CN214537037U - Hinge device and refrigerator thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a hinge means and refrigerator thereof, hinge means are applicable to the refrigerator, the refrigerator includes the box and passes through hinge means pin joint in the door body of box front side, hinge means includes: the bracket comprises a first part and a second part which are connected, the first part is fixedly connected with the box body, and the second part is supported at the bottom of the door body; the rotating shaft is arranged on the second part and comprises a central hole; the first guide piece is arranged on one side, far away from the box body, of the support and comprises a guide groove, and the opening end of the guide groove is far away from the central hole and faces towards the box body; wherein, the bottom surface of guide way is arc slope.

Description

Hinge device and refrigerator thereof

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a hinge device for refrigerator is about a hinge device and refrigerator very much.

Background

A refrigerator generally includes a refrigerator main body having an inner container forming a storage chamber, and an outer case connected to an outside of the inner container, and a door pivotally connected to the refrigerator main body by upper and lower hinges for opening or closing a front surface of the storage chamber.

For the refrigerator with the ice making function, a distributor and a water pipe are arranged on a door body, wherein the distributor is used for extracting water stored in a storage chamber without opening the door body; a water pipe passes through the inside of the refrigerator main body and the door body to supply water to a dispenser located on the door body.

At present, a water pipe is connected to a door body at the front side of a refrigerator body from the refrigerator body through hinges below the refrigerator body and the door body,

since the center hole of the hinge shaft is small and is located at the bottom of the refrigerator, the view is limited during installation, and therefore, the water pipe is difficult to penetrate out of the center hole of the hinge, resulting in inconvenient assembly. In addition, the water pipe is bent easily in the process of penetrating out of the central hole, so that the water pipe has the problems of no water, water leakage and the like.

In view of the above, there is a need for a new hinge assembly and a refrigerator, which can overcome the problems of inconvenient assembly of the water pipe and the hinge assembly.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a hinge means and refrigerator thereof, hinge means have simple structure, water pipe convenient assembling, be difficult for appearing anhydrous or leak the scheduling problem.

In order to solve the above problem, the utility model provides a hinge device is applicable to the refrigerator, the refrigerator includes the box and passes through hinge device pin joint in the door body of box front side, hinge device includes: the bracket comprises a first part and a second part which are connected, the first part is fixedly connected with the box body, and the second part is supported at the bottom of the door body; the rotating shaft is arranged on the second part and comprises a central hole; the first guide piece is arranged on one side, far away from the box body, of the support and comprises a guide groove, and the opening end of the guide groove is far away from the central hole and faces towards the box body; wherein, the bottom surface of guide way is arc slope.

As an alternative solution, the arc-shaped slope extends obliquely downward toward the open end.

As an optional technical scheme, the guide groove is a U-shaped groove, and an opening of the U-shaped groove is far away from the central hole and faces the box body.

As an optional technical scheme, the guide groove comprises a first groove body and a second groove body which are communicated, the first groove body is close to the door body, the second groove body is far away from the door body, and an included angle is formed between the first groove body and the second groove body.

As an optional technical solution, the guide groove includes a groove wall, the groove wall protrudes from an edge of the bottom surface toward the second portion, a flange extends from the groove wall, a screw post is disposed on the flange, and a screw is inserted into the screw post to fix the flange to the bottom surface of the second portion.

As an optional technical scheme, the door further comprises a pivot part, wherein the pivot part is fixedly connected to the bottom decorative strip of the door body, the pivot part is provided with a shaft hole, and the rotating shaft penetrates through the shaft hole; the bottom decorative strip is provided with a sleeve, and the sleeve is sleeved outside the shaft hole so as to communicate the sleeve with the central hole.

As an optional technical solution, the refrigerator includes a water pipe, the water pipe is inserted from the shaft hole, enters the central hole, and moves towards the opening end through the guide of the arc-shaped slope.

As an optional technical solution, the pivot portion includes a first mating surface, the rotation shaft includes a second mating surface, and the shapes of the first mating surface and the second mating surface are matched with each other.

As an optional technical solution, a second guiding member is disposed on the bottom of the box body, the second guiding member is close to the opening end, wherein the second guiding member is J-shaped or L-shaped, and the second guiding member is detachably connected to the bottom of the box body.

The utility model also provides a refrigerator, the refrigerator includes as above hinge means.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a hinge device and refrigerator, hinge device's support below sets up the guide, and the bottom surface of guide is arc slope form, and the water pipe in its guide entering guide is along the removal of guide way, realizes that the water pipe is worn out from the centre bore bottom of the pivot of hinge very easily, and the guide adopts wear-resisting material can play the effect of protection water pipe, prevents that the water pipe from bending, ground wearing and tearing lead to the water pipe anhydrous, the scheduling problem that leaks to appear.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

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 embodiments or the technical solutions in the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are 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 schematic view of a bottom view of a partial structure of a refrigerator and hinge device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a bottom view of a partial structure of a refrigerator and hinge assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view of a portion of the structure of the refrigerator and hinge apparatus of fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the first guide of fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view of a portion of the device of fig. 1 assembled from another perspective.

Fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view taken along dashed line AA in fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged schematic view of fig. 5 at the broken line B.

Fig. 8 is a bottom view of a refrigerator according to another embodiment of the present invention, illustrating a partial structure of the refrigerator assembled with the hinge device.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged schematic view of fig. 8 at the dotted line.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the following embodiments and accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "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, but 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 utility model relates to an embodiment provides a hinge means is applicable to the refrigerator, and the refrigerator that can realize the water intaking in the door body department of refrigerator of distributor is equipped with in the specially adapted door body.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the refrigerator includes a refrigerator body and a door body pivoted to a front side of the refrigerator body by a hinge device, the hinge device includes a bracket 20, the bracket 20 includes a first portion 21 and a second portion 22 connected with each other, the first portion 21 is fixedly connected with the refrigerator body, and the second portion 22 is supported at a bottom of the door body; the rotating shaft 23 is arranged on the second part 22 and protrudes towards the bottom of the door body, and the rotating shaft 23 comprises a central hole 24; a first guide 50 disposed on a side of the bracket 20 away from the case, the first guide 50 including a guide groove 51, an open end 53 of the guide groove 51 being away from the central hole 24 and facing the case; wherein, the front end of the bottom surface 52 of the guide groove 51 is provided with an arc-shaped slope.

In a preferred embodiment, the front end of the bottom surface 52 is a portion away from the open end 53; the arcuate ramp extends obliquely downward toward the open end 53. Wherein, the front end of the bottom surface 52 of the guide groove 51 is provided with an arc slope extending obliquely downwards to guide the water pipe 10 inserted into the central hole 24 to move towards the opening end 53 along the guide groove 51, so that the water pipe can penetrate out of the hinge device more conveniently, and the problem that the water pipe is not water or leaks due to bending of the water pipe is avoided.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the entire bottom surface of the guide groove may be an arc-shaped slope, and gradually extend downward from the front end of the bottom surface toward the open end.

In this embodiment, the first portion 21 of the bracket 20 is fixedly attached to the bottom surface of the lower beam 40 of the cabinet; the second portion 22 of the bracket 20 is supported on the bottom side surface of the bottom molding 30 of the door body. Preferably, the first portion 21 is secured to the lower beam 40 of the box by screws 24.

The hinge device further comprises a pivot portion 25, the pivot portion 25 is fixed to the bottom molding 30 by an adapter 27, and the pivot portion 25 and the adapter 27 are respectively located at two opposite sides of the bottom molding 30, and preferably, the pivot portion 25 and the adapter 27 are jointly locked to the bottom molding 30 by means of screw locking.

As shown in fig. 3, 5 and 7, the pivot portion 25 includes a shaft hole 26; the rotating shaft 23 on the bracket 20 is arranged in the shaft hole 26 in a penetrating way; wherein, the pivot part 25 comprises a first adapting surface 251, the rotating shaft 23 comprises a second adapting surface 231, and the first adapting surface 251 and the second adapting surface 231 are adapted to each other. When the pivot portion 25 pivots a certain angle relative to the rotating shaft 23, the first fitting surface 251 and the second fitting surface 231 are combined and positioned with each other, so that the door body stays at the rotating angle and is opened relative to the cabinet.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the bottom molding 30 is provided with a sleeve 31, and the sleeve 31 is located on the surface of the bottom molding 30 on the side away from the pivot 25 and protrudes in the direction away from the pivot 25. Wherein, the sleeve 31 is sleeved outside the rotating shaft 23 to communicate the sleeve 31 with the central hole 24, so that the water pipe 10 is inserted from the upper end of the sleeve 31, enters the central hole 24, enters the guide groove 51 from the arc slope of the front end of the bottom surface 52 of the guide groove 51 below the central hole 24, and moves toward the open end 53.

As shown in fig. 4, the guide channel 51 is a generally U-shaped channel with an opening 53 of the U-shaped channel facing away from the central aperture 24 towards the lower beam 40 of the box (as shown in fig. 2).

As shown in fig. 2 and 4, the guide groove 51 includes a first groove body 511 and a second groove body 512 which are communicated with each other, the first groove body 511 is close to the bottom molding 30, and the second groove body 512 extends in a direction away from the bottom molding 30, wherein the first groove body 511 and the second groove body 512 are arranged at an included angle.

The "angled arrangement" can be regarded as that the distal end of the first slot 511 and the proximal end of the second slot 512 are bent, so that the extending directions of the two slots are not the same direction any longer, but the extending directions of the two slots form an angle.

It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, for explaining the structure of the guide groove 51, the guide groove is divided into the first groove body 511 and the second groove body 512, but the first groove body 511 and the second groove body 512 are substantially integrally formed.

In a preferred embodiment, the included angle may be a right angle, an obtuse angle, or an acute angle.

As shown in fig. 2 and 4, the groove wall 54 of the guide groove 51 protrudes from the edge of the bottom surface 52 toward the second portion 22, the top of the groove wall 54 extends to form a flange 541, the flange 541 protrudes toward the outer side of the groove wall 54, the flange 541 is provided with a screw post 542, a screw is screwed into the screw post 542 to fix the flange 541 to the bottom surface of the second portion 22, and the first guide 50 and the bracket 20 are fixedly connected to each other.

As shown in fig. 2, the lower beam 40 of the bottom of the tank body is further provided with a second guide 41, the second guide 41 is, for example, formed in a recess 42 formed on the bottom surface of the lower beam 40, the recess 42 is further provided with a through hole 43, and the water pipe 10 is extended from the open end 52, passes through the second guide 41, and then enters the inside of the tank body through the through hole 43.

In this embodiment, the second guiding element 41 is near the opening end 53, and the second guiding element 41 is, for example, a "J" or "L" shaped hook. Preferably, the opening of the hook faces the top surface of the recess 42, so that the space between the top surface of the recess 42 and the hook can restrict the orientation of the water pipe 10.

In another embodiment of the invention, as shown in fig. 8 and 9, the second guide 44 of the lower beam 40 of the bottom of the case is detachably attached to the recess 42 of the bottom surface of the lower beam 40 by means of a screw post 441. The second guide piece 44 is designed to be of a detachable structure, the second guide piece is arranged at the bottom of the box body, and is easy to damage due to factors such as friction, and the detachable second guide piece 44 is convenient to replace in time after being damaged.

The bottom surface of the lower beam 40 at the bottom of the box body is also provided with a middle water pipe 60, the front end of the middle water pipe 60 is provided with a sheath 61, the sheath 61 is connected with the lower end 13 of the water pipe 10, the middle water pipe 60 is partially clamped in the space between the second guide piece 44 and the concave part 42, the rear end of the middle water pipe 60 extends towards the through hole 46 in the other concave part 45 at the other end of the concave part 42 and penetrates out of the through hole 46 into a sleeve 47, one end of the sleeve 47 is connected with the upper end of the through hole 46, the sleeve 47 is positioned on the top surface of the lower beam 40, and the top surface and the bottom surface are opposite.

In the present embodiment, the recess 42 and the other recess 45 are horizontally arranged in the longitudinal direction on the bottom side surface of the lower beam 40.

It should be noted that the reference numerals shown in fig. 8 and 9, which are the same as those shown in fig. 1 to 7, represent the same elements and have similar functions, and are not repeated herein.

As shown in fig. 2, 3, 5 and 6, the first guide 50 is fixed to the bottom surface of the second portion 22 of the bracket 20, and the second portion 22 covers the top of the guide groove 51 of the first guide 50 to define a water pipe accommodation space, wherein an outlet of the water pipe accommodation space is an open end 53 of the guide groove 51.

The water pipe 10 is inserted from the top end of the sleeve 31 on the bottom molding 30, the lower end 13 of the water pipe 10 passes through the central hole 24, contacts the arc-shaped slope at the front end of the bottom surface 52 of the guide groove 51, and the arc-shaped slope guides the lower end 13 of the water pipe 10 to move towards the first slot body 511 and the second slot body 512 and penetrate out from the opening end 53. At this time, by means of the arc-shaped slope and the groove shape of the guide groove 51, a part of the water pipes accommodated in the water pipe accommodating space is bent into a specific bending part 12 which is not easy to bend, so that the problems of pipe body blockage and water non-discharge caused by over-small bending angle of the bending part 12 are avoided.

In addition, the upper end 11 of the water pipe 10 is kept extending approximately vertically, and the part of the water pipe 10 close to the lower end 13 is bent into a specific bent part 12 through the cooperation of the water pipe accommodating space between the guide groove 51 and the second part 22 of the bracket 20; and, the lower end 13 is restrained in the water pipe accommodating space, and the extending direction is approximately horizontally extending. In other words, the arc-shaped slope of the guide groove 51 and the water pipe accommodating space change the direction of a partial area of the water pipe 10 so that the partial area extends toward the inside of the tank body.

In a preferred embodiment, the first guide 50 is injection molded, for example, from a wear resistant material.

In a preferred embodiment, the first and second portions 21, 22 of the bracket 20 are, for example, integrally formed.

To sum up, the utility model provides a hinge device and refrigerator, hinge device's support below sets up the guide, and the bottom surface of guide is arc slope form, and the water pipe in its guide entering guide is along the removal of guide way, realizes that the water pipe is worn out from the centre bore bottom of the pivot of hinge very easily, and the guide adopts wear-resisting material can play the effect of protection water pipe, prevents that water pipe bending, ground wearing and tearing from leading to the water pipe anhydrous, the scheduling problem that leaks to appear.

The present invention has been described in relation to the above embodiments, which are only examples for implementing the present invention. Furthermore, the technical features mentioned in the different embodiments of the present invention described above can be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other. It should be noted that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and it should be understood that various changes and modifications can be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a hinge means, is applicable to the refrigerator, the refrigerator includes the box and passes through hinge means pin joint in the door body of box front side which characterized in that, hinge means includes:

the bracket comprises a first part and a second part which are connected, the first part is fixedly connected with the box body, and the second part is supported at the bottom of the door body;

the rotating shaft is arranged on the second part and comprises a central hole; and

the first guide piece is arranged on one side, away from the box body, of the support and comprises a guide groove, and the opening end of the guide groove is far away from the central hole and faces towards the box body;

wherein, the front end of the bottom surface of the guide groove is provided with an arc-shaped slope.

2. The hinge assembly of claim 1, wherein the arcuate ramp extends obliquely downward toward the open end.

3. The hinge assembly of claim 1, wherein the guide slot is a U-shaped slot that opens away from the central aperture and toward the housing.

4. The hinge device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guide groove comprises a first groove body and a second groove body which are communicated with each other, the first groove body is close to the door body, the second groove body is far away from the door body, and an included angle is formed between the first groove body and the second groove body.

5. The hinge assembly of claim 1, wherein the guide slot includes a slot wall that projects from an edge of the bottom surface toward the second portion, the slot wall extending to a flange, the flange having a screw post disposed thereon, a screw being inserted into the screw post to secure the flange to an underside surface of the second portion.

6. The hinge device according to claim 1, further comprising a pivot portion, wherein the pivot portion is fixedly connected to the bottom molding of the door body, the pivot portion is provided with a shaft hole, and the rotating shaft is inserted into the shaft hole; the bottom decorative strip is provided with a sleeve, and the sleeve is sleeved outside the shaft hole so as to communicate the sleeve with the central hole.

7. The hinge apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the refrigerator includes a water pipe inserted from the shaft hole, entering the center hole, and moving toward the open end guided by the arc-shaped slope.

8. The hinge assembly of claim 6, wherein the pivot portion includes a first mating surface and the pivot shaft includes a second mating surface, the first mating surface and the second mating surface being shaped to mate with one another.

9. The hinge assembly of claim 1, wherein a second guide is disposed on the bottom of the housing proximate the open end, wherein the second guide is a "J" or "L" shaped hook that is removably coupled to the bottom of the housing.

10. A refrigerator characterized in that it comprises a hinge device according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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