CN1282863A - Water feed device of ice making equipment - Google Patents

Water feed device of ice making equipment Download PDF

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CN1282863A
CN1282863A CN00107051A CN00107051A CN1282863A CN 1282863 A CN1282863 A CN 1282863A CN 00107051 A CN00107051 A CN 00107051A CN 00107051 A CN00107051 A CN 00107051A CN 1282863 A CN1282863 A CN 1282863A
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新居邦男
隅田敬治郎
内田佳秀
住广胜志
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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In an water supply apparatus for an ice maker, water in a water supply tank provided in a refrigeration chamber of a refrigerator is pumped by a pump part and temporarily received by a water receiver part and then supplied to an ice making tray in a freezing chamber from an opening formed in a heat insulation partition plate below a vegetable chamber through the water supply pipe. The water supply pipe is inserted in a guide pipe and can be removed together with the water receiving part. The pump part is secured to a lid part and installed in the water supply tank. A motor part for driving an impeller of the pump part is installed in a deeper side partitioned by a partition plate and is rotated by magnetic attraction force. A constitution of the water supply tank can be simplified, the water pipe can be removed and cleaning of the tank and the pipe can be simply and quickly performed.

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The waterworks of ice maker
The water that the present invention relates to store in the feed-water vessel sucts with feed pump after give the waterworks of water route to the ice maker of ice-making disc feedwater.
As the waterworks of this ice maker, the waterworks of the automatic ice-making plant in a kind of refrigerator that is arranged on are as shown in figure 14 arranged.Refrigerator 1 is provided with refrigerating chamber 2, vegetable compartment 3 and refrigerating chamber 4 from top to bottom, separates with demarcation strip 5 and heat insulation demarcation strip 6 between each chamber.Waterworks 7 are made of the feed pump 8 that is located at refrigerating chamber 1 depths, the feed pipe 10 of giving water pot 9 and being located at the back sides one side in the vegetable compartment 3 that inserts from the front side.
In refrigerating chamber 5, be provided with ice-making disc 11, supply with through the peristome of heat insulation demarcation strip 6 through the ice making water that feed pipe 10 is carried.Be provided with at an end of ice-making disc 11 and deice the 11a of mechanism, turn to inverted position, be applied in torsion again and deice in case finishing ice-making ice-making disc 11 is just deiced the 11a of mechanism by this.Below ice-making disc 11, be provided with the storage refrigerator, store the ice that drops.
Give water pot 9 by transparent vertical rectangular vessel shape can body 9a and mounted thereto peristome, constitute with cover 9b with its sealing, on this cover 9b, suction side pipeline 9c that the ice making water that will suct sucks by feed pump 8 and the water purification filter 9d that is located at this suction side pipeline 9c front end are installed integratedly in can body 9a.The water that feed pump 8 is used for sucting through suction side pipeline 9c spues to feedwater piping 10, is provided with guttation pipeline 12 in its part that spues.
In said structure, be stored in to the ice making waters in the water pot 9 and be inhaled into, and supply with to ice-making disc 11 through feedwater piping 10 by feed pump 8.By driving feed pump 8, supply with required ice making water to ice-making disc 11, in ice-making disc 11 in case finishing ice-making just makes the subglacial that generates fall to storing by deicing action with the stipulated time.Then, repeat and above-mentioned same action again, automatically do the ice making action.
Yet above traditional structure has following shortcoming.That is, at first, in general, fixedly install to the feedwater piping 10 of ice-making disc 11 from giving water pot 9, this structure is not so that cleaning is prerequisite.About this point, be the spatter property of the ice that guarantee to generate, enter to use in principle and containing the general running water of sterilization usually, and preferably clean giving water pot 9 with suitable frequency with chlorine to the ice making waters in the water pot 9.
Yet, refrigerator in recent years is vegetable compartment 3 to be set packing into to the refrigerating chamber 2 of water pot 9 and be provided with between the refrigerating chamber 4 of ice-making disc 11 mostly, it is inevitable longer to constitute the feedwater piping 10 of giving water route, therefore more is necessary the dirt in the feedwater piping 10 is cleaned to be maintained in the clean condition.
In addition, traditional structure is to utilize the feed pump 8 be arranged on the depths, accommodation section will be to the water sucking-off of water pot 9, so must be connected with the suction inlet of feed pump 9 reliably to water pot 9.Therefore, need setting to prevent the mechanism that half insertion state is used, cause complex structure.Also have, the lid that opens and closes the water filling port of giving water pot 9 generally is torqued into formula or slidingtype, because its structural relation can not be opened with a hand, user not expert holds the water filling of kettle uncap, uses inconvenience.
The objective of the invention is to address the above problem, provide a kind of and can clean to water route and can install and remove feed-water vessel simply, can go the waterworks of ice maker of water filling operation and cleaning work more simply.
To achieve these goals, the present invention can adopt following structure.
The invention of technical scheme 1 is that a kind of water process that will be stored in the feed-water vessel by feed pump is given the waterworks of water route to the ice maker of ice-making disc feedwater, be characterized in, the aforementioned water route of giving constitutes the aforementioned feedwater piping of water route of giving and remains on dismantledly on the aforementioned guiding device by supplying with the general feedwater piping of current and keeping the guiding device of this feedwater piping to constitute.
Adopt said structure, owing to can under the state that the feedwater piping of giving water route is kept by detachable guiding device, use, so when cleaning, feedwater piping can be taken off from guiding device, and can change simply where necessary according to the degree of dirt, operating efficiency in the time of can improving cleaning, thus can make the user that relieved ice making aspect health is moved.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 2 is to constitute the aforementioned guiding device of water route of giving and wherein constitute with the guiding pipeline that it is kept by aforementioned feedwater piping is inserted.Adopt this structure, when feedwater piping is installed, as long as be inserted into the guiding pipeline, so can improve the operating efficiency when installing and removing.Can install and remove feedwater piping rapidly simply during cleaning.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 3 is, aforementioned guiding tube road has the front end diameter shrinkage part, the internal diameter of the leading section external diameter approximate same size of this front end diameter shrinkage part formation and feedwater piping, after aforementioned feedwater piping inserted, the leading section of this feedwater piping became contact condition and fixes in admission port one side of leading to aforementioned ice-making disc.Adopt this structure, when in feedwater piping insertion guiding pipeline, installing, fixing under the leading section state of contact, so when freezing to stop up heater being set towards the admission port part of ice-making disc for the water that prevents the feedwater piping leading section, can make heat-conducting effect good, can effectively prevent to freeze.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 4 is, is provided with the maintaining part that aforementioned guiding pipeline is remained on the regulation position integratedly setting aforementioned giving on the portion that the sets wall of water route.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 5 is, constitute the aforementioned guiding device of giving water route and be for aforementioned feedwater piping is remained on set portion's wall and on wall integrally formed guiding groove.Adopt this structure, can come it is set, get final product so only need feedwater piping be set simply by guiding groove that feedwater piping is packed into.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 6 is, makes following shape with aforementioned to water route, that is, the part of injecting that side of water from aforementioned feed-water vessel bends to and insert opposed an of side of aforementioned feed-water vessel.Adopt this structure, when insertion sets to water route, in case,, be convenient to operation Yi Bian just can crooked be introduced into inside on one side from the opposed facial leading section that inserts.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 7 is, at the water-accepting part that is provided with wide-mouth by feed pump from aforementioned feed-water vessel through the aforementioned part that supplies water to water route.Adopt this structure, the water that sucts at feed pump is the water-accepting part water filling to wide-mouth when supplying to water route, just needn't make towards the coupling part to water route in this part to have watertightness, can simplify the structure of the usefulness of packing into and the structure of connecting portion.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 8 is, aforesaid paths is located to inject the part of water from aforementioned feed-water vessel opposed with a side of inserting aforementioned feed-water vessel and on the inclined plane that is provided with in order to make.Adopt this structure, when water route is given in mounting or dismounting, because its installation portion is located on the inclined plane with the opposed part in inserting side of feed-water vessel, so even the narrow part that sets, also need only operation can be installed and removed simply, operating efficiency can be improved pulling to water route on hand.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 9 is, the aforementioned position by from the part of aforementioned feed-water vessel water filling of water route of giving is arranged on the position that is lower than aforementioned feed-water vessel height.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 10 is to constitute the aforementioned feedwater piping of giving water route with the material manufacturing with light transmission.Adopt this structure, the dirt of feedwater piping is seen clearly easily, and the roughly target of estimation cleaning can be selected the suitable cleaning time easily.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 11 is that the aforementioned water route of giving is dividing the part that is connected with aforementioned feedwater piping to be provided with the reducing diameter part also thinner than the internal diameter of this feedwater piping from aforementioned water-accepting part.Adopt this structure, the ice making water that injects water-accepting part flows into to water route by reducing diameter part, owing to be restricted in the mobile water yield of this diameter shrinkage part, from be restricted for water route to the confluent of ice-making disc, can suppress that ice-making disc dabbles etc.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 12 is, aforementionedly makes following shape to water route, and the part of admission port one side of promptly leading to aforementioned ice-making disc is linearly.Adopt this structure, when feedwater piping being inserted the guiding pipeline, owing to there is not the part of front bending, thus can not hinder the insertion when installing, and the mounting or dismounting efficiency of operation that can improve when cleaning etc.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 13 is, aforementioned feed-water vessel is made the rectangular vessel shape of top opening, and seal peristome above it with cap, aforementioned feed pump also is provided with to being wholely set connecting between aforementioned pump portion and the aforementioned cap by being configured in pump portion that bottom surface sections in the aforementioned feed-water vessel and impeller can drive with the magnetic attraction rotation and opposed and aforementioned impeller is made it to rotate drive electric motor portion with magnetic attraction constitute in the outside of this feed-water vessel and aforementioned pump portion, to be directed to the aforementioned path that spues of giving water route from aforementioned feed-water vessel from the water that aforementioned pump portion spues.
Adopt this structure, by mounting or dismounting feed-water vessel cap, can install and remove the pump portion of feed pump simultaneously, when the cleaning feed-water vessel, also can simplify its operation, in addition, owing to being provided with pump portion is fixed on the fixed position that waits in the feed-water vessel, so be convenient to the cleaning of feed-water vessel, and ice making water is difficult for being detained, and can reduce the cleaning number of times.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 14 is, aforementioned feed-water vessel forms the protuberance that protrudes to the bottom in the forward lower part of direction of insertion, locate and pack into by making this protuberance fall within recess that the depths, accommodation section forms, the pump portion in the aforementioned feed-water vessel is opposed with aforementioned motor part behind the accommodation section of packing into.
Adopt this structure, in case feed-water vessel is inserted the accommodation section, the protuberance that forms in its front side bottom promptly falls into the recess of depths, accommodation section and is positioned at assigned position.Thus, the pump portion in the feed-water vessel promptly is in and the opposed position of motor part, so by the external drive motor from feed-water vessel, driving pump portion makes it to do the feedwater action reliably.And if be placed on the position of accurate location, then motor part is not opposed with pump portion, so the situation of driving can not take place pump is missed.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 15 is, at bottom surface sections place, the accommodation section of aforementioned feed-water vessel, the inclined plane that side direction depths in the past raises is set in the front side of aforementioned recess, and aforementioned protuberance is crossed aforementioned inclined plane and is fallen into the recess of aforementioned accommodation section when packing aforementioned feed-water vessel into aforementioned accommodation section.In addition, the characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 16 is that the face of aforementioned feed-water vessel before and after aforementioned protuberance forms the inclined plane corresponding with the inclined plane of aforementioned accommodation section.
Adopt this structure, owing to can increase the height of feed-water vessel, so can increase the volume that holds of ice making water, and when feed-water vessel is inserted the accommodation section, be after rising on the inclined plane of accommodation section, to fall at the protuberance that its forward lower part forms, the accommodation section so can pack into reliably, in addition, no show pack into the position, when promptly being in incomplete insertion state, feed-water vessel is stated from the inclined plane, get back in front of the user so can be pushed, thereby cause that the user notes.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 17 is that aforementioned feed-water vessel has and can will be located at the pop-up type filler cover that inlet aforementioned cap, that inject ice making water opens and closes.Adopt this structure, when injecting ice making water, after feed-water vessel can being pulled out from the position of packing into filler cover is upwards flicked, thus, the user opens filler cover after also feed-water vessel being pulled out with a hand, can inject ice making water simple and reliablely.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 18 is, the filler cover of aforementioned feed-water vessel is made the structure that the reset force that can utilize spring when descending engagement release is in off position opened.Adopt this structure, can utilize the reset force of spring to open filler cover, can improve operating efficiency more by one-touch operation.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 19 is, aforementioned water-accepting part is provided with outlet cap integratedly, and after feed-water vessel was installed, the state that inserts with the discharge opening of outlet conduit covered.Adopt this structure, can simplify the structure of cleaning feed-water vessel aspect often, improve the efficient of cleaning work.
The characteristic feature of an invention of technical scheme 20 is, aforementioned feed-water vessel is provided with the closure member of the peristome above the aforementioned water-accepting part of accommodation section rear enclosed of packing into integratedly in the discharge opening part of aforementioned outlet conduit.Adopt this structure, behind the feed-water vessel of packing into, can be reliably with the upper part sealing of water-accepting part, prevent that the dust that swims in the air or bacterium etc. from entering to water route by the top peristome of water-accepting part.
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Fig. 1 is the integrally-built longitudinal section of the present invention's the 1st example.
Fig. 2 is the longitudinal section of major part.
Fig. 3 will pull out the longitudinal section of state to water pot.
Fig. 4 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 1 of the present invention's the 2nd example.
Fig. 5 is the sectional elevation of the maintaining part of guiding pipeline.
Fig. 6 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 1 of the present invention's the 3rd example.
Fig. 7 is the major part longitudinal section of the present invention's the 3rd example.
Fig. 8 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 5.
Fig. 9 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 8 of the present invention's the 5th example.
Figure 10 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 1 of the present invention's the 6th example.
Figure 11 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 2 of the present invention's the 7th example.
Figure 12 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 2 of the present invention's the 8th example.
Figure 13 is the longitudinal section of the present invention's the 9th example major part
Figure 14 is the figure corresponding with Fig. 1 of conventional case.
Below in conjunction with 1st example of Fig. 1 when Fig. 3 explanation is used for the present invention to be located at the waterworks of automatic ice-making plant of refrigerator.
Fig. 1 is with the ice maker that is located at refrigerator main body 21 inside, is that the part of automatic ice-making plant 22 is center and the cutaway view of expression from the side on this refrigerator main body 21, is provided with refrigerating chamber 23, vegetable compartment 24 and refrigerating chamber 25 from top to bottom successively.And between refrigerating chamber 23 and vegetable compartment 24, be provided with demarcation strip 26, between vegetable compartment 24 and refrigerating chamber 25, be provided with heat insulation demarcation strip 27.
Be provided with polylith shelf 28 (only illustrating 1 among the figure) in the inside of refrigerating chamber 23, food can divide multilayer to place.In vegetable compartment 24, be provided with and deposit the crisper 29 that vegetables use and be located at the crisper 30 that the little article of depositing of upper strata are used.Be provided with the ice-making disc 31 that constitutes automatic ice-making plant 22 on the top of refrigerating chamber 25 and deice mechanism 32.Waterworks 33 described later feed water to ice-making disc 31 with peristome 27a from the feedwater of heat insulation demarcation strip 27 upper sheds.Detecting the ice making water that is stored in the ice-making disc 31 when frozen, making ice-making disc 31 do reversing up and down to apply torsion and deice, storage ice container (not shown) storage that ice is fallen into be arranged on the below while deice mechanism 32.
The structure of waterworks 33 is described below in conjunction with Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.Waterworks 33 are by the feed-water vessel of a sidewall sections that is arranged on refrigerating chamber 23, promptly give water pot 34 and will constituting from the water route 35 of giving that this ice making water of sucting for water pot 34 be directed to ice-making disc 31 usefulness.Giving water pot 34 is transparent vertical rectangular vessels, but the detachable cap 35 with the sealing of the peristome above it is housed.
Form the protuberance 34a of downward protrusion for the inner bottom surface depths of water pot 34, on packing on the demarcation strip 26, form and this protuberance 34a corresponding concave part 26a to the position of water pot 34.In addition, be connected for a side more forward of water pot 34 inner bottom surfaces with container bottoms 34c through inclined plane 34b than protuberance 34a.Place, front side in the bottom surface of giving water pot 34 forms the 34d of foot, and state becomes parastate with pulling out under the state packing into.
In addition, be provided with the inclined plane 26b that forms along the inclined plane 34b that gives water pot 34, form the height identical in its front side by the inclined plane 26c milder simultaneously with recess 26a than inclined plane 26b in the front side of the recess 26a of demarcation strip 26.
The cap 35 of giving water pot 34 with its front side above-below direction can be rotated to open and close after the holding section of depths engage, in off position down, engage in the front side of giving water pot 34 with buckling parts 35a.Not shown liner is housed on cap 35, thereby can more closely seals.
In addition, giving on the cap 35 of water pot 35, fixing feed pump device 36 integratedly.Pump installation 36 is by being positioned to the pump portion 37 of the underside recess 34a of water pot 34 part and the spue outlet conduit 39 that spues pipeline 38 and supply with to the outside of usefulness of the ice making water of discharging from pump portion 37 being constituted.In pump portion 37, the impeller (not shown) that is installed on the discoid magnet plate is housed, be arranged on outside motor part 40 usefulness magnetic attractions rotation and drive.After sucking the water of giving in the water pot 34, the suction inlet 37 of the side central portion that is located at pump portion 37 spues to the pipeline 38 that spues.
Outlet conduit 39 is opening downwards, and in the time of in being installed on to water pot 34, its peristome is in the face of the inside of the top peristome 41a of water-accepting part 41.Form the water filling port 42 that the supply ice making water is used on cap 35, these water filling port 42 usefulness filler covers 43 open and close.Filler cover 43 is installed in hinge portion 43a place, but above-below direction rotate, and by not shown spring to opening the direction reinforcing.Filler cover 43 with water filling port 42 sealings, is upwards opened owing to the elastic force of spring under the state of engagement release under fastening state.
Aforesaid motor part 40 disposes in the depths in horizontal direction across demarcation strip 26, on its rotating shaft, fixing the magnet plate 40a of the impeller rotation usefulness that makes pump portion 37, aforementioned electric motivation 40 is across demarcation strip 26 and give the wall of water pot 34 and act on magnetic attraction, makes the impeller rotation driving of pump.In addition, when being located at for water pot 34 to pack the position into, the magnet plate 40a of motor part 40 and the impeller of pump portion 37 are in configuration state.
The part of demarcation strip 26 in the depths of refrigerating chamber 23, above motor 40 forms inclined plane 26d.Fixing the upper end that constitutes the guiding pipeline 44 of giving water route on the 26d of this inclined plane, its front end extends to the below along the depths wall of vegetable compartment 24.The leading section of guiding pipeline 44 is to the bending of the front side of refrigerating chamber 25, and across the peristome that on heat insulation demarcation strip 27, forms and in the face of ice-making disc 31.In addition, in this part, be provided with the lid 45 of protection guiding pipeline 44 usefulness in the inner bottom surface portion of vegetable compartment 24.
Aforesaid water-accepting part 41 is the infundibulate of top opening, forms the pipeline 41b that spues of minor diameter in its underpart.In addition, on this water-accepting part 41, be provided with mounting or dismounting and the time be convenient to the handle 41c that operates from the front side of refrigerating chamber 23.Be equipped with to constitute at the leading section of the pipeline 41b that spues of water-accepting part 41 and give water route, transparent deformable resin system feedwater piping 46.After feedwater piping 46 inserted in the guiding pipeline 44, its leading section was positioned at the straight line portion of guiding pipeline 44 as shown in the figure.
In this occasion,, just can pull out from guiding pipeline 44 with feedwater piping 46 in case catch the handle 41c of water-accepting part 41 to pull out.In addition, when mounted, be the handle 41c that catches water-accepting part 41, on one side feedwater piping 46 is installed in leading section insertion guiding pipeline 44 on one side.And the state of the engaging protuberance 47 that the upper end of water-accepting part 41 forms with the wall that is embedded in the depths is fixed and is located.
In said structure, in the time will in giving water pot 34, replenishing ice making water, as shown in Figure 3, will in refrigerating chamber 23, pull out for water pot 34.At this moment, the protuberance 34a that forms in the front end bottom of giving water pot 34 pulls out after carrying on inclined plane 26b, the 26c of demarcation strip 26.Thus, after carrying on the outlet conduit 39 of cap 35 is temporary transient, pull out, can make it to cross water-accepting part 41 peristome 41a edge part and deviate from.
In case will pull out to water pot 34 like this, and as shown in the figure, make water filling port 42 be positioned at the position more forward than shelf 28, filler cover 43 just becomes state to be opened/closed.At this, in case remove the engaging of filler cover 43, the reset force of spring just makes it upwards to flick, and makes water filling port 42 be opening-wide state.Under this state, replenish ice making water from water filling port 42.
Move to the depths of refrigerating chamber 23 in case close filler cover 43 and make once again to water pot 34, protuberance 34a just moves and falls in the recess 26a along inclined plane 26c, the 26b of demarcation strip 26 and locatees.In addition, under this state, pump portion 37 becomes and motor part 40 opposed states, and the driving of motor part 40 makes the rotatable driving of the impeller of pump portion 37.
Below explanation feedwater action.When automatic ice-making, in case, be drawn onto water-accepting part 41 through discharge pipe road 38 from outlet conduit 38 after just being sucked out for ice making waters in the water pot 34 from peristome 37a in order to supply with ice making waters and drive motor portion 40 to ice-making disc 31.At water-accepting part 41, the ice making water of inflow under the state that stores from below the pipeline 41b that spues in feedwater piping 46, flow, and through the leading section of guiding pipeline 44 and to ice-making disc 31 ice making water that drips.By driving pump portion 37 at the appointed time, in ice-making disc 31, supply with an amount of water.Then,, just deice action, the ice in the ice-making disc 31 is come off, and carry out aforesaid feedwater action once again with deicing mechanism 32 in case ice making finishes in refrigerating chamber 25.
Below the situation of cleaning work is carried out in explanation.When water pot 34 is given in cleaning, pull out, take off cap 35 after the engaging of releasing buckling parts 35a, just the pump portion 37 and the pipeline 38 that spues together can be taken out, so can clean easily to water pot 34 from refrigerating chamber 23.
In addition, when cleaning feedwater piping 46,, just can in guiding pipeline 44, pull out with feedwater piping 46 in case the handle 41c front side obliquely upward of water-accepting part 41 is pulled out.Can clean feedwater piping 46 and water-accepting part 41 easily thus.Also be to grab in the leading section insertion guiding pipeline 44 of handle 41c with feedwater piping 46 of water-accepting part 41 during installation, the holding section 47 interior states that embed the depths walls with water-accepting part 41 are fixed.
Adopt above-mentioned example, because feedwater piping 46 inserts in the guiding pipeline 444 can insert the state of extracting, constitute thus and give water route, clean so the feedwater piping 46 for the ice making water circulation can be taken off easily, the user can carry out cleaning work like a dream.
In addition, owing to pack into in the water pot 34, so will the connection of feedwater piping watertight ground from the coupling part leading to for water pot 34 to give water route, packing into to water pot 34 need not reliable syndeton when interior, so simple in structure on the whole as the pump portion 37 of feed pump.
Be installed on the inclined plane 26d of refrigerating chamber 23 depths for the guiding pipeline 44 of water route owing to will constitute,, be convenient to cleaning work so be easy to water-accepting part 41 and feedwater piping 46 are installed and removed from the front side.
In addition,, place pump portion 37 simultaneously at this protuberance 34a place,, can effectively ice making water be sucted simultaneously so can increase to water tank capacity owing to protuberance 34a is set at the inner bottom surface of giving water pot 34.In addition, because this protuberance 34a is placed in the recess 26a set on the demarcation strip 26 of accommodation section, pack into so can locate reliably.
Owing to adopt the one touch type structure of rotary opening closing up and down for the filler cover 43 that opens and closes water filling port 42 usefulness on the cap 35 of water pot 34, so when replenishing ice making water, the user can pull out feed-water vessel 34 with a hand, opens filler cover 43 simultaneously to carry out water filling, uses convenient.
(the 2nd example)
Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 represent the present invention's the 2nd example, and different with the 1st example is is located at the maintaining part 48 of fixed guide pipeline 44 on the cooler cover 49 of depths wall of vegetable compartment 24 integratedly.When illustrated state, for example maintaining part 48 is set at 2 positions up and down.This maintaining part 48 can remain on adeciduate state by guiding pipeline 44 to be pressed into shown in the cutaway top view of Fig. 5.Adopt this example, can simply guide the mounting structure of pipeline 44.
(the 3rd example)
Fig. 6 represents the present invention's the 3rd example, and different with the 1st example is is provided with the reducing diameter part 41d of local undergauge and feedwater piping 46 is extended near the lower part outlet of guiding pipeline 44 at the pipeline 41b that spues of water-accepting part 41.
That is, in this example, the 1st, by reducing diameter part 41d being set, reduce from the ice making water flow downwards of supplying with for water pot 34 by pump portion 37 at water-accepting part 41.Like this, can prevent from once to have too much water to flow through feedwater piping 46 and cause the phenomenon that dabbles the ice-making disc 31 from water-accepting part 41.
The 2nd, at the fore-end of guiding below the pipeline 44, be provided with the roughly the same or smaller reducing diameter part 44a of outside dimension of internal diameter and feedwater piping 46, and feedwater piping 46 is extended to this reducing diameter part 44a, under the state of packing into, the leading section of feedwater piping 46 contacts with reducing diameter part 44a.
In addition, in said structure, as shown in the figure, be wound with anti-freeze heater 50, prevent from the water in the feedwater piping 46 are freezed and to cause and to feed water from the cold air of refrigerating chamber 25 in the fore-end periphery of guiding pipeline 41.And in this occasion, the leading section of feedwater piping 46 is to contact with the reducing diameter part 44a of guiding pipeline 44, so the heat of anti-freeze heater 50 transmits easily, has improved the thermal efficiency.
Adopt the 3rd example also can obtain the effect identical with the 1st example, can spill to prevent the water in the ice-making disc 31 by the reducing diameter part 41d restriction confluent that is located at water-accepting part simultaneously, and anti-sealing splashes in refrigerating chamber 25, and the leading section by making feedwater piping 46 contacts with the leading section 44a of guiding pipeline 44 and improves thermal conductivity factor, can improve the thermal efficiency of anti-freeze heater 50.Have again,, also can prevent that similarly the water in the ice-making disc 31 from spilling,, can prevent that also leading section from freezing by making this member with the high material of thermal conductivity factors such as Al with above-mentioned if the member that suppresses the flow of water is set at the leading section of feedwater piping 46.
(the 4th example)
Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 represent the present invention's the 4th example, different with the 3rd example is, need not guide pipeline 44, but on cooler cover 49, form guide portion 51a, 51b, 51c, and feedwater piping 46 is inserted in the inclination of demarcation strip 26 and 26d goes up among the installing hole 26e that forms and install as guiding device.
That is, in said structure, with the 3rd example in the corresponding part of leading section 44a of guiding pipeline 44 the pipeline installation portion 52 that the fore-end of supplying with waterpipe 46 inserts is set, do not establish the guiding pipeline from the bottom of water-accepting part 41 to the pipeline installation portion 52.
And, from the bottom of water-accepting part 41 to the interval of pipeline installation portion 52, directed section 51a, 51b, 51c keep feedwater piping 46 successively from top to bottom.Guide portion 51a, 51c are for corresponding with the equipping position of feedwater piping 46 and form curved shape, and guide portion 51b then forms linearity (section is seen Fig. 8).In addition, what omitted diagram and explanation in aforesaid example a bit is, around pipeline installation portion 52, in order to ensure and refrigerating chamber 25 between sealing, also scribble encapsulant 53.
Adopting said structure, when feedwater piping 46 is installed, is under the state of the pipeline 41a that spues that feedwater piping 46 is inserted water-accepting parts 41, and the leading section of feedwater piping 46 is inserted among the installing hole 26e of demarcation strip 26.Utilize the guiding of guide portion 51a and feedwater piping 46 is guided downwards, make it to insert pipeline installation portion 52 along guide portion 51b, 51c.Under the reducing diameter part 52a state of contact of the fore-end of feedwater piping 46 and pipeline installation portion 52, finish installation.
Adopt the 4th example also can obtain effect same as the previously described embodiments, make simple in structure because of not establishing guiding pipeline 44 simultaneously.In addition, in this example, water-accepting part 41 is not established reducing diameter part 41d, but self-evident, reducing diameter part 41d can be set certainly yet
(the 5th example)
Fig. 9 represents the 5th example of the present invention, and different with the 3rd example is, gives the bottom of water route not crooked, but straight downwards.That is, as shown in the figure, guiding pipeline 44 and feedwater piping 46 are feeding water to ice-making disc from the peristome 27b that forms at heat insulation demarcation strip 27 along the straight downward position of the wall of vegetable compartment 24 depths.
Adopt said structure, owing to the driving of pump portion 37 from the ice making water of giving water pot 34 inflow water-accepting parts 41 reducing diameter part 41d be restricted and flow through with limited flow flow in the feedwater piping 46 below and drop onto on the ice-making disc 31.At this moment, because water is difficult for remaining in the feedwater piping 46,, can reduce the cleaning number of times more so can be suppressed at inner incrustation scale and the mucus of taking place.In addition, the same with the structure of aforementioned example when mounting or dismounting feedwater piping 46, because fore-end is not crooked, so be more convenient for the mounting or dismounting operation when being convenient to clean is installed.
(the 6th example)
Figure 10 represents the present invention's the 6th example, and different with the 5th example is to be to be used for the sort of refrigerator of not establishing vegetable compartment 24 between refrigerating chamber 23 and refrigerating chamber 25.Because the here structure can shorten from leading to the feedwater path of ice-making disc 31 for water pot 34, so can shorten the length of inserting the feedwater piping 46 in the guiding pipeline 44.In addition, owing to give the structure of water route identical with the 5th example, the bottom is not crooked, so short to water route, water is difficult for being detained.
Therefore, can reduce the cleaning number of times of feedwater piping 46 more, and very short because of feedwater piping 46, be easy to cleaning, improved sweeping efficiency greatly.
(the 7th example)
Figure 11 represents the present invention's the 7th example, and different with the 1st example is, uses the outlet conduit 54 that horizontal outlet is arranged to replace outlet 39 to water pot 34, and, water-accepting part 55 is set simultaneously replaces water-accepting part 41.Water-accepting part 55 is provided with the outlet cap 55a that this outlet 54 is surrounded integratedly in order to accept the ice making water that laterally spues from outlet conduit 54.
In addition, in this example, the water-purifying filter 56 that purifies usefulness to the ice making waters in the water pot 34 is fixed on the pipeline 38 that spues of pump installation 36 of cap 35 integratedly.This water-purifying filter 56 is the immersion filters that contain composition such as active carbon, gives in the water pot 34 by immersing, and the ice making water that it is inner purifies.
Above-mentioned the 7th example can obtain the action effect identical with the 1st example, can simplify the structure to water pot 34 and cap 35 simultaneously, is convenient to cleaning.In addition, owing on water-accepting part 55, be provided with outlet cap 55a integratedly, so the water that spues from outlet conduit 54 not sinuous flow, water receiving reliably everywhere.
Have again, because outlet cap 55a has transverse opening portion, so airborne dust or planktonic bacteria etc. are difficult for entering in the water-accepting part 55.In addition,,, not only simplified and given the structure of water pot 34 so can install and remove water-purifying filter 56 simultaneously by mounting or dismounting cap 35 because water-purifying filter 56 is installed on the pump installation 36 integratedly, and be more convenient for mounting or dismounting and cleaning.
(the 8th example)
Figure 12 represents the present invention's the 8th example, different with the 1st example is, water-accepting part 57 is set replaces water-accepting part 41, and use with the integrally formed water receiving lid 58 of the cap 35 of giving water pot 34 when packing into for water pot 34 with this peristome 57a sealing above water-accepting part 57.
In said structure, the depths part of utilizing cap 35 is stretched out and integrally formed water receiving lid 58 surrounds the crooked part of outlet conduit 39 downwards.In a single day it is positioned over the accommodation section after cap 35 being installed on to water pot 34, outlet conduit 39 just falls into wherein above the peristome 57a above water-accepting part 57.At this moment, water receiving lid 58 just seals the top peristome 57a of water-accepting part 57, and is sealing state between the outside.Above-mentioned the 8th example can obtain the action effect identical with the 1st example, can seal the top peristome 57a of water-accepting part 57 simultaneously reliably, prevents that outside dust or planktonic bacteria from entering wherein.
(the 9th example)
Figure 13 represents the present invention's the 9th example, different with the 1st example is, do not establish the 34d of foot to water pot 34, but only be provided with front part is made the flat 34e of foot, simultaneously between refrigerating chamber 23 and vegetable compartment 24, replace demarcation strip 26, changed the structure of packing into when packing into for water pot 34 with demarcation strip 59.
Promptly, demarcation strip 59 has and the protuberance 34a corresponding concave part 59a (the recess 26a that is equivalent to the demarcation strip 26 in the 1st example) and the inclined plane 59b (the inclined plane 26b that is equivalent to this demarcation strip 26) that give water pot 34, but its inclined plane 59b keeps the height and position of its top one side and extends to the front side always, correspondingly, giving the corresponding position of packing into of water pot 34 of giving of recess 59c that the 34e of foot of water pot 34 falls into forms.
Adopt said structure, when packing into to water pot 34, in case it is moved to the depths, move for water pot 34 with regard to the keeping parallelism state, when packed in the position in arrival into, protuberance 34a is just along the inclination of demarcation strip 59 and 59b descends and falls into recess 59b, and the 34e of foot falls into recess 59c, can keep the correct position of packing into reliably in this position, can obtain the effect identical with the 1st example.
The present invention is not limited to above-mentioned example, also can do following distortion.
As the feedwater piping of giving water route, the above is transparent, but also available opaque.In addition, the also available hard material of guiding pipeline 44 is made also available can making with the soft material that stress is out of shape.
The water-purifying filter that channelling water also can be set replaces immersing the water-purifying filter 56 that uses in the water pot 34.In this occasion, can installation portion be set integratedly in the peristome 37a of pump portion 37 part.
Be arranged on to the filler cover 43 of the cap 35 of water pot 34 and can make suitable shape.
The structure of each example can make up as required, to obtain other structure.
The invention is not restricted to automatic ice-making, and be suitable for any waterworks that feed water by pump.In addition, be not limited to be located in the refrigerator, also be applicable to waterworks used in the special-purpose ice maker.
As mentioned above, the waterworks of ice maker of the present invention have following effect.
The invention of technical scheme 1 can be carried out dismounting under the state that keeps feedwater piping with guiding device, so can simply feedwater piping be taken off from guiding device and clean, in addition, according to the dirt degree and needs when changing feedwater piping itself, operation is also very simple, can improve the operating efficiency of cleaning or maintenance.
The invention of technical scheme 2 is will feedwater piping to insert in the guiding pipeline install, so improved the operating efficiency of installing and removing, dismounting feedwater piping simply promptly during cleaning.
The invention of technical scheme 3 is that the leading section of feedwater piping is fixed with contact condition in the guiding pipeline, so prevent to freeze the occasion of the heater of usefulness in setting towards the admission port part of ice-making disc, the heat conductivility of heater is good, can prevent from effectively to freeze.
The invention of technical scheme 5 is that feedwater piping is installed with the state of the guiding groove of packing into, thus feedwater piping need only be set, simple in structure.In addition, the invention of technical scheme 6 is in the time will inserting to water route, in case from the opposed facial leading section that inserts, just the curved edges introducing of energy limit is inner, can improve operating efficiency.
The invention of technical scheme 7 is the water that will suct with feed pump to the water-accepting part water filling of wide-mouth supplying with the feedwater path, so need not to make watertight structure towards the coupling part to water route, can simplify the structure of holding usefulness and the structure of connecting portion.When the invention of technical scheme 8 is given water route in mounting or dismounting, its installation portion be located at the opposed inclined plane of feed-water vessel on, so, improved operating efficiency even also can after moving the front side to, install and remove simply to water route at narrow position.
The dirt in the feedwater piping, the target of estimation cleaning are seen in the invention of technical scheme 10 easily clearly, can select the cleaning time definitely.The invention of technical scheme 11 is restrictedly to have injected the ice making water circulation of water-accepting part with reducing diameter part, so can limit to the confluent of ice-making disc and prevent to dabble.Adopt the invention of technical scheme 13, when feedwater piping is inserted the guiding pipeline, because front does not have sweep, so can not hinder the insertion when installing, the mounting or dismounting operating efficiency that has improved when cleaning etc.
The invention of technical scheme 13 can be by the cap pump portion that installs and removes feed pump simultaneously of mounting or dismounting feed-water vessel, operation is simple when the cleaning feed-water vessel, in addition, owing to pump portion need not be fixed on the fixed position in the feed-water vessel, so be convenient to clean feed-water vessel, and ice making water is difficult for being detained, so can reduce the cleaning number of times.
The invention of technical scheme 14 is that feed-water vessel is fallen in the position of packing into being located, so can guarantee that the pump portion of feed-water vessel and motor part are opposed with the action of feeding water.Technical scheme 15 and 16 invention can increase the height of feed-water vessel, so can increase the volume of ice making water, and when feed-water vessel is inserted the accommodation section, the protuberance that forms at preceding side lower part falls into after rising wherein along inclination, the accommodated position so can pack into reliably, in addition, under the incomplete insertion state of no show accommodated position, feed-water vessel is stated from the inclined plane, causes user's attention so can be pushed back the front side of direction of insertion.
The available hand of the invention of technical scheme 17 opens and closes the filler cover of feed-water vessel simply, thus can improve the operation when replenishing ice making water, easy to use.The invention of technical scheme 18 is to utilize the recuperability of spring that filler cover is opened, so can further improve operation.
The invention of technical scheme 19 can be simplified the structure of cleaning feed-water vessel often, so can improve cleaning work efficient.The invention of technical scheme 20 can prevent that showy aerial dust or bacterium from entering to water route by the top peristome of water-accepting part reliably with the upper part sealing of water-accepting part under the installment state of feed-water vessel.

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1. the waterworks of an ice maker feed water for water route by the water process that feed pump will be stored in the feed-water vessel to ice-making disc,
It is characterized in that the described water route of giving is made of the guiding device of supplying with the general feedwater piping of current and this feedwater piping of maintenance,
Constituting the described feedwater piping of water route of giving remains on the described guiding device dismantledly.
2. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, constitute the described guiding device of water route of giving and wherein constitute with the guiding pipeline that it is kept by described feedwater piping is inserted.
3. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, described guiding tube road has the front end diameter shrinkage part, the internal diameter of the leading section external diameter approximate same size of this front end diameter shrinkage part formation and feedwater piping, after described feedwater piping inserted, the leading section of this feedwater piping became contact condition and fixes in admission port one side of leading to described ice-making disc.
4. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 2 is characterized in that, are provided with the maintaining part that described guiding pipeline is remained on the regulation position integratedly setting described giving on the portion that the sets wall of water route.
5. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, constitute the described guiding device of giving water route and be for described feedwater piping is remained on set portion's wall and on wall integrally formed guiding groove.
6. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, make following shape with described to water route, that is, the part of injecting that side of water from described feed-water vessel bends to and insert opposed an of side of described feed-water vessel.
7. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, at the water-accepting part that is provided with wide-mouth by feed pump from described feed-water vessel through described part to water route supply water.
8. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described path are located to inject the part of water from described feed-water vessel opposed with a side of inserting described feed-water vessel and on the inclined plane that is provided with in order to make.
9. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the described position of being injected the part of water from described feed-water vessel of water route of giving is arranged on the position that is lower than described feed-water vessel height.
10. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, constitute the described feedwater piping of water route of giving and make with the material with light transmission.
11. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 7 is characterized in that, the described water route of giving is provided with the reducing diameter part also thinner than the internal diameter of this feedwater piping in the part that is connected with described feedwater piping from described water receiving part.
12. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 11 is characterized in that, the described admission port one side part of leading to described ice-making disc of water route of giving is linearly.
13. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described feed-water vessel is made the rectangular vessel shape of top opening, and seals peristome above it with cap,
Described feed pump is by being configured in pump portion that bottom surface sections in the described feed-water vessel and impeller can drive with the magnetic attraction rotation and opposed and described impeller is made it to rotate drive electric motor portion with magnetic attraction constitute in the outside of this feed-water vessel and described pump portion,
Also be provided with to be wholely set connecting between described pump portion and the described cap, will be directed to the described path that spues of giving water route from described feed-water vessel from the water that described pump portion spues.
14. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described feed-water vessel forms the protuberance that protrudes to the bottom in the forward lower part of direction of insertion, pack into by the recess that makes this protuberance fall within the formation of depths, accommodation section with locating,
Pump portion in the described feed-water vessel is opposed with described motor part behind the accommodation section of packing into.
15. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 14 is characterized in that, at bottom surface sections place, the accommodation section of described feed-water vessel, the inclined plane of side direction depths rising in the past are set in the front side of described recess,
Described protuberance is crossed described inclined plane and is fallen into the recess of described accommodation section when packing described feed-water vessel into described accommodation section.
16. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 14 is characterized in that, the face of described feed-water vessel before and after described protuberance forms the inclined plane corresponding with the inclined plane of described accommodation section.
17. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 14 is characterized in that, described feed-water vessel has and can will be located at the pop-up type filler cover that inlet described cap, that inject ice making water opens and closes.
18. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 17 is characterized in that, the filler cover of described feed-water vessel is made the structure that the reset force that can utilize spring when descending engagement release is in off position opened.
19. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described water-accepting part is provided with outlet cap integratedly, and after feed-water vessel was installed, the state that inserts with the discharge opening of outlet conduit covered.
20. the waterworks of ice maker according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described feed-water vessel is provided with the closure member of the peristome above the described water-accepting part of accommodation section rear enclosed of packing into integratedly in the discharge opening of described outlet conduit part.
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