This case be that June 28, application number in 1999 are 99110170.7 the applying date, name is called the dividing an application of patent of invention of " refrigerator and control method of refrigerator ".
The specific embodiment
The 1st embodiment
Below in conjunction with Fig. 1~Figure 10 the embodiment of the invention is described.
The overall structure of refrigerator of the present invention at first, is described in conjunction with Fig. 8,9.Fig. 8 is the longitudinal section of seeing from the place ahead of present embodiment refrigerator 10, and Fig. 9 is the longitudinal section of seeing from the side.
On housing 12, begin to be provided with refrigerating chamber 14, vegetable compartment 16, temperature switching chamber 18 and refrigerating chamber 22 from the upper strata as refrigerator 10 bodies.In addition, be provided with ice-making compartment 20 in the left side of temperature switching chamber 18.Be equipped with insulator 24 and switch between chamber 18, the ice-making compartment 20 in vegetable compartment 16 and temperature.
On refrigerating chamber 14, be provided with the refrigerating-chamber door 14a that opens and closes with hinge.And, be provided with indoor temperature is kept cooling chamber 26 into about about 0 ℃ in the bottom of this refrigerating chamber 14.
Vegetable compartment 16 is provided with the vegetable compartment door 16a of drawer type, and vegetable container 28 just can be pulled out with this door.Cover by fresh-keeping cover (Network リ ス パ カ バ-) 29 on the vegetable container 28.
Switch the temperature that is provided with drawer type on the chamber 18 in temperature and switch chamber door 18a, temperature switching chamber container 30 just can be pulled out with this door.
Also be provided with the refrigerating chamber door 22a of drawer type on the refrigerating chamber 22, refrigerated container 32 just can be pulled out with this door.
As shown in Figure 9, near the top of ice-making compartment 20, be provided with ice maker 34, thereunder be provided with ice container 36.
Ice maker 34 comprises ice making vessel 38, makes the drive division 40 of its rotation and the inspection ice bar 42 that the quantity of icing in the ice container 36 is detected.In addition, the storage tank 44 that water is supplied in ice making vessel 38 is located at the left side of cooling chamber 26.
Below, describe with regard to the structure and the configuration thereof of the freeze cycle of refrigerator 10.
At first, as shown in Figure 9, compressor 46 is located at the bottom of housing 12, promptly is located in the Machine Room 48 of being located at refrigerating chamber 22 rear lower portion.
The evaporimeter of refrigerator 10 has refrigeration to use and 2 of freezing usefulness, refrigerates the rear that is configured in vegetable compartment 16 with evaporimeter 50, the freezing top, rear that is located at refrigerating chamber 22 with evaporimeter 52.In addition, be provided with refrigeration above with evaporimeter 50 with pressure fan 54, be provided with freezing usefulness pressure fan 56 above with evaporimeter 52 freezing in refrigeration.Be provided with Defrost heater 96 in refrigeration below with evaporimeter 50, be provided with Defrost heater 98 below with evaporimeter 52 freezing.
And the left side wall and the base plate of temperature switching chamber 18 become heat insulation structural.Like this, even the indoor temperature that temperature is switched chamber 18 is set the temperature identical with refrigerating chamber for, can not be subjected to the temperature effect of existing refrigerating chamber 22 grades on every side yet.In addition,, temperature also becomes heat insulation structural, so also can not be subjected to freezing temperature effect with evaporimeter 52 because switching the backplate of chamber 18.
That this freezing cycle device of general description disposes is Figure 10, and the block diagram of representing its refrigerant flow path is Fig. 1.Below, the mobility status of cold-producing medium is described in conjunction with this Figure 10 and Fig. 1.
The cold-producing medium that flows out from compressor 46 arrives triple valve 68 through muffler 58, radiating tube 60, condenser 62, dew eliminating tube 64, drier 66.In triple valve 68, with refrigerant flow path branch, a square tube is to refrigeration capillary 70, and the opposing party is led to freezing with capillary 72.Arrive described refrigeration with evaporimeter 50 from refrigeration with capillary 70, unite two into one, arrive described freezing again with evaporimeter 52 with freezing outlet side with capillary 72.Then, get back to compressor 46 by accumulator 74, suction line 76.
Here, the installation site to above-mentioned unaccounted each refrigerator 10 that installs describes.
As shown in figure 10, more than 62 bending of condenser and be tabular, and as shown in Figure 9, be configured in the below, bottom of refrigerating chamber 22.In addition, accumulator 74 is installed in freezing right side with evaporimeter 52.
Below, the mobility status of cold air in the said structure freeze cycle is described in conjunction with Fig. 9 of refrigerator 10.
At first, illustrate by the mobility status that refrigerates the cold air that cools off with evaporimeter 50.
Cold air by refrigeration is cooled off with evaporimeter 50 is admitted to the refrigeration branch space 78 that is positioned at vegetable compartment 16 rears from the front side that refrigerates with pressure fan 54.The top of this refrigeration branch space 78 is connected with the refrigeration pipeline 80 that is located at refrigerating chamber 14 back sides, thereby cold air is delivered to this refrigeration pipeline 80.As shown in Figure 8, refrigeration pipeline 80 is divided into two strands in the bottom of refrigerating chamber 14, roughly is the U font.Front at refrigeration pipeline 80 is provided with the blow-off outlet 82 that every predetermined distance blows out cold air, and cold air is blown into the refrigerating chamber 14 from these blow-off outlets 82.The below (with reference to Fig. 9) of the cold air that refrigerating chamber 14 is cooled off by cooling chamber 26, storage tank 44 flow into be located at refrigeration with pressure fan 54 and refrigeration with the return-air duct 84 of evaporimeter about 50, blow out to the below of refrigeration with evaporimeter 50.And this cold air cools off with evaporimeter 50 with refrigeration again, arrives the position of refrigeration with pressure fan 54.
In addition, the fresh-keeping cover 29 of cold air from refrigeration branch space 78 along vegetable compartment 16 cools off (with reference to Fig. 9) to vegetable compartment 16.This cold air flows in the bottom of vegetable container 28 in the past backward, arrive return air openings portion 88 and in refrigeration with circulation in the evaporimeter 50.
The following describes mobility status by the freezing cold air that cools off with evaporimeter 52.
By the freezing cold air that cools off with evaporimeter 52, arrive freezing branch space 90.The top of this freezing branch space 90 communicates with ice maker 34, thereby cold air blows out to ice maker 34 from this top.In addition, the bottom of freezing branch space 90 with in the hole 33 of the backplate upper shed of the refrigerated container 32 of refrigerating chamber 22 with communicate above the refrigerated container 32, thereby cold air blows out from this bottom to refrigerated container 32 inside.
Ice-making compartment 20 is carried out cooled cold air flow, cooled cold air is carried out in refrigerated container 32 inside of refrigerating chamber 22 flow in the front of refrigerating chamber 22 in the front of refrigerating chamber 22.And this cold air flows downwards along the front of refrigerated container 32, arrives return-air duct 92 by the bottom.The cold air that flows into return-air duct 92 circulates in evaporimeter 52 freezing.
As shown in Figure 5, on the right side of freezing branch space 90, be provided with cold air is delivered to the throttle setting 94 that temperature is switched chamber 18 usefulness, open and close by air door this throttle setting 94, can adjust the air conditioning quantity of delivering to temperature switching chamber 18, thereby its indoor temperature is adjusted.Temperature is switched chamber 18 carry out cooled cold air, flow into the freezing return-air duct 95 that communicates with evaporimeter 52 from the bottom that temperature is switched chamber 18 freezing and circulate with evaporimeter 52.
Fig. 5 represents the cutaway view of triple valve 68, is the so-called electromagnet structure that is made of coil 102, magnet 104, plunger 106 etc.Be provided with pin 108 in the bottom of plunger 106, by to coil 102 excitations, pin 108 just is driven to the below, overcomes spring 112 elastic force and drives valve body 110 downwards.Under this state, cold-producing medium is just used evaporimeter (R エ バ) side from drier one effluent to refrigerating.In addition, when plunger 106 was replied, valve body 110 was replied upward, cold-producing medium just from drier one effluent to freezing usefulness evaporimeter (F エ バ) side.116 is that valve seat is used in refrigeration among the figure, the 118th, and the freezing valve seat of using.
For the triple valve 68 that switches refrigerant flow path, because in its configuration aspects and the situation of small trash folder between valve body 110 and valve seat 116,118 in the freeze cycle arranged, so exist leakage rate to a certain degree.
Therefore, in the present embodiment, set in advance the refrigeration that is installed in the refrigerant flow path shown in Figure 1 capillary 70 and freezing amount of restriction difference with the cold-producing medium in the capillary 72.
That is to say, the refrigeration that is connected with evaporimeter 50 by handle and refrigeration with the amount of restriction of capillary 70 be provided with compare loose with the amount of restriction of the freezing freezing usefulness capillary 72 that is connected with evaporimeter 52, cold-producing medium is used in the evaporimeter 50 in refrigeration flowed, cold-producing medium is flowed freezing using in the evaporimeter 52.
For example, for desire is cooled off refrigerating chamber 14, when refrigerant flow path being utilized triple valve 68 switch to when refrigerating the stream that is connected with evaporimeter 50, producing the occasion of leaking with freezing freezing usefulness capillary 72 sides that are connected with evaporimeter 52, because freezing amount of restriction with capillary 72 1 sides is more tight with the amount of restriction of capillary 70 than refrigeration, so cold-producing medium is difficult to use capillary 72 1 side flow to freezing, thereby cold-producing medium is to refrigeration evaporimeter 50 1 side flow.
On the contrary, for desire is cooled off refrigerating chamber 22, when refrigerant flow path being utilized triple valve 68 switch to the freezing stream that is connected with evaporimeter 52, producing the occasion of leaking with refrigeration with capillary 70 sides with the refrigeration that evaporimeter 50 is connected, because refrigeration is looser than freezing amount of restriction with capillary 72 with the amount of restriction of capillary 70, therefore, though cold-producing medium flows with evaporimeter 50 to refrigeration, but because refrigeration shuts down with pressure fan 54, so cold-producing medium does not carry out heat exchange in refrigerating with evaporimeter 50, but with through directly to the freezing cold-producing medium interflow that refrigerating chamber 22 is connected with capillary 72, evaporate in freezing with evaporimeter 52, heat exchange.
So, in the present embodiment, even producing, triple valve 68 leaks, when refrigerating chamber cools off and when refrigerating chamber cools off, also can be respectively reach in evaporimeter 50 freezing and flow through most cold-producing medium in evaporimeter 52 in refrigeration, can cool off respectively, thereby can prevent to produce loss refrigeration, freezing each zone.
The 2nd embodiment
(with reference to Fig. 1) as described in the previous embodiment, might flow into 72 liang of sides of capillary with capillary 70 with through freezing through refrigeration with the cold-producing medium that flows in the evaporimeter 52 freezing.At this moment, use cold-producing medium mobile in the evaporimeter 52 just through 2 capillaries 70,72 freezing, freezingly compare with capillary 72 and to freezing situation about flowing into evaporimeter 52 with only flowing through, throttling is loose relatively, and the cold-producing medium evaporating temperature might increase with its leakage rate.
In this case, though that refrigeration should rise in original cooling with the temperature of evaporimeter 50 is about more than 0 ℃, owing to lower, so can detect than it.Produce a kind of of the possibility of leaking as triple valve 68, can consider following situation: when being pressed on the valve seat 116,118 when mobile valve 110, the rubbish in the freeze cycle just embeds therebetween, just produces the gap between valve body 110 and the valve seat 116,118.
At this moment, valve body 110 is opened certain hour, 10 seconds for example cold-producing medium is flowed between valve body 110 and valve seat 116,118, wash away behind the rubbish mobile valve 110 again, be pressed on the valve seat 116,118, then can improve its compactness.This control can be undertaken by control part shown in Figure 1 120.In addition, also (2~3 times) this action repeatedly several times.
The 3rd embodiment
And, refrigeration being remained in operation under the situation of certain hour (for example 5 minutes) with pressure fan 54 when when the refrigerating chamber state of cooling switches to the no state of cooling, refrigeration usefulness evaporimeter 50 is risen near 0 ℃ by the indoor air heat of refrigerating chamber 14.
But, producing the occasion of leakage with the refrigeration that evaporimeter 50 is connected with capillary 70 sides with refrigeration, as if stopping refrigeration, then refrigerate the temperature of using evaporimeter 50 and descend with pressure fan 54 runnings.This situation is identical with the 1st embodiment, eliminates valve by mobile valve 110 and leaks.
The 4th embodiment
Identical with the 2nd, the 3rd embodiment of front, refrigeration is being detected the occasion that valve leaks with evaporimeter 50, might be able to not remove at the frost of refrigeration with knot on the evaporimeter 50.In this case,, defrost, rise to uniform temperature (for example 12 ℃) up to evaporator temperature by control part 120 to Defrost heater 96 energisings of refrigeration with evaporimeter 50.
The 5th embodiment
In the 4th embodiment, when refrigeration is defrosted with evaporimeter 50,, should after shutting down, compressor 46 carry out for carrying out this defrosting reliably.
The 6th embodiment
Describe with regard to the 6th embodiment below.Generally when defrosting,,, defrosting is necessary its temperature is detected for being finished to detect because refrigeration is slower with the outlet temperature rising of evaporimeter 50.Therefore, temperature sensor 122,124 is arranged to as shown in Figure 1 the structure that can detect with the inlet tube of evaporimeter 50, outlet two sides' temperature refrigeration.Can carry out the detection of valve leakage and defrosting end two aspects according to the output of this temperature sensor 122,124.
The 7th embodiment
In the 7th embodiment, connection refrigeration is installed with the inlet tube of evaporimeter 50, the member of outlet, by mounting temperature sensor on this member, just can measure two pipe temperature of inlet tube, outlet.
The 8th embodiment
Though it is not special corresponding with the valve leakage technology, make the indoor system of refrigerator, but in valve (triple valve 68) self design phase, for can suppress with as the equal fault rate of the compressor 46 of refrigerator critical piece, also carry out long-term reliability test, can obtain the long enough durable structure of refrigerator critical piece of life of product to become.
But, if triple valve 68 produces fault and is refrigerating with flow system cryogen in the evaporimeter 50, freeze with regard to producing at the inlet portion of refrigeration with evaporimeter 50, grow up in case freeze, the anxiety that near part damaging etc. is just arranged, before function produces obstacle, this situation can not be found, more part will be changed during repairing.
Therefore, in the following embodiments, describe with regard to the embodiment of early detection valve fault.
As shown in Figure 1, make cold-producing medium in the freezing occasion that flows in the evaporimeter 52 of using, cold-producing medium is being refrigerated with flowing in the evaporimeter 50, by the refrigeration pressure fan 54 that turns round, refrigeration becomes the positive number temperature with evaporimeter 50, and defrosting also just becomes possibility naturally.
But if because of some reason is refrigerating with leakage of refrigerant in the evaporimeter 50, then refrigeration is cooled with the inlet portion of evaporimeter 50, and the ambient water steam is concentrated and become ice, uses the inlet portion of evaporimeter 50 to produce ice pellets in refrigeration.This ice pellets is grown up, and is how long have more than is needed, part and interior case around will damaging.In case like this, spend the suitable cost of repairs and time.
Therefore, utilize to be installed in the temperature sensor 122 of refrigeration, the inlet portion temperature of refrigeration with evaporimeter 50 detected, defrost with evaporimeter 50 to refrigerating according to the output of this temperature sensor 122 with the conduct defrosting sensor of evaporimeter 50 inlet portions.
Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are the installation methods of expression temperature sensor 122, temperature sensor 122 tight shapes are pressed into be fixed on the cross section and roughly be in the aluminum or fixture made of copper 126 of U font.At a distolateral fastener 128 that is formed with along its length of fixture 126, be fixed in this fastener 128 by refrigerating to be involved in capillary 70, temperature sensor 122 just is installed in refrigeration with capillary 70 1 sides by fixture 126.
In addition, the also available aluminium strip of temperature sensor 122 is fixed on refrigeration together with on the capillary 70.
Here, from the freezing moment, with the temperature of temperature sensor 122 monitoring refrigerations, if detected temperatures for example more than 0 ℃, just is judged as the fault of triple valve 68 with the inlet portion of evaporimeter 50 with beginning flow system cryogen the evaporimeter 52.And, make warning light 130 light or glimmer with control part 120 as shown in Figure 1, report to the user.Fig. 2 represents this state.In Fig. 2, the A point is the moment of reporting with warning light 130.
The 9th embodiment
The 9th embodiment, be after in the 8th embodiment, being judged as the fault of triple valve 68, from switching to cold-producing medium is switched on freezing with the moment (the B point of Fig. 2) of flowing the evaporimeter 52 to Defrost heater 96, freeze to prevent the inlet portion that refrigerates with evaporimeter 50.
And,, and when compressor 46 becomes any state that stops, just stopping Defrost heater 96 is switched in the mobile occasion that switches to refrigeration with evaporimeter 50 of cold-producing medium.
The 10th embodiment
Among the 9th embodiment in front, in refrigeration as shown in Figure 3 with evaporimeter 50 and freezing circulation with the cold-producing medium that alternately flows in the evaporimeter 52, be energized and the occasion of lasting 3 circulations at Defrost heater 96, being judged as the growth of freezing can not dissolve, when switching to next refrigeration (the A point of Fig. 3) with evaporimeter 50, turn round with regard to the mandatory compressor 46 that stops, defrosting by Defrost heater 96.
In addition, also report in this occasion with warning light 130.
The 11st embodiment
The 11st embodiment, be in the 10th embodiment, compressor 46 shut down and after defrosting, next freezing during with evaporimeter 52 coolings, (the A point of Fig. 4) reported with warning light 130 under the situation of detected temperatures no show more than 0 ℃ of temperature sensor 122.
In addition, be located at the refrigerator doors front or indoor temperature adjustment dish portion is provided with LED (light emitting diode), making it light or glimmer.In addition,, when opening, make buzzer call, report unusually to the user with sound for the refrigerator that LED is not set.