CN212081742U - Refrigerator with ice maker - Google Patents
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The application discloses a refrigerator with an ice maker, which comprises a refrigerator body, wherein a low-temperature storage chamber is arranged in the refrigerator body; a partition plate disposed between adjacent low temperature storage chambers to partition the low temperature storage chambers; the ice maker is arranged on the partition board and positioned in the low-temperature storage chamber; the air duct cover plate is arranged on the rear wall of the low-temperature storage chamber, an air supply outlet of the ice maker is arranged on the air duct cover plate, and the air supply outlet of the ice maker is positioned between the partition plate and the ice maker; the fan cover plate is arranged on the rear side of the air duct cover plate and is clamped with the air duct cover plate; the fan is arranged on the rear side of the fan cover plate, and an air duct in the fan is communicated with an air supply outlet of the ice maker through the fan cover plate so as to refrigerate the ice maker. This application sets up the ice machine supply-air outlet corresponding to the position department between baffle and the ice machine on the wind channel apron, and the direct short distance of cold wind is carried to the top of ice machine for the ice making ability of ice machine does not receive cold air and flows the space and influence, has improved the ice-making efficiency of ice machine, has shortened the ice-making time.
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Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of refrigerators, in particular to a refrigerator with an ice maker.
Background
With the continuous improvement of living standard of people, the refrigerator becomes a necessity of life of people, the refrigerator utilizes the refrigeration function to keep the interior of the refrigerator in a low-temperature state, not only can preserve food, but also can be provided with an ice maker inside the refrigerator to automatically make ice blocks for users to use.
The existing refrigerator is generally provided with a refrigerating chamber, a potherb chamber and a freezing chamber, a fin evaporator and a fan motor are both arranged in the freezing chamber, the refrigeration of each chamber is mainly circulated by wind, when a compressor works, the fan motor is simultaneously electrified and operated, the forced convection is carried out by a fan, cold air is transferred to each chamber, each chamber is connected by an air duct, and the refrigeration is carried out by the cold energy of the forced convection evaporator by the fan. The ice maker is installed in the freezing chamber, and cold air cooled by the evaporator is blown into the freezing chamber to lower the temperature of the freezing chamber, thereby performing ice making work.
However, the existing ice maker makes ice by changing cold through outlet air at an air outlet of the whole compartment of the freezing compartment, and once the number of articles placed in the freezing compartment is increased and the space is reduced, the cold air flowing capacity is reduced, the cold changing is not uniform, and the ice making efficiency of the ice maker is influenced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The application provides a refrigerator with an ice maker, which aims to solve the problem that the ice making efficiency of the ice maker in the existing refrigerator is low.
In order to solve the technical problem, the embodiment of the application discloses the following technical scheme:
the embodiment of the application discloses a refrigerator with an ice maker, comprising:
a cabinet having a low temperature storage chamber therein, the low temperature storage chamber including a potherb chamber and a freezing chamber;
the partition plate is arranged between the wild vegetable chamber and the freezing chamber and is used for separating the wild vegetable chamber from the freezing chamber;
the ice maker is arranged on the partition board and positioned in the freezing chamber and used for making ice;
the air duct cover plate is arranged on the rear walls of the wild vegetable chamber and the freezing chamber, an air outlet of the ice maker is arranged on the air duct cover plate, and the air outlet of the ice maker is positioned between the partition plate and the ice maker;
the fan cover plate is arranged on the rear side of the air duct cover plate and is clamped with the air duct cover plate;
and the air duct in the fan is communicated with the air supply outlet of the ice maker through the fan cover plate so as to refrigerate the ice maker.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effect of this application is:
the refrigerator with the ice maker comprises a refrigerator body, wherein a plurality of low-temperature storage chambers are arranged in the refrigerator body, a partition plate is arranged between every two adjacent low-temperature storage chambers, the ice maker is installed on the partition plate, and the ice maker is located in the low-temperature storage chambers and used for making ice; the rear wall of the low-temperature storage chamber is provided with an air duct cover plate, the air duct cover plate is provided with an air supply outlet of the ice maker, and the air supply outlet of the ice maker is positioned between the partition plate and the ice maker; a fan cover plate is arranged on the rear side of the air duct cover plate and is clamped with the air duct cover plate; the rear side of the fan cover plate is provided with a fan, and an air duct in the fan is communicated with an air supply outlet of the ice maker through the fan cover plate so as to refrigerate the ice maker. This application sets up the ice machine supply-air outlet corresponding to the position department between baffle and the ice machine on the wind channel apron, supply air for the ice machine by the ice machine supply-air outlet, make the distance between ice machine supply-air outlet and the ice machine near, so the direct short distance of ice machine supply-air outlet blows in ice machine top with cold wind, utilize the space between ice machine top and the baffle to carry out cold air and carry, form the region of supplying air alone, make the ice making efficiency of ice machine not receive the influence that the article was how much is put in the low temperature storage room, can enough shorten the ice making time, also not increase the refrigerator energy.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the application.
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In order to more clearly explain the technical solution of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is an overall schematic view of a refrigerator having an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 2 is another schematic angle view of a refrigerator having an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 2;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an ice maker air supply outlet in a refrigerator with an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of FIG. 5 at C;
fig. 7 is an exploded schematic view of an ice maker dedicated air outlet in a refrigerator having an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
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In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
The refrigeration principle of the existing refrigerator is as follows: when the compressor is working, the fan motor is powered on and operated at the same time, the fan is used for forcing convection to transfer cold air to each chamber, the chambers are connected by an air channel, and the fan is used for forcing the cold air of the convection evaporator to refrigerate. The ice maker is arranged in the freezing chamber, cold air after being cooled by the evaporator is blown into the freezing chamber, so that the temperature of the freezing chamber is reduced, the ice maker makes ice by cooling the cold air through the air outlet of the whole chamber of the freezing chamber, once more articles are placed in the freezing chamber and the space is reduced, the flowing capacity of the cold air is reduced, the cooling is not uniform, and the ice making efficiency of the ice maker is influenced.
In order to solve the above problems, an embodiment of the present application provides a refrigerator with an ice maker, where an air outlet of the ice maker is additionally provided, the air outlet of the ice maker is specially used for cold exchange of the ice maker, the air quantity is accurate, and the ice making capability is not affected due to insufficient cold exchange of the ice maker caused by increase of articles placed in a space and reduction of an air flowing space.
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an overall structure of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, in the refrigerator provided by the embodiment of the present application, the refrigerator may include a cabinet 10 forming a low-temperature storage chamber, which may include a refrigerating chamber 20, a wild vegetable chamber 30, and a freezing chamber 40, wherein the refrigerating chamber 20 may keep food in a refrigerated state, the wild vegetable chamber 30 may keep food at a suitable temperature for storing vegetables and fruits, and the freezing chamber 40 may keep food in a frozen state. The refrigerator compartment 20 may be formed at an upper side of the wild vegetable compartment 30, and the wild vegetable compartment 30 may be formed at an upper side of the freezer compartment 40.
In addition, the refrigerator may further include partitions, such as partitions, for partitioning the refrigerating compartment 20, the wild vegetable compartment 30 and the freezing compartment 40.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of another angle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application, and fig. 3 is a sectional view a-a of fig. 2. As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the ice maker is installed on the partition, and the ice maker 4 is located in the freezing chamber 40, that is, the ice maker 4 is installed on the partition between the wild vegetable chamber 30 and the freezing chamber 40. The rear wall of the potherb chamber 30 is provided with an air duct cover plate 3, and the air duct cover plate 3 is in a flat plate shape and is clamped on the inner container of the refrigerator; an ice maker air supply outlet 5 is arranged on the air duct cover plate 3, the ice maker air supply outlet 5 is positioned between the partition plate and the ice maker 4, and cold air is directly conveyed to the ice maker 4 through the ice maker air supply outlet 5.
The rear side of the air duct cover plate 3 is provided with a fan cover plate 2, the fan cover plate 2 is clamped with the air duct cover plate 3, an air duct is formed between the fan cover plate 2 and the air duct cover plate 3, and cold air is conveyed to an air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker through the air duct. The rear side of the fan cover plate 2 is provided with a fan 1, an air channel in the fan 1 is communicated with an air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker through the fan cover plate 2, namely cold air generated by the fan 1 directly blows cold air to the ice maker 4 through the fan cover plate 2 and the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker so as to directly refrigerate the ice maker 4.
The fan is arranged in the fan 1, when the compressor works, the fan motor is simultaneously electrified and operated, forced convection is carried out by the fan, cold air is conveyed into the freezing chamber 40 through the air channel between the fan cover plate 2 and the air channel cover plate 3 and the air outlet 5 of the ice maker, and the air outlet 5 of the ice maker is right opposite to the ice maker 4, so that the cold air conveying distance is short, the loss of cold energy can be reduced, and the cold air blown to the ice maker is fully utilized.
Fig. 4 is a schematic view of an overall structure of an air outlet of an ice maker in a refrigerator having the ice maker according to an embodiment of the present application, and fig. 5 is a schematic view of a section B-B in fig. 4. As shown in fig. 4 and 5, an air port 21 is formed on the fan cover plate 2 and corresponds to the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker, the air port is communicated with the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker, a dedicated air supply duct is formed by the fan 1, the fan cover plate 2, the air port 21 and the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker, and cold air is conveyed to the ice maker 4 along the dedicated air supply duct.
In order to further facilitate the cold air to be conveyed to the ice maker 4, as shown in fig. 6, the air outlet 5 of the ice maker is a tapered air pipe, and the central axis of the tapered air pipe is perpendicular to the air duct cover plate 3, that is, the air outlet 5 of the ice maker extends out of the air duct cover plate 3, so that the cold air is guided and guided in a flow guiding manner, and is conveyed straight to the ice maker 4, so that the straight distance between the air outlet 5 of the ice maker and the ice maker 4 is short. The conical blast pipe is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet, the caliber size of the air inlet is larger than that of the air outlet, and the air inlet faces the fan cover plate 2 and is communicated with an air port 21 on the fan cover plate 2; the air outlet faces the ice maker and is right above the ice maker 4.
The air inlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker is communicated with the air inlet 21 on the fan cover plate 2, so that cold air can flow towards the direction conveniently, namely the cold air flows to the air inlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker through the air inlet 21 on the fan cover plate 2. After entering the air inlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice machine, the cold air continues to flow to the air outlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice machine, and the size of the air inlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice machine is larger than that of the air outlet, so that the output air speed of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice machine is increased, the cold air is rapidly distributed above the ice machine 4 in a straight line at the nearest distance, the ice making efficiency of the ice machine 4 is improved, and the ice making time is shortened.
The air outlet of the air outlet 5 of the ice maker is a transversely arranged air outlet on the surface of the air duct cover plate 3, namely the air outlet is vertical to the partition plate 6 in the freezing chamber 40 and extends along the left and right directions of the refrigerator liner, so that the air outlet direction of the air outlet 5 of the ice maker is parallel to the partition plate 6, and the left and right dimensions can be determined according to the ice maker 4, so that the cold air output by the air outlet 5 of the ice maker can meet the ice making requirements of the ice maker 4.
The size between the upper part and the lower part of the air outlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker is determined according to the distance between the partition plate 6 and the ice maker 4, the air outlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker is ensured to be positioned between the partition plate 6 and the ice maker 4, cold air coming out of the air outlet can be conveyed to the upper part of the ice grid of the ice maker 4 in a straight line, the cold air is conveyed by utilizing the space between the upper part of the ice grid of the ice maker and the partition plate 6, an independent air supply area is formed, the ice making efficiency of the ice maker is not influenced by the quantity of articles placed in the freezing chamber 40, the ice making time.
In this example, the air outlet of the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker can be a square opening, the square opening faces the upper side of the ice maker 4, compared with an oblique opening and the like, the square opening can reduce the linear distance between the air outlet and the ice maker 4, so as to ensure that cold air can be linearly distributed above the ice tray of the ice maker at the closest distance.
Besides the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker, a plurality of air supply outlets are arranged on the air duct cover plate 3 at intervals, and cold air extracted by the fan 1 is blown to the freezing chamber 40 through the plurality of air supply outlets to provide cold air for the freezing chamber 40 so as to ensure the temperature of the freezing chamber 40.
In the refrigerator with the ice maker provided by the embodiment of the application, the freezing chamber air duct component designed by the air supply outlet of the ice maker is provided with the fan 1, the fan cover plate 2, the air duct cover plate 3 and the ice maker 4, the fan 1 is matched and clamped with the fan cover plate 2, the fan cover plate 2 is matched and clamped with the air duct cover plate 3 and is arranged on the inner container of the refrigerator, the ice maker 4 is firstly arranged on the partition plate 6 between the freezing chamber 40 and the wild vegetable chamber 30 in a offline manner, and then the partition plate 6 and the ice maker 4 are integrally arranged on the inner container of the refrigerator in an online manner. As shown in fig. 7, an air supply duct 11 is arranged in the fan 1, an air opening 21 is arranged on the fan cover plate 2, an ice maker air supply opening 5 is arranged on the air duct cover plate 3, the ice maker air supply opening 5 faces the upper side of the ice maker 4, the air supply duct 11 is communicated with the air opening 21, the air opening 21 is communicated with the ice maker air supply opening 5, and the air supply duct 11 on the fan 1, the air opening 21 on the fan cover plate 2 and the ice maker air supply opening 5 on the air duct cover plate 3 form an air supply duct special for the ice.
After the assembly is finished, cold air after being cooled by the fin evaporator is upwards conveyed to the refrigerating chamber 20 by the fan 1 and is downwards conveyed to the freezing chamber 40 in a split manner, the cold air can flow in an air supply duct special for the ice maker along the arrow direction, and is linearly conveyed to the upper part of the ice maker 4 by the air supply outlet 5 of the ice maker to cool water or ice in an ice grid of the ice maker. The special air supply channel is designed in such a way that cold air is linearly distributed above the ice tray of the ice machine at the nearest distance, and the temperature and the rotating speed of the fan are controlled by a computer to supply air quantitatively.
At present, no exclusive air supply outlet of the ice machine is arranged in the existing freezing chamber 40, ice making work is carried out by depending on integral air outlet of the freezing chamber, when a lot of articles are put into the freezing chamber 40, the air flowing space is reduced, and because the ice machine 4 is closer to the clapboard 6 (the clapboard between the wild vegetable chamber 30 and the freezing chamber 40), the air flowing above the ice grid of the ice machine is slowed down, and the ice making efficiency of the ice machine is influenced. And this application embodiment increases the exclusive supply-air outlet of ice machine at freezer 40, and the direct short distance of the supply-air outlet of 3 elongations of wind channel apron blows in cold wind in ice machine ice check top, has utilized the space between ice check top and the baffle to carry out the cold air and has carried, has formed the region of supplying air alone, makes the ice making efficiency of ice machine not receive the influence that the article was put to the freezer, has so both shortened ice making time, also has not increased the refrigerator energy consumption.
The embodiment of the application provides a refrigerator with ice machine, set up the exclusive supply-air outlet of ice machine on the wind channel apron of freezer wind channel part, by the fan, the fan apron, the exclusive supply-air outlet of ice machine on the wind channel apron forms the exclusive supply-air duct of ice machine, the cold air that the fan pull-out comes directly blows to the top of ice machine ice tray along the exclusive supply-air duct of ice machine, the straight line is blown and is shortened cold air flow distance, the amount of wind is accurate, reduce the loss of cold volume, ensure to blow to the cold air of ice machine 4 and obtain abundant utilization, can improve ice machine work efficiency, shorten the ice making time, also avoid simultaneously because the placing object leads to the wind not to blow to the ice tray, make ice making work not influenced by cold.
The scheme that sets up special air outlet on wind channel part that this application embodiment provided can be applied to refrigerator or freezer field that has exclusive ice machine, also can be applied to the refrigerated field of special air supply of freezer needs, and it all belongs to the protection scope of this application embodiment.
It should be noted that, in the present specification, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a circuit structure, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such circuit structure, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, the presence of an element identified by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a circuit structure, article or device comprising the element.
Other embodiments of the present application will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure of the invention disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the application and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the application being indicated by the following claims.
The above-described embodiments of the present application do not limit the scope of the present application.
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1. A refrigerator having an ice maker, comprising:
a cabinet having a low temperature storage chamber therein;
a partition plate disposed between adjacent low temperature storage chambers to partition the low temperature storage chambers;
the ice machine is arranged on the clapboard and positioned in the low-temperature storage chamber and is used for making ice;
the air duct cover plate is arranged on the rear wall of the low-temperature storage chamber, an ice maker air supply opening is formed in the air duct cover plate, and the ice maker air supply opening is positioned between the partition plate and the ice maker;
the fan cover plate is arranged on the rear side of the air duct cover plate and is clamped with the air duct cover plate;
and the air duct in the fan is communicated with the air supply outlet of the ice maker through the fan cover plate so as to refrigerate the ice maker.
2. The refrigerator with the ice maker as claimed in claim 1, wherein the air outlet of the ice maker is a tapered air supply pipe, the tapered air supply pipe is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet, and the caliber size of the air inlet is larger than that of the air outlet; the air inlet faces the fan cover plate, and the air outlet faces the ice maker.
3. The refrigerator with the ice maker as claimed in claim 2, wherein the air outlet of the ice maker is a transversely arranged air outlet, and the air outlet direction of the air outlet is parallel to the partition plate.
4. The refrigerator of claim 3 wherein the air outlet is a square opening, the square opening facing above the ice maker.
5. The refrigerator with the ice maker as claimed in claim 2, wherein an air opening is formed in the position, corresponding to the air supply outlet of the ice maker, of the fan cover plate, and the air opening is communicated with the air inlet.
6. The refrigerator of claim 4 wherein an air supply duct is provided in the blower, the air supply duct being in communication with the air opening.
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