CN215983393U - Ice storage box, ice making device and refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses an ice storage box, an ice making device and a refrigerator. The ice storage box comprises a bottom wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, the first side wall and the second side wall are arranged around the periphery of the bottom wall, the first side wall comprises a first sub-wall, a second sub-wall and a third sub-wall, one end of the third sub-wall is connected with the bottom wall, the second sub-wall comprises a main cavity wall and an auxiliary cavity wall, one end of the main cavity wall is connected with the other end of the third sub-wall in a bending mode, the other end of the main cavity wall is connected with the first sub-wall in a bending mode, and the auxiliary cavity wall is sunken towards the bottom wall to form a containing space. The ice storage space of the ice bank can be enlarged.

Description

Ice storage box, ice making device and refrigerator

Technical Field

The application belongs to the field of household appliances, and particularly relates to an ice storage box, an ice making device and a refrigerator.

Background

The ice making device disposed in the refrigerator door generally includes an ice making assembly, an ice storing assembly, and an ice crushing assembly, and the ice taking assembly is disposed outside the refrigerator door. The ice making assembly, the ice storage assembly, the ice crushing assembly and the ice taking assembly are sequentially connected from top to bottom on the refrigerator door liner. After the ice making assembly makes the ice blocks, the ice blocks fall from the ice tray to the ice storage box to be stored. When the user need get ice, the broken ice motor drives through the transmission shaft and pushes away the ice tray motion, pushes away the ice tray and pushes away the ice-cube to broken ice subassembly department from the ice storage subassembly, and the ice-cube is taken by the user through getting the ice subassembly after broken in broken ice subassembly department. However, the related art ice bank has a limited ice bank hole, and it is difficult to satisfy the user's demand for ice cubes.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the application provides an ice storage box, an ice making device and a refrigerator, which can improve ice storage capacity.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the application provides an ice bank, installs on refrigerator door courage, the ice bank includes diapire, first lateral wall and second lateral wall, first lateral wall the second lateral wall surrounds the periphery setting of diapire, first lateral wall includes first sub-wall, second sub-wall and third sub-wall, the one end of third sub-wall with the diapire is connected, the second sub-wall includes main chamber wall and auxiliary chamber wall, main chamber wall's one end with the other end of third sub-wall is buckled and is connected, main chamber wall's the other end with first sub-wall is buckled and is connected, auxiliary chamber wall to the sunken accommodating space that forms of diapire direction.

Optionally, the auxiliary cavity wall is an arc surface and is recessed towards the bottom wall.

Optionally, the main cavity wall, the third sub-wall and the first sub-wall are both obliquely arranged.

Optionally, the main cavity wall is an arc surface, and the middle of the main cavity wall protrudes in a direction away from the bottom wall.

Optionally, the third sub-wall is provided with an ice outlet, the second sub-wall includes two auxiliary cavity walls, and projections of the two auxiliary cavity walls on a plane where the third sub-wall is located are located on two sides of the ice outlet.

Optionally, the bottom wall is a structure with a low middle part and two high ends.

In a second aspect, embodiments of the present application provide an ice making device, including:

an ice making assembly;

the ice storage box is arranged on one side of the ice making assembly, the bottom wall, the first side wall and the second side wall are arranged in a surrounding mode to form an ice storage space, and the ice storage space is provided with an ice inlet facing the ice making assembly;

the ice crushing component is arranged outside the ice storage box and is arranged opposite to the ice outlet;

the ice pushing plate is arranged in the ice storage space and is arranged opposite to the ice outlet so that ice blocks enter the ice crushing assembly from the ice storage space.

Optionally, the ice crushing assembly is disposed on a side of the second sub-wall away from the ice outlet.

Optionally, the ice making assembly further comprises an ice detecting rod, and a lower probe of the ice detecting rod is located on the same straight line with the installation center of the ice storage box.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a refrigerator, including:

a door liner;

the ice making device is connected with the door liner.

In an embodiment of the present application, the ice bank includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall disposed around a periphery of the bottom wall. The first side wall comprises a first sub-wall, a second sub-wall and a third sub-wall, one end of the third sub-wall is connected with the bottom wall, the second sub-wall comprises a main cavity wall and an auxiliary cavity wall, one end of the main cavity wall is connected with the other end of the third sub-wall in a bending mode, and the other end of the main cavity wall is connected with the first sub-wall in a bending mode. In the related art, each sidewall of the ice bank is a flat plate structure. The auxiliary cavity wall of the second sub-wall in the embodiment of the application is sunken towards the bottom wall to form an accommodating space, and the accommodating space increases the ice storage space of the ice storage box, so that the ice storage amount is increased.

Drawings

The technical solutions and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the following detailed description of specific embodiments of the present application when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a refrigerator door of the refrigerator of fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a partially exploded structure of the refrigerator door of fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a partially assembled schematic view of an ice making device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the ice-making device of fig. 4 taken along a-a direction.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of a structure of the ice bank of fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the ice bank of fig. 6 taken along a direction B-B.

Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the ice bank of fig. 6 taken along a C-C direction.

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. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present application and not all 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.

An embodiment of the present application provides a refrigerator 600, please refer to fig. 1, and fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the refrigerator provided in the embodiment of the present application. The refrigerator 600 may be a double-door refrigerator, or of course, a single-door refrigerator or a triple-door refrigerator, and the embodiment of the present application is described by taking a double-door refrigerator as an example. The refrigerator 600 may include an ice making device 100 and an ice taking device 200, the ice making device 100 may be disposed inside the refrigerator 600, and the ice taking device 200 is disposed outside the refrigerator 600. The ice-making device 100 is used to make ice cubes, and a user can take the ice cubes made by the ice-making device 100 in the refrigerator 600 at the ice taking device 200 without opening the door of the refrigerator 600. Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a refrigerator door of the refrigerator of fig. 1. The refrigerator 600 includes a door core 400, and the ice making device 100 may be directly or indirectly disposed on the door core 400. Illustratively, the ice making device 100 is directly fixed to the door core 400 by screwing or clipping. The ice cubes made by the ice making device 100 are discharged downward to the ice taking device 200 to be taken by the user.

Referring to fig. 3, 4 and 5, an ice making device 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided, where fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a partially exploded structure of a refrigerator door in fig. 2, fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a partially assembled ice making device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the ice making device in fig. 4 along a direction a-a. The ice making device 100 may include an ice making assembly 1, an ice bank 3, and an ice crushing assembly 7, and the ice making assembly 1, the ice bank 3, and the ice crushing assembly 7 are sequentially connected from top to bottom.

Referring to fig. 3, the ice making assembly 1 includes an ice maker support 17, a cold air frame, a water inlet pipe, an ice making box 15, an ice detecting rod 11, an ice storage box support 2, an ice maker core cover 13, an ice separating motor, a heating pipe, and the like. The heating pipe may be connected to a water outlet of the water inlet pipe, and water is introduced into the ice making housing 15 through the water inlet pipe and the heating pipe. The heating pipe can adopt but not limited to metal material, and the heating member can be twined to the outside of heating pipe, heats the heating pipe and can avoid the water in the heating pipe to freeze, and then avoids water to freeze and blocks up the inlet tube. The cold air frame and the ice making box 15 are detachably mounted on the ice maker bracket 17. The cold air frame is connected with the ice making box 15, so that cold air outside or in an air duct enters the periphery of the ice making box 15, and cold energy for making ice blocks is provided for the ice making box 15. When the ice making assembly 1 operates, the water inlet pipe firstly fills the ice making box 15 with water, cold air flows around the ice making box 15 through a cold air frame and other parts, the cold air and the water in the ice making box 15 exchange heat to condense the water into ice, and then under the action of the ice leaving motor, ice blocks fall off from the ice making box 15 and enter the ice storage box 3. It can be understood that the icemaker core cover 13 is covered on the ice making box 15 and the ice separating motor and detachably connected to the door core 400, and the ice maker core cover 13 can prevent the foreign odor in the chamber of the refrigerator 600 from contaminating the ice cubes in the ice making box 15. Meanwhile, the user can be prevented from directly contacting the ice-separating motor connected with the ice-making box 15, and potential safety hazards existing in the working process of the ice-separating motor are reduced.

The ice crushing assembly 7 is used for crushing ice, and referring to fig. 5, the ice crushing assembly 7 includes an ice crushing motor, a transmission shaft 71, an ice blade 74, and the like. The ice crushing assembly 7 further has an ice crushing space 73, and an ice blade 74 is provided in the ice crushing space 73. An output shaft of the ice crushing motor is connected with a linkage block, one end of the transmission shaft 71 is also connected with the linkage block, and the two linkage blocks are both provided with groove structures. The linkage block on the output shaft of the ice crushing motor is meshed and connected with the linkage block on the transmission shaft 71, so that the ice crushing motor can drive the transmission shaft 71 to rotate. An ice blade 74 penetrates through the transmission shaft 71, and the ice crushing motor drives the ice blade 74 to move through the transmission shaft 71. An ice pushing tray 5 is sleeved on one end of the transmission shaft 71 which is deep into the ice bank 3. The ice crushing motor, the ice blade 74 and the ice pushing tray 5 are sequentially arranged from left to right and are connected as a whole through the transmission shaft 71. The push tray 5 serves to push the ice cubes within the ice storage space 34 into the ice crushing space 73. The ice cubes are crushed from the ice bank 3 into the ice crushing space 73. After the ice cubes are introduced from the ice storage space 34 into the ice-crushing space 73, the ice-crushing motor starts to operate. When the user needs to crush ice, the ice crushing motor is rotated reversely to drive the ice pushing tray 5 to push ice cubes from the ice storage space 34 into the ice crushing space 73, the ice blades 74 cut the ice cubes into small pieces, and then the crushed ice enters the ice taking device 200 to be supplied to the user for crushing the ice. When the user needs to finish the ice, the ice crushing motor rotates forward, the ice pushing tray 5 pushes the ice cubes from the ice storage space 34 into the ice crushing space 73, but the ice blade 74 does not crush the ice cubes, and the finished ice cubes are pushed to the ice taking device 200 to be provided for the user to finish the ice. It should be noted that the ice crushing assembly 7 may also provide the user with the whole ice without crushing the ice.

Please refer to fig. 3 and 6 in combination, wherein fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the ice bank in fig. 4. The ice-making device 100 further includes an ice bank stand 2. The ice bank 3 is detachably connected to the ice bank stand 2. Illustratively, the ice bank support 2 is provided with a clamping groove 21, the ice bank 3 is provided with a buckle 38 at a corresponding position, and the buckle 38 is inserted into the clamping groove 21, so that the ice bank 3 and the ice bank support 2 can be connected. Note that the snap 38 on the ice bank 3 may be elastically inserted into or separated from the snap groove 21. The ice bank support 2 is further provided with a hook 22, a limiting rib 39 is arranged below the buckle 38 of the ice bank 3, and the limiting rib 39 is clamped with the hook 22, so that the connection between the ice bank 3 and the ice bank support 2 is enhanced. The connection of the ice bank stand 2 and the ice bank 3 may also be accomplished by other connection structure cooperation, which is not limited herein.

Note that the ice bank 3 and the ice-crushing assembly 7 are typically mounted on the ice bank support 2, and the ice-crushing assembly 7 is disposed between the ice bank 3 and the ice bank support 2. The ice bank bracket 2 is installed below the ice making assembly 1 after integrating the ice bank 3 and the ice crushing assembly 7 into a whole. It can be understood that the ice-crushing assembly 7 is disposed between the ice bank 3 and the ice bank support 2, so that safety accidents caused by direct touch of the user due to the exposed ice-crushing assembly 7 can be avoided. In addition, a hand-held portion 36 is further provided on the ice bank 3 to facilitate a user to detach the ice bank 3 from the ice bank stand 2 or to mount the ice bank 3 on the ice bank stand 2. When the ice bank 3 is detached, the ice bank 3 is lifted up by a distance by holding the handle 36, and then the ice bank 3 is horizontally taken out.

The ice making device 100 after installation has the probing rod 11 whose probing point is on the same line with the installation center of the ice bank 3. It should be noted that one end of the ice-detecting rod 11 is connected to the ice maker support 17, and the ice-detecting rod 11 rotates around a fixed point so that the other end of the ice-detecting rod 11 penetrates into the ice bank 3 to detect the amount of ice cubes stored in the ice bank 3. The ice making assembly 1 makes ice if the ice storage amount is lower than a preset value. The other end of the ice detecting rod 11 is a downward detecting point, and the downward detecting point is on the same straight line with the installation center of the ice storage box 3 so as to increase the ice storage capacity of the ice storage box 3.

The embodiment of the present application provides an ice bank 3. Referring to fig. 7 and 8 in combination, fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the ice bank of fig. 6 taken along a direction B-B, and fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the ice bank of fig. 6 taken along a direction C-C. The ice bank 3 includes a bottom wall 31, first and second sidewalls 33 and 35, the first and second sidewalls 33 and 35 being disposed around a circumference of the bottom wall 31. The bottom wall 31, the first sidewall 33 and the second sidewall 35 enclose an ice storage space 34, and the ice storage space 34 has an ice inlet 37 facing the ice making assembly 1. The ice cubes in the ice making housing 15 fall into the ice storage space 34 through the ice inlet 37 by the ice separating motor.

The first side wall 33 includes a first sub-wall 331, a second sub-wall 332, and a third sub-wall 333, and one end of the third sub-wall 333 is connected to the bottom wall 31. The second sub-wall 332 includes a main wall 3321 and an auxiliary wall 3322, one end of the main wall 3321 is connected to the other end of the third sub-wall 333 in a bent manner, and the other end of the main wall 3321 is connected to the first sub-wall 331 in a bent manner. In the prior art, the second sidewall 35, the first sub-wall 331 and the second sub-wall 332 form a main ice storage space. The auxiliary cavity wall 3322 of the second sub-wall 332 in the embodiment of the present application is recessed toward the bottom wall 31 to form the accommodating space 32, that is, the existing ice storage space is enlarged, so that the ice storage amount is increased. The ice cubes falling into the ice storage space 34 from the ice inlet 37 may be stored in the ice storage space formed by the main cavity wall 3321, or may be stored in the storage space 32 formed by the auxiliary cavity wall 3322.

Referring to fig. 8, the auxiliary cavity wall 3322 is a curved surface and is recessed toward the bottom wall 31, so as to increase the volume of the accommodating space 32. One end of the sub-chamber wall 3322 is connected to the main chamber wall 3321, and the other end of the sub-chamber wall 3322 is connected to the third sub-wall 333. The auxiliary cavity wall 3322 forms a slope surface while forming the receiving space 32, and ice cubes stored in the receiving space 32 can slide into a space between the third sub-wall 333 and the second side wall 35 through the auxiliary cavity wall 3322 and be pushed into the ice crushing device without staying in the receiving space 32.

The main cavity wall 3321 is inclined with respect to the third sub-wall 333 and the first sub-wall 331. It will be appreciated that the main cavity wall 3321 has a predetermined slope, and that the main cavity wall 3321 may, for example, be angled more than 0 ° and less than 70 ° from the third sub-wall 333. The main chamber wall 3321 has a guiding function, and ice cubes can slide along the main chamber wall 3321 into the space between the third sub-wall 333 and the second side wall 35 and then be pushed into the ice crushing device without stagnating in the ice storage space above the main chamber wall 3321.

Referring to fig. 6 and 7, the main cavity wall 3321 may be a curved surface, and the middle of the main cavity wall 3321 is convex in a direction away from the bottom wall 31. It will be appreciated that the primary cavity wall 3321 is lower adjacent the secondary cavity wall 3322 and the primary cavity wall 3321 is higher away from the secondary cavity wall 3322. The ice falling to the middle of the main cavity wall 3321 can slide to the accommodating space 32 along the arc structure of the main cavity wall 3321. Also, stagnation of ice in the ice storage space 34 above the main cavity wall 3321 is avoided as much as possible.

In some embodiments, the second sub-wall 332 includes two secondary cavity walls 3322. The third sub-wall 333 is provided with an ice outlet 334, and projections of the two sub-cavity walls 3322 on a plane where the third sub-wall 333 is located are located on two sides of the ice outlet 334. The ice pushing tray 5 extends into the ice bank 3 through the ice outlet 334, and the ice pushing tray 5 is disposed between the third sub-wall 333 and the second side wall 35 and opposite to the ice outlet 334. The space enclosed by the bottom wall 31, the third sub-wall 333, and the second side wall 35 is a working space of the ice pushing tray 5. The push tray 5 rotates to push the ice cubes located in the ice bank 3 into the ice crushing assembly 7. It should be noted that the ice crushing assembly 7 is disposed on a side of the second sub-wall 332 away from the ice outlet 334. It can be understood that the ice crushing assembly 7 is disposed between the second sub-wall 332, the third sub-wall 333 and the ice bank support 2, and the accommodating spaces 32 are disposed at both sides of the ice bank 3, so that the ice storage space 34 can be enlarged while avoiding the ice crushing assembly 7.

When the pushing plate 5 pushes the ice cubes, the ice cubes may be accumulated on both sides of the pushing plate 5, and thus some ice cubes may be left in the ice storage space 34 for a long time and may not be taken by the user in time. Ice that is not taken for a long time may deteriorate and eventually contaminate other ice in the ice storage space 34. Therefore, the bottom wall 31 is improved. Referring to fig. 7, the bottom wall 31 has a structure with a lower middle part and two higher ends, which can guide the ice cubes, so that the ice cubes can be as close as possible to the two sides of the ice pushing tray 5 under the action of gravity, thereby preventing the ice cubes from being accumulated on the two sides of the ice storage space 34.

The ice storage space 34 communicates with the ice crushing space 73 from the top to the bottom through the ice outlet 334. The ice cubes fall from the ice making housing 15 into the ice storage space 34. The ice cubes slide down to the working space of the ice pushing tray 5 (mainly the space between the third sub-wall 333 and the second side wall 35) under the action of gravity and guided by the main cavity wall 3321 and the sub-cavity wall 3322 of the ice bank 3, and the ice pushing tray 5 pushes the ice cubes to the ice crushing space 73. The ice blade 74 may selectively break the ice pieces before the ice pieces enter the ice picker 200 for retrieval by a user. Thus, the ice making device 100 may consecutively perform the ice making, ice storing, and ice crushing steps.

In the foregoing embodiments, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

The ice bank, the ice making device and the refrigerator provided by the embodiments of the present application are described in detail above, and the principles and embodiments of the present application are explained herein by applying specific examples, and the above description of the embodiments is only used to help understand the method and the core concept of the present application; meanwhile, for those skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present application, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present application.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides an ice storage box, installs on refrigerator door courage, its characterized in that, the ice storage box includes diapire, first lateral wall and second lateral wall, first lateral wall the second lateral wall surrounds the periphery setting of diapire, first lateral wall includes first sub-wall, second sub-wall and third sub-wall, the one end of third sub-wall with the diapire is connected, the second sub-wall includes main chamber wall and auxiliary chamber wall, the one end of main chamber wall with the other end bending connection of third sub-wall, the other end of main chamber wall with first sub-wall bending connection, auxiliary chamber wall to the diapire direction is sunken to form accommodating space.

2. The ice bank of claim 1, wherein the auxiliary cavity wall is curved and concave in a direction of the bottom wall.

3. The ice bank of claim 1, wherein the main cavity wall and the third sub-wall and the first sub-wall are both disposed obliquely.

4. The ice bank of claim 3, wherein the main cavity wall is curved, and a middle of the main cavity wall is convex in a direction away from the bottom wall.

5. The ice bank of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the third sub-wall is provided with an ice outlet, and the second sub-wall comprises two auxiliary chamber walls, and projections of the two auxiliary chamber walls on a plane where the third sub-wall is located are located at two sides of the ice outlet.

6. The ice bank of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the bottom wall is a mid-low two-high structure.

7. An ice making apparatus, comprising:

an ice making assembly;

the ice bank of any of claims 1-6, disposed at a side of an ice making assembly, the bottom wall, the first sidewall, and the second sidewall enclosing an ice storage space, the ice storage space having an ice inlet facing the ice making assembly;

the ice crushing component is arranged outside the ice storage box and is arranged opposite to the ice outlet;

the ice pushing plate is arranged in the ice storage space and is arranged opposite to the ice outlet so that ice blocks enter the ice crushing assembly from the ice storage space.

8. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the ice crushing assembly is disposed on a side of the second sub-wall remote from the ice outlet.

9. The ice making apparatus of claim 7, wherein the ice making assembly further comprises an ice probe having a lower probe aligned with a center of the ice bank.

10. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising:

a door liner;

the ice making apparatus of any of claims 7-9, coupled to the door bladder.

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