CN214276259U

CN214276259U - Refrigerator with a door

Info

Publication number: CN214276259U
Application number: CN202120011946.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王仁华; 刘宜敞
Original assignee: Hisense Shandong Refrigerator Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Refrigerator Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-04
Filing date: 2021-01-04
Publication date: 2021-09-24
Anticipated expiration: 2031-01-04

Abstract

The utility model provides a refrigerator belongs to domestic appliance technical field. The refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage chamber; the door body is connected to the front end of the box body and used for opening and closing the storage chamber, and one of a limiting groove and an installation buckle and one of a clamping groove and a clamping buckle are arranged on the door body; the handle is connected to the door body, so that a user can open or close the door body by pulling the handle, and the handle is provided with the other one of the limiting groove and the mounting buckle and the other one of the clamping groove and the clamping buckle; during assembly, the mounting buckle penetrates through the limiting groove and is hung at the limiting groove, and the buckle is clamped in the clamping groove to prevent the mounting buckle from being separated from the limiting groove. According to the refrigerator, the installation efficiency of the handle is improved because the handle is installed without fixing the handle by screws.

Description

Refrigerator with a door

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, especially, relate to a refrigerator.

Background

In the related art, the handles on the refrigerators are usually fixed to the door bodies through screws, and for the refrigerators with more door bodies, such as cross four-door refrigerators, it takes much time to mount all the handles on the four door bodies.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses solve one of the technical problem in the correlation technique at least to a certain extent.

For this reason, the present disclosure is directed to provide a refrigerator that improves the installation efficiency of a handle since the handle is installed without screw fixation.

The refrigerator according to the present disclosure includes: a case having a storage chamber; the door body is connected to the front end of the box body and used for opening and closing the storage chamber, and one of a limiting groove and an installation buckle and one of a clamping groove and a clamping buckle are arranged on the door body; the handle is connected to the door body, so that a user can open or close the door body by pulling the handle, and the handle is provided with the other one of the limiting groove and the mounting buckle and the other one of the clamping groove and the clamping buckle; during assembly, the mounting buckle penetrates through the limiting groove and is hung at the limiting groove, and the buckle is clamped in the clamping groove to prevent the mounting buckle from being separated from the limiting groove.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator, the limiting groove comprises a fixing position and an installation position, wherein the outline of the installation position is larger than that of the fixing position; the mounting buckle is provided with a matching part matched with the fixing position and a limiting part with the periphery protruding out of the matching part, and the outer contour of the limiting part is smaller than the mounting position and larger than the fixing position, so that the limiting part can penetrate out of the limiting groove from the mounting position in the assembling process and is blocked by the wall forming the fixing position when the limiting part is assembled in place to be hung at the fixing position.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator, one side, close to the mounting buckle, of the limiting groove is provided with the groove, the outline of the groove is larger than that of the fixing position, and therefore a step surface is formed at the connecting position of the groove and the fixing position.

According to an embodiment of the refrigerator of the present disclosure, the handle includes: a handle panel; and the handle mounting seat is connected to the inner side of the handle panel, and the handle mounting seat is provided with the buckle.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator, the buckle is provided with the arm part positioned at the root part and the buckle part positioned at the head part, and the arm part does not protrude out of the rear surface of the handle mounting seat when the buckle is assembled in place.

According to an embodiment of the refrigerator of the present disclosure, the door body includes: a door panel; and the mounting panel, connect in the rear side of door panel, the installation is detained and is located on the mounting panel and wear out door panel.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator disclosed by the disclosure, the mounting buckle and the limiting groove are provided with three groups which are distributed in a triangular manner, and the buckle and the clamping groove are provided with one group.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator disclosed by the disclosure, when the refrigerator is assembled in place, the buckle and the clamping groove are positioned on a connecting line of the triangle or positioned in the triangle.

According to an embodiment of the refrigerator of the present disclosure, the triangle is a right triangle and one of the legs is horizontal.

According to the embodiment of the refrigerator, the refrigerator is provided with four door bodies, the handles are connected to the door bodies and close to the corners of the center of the refrigerator, and the handles on the four door bodies are combined to form a circle when the door bodies are closed.

Advantageous effects

According to this disclosure, this refrigerator is buckled through the installation and is hung in the spacing groove and realize that the handle hangs on the door body, realizes through buckle adaptation draw-in groove that the handle joint is in order to prevent that the installation from buckleing out the spacing groove in the door body to guaranteed the firm connection of handle on the door body, do not need the screw assembly, avoided need to beat among the prior art a plurality of screws and connect the handle in the consuming time nature of the door body, and the problem that the screw influences the outward appearance, this open simple structure has improved the installation effectiveness that the handle assembled to the door body, and have the good advantage of outward appearance uniformity.

According to the refrigerator, the limiting groove is provided with the installation position with a large outline to realize hooking installation of the installation buckle, the installation buckle is aligned with the installation position firstly during assembly, then the installation buckle is pushed into the fixing position by side pushing to realize front and back and limit in the vertical side pushing direction, after the assembly is in place, the buckle and the clamping groove function realize limit in the side pushing direction, and the problem that the conventional hooking structure is loose due to large assembly gap can be avoided due to the fact that the fixing position of the limiting groove is matched with the installation buckle.

According to the refrigerator, the groove with the contour larger than that of the fixing position is arranged on the limiting groove, the mounting buckle is inserted into the groove firstly during assembly, the mounting buckle cannot touch or even damage an appearance surface due to the fact that the mounting buckle is not aligned with the mounting position, and good appearance can be kept.

According to the refrigerator, the three hanging points and the clamping point which are distributed in a triangular mode are arranged, the force of the handle acting on the door body is mainly borne by the hanging points which are stably connected, the problem that the clamping point bears acting force and is easy to loosen is solved, and the refrigerator has the advantage of being firm in connection.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a front view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a perspective view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a perspective view of a door body and a handle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a door body and a handle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is an exploded view of a door body of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a perspective view of a mounting plate of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of a handle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is an exploded view of a handle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 and 10 are sectional views of a door body and a handle of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure at a connection portion;

in the above figures: 1. a refrigerator; 10. a box body; 21. an upper storage chamber; 22. a lower storage chamber; 30. a door body; 31. a door panel; 32. a rear housing; 33. installing a buckle; 34. a restricting section; 35. a fitting portion; 36. a card slot; 37. mounting a plate; 40. a handle; 41. a handle panel; 42. a handle mounting seat; 43. a limiting groove; 44. fixing the position; 45. an installation position; 46. buckling; 47. an arm portion; 48. a buckle part; 49. and (4) a groove.

Detailed Description

The present invention is specifically described below by way of exemplary embodiments. It should be understood, however, that elements, structures and features of one embodiment may be beneficially incorporated in other embodiments without further recitation.

The side of the refrigerator facing a user when in use is defined as a front side, the opposite side is defined as a rear side, and the description of the front-back relationship between the door body and the handle is based on the fact that the door body is in a closed state.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a refrigerator 1 according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cabinet 10 having a storage chamber, a door 30 connected to the cabinet 10 to open and close the storage chamber, and a cool air supply device to supply cool air to the storage chamber.

The cool air supply device may include an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion device, and may generate cool air by using latent heat of evaporation of the refrigerant.

The case 10 may include: an inner case forming a storage chamber; an outer case coupled to an outer side of the inner case to form an external appearance of the refrigerator 1, and an insulator filled between the inner case and the outer case to insulate the storage compartment.

The case 10 may include: a horizontal partition plate dividing the storage chamber into an upper storage chamber 21 and a lower storage chamber 22, and a vertical partition plate dividing the lower storage chamber 22 into two left and right. The upper storage chamber 21 may serve as a refrigerating chamber for storing food in a refrigerating mode, and the lower storage chamber 22 may serve as a freezing chamber for storing food in a freezing mode.

The front side of the storage chamber is opened to allow food to be put in or taken out, and the opened front side can be opened or closed by the door body 30.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4, the door body 30 may include a door panel 31 at a front side, a rear case 32 coupled to a rear side of the door panel 31, and a foam insulator between the door panel 31 and the rear case 32.

A handle 40 is connected to a front end of the door panel 31 so that a user can open or close the door body 30 by pulling the handle.

In the current embodiment, the refrigerator is in a cross four-door form, the handle 40 is in a fan shape and is installed at the corner of each door body 30 close to the center of the cross; when the door 30 is in the closed state, the four handles 40 are spliced into a circle, so that the appearance effect of the refrigerator 1 can be improved. However, the embodiment of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and may be applied to any type of refrigerator and any shape of handle.

In order to avoid the time-consuming problem of installing the handle 40 by drilling a plurality of screws in the prior art, the present disclosure adopts a form of hooking and clamping combination (described in detail below) to install the handle 40, which eliminates the screw installation, improves the assembly efficiency, and simultaneously, the appearance of the refrigerator 1 is consistent and good.

Specifically, with continued reference to fig. 3-6, the door 30 is provided with a mounting buckle 33 extending toward the front side, the head of the mounting buckle 33 is provided with a limiting portion 34 protruding outward, and the portion of the mounting buckle 33 connected to the rear end of the limiting portion 34 is a matching portion 35. In the current embodiment, the limiting portion 34 and the matching portion 35 may be a large cylinder and a small cylinder connected along the axial direction of the mounting buckle 33, the limiting portion 34 is a large cylinder, and the matching portion 35 is a small cylinder; the attachment buckle 33 may be formed in a substantially hook shape, or the restricting portion 34 may be formed in a fan shape.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the door body 30 may include a mounting plate 37 connected to the rear side of the door panel 31, a front end of the mounting plate 37 protrudes outward to form a mounting buckle 33, and the mounting buckle 33 penetrates through and exposes the door panel 31.

Referring to fig. 7 to 10, the handle 40 may include a handle panel 41 and a handle mount 42, the handle panel 41 may be made of a metal material to increase the metal texture of the handle 40, and the handle mount 42 is attached to the rear side of the handle panel 41.

A through limiting groove 43 is formed in the rear wall of the handle mounting seat 42, a part of the limiting groove 43 is a fixing position 44, the size of the fixing position 44 is matched with that of the matching part 35, and when the handle mounting seat is assembled in place, the mounting buckle 33 is hung at the fixing position 44; the other partial area of the limiting groove 43 is an installation position 45, the outline of the installation position 45 is larger than the fixing position 44 and the limiting part 34, during assembly, the installation buckle 33 firstly penetrates from the installation position 45 and the limiting part 34 penetrates out of the limiting groove 43, then the installation buckle 33 is moved to the fixing position 44 along the limiting groove 43, in this state, the matching part 35 of the installation buckle 33 penetrates through the fixing position 44, and the limiting part 34 of the installation buckle 33 is blocked by the wall forming the fixing position 44, so that the installation buckle 33 is hung at the limiting groove 43.

According to the installation buckle 33, the limiting groove 43 is set to be the fixing position 44 and the installation position 45, the installation buckle 33 can be ensured to penetrate into the limiting groove 43 from the installation position 45, then the installation buckle 33 is moved to the fixing position 44, the connection tightness of the installation buckle 33 and the fixing position 44 can be ensured due to the small fit clearance between the fitting part 35 of the installation buckle 33 and the fixing position 44, and the problem that the fitting clearance between the installation buckle 33 and the limiting groove 43 is large and easy to shake when the installation buckle 33 can be directly inserted into the limiting groove 43 in the related art is avoided; in addition, the limiting part 34 has a larger contour and cannot be directly inserted into the fixing position 44, so that the limiting part 34 has a larger contact area at the position where the limiting groove 43 is hooked after being assembled in place, and the connection reliability of the limiting part 34 and the limiting groove is improved.

After the mounting buckle 33 moves from the mounting position 45 to the fixing position 44, if there is no other structural restriction, the mounting buckle 33 can easily move from the fixing position 44 to the mounting position 45 in the opposite direction, so that the handle 40 is separated from the door 30. Therefore, a clamping structure for limiting the mounting buckle 33 to be separated from the fixing position 44 is also provided in the present disclosure:

referring to fig. 9 and 10, the door panel 31 is provided with a slot 36, and correspondingly, the handle mounting seat 42 is provided with a buckle 46, and the buckle 46 is clamped in the slot 36 to limit the mounting buckle 33 from moving from the fixing position 44 to the mounting position 45, thereby ensuring the fastening connection between the sliding door 40 and the door body 30.

During assembly, the mounting buckle 33 is inserted into the mounting position 45, then the mounting buckle 33 is pushed into the fixing position 44 by side pushing to realize front and back and vertical side pushing direction limiting, and after the mounting buckle is assembled in place, the buckle 46 and the clamping groove 36 act to realize side pushing direction limiting.

With continued reference to fig. 7, the buckle 46 includes an arm 47 at the root and a buckle 48 at the head, the arm 47 extends in a left-right direction, when the buckle 48 is assembled in place, the buckle 48 is clamped in the clamping groove 36, and the arm 47 does not protrude from the rear surface of the handle mounting seat 42, so that a gap at the joint of the handle mounting seat 42 and the door panel 31 due to the arm 47 exposing out of the handle mounting seat 42 can be avoided, and the handle 40 and the door body 30 can be tightly attached.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the handle mounting seat 42 is provided with a groove 49 having a profile larger than that of the fixing site 44 at the rear end of the fixing site 44, so that the connection between the fixing site 44 and the groove 49 forms a step. Thus, even if the mounting position 45 is not aligned with the mounting buckle 33 during assembly, the head of the mounting buckle 33 touches the step surface, and the mounting position 45 is not aligned with the mounting buckle, so that the head of the mounting buckle 33 does not touch or even damage the appearance surface, and good appearance can be maintained.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the mounting buckle 33 and the limiting groove 43 are provided with three sets distributed in a triangle, and the buckle 46 and the clamping groove 36 are provided with one set. Therefore, the force of the handle 40 acting on the door body 30 is mainly borne by the stably connected hanging points, the problem that the acting force borne by the clamping points is easy to loosen is avoided, and the door has the advantage of firm connection.

When the assembly is in place, the buckle 46 and the clamping groove 36 are positioned on the side line of the triangle or in the triangle, so that the stress of the clamping point can be further reduced, the positions between the connecting structures are compact, the size is easy to control, and the requirement of the connecting structures on the high precision of the assembly size when the connecting structures are dispersed is avoided.

In addition, a right angle side position of triangle-shaped is horizontal, and another right angle side position is vertical, like this, can use the level as the reference or use vertically as the reference when installing handle 40 to the door body 30 and aim at the installation, reduced the degree of difficulty that spacing groove 43 and installation are detained 33 and are aimed at, further improved assembly efficiency.

During assembly, the installation position 45 on the handle 40 is aligned with the installation buckle 33 on the door body 30, then the handle 40 is pushed towards the direction of the fixing position 44, when the handle 40 is assembled in place, the buckle 46 is clamped into the clamping groove 36, and therefore the installation of the handle 40 is completed, the operation is very simple, the assembly efficiency is high, the appearance consistency is good, and the problems that in the prior art, screw fixation is time-consuming and the appearance surface of the handle 40 is affected are solved.

The fixing portion 44 and the mounting portion 45 are circular holes, and a connecting line between the fixing portion and the mounting portion can be set to be horizontal or vertical, so that when the push handle 40 moves, a horizontal line or a vertical line can be used as a reference, and the assembling efficiency is further improved.

The extending direction of the upper arm 47 of the buckle 46 is consistent with the side pushing direction when the handle 40 is installed, the arm 47 is pressed by the door panel 31 when the handle 40 is pushed, and the buckle part 48 is just inserted into the slot 36 when the handle is assembled in place.

It should be noted that, as can be understood by those skilled in the art, the positions of the limiting groove 43 and the mounting buckle 33 can be interchanged, and the positions of the buckle 46 and the slot 36 can also be interchanged, that is, the limiting groove 43 and the buckle 46 are disposed on the door body 30, and the mounting buckle 33 and the slot 36 are disposed on the handle 40, which can also achieve the purpose of the present disclosure and still fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

According to the disclosure, the refrigerator is hung on the limiting groove 43 through the mounting buckle 33 to realize that the handle 40 is hung on the door body 30, the handle 40 is clamped on the door body 30 through the buckle 46 adaptive clamping groove 36, the effect of preventing the mounting buckle 33 from deviating from the limiting groove 43 is achieved, firm connection of the handle 40 on the door body 30 is guaranteed, screw assembly is not needed, the time consuming property that a plurality of screws are required to be drilled to connect the handle to the door body in the prior art is avoided, and the problem that the appearance is influenced by the screws, the structure is simple, the mounting efficiency that the handle 40 is assembled to the door body 30 is improved, and the refrigerator has the advantage of good appearance consistency.

According to the refrigerator, the limiting groove 43 is provided with the mounting position 45 with a large outline to realize hanging mounting of the mounting buckle 33, the mounting buckle 33 is firstly aligned with the mounting position 45 during assembly, then the mounting buckle 33 is pushed into the fixing position 45 by side pushing to realize front and back limiting in the vertical side pushing direction, the buckle 46 acts on the clamping groove 36 to realize limiting in the side pushing direction after the assembly is in place, and the problem that the conventional hanging structure is loose due to large assembly clearance due to tight matching of the fixing position 44 of the limiting groove 43 and the mounting buckle 33 can be avoided.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are merely for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, 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; 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 in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising:

a case having a storage chamber;

the door body is connected to the front end of the box body and used for opening and closing the storage chamber, and one of a limiting groove and an installation buckle and one of a clamping groove and a clamping buckle are arranged on the door body;

the handle is connected to the door body, so that a user can open or close the door body by pulling the handle, and the handle is provided with the other one of the limiting groove and the mounting buckle and the other one of the clamping groove and the clamping buckle;

during assembly, the mounting buckle penetrates through the limiting groove and is hung at the limiting groove, and the buckle is clamped in the clamping groove to prevent the mounting buckle from being separated from the limiting groove.

2. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the stopper groove includes a fixing portion, and a mounting portion having a contour larger than the fixing portion; the mounting buckle is provided with a matching part matched with the fixing position and a limiting part with the periphery protruding out of the matching part, and the outer contour of the limiting part is smaller than the mounting position and larger than the fixing position, so that the limiting part can penetrate out of the limiting groove from the mounting position in the assembling process and is blocked by the wall forming the fixing position when the limiting part is assembled in place to be hung at the fixing position.

3. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 2, wherein a groove having a profile greater than that of the fixing portion is formed at one side of the stopper groove adjacent to the mounting buckle, so that a stepped surface is formed at a junction of the groove and the fixing portion.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the handle includes:

a handle panel; and

the handle mounting seat is connected to the inner side of the handle panel, and the buckle is arranged on the handle mounting seat.

5. The refrigerator of claim 4, wherein the catch has an arm portion at a root portion and a catch portion at a head portion, the arm portion not protruding from a rear surface of the handle mount when assembled in place.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the door body includes:

a door panel; and

the mounting panel, connect in the rear side of door panel, the installation is detained and is located on the mounting panel and wear out door panel.

7. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounting button and the limiting groove have three sets distributed in a triangle, and the fastening button and the fastening groove have one set.

8. The refrigerator of claim 7 wherein the catch and the slot are located on a line connecting the triangles or within the triangles when assembled in place.

9. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 7, wherein the triangle is a right triangle and one of the legs is horizontal.

10. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the refrigerator has four door bodies, the handles are connected to the door bodies at the corners close to the center of the refrigerator, and the handles on the four door bodies are combined to form a circle when the door bodies are closed.