CN110836568A

CN110836568A - Unfreezing assembly, variable temperature box and refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN110836568A
Application number: CN201911069028.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 潘国勇; 孙哲; 李悦广; 王立国; 赵郑前
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2019-11-05
Filing date: 2019-11-05
Publication date: 2020-02-25

Abstract

The invention provides a thawing assembly, a multi-temperature-changing box and a refrigerator, relates to the technical field of refrigeration and thawing, and solves the problem that the step of thawing food materials is complicated due to the arrangement mode of thawing equipment; this subassembly that unfreezes includes thawing apparatus and drive arrangement, is provided with drive mechanism between thawing apparatus and the drive arrangement, and drive arrangement and drive mechanism cooperation enable thawing apparatus to wait to remove between the interval at a plurality of differences, and can wait to thaw the inside frozen object of interval when thawing apparatus removes to wherein waiting to unfreeze the interval. The variable temperature box comprises a box body and the unfreezing assembly; the refrigerator comprises the variable temperature box; the invention can realize that a plurality of regions to be unfrozen share one unfreezing device, thereby saving the cost; when unfreezing, the food in the refrigerating area is not required to be taken out and put into the unfreezing area, and the food is taken out after unfreezing is finished, so that the unfreezing equipment can be used for unfreezing the frozen object inside in sequence by moving the unfreezing equipment in a plurality of areas to be unfrozen, and the operation steps are simplified.

Description

Unfreezing assembly, variable temperature box and refrigerator

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of refrigeration and thawing, in particular to a thawing assembly, a multi-temperature-changing box and a refrigerator.

Background

With the improvement of living standard, people pay more and more attention to food thawing. At present, most users unfreeze food in a natural unfreezing, running water unfreezing or microwave unfreezing mode. The time consumption of natural thawing is long; the taste of the food materials can be influenced by the flowing water thawing; in microwave thawing, the surface of the food material is easily thawed but the inside of the food material is not yet thawed. The ideal thawing method is refrigeration thawing, namely, the food carries a thawing function or a thawing interval in a refrigerator or cold storage.

The applicant has found that the prior art has at least the following technical problems: the existing unfreezing assembly is usually fixedly arranged in a unfreezing area of a refrigerating and unfreezing device, when a user needs to unfreeze food materials, particularly when the food materials needing to be unfrozen are more, the food materials needing to be unfrozen are taken out of a freezing chamber or a refrigerating chamber in advance, then the food materials are manually placed in the fixed unfreezing area, the unfrozen food materials need to be taken out after unfreezing is completed, new food materials to be unfrozen are put in, the unfreezing food material steps are complicated, and operation is inconvenient. And when a plurality of unfreezing intervals need to be set, unfreezing equipment needs to be set in each unfreezing interval, and the cost is high.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a thawing assembly, a multi-temperature-changing box and a refrigerator, which aim to solve the technical problem that the steps of thawing food materials are complicated due to the arrangement mode of the existing thawing equipment in the prior art; the technical effects that can be produced by the preferred technical scheme in the technical schemes provided by the invention are described in detail in the following.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:

the invention provides a thawing assembly, which comprises thawing equipment and a driving device, wherein:

the thawing equipment and the driving device are provided with a transmission mechanism, the driving device and the transmission mechanism are matched to enable the thawing equipment to move among a plurality of different regions to be thawed, and when the thawing equipment moves to one of the regions to be thawed, the frozen objects in the regions to be thawed can be thawed.

Preferably, the driving device and the thawing equipment are in gear and rack transmission.

Preferably, the transmission mechanism comprises a rack arranged on the thawing equipment and a gear arranged on the driving device, the rack is arranged along the moving direction of the thawing equipment, and the plane where the gear is located is parallel to the extending direction of the rack.

Preferably, the rack is disposed at least at one side of the thawing apparatus, and the driving device and the gear are disposed at a lower portion of the rack.

Preferably, the thawing assembly further comprises a guide rail extending into different thawing zones, the thawing apparatus being rollable in the guide rail.

Preferably, the guide rail is disposed in a linear direction.

Preferably, the bottom of the thawing equipment is provided with a roller, and the thawing equipment can roll in the guide rail through the roller.

Preferably, be provided with on the guide rail and be used for preventing the equipment of thawing rocks from side to side prevents scurrying the rib, the gyro wheel is followed the inner wall of preventing scurrying the rib removes.

The invention also provides a variable temperature box which comprises a box body and the unfreezing assembly, wherein a plurality of regions to be unfrozen are arranged in the box body.

Preferably, the section to be defrosted comprises a refrigeration drawer and a movement space arranged at the upper part of the refrigeration drawer for the defrosted equipment to move.

Preferably, a heat insulation plate is arranged between every two adjacent refrigeration drawers.

The invention also provides a refrigerator which comprises the variable temperature box.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. according to the unfreezing assembly, the driving device is matched with the transmission mechanism, so that unfreezing equipment moves among a plurality of different to-be-unfrozen areas, when the unfreezing equipment moves to one of the to-be-unfrozen areas, frozen objects in the to-be-unfrozen areas can be unfrozen, the multiple to-be-unfrozen areas can share one unfreezing equipment, and the cost is saved; and when unfreezing food, need not to take out the food that freezes the interval and put into the interval of unfreezing, take out loaded down with trivial details operations such as again after the completion of unfreezing, start this subassembly that unfreezes, through remove the equipment that unfreezes to a plurality of intervals of waiting to unfreeze can be earlier and later unfreeze a plurality of internal frozen things that wait to unfreeze the interval, simplified operating procedure.

2. The multi-variable temperature box provided by the invention has the thawing component, so that a plurality of sections of the multi-variable temperature box can be sequentially thawing sections for thawing internal food, and the step of thawing frozen products can be simplified when in use.

3. The refrigerator provided by the invention has the advantages that the step of unfreezing frozen objects can be simplified due to the variable temperature box.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic bottom view of the thawing apparatus;

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the thawing assembly engaged with the section to be thawed;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the thawing assembly engaged with the area to be thawed;

FIG. 4 is a side cross-sectional view of the thawing assembly engaged with the area to be thawed;

FIG. 5 is a top cross-sectional view of the thawing assembly engaged with the section to be thawed;

fig. 6 is an installation schematic view of the tamper-resistant bead;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an exploded structure of a multiple incubator;

FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of a multiple incubator;

fig. 9 is a top sectional view of a plurality of refrigerating compartments in a multi-warming box.

In the figure: 1. thawing equipment; 2. a rack; 3. a motor; 31. a gear; 4. a roller; 5. a left refrigeration drawer; 6. a right refrigeration drawer; 7. a guide rail; 71. a first guide rail; 72. a second guide rail; 8. a box body; 9. a door body; 10. a sealing strip; 11. a heat insulation plate; 12. anti-channeling rib.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail below. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the examples given herein without any inventive step, are within the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "length", "width", "height", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "side", and the like, indicate orientations and positional relationships based on the orientations and positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the equipment or elements referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

Example 1

Referring to fig. 1-5, the present embodiment provides a thawing assembly, comprising a thawing apparatus 1 and a driving device, wherein:

a transmission mechanism is arranged between the unfreezing equipment 1 and the driving device, the driving device and the transmission mechanism are matched to enable the unfreezing equipment 1 to move between a plurality of different unfreezing intervals, and when the unfreezing equipment 1 moves to one of the unfreezing intervals, the frozen object in the unfreezing interval can be unfrozen. The thawing apparatus 1 may be an electric heating apparatus, a microwave heating apparatus, a light wave heating apparatus, a hot air apparatus, or the like in the field of refrigeration and thawing, and is not limited herein.

The thawing equipment 1 can be movably arranged on a plurality of different to-be-thawed sections through the matching of the driving device and the transmission mechanism, when the thawing equipment 1 moves, one to-be-thawed section can enter another to-be-thawed section, the thawing equipment 1 can be shared by a plurality of to-be-thawed sections, and the cost is saved; when food is unfrozen, the unfreezing assembly is started without complex operations of taking the food in the refrigerating area out and putting the food into the unfreezing area, taking the food out after unfreezing, and the like, and the food in the multiple areas to be unfrozen can be unfrozen sequentially by moving the unfreezing equipment 1 to the multiple areas to be unfrozen sequentially, so that the operation steps are simplified.

The driving device and the thawing apparatus 1 may be connected through a belt transmission, a chain transmission, a rack and pinion transmission, etc., and in order to prevent noise generated when the thawing apparatus 1 moves, it is preferable that the driving device and the thawing apparatus 1 are in a rack and pinion transmission.

As a more preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, referring to fig. 1-5, the transmission mechanism comprises a rack 2 disposed on the thawing apparatus 1 and a gear 31 disposed on the driving device, the rack 2 is disposed along the moving direction of the thawing apparatus 1, and the plane of the gear 31 is parallel to the extending direction of the rack 2.

As shown in fig. 2 and 4, the driving device may be a motor 3, and a gear 31 is disposed on an output shaft of the motor 3.

The rack 2 may be provided at one side or opposite two sides of the thawing apparatus 1, and as a more preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 5, the rack 2 is provided at one side of the thawing apparatus 1, the corresponding driving means and gear 31 are also arranged corresponding to one side of the thawing apparatus 1 and the driving means and gear 31 are provided at a lower portion of the rack 2, for the sake of simplifying the structure and saving the cost.

As shown in fig. 4, the rack 2 is disposed on an upper edge of a side wall of the thawing apparatus 1, and the side wall should extend along a moving direction of the thawing apparatus 1. The above structure can be convenient for reserving a certain arrangement space for the motor 3 and the gear 31.

As a further preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, referring to fig. 3 and 5, the thawing assembly further comprises a guide rail 7 extending into different thawing intervals, the thawing apparatus 1 being capable of rolling in the guide rail 7.

Wherein the guide rail 7 is arranged in a linear direction. In order to make the movement of the thawing apparatus 1 more smooth, the guide rail 7 includes a first guide rail 71 and a second guide rail 72 provided at both sides of the thawing apparatus 1; the two guide rails respectively ensure the moving stability of the thawing equipment by two sides of the thawing equipment. When the thawing apparatus 1 moves, it can only move along the transmission direction of the rack and pinion, so the guide rail 7 needs to be linearly arranged among a plurality of sections to be thawed.

In order to make the thawing apparatus 1 move smoothly and reduce the friction force on the guide rail 7, as an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 5, the bottom of the thawing apparatus 1 is provided with a roller 4, and the thawing apparatus 1 can roll in the guide rail 7 through the roller 4.

When the rack 2 is provided at one side of the thawing apparatus 1, the thawing apparatus 1 may be moved left and right when moving back and forth. In order to avoid the above situation, as an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 5 and 6, the guide rail 7 is provided with a tamper-proof rib 12 for preventing the thawing apparatus 1 from shaking left and right, and the roller 4 moves along the inner wall of the tamper-proof rib 12.

Above-mentioned prevent scurrying rib 12 sets up on guide rail 7, has played certain limiting displacement to thawing apparatus 1's motion, and gyro wheel 4 rolls along the region that prevents scurrying rib 12 and prescribes a limit to, can prevent that it from rocking or scurrying about when removing for thawing apparatus 1's motion is more stable.

Example 2

The embodiment provides a changeable incubator, refer to fig. 7, 8 and 9, and include box 8 and the above-mentioned subassembly that unfreezes, be provided with a plurality of regions of waiting to unfreeze in the box 8.

The number of the regions to be thawed is not limited, and can be two or more. In this embodiment, two regions to be thawed are taken as an example for explanation.

The multi-variable temperature box is provided with the unfreezing assembly, so that a plurality of sections of the multi-variable temperature box can be unfreezing sections capable of unfreezing internal food in sequence, and the step of unfreezing the food can be simplified when the multi-variable temperature box is used.

Referring to fig. 7, the box 8 includes a box liner and two regions to be thawed, and the interior of the box can contain frozen objects; the box body 8 is provided with a door body 9, and frozen objects in a plurality of regions to be unfrozen can be taken out by opening the door body 9. In order to maintain good sealing, a seal 10 is provided at the lower portion of the guide rail 7 to prevent cold leakage in the thawing section during thawing.

As an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 7, the thawing-waiting section includes a left cold storage drawer 5, a right cold storage drawer 6, and a movement space provided at an upper portion of the cold storage drawers and allowing the thawing apparatus 1 to move. As shown in fig. 3, 4 and 7, the guide rails 7 are arranged in the movement space so that the thawing apparatus 1 can move between two to-be-thawed sections while allowing frozen objects in two refrigeration drawers to be refrigerated and thawed.

As an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 3, 8 and 9, a heat insulation board 11 is provided between adjacent refrigerating drawers, so that the refrigerating drawers are two independent refrigerating compartments, and mutual influence during thawing is prevented, and thawing of a predetermined refrigerating drawer can be realized.

The heat insulation board 11 may be made of a conventional heat insulation material, and is not limited herein.

Above-mentioned changeable incubator is when using: when the user needs to unfreeze the food materials, the food materials only need to be placed in the refrigeration drawers respectively. When the motor 3 receives the function signal, the motor 3 is started, and the motor 3 rotates to drive the gear rack, so that the front and back movement of the thawing equipment 1 is realized; when the thawing device 1 is moved from the first cold storage drawer to the upper part of the second cold storage drawer after the first cold storage drawer completes thawing of the frozen objects, the second cold storage drawer becomes a thawing space and can thaw the frozen objects inside. Therefore, when the multi-temperature-changing box is used for unfreezing frozen food, the frozen food is not required to be frequently put in or taken out for many times, and only the unfreezing equipment 1 is required to be driven by the driving device to move to different unfreezing sections, so that the complex steps of unfreezing food are simplified.

Example 3

The embodiment provides a refrigerator, which comprises the variable temperature box.

The refrigerator provided by the embodiment has the advantages that the step of unfreezing the frozen objects can be simplified due to the fact that the refrigerator is provided with the variable temperature box.

The particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A thawing assembly, comprising a thawing apparatus and a driving device, wherein:

2. The thawing assembly of claim 1, wherein the drive means is in gear and rack drive with the thawing apparatus.

3. The thawing assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transmission mechanism comprises a rack arranged on the thawing apparatus and a gear arranged on the driving device, the rack is arranged along the moving direction of the thawing apparatus and the plane of the gear is parallel to the extending direction of the rack.

4. The thawing assembly of claim 3, wherein said rack is provided at least at one side of said thawing apparatus, and said driving means and said gear are provided at a lower portion of said rack.

5. The thaw assembly of claim 1, further comprising a rail extending into different ones of the thaw intervals, the thaw apparatus being rollable within the rail.

6. The thaw assembly of claim 5, wherein the guide rail is disposed in a linear direction.

7. Thawing assembly according to claim 5, characterized in that the bottom of the thawing apparatus is provided with rollers by means of which the thawing apparatus can roll in the rail.

8. The thawing assembly of claim 7, wherein the guide rail is provided with a tamper-proof rib for preventing the thawing apparatus from shaking left and right, and the roller moves along an inner wall of the tamper-proof rib.

9. A variable temperature box is characterized by comprising a box body and the unfreezing assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein a plurality of regions to be unfrozen are arranged in the box body.

10. The multiple incubator according to claim 9, wherein the section to be defrosted includes a refrigerating drawer and a movement space provided at an upper portion of the refrigerating drawer for movement of the defreezing apparatus.

11. The multiple incubator of claim 10 wherein insulation panels are provided between adjacent cold storage drawers.

12. A refrigerator comprising a multiple temperature cabinet according to any one of claims 9 to 11.