CN215176405U

CN215176405U - A kind of refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN215176405U
Application number: CN202121189027.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姚惠民; 许锦潮; 李鹏
Original assignee: Hisense Ronshen Guangdong Refrigerator Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Ronshen Guangdong Refrigerator Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-28
Filing date: 2021-05-28
Publication date: 2021-12-14
Anticipated expiration: 2031-05-28

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of refrigeration equipment, and discloses a refrigerator, which comprises a refrigerator body and an ice maker; the ice maker comprises a mould shell and a driving mechanism; the shuttering comprises a first shuttering and a second shuttering arranged at left and right sides, which can be opened and closed and form a die cavity when closed; the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one of the first formwork and the second formwork to move; the mould shell is provided with a water inlet communicated with the mould cavity; the edge of the concave cavity of the first mold shell is provided with a first combining part, and the edge of the concave cavity of the second mold shell is provided with a second combining part matched with the first combining part. This application can improve the compound die laminating degree of first mould shell and second mould shell, effectively avoids the ice-cube to appear the flange in joint line department, and the regularity of ice-cube outward appearance is effectively promoted to the reducible irregular condition of ice-cube appearance.

Description

A kind of refrigerator

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a refrigeration plant technical field especially relates to a refrigerator.

Background

As the demand of consumers for the functions of the refrigerator increases, the refrigerator with the ice making function is more and more popular with consumers.

The main structure of the refrigerator that performs an ice making function is an ice maker, which is generally disposed in an ice making chamber partitioned from a refrigerating chamber or a freezing chamber. The basic principle of ice making is: and injecting water into the ice making cells in the ice making machine, providing cold energy into the ice making chamber to make the water in the ice making cells form ice blocks, and demoulding the ice blocks from the ice making cells to fall into an ice storage box for a user to take.

The existing ice maker has the problems that for the ice making grids in a mold closing mode, water is easy to leak out of a mold cavity from a mold closing line during water injection, the mold closing line is protruded after ice cubes are formed, and the appearance is irregular.

Thus, improvements in the prior art are needed.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at: the utility model provides a refrigerator to solve the ice machine in the refrigerator of prior art, to the ice cube tray of compound die form, when the water injection, water leaks outside the die cavity easily from the joint line, causes the protruding technical problem of the joint line behind the ice-cube shaping, the outward appearance is irregular.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a refrigerator, including:

a case defining an ice making chamber therein;

an ice maker provided in the ice making chamber;

wherein the ice maker comprises a mould shell and a driving mechanism;

the shuttering comprises a first shuttering and a second shuttering arranged at left and right sides, which can be opened and closed and form a die cavity when closed;

the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one of the first formwork and the second formwork to move;

the mould shell is provided with a water inlet communicated with the mould cavity;

the edge of the concave cavity of the first mold shell is provided with a first combining part, and the edge of the concave cavity of the second mold shell is provided with a second combining part matched with the first combining part.

In some embodiments of the present application, one of the first combining portion and the second combining portion is a rib, and the other is a groove.

In some embodiments of the present application, the driving mechanism is configured to drive the first mold shell and the second mold shell to move in opposite directions.

In some embodiments of the present application, the drive mechanism includes a motor, a first shaft, a second shaft, and a rotational gear assembly;

the first formwork is connected with the first rotating shaft, and the second formwork is connected with the second rotating shaft;

the motor is connected with the first rotating shaft or the second rotating shaft, and the first rotating shaft is meshed with the second rotating shaft through the rotating gear assembly, so that the first formwork and the second formwork can rotate in opposite directions.

In some embodiments of the present application, the driving mechanism includes a main motor, a main rotating shaft, a first gear set, a second gear set, a first rack, a second rack, and a sliding rod;

the first rack is arranged on the first formwork, and the second rack is arranged on the second formwork;

the sliding rod penetrates through the first formwork and the second formwork;

the main motor is connected with the main rotating shaft, the first rack is meshed with the main rotating shaft through the first gear set, and the second rack is meshed with the first rack or the first gear set or the main rotating shaft through the second gear set, so that the first formwork and the second formwork can move horizontally in opposite directions along the sliding rod.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first rack is disposed at front and rear sides of the top of the first formwork, and has a first upper tooth portion and a first lower tooth portion;

the second rack is arranged in the middle of the front side and the rear side of the second formwork and is provided with a second upper tooth part;

the first upper tooth part is meshed with the main rotating shaft through the first gear set, and the first lower tooth part is meshed with the second upper tooth part through the second gear set.

In some embodiments of the present application, the sliding rod has four sliding bars, and the four sliding bars are respectively inserted into four corner positions of the first mold shell and the second mold shell.

In some embodiments of the present application, the formwork includes a shell and a mold body;

the shell comprises a first shell part and a second shell part which are arranged on the left and the right, and the first shell part and the second shell part can be opened and closed and enclose an inner cavity when being closed;

the die body is arranged in the inner cavity and comprises a first die part arranged in the first shell part and a second die part arranged in the second shell part, and the first die part and the second die part form the die cavity when being closed;

the water inlet is arranged on the die body, and the shell is provided with an avoiding opening which is enclosed at the periphery of the water inlet.

In some embodiments of the present application, the mold body has a plurality of the mold cavities, and each of the mold cavities has one of the water inlets;

a water tank is arranged above the shell and is provided with water diversion ports corresponding to the water inlets.

In some embodiments of the present application, a plurality of the mold cavities are communicated with each other through water holes.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a refrigerator compares with prior art, and its beneficial effect lies in:

the utility model discloses refrigerator, the ice cube tray of the ice machine that sets up in it includes first mould shell and the second mould shell that two movements opened and shut, and the cavity edge of first mould shell is equipped with first portion that closes, and the cavity edge of second mould shell is equipped with the second portion that closes with first looks adaptation that closes. The die assembly laminating degree of the first die shell and the second die shell can be improved through the arrangement, the flange of an ice block at a die assembly line is effectively avoided, the irregular appearance of the ice block can be reduced, and the regularity of the appearance of the ice block is effectively improved.

Drawings

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

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the ice-making machine of FIG. 1 in a closed state;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the ice-making machine of FIG. 1 in a disengaged state;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the housing and mold body of the ice-making machine of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a drive mechanism and housing of the ice-making machine of FIG. 1;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an ice maker according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of the ice-making machine of FIG. 6 in a closed state;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of the ice-making machine of FIG. 6 in a disengaged state;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of a drive mechanism and housing of the ice maker of FIG. 6;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of a water tank and a mold body of the ice making machine of fig. 1 or 6;

fig. 11 is an exploded view of the mold body of the ice-making machine of fig. 1 or 6;

in the figure, 100, base; 101. an upper side plate; 102. a left side plate; 103. a right side plate; 104. a front side plate;

200. a housing; 210. a first shell portion; 211. a first mouth groove; 220. a second shell portion; 221. a second mouth groove;

300. a mold body; 301. a water inlet; 302. a water through hole; 310. a first mold part; 312. a first combining part; 320. a second mold portion;

410. a first heating mechanism; 420. a second heating mechanism;

500. a drive mechanism; 510. a main motor; 511. a transmission gear; 520. a main rotating shaft; 530. a first gear set; 540. a second gear set; 550. a first rack; 551. a first upper tooth portion; 552. a first lower tooth portion; 560. a second rack; 561. a second upper tooth portion; 570. a slide bar; 501. a motor; 502. a first rotating shaft; 503. a second rotating shaft; 504. a rotating gear assembly;

600. a water tank; 601. and a water diversion port.

Detailed Description

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 of 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 application, 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 only for convenience in describing the present application and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "first", "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implying any number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

In the description of the present application, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

The utility model discloses a refrigerator of preferred embodiment mainly includes box and ice machine.

Wherein a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber may be defined in the cabinet. In actual installation, the ice maker can be directly arranged in the freezing chamber, and the freezing chamber is the ice making chamber. Alternatively, an independent ice making chamber may be defined in the refrigerating chamber or the freezing chamber by a heat insulating plate, and the ice maker may be provided in the ice making chamber.

Referring to fig. 1, the ice maker includes a base 100, a mold casing (housing 200 and mold body 300), and a drive mechanism 500.

Referring to fig. 2, the base 100 is for connection with an ice making chamber, and specifically includes an upper side plate 101, a left side plate 102, a right side plate 103, a front side plate 104, and a rear side plate. The front, rear, left and right directions mentioned in the present application are defined for clarity of description of the structure, and the actual arrangement is not limited to the front and rear directions shown in fig. 2 in the ice making chamber.

The mould shell comprises a first mould shell and a second mould shell which can be opened and closed and form a mould cavity when closed, the shape of the mould cavity is the shape of an ice block, and the mould cavity can be designed according to the requirements of users and can be designed into a sphere, a diamond face sphere or a polyhedron and the like. Specifically, the mold casing is composed of a casing 200 and a mold body 300.

Referring to fig. 4, the case 200 includes a first case part 210 and a second case part 220 disposed left and right. The inner wall of the first shell portion 210 is provided with a first inner cavity, the inner wall of the second shell portion 220 is provided with a second inner cavity, and the first shell portion 210 and the second shell portion 220 can be opened and closed and enclose an inner cavity when being closed.

Referring to FIG. 4, a mold body 300 is disposed within the interior cavity, the mold body 300 including a first mold portion 310 and a second mold portion 320. The first mold part 310 is attached to the first housing part 210 at a first inner cavity, has a first cavity, and is movable along with the first housing part 210. The second mold part 320 is attached to the second inner cavity of the second shell part 220, has a second cavity, and is movable along with the second shell part 220. The first mold portion 310 and the second mold portion 320 enclose a mold cavity when brought together. The shape of the die cavity is the shape of the prepared ice block, and the die cavity can be designed according to the requirements of users, and can be designed into a sphere, a diamond face sphere or a polyhedron and the like. And, the first mold part 310 and the second mold part 320 are made of food-grade silica gel material that can be deformed under the action of external force.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 11, the edge of the cavity (first cavity) of the first mold part 310 is provided with a first engaging portion 312, and the edge of the cavity (second cavity) of the second mold part 320 is provided with a second engaging portion (not shown) adapted to the first engaging portion 312. One of the first combining portion 312 and the second combining portion is a rib, and the other is a groove. The setting can improve the die assembly attaching degree of the first die part 310 and the second die part 320, and effectively avoids the phenomenon that the appearance of ice blocks is irregular due to the fact that the ice blocks have flanges at the die assembly lines, and the appearance of the ice blocks is affected.

Referring to fig. 4, the mold body 300 has a water inlet 301 communicated with the mold cavity, an opening is provided at a position of the upper side plate 101 corresponding to the water inlet 301, and an external water pipe injects water into the mold cavity through the water inlet 301.

Referring to fig. 4, the housing 200 has a water injection port communicating with the inner chamber and corresponding to the water inlet 301. The first housing portion 210 is provided with a first opening groove 211, the second housing portion 220 is provided with a second opening groove 221, and the first opening groove 211 and the second opening groove 221 form an escape opening enclosing the periphery of the water inlet 301 when being closed.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, a first heating mechanism 410 is provided on the first casing portion 210, and a second heating mechanism 420 is provided on the second casing portion 220. Specifically, the first heating mechanism 410 and the second heating mechanism 420 may be U-shaped heating pipes.

The driving mechanism 500 is used for driving the first housing portion 210 and the second housing portion 220 to move to open and close, and fig. 2 and 3 are schematic structural diagrams of the first housing portion 210 and the second housing portion 220 in a closed state and a separated state, respectively.

When the ice cubes are removed from the mold, the first heating mechanism 410 and the second heating mechanism 420 are activated to heat the first casing 210 and the second casing 220, respectively, and the heat is transferred to the first mold part 310 and the second mold part 320, so that the outer walls of the ice cubes are melted and separated from the mold parts. Then the driving mechanism 500 drives the first case portion 210 to be separated from the second case portion 220, and the ice cubes fall into the ice bank by gravity for a user to take.

The application provides a refrigerator, an ice making grid of an ice maker arranged in the refrigerator comprises two opposite-movement opening and closing formworks, and the refrigerator can be suitable for manufacturing special-shaped ice blocks which can be formed only by matching of die assembly, such as spherical ice blocks or polyhedral ice blocks. And the back sides of the two formworks are respectively provided with a heating mechanism for melting the outer wall of the ice block, separating from the mould part and then naturally dropping due to the action of gravity when the formworks are separated. This application demoulding structure is simple, and demoulding effect is reliable. In addition, this application is equipped with first portion of closing at the cavity edge of first mould shell, and the cavity edge of second mould shell is equipped with the second portion of closing with first looks adaptation of closing, can improve the compound die laminating degree of first mould shell and second mould shell, effectively avoids the ice-cube to appear the flange in joint line department, and the condition that reducible ice-cube appearance is irregular effectively promotes the regularity of ice-cube outward appearance.

In some embodiments of the present application, the mold form can be a shell capable of forming a mold cavity without providing a mold portion, since the mold form is primarily released by the heating mechanism to melt the outer wall of the ice block without deforming the mold portion of the mold form.

In some embodiments of the present application, two sets of driving mechanisms 500 may be employed to control the first and

second housing portions

210 and 220, respectively.

In some embodiments of the present application, a set of driving mechanisms 500 can be used to simultaneously control the opening and closing movements of the first and

second housing portions

210 and 220. The opening and closing movements of the first and

second housing portions

210 and 220 may include at least a translation type or a rotation type, and the present application provides a preferred mating driving mechanism 500 for these two modes, respectively.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, when the first and

second housing parts

210 and 220 employ a translational opening and closing motion, the driving mechanism 500 may include a main motor 510, a main rotation shaft 520, a first gear set 530, a second gear set 540, a first rack 550, a second rack 560, and a slide bar 570.

Referring to fig. 5, the first rack 550 is provided in two and respectively provided at front and rear sides of the top of the second case portion 220, and has first upper and

lower teeth

551 and 552. The second racks 560 are provided in two and are respectively provided at the middle portions of the front and rear sides of the first case 210, and have second upper teeth portions 561. The four sliding rods 570 are respectively disposed at four corner positions of the first shell portion 210 and the second shell portion 220. The main motor 510 is connected to the main shaft 520, and the two may be connected directly or through a driving gear 511. The main motor 510 may be fixed to the front plate 104, and as shown in fig. 2, the main shaft 520 may be rotatably mounted to the front plate 104 and the rear plate through bearings. The first gear set 530 at least includes two gears respectively disposed at two ends of the main shaft 520 and engaged with the first upper teeth 551 of the first rack 550. The second gear set 540 includes at least two gears, and the two gears can be rotatably disposed on the front side plate 104 and the rear side plate through bearings, respectively. The second upper tooth portion 561 of the second rack 560 is engaged with the first lower tooth portion 552 of the first rack 550 through the second gear set 540, so that the first and

second shell portions

210 and 220 can be moved in a translational manner along the slide bar 570 in opposite directions. In the above embodiment, the first rack 550 may be disposed at the front and rear sides of the top of the first housing part 210, and the second rack 560 may be disposed at the middle of the front and rear sides of the second housing part 220, and other structures are not changed, and the operation principle is the same.

Referring to fig. 6 to 9, when the first and

second housing parts

210 and 220 adopt a rotary opening and closing motion, the driving mechanism 500 may include a motor 501, a first rotating shaft 502, a second rotating shaft 503, and a rotary gear assembly 504.

Referring to fig. 9, the first housing portion 210 is coupled to a first rotation shaft 502, and the second housing portion 220 is coupled to a second rotation shaft 503. The rotating gear assembly 504 includes four gears, two of which are respectively disposed at two ends of the first rotating shaft 502, and the other two of which are respectively disposed at two ends of the second rotating shaft 503 and correspondingly engaged with each other. The motor 501 may be connected to the first rotating shaft 502 or the second rotating shaft 503 (shown as being connected to the second rotating shaft 503) so that the first housing portion 210 and the second housing portion 220 can rotate in opposite directions.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 10, the mold body may have a plurality of mold cavities, as illustrated in the example of three mold cavities, each having a water inlet 301. A water tank 600 is arranged above the shell, the water tank 600 is provided with water diversion ports 601 corresponding to the water inlets 301, and water diversion pipes can be arranged at the water diversion ports 601 in an extensible mode and communicated with the water inlets 301. Referring to fig. 1, the water tank 600 may be fixed to the base 100, and an opening is formed at a position of the upper side plate 101 corresponding to the water tank 600. The arrangement of the multiple mold cavities increases the single ice making quantity of the ice maker, and the arrangement of the water tank 600 with the water diversion port 601 can help to improve the water injection efficiency, so that the ice making efficiency is effectively improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 11, the plurality of cavities are connected to each other by water holes 302, so that water injected into the cavities can circulate in the cavities, thereby making the amount of water in each cavity tend to be even and ensuring that the weight difference of the ice cubes is small.

In some embodiments of the present application, referring to fig. 11, the water inlet 301 is annular, preferably funnel-shaped, formed in the first mold portion 310 or the second mold portion 320. This application becomes the form of independent molding in one of them mould portion with the mode of water inlet 301 from two halves compound dies, and water leaks outside to the die cavity from the joint line department of water filling port 301 when can avoiding the water injection, causes the mould to glue, and first mould portion 310 separately causes the difficulty with second mould portion 320 when giving follow-up drawing of patterns, leads to the drawing of patterns process not smooth and easy. And because the single water injection amount is constant during ice making, if water is leaked during water injection, the amount of water entering the die cavity is reduced, the produced ice blocks are smaller than preset, and the integrity of the ice blocks is reduced. And adopt the annular water inlet 301 of this application, can avoid leaking to can guarantee the integrity of ice-cube better.

The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, a plurality of modifications and replacements can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present invention, and these modifications and replacements should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A refrigerator, comprising:

a case defining an ice making chamber therein;

an ice maker provided in the ice making chamber;

the ice maker is characterized by comprising a mould shell and a driving mechanism;

2. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the first combining portion and the second combining portion is a rib, and the other is a groove.

3. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism is used for driving the first mold shell and the second mold shell to move in opposite directions.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein the driving mechanism includes a motor, a first rotating shaft, a second rotating shaft, and a rotating gear assembly;

5. The refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein the driving mechanism includes a main motor, a main rotating shaft, a first gear set, a second gear set, a first rack, a second rack, and a slide bar;

the sliding rod penetrates through the first formwork and the second formwork;

6. The refrigerator of claim 5, wherein the first rack is provided at front and rear sides of a top of the first mold housing, and has a first upper tooth portion and a first lower tooth portion;

7. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the slide bar has four bars passing through four corners of the first mold shell and the second mold shell respectively.

8. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein the form includes a housing and a mold body;

9. The refrigerator of claim 8, wherein the mold body has a plurality of said mold cavities, each of said mold cavities having one of said water inlets;

10. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 9, wherein a plurality of the cavities are communicated with each other through water holes.