CN108670161B

CN108670161B - Control panel box and dish washer

Info

Publication number: CN108670161B
Application number: CN201810407713.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 廖郡芝; 关庆文; 邵大鹏
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Foshan Shunde Midea Washing Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Foshan Shunde Midea Washing Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-04-28
Filing date: 2018-04-28
Publication date: 2023-06-30
Anticipated expiration: 2038-04-28
Also published as: CN108670161A

Abstract

The invention discloses a control panel box and a dish washer, wherein the control panel box comprises: the box body is provided with a mounting cavity with a backward opening, the mounting cavity is used for mounting a control panel of the dish washer, and a control operation area corresponding to the control panel is arranged at the front side of the box body; and the box cover is covered on the opening and is connected with the box body through a detachable structure. The technical scheme of the invention can facilitate the maintenance and replacement of components in the control panel box.

Description

Control panel box and dish washer

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of dish washers, in particular to a control panel box and a dish washer.

Background

With the continuous progress of society, people are getting more and more high to kitchen electrical appliances's intelligent degree, and dish washer is because its self clean effectual, have multiple disinfection function and labour saving and time saving advantage, and is favored by people. To dish washer, can be provided with control panel box on its shell, components and parts such as display screen, button subassembly, control panel can be installed in the control panel box generally, and in dish washer use, components and parts in the control panel box can break down or damage, consequently, need provide a technical scheme that can maintain and change components and parts in the control panel box.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a control panel box, which aims to facilitate the maintenance and replacement of components in the control panel box.

In order to achieve the above object, the control panel box according to the present invention is spliced to an upper edge of an outer door of a dishwasher, and includes:

the box body is provided with a mounting cavity with a backward opening, the mounting cavity is used for mounting a control panel of the dish washer, and a control operation area corresponding to the control panel is arranged at the front side of the box body; and

the box cover is arranged on the opening and is connected with the box body through a detachable structure;

the detachable structure comprises two first clamping structures which are respectively arranged at the two transverse ends of the control panel box, and the two transverse ends of the box cover are respectively connected with the box body through one first clamping structure;

the two lateral ends of the inner surface of the box cover are respectively provided with an inwardly extending mounting plate, and the two lateral ends of the box body are respectively provided with a chute which is opened downwards;

the first clamping structure comprises a clamping opening arranged on the groove wall of the sliding groove close to the mounting plate and a slide buckle arranged on the plate surface of the mounting plate facing the sliding groove, wherein the clamping opening penetrates through the lower end of the corresponding groove wall, and the slide buckle is adapted to slide into the clamping opening.

Optionally, the detachable structure further comprises a second clamping structure arranged between the upper side plate of the box body and the upper edge of the box cover.

Optionally, the second clamping structure includes a plurality of clamping protrusions protruding on an inner plate surface of the upper side plate of the box body and a plurality of clamping grooves provided on an upper edge of an inner surface of the box cover, and the plurality of clamping protrusions are adapted to be clamped into the plurality of clamping grooves in a one-to-one correspondence manner; and/or

The second clamping structure further comprises a plurality of buckles which are arranged on the inner plate surface of the upper side plate of the box body and are bent backwards to extend, and a plurality of buckling grooves which are arranged on the upper edge of the inner surface of the box cover, and the buckles are correspondingly and adaptively clamped into the buckling grooves one by one.

Optionally, the slide fastener includes two buckling units that set up relatively, and each buckling unit includes along upper and lower orientation extension's support arm, and from the support arm extends the buckling parts that sets up to the direction that deviates from another buckling unit, two the support arm is common to slide in the card holds the mouth, two buckling parts respectively the lock joint in the relative both edges of card holds the mouth.

Optionally, a back-off button extending downwards from top to bottom is further arranged in the chute, and the back-off button is connected to the lower side of the slide button.

Optionally, the detachable structure further comprises a screw locking structure arranged between the box cover and the box body.

Optionally, the screw locking structure is including locating a plurality of screw posts of the interior face of box body upper side board, and locate the lid internal surface and with a plurality of screw plates that a plurality of screw posts one-to-one set up, the screw wear to establish in proper order the screw plate with screw on the screw post, in order to connect the screw plate with the screw post.

Optionally, the screw posts extend downwards, and an avoidance hole is formed on the lower side surface of the control panel box corresponding to each screw post.

The invention also proposes a dishwasher comprising:

a housing having a receiving chamber open toward the front;

the inner container is provided with an upward opening and is drawably arranged in the accommodating cavity; and

the outer door assembly comprises an outer door and the control panel box, the control panel box is spliced at the upper edge of the outer door, and the outer door assembly is arranged on the side face of the inner container and is exposed out of the opening of the accommodating cavity.

In the technical scheme of the invention, the box cover is connected with the box body through the detachable structure, namely, the box cover is detachably arranged on the box body, so that the box cover can be detached from the box body when needed, and the replacement and the maintenance of components (such as a control panel and the like) in the control panel box are convenient.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to the structures shown in these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a dishwasher according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an exploded structure between an outer door assembly and an inner tub of the dishwasher of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the outer door assembly of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the control panel box of the outer door assembly of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of FIG. 4 at A;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of an exploded view of the control panel box of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view at B in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view at C in FIG. 6;

fig. 9 is an enlarged view of D in fig. 6;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged view at E in FIG. 6;

FIG. 11 is a schematic structural view of a cover of the control panel box of FIG. 6;

fig. 12 is an enlarged view of F in fig. 11;

fig. 13 is an enlarged view at G in fig. 11.

Reference numerals illustrate:

the achievement of the objects, functional features and advantages of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in conjunction with the embodiments.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

It should be noted that, if directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) are included in the embodiments of the present invention, the directional indications are merely used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement conditions, etc. between the components in a specific posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are correspondingly changed.

In addition, if there is a description of "first", "second", etc. in the embodiments of the present invention, the description of "first", "second", etc. is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, the technical solutions of the embodiments may be combined with each other, but it is necessary to base that the technical solutions can be realized by those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, the combination of the technical solutions should be considered to be absent and not within the scope of protection claimed in the present invention.

The invention provides a control panel box and a dish washer with the control panel box. The structure of the control panel box and the dish washer is specifically explained below by taking the actual use state of the dish washer as a reference and taking the side facing the user as the front, and establishing a space rectangular coordinate system.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in the present invention, the dishwasher includes a housing 100, a liner, and an outer door assembly 20. The housing 100 has a receiving chamber opened forward. The inner container is provided with an upward opening and is drawably arranged in the accommodating cavity of the shell 100; it will be appreciated that when the liner is pulled out from the housing 100, the opening of the liner can be exposed to the outside, thereby facilitating the user to take and place the cutlery; without loss of generality, a sliding rail assembly is generally arranged between the liner and the accommodating cavity of the shell 100, and sliding drawing of the liner relative to the shell 100 is realized through the sliding rail assembly. The outer door assembly 20 comprises an outer door 2a and a control panel box 2b, the control panel box 2b is spliced at the edge of the outer door 2a, and the outer door assembly 20 is installed on the side surface of the inner container and is exposed out of the opening of the accommodating cavity of the outer shell 100.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in an embodiment of the present invention, the control panel box 2b includes:

a box body 21 having a mounting cavity with a rearward opening for mounting a control panel of a dish washer, and a control operation area corresponding to the control panel is provided at a front side of the box body 21; and

the box cover 22 is arranged at the opening of the installation cavity in a covering way, and the box cover 22 is connected with the box body 21 through a detachable structure.

Without loss of generality, in this embodiment, generally, in the control panel box 2b, a display screen 40 and a key assembly 50 (see fig. 3) are disposed on the control panel, the key assembly 50 is located at the lower side of the display screen 40, and both the key assembly 50 and the display screen 40 are exposed to a control operation area of the box body 21, so that the operation state of the dishwasher, such as, but not limited to, a dishwashing mode, a dishwashing parameter, a dishwashing process, etc. of the dishwasher is displayed through the display screen 40, and the operation state of the dishwasher is controlled through the key assembly 50. Of course, in other embodiments, a touch screen may be disposed on the control panel box 2b to realize the display and control functions at the same time; alternatively, only the key assembly 50 is provided on the control panel box 2b to realize the manipulation function.

In the technical scheme of the invention, the box cover 22 is connected with the box body 21 through a detachable structure, that is, the box cover 22 is detachably mounted on the box body 21, so that the box cover 22 can be detached from the box body 21 when needed, thereby facilitating the replacement and maintenance of components (such as but not limited to a control panel and the like) in the control panel box 2 b.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the control panel box 2b is spliced at the upper edge of the outer door 2a (see fig. 3), so that the control operation area can be located at a higher position, thereby facilitating the user to control the working state of the dishwasher at a more appropriate height. However, the present design is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, the control panel box 2b may be mounted on the lower edge, the left edge, or the right edge of the outer door 2 a. Further, the control panel box 2b is further provided with a handle 30, and a user can pull the liner out of the casing 100 through the handle 30, so that the structure of the outer door 2a can be simplified.

In addition, referring to fig. 2, in the present embodiment, specifically, the inner container includes an inner container body 11 having an opening, and an inner container outer frame 12 provided at the periphery of the inner container body 11, and the control panel box 2b and the outer door 2a are mounted on the front side surface of the inner container outer frame 12; it can be understood that the addition of the outer liner frame 12 can facilitate the formation of the mounting structure for mounting the control panel box 2b and the outer door 2a on the liner, and is beneficial to ensuring the integrity of the liner body 11 and reducing the possibility of water leakage of the liner.

In this embodiment, further, the detachable structure includes two first clamping structures respectively disposed at two lateral ends of the control panel box 2b, and the two lateral ends of the box cover 22 are respectively connected with the box body 21 through a first clamping structure. It will be appreciated that the provision of the first clamping structure enables stable assembly between the lateral ends of the lid 22 and the body 21.

Referring to fig. 4, 5, 9 and 10, in this embodiment, specifically, each of the two lateral ends of the inner surface of the box cover 22 is provided with an inwardly extending mounting plate 223, and each of the two lateral ends of the box body 21 is provided with a downwardly opening chute 213. The first clamping structure comprises a clamping opening 214 arranged on the groove wall of the groove 213 close to the mounting plate 223 and a sliding buckle 224 arranged on the plate surface of the mounting plate 223 facing the groove 213, wherein the clamping opening 214 penetrates through the lower end of the corresponding groove wall, and the sliding buckle 224 is adapted to slide into the clamping opening 214. It can be understood that the sliding snap-in assembly of the slide fastener 224 relative to the retaining opening 214 is a labor-saving assembly, and is beneficial to improving the assembly efficiency between the box cover 22 and the box body 21, and meanwhile, in this embodiment, after the slide fastener 224 is adapted to slide into the retaining opening 214, the snap groove 221 at the upper edge of the box cover 22 can be just adapted to be snapped onto the snap protrusion 211 of the upper side plate of the box body 21, and the snap groove 222 at the upper edge of the box cover 22 is just adapted to be snapped onto the snap fastener 212 of the upper side plate of the box body 21, so that the assembly is convenient.

In this embodiment, the detachable structure further includes a second clamping structure disposed between the upper side plate of the case body 21 and the upper edge of the case cover 22. It can be appreciated that the arrangement of the second clamping structure can realize stable assembly between the upper edge of the box cover 22 and the upper side plate of the box body 21.

Referring to fig. 6 to 8 and fig. 11 to 13, in the present embodiment, specifically, the second clamping structure includes a plurality of clamping protrusions 211 protruding on an inner plate surface of an upper plate of the box body 21 and a plurality of clamping grooves 221 provided on an upper edge of an inner surface of the box cover 22, and the plurality of clamping protrusions 211 are correspondingly and adaptively clamped into the plurality of clamping grooves 221 one by one to limit the displacement of the box cover 22 relative to the box body 21 in a backward direction. Optionally, the clamping protrusions 211 are in a reduced arrangement in the protruding direction, so as to be clamped into the corresponding clamping grooves 221; without loss of generality, the side of the catch 211 facing the mounting opening is provided as a first guiding ramp. In addition, in the embodiment, the second clamping structure further includes a plurality of buckles 212 disposed on the inner plate surface of the upper side plate of the box body 21 and extending in a backward bending manner, and a plurality of buckling grooves 222 disposed on the upper edge of the inner surface of the box cover 22, wherein the plurality of buckles 212 are correspondingly and adaptively clamped into the plurality of buckling grooves 222 one by one, so as to limit the displacement of the box cover 22 relative to the box body 21 in a downward direction. It should be noted that, in other embodiments of the present invention, the second clamping structure may further include only the above-mentioned convex clamping groove structure or only the above-mentioned buckling groove structure.

In addition, in this embodiment, optionally, the upper edge of the lid 22 abuts against the lower side surface of the upper side plate of the box body 21, so that a sealing gap extending in the horizontal direction can be formed between the upper edge of the lid 22 and the lower side surface of the upper side plate of the box body 21, and the sealing gap is set to extend in the horizontal direction in consideration of the fact that water generally flows down from the edge of the upper side plate of the box body 21, so that it is advantageous to reduce the probability that water enters the control panel box 2b from the junction of the lid 22 and the box body 21, and improve the waterproof performance of the control panel box 2 b. Alternatively, the outer surface of the upper edge of the cover 22 does not protrude from the rear edge of the upper side plate of the case body 21, so that water can directly drop down from the rear edge of the upper side plate of the case body 21 so as not to enter the sealing gap. In this embodiment, specifically, the outer surface of the upper edge of the lid 22 is flush with the rear edge of the upper side plate of the box body 21, so that an excessive dirt receiving gap may occur between the lid 22 and the liner outer frame 12 after the control panel box 2b is mounted on the front side of the liner outer frame 12.

In this embodiment, optionally, the rear edge of the upper side plate of the box body 21 is provided with a first splicing countersink at the lower side edge thereof, and the upper edge of the box cover 22 is in sealing abutment with the first splicing countersink. It can be understood that the first splicing sink is additionally arranged, on one hand, a sealing gap extending along the up-down direction is formed between the box cover 22 and the box body 21, so that the path length of water entering the control panel box 2b is prolonged, and the waterproof performance of the control panel box 2b is further improved; on the other hand, the first splice countersink may also function to define the mounting location of the upper edge of the lid 22. Optionally, the rear edges of the left side plate and the right side plate of the box body 21 are respectively provided with a second splicing countersink at the inner side edges thereof, the upper ends of the two second splicing countersinks are respectively connected with the first splicing countersink, and the left edge and the right edge of the box cover 22 are in one-to-one butt joint with the two second splicing countersinks. It will be appreciated that the second splice countersink may function to define the mounting locations of the left and right edges of the lid 22, although the provision of the second splice countersink may also extend the path length of dust from the left and right ends of the lid 22 into the mounting cavity.

Further, the slide fastener 224 includes two fastening units 225 disposed opposite to each other, each fastening unit 225 includes a supporting arm extending in an up-down direction, and a fastening portion extending from the supporting arm in a direction away from the other fastening unit 225, the two supporting arms slide into the fastening opening 214 together, and the two fastening portions are fastened to two opposite edges of the fastening opening 214 respectively. It will be appreciated that the support arm has a certain elastic deformation, that is, the two fastening units 225 of the same slider 224 can be relatively contracted, so as to facilitate the slider 224 to slide into the retaining opening 214. Optionally, a plurality of connecting ribs 226 are disposed between two fastening units 225 of the same slider 224, so that, on one hand, the supporting arms can be limited to generate plastic deformation by the connecting ribs 226, thereby ensuring fastening stability of the fastening portion to the edge of the fastening opening 214, and on the other hand, the strength of the slider 224 can be improved by the connecting ribs 226.

Further, a back-off 215 extending from top to bottom is further disposed in the sliding slot 213, and when the sliding button 224 is completely clamped between the corresponding clamping openings 214, the back-off 215 is buckled to the lower side of the sliding button 224 to limit the sliding button 224 from sliding out of the clamping openings 214, thereby improving the connection stability between the two lateral ends of the lid 22 and the box body 21. Optionally, a second guiding slope is provided on the side of the back-off 215 facing the mounting plate 223, so that the slide 224 slides into the corresponding catch 214.

In this embodiment, further, the detachable structure further includes a screw locking structure provided between the box cover 22 and the box body 21. It can be appreciated that the addition of the screw locking structure can improve the stability of the fixed installation between the box cover 22 and the box body 21, and particularly, compared with the clamping structure, the disassembly of the screw locking structure requires the use of additional tools, and the phenomenon that the matched connection part is separated in the collision process can not occur.

Referring to fig. 6, 11 and 13, in this embodiment, specifically, the screw locking structure includes a plurality of screw hole columns 216 disposed on an inner plate surface of an upper side plate of the box body 21, and a plurality of screw hole plates 227 disposed on an inner surface of the box cover 22 and disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of screw hole columns 216, and screws sequentially penetrate through the screw hole plates 227 and screw holes on the screw hole columns 216 to connect the screw hole plates 227 and the screw hole columns 216, so as to realize screw locking fixation between the box cover 22 and the box body 21. It can be appreciated that in this embodiment, the screw hole posts 216 and the screw hole plate 227 are hidden in the mounting cavity, so that the screw locking structure is not exposed on the outer surface of the control panel box 2b, and thus the outer surface of the control panel box 2b is more complete.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the screw hole posts 216 extend downward, and an avoidance hole 217 (see fig. 4) is provided on the lower side of the control panel box 2b corresponding to each screw hole post 216, so that the screwdriver can extend into the avoidance hole 217 to conveniently lock the screw on the screw hole plate 227 and the screw hole posts 216. In this embodiment, a lower edge of the box cover 22 is provided with a downward flange extending forward, the downward flange is spliced with a lower side plate of the box body 21, a first avoidance notch is formed in the downward flange of the box cover 22, a second avoidance notch is formed in the lower side plate of the box body 21, and the first avoidance notch and the second avoidance notch are spliced to form the avoidance hole 217; however, the present design is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, the box cover 22 may not have a downward flange, and the avoiding hole 217 is usually formed directly on the lower side plate of the box body 21.

The foregoing description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and all equivalent structural changes made by the description of the present invention and the accompanying drawings or direct/indirect application in other related technical fields are included in the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A control panel box spliced to an upper edge of an outer door of a dishwasher, the control panel box comprising:

2. The control panel cartridge of claim 1, wherein the removable structure further comprises a second snap-fit structure disposed between an upper side panel of the cartridge body and an upper edge of the cartridge cover.

3. The control panel box according to claim 2, wherein the second clamping structure comprises a plurality of clamping protrusions protruding from an inner plate surface of the upper side plate of the box body and a plurality of clamping grooves formed in an upper edge of an inner surface of the box cover, and the plurality of clamping protrusions are correspondingly matched and clamped into the plurality of clamping grooves one by one; and/or

4. The control panel box according to claim 1, wherein the slide fastener comprises two fastening units arranged oppositely, each fastening unit comprises a supporting arm extending vertically and a fastening part extending from the supporting arm to a direction away from the other fastening unit, the two supporting arms slide into the clamping opening together, and the two fastening parts are fastened to two opposite edges of the clamping opening respectively.

5. The control panel box of claim 1, wherein a back-off extending from top to bottom is further provided in the chute, the back-off being connected to the underside of the slider.

6. The control panel cartridge of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the detachable structure further comprises a screw lock structure disposed between the cartridge cover and the cartridge body.

7. The control panel box according to claim 6, wherein the screw locking structure comprises a plurality of screw hole columns arranged on the inner plate surface of the upper side plate of the box body, and a plurality of screw hole plates arranged on the inner surface of the box cover and arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the screw hole columns, and screws sequentially penetrate through the screw hole plates and screw holes on the screw hole columns to connect the screw hole plates and the screw hole columns.

8. The control panel box of claim 7, wherein the screw posts extend downward, and an escape hole is formed in the underside of the control panel box corresponding to each screw post.

9. A dishwasher, comprising:

a housing having a receiving chamber open toward the front;

an outer door assembly comprising an outer door and the control panel box according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the control panel box is spliced at the upper edge of the outer door, and the outer door assembly is installed on the side surface of the inner container and is exposed at the opening of the accommodating cavity.