surface of the drawer 2, so that the groove 31 receives the positioning column 22, the positioning column 22 limits the displacement of the partition board 3, the partition board 3 is fixed on the corresponding position of the drawer 2, and the regional division of the drawer 2 is realized.

Of course, the structure of the mating portion and the fixing portion mating in inserting manner can be interchanged, that is, the fixing portion is configured as the groove 31, and the mating portion is correspondingly configured as the positioning post 22 mating with the groove 31. In addition, the setting position of the fixing part is not limited to the bottom of the drawer 2, but the fixing part can be arranged on the side wall 21 of the drawer 2, when the partition plate 3 is positioned, the groove 31 is aligned with the positioning column 22 of the side wall 21, so that the positioning column 22 enters the groove 31, and then the fixing part moves downwards until the bottom of the partition plate 3 contacts the bottom of the drawer 2, so that the fixing is completed.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the drawer 2 includes two pairs of side walls 21 disposed opposite to each other, each of the fixing portions includes a pair of positioning pillars 22, and each of the positioning pillars 22 extends from one side wall 21 to the other side wall 21 disposed opposite to the one side wall. In this embodiment, two positioning posts 22 disposed oppositely constitute a fixing portion, that is, the positioning posts 22 are disposed at two ends of the fixing portion respectively, so as to avoid the problem that the continuously extending positioning posts 22 cause unevenness at the bottom of the drawer 2 to cause retention of food residue or defrosted juice.

As described above, one end (the bottom end, or the side end in this embodiment) of the partition board 3 is fixed to the bottom of the drawer 2 by the insertion and engagement of the positioning column 22 and the groove 31, and further, in order to prevent the other end of the partition board 3 from shaking due to the extrusion of food, in this embodiment, the other end of the partition board 3 is in abutting engagement with the side wall 21 of the drawer 2.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the upper end of the partition board 3 is provided with a Y-shaped abutting portion 32, the Y-shaped abutting portion 32 includes a notch 321 and an elastic piece 322 extending outward from the notch 321, and the elastic piece 322 presses against the side wall 21 under the bias of the elastic force. In the present embodiment, the partition 3 is provided at both sides of the upper end thereof with Y-shaped abutting portions 32 to symmetrically press the opposite sidewalls 21 of the drawer 2, thereby more stably positioning the partition 3. The notch 321 is provided to allow the resilient piece 322 to have a space for avoiding when the position of the partition board 3 needs to be adjusted.

Furthermore, the elastic sheet 322 is provided with a protrusion 322a, and the side wall 21 is provided with a positioning hole 211 for receiving the protrusion 322 a. When the bottom end of the partition board 3 is fixed on the fixing part of the drawer 2, the elastic pieces 322 on the two sides of the upper end of the partition board 3 are abutted against the two side walls 21 of the drawer 2, and the protrusion 322a enters the positioning hole 211 of the side wall 21, so that the all-dimensional positioning of the partition board 3 is realized, and the positioning stability is ensured.

In the above, the partition board 3 is positioned by adopting a dual positioning structure in which the positioning post 22 is matched with the groove 31 and the Y-shaped abutting portion 32 is matched with the positioning hole 211 of the side wall 21, and of course, the partition board 3 can be fixed by adopting one of the matching modes alone. For example, positioning posts 22 are disposed on two opposite side walls 21 of the drawer 2, and grooves 31 for receiving the positioning posts 22 are correspondingly disposed at two side ends of the partition board 3, so that the partition board 3 can be well positioned. Or, the partition board 3 is separately provided with the Y-shaped abutting portion 32 and the positioning hole 211 of the side wall 21 for positioning, that is, the partition board 3 is provided with the Y-shaped abutting portion 32, the Y-shaped abutting portion 32 includes a notch 321 and a spring 322 extending outward from the notch 321, the spring 322 is provided with a protrusion 322a, the fixing portion includes the positioning hole 211 arranged on the side wall 21 of the drawer 2, and when the spring 322 presses against the side wall 21 under bias of elastic force, the positioning hole 211 receives the protrusion 322 a.

Referring to fig. 2 and 5, in order to further improve the space utilization rate of the drawer 2 and avoid the waste of the space at the upper part of the drawer 2, the drawer 2 in this embodiment further includes a storage box 4, the storage box 4 is slidably disposed at the upper part of the drawer 2, and the sum of the heights of the storage box 4 and the partition plate 3 is not greater than the height of the drawer 2. The edge 23 of the storage box 4 is provided with a flange 41, the flange 41 can be lapped on the edge 23 of the side wall 21 of the drawer 2, when the lower food is stored, the storage box 4 can be slid, and when a large article is stored and taken, the storage box 4 can be taken down. A structure which is convenient to slide can be arranged between the storage box 4 and the drawer 2, such as the matching of a pulley and a sliding rail, and the like, which are not listed here.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a refrigerator which comprises the drawer 2.

In conclusion, the refrigerator and the drawer 2 thereof provided by the embodiment have the advantages that the position of the partition plate 3 can be selectively adjusted, so that the flexibility is improved, a user can conveniently place the refrigerator in different regions according to needs, the problem of tainting of food odor is solved, and the space utilization rate of the drawer 2 is also improved. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the method is remarkably improved.

It should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment contains only a single technical solution, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should make the description as a whole, and the technical solutions in the embodiments can also be combined appropriately to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

The above-listed detailed description is only a specific description of a possible embodiment of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and equivalent embodiments or modifications made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A drawer, is used for the refrigerator, includes the baffle, its characterized in that: the drawer is provided with a plurality of fixing parts for receiving the partition boards, and the partition boards can be selectively fixed on one of the fixing parts to partition the storage space of the drawer;

the fixing parts comprise a plurality of pairs of positioning columns arranged at the bottom of the drawer, the drawer comprises two pairs of side walls arranged oppositely, and each positioning column extends from one side wall to the other side wall arranged oppositely;

one end of the partition board is provided with a groove which is selectively fixed on one of the pairs of positioning columns, and two sides of the other end of the partition board are provided with abutting parts to symmetrically apply pressure to the oppositely arranged side walls.

2. The drawer of claim 1, wherein: the abutting part is a Y-shaped abutting part, the Y-shaped abutting part comprises a notch and an elastic sheet extending outwards from the notch, and the elastic sheet is pressed against the side wall under the bias of elastic force.

3. The drawer of claim 2, wherein: the elastic sheet is provided with a bulge, and the side wall is provided with a positioning hole for receiving the bulge.

4. The drawer of claim 1, wherein: the drawer further comprises a storage box, the storage box is slidably arranged on the upper portion of the drawer, and the sum of the heights of the storage box and the partition plate is not larger than the height of the drawer.

5. A refrigerator, characterized in that: comprising a drawer according to any of claims 1-4.