CN1862188A

CN1862188A - Water supplying pipe of distributor for refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN1862188A
Application number: CN 200510013421
Authority: CN
Inventors: 安诗燕
Original assignee: LG Electronics Tianjin Appliances Co Ltd
Current assignee: Taizhou LG Electronics Refrigeration Co Ltd
Priority date: 2005-05-09
Filing date: 2005-05-09
Publication date: 2006-11-15
Anticipated expiration: 2025-05-09
Also published as: CN100464145C

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water supply tube for refrigerator distributor. It is characterized by that the water is flowed into a lead-in tube from external water source, said lead-in tube is passed through the lower end of refrigeration compartment door of the refrigerator, then the water is flowed through distribution tube connected with front end of the above-mentioned lead-in tube and reached to the upper portion of refrigeration compartment door of refrigerator, at the same time the water is flowed into a water tank positioned on inner side surface of the refrigeration compartment door, then a portion of water is passed through first water outlet tube and flowed into ice-making machine, another portion of water is passed through second water outlet tube and flowed into cold water machine.

Description

The water supplying pipe of distributer for refrigerator

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of water supplying pipe of distributer for refrigerator, especially about being located at the water supplying pipe of the distributer for refrigerator on the bottom refrigerating-chamber door of the refrigerator of refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber above-below direction arrangement formation.

Background technology

In general, refrigerator possesses the refrigerating chamber of food low temperature keeping with the refrigerating chamber of food freezing keeping, and refrigerator generally is that refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber up and down or left and right are arranged formation in addition.

In order to take easily in the outside of refrigerator, in the side outdoors of refrigerator distributor is installed sometimes at refrigeration of the inside of refrigerator or freezing beverages such as water.

And, distributor to be discharged and is generally finished by cooling-water machine to the portion outdoors of refrigerator in order to make at the beverages such as water of refrigerator cooling, and the situation that row's ice maker that the ice cube that water etc. is formed is discharged in the outside of door of refrigerator is located at refrigerator inside together with cooling-water machine is the trend of increase.

Here, the distributor in the past of following cooling-water machine and row's ice maker to install together constitutes: feed pipe connects from the back of outside watering through refrigerator, and flow into by the water that this feed pipe flows in the water pot of the back that is positioned at refrigerator or cold storage chamber of refrigerator bottom, the water that flows in this water pot supplies water to cooling-water machine by the feed pipe that is connected water pot and cooling-water machine, and supply water to ice machine by the feed pipe that is connected on water pot and the ice machine, make water generate ice cube at ice machine, and the ice that generates moved to row's ice maker, water and ice cube are discharged at the distributor of portion outdoors.

At this moment, the water pot that connects the refrigerator rear generally is to be made of the independent parts of arranging to the bottom and the top of refrigerator separately with the feed pipe of cooling-water machine with from the feed pipe that water pot is connected to ice machine, so the arrangement of feed pipe is provided with trouble, in addition also there is the problem that in the refrigerator internal arrangement volume of refrigerator inside is dwindled because of above-mentioned feed pipe.

In addition, also had the situation that is arranged on the inside of door in cooling-water machine for the water pot that supplies water directly is connected cooling-water machine in the past, but the feed pipe that connects to the rear of refrigerator is still in the rear of above-mentioned refrigerator branch, the feed pipe of one side connects ice machine, the feed pipe of opposite side is connected in the water pot of door of refrigerator inside, so still exist the feed pipe of refrigerator inside to arrange complexity and refrigerator inside because of problems such as the feed pipe volume dwindle.

Summary of the invention

In order to solve deficiency of the prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of distributor that on door of refrigerator, is equipped with to the water pot of ice machine and cooling-water machine water supply, and also develop the water supplying pipe of the water pot, ice machine and the cooling-water machine that connect separately on the door of refrigerator according to these.

The invention provides a kind of handle supplies with to cooling-water machine in 1 cooling back of water pot from the normal-temperature water that outside watering flows into, therefore can abolish independent cooling device from cold water to cooling-water machine that supply with, simultaneously make and is connected contraction in length and can simplifies the whole formation of refrigerator being connected water pot and water supplying pipe simple arrangement on ice machine and the cooling-water machine, mutual interference minimum mutually between each component parts that makes distributor and the component parts of refrigerator, the utilization rate of door is improved, need replace above-mentioned door just can be provided with distributer for refrigerator on the standard electric refrigerator water supplying pipe when installing and repairing easily and only.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is provided with water pot, ice machine and cooling-water machine at the medial surface of the door of refrigerator that can be cooled off by refrigerator cold air, and connect by water supplying pipe, above-mentioned water supplying pipe comprises by inlet tube, distributing pipe, the 1st outlet pipe and the 2nd outlet pipe and constituting

The inlet tube that connects outside watering is inserted into the inside of door by the hinge axis hollow bulb of the hinge of student's end, be communicated with simultaneously to the extension of the top of door with distributing pipe, and part branch comes out to be connected with water pot in the central, arrive the central upper of ice machine and prolong and form the 1st outlet pipe from the top front end of distributing pipe, what connect cooling-water machine from the other end of water pot is the 2nd outlet pipe.Be furnished with ice machine and water pot that shell covers a medial surface in addition.Part distributing pipe and the 1st outlet pipe and the 2nd outlet pipe are housed in the inside of shell simultaneously at the medial surface of door.

As mentioned above, the present invention has following several effect;

The 1 distributor component parts that is made of ice machine, cooling-water machine, water pot and water supplying pipe all is arranged on the door of refrigerator, so it is the single assembly of unit that above-mentioned distributor constitutes door, not only can make the making of above-mentioned distributor and assembling thus easily, and easy when storage and management.

2 distributor component parts of the present invention all are arranged on the door, thus not only disturb minimum with other parts of refrigerator, and solve the shortcoming that takies above-mentioned refrigerator inner space, improve the space availability ratio of above-mentioned refrigerator thus.

3 because water pot is positioned at the inside of refrigerating chamber, can make the water cooling of above-mentioned water pot inside, so do not need for water in the cooling cooling-water machine independent cooling device to be set.

The maintenance activity of 4 pairs of distributing pipes, the 1st outlet pipe and the 2nd outlet pipes is more prone to.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 are refrigerator three-dimensional structure diagrams of the present invention,

Fig. 3 is a distributor profile of the present invention.

The explanation of accompanying drawing major part symbol:

10-refrigerator 11-door

12-refrigerating chamber 13-refrigerating chamber

14-hinge 15-hinge axis

20-distributor 21-arranges ice maker

22-cooling-water machine 30-shell

31-ice machine 40-water pot

50-water supplying pipe 51-inlet tube

52-distributing pipe 53-the 1st outlet pipe

54-the 2nd outlet pipe.

The specific embodiment

Describe preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail.

Fig. 1 illustrates the distributor of the present invention 20 on the refrigerating-chamber door 11 that is located at refrigerator 10 bottoms, and Fig. 2 illustrates the refrigerating-chamber door 11 that is provided with distributor 20 of the present invention and is open state, and Fig. 3 illustrates the simple formation of distributor 20 of the present invention.

The present invention is provided with water pot 40, ice machine 31 and cooling-water machine 22 at refrigerating-chamber door 11 medial surfaces of refrigerator 10, and water pot 40 connects by the water supplying pipe 50 that is connected with outside watering with cooling-water machine 22 with ice machine 31.

In the present embodiment, refrigerator 10 forms refrigerating chamber 12 on top, and arranges formation refrigerating chamber 13 at the bottom of this refrigerating chamber 12 above-below direction, constitutes the refrigerator 10 of case shape thus.

The door of refrigerating chamber 11 covers the front of the opening of above-mentioned refrigerating chamber 13, and forms tabularly, separates above-mentioned refrigerating chamber 13 and outside contact.

And the material that door 11 is filled with heat-barrier material by its inside for the cold air that prevents refrigerator 10 inside and extraneous air heat exchange constitutes common sheet material shape door of refrigerator.

In the present embodiment, door 11 medial surfaces that distributor 20 is installed are made of the one side towards the door 11 of the refrigerating chamber 12 of refrigerator 10 and refrigerating chamber 13 directions.

Water pot 40 forms the pair of cylinders shape of direction arrangement up and down in the medial surface bottom of refrigerating-chamber door 11, and forms the tubular of its inner hollow.

Here, water pot 40 is installed the one side at the medial surface of refrigerating-chamber door 11, makes its part be inserted into the inside of refrigerating chamber 13 according to closing of door 11 thus.

The formation of ice machine 31 is: the water of supplying with was cooled off under the state of accommodating with the fixed time, make the water of accommodating form ice cube, and make the ice cube of generation fall in the ice storage container of bottom the outside that ice is arranged to door 11 by the deicer 21 that penetrates into door 11 outsides from the ice storage container bottom according to user's selectivity operation and self control.

Cooling-water machine 22 includes the nozzle that is located at door 1 outside for the storage water that makes 40 li of water pots according to user's selectivity operation to the discharge of the outside of door 11.

Water supplying pipe 50 comprises by inlet tube 51, distributing pipe the 52, the 1st outlet pipe the 53, the 2nd outlet pipe 54 and constituting.

Inlet tube 51 forms the general tubulose of inner hollow in order to make water portion's circulation within it, the one end connects with the watering of refrigerator 10 outsides, and the other end is inserted into the then interior of door 11 from a side lower end of refrigerator 10.

And hinge axis 15 axis of centres of the hinge 14 of inlet tube 51 by being incorporated into refrigerator 10 lower ends one side are to the hollow space of pass through openings, and are inserted into door 11 inboards of hinge axis 15.

Distributing pipe 52 is connected the front end of inlet tube 51 and prolongs to the top of door 11 and forms, and some top sets of its middle body arm that comes out is connected to water pot 40, and is outstanding to the medial surface of door 11 then, in the arrangement of the inboard of door 11.

In addition, distributing pipe 52 can certainly be when the inside of door 11 connects with the front end of inlet tube 51 in the internal arrangement of door 11, and the one distal process comes out to connect with water pot 40 after arriving the installation site of water pot 40.

The 1st outlet pipe 53 is by forming to the direction prolongation of ice machine 31 with the inlet tube 51 identical shaped next upper ends at distributing pipe 52 of pipes.

At this moment, the central upper at ice machine 31 forms its outlet to the front end of the 1st outlet pipe 53 in order evenly to supply water in each ice cube resettlement section of ice machine 31.

The 2nd outlet pipe 54 is to be formed by the pipe that the other end from water pot 40 is connected to cooling-water machine 22.

Water pot 40, ice machine 31, distributing pipe the 52, the 1st outlet pipe the 53, the 2nd outlet pipe 54 are combined in refrigerating-chamber door 11 medial surfaces, and above-mentioned each parts all are housed in the inside of shell 30 simultaneously.

Here, shell 30 forms the open boxed-section shape in one side by hiding the outward appearance that whole distributor 20 component parts such as ice machine 31 and water pot 40 improve door 11 inboards.

And part distributing pipe of showing out laterally from the medial surface of door 11 52 and the 1st outlet pipe 53 and the 2nd outlet pipe 54 all are housed in the inside of shell 30.

The following describes the water supplying pipe effect of the distributer for refrigerator of the present invention of such formation.

Running according to refrigerator 10 is supplied water from outside watering, and the water of watering passes through inlet tube 51 to the lower end of refrigerator 10 side flow thus.

The water that flows into by inlet tube 51 arrives refrigerating-chamber door 11 in the hydraulic pressure effect current downflow of watering, flows to the distributing pipe 52 that is connected inlet tube 51 front ends.

The water that flow to distributing pipe 52 flows to the top of door 11 according to the arrangement of distributing pipe 52, and a part of water is charged to the inside of water pot 40 by the branched pipe stream that comes out from the middle body branch of distributing pipe 52, and a part of in addition water flows to the upper end of distributing pipe 52.

The water that flows to distributing pipe 52 upper ends flows to the 1st outlet pipe 53 that is connected distributing pipe 52 upper ends, flows to the central portion of ice machine 31, drops on 31 li of ice machines.

The water of falling 31 li of ice machines is accommodated during a specified time according to the control running of ice machine 31, and is frozen the cold air cooling of chamber 12 and freezes.

In addition, the water that stream is charged to 40 li of water pots flows to 22 li of cooling-water machines by the 2nd outlet pipe 54 that is connected water pot 40 other ends, according to the user operation of cooling-water machine 22 is discharged to the outside of refrigerator 10 to be used.

Here, the water that flows to the 2nd outlet pipe 54 is the water that is cooled to assigned temperature in the inside of water pot 40, so the water of discharging by cooling-water machine 22 is cold water.

Therefore, the water that flows to distributing pipe 52 by inlet tube 51 supplies to 31 li of the water pot 40 of door of refrigerator 11 medial surfaces and ice machines, and the water of 40 li of water pots is used after discharge the outside by cooling-water machine 22 when being cooled off by the cold air of refrigerating chamber 13.

In addition, when will keep in repair distributing pipe 52 and the 1st outlet pipe 53 and the 2nd outlet pipe 54, the shell 30 that covers water supplying pipe 50 is separated from the medial surface of above-mentioned door 11, under the state that exposes water supplying pipe 50 to the outside, carried out corresponding maintenance activity.

As mentioned above, the present invention is not limited in the above-mentioned specific preferred embodiment, no matter so long as the those of ordinary skill of technical field that the present invention belongs to who under the prerequisite that does not break away from request scope of the present invention, can both carry out various deformation, and such change is included in the scope of putting down in writing in the request scope.

Claims

1. the water supplying pipe of a distributer for refrigerator, it is arranged on the refrigerating-chamber door of the refrigerator of refrigerating chamber and the arrangement of refrigerating chamber above-below direction, it is characterized in that it is made of inlet tube, distributing pipe, the 1st outlet pipe and the 2nd outlet pipe and is connected with water pot, ice machine and cooling-water machine;

Lower end one side from refrigerating-chamber door when inlet tube is connected on the outside watering is connected to an inside;

Distributing pipe is connected with the upper end of inlet tube, is aligned to till the ice machine position on a top, and simultaneously the part branch branched pipe that comes out is connected in the basifacial water pot in an inboard in the central;

The 1st outlet pipe prolongs and supplies water to ice machine from the upper end of distributing pipe to the direction of ice machine;

The 2nd outlet pipe is connected to the cooling-water machine that is arranged on the face distributor in front of the door from the other end of water pot.

2. the water supplying pipe of distributer for refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that, above-mentioned inlet tube is inserted into the inside of door by the hollow space in the hinge axis that is formed at refrigerating-chamber door lower end hinge.

3. the water supplying pipe of distributer for refrigerator according to claim 1 is characterized in that inlet tube inserts to the lower end of refrigerating-chamber door, in the internal arrangement of door;

For covering the shell that water pot and ice machine and cooling-water machine establish with boxed-section shape at the medial surface of door it is covered, distributing pipe and the 1st outlet pipe and the 2nd outlet pipe are arranged with water pot, ice machine and cooling-water machine and are connected.