CN210036013U

CN210036013U - Door body for refrigerator and refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN210036013U
Application number: CN201920540378.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卢晓东; 李高杰; 宫二栋; 郑元志
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Co Ltd; Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Co Ltd; Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-19
Filing date: 2019-04-19
Publication date: 2020-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 2029-04-19
Also published as: WO2020211574A1

Abstract

The utility model relates to a door body and refrigerator for refrigerator. The door body comprises a door lining used for forming the rear part of the door body and a door shell used for forming the front part of the door body, a foaming space is formed at the rear side of the door shell, and the door lining is arranged to be matched with the rear side of the door shell after foaming materials are injected into the foaming space. The door body also comprises a camera and a mounting bracket for accommodating the camera; wherein the mounting bracket is arranged to be fixed in advance on the front side of the door lining before the door lining is clamped to the door shell, and the camera accommodated in the mounting bracket is exposed to the rear side of the door lining through a notch on the door lining. No matter what kind of deviation occurs in the assembly of the door lining and the door shell, the positioning between the mounting bracket and the door lining is accurate and precise, thereby ensuring that the positioning between the camera contained in the mounting bracket and the door lining is precise. The camera and the door lining are accurately positioned in advance, and the camera is not influenced by foaming and assembly errors between the door lining and the door shell.

Description

Door body for refrigerator and refrigerator

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cold-stored freezing technique especially relates to a door body and refrigerator for refrigerator.

Background

With the development of the internet of things, the intelligent refrigerator is more and more favored by consumers. The camera is used as the 'eyes' of the intelligent refrigerator and is an indispensable important part of the intelligent refrigerator. A built-in camera of a refrigerator is generally installed on a door body of the refrigerator so as to obtain information in the refrigerator.

The existing built-in camera of the refrigerator is generally assembled and positioned on a door shell of a refrigerator door body. In the foaming process of the refrigerator door body, due to the precision problems of foaming equipment and a foaming mould, the problems of inaccurate positioning of a door liner and a door shell, dislocation of the door liner and the like often occur, so that the problems of poor matching of the door liner and a camera, poor appearance and even incapability of accurately positioning and assembling the camera and the door liner can occur.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the first aspect of the present invention is to overcome at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art and to provide a door body for a refrigerator having a camera and a door lining positioned accurately.

A further object of the first aspect of the present invention is to simplify the assembly structure and the assembly process of the camera.

The utility model discloses the purpose of second aspect provides a refrigerator with above-mentioned door body.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a door body for a refrigerator, including a door liner for forming a rear portion of the door body and a door shell for forming a front portion of the door body, a foaming space is formed at a rear side of the door shell, the door liner is configured to be matched to the rear side of the door shell after foaming material is injected into the foaming space, the door body further includes a camera and a mounting bracket for housing the camera; wherein

The mounting bracket is arranged to be fixed on the front side of the door lining in advance before the door lining is clamped to the door shell, and the camera accommodated in the mounting bracket is exposed to the rear side of the door lining through a notch on the door lining.

Optionally, the mounting bracket is in a snap-fit with the door liner;

the mounting bracket is in a cylindrical shape with a front side opening and a rear side opening, a rear side flanging extending from the circumferential edge of the rear side opening to the radial outer side of the rear side opening is arranged at the rear side opening, and an annular groove surrounding the rear side opening is formed in the inner side of the rear side flanging, which is adjacent to the rear side opening; and is

The door liner also comprises a boss part which is protruded forwards from the circumferential edge of the notch and then extends to the radial inner side of the notch, and the boss part is accommodated in the annular groove.

Optionally, the mounting bracket and the door liner are secured together by adhesive means.

Optionally, a first sealing strip is provided at the interface of the mounting bracket and the door liner to form a seal therebetween.

Optionally, the door body further includes:

a cassette for housing a camera cable, the cassette being disposed to be previously disposed at a rear side of the door case before injecting a foaming material into the foaming space of the door case; and is

The mounting bracket and the wire box are in sealing contact after the door liner is clamped to the door shell.

Optionally, a sealing strip is provided at the interface of the mounting bracket and the wire cassette to ensure sealing between the mounting bracket and the wire cassette at the clamping pressure when the door lining is clamped to the door shell.

Optionally, the camera is fixed inside the mounting bracket in a clamping manner; and/or

The line box is fixed on the door shell in a clamping mode.

Optionally, the door shell comprises an upper decoration strip at the upper end, a lower decoration strip at the lower end, a front panel at the front side and two side decoration strips at the two lateral sides, the upper decoration strip, the lower decoration strip, the front panel and the two side decoration strips are preassembled together to form the door shell; wherein

The thread box is arranged on one of the side decorative strips.

Optionally, the door body further includes:

the decorative cover covers the gap of the door lining from the rear side of the door lining, and the decorative cover is clamped on the mounting bracket; and is

And a through hole is formed in the position, right opposite to the front and back of the lens of the camera, of the decorative cover, so that the lens of the camera can acquire an image of the rear side of the door liner through the through hole.

According to the utility model discloses a second aspect, the utility model discloses still provide a refrigerator, it includes the box and the aforesaid is arbitrary the door body, the door body set up in the front side of box.

The utility model discloses an among the refrigerator door body, the camera is held and adorns in the installing support, and the installing support is fixed in advance on the door lining before the foaming of the door body, therefore camera and door lining are location in advance. The installation of camera is irrelevant with the door shell, therefore door shell die sinking foaming process has no influence to the camera to no matter what kind of deviation appears in the assembly with the door shell in the door lining, the location between installing support and the door lining is all accurate and accurate (only the dislocation between installing support and the line box), thereby has guaranteed that the location between the camera and the door lining of holding in the installing support is accurate. That is, the camera and the door lining are accurately positioned in advance, and are not affected by foaming and assembling errors between the door lining and the door shell.

Furthermore, the camera is accommodated in the mounting bracket and can be assembled with the mounting bracket integrally. The mounting bracket and the door lining are fixed in an adhesive mode, so that a complex fixing mechanism is omitted, the assembly structure and the assembly process of the camera are simplified, the assembly difficulty of field operation workers is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved.

Furthermore, the sealing strip is arranged at the interface between the mounting bracket and the door lining, the mounting bracket is glued to the door lining, the sealing between the mounting bracket and the door lining is realized, the operation of manual secondary sealing is omitted, the assembly process of the camera is further simplified, the production efficiency is improved, and meanwhile, the sealing process is also improved.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a door body for a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic exploded view of a door body according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic exploded view of a portion of a door body structure according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a portion of a door body according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional exploded view of the components of FIG. 4 after disassembly;

fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a camera head and mounting bracket according to an embodiment of the present invention after disassembly;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The utility model discloses at first provide a door body for refrigerator, figure 1 is according to the utility model discloses a schematic structure chart for the door body of refrigerator of an embodiment, figure 2 is according to the utility model discloses a schematic structure of the door body of an embodiment decomposes view, and figure 3 is according to the utility model discloses a schematic structure of the part door body structure of an embodiment. Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the door body 10 of the present invention includes a door lining 11 for forming the rear portion of the door body 10 and a door shell 12 for forming the front portion of the door body 10, a foaming space (not shown in the figure) is formed at the rear side of the door shell 12, and the door lining 11 is configured to be installed at the rear side of the door shell 12 after injecting foaming material into the foaming space. That is, the door 10 is a mold-open foaming method.

Further, the door 10 further includes a camera 13 and a mounting bracket 14 for accommodating the camera 13. The camera head 13 is housed in the mounting bracket 14 and is fixed in the mounting bracket 14 by suitable means so as to remain relatively stationary with respect to the mounting bracket 14.

Specifically, the mounting bracket 14 is provided to be fixed to the front side of the door liner 11 in advance before the door liner 11 is clamped to the door shell 12, that is, the mounting bracket 14 is fixed to the front side of the door liner 11 in advance before the door liner 11 is clamped to the door shell 12, thereby forming one body with the door liner 11. The camera 13 accommodated in the mounting bracket 14 is exposed to the rear side of the door liner 11 through the notch 111 of the door liner 11 to facilitate taking an image of the rear side of the door liner 11.

The utility model discloses an among the refrigerator door body, camera 13 is held in installing support 14, and installing support 14 is fixed in advance on door liner 11 before the foaming of door body 10, therefore camera 13 and door liner 11 are the location in advance. The installation of the camera 13 is independent of the door shell 12, so that the door shell 12 is open and the foaming process has no influence on the camera 13, and the positioning between the mounting bracket 14 and the door lining 11 is accurate and precise (only the misalignment between the mounting bracket 14 and the wire box 15) no matter what deviation occurs in the assembly of the door lining 11 and the door shell 12, thereby ensuring that the positioning between the camera 13 and the door lining 11 accommodated in the mounting bracket 14 is precise. That is, the camera 13 and the door liner 11 are accurately positioned in advance, not affected by foaming, nor by assembly errors between the door liner 11 and the door shell 12.

Fig. 4 is a schematic sectional view of a part of a door body according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 5 is a schematic enlarged view of a part a in fig. 4, and fig. 6 is a schematic sectional exploded view of parts exploded from fig. 4. In some embodiments, the mounting bracket 14 is snap-fit to the door liner 11. That is, the structure of the mounting bracket 14 is adapted to the suction shape of the door liner 11, and when the mounting bracket 14 is assembled to the front side of the door liner 11, the mounting bracket 14 is completely attached to the front side of the door liner 11, which facilitates the mounting bracket 14 to be firmly assembled to the door liner 11.

Specifically, the mounting bracket 14 may have a cylindrical shape having a front-side opening 141 and a rear-side opening 142. The front opening 141 and the rear opening 142 are through in the front-rear direction, and the camera 13 housed in the mounting bracket 14 is closer to the rear opening 142 and is exposed through the rear opening 142. The rear opening 142 is provided with a rear flange 143 extending from a circumferential edge of the rear opening 142 radially outward of the rear opening 142, and an annular groove 1431 surrounding the rear opening 142 is provided on an inner side of the rear flange 143 adjacent to the rear opening 142.

Further, the door liner 11 further includes a boss portion 112 projecting forward from a peripheral edge of the notch 111 and extending radially inward of the notch 111, and the boss portion 112 is accommodated in the annular groove 1431 of the mounting bracket 14. Therefore, the interface between the door liner 11 and the mounting bracket 14 is not a simple plane, but is a step surface formed by two bent planes, so that the contact area between the door liner 11 and the mounting bracket 14 is increased, and good sealing is favorably formed between the two.

In some embodiments, the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11 are secured together by adhesive. The camera 13 is housed in the mounting bracket 14 and can be assembled integrally with the mounting bracket 14. The mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11 are fixed in an adhesive manner, so that a complex fixing mechanism is omitted, the assembly structure and the assembly process of the camera 13 are simplified, the assembly difficulty of field operation workers is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved.

Specifically, an adhesive material may be provided on a surface of the rear side of the mounting bracket 14 facing the door liner 11, for example, an adhesive sponge may be coated on a rearward surface of the rear-side flange 143 to enhance sealability between the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11 while adhering the same thereto. For another example, an adhesive structure such as a double-sided tape, a 3M adhesive tape, or the like may be provided on the rearward surface of the rear side flange 143 to achieve adhesion between the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11.

In some embodiments, a first sealing strip 16 is provided at the interface of the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11 to form a seal therebetween. Therefore, the mounting bracket 14 is glued to the door liner 11, the sealing between the mounting bracket and the door liner is realized, the manual secondary sealing operation is omitted, the assembly process of the camera 13 is further simplified, the production efficiency is improved, and the sealing process is improved.

Specifically, the first sealing strip 16 may be an annular sealing strip or a plurality of independent elongated sealing strips. The seal strip 16 may be an adhesive sponge to further enhance the connection between the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11 while achieving a seal between the mounting bracket 14 and the door liner 11.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a camera and a mounting bracket after disassembly according to an embodiment of the present invention. In some embodiments, the camera 13 is fixed inside the mounting bracket 14 by means of clamping, so as to facilitate the installation and removal of the camera 13, and meanwhile, the installation stability of the camera 13 is enhanced.

Specifically, at least one buckle 132 may be disposed on the lens holder 131 of the camera 13, and correspondingly, at least one locking groove 144 may be disposed on an edge of the rear opening 142 of the mounting bracket 14, and each buckle 132 is locked in a corresponding locking groove 144. Further, the number of the hooks 132 may be plural, and the plural hooks 132 are uniformly distributed on both lateral sides of the lens holder 131. Accordingly, the number of the catching grooves 144 is plural, and the plural catching grooves 144 are evenly distributed at both lateral side edges of the rearward opening 142 of the mounting bracket 14.

In some embodiments, the door body 10 further includes a junction box 15 for housing the camera cable, and the junction box 15 is provided to be previously provided at the rear side of the door case 12 before injecting the foaming material into the foaming space of the door case 12. Thus, after the foaming material is injected into the foaming space of the door case 12, the wire case 15 can be firmly fixed to the door case 12 by the foaming pressure and the adhesive force. Further, in order to facilitate the assembly and positioning of the wire cassette 15 with the door case 12, the wire cassette 15 and the door case 12 may be fixed together by means of snap-fitting.

Further, the mounting bracket 14 and the wire cassette 15 are in sealing contact after the door liner 11 is clamped to the door shell 12. When the door lining 11 is matched with the door shell 12, certain matching pressure is generated, under the matching pressure, good sealing between the mounting bracket 14 and the wire box 15 can be ensured, the operation of manual secondary sealing is omitted, the assembly process is simplified, and the production efficiency is improved.

In some embodiments, a second sealing strip 17 is provided at the interface of the mounting bracket 14 and the cassette 15 to ensure sealing between the mounting bracket 14 and the cassette 15 under the clamping pressure when the door liner 11 is clamped to the door shell 12.

Specifically, the second sealing strip 17 may be an adhesive sponge which is adhered to the front surface of the mounting bracket 14 in advance, so that when the door lining 11 and the door shell 12 are assembled, no manual intervention is needed, and the assembly difficulty is greatly reduced. A front flange 145 extending from a circumferential edge of the front opening 141 to a radially outer side of the front opening 141 is provided at the front opening 141, and the second weather strip 17 may be adhered to a forward surface of the front flange 145.

In some embodiments, the door body 10 further includes a trim cover 18 covering the notch 111 of the door liner 11 from the rear side of the door liner 11, the trim cover 18 being snap-fit to the mounting bracket 14. A through hole 181 is opened at a position of the decorative cover 18, which is opposite to the front and rear of the lens 133 of the camera 13, to allow the lens 133 of the camera 13 to take an image of the rear side of the door liner 11 through the through hole 181. The deco cover 18 may cover the mounting bracket 14 exposed from the notch 111 of the door liner 11 and other structures of the camera head 13 other than the lens 133, which are not desired to be exposed, that is, only the lens 133 of the camera head 13 is exposed from the through hole 181 of the deco cover 18, and the other structures are covered, thereby making the appearance of the door body 10 more beautiful.

Further, the upper and lower ends of the decorative cover 18 may be respectively provided with a hook 183 protruding backward. Upper and lower end edges of the rear opening 142 of the mounting bracket 14 may be respectively provided with catching protrusions 146 extending inward of the rear opening 142. The hook 183 is engaged with the protrusion 146.

In some embodiments, the door case 12 includes an upper molding 121 at an upper end, a lower molding 122 at a lower end, a front panel 123 at a front side, and two side molding 124 at both lateral sides, the upper molding 121, the lower molding 122, the front panel 123, and the two side molding 124 being preassembled together to form the door case 12. Wherein the thread cassette 15 is provided on one of the side molding strips 124. Accordingly, the mounting bracket 14 may be fixed to a lateral side portion of the door liner 11 corresponding to one of the side molding strips 124, without affecting the aesthetic appearance of the door body 10, and an image of the rear side of the door body 10 may be obtained by the camera 13 housed in the mounting bracket 14.

In some embodiments, the number of cameras 13 may be one, two, or more than three. Each camera 13 is housed on a corresponding one of the mounting brackets 14, and the connection cable of each camera 13 is housed in a corresponding one of the wire boxes 15.

The utility model provides a refrigerator, figure 8 is according to the utility model discloses a schematic structure chart of refrigerator of an embodiment, see figure 8, the utility model provides a refrigerator 1 includes box 20 and the door body 10 that any above-mentioned embodiment described, and door body 10 sets up in the front side of box 20.

Specifically, the case 20 defines therein a storage space for storing articles. The door 10 is disposed at the front side and the rear side of the cabinet 20, and the door lining 11 of the door 10 faces the storage space of the cabinet 20. The camera 13 exposed to the rear side of the door liner 11 through the notch 111 of the door liner 11 can acquire an image in the storage space of the case 20, thereby monitoring the storage condition in the storage space.

The storage space in the cabinet 20 may be divided into a plurality of storage compartments by the rack. The plurality of cameras 13 on the door body 10 may be distributed at intervals in the vertical direction, and are respectively used for acquiring the storage conditions in each storage compartment.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the terms "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", "horizontal", "front", "rear", etc. used for indicating the orientation or the positional relationship are used with reference to the actual use state of the door 10 and the refrigerator 1, and these terms are only used for convenience of description and understanding of the technical solution of the present invention, and do not indicate or imply that the device or the component referred to must have a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail herein, many other variations and modifications can be made, consistent with the principles of the invention, which are directly determined or derived from the disclosure herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.

Claims

1. A door body for a refrigerator comprises a door liner for forming the rear part of the door body and a door shell for forming the front part of the door body, wherein a foaming space is formed at the rear side of the door shell, the door liner is arranged to be matched with the rear side of the door shell after foaming materials are injected into the foaming space,

the door body also comprises a camera and a mounting bracket for accommodating the camera; wherein

2. The door body of claim 1,

the mounting bracket is assembled with the door liner;

3. The door body of claim 1,

the mounting bracket and the door liner are fixed together in an adhesive mode.

4. The door body of claim 1,

a first sealing strip is arranged at the interface of the mounting bracket and the door liner to form sealing between the mounting bracket and the door liner.

5. The door body of claim 1, further comprising:

6. The door body of claim 5,

a sealing strip is provided at an interface of the mounting bracket and the wire cassette to ensure sealing between the mounting bracket and the wire cassette under a clamping pressure when the door liner is clamped to the door shell.

7. The door body of claim 5,

the camera is fixed inside the mounting bracket in a clamping manner; and/or

The line box is fixed on the door shell in a clamping mode.

8. The door body of claim 5,

the door shell comprises an upper decorative strip at the upper end, a lower decorative strip at the lower end, a front panel at the front side and two side decorative strips at the two transverse sides, wherein the upper decorative strip, the lower decorative strip, the front panel and the two side decorative strips are preassembled together to form the door shell; wherein

The thread box is arranged on one of the side decorative strips.

9. The door body of claim 1, further comprising:

10. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising a refrigerator body and the door body according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the door body is arranged on the front side of the refrigerator body.