CN1979062A - Ice making device and refrigerator having same - Google Patents
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Abstract
A refrigerating device and a refrigerator with thereof, including a ice tray with a ice groove opened for holding water on the upside and a cold air flowpath for flowing air cold. Cold air feeded from one side of the ice tray to the other side thereof uniformly along with the cold air flowpath, and ice process is finished in less time.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of ice maker and have the refrigerator of described ice maker, and, more particularly, thus relate to the refrigerator that a kind of water that can evenly freeze to be contained in the ice-making tray is finished the ice maker of ice-making process at short notice and had described ice maker.
Background technology
Generally speaking, refrigerator be utilize the cold air be installed in the freeze cycle parts in the refrigerator and produced, at frozen state or under freezing state, store the equipment of food.Refrigerator comprises refrigerating chamber, and the ice maker of making ice and ice dispenser from the ice of ice maker made to the outside that supply are installed in refrigerating chamber.
Thereby ice maker comprise hold by the ice-making tray external water source supply, that want frozen water with rotate ice-making tray ice-making tray is reversed and ice-making tray in the ice ice of therefore falling into ice dispenser separate motor.At U.S. Patent application publication No.6,351, disclosed the example of conventional refrigerator in 955, it provides a kind of like this refrigerator, this refrigerator along continuous straight runs is injected into the bottom of ice-making tray so that cool off the water that is contained in the ice-making tray gradually from the bottom of ice-making tray with cold air, thereby makes transparency ice.
Yet the cold air that is injected into the ice-making tray bottom disperses on all directions, and therefore the flow velocity of cold air is lowered at short notice.And, the density height of cold air, and therefore cold air has the trend of whereabouts.Thereby, although being along continuous straight runs, injects cold air, cold air falls gradually.As a result, a large amount of cold airs is provided to ice-making tray with the adjacent side of cold air injection portion, and ice-making process is carried out therefore and satisfactorily.Yet a spot of cold air with low flow velocity is provided to the opposite side away from cold air injection portion of ice-making tray, and therefore ice-making process can't be carried out satisfactorily.As a result, till the opposite side place of ice-making tray finishes, need the time of cost prolongation up to ice-making process.
In addition, conventional refrigerator can be made transparency ice; But conventional refrigerator can not promptly be made ice at short notice.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, on the one hand, the refrigerator that the invention provides a kind of ice maker and have this ice maker, wherein, described ice maker is supplied to its opposite side with cold air from a side of ice-making tray equably, thereby finishes ice-making process in the time that shortens.
In another aspect of this invention, refrigerator has the ice maker that need control the ice making time by situation.
According on the one hand, the invention provides a kind of ice maker, described ice maker comprises: ice-making tray, described ice-making tray have thereon the side place and open wide to hold the ice build-up tank of water; Be arranged in below the described ice build-up tank and cold air along its cold air runner that flows.
In one embodiment, the ice that described ice-making tray is connected to the power of rotating rotationally separates motor, so that described ice-making tray is reversed.Described ice maker further comprises the guiding cool air pipe that optionally is connected to described cold air runner, so that cold air only can be supplied to described cold air runner when described ice-making tray is provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up.
Generally speaking, described ice-making tray comprises ice making unit and the guiding cool air portion with described ice build-up tank, wherein, described guiding cool air portion covers the lower surface of described ice making unit, while is apart from the lower surface preset distance of described ice making unit, thereby described cold air runner is limited between described ice making unit and the described guiding cool air portion, described guiding cool air portion has entrance and exit, wherein, described inlet is formed on a side place of described guiding cool air portion, described guiding cool air pipe is connected to described inlet, so that cold air is supplied to described cold air runner by described inlet, described outlet is formed on the opposite side place of described guiding cool air portion, and cold air is discharged from by described outlet.
Described guiding cool air pipe is generally made by the material of elastically deformable, so that when described ice-making tray was provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up, the end of described guiding cool air pipe entered described cold air runner by described inlet projection.
Generally speaking, the end that is connected to the described guiding cool air pipe of described cold air runner forms zigzag, so that the end of described guiding cool air pipe strain easily.
Described ice-making tray typically has a plurality of heat exchange fins at the lower surface place that is formed on described ice making unit, so that described heat exchange fin projection enters described cold air runner, thereby improves the heat exchange efficiency between described ice making unit and the cold air.
Generally speaking, described ice-making tray has a plurality of vortex guiding fins, described a plurality of vortex is guided the lower surface projection of fin from described ice making unit, and extends on the direction perpendicular to the flow of cold air direction, so that produce vortex at the place, top of described cold air runner.
Typically, described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion are made by the material of elastically deformable, so that described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion are separated motor and rotate by described ice when, described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion can be twisted, thereby realize the separation of ice.
Generally speaking, the easier strain of the comparable described ice making unit of making material of described guiding cool air portion.
According on the other hand, the invention provides a kind of refrigerator, described refrigerator comprises: have the refrigerator main body that is defined in refrigerating chamber wherein; Be installed in the evaporimeter at place, described refrigerating chamber rear portion; Be installed in described evaporimeter front so that dispersion and supply cold air are given the guiding pipeline of the upper and lower of described refrigerating chamber; And comprise the ice maker that is used for holding the ice-making tray of wanting frozen water, wherein, described ice-making tray have side place thereon open wide with the ice build-up tank that holds water and be arranged in below the described ice build-up tank, to allow cold air along its cold air runner that flows.
According on the other hand, the invention provides a kind of refrigerator, described refrigerator comprises: have the refrigerator main body that is defined in refrigerating chamber wherein; Be installed in the evaporimeter at place, described refrigerating chamber rear portion; Be installed in described evaporimeter front so that dispersion and supply cold air are given the guiding pipeline of the upper and lower of described refrigerating chamber; And the ice maker that comprises the ice-making tray of holding the water that is used to ice making, wherein, described ice maker further comprises: go up outlet, the cold air that is directed along described guiding pipeline is gone up the top that outlet drains into described ice-making tray by described; Following outlet, the cold air that is directed along described guiding pipeline drain into the bottom of described ice-making tray by described outlet down; With solar term unit (dampingunit), described solar term unit is installed in the described guiding pipeline, gives described cold air supply of going up outlet optionally to limit.
Generally speaking, described outlet and the described outlet down gone up is separately positioned on from described ice-making tray and extends to the top nozzle of upper and lower of described ice-making tray and the end of following nozzle.
Described solar term unit typically comprises air door (damper), and described air door is installed in rotation in the described guiding pipeline, so that optionally described cold air supply of going up outlet is given in restriction.
Generally speaking, thus described solar term unit further comprise under the solenoid effect, moving upward and rotate the bar of described air door in one direction and flexibly support described bar and described bar is returned to the elastic component in its home position.
An aspect that the present invention adds and/or an advantage part will be illustrated in narration subsequently, and a part will be the narration in conspicuous, maybe can realize by enforcement of the present invention.
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This patent or application documents comprise at least one width of cloth color drawings.United States Patent (USP) trademark office should require and under the situation of having paid necessary expenses, and this patent that has color drawings or the copy of patent application publication are provided.From subsequently in conjunction with the accompanying drawings the description to embodiment, these and/or other aspect of the present invention and advantage will become apparent and be more readily understood, in the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a sectional view, schematically illustrates the structure according to the refrigerator of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the sectional view of ice maker, and this ice maker is applied to the refrigerator according to first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is a sectional view, and diagram is according to the performed ice lock out operation of ice maker first embodiment of the invention, that be applied to refrigerator;
Fig. 4 is a decomposition diagram, and diagram is according to the ice-making tray of the ice maker that is applied to refrigerator of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 is a decomposition diagram, and diagram is according to the ice-making tray of the ice maker that is applied to refrigerator of second embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 is the view of the bottom place that is shown in ice-making tray when the cold air runner is not set, ice maker internal cooling airflow speed;
Fig. 7 is the view of the bottom place that is shown in ice-making tray when being provided with the cold air runner, ice maker internal cooling airflow speed;
Fig. 8 is a sectional view, schematically illustrates the structure according to the refrigerator of third embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 9 is a sectional view, shows the operation of solar term unit when carrying out the transparency ice making pattern according to the refrigerator of third embodiment of the invention; And
Figure 10 is a sectional view, shows the operation of solar term unit when carrying out ice making pattern fast according to the refrigerator of third embodiment of the invention.
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Now will be in detail with reference to embodiments of the invention, the example view of this embodiment in the accompanying drawings, wherein, similar Reference numeral is all represented similar element.Below by with reference to the accompanying drawings to described embodiment be described, to explain the present invention.
Describe refrigerator at first with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail according to first embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1, comprise according to the refrigerator with ice maker of the present invention: form the refrigerator outward appearance and open wide at its anterior place with the refrigerator main body 10 that constitutes the refrigerating chamber 11 of wherein storing food and hinge-coupled to a side of refrigerator main body 10 to open and close the door 20 of refrigerating chamber 11.The freeze cycle parts are installed in refrigerator main body 10, as compressor 12, condenser (not shown), evaporimeter 13 and expansion valve (not shown), producing cold air, thereby make the inside of refrigerating chamber 11 can be produced chilled air cools from freezing circulation member.In this embodiment, compressor 12 is positioned at the place, bottom of refrigerator main body 10, and evaporimeter 13 is positioned at the place, rear portion of refrigerating chamber 11.
Be provided with cooling chamber 14 and the guiding pipeline 16 that wherein is provided with evaporimeter 13 at the place, rear portion of refrigerating chamber 11, wherein, guiding pipeline 16 vertically extends in the front of cooling chamber 14, produce the cold air of flash-pot 13 with guiding, thereby cold air can be disperseed and be supplied to the upper and lower of refrigerating chamber 11 equably.Cooling fan 15 is installed in cooling chamber 14, producing inhalation power and to blow the top of power, thereby makes the cold air that produces flash-pot 13 be circulated to refrigerating chamber 11 by guiding pipeline 16 to evaporimeter 13.
At place, top the ice maker 30 of making ice is installed according to the refrigerating chamber 11 of refrigerator of the present invention.Ice dispenser 40 is installed below ice maker 30, and ice dispenser 40 stores the ice of ice maker 30 mades, and where necessary that ice raft is extremely outside.Be provided with at door 20 places and discharge guiding pipeline 21, discharge of the discharge of the internal communication of guiding pipeline 21 and refrigerating chamber 11, thereby the user can take the ice of ice maker 30 mades away under the situation of not opening door 20 with guiding ice.In place, the front portion row of the being provided with ice unit 22 of door 20, row's ice unit 22 concaves down so that easily hold by discharging the ice that guiding pipeline 21 is discharged.
Ice dispenser 40 be included in its upside place open wide, with the ice bank 41 that stores the ice that drops out from ice maker 30 and be installed in rotation in the ice bank 41, ice is supplied to the ice feed unit 42 of discharging guiding pipeline 21 sides.Ice feed unit 42 comprises that forming spirality also turns so that ice is supplied to the feeding motor 42b that discharge guides the feeding wing (feeding wing) 42a of pipeline 21 sides and the necessary rotatory force of feeding wing 42a that rotates.
As shown in Figure 2, ice maker 30 comprises: hold the ice-making tray 31 of wanting frozen water; Ice separates motor 32, described ice separate that motor rotates ice-making tray 31 so as ice-making tray 31 to be reversed and the ice ice-making tray 31 in, made therefore and from ice-making tray 31 separation and fall into ice dispenser 40; And detection is contained in the quantity of the ice in the ice bank 41 so that the ice amount test rod 33 that the operation of ice maker 30 can be opened or closed.On ice maker 30, be furnished with the feed pipe 17 that supplies water to ice-making tray 31 from external water source.In this case, ice-making tray 31 is made by the material of elastically deformable, and when being separated motor 32 rotations with convenient ice-making tray 31 by ice, ice-making tray 31 can be twisted, thereby realizes the separation to the ice of making in ice-making tray 31.
Further comprise the cold air runner 31b that is formed on place, ice-making tray 31 bottoms according to ice maker 30 of the present invention, cold air flows along cold air runner 31b, thereby the water that is contained in the ice-making tray 31 is cooled off equably, and therefore ice-making process is finished in the shortening time.
In order to form cold air runner 31b, ice-making tray 31 comprises ice making unit 31c and the 31d of guiding cool air portion, wherein, ice making unit 31c has side place thereon and opens wide a plurality of ice build-up tank 31a that want frozen water and be arranged to matrix structure to hold, and the 31d of guiding cool air portion covers the lower surface of ice making unit 31c, spaced a predetermined distance from from the lower surface of ice making unit 31c simultaneously, so that cold air runner 31b is limited between ice making unit 31c and the 31d of guiding cool air portion.Be provided with inlet 31e at the side place of the 31d of guiding cool air portion, cold air is provided to cold air runner 31b by inlet 31e.Be provided with outlet 31f at the opposite side place of the 31d of guiding cool air portion, discharge cold air runner 31b by outlet 31f along the cold air that cold air runner 31b flows.
And 31d of guiding cool air portion and ice making unit 31c are made by the material of elastically deformable, thereby so that the 31d of guiding cool air portion can be separated the separation that motor 32 distortions realize ice by ice with ice making unit 31c.In this case, since the 31d of guiding cool air portion from ice separate the axle of motor 32, just the distance that separates of center of rotation is longer than ice making unit 31c, so the elastic deformation amount of the 31d of guiding cool air portion need be bigger than ice making unit 31c.Therefore, the material of the making guiding cool air 31d of portion can be than the easier strain of ice making unit 31c.
Therefore, the cold air of introducing by the inlet 31e that is arranged on the 31d of guiding cool air portion one side place is guided by level along cold air runner 31b, and is discharged from cold air runner 31b by the outlet 31f that is arranged on the 31d of guiding cool air portion opposite side place then.Therefore, cold air is supplied to its opposite side from the side of ice making unit 31c equably.Thereby ice making unit 31c is cooled off equably, thereby ice-making process was finished in the shortening time.
Fig. 6 is the view of the bottom place that is shown in ice-making tray 31 when cold air runner 31b is not set, ice maker 30 internal cooling airflow speed, and the view of Fig. 7 when to be the place, bottom that is shown in ice-making tray 31 be provided with cold air runner 31b, ice maker 30 internal cooling airflow speed.
Can see from Fig. 6 and 7, when the place, bottom of ice-making tray 31 is not provided with cold air runner 31b, when cold air along the bottom of ice-making tray 31 from an effluent of ice-making tray 31 time to its opposite side, the flow velocity of cold air promptly reduces, and when being provided with cold air runner 31b at place, the bottom of ice-making tray 31, the flow velocity of cold air remains on certain level or higher.Therefore, when being provided with cold air runner 31b at the place, bottom of ice-making tray 31, the cold air of capacity can be provided to the opposite side of ice-making tray 31, and ice-making process is finished in the shortening time therefrom.
In order in the manner described above cold air to be supplied to cold air runner 31b, guiding cool air pipe 34 to be connected to inlet 31e, to receive cold air and the cold air that receives is supplied to cold air runner 31b from guiding pipeline 16.In this embodiment, guiding cool air pipe 34 optionally is connected to inlet 31e, so that only when ice-making tray 31 is provided with in ice build-up tank 31a mode up, cold air can be supplied to cold air runner 31b by inlet 31e.
For this reason, guiding cool air pipe 34 is by elastomeric material, make as rubber, and the end of guiding cool air pipe 34 is assemblied in the cold air runner 31b by inlet 31e.Therefore, being separated motors 32 when ice-making tray 31 by ice rotates so that carry out the ice lock out operation and when being reversed, as shown in Figure 3, guiding cool air pipe 34 is by strain, and elasticity is recovered then.As a result, guiding cool air pipe 34 is thrown off from inlet 31e, and, therefore interrupted for the cold air supply of cold air runner 31b.When ice lock out operation when finishing, ice-making tray is back to its home position so that carry out ice-making process, and guiding cool air pipe 34 is by strain, and elasticity is recovered then.As a result, guiding cool air pipe 34 is connected to inlet 31e once more, and, therefore recover for the cold air supply of cold air runner 31b.In this embodiment, the end that reaches the guiding cool air pipe 34 in the cold air runner 31b forms zigzag, so that by when easily strain and elasticity are recovered, the end of guiding cool air pipe 34 can separate or inserts inlet 31e from inlet 31e at the end of guiding cool air pipe 34.
In order to make cold air flow along cold air runner 31b, inject nozzle 18 and be formed on guiding pipeline 16 places with specific speed or bigger speed.Injection nozzle 18 forms and makes internal diameter reduce gradually to improve the flow velocity by the cold air that injects nozzle 18.Guiding cool air pipe 34 is connected to the end that injects nozzle 18.
In this embodiment, for the cold air that flows along cold air runner 31b can more effectively be carried out ice-making process, a plurality of heat exchange fin 31g are formed on the lower surface place of ice making unit 31c, so that heat exchange fin 31g is as shown in Figure 4 to lower process, thereby the more effective heat exchange of realization between ice making unit and cold air.
In this embodiment, heat exchange fin 31g is formed on the lower surface place of ice making unit 31c.Yet, also can form vortex guiding fin 31h at the lower surface place of ice making unit 31c, so that vortex guiding fin 31h extends to the top of cold air runner 31b as shown in Figure 5, produce vortex with place, top at cold air runner 31b.Vortex guiding fin 31h extends on the direction perpendicular to the flow of cold air direction.Some cold airs that flow along cold air runner 31b are vortex motion because of vortex guiding fin 31h at the place, top of cold air runner 31b.Therefore, more effectively realized heat exchange between ice making unit 31c and the cold air.
Fig. 8 is the view of diagram according to the refrigerator with ice maker of third embodiment of the invention.
The refrigerator with ice maker according to third embodiment of the invention is configured to need control the ice making time by situation.Specifically, this refrigerator is configured to carry out the transparency ice making pattern and ices making pattern fast, in the transparency ice making pattern, water is freezed the relatively long time lentamente to obtain transparency ice, and icing fast in the making pattern, water is promptly being freezed in the relatively short time to obtain common ice.
For this reason, as shown in Figure 9, guiding pipeline 16 is provided with outlet 19a in the position corresponding to ice-making tray 31 tops, cold air drains into the top of ice-making tray 31 by last outlet 19a, and, guiding pipeline 16 is provided with outlet 19b down in the position corresponding to ice-making tray 31 bottoms, cold air drains into the bottom of ice-making tray 31 by following outlet 19b.In guiding pipeline 16, solar term unit 50 is installed, optionally to limit the cold air supply of giving last outlet 19a.In this embodiment, last outlet 19a and following outlet 19b form as one with guiding pipeline 16, thereby make outlet 19a and following outlet 19b from guiding pipeline 16 to front protrusion.Last outlet 19a and following outlet 19b are arranged on the end of top nozzle 19U and following nozzle 19L, wherein, top nozzle 19U and following nozzle 19L form and make the internal diameter of top nozzle 19U and following nozzle 19L reduce gradually to improve the flow velocity by the cold air of top nozzle 19U and following nozzle 19L respectively.
Therefore, freezed the relatively long time lentamente when obtaining the transparency ice making pattern of transparency ice when carrying out water wherein, the cold air supply of last outlet 19a is given in 50 restrictions of solar term unit, thereby makes cold air only be transported to the bottom of ice-making tray 31 by following outlet 19b.As a result, cold air is transported to the water that is contained in the ice-making tray 31 by ice-making tray 31, and the water that is contained in the ice-making tray 31 is frozen into transparency ice thus lentamente.As shown in Figure 10, when carrying out water wherein and in the relatively short time, promptly being freezed with the quick ice making pattern that obtains common ice, solar term unit 50 allows cold air to be supplied to outlet 19a, thereby makes cold air be transported to the upper and lower of ice-making tray 31 by last outlet 19a and following outlet 19b.The result, cold air is transported to the bottom that is contained in the water in the ice-making tray 31 by ice-making tray 31, and, simultaneously, be supplied to the cold air on ice-making tray 31 tops to be transported to the top that is contained in the water in the ice-making tray 31, the water that is contained in the ice-making tray 31 is frozen into transparency ice therefrom lentamente.
Solar term unit (damping unit) 50 comprises: air door (damper) 51, air door 51 are installed in rotation in the guiding pipeline 16 optionally to limit the cold air supply of giving last outlet 19a; Bar 53, bar 53 can move upward under the effect of solenoid 52, to rotate air door 51; With elastic component 54, elastic component 54 is steady arm 53 and when the power that is sent to bar 53 by solenoid 52 is released flexibly, makes bar 53 return to its home position.
Therefore, in the transparency ice making pattern, bar 53 moves upward under the effect of solenoid 52 with rotation air door 51, and, therefore, the cold air supply that last outlet 19a is given in air door 51 restrictions.As a result, cold air only is transported to the bottom of ice-making tray 31 by following outlet 19b.Icing in the making pattern fast, on the other hand, bar moves downward under the elastic force effect of elastic component 54, returns to its home position to make air door 51.As a result, cold air is transported to the upper and lower of ice-making tray 31 by last outlet 19a and following outlet 19b.
Apparent from above narration, be characterised in that according to the refrigerator with ice maker of the present invention: the cold air runner is formed on the place, bottom of ice-making tray.Thereby cold air is supplied to its opposite side by the side from ice-making tray equably, and therefore, ice-making process is finished at short notice.
In addition, be characterised in that according to the refrigerator with ice maker of the present invention: the guiding pipeline be provided with cold air by wherein being drained into ice-making tray top last outlet and cold air by wherein being drained into the following outlet of ice-making tray bottom, and, the solar term unit is installed in the guiding pipeline, optionally to control the cold air supply of giving last outlet.Therefore, optionally carry out the quick ice making pattern of making common ice at short notice or the transparency ice making pattern of making transparency ice according to the refrigerator with ice maker of the present invention.
Although illustrated and described some embodiments of the present invention; yet those skilled in the art can understand; can make change to these embodiment under the situation that does not break away from principle of the present invention and marrow, protection scope of the present invention is limited in claim and the equivalent thereof.
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1. ice maker comprises:
Ice-making tray, described ice-making tray have side place thereon open wide, with the ice build-up tank that holds water and be arranged in below the described ice build-up tank and cold air along its cold air runner that flows.
2. ice maker as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
The ice that described ice-making tray is connected to the power of rotating rotationally separates motor, so that described ice-making tray is reversed, and
Described ice maker further comprises the guiding cool air pipe that optionally is connected to described cold air runner, so that cold air only is supplied to described cold air runner when described ice-making tray is provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up.
3. ice maker as claimed in claim 2, wherein, described ice-making tray comprises ice making unit and the guiding cool air portion with described ice build-up tank, wherein, described guiding cool air portion covers the lower surface of described ice making unit, be arranged to lower surface one preset distance simultaneously apart from described ice making unit, thereby described cold air runner is limited between described ice making unit and the described guiding cool air portion, described guiding cool air portion has inlet that is formed on one side place and the outlet that is formed on the opposite side place, wherein, described guiding cool air pipe is connected to described inlet so that cold air is supplied to described cold air runner by described inlet, and cold air is discharged from by described outlet.
4. ice maker as claimed in claim 3, wherein, described guiding cool air pipe is made by the material of elastically deformable, so that when described ice-making tray was provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up, the end of described guiding cool air pipe entered described cold air runner by described inlet projection.
5. ice maker as claimed in claim 4, wherein, the end that is connected to the described guiding cool air pipe of described cold air runner forms zigzag, so that the end of described guiding cool air pipe strain easily.
6. ice maker as claimed in claim 3, wherein, described ice-making tray has a plurality of heat exchange fins at the lower surface place that is formed on described ice making unit, so that described heat exchange fin projection enters described cold air runner, thereby improves the heat exchange efficiency between described ice making unit and the cold air.
7. ice maker as claimed in claim 3, wherein, described ice-making tray has a plurality of vortex guiding fins, described a plurality of vortex guiding fin is from the lower surface projection of described ice making unit, and on the direction perpendicular to the flow of cold air direction, extend, so that produce vortex at the place, top of described cold air runner.
8. ice maker as claimed in claim 3, wherein, described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion are made by the material of elastically deformable, so that when being separated motor and rotate by described ice in described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion, thereby described ice making unit is twisted with described guiding cool air portion and realizes separating of ice.
9. ice maker as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the making material of described guiding cool air portion is than the easier strain of described ice making unit.
10. refrigerator, described refrigerator comprises: have the refrigerator main body that is defined in refrigerating chamber wherein; Be installed in the evaporimeter at place, described refrigerating chamber rear portion; Guiding pipeline, described guiding pipeline are installed in described evaporimeter front so that dispersion and supply cold air are given the upper and lower of described refrigerating chamber; And ice maker, described ice maker comprises and is used for holding the ice-making tray of wanting frozen water, wherein:
Described ice-making tray have side place thereon open wide with the ice build-up tank that holds water and be arranged in below the described ice build-up tank and cold air along its cold air runner that flows.
11. refrigerator as claimed in claim 10, wherein:
The ice that described ice-making tray is connected to the power of rotating rotationally separates motor, so that described ice-making tray is reversed, and
Described ice maker further comprises the guiding cool air pipe that optionally is connected to described cold air runner, so that cold air only is supplied to described cold air runner when described ice-making tray is provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up.
12. refrigerator as claimed in claim 11, wherein, described ice-making tray comprises ice making unit and the guiding cool air portion with described ice build-up tank, wherein, described guiding cool air portion covers the lower surface of described ice making unit, be configured to lower surface one preset distance simultaneously apart from described ice making unit, thereby described cold air runner is limited between described ice making unit and the described guiding cool air portion, described guiding cool air portion has inlet that is formed on one side place and the outlet that is formed on its opposite side place, wherein, described guiding cool air pipe is connected to described inlet, so that cold air is supplied to described cold air runner by described inlet, and cold air is discharged from by described outlet.
13. refrigerator as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described guiding cool air pipe is made by the material of elastically deformable, so that when described ice-making tray was provided with in described ice build-up tank mode up, the end of described guiding cool air pipe entered described cold air runner by described inlet projection.
14. refrigerator as claimed in claim 13, wherein, the end that is connected to the described guiding cool air pipe of described cold air runner forms zigzag, so that the end of described guiding cool air pipe strain easily.
15. refrigerator as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described ice-making tray has a plurality of heat exchange fins at the lower surface place that is formed on described ice making unit, so that described heat exchange fin projection enters described cold air runner, thereby improves the heat exchange efficiency between described ice making unit and the cold air.
16. refrigerator as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described ice-making tray has a plurality of vortex guiding fins, described a plurality of vortex guiding fin enters described cold air runner from the lower surface projection of described ice making unit, and have perpendicular to the width on the direction of flow of cold air direction, so that produce vortex at the place, top of described cold air runner.
17. refrigerator as claimed in claim 13, wherein, described ice maker further comprises the injection nozzle, described injection nozzle extends to entrance side from the guiding pipeline, and have gradually reduce, to improve the internal diameter of the cold air flow velocity by wherein, described guiding cool air pipe is connected to the end of described injection nozzle.
18. refrigerator as claimed in claim 12, wherein, described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion are made by the material of elastically deformable, so that described ice making unit and described guiding cool air portion are separated motor and rotate by described ice when, thereby described ice making unit is twisted with described guiding cool air portion and realizes separating of ice.
19. refrigerator as claimed in claim 18, wherein, described guiding cool air portion is by making than the material of the easier strain of described ice making unit.
20. a refrigerator, described refrigerator comprises: have the refrigerator main body that is defined in refrigerating chamber wherein; Be installed in the evaporimeter at place, described refrigerating chamber rear portion; Guiding pipeline, described guiding pipeline are installed in described evaporimeter front so that dispersion and supply cold air are given the upper and lower of described refrigerating chamber; And ice maker, described ice maker comprises the ice-making tray of holding the water that is used to ice making, wherein:
Described ice maker further comprises: go up outlet, the cold air that is directed along described guiding pipeline is gone up the top that outlet drains into described ice-making tray by described; Following outlet, the cold air that is directed along described guiding pipeline drain into the bottom of described ice-making tray by described outlet down; With the solar term unit, described solar term unit is installed in the described guiding pipeline, gives described cold air supply of going up outlet optionally to limit.
21. refrigerator as claimed in claim 20, wherein, described outlet and the described outlet down gone up is separately positioned on from described ice-making tray and extends to the top nozzle of upper and lower of described ice-making tray and the end of following nozzle.
22. refrigerator as claimed in claim 20, wherein, described solar term unit comprises air door, and described air door is installed in rotation in the described guiding pipeline, so that optionally described cold air supply of going up outlet is given in restriction.
23. refrigerator as claimed in claim 22, wherein, described solar term unit further comprises: rotate the bar of described air door in one direction thereby can move upward under the solenoid effect; Flexibly support described bar and described bar is returned to the elastic component in home position.
24. refrigerator as claimed in claim 10 further comprises ice bank, described ice bank side place is thereon opened so that store the ice that drops out from described ice maker.
25. refrigerator as claimed in claim 24 further comprises: hinge-coupled is to a side of described refrigerator main body, to open and close the door of described refrigerating chamber; And discharge the guiding pipeline, the internal communication of described discharge guiding pipeline and described refrigerating chamber is with the discharge of guiding ice, so that the user can take the ice of described ice maker made away under the situation of not opening described door.
26. refrigerator as claimed in claim 25, further comprise be installed in rotation in the described ice bank, ice is supplied to the ice feed unit of discharging the guiding pipe side, wherein, described ice feed unit comprises and forms spirality and rotatable so that ice is supplied to the feeding wing of discharging the guiding pipe side and rotates power to rotate the feeding motor of the described feeding wing.
27. refrigerator as claimed in claim 26 further comprises row's ice unit, described row ices the unit and concaves down at the place, front portion of described door, so that hold the ice of discharging by described discharge guiding pipeline.
28. refrigerator as claimed in claim 24 further comprises ice amount test rod, so that detect the quantity that is contained in the ice in the described ice bank, thereby opens or close the operation of described ice maker.
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