CN113865201B

CN113865201B - Refrigerator with mother and infant special area

Info

Publication number: CN113865201B
Application number: CN202111182799.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曹斐; 胡海梅
Original assignee: Changhong Meiling Co Ltd
Current assignee: Changhong Meiling Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-10-11
Filing date: 2021-10-11
Publication date: 2023-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 2041-10-11
Also published as: CN113865201A

Abstract

The invention discloses a refrigerator with a mother and infant special area, and relates to the technical field of refrigerators. The refrigerator comprises an independent temperature control system, wherein the independent temperature control system comprises an air duct arranged in a refrigerator body; the air duct is respectively connected with a plurality of air outlets and a plurality of air return inlets; the sealed cavity is used for storing mother and infant food and is provided with a circulating air channel groove along the outer surface; the inlet and outlet ends of the circulating air channel groove are respectively communicated with the air outlet and the air return inlet; wherein, the sealed cavity is arranged in a refrigerating chamber, a micro-freezing chamber or a freezing chamber of the refrigerator in the refrigerator body; the sealed cavity further comprises an upper cover and a drawer; circulating air flows through the air outlet, the top, the side and the bottom of the sealed cavity in sequence from the air duct and returns to the air return inlet to form an encircling circulating air path; the degerming device comprises a generating end and a releasing end. The invention solves the problems that the temperature and humidity change in the existing refrigerator is large, the nutrition of mother and infant food is difficult to efficiently retain, and the mother and infant food is easy to be polluted by arranging the encircling type circulation wind path.

Description

Refrigerator with mother and infant special area

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of refrigerators, and particularly relates to a refrigerator with a mother and infant special area.

Background

With the release of comprehensive three-birth policy and the revolution of nurturing children, when purchasing maternal and infant products, the sensitivity of consumers to price is reduced, the concern on the health and hygiene of the products is gradually improved, and particularly, in 2020, the global outbreak of new crown epidemic situation, health and maternal and infant become the key points of breakthrough of traditional household appliances. The breast milk and other infant food contain rich nutrient components (such as DHA, vitamins, minerals, taurine and the like) which have the optimal storage temperature, and the loss of the nutrient components can be caused by temperature fluctuation. Supplementary foods for infants such as fruit puree, vegetable puree, vegetables and the like need to be stored separately and safely, and timely sterilization is needed while nutrition is preserved. The temperature fluctuation of the refrigerating chamber of the common air-cooled refrigerator is large: the maximum temperature fluctuation reaches +/-2 ℃, the maximum instantaneous temperature impact reaches 5-6 ℃, and the safe storage of mother and infant foods cannot be met.

Some maternal and infant product technologies are also provided in the industry, for example, patent publication No. CN107084593B discloses a maternal and infant article storage device and a refrigerator, which can detect the placement condition of maternal and infant articles by infrared, determine the time for placing and taking away the maternal and infant articles, and unfreeze the frozen maternal and infant food by a heating device, and does not relate to relevant contents of a safe storage method of the maternal and infant food.

Further, as disclosed in patent No. CN206890943U, a storage device for maternal and infant products and a refrigerator having the same are disclosed, which allow a user to add modules or devices to the refrigerator as required, so that the user can determine whether to add the storage device to the refrigerator as required, and the storage device can be conveniently installed in the refrigerator and can operate using electric energy provided by the refrigerator. Nor does it relate to the effective and safe preservation of maternal and infant food. The following problems still exist in the existing household refrigerator:

1) The household refrigerator has large volume, various types of stored food and pollution to mother and infant food;

2) The mother and infant food is rich in nutrition, the nutritional ingredients of the mother and infant food are easy to lose along with the change of environmental conditions, the temperature and humidity conditions of a common refrigerator are greatly changed, and the food nutrition cannot be efficiently reserved;

3) The mother and infant food is placed in a refrigerator, and simultaneously carries a part of microorganisms, although the growth and the propagation of bacteria can be inhibited at low temperature, the bacteria still grow in the ordinary low-temperature environment.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a refrigerator with a mother and infant special area, which forms a circular circulating air path by sequentially flowing circulating air from an air duct through an air outlet, the top part, the side part and the bottom part of a sealed cavity and returning the circulating air to an air return inlet, and solves the problems that the temperature and humidity change in the existing refrigerator is large, the nutrition of mother and infant food is difficult to efficiently retain, and the refrigerator is easy to be polluted.

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

the invention relates to a refrigerator with a mother-infant special area, which comprises an independent temperature control system, wherein the independent temperature control system comprises an air duct arranged in a refrigerator body; the air duct is respectively connected with a plurality of air outlets and a plurality of air return inlets; the sealed cavity is used for storing mother and infant food and is provided with a circulating air channel groove along the outer surface; the inlet and outlet ends of the circulating air channel groove are respectively communicated with the air outlet and the air return inlet; the sealed cavity is arranged in a refrigerating chamber, a micro-freezing chamber or a freezing chamber of the refrigerator in the refrigerator body; the sealed cavity further comprises an upper cover arranged at the top and a drawer arranged on one side of the sealed cavity; circulating air flows through the air outlet, the top, the side and the bottom of the sealed cavity in sequence from the air duct and returns to the air return inlet to form an encircling circulating air path; and the sterilizing device comprises a generating end and a releasing end which penetrates through the upper cover and is communicated with the inside of the sealed cavity.

Furthermore, the circulating air path groove comprises a first main air inlet, a first spiral area and a plurality of first branched air outlets which are arranged on the top surface of the upper cover in sequence along the circulating air direction.

Furthermore, the first main air inlet is of a rectangular groove structure; the first spiral area is of a horn mouth-shaped groove structure; the first branched air outlets are of strip-shaped groove structures which are arranged at the opening of the first spiral area in parallel or in nonparallel mode; the first main air inlet, the first spiral area and the first branched air outlet form a palm-shaped structure.

Further, the lower surface of the circulating air passing through the upper cover is sequentially provided with: the second air inlet is a closing structure for bearing the edge of the upper cover; the second spiral area is of a bell mouth-shaped groove structure for bearing a second air inlet; the second bifurcated air outlet is of a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the second spiral area; the auxiliary air inlet comprises a pair of closing-up groove structures arranged on two sides of the second air inlet; and the auxiliary air inlet is used for receiving the circulating air at two sides of the sealed cavity and enters the second spiral area together with the circulating air in the second air inlet.

Further, the sealed cavity both sides have set gradually: the third air inlet is communicated with the air outlet; the third spiral area is of a horn mouth-shaped groove structure; the third forked air outlet is of a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the third spiral area; and the bottom of the sealed cavity is also provided with a circulating air channel groove.

Furthermore, the release end is in a duckbill tongue shape with a flat front end and a thick rear end, the rear end of the release end is fixed outside the sealed cavity body in a buckling or screw mode, and the front end of the release end enters the sealed cavity body through an upper cover perforation of the sealed cavity body; the generating end is higher than the releasing end.

Further, the sterilization device is one or more of an ion generation device, an ultraviolet device, a photocatalysis device and an ozone generation device; the degerming device is arranged outside the sealed cavity.

Furthermore, an antibacterial module which is in contact with mother and infant food in the sealed cavity is further arranged in the refrigerator.

Furthermore, the antibacterial module comprises an antibacterial film or an antibacterial agent coated on the inner surfaces of the sealed cavity and the drawer; when the antibacterial agent is used, the antibacterial agent is one or two of an inorganic silver-based antibacterial agent and an inorganic silver-zinc-based antibacterial agent.

Further, the antibacterial module comprises a sealed cavity made of the antibacterial agent and/or a drawer made of the antibacterial agent; the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the sealed cavity and the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the drawer are both 1-10%; the antibacterial agent is one or two of inorganic silver antibacterial agent or inorganic silver zinc antibacterial agent.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. according to the invention, the circulating air does not directly contact with food, the temperature change in the sealed cavity is changed through the temperature change on the outer surface of the sealed cavity, and the problems of large temperature fluctuation and low humidity in a special area of a common refrigerator are solved through the constant temperature and humidity technology, so that the breast milk and the supplementary food of the infant are in a constant temperature and humidity environment, and the nutrition is preserved to the maximum extent.

2. According to the invention, circulating air enters the first disrotatory area from the main air inlet for temperature equalization and then exits from the first branched air outlet, and the palm-shaped structure enables the air path to rapidly enter the first disrotatory area through the first main air inlet for large-area temperature equalization and then enter the next surface from the first branched air outlet to form air path circulation, so that rapid and uniform cooling is realized.

3. According to the invention, circulating air circulates to one side of the drawer along the top surface of the upper cover and the circulating air path grooves on two sides of the sealing cavity and returns to the air return opening along the bottom of the sealing cavity to form the annular circulating air path, so that each surface of the sealing cavity can be quickly and uniformly cooled, a large temperature difference in the local part of the sealing cavity is avoided, and the local temperature is avoided from being too high or too low.

4. According to the invention, the release end is in the shape of a duckbill tongue with a flat front end and a thick rear end, so that the working instantaneous strength of the release end is improved, the structure of the upper cover of the sealed cavity is only changed without changing the structure of a drawer, and the structural change and the investment of a mold are reduced.

5. According to the invention, the antibacterial film is coated on the inner surface of the sealed cavity and the drawer or the antibacterial agent is added in the drawer material, so that the effect of quickly sterilizing the surface of food in contact with the material is realized, and the safe storage of the food is realized.

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 refrigerator with a mother-infant area according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the installation of the sterilization apparatus and the independent temperature control system;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the circulation air channel and the flow direction of the circulation air;

in the drawings, the reference numbers indicate the following list of parts:

1-independent temperature control system, 2-sealed cavity, 3-degerming device, 4-circulating air path groove, 11-air channel, 12-air outlet, 13-air return inlet, 21-upper cover, 22-drawer, 31-generating end, 32-releasing end, 41-first main air inlet, 42-first spiral area, 43-first branched air outlet, 44-second air inlet, 45-second spiral area, 46-second branched air outlet, 47-auxiliary air inlet, 48-third air inlet, 49-third spiral area and 410-third branched air outlet.

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.

Example one

Referring to fig. 1, the invention is a refrigerator with mother and infant special area, comprising an independent temperature control system 1, wherein the independent temperature control system 1 comprises an air duct 11 arranged in a refrigerator body; the air duct 11 is respectively connected with an air outlet 12 and an air return inlet 13; the sealed cavity 2 is used for storing mother and baby food, and the sealed cavity 2 is provided with a circulating air channel groove 4 along the outer surface; the inlet and outlet ends of the circulating air channel groove 4 are respectively communicated with an air outlet 12 and an air return port 13; wherein, the sealed cavity 2 is arranged in a refrigerating chamber, a micro-freezing chamber or a freezing chamber of the refrigerator in the refrigerator body; the sealed cavity 2 further comprises an upper cover 21 arranged at the top and a drawer 22 arranged at one side of the sealed cavity 2; circulating air flows through the air outlet 12, the top, the side and the bottom of the sealed cavity 2 from the air duct 11 in sequence and returns to the air return port 13 to form an encircling circulating air path, the circulating air is not in direct contact with food, the temperature change in the sealed cavity 2 is changed through the temperature change of the outer surface of the sealed cavity 2, the change of the surface temperature and the humidity of the food is reduced, and the nutrition loss of the food is reduced; the sterilizing device 3 comprises a generating end 31 and a releasing end 32 which penetrates the upper cover 21 and is communicated with the inside of the sealed cavity 2.

As shown in fig. 1-3, the circulating air channel 4 includes a first main air inlet 41, a first spiral area 42 and a plurality of first branched air outlets 43, which are sequentially arranged on the top surface of the upper cover 21 along the circulating air direction. The first main air inlet 41 is in a rectangular groove structure; the first spiral area 42 is a bell-mouth-shaped groove structure; the first bifurcated air outlet 43 is a strip-shaped groove structure which is arranged at the opening of the first disc-rotating area 42 in parallel or in nonparallel; the first main air inlet 41, the first spiral area 42 and the first branched air outlet 43 form a palm-shaped structure integrally, circulating air enters the first spiral area 42 from the main air inlet 41 for temperature equalization, and then is exhausted from the first branched air outlet 43, the palm-shaped structure enables an air path to rapidly enter the first spiral area 42 through the first main air inlet 41 for large-area temperature equalization, and then enters the next surface from the first branched air outlet 43 to form air path circulation, so that rapid and uniform cooling is achieved.

Example two

In addition to the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the lower surface of the circulating air passing through the upper cover 21 is provided with: the second air inlet 44 is a closing structure for receiving the edge of the upper cover 21; a second spiral area 45, wherein the second spiral area 45 is a bell mouth-shaped groove structure for receiving the second air inlet 44; the second bifurcated air outlet 46 is formed by a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the second spiral area 45; the auxiliary air inlet 47, the auxiliary air inlet 47 includes a pair of closing-up groove structures arranged on two sides of the second air inlet 44; the auxiliary air inlet 47 receives the circulating air at the two sides of the sealed cavity 2, and enters the second spiral area 45 together with the circulating air in the second air inlet 44.

EXAMPLE III

On the basis of the second embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, two sides of the sealed cavity 2 are sequentially provided with: the third air inlet 48, the third air inlet 48 is communicated with the air outlet 12; a third spiral area 49, wherein the third spiral area 49 is of a bell mouth-shaped groove structure; the third forked air outlet 410 is formed by a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the third spiral area 49; wherein, 2 bottoms of seal chamber also are provided with circulation wind way groove 4, and circulation wind circulates to drawer 22 one side along circulation wind way groove 4 of upper cover 21 top surface and 2 both sides of seal chamber to get back to return air inlet 13 along 2 bottoms of seal chamber, form the formula circulation wind way of encircleing, make every face of seal chamber 2 can both be quick, even cooling, avoid the interior local great difference in temperature of producing of seal chamber 2, avoid local high temperature or cross lowly.

Example four

On the basis of the third embodiment, as shown in fig. 1-2, the release end 32 is in a duckbill shape with a flat front end and a thick rear end, so that the working instant strength of the release end 32 is improved, meanwhile, only the structure of the upper cover 21 of the sealed cavity 2 is changed, the structure of the drawer 22 is not required to be changed, the structural change and the investment of a mold are reduced, the rear end of the release end 32 is fixed outside the sealed cavity 2 in a buckling or screw mode, and the front end of the release end 32 enters the sealed cavity 2 through the perforation of the upper cover 21 of the sealed cavity 2 to be sterilized, so that mother and infant food is prevented from being polluted by the refrigerator environment; the initiation end 31 is higher than the release end 32. The sterilization device 3 is one or more of an ion generation device, an ultraviolet device, a photocatalysis device and an ozone generation device, and is arranged in the sealed cavity 2; the degerming device 3 is arranged outside the sealed cavity 2, and the universality of the drawer 22 of the sealed cavity 2 is improved.

EXAMPLE five

On the basis of the fourth embodiment, an antibacterial module which is in contact with mother and infant food in the sealed cavity 2 is further arranged in the refrigerator. The antibacterial module comprises antibacterial films or antibacterial agents coated on the inner surfaces of the sealed cavity 2 and the drawer 22, food can be infected with some microorganisms in picking, transporting and selling links, so that the surface of the food carries the microorganisms to enter a refrigerator compartment, the surface of the food, which is in contact with the drawer 22, is not easy to be acted by the sterilizing device 3 in time, and the effect of quickly sterilizing the surface of the food, which is in contact with the material, is realized by coating the antibacterial films on the inner surfaces of the sealed cavity 2 and the drawer 22 or adding the antibacterial agents in the material of the drawer 22, so that the food is safely stored; when the antibacterial agent is used, the antibacterial agent is one or two of an inorganic silver-based antibacterial agent and an inorganic silver-zinc-based antibacterial agent.

Preferably, the antibacterial module comprises a sealed cavity 2 made of a mixture of antibacterial agents and/or a drawer 22 made of a mixture of antibacterial agents, so that bacteria on the surfaces of food contacting with the special area materials are prevented from growing and propagating, and the food is safely stored; the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the sealed cavity 2 and the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the drawer 22 are both 1-10 percent; the antibacterial agent is one or two of inorganic silver antibacterial agent or inorganic silver zinc antibacterial agent.

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 understand the invention for and utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.

Claims

1. A refrigerator with a mother-infant special area is characterized by comprising:

the independent temperature control system (1) comprises an air duct (11) arranged in the refrigerator body; the air duct (11) is respectively connected with a plurality of air outlets (12) and a plurality of air return inlets (13);

the food storage box is characterized by comprising a sealed cavity (2) for storing mother and infant food, wherein the sealed cavity (2) is provided with a circulating air channel groove (4) along the outer surface; the inlet end and the outlet end of the circulating air channel groove (4) are respectively communicated with an air outlet (12) and an air return inlet (13);

the sealed cavity (2) is arranged in a refrigerating chamber, a micro-freezing chamber or a freezing chamber of the refrigerator in the refrigerator body;

the sealed cavity (2) further comprises an upper cover (21) arranged at the top and a drawer (22) arranged on one side of the sealed cavity (2); circulating air flows through the air outlet (12), the top, the side and the bottom of the sealed cavity (2) from the air duct (11) in sequence and returns to the air return inlet (13) to form a circular circulating air path;

the circulating air channel groove (4) comprises a first main air inlet (41), a first disc rotating area (42) and a plurality of first branched air outlets (43), which are sequentially arranged on the top surface of the upper cover (21) along the circulating air direction;

the first main air inlet (41) is of a rectangular groove structure; the first spiral area (42) is of a horn-mouth-shaped groove structure; the first branched air outlets (43) are of strip-shaped groove structures which are parallel or not parallel to each other and are arranged at the opening of the first disc rotating area (42); the first main air inlet (41), the first spiral area (42) and the first branch air outlet (43) form a palm-shaped structure integrally.

2. The refrigerator with a mother and infant special area according to claim 1, wherein the lower surface of the circulating air passing through the upper cover (21) is provided with:

the second air inlet (44) is a closing-in structure for bearing the edge of the upper cover (21);

the second spiral area (45), the second spiral area (45) is a horn mouth-shaped groove structure for bearing the second air inlet (44);

the second bifurcated air outlet (46) is of a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the second spiral area (45);

the auxiliary air inlet (47) comprises a pair of closing-in groove structures arranged on two sides of the second air inlet (44); and the auxiliary air inlet (47) is used for receiving the circulating air at two sides of the sealed cavity (2) and enters the second spiral area (45) together with the circulating air in the second air inlet (44).

3. The refrigerator with mother and infant special area according to claim 2, characterized in that, two sides of the sealed cavity (2) are provided with:

the third air inlet (48), the said third air inlet (48) is communicated with air outlet (12);

a third spiraling region (49), said third spiraling region (49) being a flared groove structure;

the third forked air outlet (410) is of a plurality of strip-shaped groove structures arranged at the opening of the third spiral area (49);

wherein, the bottom of the sealed cavity (2) is also provided with a circulating air channel groove (4).

4. A refrigerator with a mother-and-baby specialization according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising a sterilizing device (3); the degerming device (3) comprises a generating end (31) and a releasing end (32) which penetrates through the upper cover (21) and is communicated with the inside of the sealed cavity (2);

the release end (32) is in a duckbill tongue shape with a flat front end and a thick rear end; the generating end (31) is higher than the releasing end (32).

5. The refrigerator with the maternal and infant specialization area according to claim 4, characterized in that the sterilization device (3) is one or more of an ion generation device, an ultraviolet device, a photocatalytic device and an ozone generation device; the degerming device (3) is arranged outside the sealed cavity (2).

6. The refrigerator with the maternal and infant specialization area according to claim 1, characterized in that an antibacterial module in contact with maternal and infant food in the sealed cavity (2) is further arranged in the refrigerator.

7. The refrigerator with a maternal and infant area according to claim 6, characterized in that said antibacterial module comprises antibacterial films or agents applied to the inner surfaces of the sealed chamber (2) and the drawer (22); when the antibacterial agent is used, the antibacterial agent is one or two of an inorganic silver-based antibacterial agent and an inorganic silver-zinc-based antibacterial agent.

8. A refrigerator with a mother-and-baby district according to claim 6 characterized in that the antibacterial module comprises a sealed chamber (2) made with antibacterial agent and/or a drawer (22) made with antibacterial agent; the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the sealed cavity (2) and the weight ratio of the antibacterial agent to the drawer (22) are both 1-10 percent;

the antibacterial agent is one or two of inorganic silver antibacterial agent or inorganic silver zinc antibacterial agent.