CN113532011B

CN113532011B - Thawing apparatus and refrigerator with same

Info

Publication number: CN113532011B
Application number: CN202110838826.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张波; 陆涛; 胡海梅
Original assignee: Changhong Meiling Co Ltd
Current assignee: Changhong Meiling Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-23
Filing date: 2021-07-23
Publication date: 2022-09-23
Anticipated expiration: 2041-07-23
Also published as: CN113532011A

Abstract

The invention discloses a thawing device and a refrigerator with the thawing device, and relates to the technical field of refrigerators. The invention comprises a thawing chamber, a rear side plate, a cover plate and a thawing drawer; the outer wall of the opening side of the thawing chamber is provided with a right-angle extending edge, and the right-angle extending edge is connected with two vertical side plates; the top wall of the thawing chamber is connected with a heating plate and a turbulent flow fan; the turbulent fan injects the air heated by the heating plate into the thawing chamber; the cover plate is connected with the right-angle extending edge, the vertical side plate and the rear side plate and mutually encloses with the outer wall of the unfreezing chamber to form a closed air return cavity; the unfreezing drawer comprises a side cover plate; the side cover plate is provided with a thawing box; the refrigerator of the invention comprises the thawing device. According to the invention, the unfreezing chamber and the unfreezing drawer are arranged, and heated air is injected into the unfreezing chamber by using the turbulent flow fan, so that the unfreezing of food is realized, and the problem that the quality of the food is influenced by long unfreezing time or after unfreezing in the prior art is solved; through installing thawing apparatus on the refrigerator door body, the effectual convenience that has improved frozen food and take and unfreeze.

Description

Thawing apparatus and refrigerator with same

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of refrigerators, and particularly relates to a thawing device and a refrigerator with the thawing device.

Background

The main unfreezing methods for frozen foods by users include room-temperature natural unfreezing, refrigerator refrigerating chamber unfreezing, water-soluble unfreezing, hot water unfreezing, microwave unfreezing and the like. The room temperature natural thawing is influenced by environmental factors, and the thawing time and the thawing quality cannot be controlled; the time consumed for unfreezing the refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator is long; although the thawing time is short in water-soluble thawing and hot-water thawing, the food juice loss is large, and the quality such as color, aroma and taste is greatly reduced; microwave thawing takes a short time, and generally several minutes can realize frozen meat cutting, but food is easily heated unevenly, and the quality is reduced.

Along with the improvement of life quality and the enhancement of health consciousness of people, the demand of quick and efficient thawing equipment is increasing, and how to quickly thaw when taking frozen food becomes one of hot spots pursued by people as a household appliance necessary for storing the frozen food in a family.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a thawing device and a refrigerator with the thawing device.A thawing chamber and a thawing drawer are arranged, heated air is injected into the thawing chamber by using a turbulent fan, so that the thawing of food is realized, and the problem that the quality of the food is influenced by long thawing time or after thawing in the prior art is solved; through installing thawing apparatus on the refrigerator door body, the effectual convenience that has improved frozen food and take and unfreeze.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

the invention relates to a thawing device and a refrigerator with the thawing device, which comprise a thawing chamber, a rear side plate, a cover plate and a thawing drawer; the outer wall of the opening side of the thawing chamber is provided with a right-angle extending edge; the top wall of the thawing chamber is provided with an air inlet, and the upper surface of the top wall is connected with a heating plate, a turbulent flow fan and a control plate; an air return port is formed in the side wall of the thawing chamber; the side surface of the right-angle extended edge is fixedly connected with two vertical side plates, and the two vertical side plates are respectively positioned at two sides of the thawing chamber; the turbulent flow fan is used for injecting air heated by the heating plate into the unfreezing chamber from the air inlet; the rear side plate is of an L-shaped structure; the side wall of the rear side plate is connected with the side surface of the vertical side plate, and the bottom wall of the rear side plate is connected with the right-angle extending edge and the lower surface of the vertical side plate; the cover plate is connected with the right-angle extending edge, the vertical side plate and the rear side plate and mutually encloses with the outer wall of the unfreezing chamber to form a closed air return cavity;

the thawing drawer comprises a side cover plate; the side surface of the side cover plate is provided with a thawing box; the side cover plate is matched with the opening of the thawing chamber and used for sealing the thawing chamber; the side cover plate is connected with the inner wall of the thawing chamber through a slide rail and is used for driving the thawing box to enter and exit the thawing chamber.

Furthermore, a supporting plate for placing a thawing box is fixedly connected to the side surface of the side cover plate; the border of backup pad sets up the right angle turn-ups for carry out the position to the box of unfreezing and prescribe a limit to.

Furthermore, the lower surface of the supporting plate is clamped with two connecting plates; the connecting plate is of an L-shaped structure, and the side wall of the connecting plate is fixedly connected with the sliding rail.

Furthermore, the thawing device also comprises a metal thawing disc; the metal unfreezing tray is placed inside the unfreezing box.

A refrigerator comprises the defrosting device.

Further, the refrigerator comprises a door body; the thawing device is connected with the inner side face of the door body of the refrigerator.

Furthermore, a plurality of inserting grooves are formed in the inner side face of the door body; and the side surface of the rear side plate is fixedly connected with an inserting column matched with the inserting groove.

Furthermore, a threading hole is formed in the inner side face of the door body; and the side surface of the rear side plate is provided with a threading hole corresponding to the threading hole.

Furthermore, a bottle frame is arranged on the inner side face of the door body, and the unfreezing device is positioned below the bottle frame; the upper edge of one side of the cover plate, which is close to the door body, is provided with a stepped groove; the lower surface of the bottle frame is fixedly connected with a limiting strip matched with the stepped groove.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

the food thawing device is provided with the thawing chamber, the thawing drawer is connected with the thawing drawer through the sliding rail, heated air is injected into the thawing chamber through the turbulence fan at the top of the thawing chamber, food is thawed through hot air, the integral thawing speed is effectively improved, the thawing time is reduced, food is heated more uniformly during thawing, and the food quality is guaranteed.

Meanwhile, the unfreezing device is arranged on the refrigerator door body, frozen food can be unfrozen quickly after being taken out of the refrigerator freezing chamber, the convenience of taking and unfreezing the frozen food is effectively achieved, and the overall practicability of the refrigerator is improved.

Of course, it is not necessary for any product in which the invention is practiced to achieve all of the above-described advantages at the same time.

Drawings

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

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a thawing device and a refrigerator having the same according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the door body, bottle frame and thawing apparatus;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the bottle frame and the thawing device;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the structure of the thawing apparatus;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the rear view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the structure of the defrosting drawer;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a half-section of the thawing apparatus;

in the drawings, the components represented by the respective reference numerals are listed below:

1-thawing chamber, 2-rear side plate, 3-cover plate, 4-thawing drawer, 5-door body, 11-control plate, 101-right angle extension, 102-air inlet, 103-heating plate, 104-turbulent fan, 105-air return, 106-vertical side plate, 201-plug column, 202-line hole, 301-step groove, 401-side cover plate, 402-thawing box, 403-sliding rail, 404-supporting plate, 405-right angle flanging, 406-connecting plate, 407-metal thawing plate, 501-bottle frame, 502-plug groove, 503-line hole and 504-limit strip.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "opening," "upper," "lower," "thickness," "top," "middle," "length," "inner," "peripheral," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship that is merely for convenience in describing and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced component or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be considered as limiting the present invention.

Example one

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the present invention is a thawing apparatus comprising a thawing chamber 1, a rear side plate 2, a cover plate 3 and a thawing drawer 4. One side of the thawing chamber 1 is provided with an opening, and the outer wall of the opening side of the thawing chamber 1 is provided with a right-angle extending edge 101; the top wall of the thawing chamber 1 is provided with an air inlet 102, and the upper surface of the top wall is connected with a heating plate 103, a turbulent flow fan 104 and a control panel 11. The heating plate 103 is located right below the disturbing flow fan 104, and the disturbing flow fan 104 is used for injecting air heated by the heating plate 103 into the thawing chamber 1 through the air inlet 102.

The sidewall of the thawing chamber 1 is opened with a return air inlet 105, and the return air inlet 105 is positioned at the bottom of the thawing chamber 1. Two vertical side plates 106 are fixed on the side surfaces of the right-angle extending edge 101, and the two vertical side plates 106 are respectively positioned on two sides of the thawing chamber 1. The thawing chamber 1, the right-angle extension 101 and the two vertical side plates 106 may be an integrally formed structure.

The rear side plate 2 is of an L-shaped structure; the lateral wall of posterior lateral plate 2 passes through the joint with the side of vertical curb plate 106 to be connected, and the diapire of posterior lateral plate 2 is connected with the lower surface of right angle continuation limit 101 and vertical curb plate 106.

The cover plate 3 is connected with the right angle extending edge 101, the vertical side plate 106 and the rear side plate 2 in a clamped mode, and the cover plate 3, the right angle extending edge 101, the vertical side plate 106 and the rear side plate 2 are connected and then mutually enclose a closed air return cavity with the outer wall of the unfreezing chamber 1.

The defrosting drawer 4 includes a side cover 401; the side cover plate 401 is provided with a thawing box 402 at the side. The side cover plate 401 is adapted to the opening of the thawing chamber 1 and is used for sealing the thawing chamber 1, and the side cover plate 401 is connected to the inner wall of the thawing chamber 1 through two sliding rails 403 and is used for driving the thawing box 402 to enter and exit the thawing chamber 1.

During the use, through pulling side cover plate 401, pull out thawing box 402 from thawing room 1 in, will wait that the food of thawing puts into thawing box 402, push side cover plate 401 and make thawing box 402 get into thawing room 1 in to it seals thawing room 1 opening through side cover plate 401.

As shown in fig. 7, the heating plate 103 and the disturbing flow fan 104 are activated, and the disturbing flow fan 104 generates an air flow, so that the air flow passes through the heating plate 103 right below the disturbing flow fan 104, and the air heated by the heating plate 103 is injected into the thawing chamber 1 through the air inlet 102. The direction of the air flow is as indicated by the arrows in fig. 7, and the hot air enters the thawing box 402 in the thawing compartment 1 to thaw the frozen food. And, the inside air gets into the return air chamber through return air inlet 105, and then drives through vortex fan 104 and forms the circulation wind path.

Meanwhile, a temperature sensor can be arranged in the air return cavity or the thawing chamber 1, so that the temperature in the thawing device can be monitored in real time.

Example two

On the basis of the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, the side cover plate 401 is fixedly connected to the side surface thereof with a supporting plate 404 for placing the thawing box 402, and a right-angle flange 405 is arranged at the edge of the supporting plate 404 for limiting the position of the thawing box 402, so that the thawing box 402 can be directly placed on the supporting plate 404, the thawing box 402 can be taken out conveniently, a user can clean the thawing box 402 conveniently, and food to be thawed can be taken and placed conveniently.

Moreover, the lower surface of the support plate 404 is clamped with two connecting plates 406 through clamping claws; the connecting plate 406 is of an L-shaped structure, the side wall of the connecting plate 406 is fixedly connected with the slide rail 403 through screws, and the connecting plate 406 is clamped with the supporting plate 404, so that the overall disassembly of the unfreezing drawer 4 is facilitated.

Meanwhile, a metal unfreezing tray 407 is also included; the metal unfreezing tray 407 is placed inside the unfreezing box 402, food to be unfrozen is placed on the metal unfreezing tray 407 during unfreezing, and conduction of temperature is facilitated through the metal unfreezing tray 407, so that the unfreezing speed is accelerated.

EXAMPLE III

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, a refrigerator includes a door 5 and a thawing device in the first embodiment or the second embodiment. The thawing device is connected to the inner surface of the door 5 of the refrigerator.

Specifically, the inner side of the door body 5 is provided with two symmetrical insertion grooves 502, and the side of the rear side plate 2 is fixedly connected with the insertion column 201 matched with the insertion groove 502, so that the whole thawing device is arranged on the inner side of the door body 5 through the matching of the insertion column 201 and the insertion groove 502.

The inner side surface of the door body 5 is provided with a threading hole 503; the side surface of the rear side plate 2 is provided with a thread passing hole 202 corresponding to the threading hole 503. The guide passes through the door body 5, is led out from the threading hole 503, passes through the threading hole 202 and is connected to the heating plate 103 and the turbulent fan 104 on the top of the thawing chamber 1, and other electrical elements, such as an electric control plate.

Meanwhile, as shown in fig. 3, a bottle frame 501 is provided on the inner side surface of the door 5, and the thawing device is located below the bottle frame 501. The upper edge of one side of the cover plate 3, which is close to the door body 5, is provided with a stepped groove 301; the lower surface of the bottle frame 501 is fixedly connected with a limiting strip 504 matched with the stepped groove 301.

Utilize spacing 504 and the ladder groove 301 block of bottle frame 501 below, further improvement to the holistic fixed effect of thawing apparatus, avoided the switch door in-process to cause the thawing apparatus to produce the condition emergence of rocking, guarantee stability and reliability behind thawing apparatus and the door body 5 erection joint.

In the description herein, references to the description of "one embodiment," "an example," "a specific example" or the like are intended to mean 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 this specification, 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 preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended to be illustrative only. The preferred embodiments are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise embodiments disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.

Claims

1. A thawing apparatus, characterized by comprising:

the refrigerator comprises a thawing chamber (1), wherein a right-angle extending edge (101) is arranged on the outer wall of the opening side of the thawing chamber (1); the top wall of the thawing chamber (1) is provided with an air inlet (102), and the upper surface of the top wall is connected with a heating plate (103), a turbulent flow fan (104) and a control plate (11); an air return opening (105) is formed in the side wall of the thawing chamber (1);

the side surface of the right-angle extending edge (101) is fixedly connected with two vertical side plates (106), and the two vertical side plates (106) are respectively positioned at two sides of the thawing chamber (1);

the rear side plate (2), the rear side plate (2) is of an L-shaped structure; the side wall of the rear side plate (2) is connected with the side surface of the vertical side plate (106), and the bottom wall of the rear side plate (2) is connected with the right-angle extending edge (101) and the lower surface of the vertical side plate (106);

the cover plate (3) is connected with the right-angle extending edge (101), the vertical side plate (106) and the rear side plate (2), and mutually encloses with the outer wall of the unfreezing chamber (1) to form a closed air return cavity, and the air inlet (102), the heating plate (103), the turbulent flow fan (104), the control plate (11) and the air return opening (105) are all positioned in the air return cavity;

a defrosting drawer (4); the thawing drawer (4) comprises a side cover plate (401); a thawing box (402) is arranged on the side surface of the side cover plate (401); the side cover plate (401) is matched with an opening of the thawing chamber (1) and used for sealing the thawing chamber (1);

the turbulent fan (104) is used for enabling hot air heated by the heating plate (103) to enter the unfreezing box (402) in the unfreezing chamber (1) from top to bottom through the air inlet (102);

the side cover plate (401) is connected with the inner wall of the thawing chamber (1) through a sliding rail (403) and is used for driving the thawing box (402) to enter and exit the thawing chamber (1);

wherein, also comprises a door body (5) of the refrigerator; a bottle frame (501) is arranged on the inner side surface of the door body (5); the unfreezing device is connected with the inner side face of the door body (5), and is positioned below the bottle frame (501);

a stepped groove (301) is formed in the upper edge of one side, close to the door body (5), of the cover plate (3); the lower surface of the bottle frame (501) is fixedly connected with a limiting strip (504) matched with the stepped groove (301).

2. Thawing apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that, the side cover plate (401) is fixedly connected with a support plate (404) for placing a thawing box (402); the edge of the supporting plate (404) is provided with a right-angle flanging (405) for limiting the position of the unfreezing box (402).

3. Thawing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said support plate (404) has two connection plates (406) fastened to its lower surface; the connecting plate (406) is of an L-shaped structure, and the side wall of the connecting plate (406) is fixedly connected with the sliding rail (403).

4. A thawing apparatus according to claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising a metal thawing tray (407); the metal thawing tray (407) is placed inside the thawing box (402).

5. A refrigerator, characterized in that the refrigerator comprises a thawing device and a door body (5) according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

6. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the inner side of the door body (5) is provided with a plurality of inserting grooves (502); and the side surface of the rear side plate (2) is fixedly connected with an inserting column (201) matched with the inserting groove (502).

7. The refrigerator according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the inner side of the door body (5) is provided with a threading hole (503); the side surface of the rear side plate (2) is provided with a threading hole (202) corresponding to the threading hole (503).