CN109764616B - Drawer assembly and refrigerator with same - Google Patents

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CN109764616B
CN109764616B CN201811612952.3A CN201811612952A CN109764616B CN 109764616 B CN109764616 B CN 109764616B CN 201811612952 A CN201811612952 A CN 201811612952A CN 109764616 B CN109764616 B CN 109764616B
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The invention provides a drawer component and a refrigerator with the same, wherein the drawer component comprises a drawer body, a drawer cover plate and a pair of supports, wherein the drawer cover plate is arranged at an opening of the drawer body in a covering mode, the supports are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the drawer body, the drawer body is provided with a pair of side walls, each side wall is provided with a resisting part positioned on the outer side of the side wall, a slide way and an elastic arm are arranged on one side, close to the drawer body, of each support, the drawer cover plate is provided with a cover plate body, a pair of supporting parts and a pair of buckling blocks protruding downwards, and when the drawer component is in a closed state, the buckling blocks are abutted against the elastic arms; when the drawer body is pulled forwards or pushed backwards, the free tail end of the elastic arm moves upwards or downwards to drive the buckling block to ascend or descend so as to lift or fall the front part of the drawer cover plate. According to the drawer assembly and the refrigerator with the drawer assembly, when the drawer body is pushed and pulled, the drawer cover plate can automatically fall or lift.

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Drawer assembly and refrigerator with same
Technical Field
The invention relates to a drawer assembly and a refrigerator with the same.
Background
In order to improve the preservation function of the refrigerator drawer, more and more refrigerators are provided with drawer cover plates on the drawers, that is, a sealed drawer is arranged inside the refrigerator, so that the drawer is in a higher humidity state, and the food stored in the drawer can be preserved for a long time. However, when the preservation drawer is pulled, the cover plate is manually opened along with the pulling-out of the drawer, which brings inconvenience to the operation of a user.
In view of the above, there is a need for an improved drawer assembly and a refrigerator having the same to solve the above problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a drawer assembly with a drawer cover plate capable of being automatically lifted or dropped and a refrigerator with the drawer assembly.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a drawer assembly, which includes a drawer body, a drawer cover plate covering an opening of the drawer body, and a pair of brackets symmetrically disposed at two sides of the drawer body in a transverse direction, wherein the drawer body has a pair of sidewalls oppositely disposed to be matched with the corresponding brackets, each sidewall has a resisting portion located at an outer side thereof, each bracket has a bracket body, and a slide and an elastic arm disposed at a side of the bracket body close to the drawer body, the drawer cover plate has a cover plate body, a pair of support portions outwardly protruding from two sides of the cover plate body in the transverse direction, and a pair of buckling blocks downwardly protruding, and when the drawer assembly is in a closed state, the buckling blocks downwardly abut against the elastic arms to make the elastic arms in a compressed state; when the drawer body is pulled forwards or pushed backwards, the free tail end of the elastic arm moves upwards or downwards to drive the buckling block to ascend or descend, so that the front part of the drawer cover plate is lifted or falls.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the stopping portion is a convex pillar protruding outward from the side portion of the drawer body along the transverse direction.
As a further improvement of the present invention, when the drawer assembly is in the closed state or the open state, the catch block always rests on the elastic arm.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the bracket is provided with a first rail and a second rail on a side close to the drawer body, and the first rail and the second rail are arranged at intervals along the height direction to form the slide way therebetween.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the bracket further has a connecting section connecting the first and second rails at the rear end to stop the support portion from moving backward.
As a further improvement of the present invention, each of the brackets further has an elastic member and a seat body for mounting the elastic member on the bracket, and the elastic member includes a fixed arm fixed to the seat body and the elastic arm extending rearward and upward from the front end of the fixed arm.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the first guide rail has a limiting portion protruding downward to block the supporting portion from excessive forward displacement, the front end of the supporting portion is provided with a retaining wall, and when the drawer body is pulled forward, the upper end of the retaining wall turns backward and is retained by the limiting portion.
As a further improvement of the present invention, when the drawer assembly is in the closed state, the free end of the elastic member is pressed and hooked by the fastening block in the hooking space at the front end of the second guide rail.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the second guide rail extends in a front-rear direction as a whole, and includes a first straight section and a second straight section which are parallel to each other, in a height direction, the second straight section is located below the first straight section, and the first straight section and the second straight section are connected by an inclined section which extends obliquely, the inclined section extends upward and rearward from a rear end of the second straight section, the second guide rail further has a second tilted portion which is provided at a front end of the second straight section and tilted upward, and the second straight section is connected with the inclined section and the second tilted portion to form the hooking space with an upward opening.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention further provides a refrigerator which comprises an inner container and at least one drawer assembly, wherein the drawer assembly is installed on the inner container through the support.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: according to the drawer assembly and the refrigerator with the drawer assembly, when the drawer body is pulled out or pushed in, the drawer cover plate can be automatically lifted or dropped, and friction between the drawer body and the drawer cover plate is avoided.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective assembly view of the drawer assembly of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the drawer assembly of FIG. 1 installed within an inner container.
Fig. 3 is an assembled perspective view of the drawer assembly of fig. 1 after being partially withdrawn.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the drawer assembly of FIG. 3 positioned within the liner.
Fig. 5 to 6 are exploded perspective views of the drawer assembly shown in fig. 3.
FIG. 7 is a side view of the drawer assembly of FIG. 1.
Fig. 8 is a side view of the drawer assembly of fig. 3.
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional schematic view of the drawer assembly of FIG. 7.
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional schematic view of the drawer assembly of FIG. 8.
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The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. The present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and structural, methodological, or functional changes made by one of ordinary skill in the art according to the embodiment are included in the scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1 to 10, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of the drawer assembly 100 of the present invention, for convenience of description, a side of the drawer assembly 100 close to a consumer is referred to as a front side, and a side far away from the consumer is referred to as a rear side, and a direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction is defined as a transverse direction, and another direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction is defined as a height direction.
The drawer assembly 100 comprises a drawer body 1 and a drawer cover plate 2 covering an opening at the upper side of the drawer body 1, wherein the drawer cover plate 2 at least has a first state closely matched with the drawer body 1 and a second state that the front side is lifted to enable the drawer body to exchange air with the outside.
The drawer assembly 100 further has an adjusting mechanism for switching the drawer cover between the first state and the second state, wherein the adjusting mechanism includes a pair of elastic members 31 fixedly disposed on two sides of the drawer body 1, a pair of buckling blocks 21 protruding downward from the drawer cover 2, and a pair of stopping portions 11 protruding outward from two sides of the drawer body along the transverse direction.
When the drawer cover 2 is in the first state, the drawer body 1 is in the closed state, the fastening block 21 is abutted downwards against the elastic member 31 and locked at the rear side of the resisting part 11, and the elastic member 31 is pressed by the resisting part 11 to be in a compressed state; when the drawer body 1 is pulled out or pushed in to enable the drawer cover 2 to move from the first state to the second state or from the second state to the first state, the stopping part 11 moves forwards or backwards and releases or extrudes the elastic piece 31, the free end 310 of the elastic piece 31 moves upwards or downwards to drive the buckling block 21 to ascend or descend, and therefore the front part of the drawer cover 2 is lifted or falls under the driving action of the elastic piece 31.
Specifically, when the drawer body 1 is pulled forward to move the drawer cover 2 from the first state to the second state, the stopping portion 11 moves forward and gradually releases the elastic member 31, the elastic member 31 returns to the free state, so that the free end 310 moves upward and pushes up the locking block 21, and the front portion of the drawer cover 2 is lifted up under the pushing action of the elastic member 31.
When the drawer body 1 is pushed backward to move the drawer cover 2 from the second state to the first state, the stopping portion 11 moves backward and presses the elastic member 31 downward, and the drawer cover 2 supported at the free end 310 of the elastic member 31 falls down therewith until the drawer cover 2 covers the drawer body 1.
Further, the drawer body 1 has a pair of side walls 12 oppositely arranged along the transverse direction and a storage space 120 formed between the pair of side walls 12, and each side wall 12 has an inner side close to the storage space 120 and an outer side oppositely arranged.
As shown in fig. 5 to 10, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, each of the resisting portions 11 is a convex pillar protruding outward from two sides of the drawer body 1 along the transverse direction, and the outer side of each of the side walls 12 integrally protrudes outward to form the resisting portion 11.
The drawer assembly 100 further has a pair of fixed slide rails 320 located on two sides of the drawer body 1, the pair of elastic members 31 are disposed in front of the corresponding slide rails 320, and the pair of slide rails 320 and the pair of elastic members 31 are equally disposed on two outer sides of the drawer body 1 in the transverse direction.
The drawer assembly 100 includes a pair of first guide rails 321 and a pair of second guide rails 322 equally disposed on two sides of the drawer body 1, and the first and second guide rails 321, 322 located on the same side are disposed at intervals along the height direction to form one slide 320 therebetween.
The drawer assembly 100 further has a connecting section 323 connecting the first and second rails 321 and 322 at a rear end to stop the support 23 from moving backward. Specifically, the first guide rail 321 extends in a front-back direction as a whole, and includes a first base 3211 extending in the front-back direction and a first tilting portion 3212 located at a front end of the first base 3211 and tilting upward.
The second guiding track 322 also extends along the front-back direction as a whole, and includes a first flat section 3221 and a second flat section 3222 parallel to each other, and the second flat section 3222 is located at the lower side of the first flat section 3221 in the height direction. The first flat section 3221 is connected to the second flat section 3222 by an inclined section 3223 extending obliquely, and the inclined section 3223 extends upward and rearward from the rear end of the second flat section 3222. The second guiding rail 322 further has a second raised portion 3224 disposed at the front end of the second straight section 3222 and raised upward, so that the second straight section 3222, the inclined section 3223 and the second raised portion 3224 are connected to form a hooking space 3220 with an upward opening.
The drawer cover 2 has a cover body 22 and a pair of supporting portions 23 protruding outward from two sides of the cover body 22 along a transverse direction, and the pair of locking pieces 21 protrudes downward from the cover body 22. When the drawer assembly 100 is in the closed state, the locking block 21 presses and locks the free end 310 of the elastic member 31 in the locking space 3220 at the front end of the second rail 322.
The drawer assembly 100 further has a pair of brackets 3 symmetrically disposed on two sides of the drawer body 1 in the transverse direction, and each of the brackets 3 is provided with the slide 320 and the elastic member 31 on one side thereof close to the drawer body 1. Each of the brackets 3 has a bracket body 30, and the slide 320 and the elastic member 31 are disposed on a side of the bracket body 30 close to the drawer body 1.
Each of the brackets 3 further has a seat 33 for mounting the elastic member 31 thereon, and the elastic member is detachably positioned and mounted on the seat 33. In other embodiments of the present invention, the first and second guide rails 321, 322 and the elastic element 31 may also be directly fixed on the liner wall of the refrigerator liner 4.
The elastic member 31 includes a fixed arm 311 and an elastic arm 312 extending from a front end of the fixed arm 311 in an inclined manner, and when the drawer assembly 100 is in a closed state (i.e. the drawer cover 2 is in the first state), the elastic arm 312 is pressed by the stopping portion 11 to be in a compressed state; when the drawer body 1 is pulled forward to move the drawer cover 2 from the first state to the second state, the stopping portion 11 moves forward and releases the free end 310 of the elastic arm 312, and the free end 310 moves upward and lifts the drawer cover 2.
Preferably, the vertical cross section of the abutting portion 11 is circular so that the outer surface thereof is smooth and circular arc-shaped to smoothly abut on the upper side of the elastic arm 312. In the front-rear direction, the abutting portion 11 is disposed in front of the middle portion of the side wall, and protrudes outward along the transverse direction to abut against the elastic arm 312 of the elastic member 31 downward.
As shown in fig. 9 to 10, when the drawer cover 2 is in the first state or the second state, the latch 21 always rests on the elastic arm 312, so that the elastic member 31 forms a stable support for the drawer cover 2.
The drawer cover 2 further has a pair of side edges 24 protruding from two sides of the cover body 22, the side edges 24 are always sandwiched between the first and second guide rails 321, 322 to slide along the slide 320 under the limitation of the first and second guide rails 321, 322, the first guide rail 321 has a limiting portion 324 protruding downward to block the supporting portion 23 from excessive displacement forward, in this embodiment, the limiting portion 324 is disposed adjacent to the supporting portion 23 to block and limit the supporting portion 23 in both the first state and the second state of the drawer cover 2.
Each side edge 24 and the supporting part 23 on the same side protrude outwards for the same length, so that the side end surface of the side edge 24 is coplanar with the end surface of the supporting part 23, the supporting part 23 is in an irregular hollow cylindrical structure, and the front surface of the supporting part is connected with the rear end of the side edge 24. Further, in the present embodiment, the front end of the supporting portion 23 is provided with a stopping wall 231 located on the upper side of the side edge 24, and the stopping wall 231 is a plane extending in the vertical direction.
When the drawer body 1 is pulled forward to move the drawer cover 2 from the first state to the second state, the free end 310 moves upward and lifts the drawer cover 2, and the front end of the side edge 24 tilts upward and turns over the upper end of the stopping wall 231 backward and abuts against the limiting portion 324. When the drawer body 1 is pushed backward from the pulled-open state, the stopping portion 11 moves backward and simultaneously presses the elastic arm 312, so that the free end 310 of the elastic arm 312 descends, and the latch 21 resting on the elastic arm 312 falls along with the free end to lower the drawer cover 2.
The refrigerator comprises an inner container 4 and at least one drawer assembly 100, wherein the drawer assembly 100 is installed on the container wall of the inner container 4.
According to the drawer assembly 100 and the refrigerator with the drawer assembly, the drawer cover plate 2 can be automatically lifted or lowered under the action of the adjusting mechanism in the process of pushing and pulling the drawer body 1, time and labor are saved, and unsmooth operation and noise caused by friction generated in the process of pushing and pulling the drawer body 1 and the drawer cover plate 2 can be avoided.
Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a drawer component, its includes drawer body, lid and locates the drawer apron and the symmetry of drawer body's opening part set up in a pair of support of drawer body both sides in the transverse direction, drawer body has relative setting in order to correspond a pair of lateral wall of support matched with, its characterized in that: each side wall is provided with a resisting part positioned at the outer side of the side wall, each support is provided with a support body, a slide way and an elastic arm, the slide way and the elastic arm are arranged at one side of the support body close to the drawer body, the drawer cover plate is provided with a cover plate body, a pair of supporting parts which outwards extend out of two sides of the cover plate body along the transverse direction and a pair of buckling blocks which downwards extend out, and when the drawer component is in a closed state, the buckling blocks downwards abut against the elastic arms to enable the elastic arms to be in a compressed state; when the drawer body is pulled forwards or pushed backwards, the free tail end of the elastic arm moves upwards or downwards to drive the buckling block to ascend or descend, so that the front part of the drawer cover plate is lifted or falls.
2. The drawer assembly of claim 1, wherein: the resisting part is a convex column which protrudes outwards from the side part of the drawer body along the transverse direction.
3. The drawer assembly of claim 2, wherein: when the drawer component is in a closed state or an open state, the buckling block is always placed on the elastic arm.
4. The drawer assembly of claim 3, wherein: the support is provided with first guide rail and second guide rail in the one side that is close to the drawer body, first, second guide rail sets up in order to press from both sides between them and establish along the direction of height interval the slide.
5. The drawer assembly of claim 4, wherein: the bracket is also provided with a connecting section which connects the first guide rail and the second guide rail at the rear end to stop the support part from moving backwards.
6. The drawer assembly of claim 5, wherein: each support is also provided with an elastic piece and a base body for installing the elastic piece on the support, and the elastic piece comprises a fixed arm fixed on the base body and an elastic arm extending backwards and upwards in an inclined mode from the front end of the fixed arm.
7. The drawer assembly of claim 5, wherein: the first guide rail is provided with a limiting part which protrudes downwards to prevent the supporting part from excessively displacing forwards, the front end of the supporting part is provided with a blocking wall, and when the drawer body is pulled forwards, the upper end of the blocking wall turns backwards and is blocked with the limiting part.
8. The drawer assembly of claim 5, wherein: when the drawer component is in a closed state, the free tail end of the elastic piece is pressed and hooked in the hooking space at the front end of the second guide rail by the buckling block.
9. The drawer assembly of claim 8, wherein: the second guide rail integrally extends along the front-back direction and comprises a first straight section and a second straight section which are parallel to each other, the second straight section is located on the lower side of the first straight section in the height direction, the first straight section and the second straight section are connected through an inclined section extending in an inclined mode, the inclined section extends upwards and backwards from the rear end of the second straight section, the second guide rail is further provided with a second tilting portion which is arranged at the front end of the second straight section and is tilted upwards, and the second straight section is connected with the inclined section and the second tilting portion to form the hook space with an upward opening.
10. A refrigerator, characterized in that: the drawer assembly comprises an inner container and at least one drawer assembly as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the drawer assembly is mounted on the inner container through the bracket.
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