CN211772169U - Clothes treatment equipment and machine door assembly thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a clothing treatment facility technical field aims at solving the inconvenient, easy appearance defect's of current drum type washing machine's machine door unit mount problem, provides a clothing treatment facility and machine door unit spare for this reason, and this machine door unit spare includes: a lower door frame; and an upper door frame attached to the upper portion of the lower door frame, the upper door frame integrally forming a cavity opening inwardly for use as a handle for the door assembly. The utility model provides a machine door subassembly for clothing treatment facility can reduce spare part quantity, simplifies the installation, can effectively avoid the appearance defect of machine door subassembly, has realized reducing of the thickness of machine door subassembly to be favorable to alleviateing clothing treatment facility's weight, realize clothing treatment facility's miniaturized design.

Description

Clothes treatment equipment and machine door assembly thereof

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a clothing treatment facility technical field, concretely relates to clothing treatment facility and quick-witted door subassembly thereof.

Background

With the rise of socio-economic conditions, laundry treating apparatuses such as washing machines, dryers, etc. have become one of the essential household appliances for every household.

Taking a drum washing machine as an example, the drum washing machine is favored by more and more users due to its advantages of large capacity, water resource saving, etc. Drum washing machines are generally classified into a side opening type and a top opening type. For the side-opening drum washing machine, the machine door component comprises an observation window, a door frame component and the like, the transparent observation window is arranged in the middle of the door frame component, and a handle structure is arranged on the door frame component, so that a user can conveniently open and close the machine door.

Fig. 1 is a partial schematic view of a front view of a conventional door assembly, fig. 2 is a sectional view taken along a line a-a of fig. 1, and fig. 3 is a partial enlarged view taken along a line B of fig. 2. referring to fig. 1 to 3, the conventional door assembly 1 includes a lower door frame 11, an upper door frame 12, an outer door frame 15, a window screen 13, and a viewing window 10, the transparent viewing window 10 is interposed between the lower door frame 11 and the upper door frame 12, the window screen 13 is covered over the upper door frame 12 and the viewing window 10, and the outer door frame 15 is located at an outermost periphery of the door frame assembly for covering edges of the lower door frame 11, the upper door frame 12, and the window screen 13 to maintain an aesthetic appearance of the entire door assembly. Referring to fig. 3, the door frame assembly is provided with a handle case 14 having an open side, and after the surfaces of the upper door frame 12 and the window screen are cut, the surface of one side of the cut is pressed downward to form an opening, which is an installation position for installing the handle case 14, and the handle case 14 is fitted into the opening. The handle box 14 is provided with a flange, partial sections of openings formed on the upper door frame 12 and the window screen 13 abut against the flange, and the rear end of the handle box 14 is fixedly connected to the lower door frame 11 through screws, so that the handle box 14 is fixed. In the prior art, the installation process of the door frame assembly with the independently-disassembled handle structure is complicated, and a plurality of installation procedures are required; the depth requirement on the installation space is large, so that the thickness of the door frame assembly is thicker; the requirements on the processing technology of parts are high, the stability of the assembly technology is difficult to guarantee, and appearance defects are caused due to the fact that gaps exist between the edge of the handle and the window screen, so that the user experience is reduced.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new laundry treating apparatus and a door assembly thereof to solve the above-mentioned problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve at least one of the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, namely, the problem that the installation of the door assembly of the existing drum washing machine is inconvenient and the appearance defect is easy to appear, the utility model provides a first aspect provides a door assembly of a clothes treatment device, and the door assembly comprises: a lower door frame; and an upper door frame attached to the lower door frame, the upper door frame integrally formed with an inwardly opening cavity that serves as a handle for the door assembly.

In the above-described preferred embodiment of the door assembly, the upper surface of the upper door frame is recessed downward and outward and thus forms a cavity with the inward opening.

In a preferred embodiment of the above-mentioned machine door assembly, the cavity includes a bottom wall surface, a side wall surface, and a top wall surface, the side wall surface is an arc-shaped surface, and the bottom wall surface smoothly extends to the top wall surface through the side wall surface.

In a preferred technical solution of the above-mentioned machine door assembly, a plurality of ribs are provided below the top wall surface.

In the above-described preferred embodiment of the door assembly, the rib is formed as an integral structure with the top wall surface.

In a preferred embodiment of the door assembly, the door assembly further includes a window screen connected to the upper door frame and completely covering the upper door frame, and the window screen is formed with an opening communicating with the cavity.

In a preferred embodiment of the above-described door assembly, in the mounted state, a lower edge of the opening of the window screen coincides with a lower edge of the cavity.

In the above-mentioned preferred technical scheme of the machine door subassembly, the upper edge of the opening of the window screen is also bent downwards to form a flange, and the flange covers the upper edge of the cavity.

In a preferred embodiment of the above-mentioned door assembly, an outer edge of the upper door frame is bent downward to form a first peripheral wall, an outer edge of the window screen is bent downward to form a second peripheral wall, and in an assembled state, the second peripheral wall covers the first peripheral wall.

The machine door component for the clothes treatment equipment provided by the utility model integrates the concave cavity with the inward opening on the upper door frame, and the concave cavity is used as the handle of the machine door component, i.e. the function of the handle box is integrated on the upper door frame, and no special handle box is needed to be configured, thereby reducing the number of parts of the machine door component and simplifying the installation process; in addition, the upper door frame can realize the function of the handle box without assembling the handle box, so that the phenomenon of assembly gaps caused by the influence of the processes of part processing technology, assembly operation and the like can be avoided, and the appearance defect of the door assembly can be effectively avoided; moreover, the handle box is omitted, the structure of the door frame assembly is simplified, and the thickness of the machine door assembly is reduced, so that the weight of the clothes treatment equipment is reduced, and the miniaturization design of the clothes treatment equipment is realized.

Furthermore, the concave cavity is designed into a structure formed by downwards and outwards sinking the upper surface of the upper door frame, the concave cavity can be integrally formed on the upper door frame by combining a front demolding process, and the purpose of forming the handle box and the upper door frame into an integral structure is realized, so that the mounting process of parts is simplified, the configuration of the parts is reduced, and the processing process is simple and easy to realize.

Further, set the lateral wall face through with the cavity into the arcwall face, can strengthen the feeling of user operation, convenience of customers opens the quick-witted door, and the processing of demolding more easily.

Further, set up a plurality of protruding muscle through the below at the roof face of cavity, at the in-process that the user opened the quick-witted door, the protruding muscle can increase the frictional force between user's finger and the door frame, and convenience of customers operates, and sets up the form of protruding muscle and still is favorable to the reinforcing to operate and feels.

Furthermore, the convex ribs can be fixed on the top wall surface in a sticking mode and can also be integrally formed with the top wall surface, and when the convex ribs are integrally formed on the top wall surface, namely, when the convex ribs and the concave cavity are synchronously formed, the mounting process can be simplified, and the processing is convenient.

Furthermore, by arranging the window screen, the upper door frame is completely covered by the window screen, the mold outlet line formed in the mold outlet process of the upper door frame can be shielded, and the decorative effect can be achieved by means of the window screen, so that the machine door assembly is more attractive.

Furthermore, the lower edge of the opening of the window screen is arranged to be coincident with the lower edge of the concave cavity, the upper edge of the opening of the window screen is bent downwards to form a flanging, and the flanging is used for coating the upper edge of the concave cavity, so that the attractiveness after assembly can be enhanced, and fingers of a user can be protected in the operation process of the user.

Another aspect of the present invention further provides a clothes treating apparatus, which comprises the door assembly according to any one of the above technical solutions.

The utility model provides a clothes treatment equipment can be any equipment that need dispose open-ended machine door subassembly such as drum type washing machine, drum dryer, drum washing and drying all-in-one, can understand because this clothes treatment equipment is equipped with aforementioned machine door subassembly, consequently possesses all technological effects of aforementioned machine door subassembly, no longer gives unnecessary details here.

Drawings

The laundry treating apparatus of the present invention and the door assembly thereof will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a partial schematic illustration of a front view of a prior art door assembly;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 2 at B;

fig. 4 is a partial schematic view of a front view of a door assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line C-C of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged partial schematic view of FIG. 5 at D;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged partial schematic view at E in FIG. 6;

fig. 8 is a partial schematic view of an upper door frame according to an embodiment of the present invention;

list of reference numerals:

1. existing door assemblies; 10. an observation window; 11. a lower door frame; 12. an upper door frame; 13. a window screen; 14. a handle case; 15. an outer door frame; 2. a door assembly; 20. an observation window; 21. a lower door frame; 210. a third peripheral wall; 22. an upper door frame; 220. an inner surrounding wall; 221. a buffer surface; 222. a concave cavity; 2220. a lower edge of the cavity; 2221. a bottom wall surface; 2222. a side wall surface; 2223. a top wall surface; 223. a first peripheral wall; 224. a rib is protruded; 23. a window screen; 230. a lower recess; 2300. a lower edge of the opening; 2301. flanging; 231. a second peripheral wall; 24. and (4) screws.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, although the following embodiments are explained in conjunction with a drum washing machine, this is not restrictive, and the technical solution of the present invention is also applicable to a drum dryer, a washing and drying machine, etc., and such application objects may be changed without departing from the principle and scope of the present invention.

Furthermore, in the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without some of these specific details.

It should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, the terms "upper door frame" and "lower door frame" are named when the door assembly is in a flat state, and thus the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer" and the like indicating directions or positional relationships are also based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are only for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, it should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Based on the current door subassembly installation of drum type washing machine that the background art pointed out inconvenient, the easy appearance defect's problem appears, the utility model provides a clothing treatment facility and door subassembly simplifies the installation of door frame through the handle box integration among the prior art on the door frame, avoids appearing because of the appearance defect that the assembly is not in place to appear.

The door assembly provided by the invention is explained below with reference to the attached drawings. In the drawings, fig. 4 is a partial schematic view of a front view of a door assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line C-C of FIG. 4; FIG. 6 is an enlarged partial schematic view of FIG. 5 at D; FIG. 7 is an enlarged partial schematic view at E in FIG. 6; fig. 8 is a partial schematic view of an upper door frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The door of the drum washing machine is used for opening and closing the opening of the drum and observing the washing condition in the drum, and is hinged to the front plate of the box body. Referring to fig. 4 to 6, the door assembly 2 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: the lower door frame 21, the upper door frame 22, the observation window 20, and the window screen 23, as well as the connecting members, electronic components, and the like connected to these components, will not be described in detail herein to highlight the gist of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 4 to 6, the door assembly 2 has a disc shape, the lower door frame 21 and the upper door frame 22 form an annular door frame of the door assembly 2, a transparent observation window 20 is installed in the middle of the door frame, the observation window 20 may be made of glass or transparent resin, the observation window 20 is sandwiched between an inner wall 220 formed by the upper door frame 22 and the lower door frame 21, and the upper door frame 22 is connected to the upper side of the lower door frame 21. In the use state of the door assembly 2, the upper door frame 22 faces away from the cylinder direction, and the lower door frame 21 faces toward the cylinder direction. The upper door frame 22 and the lower door frame 21 are fixedly connected by a fastener and a clamping structure.

Referring to fig. 8, the upper door frame 22 is integrally formed with a recess 222 that opens inward, i.e., the recess 222 opens toward the center of the door frame. The cavity 222 serves as a handle for the door assembly 2, and a user may directly insert a finger into the cavity 222 and apply a force to the top wall surface 2223 of the cavity 222 to open the door during opening of the door.

The machine door component for the clothes treatment equipment provided by the utility model integrates the concave cavity with the inward opening on the upper door frame, and the concave cavity is used as the handle of the machine door component, i.e. the function of the handle box is integrated on the upper door frame, and no special handle box is needed to be configured, thereby reducing the number of parts of the machine door component and simplifying the installation process; in addition, the upper door frame can realize the function of the handle box without assembling the handle box, so that the phenomenon of assembly gaps caused by the influence of the processes of part processing technology, assembly operation and the like can be avoided, and the appearance defect of the door assembly can be effectively avoided; moreover, the handle box is omitted, the structure of the door frame assembly is simplified, and the thickness of the machine door assembly is reduced, so that the weight of the clothes treatment equipment is reduced, and the miniaturization design of the clothes treatment equipment is realized.

The specific structure of the upper and lower door frames 22 and 21 will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to fig. 6 and 8, the upper surface of upper door frame 22 is first recessed downward and then outwardly to form the aforementioned inwardly opened cavity 222, and during the process of forming cavity 222, the upper surface of upper door frame 22 is first recessed downward to form a buffer surface 221 and then outwardly to form cavity 222, and cavity 222 includes a bottom wall surface 2221, a side wall surface 2222 and a top wall surface 2223, and finally bottom wall surface 2221 and buffer surface 221 of cavity 222 form a step surface. Side wall surface 2222 of cavity 222 is an arc-shaped surface, and bottom wall surface 2221 extends smoothly to top wall surface 2223 through side wall surface 2222. It will be appreciated that as the bottom wall surface 2221 is gradually reduced, the side wall surfaces 2222 gradually engage due to the reduction of the bottom wall surface 2221, which may eventually result in the bottom wall surface 2221 being eliminated, and the cavity 222 being formed as a semicircular cavity 222. With continued reference to fig. 6, a screw hole for mounting a fastener is provided below the bottom wall surface 2221 of the cavity 222, and a screw 24 passes through the lower door frame 21 from bottom to top and is coupled to the screw hole, thereby fixedly coupling the upper door frame 22 and the lower door frame 21 together.

Referring to fig. 7, in order to enhance the hand feeling of the user for opening and closing the door and to prevent slipping, a plurality of ribs 224 are further disposed below the top wall surface 2223. The ribs 224 may be formed in various ways, for example, the ribs 224 may be formed on a rubber pad that is adhered and fixed to the top wall 2223; alternatively, the ribs 224 may be formed directly on the top wall surface 2223 and integrally formed with the cavity 222 during demolding. The addition of the ribs 224 may increase the friction between the fingers and the top wall surface 2223 to aid in opening the door.

With continued reference to fig. 6, a window screen 23 is attached above the upper door frame 22 and completely covers the upper door frame 22. The window screen 23 can be made of a semitransparent material with a dark color, so that the operation condition of the inner barrel observed by a user is not influenced, a certain shielding and protecting effect can be formed on the upper door frame 22, and the integral attractiveness of the door assembly 2 can be enhanced. The window 23 is formed with an opening communicating with the cavity 222, and a lower recess 230 is formed at a position corresponding to the buffer surface 221 of the upper door frame 22 so that the surface of the window 23 can be smoothly transited to the lower edge 2300 of the opening. In the mounted state, the lower edge 2300 of the opening of the window screen 23 coincides with the lower edge 2220 of the cavity, that is, in the step surface formed by the buffer surface 221 and the bottom wall surface 2221 of the cavity 222, the step height is consistent with the thickness of the window screen 23, so that the lower edge 2300 of the opening of the window screen 23 can coincide with the lower edge 2220 of the cavity, and thus the surface of the assembled window screen 23 can smoothly transition to the inner wall surface of the cavity 222, and the operation feeling is better and more beautiful.

Further, the upper edge of the opening of the window screen 23 is also bent downward to form a flange 2301, and the flange 2301 covers the upper edge of the cavity 222 to enhance the aesthetic appearance of the installed door assembly 2.

Further, in order to ensure a good appearance of the door assembly 2 and a stable connection of the upper frame 22, the lower frame 21 and the window screen 23, an outer edge of the upper frame 22 is bent downward to form a first peripheral wall 223, an outer edge of the window screen 23 is bent downward to form a second peripheral wall 231, and in a mounted state, the second peripheral wall 231 is wrapped around the first peripheral wall 223 so that the window screen 23 completely covers the upper frame 22. Further, in order to make the edge of the installed door flush, the outer edge of the lower door frame 21 is bent upward to form a third peripheral wall 210, in the installed state, the first peripheral wall 223 abuts against the inner side of the third peripheral wall 210, and the third peripheral wall 210 abuts against the inner side of the second peripheral wall 231, so that the lower door frame 21 supports the upper door frame 22 on both the left and right sides, and the window screen 23 can be connected to the lower door frame 21 through the second peripheral wall by means of a clamping structure and a fastener. Of course, the third peripheral wall 210 may also be located inside the first peripheral wall 223 as long as a smooth transition of the edges of the various components of the installed door assembly 2 is ensured.

So far, the technical solution of the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is obviously not limited to these specific embodiments. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, a person skilled in the art can make equivalent changes or substitutions to the related technical features, and the technical solutions after these changes or substitutions will fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A door assembly of a laundry treating apparatus, comprising:

a lower door frame;

and an upper door frame attached to the lower door frame, the upper door frame integrally formed with an inwardly opening cavity that serves as a handle for the door assembly.

2. The door assembly of claim 1 wherein the upper surface of said upper frame is downwardly and outwardly concave and thereby forms a cavity with said opening inwardly.

3. The door assembly of claim 2, wherein said pocket includes a bottom wall surface, a side wall surface and a top wall surface, said side wall surface being arcuate, said bottom wall surface extending smoothly through said side wall surface to said top wall surface.

4. The door assembly of claim 3 wherein said top wall surface has a plurality of ribs disposed therebelow.

5. The door assembly of claim 4 wherein said rib is formed as a unitary structure with said top wall surface.

6. The door assembly of claim 2 further comprising a window screen attached above and completely covering said upper door frame, said window screen having an opening formed therein in communication with said cavity.

7. A door assembly according to claim 6, wherein in the installed condition the lower edge of the window screen opening coincides with the lower edge of the cavity.

8. The door assembly of claim 7 wherein the upper edge of the opening in the panel is further bent downwardly to form a flange, the flange covering the upper edge of the cavity.

9. A door assembly according to claim 6, wherein the outer edge of the upper frame is bent downwardly to form a first peripheral wall and the outer edge of the screen is bent downwardly to form a second peripheral wall, the second peripheral wall surrounding the first peripheral wall in the assembled condition.

10. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized by comprising the door assembly of any one of claims 1-9.

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