CN108360933B

CN108360933B - Adjustable hinge module and refrigerator door body applying same

Info

Publication number: CN108360933B
Application number: CN201810102846.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘志军; 王宁; 王小焱; 尹军委; 胡晓彬
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-02-01
Filing date: 2018-02-01
Publication date: 2020-05-26
Anticipated expiration: 2038-02-01
Also published as: CN108360933A

Abstract

The invention provides an adjustable hinge module, which comprises a decorative strip arranged on a refrigerator door body and a hinge device arranged on the decorative strip, wherein the hinge device comprises a hinge seat fixed on a refrigerator main body, a hinge shaft vertically fixed on the hinge seat and a hinge body arranged on the inner side of the decorative strip and used for adjusting the relative position of the refrigerator door body and the hinge shaft along the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction.

Description

Adjustable hinge module and refrigerator door body applying same

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of refrigerators, in particular to a refrigerator door body applying an adjustable hinge module.

Background

In the prior art, most methods for adjusting a refrigerator door body temporarily without transverse and longitudinal adjustment are improved on the vertical adjustment of a door body hinge, but the door body is easily uneven in transverse and longitudinal directions in mass production, and the upper part of the door body is fixed by the hinge, the lower part of the door body is also fixed by the hinge, and the door body cannot move back and forth and left and right.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an adjustable hinge module and a refrigerator door body applying the same.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides an adjustable hinge module, which comprises a decoration strip arranged on a refrigerator door body and a hinge device arranged on the decoration strip, wherein the hinge device comprises a hinge seat fixed on a refrigerator main body, a hinge shaft vertically fixed on the hinge seat, and a hinge body arranged on the inner side of the decoration strip and used for adjusting the relative position of the refrigerator door body and the hinge shaft along the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, the hinge shaft is provided with a shaft body fixed on the hinge seat and a shaft sleeve sleeved outside the shaft body, the hinge body is provided with an adjusting piece in interference fit with the shaft sleeve and a containing part fixed on the decoration strip for containing the adjusting piece, the shaft sleeve is driven by the adjusting piece to move correspondingly, the adjusting piece is provided with a female guide piece contained in the containing part and a sub guide piece contained in the female guide piece, the accommodating part, the female guide part and the sub guide part are hollow cylinders formed by a bottom wall and a side wall, and two hollow cylinders are nested in a clearance fit mode and can move relative to each other along the transverse direction or the longitudinal direction.

Furthermore, the hinge shaft is provided with a shaft body fixed on the hinge seat and a shaft sleeve sleeved outside the shaft body, the hinge body is provided with an adjusting piece in interference fit with the shaft sleeve and a containing part fixed on the decorative strip to contain the adjusting piece, and the shaft sleeve moves correspondingly under the driving of the adjusting piece.

Further, the adjusting part is provided with a female guide part and a sub guide part, the female guide part is accommodated in the accommodating part, the female guide part and the sub guide part are hollow cylinders formed by bottom walls and side walls, and the hollow cylinders are nested in a pairwise clearance fit mode and can move relative to each other along the transverse direction or the longitudinal direction.

Furthermore, the shaft body is vertically fixed on the hinge seat, part of the shaft body is contained in the shaft sleeve, and the lower section of the shaft sleeve is contained in the sub-guide piece in an interference fit mode.

Further, the adjusting piece is also provided with a transverse threaded fastener and a longitudinal threaded fastener, the transverse threaded fastener and the longitudinal threaded fastener are composed of screw heads and a screw rod, the screw rod is provided with a threaded portion and a thread removing portion located in the middle of the threaded portion, and the thread removing portion is smaller than the threaded portion in outer diameter.

Furthermore, the horizontal threaded fastener connects the decoration strip with the female guide, and the thread part of the horizontal threaded fastener is in threaded connection with the accommodating part and the thread-removing part of the horizontal threaded fastener is clamped and fixed on the female guide, so that the horizontal threaded fastener drives the female guide to move along the horizontal direction when moving along the horizontal direction.

Furthermore, a pair of female guide posts extends outwards along the transverse direction on the upper portion of the female guide piece, the female guide posts are abutted to a pair of notches which are matched with the female guide posts and are arranged on the upper edge of the accommodating portion, the female guide piece is further provided with a transverse groove formed by vertically and upwards recessing the bottom wall of the female guide piece, and the transverse groove is matched with the thread removing portion of the transverse threaded fastener.

Furthermore, the longitudinal threaded fastener connects the decoration strip with the sub-guide, and the thread part of the longitudinal threaded fastener is in threaded connection with the female guide and the thread-removed part of the longitudinal threaded fastener is clamped and fixed on the sub-guide, so that the longitudinal threaded fastener drives the sub-guide to move along the longitudinal direction when moving along the longitudinal direction.

Furthermore, the upper portion of the sub-guide piece extends outwards along the longitudinal direction to form a pair of sub-guide posts, the sub-guide posts are matched with a pair of gaps formed in the upper edge of the female guide piece in a matched mode and are abutted against each other, the sub-guide piece is further provided with a longitudinal groove formed by vertically and upwards recessing the bottom wall of the sub-guide piece, and the longitudinal groove is matched with the thread removing portion of the longitudinal threaded fastener.

The invention provides a refrigerator door body, which is simple and convenient to operate and can be adjusted without professional staff by adjusting the longitudinal threaded fastener and the transverse threaded fastener on the door body trim to adjust the longitudinal position and the transverse position of the door body relative to the hinge shaft, and the gap of the prior art about the adjustment of the transverse door and the longitudinal door of the refrigerator door body is filled.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of an adjustable hinge module according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the hinge assembly of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic top view of the hinge assembly of FIG. 2 with the hinge base removed;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the hinge assembly in the direction AA' of FIG. 3 with the hinge block removed;

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the hinge assembly of FIG. 3 taken along direction BB' after the hinge block is removed;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the hinge assembly in the direction AA' of FIG. 3 with the hinge block removed;

fig. 7 is an exploded view of the hinge device in the direction of BB' in fig. 3 with the hinge base removed.

Detailed Description

The drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the patent; for the purpose of better illustrating the embodiments, certain features of the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced, and do not represent the size of an actual product; it will be understood by those skilled in the art that certain well-known structures in the drawings and descriptions thereof may be omitted.

Examples

As shown in fig. 1 to 7, the adjustable hinge module includes a trim 1 disposed on a door body and a hinge device 2 disposed on the trim 1, where the hinge device 2 includes a hinge base 3 fixed on a refrigerator main body, a hinge shaft 4 vertically fixed on the hinge base, and a hinge body 5 disposed on an inner side of the trim 1.

The hinge body 5 comprises an adjusting piece 51 and a containing part 52 fixed on the decoration strip 1 for containing the adjusting piece 51, wherein the adjusting piece 51 is provided with a female guide piece 53 contained in a cavity of the containing part 52 and a sub guide piece 54 contained in the female guide piece 53, and the containing part 52, the female guide piece 53 and the sub guide piece 54 are hollow cylinders consisting of a bottom wall and a side wall and are nested and arranged in an initial state in a coaxial clearance fit manner.

The hinge shaft 4 is provided with a shaft body 41 and a shaft sleeve 42, the shaft body 41 is vertically and fixedly connected to the hinge seat 3, and part of the shaft body 41 is accommodated in the shaft sleeve 42, the shaft sleeve 42 can rotate by taking the shaft body 41 as a rotating shaft, the lower section of the shaft sleeve 42 is accommodated in the sub-guide 54 in an interference fit manner so that the sub-guide 54 can rotate along with the shaft sleeve 42, the shaft sleeve 42 is abutted against the bottom wall of the sub-guide 54, the decoration strip 1 vertically arranged is provided with a transverse part 11 and a longitudinal part 12 which are vertically arranged, the transverse part 11 extends along the transverse direction, and the longitudinal part 12 extends along the front-back direction.

In this embodiment, the accommodating portion 52, the female guide 53 and the sub-guide 54 are all hollow cylinders, and in fact, the adjusting effect of the present invention can be achieved only by implementing the arrangement of the nesting gaps between two of the accommodating portions and then moving the accommodating portions relatively in the range of the gaps in the horizontal direction and the longitudinal direction, respectively, and the above embodiments are all within the protection scope of the present invention.

In this embodiment, the clearances between the sub-guide 54 and the female guide 53, and between the female guide 53 and the accommodating portion 52 in the radial direction are all 8 mm, and are coaxially arranged in the initial state, that is, the adjustable hinge device is adjustable in the transverse and longitudinal directions by ± 4 mm, and the relevant parts may be machined into different sizes to achieve different adjustment ranges according to the use requirements.

The adjusting member 51 further has a transverse threaded fastener 55 and a longitudinal threaded fastener 56, the transverse threaded fastener 55 is composed of a transverse screw head 551 and a transverse screw 552, the transverse screw 552 includes a transverse threaded portion 5521 having an external thread and a transverse deswirled portion 5522 located in the middle of the threaded portion 5521, the longitudinal threaded fastener 56 is composed of a longitudinal screw head 561 and a longitudinal screw 562, the longitudinal screw 562 includes a longitudinal threaded portion 5621 having an external thread and a longitudinal deswirled portion 5622 located in the middle of the longitudinal threaded portion 5621, the transverse deswirled portion 5522 has a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the transverse threaded portion 5521, and the longitudinal deswirled portion 5622 has a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the longitudinal threaded portion 5621.

The transverse threaded fastener 55 connects the molding 1 with the female guide 53, and the transverse threaded portion 5521 is screwed with the accommodating portion 52 and the transverse unthreaded portion 5522 is fastened to the female guide 53, so that the transverse threaded fastener 55 drives the female guide 53 to move in the transverse direction when moving in the transverse direction.

The longitudinal threaded fastener 56 connects the molding 1 with the sub-guide 54, and the longitudinal threaded portion 5621 is screwed with the female guide 53 and the longitudinal unthreaded portion 5522 is clipped to the sub-guide 54, so that the longitudinal threaded fastener 56 moves in the longitudinal direction to drive the sub-guide 54 to move in the longitudinal direction.

The upper part of the sub-guide 54 is provided with a pair of sub-guide posts 541 extending outwards along the longitudinal direction and a longitudinal groove 542 with an arc section in the inner contour formed by vertically recessing the bottom wall of the sub-guide 54, and the pair of sub-guide posts 541 are positioned in the same radial direction of the sub-guide 54; the longitudinal groove 542 and the longitudinal unthreaded portion 5622 are adapted so that they can be longitudinally retained by the longitudinal unthreaded portion 5622.

The female guide 53 has a pair of female guide posts 531 extending laterally outward from an upper portion thereof in a radial direction and a lateral groove 532 having an arc section in an inner contour formed by extending and recessing vertically from a bottom wall thereof, the lateral groove 532 and the lateral unthreaded portion 5522 are adapted so as to be retained in the lateral unthreaded portion 5522 in the lateral direction, the female guide post 541 abuts against a notch 533 provided on an upper edge of the female guide 53 in the longitudinal direction and is movable longitudinally along the notch 533, a side wall of the female guide 53 is provided with a pair of through holes 534 corresponding to the arc section of the longitudinal groove 542 from below the notch 533, wherein an inner wall of the through hole 534 near a side of the lateral portion 11 is provided with an internal thread which engages with an external thread of the longitudinal threaded portion 5621.

The female guide post 531 and the male guide post 541 abut against the transverse notch 521 and the longitudinal notch 522 provided on the accommodating portion 52 respectively so that the female guide 53 can move transversely along the transverse notch 521 and the accommodating portion 52 does not interfere with the longitudinal movement of the male guide post 541, and the accommodating portion 52 further has two pairs of through holes corresponding to the positions of the arc sections of the transverse groove 532 and the longitudinal groove 542: a transverse through hole 523 and a longitudinal through hole 524, wherein an inner wall of the transverse through hole 523 near one side of the longitudinal part 12 is provided with an inner thread engaged with an outer thread of the transverse thread part 5521.

The longitudinal portion 12 and the transverse portion 11 are respectively provided with two openings corresponding to the positions of the transverse through hole 523 and the longitudinal through hole 524, the two openings are respectively a transverse opening (not shown) and a longitudinal opening (not shown), and the sizes of the transverse opening and the longitudinal opening are respectively corresponding to the transverse screw 552 and the longitudinal screw 562 which can pass through and are respectively correspondingly clamped on the transverse screw head 551 and the longitudinal screw head 561.

The transverse threaded fastener 55 is screwed to the transverse unthreaded portion 5522 through the transverse opening through the longitudinal portion 12 and the transverse through hole 523, and is symmetrical with respect to the axial center of the accommodating portion 52, the female guide 53 is received in the accommodating portion 52 and is coaxial with the accommodating portion 52, the transverse groove 532 is clamped on the transverse unthreaded portion 5522 while the female guide column 531 is abutted to the transverse notch 521, and at this time, the transverse screw head 551 is rotated, and the accommodating portion 52 and the female guide 53 are relatively moved in the transverse direction within the gap range thereof to realize the transverse adjustment thereof.

The longitudinal threaded fastener 56 passes through the transverse portion 11 and the accommodating portion 52 through the longitudinal opening and the longitudinal through hole 524 and is screwed with the longitudinal thread-removed portion 5622 of the through hole 534 to be symmetrical relative to the axial center of the female guide 53, the female guide 54 is received in the female guide 53 and is coaxial with the female guide 53, the longitudinal groove 542 is clamped on the longitudinal thread-removed portion 5622 while the female guide post 541 is abutted against the notch 533, and at this time, the longitudinal screw head 561 is rotated, and the female guide 53 and the female guide 54 move relatively in the longitudinal direction within the gap range thereof to realize the longitudinal adjustment thereof.

In this embodiment, the pair of through holes 534 and the pair of longitudinal through holes 524 are internally threaded on only one side, and in some alternative embodiments, the pair of through holes 534 and the pair of longitudinal through holes 524 are internally threaded on both sides, or the internally threaded through holes extend outward to form an internally threaded column structure to achieve a more stable supporting effect of the threaded fastener on the male guide member 54 and the female guide member 53, which are all within the protection scope of the present invention.

Preferably, the refrigerator door body using the adjustable hinge module is adjusted by adjusting the transverse threaded fastener 55 and the longitudinal threaded fastener 56 on the molding 1 to adjust the longitudinal and transverse positions of the door body relative to the hinge shaft 4.

Claims

1. An adjustable hinge module is characterized by comprising a decorative strip arranged on a refrigerator door body and a hinge device arranged on the decorative strip, wherein the hinge device comprises a hinge seat fixed on a refrigerator main body, a hinge shaft vertically fixed on the hinge seat, and a hinge body arranged on the inner side of the decorative strip and used for adjusting the relative position of the refrigerator door body and the hinge shaft along the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, the hinge shaft is provided with a shaft body fixed on the hinge seat and a shaft sleeve sleeved outside the shaft body, the hinge body is provided with an adjusting piece in interference fit with the shaft sleeve and a containing part fixed on the decorative strip and used for containing the adjusting piece, the shaft sleeve is driven by the adjusting piece to move correspondingly, the adjusting piece is provided with a female guide piece contained in the containing part and a sub guide piece contained in the female guide piece, and the containing part, The female guide piece and the male guide piece are hollow cylinders formed by a bottom wall and a side wall, and two hollow cylinders are nested in a clearance fit mode and can move relative to each other along the transverse direction or the longitudinal direction.

2. The adjustable hinge module of claim 1, wherein the shaft body is vertically fixed to the hinge base and partially received within the shaft sleeve, and wherein the lower section of the shaft sleeve is received within the sub-guide in an interference fit.

3. The adjustable hinge module of claim 1, wherein the adjustment member further has a transverse threaded fastener and a longitudinal threaded fastener, the transverse threaded fastener and the longitudinal threaded fastener being comprised of a head and a shank, the shank having a threaded portion and a stripped portion located intermediate the threaded portion, the stripped portion being of a smaller outer diameter than the threaded portion.

4. The adjustable hinge module of claim 3 wherein the transverse threaded fastener couples the molding to the female guide, and wherein the threaded portion of the transverse threaded fastener threadably engages the receiving portion and the unthreaded portion of the transverse threaded fastener is captured by the female guide such that movement of the transverse threaded fastener in a transverse direction moves the female guide in a transverse direction.

5. The adjustable hinge module of claim 4 wherein the upper portion of the female guide member extends laterally outwardly to define a pair of female guide posts that abut a pair of notches formed in the upper edge of the receptacle in mating relation therewith, the female guide member further having a lateral recess formed by a vertical upward recess in a bottom wall thereof, the lateral recess being adapted to the unthreaded portion of the lateral threaded fastener.

6. The adjustable hinge module of claim 3, wherein the longitudinal threaded fastener connects the molding to the sub-guide, and a threaded portion of the longitudinal threaded fastener is threadedly engaged with the female guide and a unthreaded portion thereof is fastened to the sub-guide, such that movement of the longitudinal threaded fastener in the longitudinal direction causes the sub-guide to move in the longitudinal direction.

7. The adjustable hinge module of claim 6, wherein the upper portion of the sub-guide extends outwardly in a longitudinal direction to form a pair of sub-guide posts, the sub-guide posts abut a pair of notches formed in the upper edge of the female guide, the sub-guide further having a longitudinal groove formed by vertically and upwardly recessing a bottom wall thereof, the longitudinal groove being adapted to the unthreaded portion of the longitudinal threaded fastener.

8. A refrigerator door, characterized in that the refrigerator door is provided with an adjustable hinge module according to any one of claims 1 to 7 for position adjustment of the door in the longitudinal and transverse directions relative to the hinge axis.