CN212619512U

CN212619512U - Miniature ice maker

Info

Publication number: CN212619512U
Application number: CN202020450359.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨志强; 张明坤; 林涛
Original assignee: Zhongshan Donlim Weili Electrical Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Weili Electric Appliance Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-01
Filing date: 2020-04-01
Publication date: 2021-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 2030-04-01

Abstract

The utility model discloses a micro ice maker, which comprises a case, an ice making assembly, a water supply assembly, an ice storage assembly, a control panel, a micro-touch switch and a touch block, wherein the ice making assembly is an element for condensing normal temperature water and making ice blocks; the water supply assembly is used for providing water required by ice making for the ice making assembly, and the ice storage member is hinged on the ice making box through a hinge shaft; the micro-touch switch is used for controlling the water supply assembly to supply water; the touch block corresponds to the micro-touch switch. The utility model provides a replace control element with control panel, reduce purchase this part of little touch switch, vacate certain quick-witted case space and lay with the lead wire that is used for equipment.

Description

Miniature ice maker

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an ice making equipment technical field, concretely relates to miniature ice machine.

Background

The ice block is an auxiliary material for people in diet life, and along with the continuous improvement of people's life, the application range of the ice block is more and more extensive in recent years, such as wine blending, outdoor BBQ iced beer and beverage, injured patients ice compress and the like.

The rotary position of a refrigerator in the traditional ice machine is controlled by a micro-contact switch, and the micro-contact switch for controlling the rotary position of the ice machine occupies a certain space of a case, a lead easily causes equipment failure in a narrow case space, the ice machine needs to assemble many parts into the narrow case space during assembly, the assembly processes are multiple, and the assembly efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The to-be-solved technical problem of the utility model is, how to provide one kind and replace control element with control panel, reduce purchase this part of micro-touch switch, vacate certain quick-witted case space and lay in order to be used for the lead wire of equipment.

In order to solve the technical problem, the micro ice maker comprises a case, an ice making assembly, a water supply assembly, an ice storage assembly, a control panel, a micro-contact switch and a touch block, wherein the ice making assembly is an element for condensing normal-temperature water and making ice blocks; the water supply assembly is used for providing water required by ice making for the ice making assembly, and comprises a pump body and a water pipe, wherein one end of the water pipe is connected with the pump body, and the other end of the water pipe is connected with the ice making box; the ice storage piece is used as a carrying medium to store ice blocks made by the ice making box into the ice storing box, and the ice storage piece is hinged on the ice making box through a hinge shaft; the ice making assembly and the water supply assembly are both arranged in the case, and the condenser is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the case; the micro-touch switch, the ice making assembly and the water supply assembly are electrically connected with the control panel, and the micro-touch switch is used for controlling the water supply assembly to supply water; the touch block is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the refrigerator and corresponds to the micro-touch switch.

The micro ice maker has the working principle that the driving motor drives the ice making box to rotate, the ice making box drives the touch block fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the ice making box to rotate, when the top of the ice making box rotates to a horizontal position, the control panel controls the driving motor to stop driving temporarily, the touch block touches the micro touch switch at the moment, the micro touch switch senses a signal and transmits the signal to the water supply assembly, the pump body of the water supply assembly injects water into the ice making box of the ice making assembly through a water pipe, after the water in the ice making box is filled, the condenser starts, transmits the condensation temperature to the temperature transmitter, cools the water temperature around the temperature transmitter in part of the area in the ice making box until ice is frozen, after ice blocks are formed, the condenser stops working, the control panel controls the driving motor to drive the ice making box to rotate again, the ice storage piece is hinged and arranged on the ice making box through a hinge shaft, the ice making box also drives the ice, when the ice storage part rotates to a position right below the temperature transmitter, the control panel directly controls the driving motor to stop driving the refrigerator, the touch block does not need to touch another micro-touch switch for controlling the rotating position of the refrigerator, therefore, only one micro-touch switch for controlling the water supply component to supply water is needed, the micro-touch switch for controlling the rotating position of the traditional refrigerator can be cancelled, and the purchase cost of equipment parts is further reduced, at the moment, part of the ice blocks are formed around the temperature transmitter in the refrigerator and are attached to the temperature transmitter, and unfrozen water or ice water mixture not attached to the temperature transmitter flows back to the water supply component along with the rotation of the refrigerator;

the ice blocks attached to the temperature transmitter are gradually melted, and automatically slide down on the ice storage piece when the ice blocks are melted to a certain degree, at the moment, the control panel controls the driving motor to drive the ice making box to rotate again, and when the ice blocks rotate to the position where the top of the ice making box is positioned in the horizontal direction, the ice storage piece supports the ice blocks, so that the ice blocks slide into the ice storage box to be stored due to the action of self gravity;

the requirement of the micro ice maker on the internal space of the case is high, the micro-touch switch for controlling the rotation position of the refrigerator is omitted, the occupied space area of the internal space of the case can be reduced, the vacated area can be used for arranging lead wires, the arrangement of partial parts is reduced, and when the micro ice maker is manually assembled, the assembly processes can be reduced, and further the assembly phase rate is increased.

The refrigerator making and storing device is fixedly provided with a sensor which is electrically connected with the control panel.

After a sensor fixedly arranged on the refrigerator detects a signal that ice blocks slide to the ice storage part, the signal is transmitted to a control panel, and the control panel controls a driving motor to rotate the refrigerator and store the ice blocks into an ice storage box; after a sensor fixedly installed on the ice storage box detects a signal that the ice storage box is filled with ice blocks, the sensor transmits the signal to a control panel, and the control panel prompts an operator to take the ice and controls the ice making assembly and the water supply assembly to stop working.

The micro ice maker also comprises a heater for accelerating the ice cubes to fall off from the temperature transmitter, and the heater is fixedly arranged in the case.

In order to make the ice blocks fall off from the condensing heating pipe more quickly, the heating temperature of the iced heater is conducted to the condensing heating pipe at the middle end from the second end, and the ice making efficiency of the micro ice maker is further improved.

The temperature transmitter comprises a first end, a second end and a middle end, wherein the middle end is positioned between the first end and the second end, the first end is connected with the condenser and used for transmitting the condensation temperature to the middle end, the second end is connected with the heater, and the second end is tightly attached to the heater and used for transmitting the heating temperature to the middle end.

The first end of temperature conduction ware is connected with the condenser, and the condenser during operation conducts the condensing temperature to the end of being in through first end, makes the temperature of establishing the condensation heating pipe on the end of being in the middle of, and then with the water cooling around the condensation heating pipe and form the ice-cube.

The middle end is provided with a plurality of condensation heating pipes, the condensation heating pipes face to the refrigerator making direction and gradually extend to the inside of the refrigerator making, and the middle end is arranged above the refrigerator making in a winding folding shape.

When water supply assembly's water pump injected into ice-making machine, the water level just stopped the water injection with submergence condensation heating pipe at least, the condenser just can freeze the water cooling around the condensation heating pipe and attach to on the condensation heating pipe like this, and the middle part end is the range setting of winding rugosity to in placing more condensation heating pipes in the ice-making machine, more ice-cubes can be produced to the once cooling, further accelerates ice-making machine's ice-making efficiency.

The micro ice maker further comprises a first support and a second support, the first support and the second support are fixedly installed on two opposite inner side walls of the case respectively, the driving motor is installed on the first support, and the micro-touch switch is installed on the second support.

The top of the refrigerator is open, the ice storage piece is hinged and installed at the edge of the top of the refrigerator, and the hinged moving range of the ice storage piece at the edge of the top is smaller than 120 degrees.

When the ice making box rotates to the position that the top is in the horizontal direction, the ice storage part inclines downwards, and the ice blocks slide into the ice storage box along with the inclined direction under the action of gravity, so that the operation is simple.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a physical structure diagram of a micro ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a physical structure view of an embodiment of the present invention in which an ice making box is rotated;

FIG. 3 is a physical block diagram of another side of the micro-ice maker of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a micro ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the solid structure of the temperature transmitter according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the embodiment of the present invention showing just after the ice formation of the micro ice maker is completed;

fig. 7 is a sectional view illustrating rotation of an ice making box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the embodiment of the present invention showing the ice falling off;

fig. 9 is a physical structure diagram of the case and the control panel according to the embodiment of the present invention;

description of reference numerals:

10. the refrigerator comprises a cabinet, 20, an ice making assembly, 21, an ice making box, 22, an ice storage box, 23, a condenser, 24, a temperature transmitter, 241, a first end, 242, a second end, 243, a middle end, 244, a condensation heating pipe, 25, a driving motor, 30, a water supply assembly, 40, an ice storage piece, 50, a control panel, 60, a micro-touch switch, 70, a touch block, 80, ice blocks, 90, a heater, 110, a first support, 120 and a second support.

Detailed Description

The following describes embodiments of the present invention in detail.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4 and 6 to 8, the micro ice maker includes a housing 10, an ice making assembly 20, a water supply assembly 30, an ice storage member 40, a control panel 50, a micro-touch switch 60, and a touch block 70, wherein the ice making assembly 20 is a component for condensing normal temperature water and making ice cubes 80, the ice making assembly 20 includes a refrigerator making body 21, an ice storage tank 22, a condenser 23, a temperature conductor 24, and a driving motor 25, the refrigerator making body 21 is hinged to the housing 10 by a hinge shaft, the driving motor 25 is connected to the refrigerator making body 21, the ice storage tank 22 is used for storing the ice cubes 80 made by the refrigerator making body 21, the temperature conductor 24 is located above the refrigerator making body 21, the temperature conductor 24 is connected to the condenser 23, and the temperature conductor 24 has a partial region located in the refrigerator making body 21; the water supply assembly 30 is used for supplying water required for ice making to the ice making assembly 20, and the water supply assembly 30 comprises a pump body (not shown in the figure) and a water pipe (not shown in the figure), wherein one end of the water pipe is connected with the pump body, and the other end of the water pipe is connected with the ice making box 21; the ice storage member 40 is used as a carrying medium to store ice cubes 80 made by the refrigerator 21 into the refrigerator 22, and the ice storage member 40 is hinged on the refrigerator 21 through a hinge shaft; the ice making assembly 20 and the water supply assembly 30 are both installed in the cabinet 10, and the condenser 23 is fixedly installed at the bottom of the cabinet 10; the micro-touch switch 60, the ice making assembly 20 and the water supply assembly 30 are electrically connected with the control panel 50, and the micro-touch switch 60 is used for controlling the water supply assembly 30 to supply water; the touch block 70 is fixedly installed on the outer wall of the refrigerator 21, and the touch block 70 corresponds to the micro-touch switch 60.

The working principle of the micro ice maker is that the driving motor 25 drives the ice making box 21 to rotate, the ice making box 21 drives the touch block 70 fixedly installed on the outer wall of the ice making box 21 to rotate, when the top of the ice making box 21 rotates to a horizontal position, the control panel 50 controls the driving motor 25 to stop driving temporarily, at this time, the touch block 70 touches the micro touch switch 60, the micro touch switch 60 senses a signal and transmits the signal to the water supply assembly 30, the pump body of the water supply assembly 30 injects water into the ice making box 21 of the ice making assembly 20 through a water pipe, after the water in the ice making box 21 is filled, the condenser 23 is started, the condenser 23 transmits the condensation temperature to the temperature transmitter 24, the water temperature around the temperature transmitter 24 in a part of the ice making box 21 is cooled to be frozen, after the ice cubes 80 are formed, the condenser 23 stops working, the control panel 50 controls the driving motor 25 to drive the ice making box 21 to, since the ice storage member 40 is hinged to the ice making case 21 through the hinge shaft, the ice making case 21 also drives the ice storage member 40 to rotate when rotating, when the ice storage member 40 rotates to a position right below the temperature conductor 24, the control panel 50 directly controls the driving motor 25 to stop driving the refrigerator control 21, the touch block 70 does not need to touch another micro-touch switch 60 for controlling the rotation position of the refrigerator control 21 again, therefore, only one micro-touch switch 60 for controlling the water supply of the water supply assembly 30 is required, the conventional micro-touch switch 60 for controlling the rotational position of the refrigerator 21 can be eliminated, thereby reducing the purchase cost of the parts of the equipment, wherein the ice cubes 80 are formed around the temperature conductor 24 in the refrigerator 21 and attached to the temperature conductor 24, and the unfrozen water or the ice-water mixture not attached to the temperature conductor 24 flows back to the water supply assembly 30 along with the rotation of the refrigerator 21;

the ice cubes 80 attached to the temperature transmitter 24 are gradually melted, and automatically slide down on the ice storage member 40 when the ice cubes are melted to a certain degree, at this time, the control panel 50 controls the driving motor 25 to drive the ice making box 21 to rotate again, and when the ice making box 21 is rotated to a position where the top is in the horizontal direction, the ice storage member 40 supports the ice cubes 80, so that the ice cubes 80 slide into the ice storage box 22 to be stored due to the self-gravity; in the present embodiment, the drive motor 25 is a motor;

the requirement of the micro ice maker on the internal space of the case 10 is high, the micro-touch switch 60 for controlling the rotation position of the refrigerator 21 is omitted, the occupied space area of the internal space of the case 10 can be reduced, the vacated area can be used for arranging lead wires, the arrangement of parts is reduced, and when the micro ice maker is manually assembled, the assembly processes can be reduced, so that the assembly phase rate is increased.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the middle end 243 is provided with a plurality of condensing heating pipes 244, the condensing heating pipes 244 face the refrigerator making body 21 and gradually extend to the inside of the refrigerator making body 21, and the middle end 243 is arranged above the refrigerator making body 21 in a zigzag manner.

When the water pump of the water supply assembly 30 injects water into the ice making box 21, the water level at least submerges the condensing heating pipe 244 to stop injecting water, so that the condenser 23 can cool the water around the condensing heating pipe 244 to ice and attach to the condensing heating pipe 244, and the middle end 243 is arranged in a winding and folding shape, so that more condensing heating pipes 244 are arranged in the ice making box 21, more ice cubes 80 can be produced by one-time cooling, and the ice making efficiency of the micro ice making machine is further improved.

Referring to fig. 3, the micro ice maker further includes a heater 90 for accelerating the ice cubes 80 to be separated from the temperature transmitter 24, and the heater 90 is fixedly installed inside the housing 10.

In order to make the ice cubes 80 fall off from the condensing-heating pipe 244 more quickly, the heating temperature of the post-freezing heater 90 is conducted from the second end 242 to the condensing-heating pipe 244 of the middle end 243, further improving the ice making efficiency of the micro ice maker.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the temperature transmitter 24 includes a first end 241, a second end 242, and a middle end 243, the middle end 243 is located between the first end 241 and the second end 242, the first end 241 is connected to the condenser 23 and is used for transmitting the condensing temperature to the middle end 243, the second end 242 is connected to the heater 90, and the second end 242 is tightly attached to the heater 90 and is used for transmitting the heating temperature to the middle end 243.

The first end 241 of the temperature conductor 24 is connected to the condenser 23, and when the condenser 23 is operated, the condensation temperature is conducted to the middle end 243 through the first end 241, so that the temperature of the condensation heating pipe 244 provided at the middle end 243 is lowered, and the water around the condensation heating pipe 244 is cooled and formed into the ice cubes 80.

Referring to fig. 1, 3 and 4, the micro ice maker further includes a first bracket 110 and a second bracket 120, the first bracket 110 and the second bracket 120 are respectively and fixedly installed on two opposite inner sidewalls of the casing 10, the driving motor 25 is installed on the first bracket 110, and the micro-touch switch 60 is installed on the second bracket 120.

Referring to fig. 1 and 6, the top of the refrigerator 21 is open, the ice storage member 40 is hinged to the top edge of the refrigerator 21, and the hinge range of the ice storage member 40 at the top edge is less than 120 degrees.

When the refrigerator 21 is rotated to a position where the top is in a horizontal direction, the ice storage member 40 is inclined downward, and the ice cubes 80 slide down into the refrigerator 22 along with the inclined direction due to gravity, so that the operation is simple.

The refrigerator 21 and the ice storage 22 are both fixedly installed with sensors (not shown), and the sensors are electrically connected with the control panel 50.

After the sensor fixedly installed on the refrigerator 21 detects the signal that the ice cubes 80 slide down to the ice storage member 40, the signal is transmitted to the control panel 50, and the control panel 50 controls the driving motor 25 to rotate the refrigerator 21 and store the ice cubes 80 in the ice storage box 22; when a sensor fixedly installed in the ice storage case 22 detects a signal that the ice storage case 22 is filled with ice cubes 80, the sensor transmits the signal to the control panel 50, and the control panel 50 prompts an operator to take ice and controls the ice making assembly 20 and the water supply assembly 30 to stop operating.

The above are only specific embodiments of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereby; any replacement and improvement made on the basis of not violating the conception of the utility model belong to the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. The micro ice machine comprises a case, an ice making assembly, a water supply assembly and an ice storage assembly;

the ice making assembly is used for condensing normal-temperature water and making ice blocks, and comprises a refrigerator, a refrigerator storage, a condenser, a temperature transmitter and a driving motor, wherein the refrigerator is hinged to a case through a hinge shaft, the driving motor is connected with the refrigerator, the refrigerator storage is used for storing the ice blocks made by the refrigerator, the temperature transmitter is positioned above the refrigerator, the temperature transmitter is connected with the condenser, and part of region of the temperature transmitter is positioned in the refrigerator;

the water supply assembly is used for providing water required by ice making for the ice making assembly, and comprises a pump body and a water pipe, wherein one end of the water pipe is connected with the pump body, and the other end of the water pipe is connected with the ice making box;

the ice storage piece is used as a carrying medium to store ice blocks made by the ice making box into the ice storing box, and the ice storage piece is hinged to the ice making box through a hinge shaft;

the ice making assembly and the water supply assembly are both arranged in the case, and the condenser is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the case;

the ice making machine is characterized by further comprising a control panel, a micro-touch switch and a touch block, wherein the control panel is fixedly mounted on the machine case, the control panel is used for controlling a driving motor so as to control the rotating position of the ice making machine, the micro-touch switch, the ice making assembly and the water supply assembly are electrically connected with the control panel, and the micro-touch switch is used for controlling the water supply assembly to supply water;

the touch block is fixedly installed on the outer wall of the refrigerator and corresponds to the micro-touch switches, the number of the micro-touch switches is one, and the number of the touch blocks corresponds to the number of the micro-touch switches.

2. The micro ice maker as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ice making case and the ice storage case are fixedly provided with sensors, and the sensors are electrically connected with the control panel.

3. The micro-icemaker of claim 2, further comprising a heater for accelerating the ice cubes to be removed from the temperature conductor, said heater being fixedly installed inside the housing.

4. The micro-ice maker as in claim 3, wherein said temperature conductor comprises a first end, a second end and a middle end, said middle end being disposed between said first end and said second end, said first end being connected to said condenser for conducting said condensing temperature to said middle end, said second end being connected to said heater, said second end abutting said heater for conducting said heating temperature to said middle end.

5. The micro-ice maker as claimed in claim 4, wherein said middle end is provided with a plurality of condensation heating pipes, said condensation heating pipes are oriented to the refrigerator making body and gradually extend to the inside of the refrigerator making body, and said middle end is arranged above the refrigerator making body in a zigzag manner.

6. The micro ice maker according to any of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a first bracket and a second bracket, wherein the first bracket and the second bracket are fixedly mounted on two opposite inner side walls of the housing, respectively, the driving motor is mounted on the first bracket, and the micro-contact switch is mounted on the second bracket.

7. The micro-ice maker of claim 6, wherein the top of the ice maker is open, the ice storage member is hingedly mounted at a top edge of the ice maker, and a range of motion of the hinge of the ice storage member at the top edge is less than 120 degrees.