CN1967106A - Refrigerator having independent sterilization duct - Google Patents

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CN1967106A
CN1967106A CNA200610081987XA CN200610081987A CN1967106A CN 1967106 A CN1967106 A CN 1967106A CN A200610081987X A CNA200610081987X A CN A200610081987XA CN 200610081987 A CN200610081987 A CN 200610081987A CN 1967106 A CN1967106 A CN 1967106A
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权埈铉
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Abstract

A refrigerator includes a chilled air duct and a sterilizer duct independently installed in the vertical direction to uniformly emit active hydrogen and negative ions for sterilization and deodorization into an entire space of a compartment. The sterilizer duct is vertically installed in the compartment in parallel relation to the chilled air duct and an MPI generator for the sterilization and deodorization is installed in an end thereof. In the first embodiment of the present invention, the sterilizer duct is coupled with a blower duct in which a blower fan for blowing air into the sterilizer duct, and the blower duct may be coupled with a rotation duct connected to a driving motor installed in a housing. In the second embodiment, the sterilizer duct and the chilled air duct have a single entrance and two exits and may be coupled with respective exits of a distribution duct in which a damper is installed.

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Has the independently refrigerator of sterilization duct
Technical field
The present invention relates to refrigerator, in particular to sterilization duct wherein be used for that cold air (chilled air) is assigned to indoor cold duct and independently be provided with, with sterilization and deodorizing, described like this chamber can keep clean.
Background technology
Usually, refrigerator is formed structure to keep for example chamber of refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber on suitable temperature, and described chamber is used to hold food, is contained in described indoor food like this and can be held the fresh of long period.Food vegetables, meat, fish and various lifes and that cooked is contained in this refrigerator.
Like this, unless described chamber is cleaned periodically, described chamber will be full of the smell that sends from various foods, and mould, bacterium, virus is in described indoor propagation, and described like this chamber is can be to the user unhealthy and do not make us comfortable.
In order to remove bacterium, virus and smell, a kind of refrigerator has been proposed, wherein sterilizer and deodoriser be installed in indoor, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No.6-82151 for example.
The sterilizer and the deodoriser of traditional refrigerator comprise: lid, described lid have and are used for from the inlet of described chamber suction air and the air that is sucked are discharged into once more the discharge port of described chamber; Be installed in high-pressure generator and ozone generating electrode in the lid; Ion produces electrode; And blower fan, the air of introducing described lid like this also is discharged into described indoor in lid once more by ozone gas sterilization and deodorizing, like this in the air of the described indoor circulation cleaning that becomes.
But, because the sterilizer and the deodoriser of traditional refrigerator are arranged between the frame, by sterilization and by the air of deodorizing be discharged into they near, be not diffused into equably in the space of described chamber by the air of sterilization and deodorizing, reduced the effect of sterilization and deodorizing like this.
In addition, because its interior air of the sterilizer of traditional refrigerator and a deodoriser sterilization and deodorizing, the sterilizer of traditional refrigerator and deodoriser can not carry out sterilization effectively and deodorizing to described indoor air.
Summary of the invention
Present invention has been made in view of the above problem, an aspect of of the present present invention provides a kind of refrigerator, wherein sterilizer duct independently along the vertical direction setting, by sterilizer duct equably is discharged into described indoor with the air that will comprise reactive hydrogen and anion from cold duct.
Other one side of the present invention provides a kind of refrigerator, and the ion generator that wherein is used to produce reactive hydrogen and sterilization ion is installed to improve sterilization and deodorizing effect near the end of sterilizer duct.
Other one side of the present invention provides a kind of refrigerator, and wherein sterilizer duct is mounted with rotation, and the air by sterilizer duct can be discharged into described indoor along a plurality of directions like this.
Another aspect of the present invention has provided a kind of can the adjustment easily by the air capacity of sterilizer duct and the refrigerator of air speed.
According to one side, the invention provides a kind of refrigerator, comprise: at least one chamber, be used for cool-air feed to the cold duct of described chamber, be installed in described indoor sterilizer duct independently and be used for sterilizing and air being supplied to the ion generator of described chamber by sterilizer duct from cold duct.
Refrigerator also comprises the cooling fan that is used for cold air is blown into cold duct, with the blower fan that indoor air is blown to sterilizer duct, wherein a plurality of cold air drainage ports and be formed in cold duct and the sterilizer duct with the spacing of rule respectively by the sterilizing and air discharge port.
Cold duct can be in the central area setting of the rear side of described chamber, and sterilizer duct can be arranged on the corner of the rear side of described chamber.
Ion generator can be by microplasma ion generator (micro plasma iongenerator; MPI) constitute, described microplasma ion generator is used to produce anion and reactive hydrogen, and can be arranged in the sterilizer duct.
Refrigerator also comprises: the blowing line that is connected with sterilizer duct, blower fan wherein is installed; The rotating pipe that is connected with blowing line; With the drive motor that is used to rotate described rotating pipe, wherein sterilizer duct is mounted to rotate with blowing line.
Drive motor is installed in the housing on the rear wall that is fixed to described chamber, the rotating shaft of drive motor be arranged on rotating pipe in intracardiac hub (hub) be connected to rotate described rotating pipe.
Fan motor in blower fan and the hub that is fixed to the center that is arranged on blowing line is connected to be rotated.
Sterilizer duct, blowing line and rotating pipe can have cylinder form and rotation.
Insert projection and insert recess and can be formed in the end edge of blowing line, insert projection and insert recess and can be formed in each end of blowing line and rotating pipe, the insertion projection of sterilizer duct is inserted in the insertion recess of blowing line like this, the insertion projection of blowing line is inserted in the insertion recess of rotating pipe, is used for conveniently being separated from each other and being connected to each other.
The inner surface of sterilizer duct is coated with deploy troops on garrison duty charging (anti-electrification) material, for example polyethylene.
Refrigerator also comprises distribution duct, described distribution duct is installed between sterilizer duct and the cold duct cold duct be communicated to sterilizer duct and stop described cold duct from described sterilizer duct, and wherein ion generator is installed in sterilizer duct or the distribution duct.
Distribution duct can have first and second outlets and be arranged on the interior cooling fan of inlet of distribution duct.Sterilizer duct and cold duct are connected respectively to first and second outlets of distribution duct, and the cold air that blows by cooling fan flow to sterilizer duct and cold duct by distribution duct like this.
Refrigerator comprises that also the air door (damper) that is installed between the outlet of first and second within the distribution duct is to open and close first and second outlets.Air door drives to regulate the opening degree of first and second outlets by drive motor.
Ion generator can be arranged on the place, side of first outlet of the sterilizer duct that is connected within the distribution duct.
Described refrigerator also comprises the cool-air feed pipeline of the inlet that is connected to distribution duct, is used for that wherein air is incorporated into described indoor a plurality of introducings hole and is formed in the front side of cool-air feed pipeline, and evaporimeter is in cooling fan is installed in the cool-air feed pipeline.
Additional aspect of the present invention and/or advantage will be set forth from following explanation, and partly become obviously from described specification, perhaps can recognize by implementing the present invention.
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These and/or others of the present invention and advantage will and become in conjunction with the accompanying drawings obviously and will be readily appreciated that from the following explanation of embodiment, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the front view that shows refrigerator, wherein according to the first embodiment of the present invention, is used for that the sterilizer duct that indoor air carries out sterilization and deodorizing is parallel to cold duct and is arranged in the refrigerating chamber.
Fig. 2 is the decomposition diagram of demonstration according to the structure of the sterilizer duct of the first embodiment of the present invention, is used to allow sterilizer duct rotate;
Fig. 3 is the vertical sectional view of the structure of the sterilizer duct among Fig. 2;
Fig. 4-the 6th has shown the view that the direction according to the discharge port of the sterilizer duct of the first embodiment of the present invention changes, wherein Fig. 4 has shown that the direction of discharge port is changed the wall of air towards the chamber that comprises the sterilization ion like this and discharges, Fig. 5 has shown that the direction of discharge port is changed the air that comprises the sterilization ion like this and discharges towards the central area of described chamber, and Fig. 6 has shown that the direction of discharge port is changed the rear wall of air towards the chamber that comprises the sterilization ion like this and discharges; With
Fig. 7 is the cutaway view that the line A-A in Fig. 1 is got, and has shown and be assigned to described indoor from the sterilizer duct air discharged according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 8 has shown the front view of refrigerator, wherein is used for sterilizer duct to indoor air disinfection and deodorizing according to a second embodiment of the present invention and is parallel to cold duct and is arranged in the refrigerating chamber;
Fig. 9 is the enlarged perspective of the part of the sterilizer duct among Fig. 8, and has shown that cold air is assigned in sterilizer duct and the cold duct by the distribution duct that air door and ion generator are installed in wherein;
Figure 10-the 12nd has shown the view of the operation that is installed in the air door in the distribution duct according to a second embodiment of the present invention, wherein Figure 10 has shown the complete closing cool air pipeline of air door that is installed in the distribution duct, and open sterilizer duct fully, all Quilt with air conditioning from the cooling fan discharging supply in the sterilizer duct like this, Figure 11 has shown that air door opens cold duct fully, and close sterilizer duct fully, all like this Quilt with air conditioning supply in the cold duct, Figure 12 has shown that air door opens cold duct and partly open sterilizer duct fully, and some Quilt with air conditioning supply in the sterilizer duct like this; With
Figure 13 is the cutaway view that the line B-B in Fig. 8 is got, and has shown that the cold air that comprises reactive hydrogen and sterilization ion that produces by ion generator is assigned to described indoor by sterilizer duct equably.
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Now will be in detail with reference to embodiments of the invention, the example of described embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, and wherein identical reference symbol is quoted components identical in whole accompanying drawing.Described embodiment is described below with by being explained with reference to the drawings the present invention.
Fig. 1 is the front view that has shown refrigerator, wherein according to the first embodiment of the present invention, is used for that the sterilizer duct that indoor air carries out sterilization and deodorizing is parallel to cold duct and is arranged in the refrigerator compartment.As shown in fig. 1, refrigerator according to the first embodiment of the present invention has open front box-like casing 1, described casing 1 has the space that is used to hold food, dividing plate 2, be used for casing 1 is divided into two chambers 3,4, with two doors 5,6, described door 5,6 is hinged to the front side of casing 1 to open and close chamber 3,4.
Usually, two chamber 3,4 usefulness act at (preferably at subzero 16 degrees centigrade to subzero 21 degrees centigrade) refrigerating chamber 3 under the zero degrees celsius with as being used for the refrigerating chamber 4 that on zero degrees celsius (preferably from 3 degrees centigrade to 5 degrees centigrade) hold food.Like this, after this, described chamber 3 is called as refrigerating chamber 3, and described chamber 4 is called as refrigerating chamber 4.
In order to settle various foods, described food is contained in refrigerating chamber 3 and the refrigerating chamber 4 effectively, and refrigerating chamber 3 and refrigerating chamber 4 have frame 7 and accommodation box 8 (referring to Fig. 7).
In the rear side of refrigerating chamber 4, cold air being assigned to equably in the oval-shaped refrigerating chamber 4, sterilizer duct 60 is independent of cold duct 10 and is provided for sterilization and deodorizing air and a large amount of reactive hydrogen and anions are discharged in the refrigerator along vertical direction cold duct 10 along the vertical direction setting.
In the rear side of refrigerating chamber 4, blower fan 17 and evaporimeter 18 are communicated with cold duct 10 so that cool-air feed is arrived in the cold duct 10 (referring to Fig. 7), and in cold duct 10 and sterilizer duct 60, a plurality of cold air drainage port ones 1 and sterilizing and air discharge port 61 are settled with the spacing of rule.
Cold duct 10 is arranged on the central area of refrigerating chamber 4, and the sterilizer duct 60 of installing from cold duct 10 is arranged on the corner of refrigerating chamber 4 independently, supplies in the refrigerating chamber 4 with cold air with by sterilization, deodorizing air respectively thus.
Alternatively, cold duct 10 and sterilizer duct 60 can be arranged on each corner of the rear side of refrigerating chamber 4, and perhaps cold duct 10 can be arranged on corner, and sterilizer duct 60 can be arranged on central area.
Sterilizer duct 60 is mounted with rotation in refrigerating chamber 4, thereby quickly and efficiently to air disinfection, deodorizing in the refrigerating chamber 4.After this, wherein sterilizer duct 60 be mounted with in refrigerating chamber 4 rotation structure describe with reference to Fig. 2-6.
Fig. 2 is the decomposition diagram of demonstration according to the structure of the sterilizer duct of the first embodiment of the present invention, and described structure is used to allow sterilizer duct rotate, and Fig. 3 is the vertical sectional view of the structure of the sterilizer duct among Fig. 2.
Shown in Fig. 2,3, refrigerator according to a first advantageous embodiment of the invention comprises the blowing line 70 that is used at refrigerating chamber 4 inner circulating airs, the rotating pipe 80 that is used for rotating forward and backward sterilization duct 60, and the air by sterilizer duct 60 is assigned to refrigerating chamber 4 equably like this; With the housing 90 that is used for rotatably supporting described rotating pipe 80.
The sterilizer duct 60 that wherein forms a plurality of sterilizing and air discharge port 61 has cylinder form, described cylinder form has the open underside and the upside of closing, and comprise be installed near opening downside with will a large amount of reactive hydrogens by sterilizer duct 60 and anion be discharged into the interior ion generator 40 of refrigerating chamber 4.
Usually, sterilizer duct 60 is higher than 10 by having surface resistivity 12The expanded polystyrene (EPS) of Ω/sq forms, and causes charging phenomenon, and ion is from ion generator 40 emissions, eliminates ion thus and the amount of the ion that reduces to be launched.In order to remove the charging of ion, the inner surface painting polyethylene of sterilizer duct 60, anti-charging material.
Ion generator 40 is that design is only to produce hydrogen ion (H by plasma discharge under environmental pressure +) microplasma ion (MPI) generator.The MPI generator produces electronics to produce reactive hydrogen (hydrogen atom) around the MPI generator, reactive hydrogen and reactive oxygen species on every side are with the harmful active oxygen of neutralisation, with by eliminating derived bacterium in the cell that for example is absorbed into virus and mould derived bacterium, and can the sterilization the cation that is harmful to health not being discharged in the air.
The ion generator of implementing by the MPI generator 40 comprises ceramic wafer 41 that is used as the cation generator and the needle electrode 42 that is used as anion generator.When positive high voltage is applied to ceramic wafer 41, the water (H in the air 2O), produce hydrogen ion (H like this owing to plasma discharge is ionized +), and when negative high-voltage was applied to needle electrode 42, because plasma discharge, cation was around needle electrode 42 accumulations, and a large amount of electrodes is transmitted into air from needle electrode 42.
Because it is very unstable to be transmitted into a large amount of electronics of air, electronics is by oxygen molecule (O 2) catch to produce superoxide anion (O 2-), needle electrode 42 produces electronics and superoxide anion like this.
When needle electrode 42 release electronics, described electronics produces and makes up to produce hydrogen atom (perhaps reactive hydrogen) with the hydrogen ion that passes through near needle electrode 42 from ceramic wafer 41.Like this, make up to form hydrogen atom from the hydrogen ion of ceramic wafer 41 generations and from needle electrode 42 electrons emitted, the element that is launched like this becomes hydrogen atom and superoxide anion at last.
Hydrogen atom and superoxide anion mix with air by sterilizer duct 60, and are discharged at last in the refrigerating chamber 4, and bacterium and virus are by sterilization like this, and mould derived bacterium is removed, and air is thus by deodorizing.
Blowing line 70 has cylinder form, the diameter of the diameter of described cylinder form and sterilizer duct 60, open end is identical being connected by sterilizer duct 60 circulating airs and with sterilizer duct 60 in refrigerating chamber 4, and comprises the blower fan 75 that is installed in wherein.
For blower fan 75 is installed in the blowing line 70, in the center of blowing line 70, the hub 73 that is connected to a plurality of ribs 74 is provided, described rib 74 extends from the inner rim of blowing line 70, fan motor 76 is installed in the hub 73, and blower fan 75 is connected with fan motor 76 like this.
Like this, fan motor 76 is connected with the hub 73 of blowing line 70, the rotating shaft 77 of fan motor 76 is inserted in the axis hole 75a of the center that is formed on blower fan 75, blower fan 70 is installed in the blowing line 70 like this, and the air in the refrigerating chamber 4 can supply in the sterilizer duct 60 by blowing line 70 thus.
Rotating pipe 80 is provided with the hub 83 that is connected to a plurality of ribs 84 that heart place therein extend from the inner rim of blowing line 80, and hub 83 is formed with axis hole 83a, and rotating pipe 80 is allowed to be connected to drive motor 91 described later like this.
Similar to blowing line 70, rotating pipe 80 has the identical cylinder form of diameter and blowing line 70 and is connected with blowing line 70, and described blowing line 70 is connected with sterilizer duct 60.In order to reach this purpose, in the lower limb of sterilizer duct 60 and blowing line 70, form to insert projection 62,72 respectively, and thereon in the edge, form respectively and insert recess 71,81.
The housing 90 that is fixed to the rear wall of refrigerating chamber 4 comprises the drive motor 91 that is used to rotate described rotating pipe 80.Drive motor 91 comprises and raises up and insert rotating shaft 92 in the axis hole 83a in the hub 83 that is formed on rotating pipe 80.Housing 90 can be connected with the rear wall of refrigerating chamber 4 by screw or alternate manner.
Like this, as shown in Figure 3, the rotating shaft 92 of drive motor 91 is inserted in the axis hole 83a of rotating pipe 80, rotating pipe 80 is mounted with rotation in housing 90 like this, the insertion projection 72 of blowing line 70 is inserted in the insertion recess 81 of rotating pipe 80, the insertion projection 62 of sterilizer duct 60 is inserted in the insertion recess 71 of blowing line 70, sterilizer duct 60 is connected with blowing line 70 like this, and sterilizer duct 60, blowing line 70 and rotating pipe 80 rotatably support by housing 90 like this.
Sterilizer duct 60, blowing line 70 and rotating pipe 80 are easy to and promptly are separated from each other.
Fig. 4-the 6th has shown the view that the direction according to the discharge port of the sterilizer duct of the first embodiment of the present invention changes, and Fig. 7 has shown from the sterilizer duct air discharged according to the first embodiment of the present invention and is assigned in the described indoor oval space.
As shown in Figure 4, ion detector in being installed in refrigerating chamber 4 and contaminant detector (not shown) need to determine a large amount of reactive hydrogen and ions to come refrigerating chamber 4 is carried out sterilization and deodorizing, when driving fan motor 76 is with going barrel fan 75, drive ion generator 40, air in the refrigerating chamber 4 is introduced into blowing line 70 by the downside of rotating pipe 80 via blower fan 75 like this, the air that is introduced into the like this sterilizer duct 60 of flowing through, and mix with a large amount of reactive hydrogens and anion from ion generator 40 emissions.
By mix with reactive hydrogen and anion by sterilization and by the deodorizing air in sterilizer duct 60 on flow, and distribute equably towards the sidewall of refrigerating chamber 4 by each sterilizing and air discharge port 61 along vertical direction, so as shown in Figure 7, by the air of sterilization and deodorizing sterilization and the whole refrigerating chamber 4 of deodorizing apace.
For reactive hydrogen and anion being gathered the central area of refrigerating chamber 4, drive motor 91 is actuated to the described rotating shaft 92 of rotation on predetermined angle widdershins, then as shown in Figure 5, rotating pipe 80 that is connected with blowing line 70 with drive motor 91 and the sterilizer duct that is connected with rotating pipe 80 60 rotations, like this sterilizer duct 60 by sterilizing and air discharge port 61 towards the setting of the central area of refrigerating chamber 4.
In addition, for reactive hydrogen and anion being gathered the rear wall of refrigerating chamber 4, drive motor 91 further is actuated to the described rotating shaft 92 of rotation on predetermined angle widdershins, then, as shown in Figure 6, rotating pipe 80, blowing line 70 and sterilizer duct 60 are rotated together, like this sterilizer duct 60 by the rear wall setting of sterilizing and air discharge port 61 towards refrigerating chamber 4.
When drive motor 91 is actuated in predetermined angular range continuously clockwise and is rotated counterclockwise the rotating shaft 92 of drive motor 91, the air that comprises a large amount of reactive hydrogens and anion can more promptly be assigned in the whole space of refrigerating chamber 4 by sterilizer duct 60.
When ion detector and contaminant detector determine air in the refrigerating chamber 4 by sterilization and deodorizing to certain degree, the rotary speed of blower fan 75 reduces, the amount and the speed of the air stream by sterilizer duct 60 can be reduced like this.
Through after the preset time, when the sterilization of determining to finish air in refrigerating chamber 4 and deodorizing, ion generator 40, fan motor 76 and drive motor 71 are stopped to prevent by sterilizer duct 60 further sterilization and deodorizing.
Although in the first embodiment of the present invention, sterilizer duct, blowing line and rotating pipe have circular cross section, and described shape is not limited thereto, and can have polygonal shape.
Then, refrigerator according to a second embodiment of the present invention is elaborated with reference to Fig. 8-13.After this, in the refrigerator according to this embodiment, identical numeral is assigned to the parts similar according to the refrigerator of the first embodiment of the present invention, omits detailed description thereof like this.
Fig. 8 has shown the front view of refrigerator, wherein according to a second embodiment of the present invention, is used for cold-storage chamber sterilizing and the sterilizer duct of indoor air deodorization is parallel to cold duct being arranged in the refrigerating chamber.As shown in Figure 8, in the rear side of the refrigerating chamber 4 of refrigerator according to a second, preferred embodiment of the present invention, be provided with: cold duct 10, install in vertical direction, Quilt with air conditioning is assigned in the refrigerating chamber 4 equably like this; With sterilizer duct 20, described sterilizer duct 20 is installed along vertical direction and is parallel to cold duct 10, with discharging by sterilization with by the air of deodorizing, and will a large amount of reactive hydrogens and anion emission arrive in the whole space of refrigerating chamber 4.
In addition, in the rear side of refrigerating chamber 4, be provided with: the distribution duct 30 that is connected to the side (being described as downside among Fig. 8) of cold duct 10 and sterilizer duct 20; With cool-air feed pipeline 15, described cool-air feed pipeline 15 is connected to distribution duct 30 and installs therein and is provided with cooling fan 17 and evaporimeter 18.
Formation is formed with a plurality of air introducings hole 16 (referring to Figure 13) that is used for the air in the refrigerating chamber 4 is introduced cool-air feed pipeline 15 with a plurality of cold air drainage port ones 1 of the spacing arrangement of rule with by sterilizing and air discharge port 21 in the front side of cool-air feed pipeline 15 in the front side of cold duct 10 and sterilizer duct 20.
The air door (damper) 50 that is used to regulate the cold air that blows via cooling fan 17 by cold duct 10 and sterilizer duct 20 is installed and is used for a large amount of reactive hydrogens and anion are transmitted into ion generator 40 in the refrigerating chamber 4 by sterilizer duct 20 in that distribution duct 30 is inner.
Similar to the sterilizer duct 60 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, sterilizer duct 20 according to a second embodiment of the present invention is higher than 10 by having surface resistivity 12The expanded polystyrene (EPS) of Ω/sq forms, the inner surface painting polyethylene of sterilizer duct 20, anti-charging material.
Like this, when cooling fan 17 was driven, the air of introducing cold duct 15 turned cold by evaporimeter 18, flows to cold duct 10 and/or sterilizer duct 20 by distribution duct 30, from cold air drainage port one 1 with by 21 dischargings of sterilizing and air discharge port, be assigned to then in the refrigerating chamber 4.
Fig. 9 is the enlarged perspective of the part of the sterilizer duct among Fig. 8, and has shown that cold air is assigned to sterilizer duct and cold duct by the distribution duct that air door and ion generator wherein have been installed.As shown in Figure 9, distribution duct 30 has the roughly Y shape structure that is connected with cover plate 30a and has inlet 31 and first, second outlet 32,33 that is respectively formed in its end.
Cold duct 15 inserts and is connected with inlet 31, and sterilizer duct 20 is inserted and is connected with first outlet 32, and cold duct 10 inserts and is connected with second outlet 33.Like this, the Quilt with air conditioning that is blown into distribution duct 30 from cool-air feed pipeline 15 is assigned in cold duct 10 and the sterilizer duct 20.
Between first and second outlets 32,33 in distribution duct 30, air door 50 is mounted to open first and second outlets 32,33 alternatively.Air door 50 is by the plate manufacturing of the size identical with the cross section of first and second outlets 32,33, opposite end with the end that is connected to drive motor 51 and the cover plate 30a that is hinged to distribution duct 30 exports 32,33 opening degree with by drive motor 51 rotations thereby control first and second.
Ion generator 40 is provided with at the place, side of first outlet that is connected to the sterilizer duct 20 within the distribution duct 30, is assigned to sterilizer duct 20 by sterilization with by the air of deodorizing and a large amount of reactive hydrogen and anions like this.Nature, ion generator 40 can be installed in the inlet of sterilizer duct 20.
As describing among first embodiment, the ion generator of implementing by the MPI generator 40 comprises ceramic wafer 41 that is used as the cation generator and the needle electrode 42 that is used as anion generator.Hydrogen atom that reciprocation by ceramic wafer 41 and needle electrode 42 produces and superoxide anion flow to sterilizer duct 20 with to being contained in airborne bacterium and virus is carried out sterilization and removed mould derived bacterium from first outlet 32.
Amount and flow velocity that air door 50 controls send to the cold air of sterilizer duct 20 export 32 opening degree to regulate and distribute first of pipeline 30, pass through reactive hydrogen and ionic weight that ion generator 40 produces like this, more accurately, superoxide anion (super-oxide anions) amount is optimised, and after this this describing with reference to Figure 10-12.
As shown in Figure 10, ion detector in being installed in refrigerating chamber 4 and contaminant detector (not shown) determine to need the purpose of sterilization and deodorizing that a large amount of reactive hydrogens and ion be used for refrigerator 4, and air door 50 starts drive motors 51 and is connected to first of sterilizer duct 20 and exports 32 to close second outlet 33 that is connected to cold duct 10 fully and to open fully.
Under this state, cooling fan 17 and ion generator 50 are activated (activated), all send to the cold airflow of distribution duct 30 through sterilizer duct 20 from cool-air feed pipeline 15, a large amount of like this reactive hydrogens and ion send to cold air in the short period of time, cause cold air sterilization and deodorizing.In addition, as shown in Figure 13, the cold air that comprises a large amount of reactive hydrogens and ion leave sterilizer duct 20 by sterilizing and air discharge port 21, and be assigned to equably in the whole space of refrigerator 4, cause promptly to refrigerator 4 sterilizations and deodorizing.
As shown in figure 11, ion detector and contaminant detector determine to finish sterilization and the deodorizing in the refrigerator 4, air door 50 drives described drive motor 51 and is connected to first of sterilizer duct 20 and exports 32 to open second outlet 33 that is connected to cold duct 10 fully and to close fully, and stops ion generator 40 and send to cold duct 10 with the cold air that will not have anion and reactive hydrogen.
Simultaneously, as shown in figure 12, when air door 50 is opened cold duct 10 fully and partly opened sterilizer duct 20 to control the opening degree of second outlet 32, the cold air that the flow velocity of the cold air of the sterilizer duct of flowing through 20 comprises reactive hydrogen and anion very soon so promptly flows out sterilizer duct 20, so more effectively prevents the anion charging phenomenon in sterilizer duct 20 and remotely sends the cold air that comprises reactive hydrogen and anion from refrigerator 4.
As mentioned above, refrigerator of the present invention comprise be independent of cold duct in refrigerating chamber along the sterilizer duct of vertical direction setting equably reactive hydrogen and anion are sent in the whole space of refrigerating chamber by sterilizer duct, the whole space of refrigerating chamber can be by sterilization and deodorizing effectively like this.
In addition, in refrigerator according to the present invention, because sterilizer duct is mounted with rotation, the flow direction and the flow rate of the air by sterilizer duct are controlled easily like this, can optimize emission measure, emission rate and the transmit direction of reactive hydrogen and anion.
In addition, because air door is installed in the distribution duct that is connected to sterilizer duct, to control amount and flow velocity easily by the air of sterilizer duct, can optimize the emission measure and the emission rate of reactive hydrogen and anion, and the operating time of ion generator, so also can reduce power consumption.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown and illustrate, but those of ordinary skill is appreciated that, under the situation that does not deviate from spirit of the present invention and essence, can make amendment to the present invention, its scope is by claims and be equal to and limit, and can carry out multiple variation with reference to embodiments of the invention.

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1. refrigerator comprises:
At least one chamber;
Be used for the cold duct of cool-air feed to described chamber;
Sterilizer duct, described sterilizer duct are independent of cold duct and are installed in described indoor; With
Ion generator, described ion generator are used for by sterilizer duct sterilizing and air being supplied to described chamber.
2. refrigerator according to claim 1 also comprises:
Be used for cold air is blown into the cooling fan of cold duct; With
Blower fan, described blower fan is blown into described sterilizer duct with described indoor air,
Wherein a plurality of cold air drainage ports and be formed in cold duct and the sterilizer duct with the spacing of rule respectively by the sterilizing and air discharge port.
3. refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein, described cold duct is arranged on the central area of the rear side of described chamber, and sterilizer duct is arranged on the corner of the rear side of described chamber.
4. refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein, described ion generator is made of microplasma ion (MPI) generator that is used to produce anion and reactive hydrogen, and is arranged in the described sterilizer duct.
5. refrigerator according to claim 2 wherein, also comprises:
Blowing line, described blowing line is connected with sterilizer duct, and blower fan is installed in the described blowing line;
The rotating pipe that is connected with blowing line; With
Be used to rotate the drive motor of described rotating pipe,
Wherein said sterilizer duct is mounted to rotate with described blowing line.
6. refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein, described drive motor is installed in the housing on the rear wall that is fixed to described chamber, the rotating shaft of drive motor be arranged on rotating pipe in intracardiac hub be connected to rotate described rotating pipe.
7. refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein, the fan motor in described blower fan and the hub that is fixed to the center that is arranged on blowing line is connected to be rotated.
8. refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein, described sterilizer duct, blowing line and rotating pipe have cylinder form and rotation.
9. refrigerator according to claim 8, wherein, insert projection and insert recess and be formed in the end edge of blowing line, insert projection and insert recess and be formed in each end of blowing line and rotating pipe, the insertion projection of sterilizer duct is inserted in the insertion recess of blowing line like this, the insertion projection of blowing line is inserted in the insertion recess of rotating pipe, is used for conveniently being separated from each other and being connected to each other.
10. refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein, the inner surface of described sterilizer duct is coated with the electric material of deploying troops on garrison duty.
11. refrigerator according to claim 10, wherein, described anti-electric material comprises polyethylene.
12. refrigerator according to claim 1 also comprises distribution duct, described distribution duct is installed between sterilizer duct and the cold duct cold duct being communicated to sterilizer duct and with described cold duct and the blocking-up of described sterilizer duct,
Wherein said ion generator is installed in sterilizer duct or the distribution duct.
13. refrigerator according to claim 12, wherein, described sterilizer duct comprise with regular spaces form a plurality of by the sterilizing and air discharge port, the anion that produces by ion generator is assigned to equably in the whole space of described chamber by the sterilizing and air discharge port by each like this.
14. refrigerator according to claim 13, wherein, described ion generator is formed by microplasma ion (MPI) generator that is used to produce reactive hydrogen and anion.
15. refrigerator according to claim 13, wherein, described distribution duct has first and second outlets and is arranged on the interior cooling fan of inlet of distribution duct;
Described sterilizer duct and described cold duct are connected respectively to first and second outlets of distribution duct, and the cold air that blows by cooling fan flows through described sterilizer duct and described cold duct by distribution duct like this.
16. refrigerator according to claim 15 also comprises air door, described air door is installed in the distribution duct and exports to open and close described first and second between first and second outlets.
17. refrigerator according to claim 15, wherein, described air door drives to regulate the opening degree of described first and second outlets by drive motor.
18. refrigerator according to claim 15, wherein, described ion generator is arranged on the place, side of first outlet of the sterilizer duct that is connected within the distribution duct.
19. refrigerator according to claim 15 wherein, also comprises the cool-air feed pipeline of the inlet that is connected to distribution duct,
Be used for that wherein air is introduced described indoor a plurality of introducings hole and be formed in the front side of cool-air feed pipeline, evaporimeter is in cooling fan is installed in the cool-air feed pipeline.
20. refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein, described ion generator comprises:
Ceramic wafer as the cation generator; With
Needle electrode as anion generator.
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