CN210197794U - Integrated inner container and ice maker - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an integrated inner container and ice maker, which comprises an ice storage box with a first opening at the top, wherein a water receiving box which is integrated with the ice storage box is arranged at one end of the ice storage box, a second opening which is parallel to the first opening is arranged at the top of the water receiving box, two side plates of the water receiving box adjacent to the ice storage box are respectively and correspondingly provided with a wing plate, and the wing plates are used for being matched and fixed with an ice maker shell; the water receiving box and the ice storage box are integrally formed, so that an assembly gap generated by a split design is avoided, water flow in the cooling process and the deicing process of the evaporator can flow back into the water receiving box, and the safety of the ice maker in the working process is improved.

Description

Integrated inner container and ice maker

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of refrigerators, in particular to an integrated inner container and an ice maker device.

Background

The ice maker is a common refrigeration electric appliance, the evaporator is matched with a refrigerant medium to rapidly cool liquid water to prepare ice blocks, and the prepared ice blocks can be stored in the inner container to keep low temperature for a long time.

In the existing ice making process, a proper amount of liquid water is often injected into a water receiving box for precooling to a certain degree, the liquid water is conveyed into an evaporator through a water pump, the liquid water is solidified under the action of a refrigerant medium to form ice blocks, and then the ice blocks are deiced to convey the formed ice blocks into an ice storage box for storage; the inventor finds that the existing water receiving box and the existing ice storage box are of split structures and need to be respectively installed on the ice maker, so that the installation steps are complex, an assembly gap is generated between the water receiving box and the ice storage box after the installation, part of liquid water can drip between the water receiving box and the ice storage box in the water pump water conveying and ice removing processes, the liquid water is easy to leak from the assembly gap, and the use safety of the ice maker is affected.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides an aim at the defect that prior art exists, provides an integral type inner bag and ice machine, adopts the integrative mode reversing molding structure of water receiving box and ice storage box, eliminates the fit-up gap between water receiving box and the deicing box to reach and improve inner bag sealing performance, avoid the liquid water seepage to take place the effect of short circuit.

In order to achieve the purpose, the following technical scheme is adopted in the application:

the utility model provides an integral type inner bag, has first open-ended ice storage box including the top, the one end of ice storage box is equipped with the water receiving box with ice storage box integrated into one piece, water receiving box top is equipped with the second opening with first opening parallel and level, two curb plates tops that water receiving box and ice storage box are adjacent correspond respectively and are equipped with a pterygoid lamina, the pterygoid lamina is used for fixing with the cooperation of deicing machine shell.

Further, the bottom surface of the water receiving box is positioned between the opening of the ice storage box and the bottom surface of the ice storage box.

Furthermore, the inner space of the water receiving box comprises a first area and a second area which are communicated with each other, the bottom surface of the first area is an inclined surface, and one end far away from the second area is higher than one end close to the second area.

Furthermore, the bottom of the second area is provided with a first through hole which is used for communicating the inside of the water receiving box with an external water source.

Furthermore, the tops of the two side plates of the ice storage box corresponding to the wing plates are respectively connected with the tops of the two side plates of the water receiving box to form side plates of the inner container together.

Furthermore, the wing plate is correspondingly arranged above the side plate of the inner container, one end, far away from the water receiving box, of the wing plate is an inclined plane, and the inclined plane is used for being matched with the door plate to seal the inner container.

The application also provides an ice maker provided with the integrated inner container.

Further, the ice maker comprises a shell, the shell comprises a left side plate, a front plate, a right side plate and a rear plate which are sequentially connected end to end, two wing plates of the integrated inner container are respectively installed in a matched mode with the left side plate and the right side plate, the water receiving box is installed in a matched mode with the rear plate, and the ice storage box is installed in a matched mode with the front plate.

Further, the top of shell still is equipped with the roof, two clearances are formed jointly with the top of two pterygoid laminas to the lower bottom surface of roof, two clearance fit have a door plant, the door plant can be followed two clearances slide.

Preferably, the door plate can fall to the inclined plane of the wing plate when moving to the end, far away from the rear plate, of the two gaps, so that the door plate, the shell and the top plate jointly realize sealing of the inner container.

Compared with the prior art, the application has the advantages and positive effects that:

(1) by integrally forming the water receiving box and the ice storage box, an assembly gap generated by a split design is avoided, water flow in the cooling process and the deicing process of the evaporator can flow back into the water receiving box, and the safety of the ice maker in the working process is improved;

(2) through the integrally formed water receiving box and the ice storage box, air exchange above the water receiving box and the ice removing box is improved, and heat is absorbed from the water receiving box when ice cubes in the ice storage box are slowly melted, so that the effect of improving the precooling efficiency of the water receiving box is achieved;

(3) the wing plates are arranged to extend the two sides of the ice storage box upwards, so that the available space above the liner is improved, and the arrangement of other elements is facilitated;

(4) form two clearances through pterygoid lamina top and roof bottom surface and regard as the slide, the door plant can slide between pterygoid lamina and roof, when the door plant does not seal the inner bag, can be fine hide the door plant, compare in the open door plant of side and improved the aperture, compare in open door plant on the open door plant and reduced the interference of door plant with other components to conveniently take the ice-cube.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the application and, together with the description, serve to explain the application and are not intended to limit the application.

Fig. 1 is a schematic overall structure diagram of embodiment 1 of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the door panel and the top panel according to embodiment 2 of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the housing and the base of embodiment 2 of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the housing according to embodiment 2 of the present application.

Wherein: 1. the ice storage box comprises an ice storage box body, 2, a water receiving box body, 3, a wing plate, 4, a first area, 5, a second area, 6, a slope, 7, a left side plate, 8, a front plate, 9, a right side plate, 10, a rear plate, 11, a base, 12, a door plate, 13 and a top plate.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the following detailed description is exemplary and is intended to provide further explanation of the disclosure. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an", and/or "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof;

for convenience of description, the words "up", "down", "left" and "right" when appearing in this application are intended only to designate directions that are consistent with the up, down, left and right directions of the drawings themselves, and not to limit the structure, but merely to facilitate description of the invention and to simplify description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be considered as limiting the application.

The terms "mounted", "connected", "fixed", and the like in the present application should be understood broadly, and for example, the terms "mounted", "connected", and "fixed" may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated; the two components can be connected mechanically or electrically, directly or indirectly through an intermediate medium, or connected internally or in an interaction relationship, and specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

As introduced in the background art, the existing water receiving box and the existing ice storage box in the prior art are of a split structure and need to be respectively installed on the ice maker, so that not only are installation steps complicated, but also an assembly gap is generated between the water receiving box and the ice storage box after installation, and part of liquid water can drip between the water receiving box and the ice storage box in the processes of water delivery and deicing by a water pump, so that the liquid water is easy to leak from the assembly gap, and the use safety of the ice maker is influenced; the present application provides an integrated inner container and ice maker to solve the above technical problems.

Example 1

In an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1, an ice maker liner is provided.

The inner bag structure for integrated into one piece, the front portion is ice storage box 1 rear portion for water receiving box 2, the side of inner bag is pterygoid lamina 3, the pterygoid lamina cover the top at two curb plates of ice storage box and water receiving box to play the effect that increases the ice storage box space, the top of ice storage box and water receiving box is equal open-type structure, its top parallel and level, the top of water receiving box is used for setting up the evaporimeter.

Of course, it can be understood that the forming mode of the inner container can be adjusted adaptively according to the material of the inner container, for example, by injection molding; the interior of the ice storage box is of a cuboid structure, and of course, in other embodiments, the ice storage box can be of structures with other shapes, can be matched with an ice maker and is convenient to install; a gap is reserved between the water receiving box and the ice storage box, so that the water receiving box and the ice storage box can be conveniently supported in an auxiliary mode, the top of the water receiving box is communicated with the bottom of the ice storage box, and heat exchange is formed between the two wing plates to a certain degree; the wing plates are arranged to extend upwards to the two sides of the ice storage box, so that the available space above the liner is improved, and the arrangement of other elements can be facilitated.

In some embodiments, adjacent faces of the water receptacle and the ice bank share a side.

Further, the bottom surface of the water receiving box is positioned between the opening of the ice storage box and the bottom surface of the ice storage box.

The degree of depth with the water receiving box suitably reduces to make the volume of ice-storage box be greater than the volume of water receiving box, can improve the precooling efficiency of water receiving box low temperature, the low temperature hydroenergy that the water pump was taken out from the water receiving box is enough more quick to cool down on the evaporimeter and solidify.

Furthermore, the inner space of the water receiving box comprises a first area 4 and a second area 5 which are communicated with each other, the bottom surface of the first area is an inclined surface, one end far away from the second area is higher than one end close to the second area, and a first through hole is formed in the bottom of the second area and is used for communicating the inside of the water receiving box with an external water source.

The water receiving box receives water flow supplied by an external water source, collects liquid water which is not solidified on the evaporator and liquid water which is melted in the deicing process, and stores the liquid water in the water receiving box, and the collected liquid water has low temperature and can quickly exchange heat with the water flow supplied by the external water source, so that the temperature of the liquid water in the water receiving box can be quickly reduced, and the ice making process of the next evaporator can be supplied.

The wing plate is correspondingly arranged above the side plate of the inner container, one end, far away from the water receiving box, of the wing plate is an inclined surface 6, and the inclined surface is used for being matched with a door plate to seal the inner container.

Of course, it can be understood that the inclined plane is arranged at one end of the wing plate, so that the side face of the whole wing plate is in a trapezoidal plate structure or a pentagonal plate structure with a cutting angle, and the inclined plane parts on the two wing plates are parallel and have the same height, and can be matched and attached to one door plate 12 to seal the front part of the inner container.

By integrally forming the water receiving box and the ice storage box, an assembly gap generated by a split design is avoided, water flow in the cooling process and the deicing process of the evaporator can flow back into the water receiving box, and the safety of the ice maker in the working process is improved;

through integrated into one piece's water receiving box and ice storage box, improved the air exchange of water receiving box and deicing box top, follow the water receiving box and absorb the heat when the ice-cube in the ice storage box slowly melts to reach the effect that improves water receiving box precooling efficiency.

Example 2

In another exemplary embodiment of the present application, an ice maker using the above-mentioned inner container is also provided.

The ice maker comprises a shell and a base 11, the shell is installed on the base of the ice maker and comprises a left side plate 7, a front plate 8, a right side plate 9 and a rear plate 10 which are sequentially connected end to end, two wing plates of the integrated inner container are installed with the left side plate and the right side plate in a matched mode respectively, the water receiving box is installed with the rear plate in a matched mode, and the ice storage box is installed with the front plate in a matched mode.

Of course, it can be understood that the shell plays a role in protecting and supporting the inner container and also plays a role in preserving heat of the inner container, and in other implementation modes, a heat preservation material is further arranged in a gap between the shell and the inner container, so that the inner container is prevented from directly exchanging heat with the outside, and the melting speed of making ice blocks is reduced.

The top of the shell is also provided with a top plate 13, the lower bottom surface of the top plate and the tops of the two wing plates form two gaps together, the two gaps are matched with a door plate, and the door plate can slide along the two gaps;

when the door plate moves to one end of the two gaps far away from the rear plate, the door plate can fall to the inclined plane of the wing plate, so that the door plate, the shell and the top plate jointly seal the inner container.

The door plate is of a plate structure, a convex block is arranged on the top surface of one end, close to the rear plate, of the door plate, when the door plate slides outwards along the gap, the front end of the door plate can extend out of the top plate, the convex block at the rear end stops the door plate from separating from the gap, and on the other hand, after the front end of the door plate is pulled out of the gap, the front end of the door plate can rotate around one end of the gap under the action of the convex block at the rear end, so that the front end of the door plate falls down, the lower bottom surface of the door plate is in contact with the inclined surface, and the space; the shell and the top plate are combined to complete the sealing of the inner container, so that the inner space of the inner container is isolated from the outside, and the refrigeration effect is ensured.

Form two clearances through pterygoid lamina top and roof bottom surface and regard as the slide, the door plant can slide between pterygoid lamina and roof, when the door plant does not seal the inner bag, can be fine hide the door plant, compare in the open door plant of side and improved the aperture, compare in open door plant on the open door plant and reduced the interference of door plant with other components to conveniently take the ice-cube.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides an integral type inner bag, its characterized in that has first open-ended ice storage box including the top, the one end of ice storage box is equipped with the water receiving box with ice storage box integrated into one piece, water receiving box top is equipped with the second opening with first opening parallel and level, the water receiving box corresponds respectively with two curb plate tops that the ice storage box is adjacent and is equipped with a pterygoid lamina, the pterygoid lamina is used for cooperating fixedly with deicing machine shell.

2. The integrated liner of claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the water-receiving box is located between the ice bank opening and the ice bank bottom surface.

3. The integrated liner according to claim 1, wherein the inner space of the water receiving box comprises a first area and a second area which are communicated with each other, the bottom surface of the first area is an inclined surface, and one end far away from the second area is higher than one end close to the second area.

4. The integrated inner container as claimed in claim 3, wherein a first through hole is formed in the bottom of the second area and is used for communicating the interior of the water receiving box with an external water source.

5. The integrated liner of claim 1, wherein the tops of the two side plates of the ice storage box corresponding to the wing plates are respectively connected with the tops of the two side plates of the water receiving box to form the side plates of the liner together.

6. The integrated liner according to claim 5, wherein the wing plates are correspondingly arranged above the side plates of the liner, and one ends of the wing plates, which are far away from the water receiving box, are inclined surfaces which are used for matching with the door plates to close the liner.

7. An ice maker, wherein an integral liner as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6 is installed.

8. The ice-making machine of claim 7, comprising a housing, wherein the housing comprises a left side plate, a front plate, a right side plate and a rear plate which are sequentially connected end to end, the two wing plates of the integrated liner are respectively installed with the left side plate and the right side plate in a matching manner, the water receiving box is installed with the rear plate in a matching manner, and the ice storage box is installed with the front plate in a matching manner.

9. The ice-making machine of claim 8, wherein said housing further comprises a top plate on the top thereof, wherein the bottom surface of said top plate and the top of said two wings together form two gaps, and said two gaps are fitted with a door plate, and said door plate can slide along said two gaps.

10. The ice-making machine of claim 9, wherein said door panel is capable of falling down to the sloped position of the wing panel when moving to the end of said two gaps away from the back panel, thereby sealing the inner container together with the housing and the top panel.

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