CN110864491A - Refrigerator with a door - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a refrigerator which comprises a refrigerator body and a door body arranged at the front end of the refrigerator body, wherein the refrigerator body comprises a refrigerator body top wall positioned at the top end, a refrigerator body bottom wall positioned at the bottom end, a refrigerator body rear wall positioned at the rear end and two refrigerator body side walls respectively positioned at the left side and the right side, an ice maker is arranged on the door body, an ice making evaporator, a circulating fan and a circulating air duct are arranged on one of the two refrigerator body side walls, and the circulating fan, the ice making evaporator and the ice maker are connected through the circulating air duct to form an ice making loop. According to the scheme, the ice making evaporator, the circulating fan and the circulating air duct are arranged on the side wall of the box body, so that the distance between the ice making evaporator, the circulating fan and the door body ice maker is shortened, the length of the circulating air duct is shortened, the production cost of a product can be reduced, and the cold loss and the air flow pressure loss caused by the flowing of air flow in the circulating air duct can be reduced.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of refrigeration equipment, in particular to a refrigerator.
Background
At present, an ice making loop is embedded in a refrigerator structure of part of refrigerator products, and an ice maker is arranged on a door body, so that the ice making function is added to the refrigerator. The ice making method of such a refrigerator is classified into a direct cooling ice making method and an air cooling ice making method. The direct cooling ice making mode is that one refrigerant pipeline is led out from the original refrigerant loop of the refrigerator and enters the door through the hinge shaft hole to make the refrigerant pipeline pass through the back of the metal ice making lattice of the door ice making machine to make ice. An ice making loop structure adopted by an air cooling ice making mode is shown in figure 1, an ice making evaporator 2 'and a circulating fan 3' are additionally arranged on a box body rear wall 5 ', a circulating air duct 4' is arranged in the box body, the circulating air duct 4 'extends along the box body rear wall 5' and a box body side wall 1 'and is used for communicating an ice making machine, the ice making evaporator 2' and the circulating fan 3 ', the ice making evaporator 2' is connected with an original refrigerant loop of the refrigerator, so that a refrigerant flows through the ice making evaporator 2 'to refrigerate air in the circulating air duct 4', and the air in the circulating air duct 4 'circularly flows under the action of the circulating fan 3', so that cold air flows through the ice making machine in a door body to make ice.
Because a direct cooling ice making mode needs to lead a refrigerant pipe to enter the door body from the refrigerator body, one part of the refrigerant pipe is exposed outside the refrigerator, once the exposed pipeline is broken, the refrigerant can be leaked, the whole system is affected, and even safety accidents are caused, so that most of products adopt an air cooling ice making mode at present. However, the air-cooled ice-making method has some disadvantages, and the ice-making evaporator and the circulating fan of the existing air-cooled ice-making refrigerator are installed on the rear wall of the refrigerator body, so that the circulating air duct must pass through the rear wall and the side wall of the refrigerator body to be connected with the ice-making machine in the door body, so that the length of the circulating air duct is large, and the following problems are caused by the large length of the circulating air duct: (1) the pressure loss of the air flow in the circulating air duct along the way is large, so that a circulating fan with large air quantity needs to be used, but the larger the air quantity of the circulating fan is, the larger the noise of the product is; (2) the loss of cold energy in the circulating air duct along the way is large, so that the ice making efficiency of the product is low; (3) the production cost of the product is high.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art.
To this end, it is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator that optimizes the structure of an ice making circuit.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a refrigerator, including a box body and a door body installed at a front end of the box body, where the box body includes a box body top wall located at a top end, a box body bottom wall located at a bottom end, a box body rear wall located at a rear end, and two box body side walls located at left and right sides respectively, an ice making machine is disposed on the door body, one of the two box body side walls is provided with an ice making evaporator, a circulating fan, and a circulating air duct, and the circulating fan, the ice making evaporator, and the ice making machine are connected through the circulating air duct to form an ice making loop.
The scheme is that the ice making evaporator, the circulating fan and the circulating air duct are arranged on the side wall of the box body, the distance between the ice making evaporator and the circulating fan and the door body ice making machine is shortened, the length of the circulating air duct is shortened, the production cost of a product can be reduced, the cold loss and the air pressure loss caused by the flowing of air flow in the circulating air duct can be reduced, the ice making efficiency of the product can be improved by reducing the cold loss, the circulating fan with smaller air volume can be selected for use in an ice making loop by reducing the air pressure loss, the noise of the product can be reduced, the price of the selected circulating fan is lower, and the production cost of the product can be further reduced. Wherein, the production material of the circulating air duct can be plastic or aluminum.
In the above technical solution, preferably, the ice-making evaporator is constituted by an evaporation tube.
An ice making evaporator adopted by an ice making loop of a refrigerator in the prior art is an evaporator with fins, and the evaporator has a large volume, so that the storage space in a cavity of the refrigerator is greatly occupied. The refrigerator provided by the scheme reduces the length of a circulating air channel in the ice making loop, reduces the loss of cold quantity, and improves the ice making efficiency of the ice making loop, so that the ice making evaporator can ensure that the ice making efficiency of a product reaches the standard by using the evaporator without fins. Wherein, the evaporating pipe can be an aluminum pipe or a copper pipe.
In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the circulation air duct includes a heat exchange air duct, the ice making evaporator is installed in the heat exchange air duct, and the ice making evaporator has two evaporation pipe interfaces extending out of the heat exchange air duct, and the evaporation pipe interfaces are connected to a refrigerant circuit of the refrigerator.
In any of the above solutions, preferably, the evaporation tube extends in a serpentine shape.
In this scheme, the evaporating pipe of ice-making evaporimeter is followed snakelike extension in the coplanar for the thickness of ice-making evaporimeter is little, can correspondingly reduce the thickness in circulation wind channel like this, in order to reduce the space that ice-making evaporimeter and circulation wind channel occupy on box lateral wall thickness direction, realizes occupying less or even not occupying refrigerator intracavity storage space, thereby promotes the volume of refrigerator.
In one embodiment of the invention, the heat exchange air duct is open at two ends in the vertical direction, and the evaporation tube comprises a plurality of horizontal tube sections arranged horizontally and a plurality of U-shaped tube sections for connecting the ends of two adjacent horizontal tube sections.
In this scheme, the horizontal overall arrangement of ice-making evaporimeter adoption evaporating pipe, the evaporating pipe includes horizontal pipeline section and a plurality of U-shaped pipeline section that a plurality of levels set up, and each horizontal pipeline section is arranged along vertical direction interval in vertical plane, and the U-shaped pipeline section is used for connecting the tip of two adjacent horizontal pipeline sections, and the ice-making evaporimeter heat exchange efficiency of horizontal overall arrangement is high, chooses for use the ice-making efficiency ratio of ice-making return circuit under the condition of the ice-making evaporimeter of horizontal overall arrangement higher. Wherein, each horizontal pipe section and each U-shaped pipe section can be integrally formed; or each transverse pipe section and each U-shaped pipe section can be produced separately and then are connected in a sealing mode through welding or other connection modes.
In one embodiment of the invention, the heat exchange air duct is open at two ends in the vertical direction, and the evaporation tube comprises a plurality of vertical tube sections which are vertically arranged and a plurality of U-shaped tube sections for connecting the ends of two adjacent vertical tube sections.
In this scheme, the overall arrangement that the ice-making evaporimeter adopted the evaporating pipe to indulge and put, the evaporating pipe includes the perpendicular pipe section and a plurality of U-shaped pipe section of a plurality of vertical settings, each erects the pipe section and arranges along the horizontal direction interval in vertical plane, the U-shaped pipe section is used for connecting the tip of two adjacent perpendicular pipe sections, the windage that the ice-making evaporimeter of putting the overall arrangement vertically caused to the air current in the heat transfer wind channel is little, under the condition of the ice-making evaporimeter of putting the overall arrangement vertically was chooseed for use in the ice-making return circuit, the less circulating fan of amount of wind can be chooseed for use in the ice-making return circuit. Wherein, each vertical pipe section and each U-shaped pipe section can be integrally formed; or each vertical pipe section and each U-shaped pipe section can be produced separately and then are connected in a sealing way by welding or other connection modes.
In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the circulating air duct further includes a connecting air duct, an air supply air duct and a return air duct, the circulating fan has a fan air inlet and a fan air outlet, the ice maker has an ice making air inlet and an ice making air outlet, the fan air outlet is connected to the first end of the heat exchange air duct through the connecting air duct, one end of the air supply air duct is connected to the second end of the heat exchange air duct, the other end of the air supply air duct forms an air supply outlet of the circulating air duct, the air supply outlet is used for connecting the ice making air inlet, one end of the return air duct is connected to the fan air inlet, the other end of the return air duct forms a return air inlet of the circulating air.
In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the heat exchange air duct includes four air duct plates, the four air duct plates are sequentially connected end to end, and the two evaporation tube interfaces penetrate through a first air duct plate of the four air duct plates to extend out of the heat exchange air duct.
The heat exchange air channel is simple in structure and low in production cost, and production cost of the refrigerator can be controlled conveniently.
In any of the above technical solutions, optionally, the first air duct plate is provided with two connecting holes, the two connecting holes are used for being connected with the two evaporation tube interfaces in a sealing manner, three air duct plates of the four air duct plates except the first air duct plate are of an integrated structure, and the first air duct plate is assembled with the ice making evaporator and then connected with the rest air duct plates in a sealing manner.
When the ice making evaporator is assembled with the heat exchange air channel, the ice making evaporator and the first air channel plate are assembled together, the evaporation pipe interface and the connecting hole are sealed through sealant or other methods, the other three air channel plates are fixed, the ice making evaporator is inserted into an installation space defined by the other three air channel plates, the first air channel plate is abutted against the two air channel plates on the two sides of the ice making evaporator, and the first air channel plate is hermetically connected with the two air channel plates through welding or other methods, so that the assembly work is completed.
In any of the above technical solutions, optionally, the four air duct plates are of an integral structure, the first air duct plate is provided with a mounting port through which the ice making evaporator passes, the ice making evaporator is provided with a cover plate, the cover plate is provided with two connecting holes, the two connecting holes are respectively connected with the two evaporation tube interfaces in a sealing manner, and the cover plate is used for sealing the cover and sealing the mounting port.
The four air duct plates can be integrally formed and can also be in welded or other sealed connection, when the ice making evaporator is assembled with the heat exchange air duct, the ice making evaporator and the cover plate are assembled together, the evaporation pipe interface and the connecting hole are sealed through sealant or other methods, the other four air duct plates are fixed, then the ice making evaporator is inserted into the heat exchange air duct through the mounting port on the first air duct plate, the cover plate reaches the position of the mounting port, and then the cover plate is in welded or other sealed connection with the first air duct plate, so that the assembly work is completed.
In any one of the above technical solutions, preferably, a foaming layer is disposed in the side wall of the box body, and the circulating air duct is located in the foaming layer.
After the refrigerator is foamed, the circulating air duct is wrapped by the foaming layer in the side wall of the refrigerator body, so that the heat insulation effect is achieved.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
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The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a related art refrigerator.
Wherein, the corresponding relationship between the reference numbers and the component names in fig. 1 is:
1 ' side wall of the box body, 2 ' ice making evaporator, 3 ' circulating fan, 4 ' circulating air duct and 5 ' rear wall of the box body.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of an assembled ice-making evaporator and a heat exchange air duct according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of another angular configuration of the assembled heat exchange duct and ice-making evaporator shown in FIG. 3;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of an assembled ice-making evaporator and heat exchange air duct according to another embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is another perspective view of the assembled heat exchange duct and ice-making evaporator shown in fig. 5.
Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 2 to 6 is:
1 side wall of the box body, 2 ice making evaporators, 21 evaporation pipe interfaces, 22 transverse pipe sections, 23U-shaped pipe sections, 24 vertical pipe sections, 3 circulating fans, 4 circulating air channels, 41 heat exchange air channels, 42 connecting air channels, 43 air supply air channels, 431 air supply ports, 44 return air channels, 441 return air ports and 5 back wall of the box body.
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In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described herein, and thus the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.
The embodiment of the invention provides a refrigerator, as shown in fig. 2, the refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body and a door body arranged at the front end of the refrigerator body, the refrigerator body comprises a refrigerator body top wall positioned at the top end, a refrigerator body bottom wall positioned at the bottom end, a refrigerator body rear wall 5 positioned at the rear end and two refrigerator body side walls 1 respectively positioned at the left side and the right side, an ice maker (not shown in the figure) is arranged on the door body, one of the two refrigerator body side walls 1 is provided with an ice making evaporator 2, a circulating fan 3 and a circulating air duct 4, the circulating fan 3, the ice making evaporator 2 and the ice maker are connected through the circulating air duct 4 to form an ice making loop, the ice making evaporator 2 is connected with an original refrigerant loop of the refrigerator, so that the refrigerant flows through, the air in the circulating air duct 4 circularly flows under the action of the circulating fan 3, so that cold air flows through an ice maker in the door body to make ice.
According to the scheme, the ice making evaporator 2 is arranged on the side wall of the box body, the circulating fan 3 and the circulating air duct 4 are arranged, the distance between the ice making evaporator 2 and the door ice maker is shortened, and the length of the circulating air duct 4 is shortened, so that the production cost of a product can be reduced, the cold loss and the airflow pressure loss caused by the air flow in the circulating air duct 4 can be reduced, the ice making efficiency of the product can be improved by reducing the cold loss, the circulating fan 3 with smaller air volume can be selected for use in an ice making loop by reducing the airflow pressure loss, the noise of the product can be reduced, the price of the circulating fan 3 selected for use is lower, and the production cost of the product can be further reduced.
Specifically, the circulating air duct 4 includes a heat exchange air duct 41, a connecting air duct 42, an air supply air duct 43 and a return air duct 44, the ice making evaporator 2 is installed in the heat exchange air duct 41, the ice making evaporator 2 has two evaporation pipe interfaces 21 extending out of the heat exchange air duct 41, and the evaporation pipe interfaces 21 are connected with a refrigerant circuit of the refrigerator. The circulating fan 3 is provided with a fan air inlet and a fan air outlet, the ice maker is provided with an ice making air inlet and an ice making air outlet, the fan air outlet is connected with the first end of the heat exchange air channel 41 through a connecting air channel 42, one end of an air supply air channel 43 is connected with the second end of the heat exchange air channel 41, the other end of the air supply air channel forms an air supply opening 431 of the circulating air channel 4, the air supply opening 431 is used for being connected with the ice making air inlet, one end of an air return air channel 44 is connected with the fan air inlet, the other end of the air return. Wherein, the material for producing the circulating air duct 4 can be plastic or aluminum.
In the above-described technical solution, preferably, the ice-making evaporator 2 is constituted by an evaporation tube.
The ice making evaporator 2 adopted by the ice making loop of the prior art refrigerator is an evaporator with fins, and the size of the evaporator is large, so that the encroachment on the storage space in the cavity of the refrigerator is large. The refrigerator provided by the scheme reduces the length of the circulating air duct 4 in the ice making loop, reduces the loss of cold quantity, and improves the ice making efficiency of the ice making loop, so that the ice making evaporator 2 can ensure that the ice making efficiency of a product reaches the standard by using an evaporator without fins, and the ice making evaporator 2 in the scheme selects a pure evaporation tube type evaporator, so that the size of the evaporator is reduced, the volume in the cavity of the refrigerator can be increased, and the price of the pure evaporation tube type evaporator is lower than that of the evaporator with fins, so that the production cost of the product can be reduced by selecting the pure evaporation tube type evaporator. Wherein, the evaporating pipe can be an aluminum pipe or a copper pipe.
In any of the above solutions, preferably, the evaporation tube extends in a serpentine shape.
In this scheme, the evaporating pipe of ice-making evaporimeter 2 extends along snakelike in the coplanar for ice-making evaporimeter 2's thickness is little, can correspondingly reduce the thickness in circulation wind channel 4 like this, with the space that reduces ice-making evaporimeter 2 and circulation wind channel 4 and occupy in 1 thickness direction of box lateral wall, realizes occupying less or even not occupying refrigerator intracavity storage space, thereby promotes the volume of refrigerator.
In any of the above technical solutions, as shown in fig. 3 to 6, the heat exchange air duct 41 includes four air duct plates, the four air duct plates are connected end to end in sequence, and the two evaporation tube connectors 21 penetrate through a first air duct plate of the four air duct plates to extend out of the heat exchange air duct 41.
The heat exchange air duct 41 designed in this way is simple in structure and low in production cost, and is beneficial to controlling the production cost of the refrigerator.
In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the heat exchange air duct 41 is open at both ends in the vertical direction, and the evaporation tube includes a plurality of horizontally arranged horizontal tube segments 22 and a plurality of U-shaped tube segments 23 for connecting the ends of two adjacent horizontal tube segments 22.
In this scheme, the horizontal overall arrangement of ice-making evaporimeter 2 adoption evaporating pipe, the evaporating pipe includes horizontal pipeline section 22 and a plurality of U-shaped pipeline section 23 that a plurality of levels set up, each horizontal pipeline section 22 is arranged along vertical direction interval in vertical plane, U-shaped pipeline section 23 is used for connecting the tip of two adjacent horizontal pipeline sections 22, the 2 heat exchange efficiency of ice-making evaporimeter of horizontal overall arrangement is high, selects for use the ice-making efficiency ratio of ice-making return circuit under the condition of the ice-making evaporimeter 2 of horizontal overall arrangement than higher. Wherein, each horizontal pipe section 22 and each U-shaped pipe section 23 can be integrally formed; each transverse segment 22 and each U-shaped segment 23 may also be produced separately and then sealingly joined by welding or other joining means.
In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, the heat exchange air duct 41 is open at both ends in the vertical direction, and the evaporation tube includes a plurality of vertical tube segments 24 arranged vertically and a plurality of U-shaped tube segments 23 for connecting the ends of two adjacent vertical tube segments 24.
In this scheme, the overall arrangement that ice-making evaporimeter 2 adopted the evaporating pipe to indulge and put, the evaporating pipe includes the perpendicular pipeline section 24 and a plurality of U-shaped pipeline section 23 of a plurality of vertical settings, each perpendicular pipeline section 24 is arranged along the horizontal direction interval in vertical plane, U-shaped pipeline section 23 is used for connecting the tip of two adjacent perpendicular pipeline sections 24, the windage that the air current caused in the ice-making evaporimeter 2 of indulging the overall arrangement to heat exchange air duct 41 is little, under the ice-making return circuit chose for use the circumstances of the ice-making evaporimeter 2 of indulging the overall arrangement, the less circulating fan 3 of amount of wind can be chooseed for use in the ice-making return circuit, thereby the noise of product can be. Wherein, each vertical pipe section 24 and each U-shaped pipe section 23 can be integrally formed; each vertical pipe section 24 and each U-shaped pipe section 23 can also be produced separately and then connected hermetically by welding or other connection means.
Taking the requirement of ice making capacity of 5kg of ice making capacity at the initial water temperature of 25 ℃ for twenty-four hours as an example, the required refrigerating capacity under the standard is 25.5W, and the experimental surface is as follows: as shown in fig. 3 and 4, in the case that the ice-making evaporator 2 in the heat exchange air duct 41 adopts the transverse layout structure with 20 transverse pipe sections 22, the supplied refrigerating capacity is 43.2W, the temperature of the air flowing through the heat exchange air duct 41 is reduced to 14.7 ℃, and the pressure loss of the air flowing through the heat exchange air duct 41 is 16.4 Pa; as shown in fig. 5 and 6, in the case that the ice-making evaporator 2 in the heat exchange air duct 41 adopts a vertical layout structure with 9 vertical tube sections 24, the provided cooling capacity is 31.2W, the temperature of the air flowing through the heat exchange air duct 41 is reduced to 10.4 ℃, and the pressure loss of the air flowing through the heat exchange air duct 41 is 5 Pa; under the condition that an ice making evaporator in the heat exchange air duct adopts a transverse layout structure with 14 transverse pipe sections, the provided refrigerating capacity is 33.2W, the air temperature of airflow passing through the heat exchange air duct is reduced to 11.8 ℃, and the pressure loss of the airflow passing through the heat exchange air duct is 10.4 Pa. Therefore, the design schemes can meet the preset ice making capacity requirement, and when the ice making evaporator in the heat exchange air channel with the open top end and the open bottom end is in the transverse layout, the heat exchange performance is better than that in the longitudinal layout, but the air flow pressure loss is greatly higher than that in the longitudinal layout, but under the same heat exchange performance, the overall height of the ice making evaporator in the transverse layout is smaller, so that the heat exchange air channel is partially shorter, and the ice making loop structure is more compact.
Optionally, the first air duct plate is provided with two connecting holes, the two connecting holes are used for being connected with the two evaporation pipe interfaces in a sealing manner, three air duct plates except the first air duct plate in the four air duct plates are of an integrated structure, and the first air duct plate is assembled with the ice making evaporator firstly and then is connected with the rest air duct plates in a sealing manner. When the ice making evaporator is assembled with the heat exchange air channel, the ice making evaporator and the first air channel plate are assembled together, the evaporation pipe interface and the connecting hole are sealed through sealant or other methods, the other three air channel plates are fixed, the ice making evaporator is inserted into an installation space defined by the other three air channel plates, the first air channel plate is abutted against the two air channel plates on the two sides of the ice making evaporator, and the first air channel plate is hermetically connected with the two air channel plates through welding or other methods, so that the assembly work is completed.
Optionally, the four air duct plates are of an integrated structure, the first air duct plate is provided with a mounting port through which the ice making evaporator passes, the ice making evaporator is provided with a cover plate, the cover plate is provided with two connecting holes, the two connecting holes are respectively connected with the two evaporation pipe interfaces in a sealing manner, and the cover plate is used for sealing the cover and sealing the mounting port. The four air duct plates can be integrally formed and can also be in welded or other sealed connection, when the ice making evaporator is assembled with the heat exchange air duct, the ice making evaporator and the cover plate are assembled together, the evaporation pipe interface and the connecting hole are sealed through sealant or other methods, the other four air duct plates are fixed, then the ice making evaporator is inserted into the heat exchange air duct through the mounting port on the first air duct plate, the cover plate reaches the position of the mounting port, and then the cover plate is in welded or other sealed connection with the first air duct plate, so that the assembly work is completed.
In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, a foaming layer is disposed in the side wall of the box body, and the circulating air duct is located in the foaming layer.
After the refrigerator is foamed, the circulating air duct is wrapped by the foaming layer in the side wall of the refrigerator body, so that the heat insulation effect is achieved.
In the description of the present invention, the terms "connect", "mount", "fix", etc. should be interpreted broadly, for example, the term "connect" may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
In the description of the present specification, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "horizontal direction", "vertical direction", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are only for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the description of the present specification, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In the description of the invention, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
Claims (10)
1. A refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body and a door body arranged at the front end of the refrigerator body, wherein the refrigerator body comprises a refrigerator body top wall positioned at the top end, a refrigerator body bottom wall positioned at the bottom end, a refrigerator body rear wall positioned at the rear end and two refrigerator body side walls respectively positioned at the left side and the right side, the door body is provided with an ice maker, and the refrigerator is characterized in that,
one of the two box side walls is provided with an ice making evaporator, a circulating fan and a circulating air duct, and the circulating fan, the ice making evaporator and the ice making machine are connected through the circulating air duct to form an ice making loop.
2. The refrigerator according to claim 1,
the ice-making evaporator is composed of an evaporation tube.
3. The refrigerator according to claim 2,
the circulating air duct comprises a heat exchange air duct, the ice making evaporator is arranged in the heat exchange air duct and is provided with two evaporation pipe interfaces extending out of the heat exchange air duct, and the evaporation pipe interfaces are connected with a refrigerant loop of the refrigerator.
4. The refrigerator according to claim 3,
the evaporation tube extends in a serpentine shape.
5. The refrigerator according to claim 4,
the two ends of the heat exchange air duct in the vertical direction are open, and the evaporation tube comprises a plurality of horizontal tube sections and a plurality of U-shaped tube sections for connecting the ends of two adjacent horizontal tube sections.
6. The refrigerator according to claim 4,
the two ends of the heat exchange air duct in the vertical direction are open, and the evaporation tube comprises a plurality of vertical tube sections which are vertically arranged and a plurality of U-shaped tube sections which are used for connecting the end parts of two adjacent vertical tube sections.
7. The refrigerator according to any one of claims 3 to 6,
the circulating air duct further comprises a connecting air duct, an air supply air duct and a return air duct, the circulating fan is provided with a fan air inlet and a fan air outlet, the ice maker is provided with an ice making air inlet and an ice making air outlet, the fan air outlet is connected with the first end of the heat exchange air duct through the connecting air duct, one end of the air supply air duct is connected with the second end of the heat exchange air duct, the other end of the air supply air duct forms an air supply outlet of the circulating air duct, the air supply outlet is used for being connected with the ice making air inlet, one end of the return air duct is connected with the fan air inlet, the other end of the return air duct forms a return.
8. The refrigerator according to claim 7,
the heat exchange air duct comprises four air duct plates which are sequentially connected end to end, and the interfaces of the two evaporation tubes penetrate through a first air duct plate of the four air duct plates to extend out of the heat exchange air duct.
9. The refrigerator according to claim 8,
the first air duct plate is provided with two connecting holes which are used for being connected with the interfaces of the two evaporation tubes in a sealing way, three air duct plates except the first air duct plate in the four air duct plates are of an integrated structure, and the first air duct plate is firstly assembled with the ice-making evaporator and then is connected with the rest air duct plates in a sealing way; or
The four air duct plates are of an integrated structure, a mounting hole for the ice making evaporator to penetrate is formed in the first air duct plate, an cover plate is installed on the ice making evaporator, two connecting holes are formed in the cover plate and are respectively connected with the two evaporation pipe interfaces in a sealing mode, and the cover plate is used for sealing the cover and sealing the mounting hole.
10. The refrigerator according to claim 7,
and a foaming layer is arranged in the side wall of the box body, and the circulating air duct is positioned in the foaming layer.
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