CN216245062U

CN216245062U - Refrigerator with a door

Info

Publication number: CN216245062U
Application number: CN202122856699.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵振雷; 杨兴润; 郭动
Original assignee: Hisense Shandong Refrigerator Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Shandong Refrigerator Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-11-19
Filing date: 2021-11-19
Publication date: 2022-04-08
Anticipated expiration: 2031-11-19

Abstract

The utility model provides a refrigerator, and belongs to the technical field of household appliances. The refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body, a door and a door, wherein a hinge plate is arranged on the refrigerator body; the door body is provided with a containing groove and is used for containing the part of the hinge plate extending to the door body; and the wiring box is connected to the upper end of the hinge plate, and at least the front part of the wiring box does not exceed the contour of the hinge plate on the projection of the top surface of the hinge plate. The refrigerator can reduce the space of the door body occupied by the wiring box.

Description

Refrigerator with a door

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a refrigerator.

Background

In the related art, a display module or other functional modules are arranged on a door body of the refrigerator, so that the display performance and the versatility of the refrigerator are improved. This requires wiring harnesses to be provided between the cabinet and the door body to make electrical connection. In order to arrange the wire harnesses, a wire routing box is usually arranged on an upper hinge plate of the refrigerator, and the wire harnesses are hidden in the wire routing box; however, the existing wiring box has a large volume, and can occupy the thickness space of the door body, thereby influencing the thickness design of the door body.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present invention solves at least one of the technical problems of the related art to some extent.

Therefore, the refrigerator can reduce the space of the door body occupied by the wiring box.

A refrigerator according to the present application includes: the box body is provided with a hinge plate; the door body is provided with a containing groove for containing the part of the hinge plate extending to the door body; and the wiring box is connected to the upper end of the hinge plate, and at least the front part of the wiring box does not exceed the outline of the hinge plate on the projection of the top surface of the hinge plate.

In some embodiments of the present application, the walk-through box includes a box rear portion, and a box front portion connected to a front end of the box rear portion; the side wall of the rear part of the box covers the side surface of the hinge plate, and the outer side surface of the front part of the box is flush with the outer side surface of the hinge plate.

In some embodiments of the application, the lower extreme of walking the line box is uncovered, encloses into the accommodation space that is used for holding the pencil between the hinge plate and walking the line box.

In some embodiments of the application, be equipped with the wire hooking part in walking the line box for spacing to the pencil.

In some embodiments of the present application, the hinge plate is provided with a positioning shaft and a guide shaft, the door body is provided with a positioning groove matched with the positioning shaft, and a guide groove matched with the guide shaft, and the positioning groove is shorter than the guide groove; the wiring box is provided with a wire outlet, and at least part of the wire outlet is positioned in the positioning groove when the door body is in a closed state on the projection of the top surface of the door body; the wiring harness extends into the wiring box from the box body, penetrates out of the wiring box from the wire outlet, and then extends towards the middle of the door body.

In some embodiments of the present application, the door body is further provided with a wire inlet, and a space is formed between the wire inlet and the wire outlet; the wiring harness enters the door body from the wire inlet after passing through the wire outlet.

In some embodiments of the present application, a connection line between the inlet and the outlet is close to the front wall of the receiving groove.

In some embodiments of this application, still be equipped with card line portion on the door body, card line portion is located between inlet wire and the outlet port for carry on spacingly to the pencil.

In some embodiments of the present application, a notch is provided on the walk-off box, the notch forming an outlet.

In some embodiments of the present application, the opening of the outlet is upward, and the wire harness firstly passes through the outlet upward and then is bent laterally.

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 the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a view of an external appearance of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is an exploded view at a hinge assembly of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is an external view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application, with a top cover and a walk-in box omitted;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of A of FIG. 3;

fig. 5 is an external view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application, with a top cover omitted;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of B of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a view of a walk-in box and a hinge plate of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a top view of a walk-off box and a hinge plate of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a bottom view of a walk-through box and a hinge plate of a refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a view of a walk-off box of a refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is an exploded view of a walk-through box and a hinge plate of a refrigerator according to another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a view of a refrigerator according to another embodiment of the present application, with a top cover and a box cover omitted;

FIG. 13 is an enlarged view of D of FIG. 12;

fig. 14 is a view of a door body of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 15 is an enlarged view of E in FIG. 14;

in the above figures: 1. a refrigerator; 10. a box body; 11. a hinge plate; 111. a connecting portion; 112. an extension portion; 113. an avoidance groove; 12. positioning the shaft; 13. a guide shaft; 20. a door body; 21. positioning a groove; 22. a guide groove; 23. a wire inlet; 24. a wire clamping part; 241. a first rib piece; 242. a second rib piece; 243. a baffle plate; 25. a first groove portion; 26. a second groove portion; 27. a top cover; 28. accommodating grooves; 30. a wiring box; 301. an outlet; 302. a cartridge rear portion; 303. a cartridge front portion; 31. a box body; 311. a wiring groove; 3111. a first retaining wall; 3112. a second retaining wall; 3113. a first blocking part; 3114. a second blocking part; 32. a box cover; 33. a hook line part; 331. a first hook part; 332. a second hook part; 40. a wire harness; 41. a first harness segment; 42. a second wire harness segment.

Detailed Description

The utility model is described in detail 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.

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 only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the 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 invention, it should 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; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

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

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a refrigerator 1 according to an embodiment of the present application includes a cabinet 10, a door 20, and a walk-line box 30.

The box 10 is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped box shape, and a storage chamber is formed in the box 10 for storing food materials. The storage chamber may be partitioned into a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber disposed up and down or left and right. However, in other embodiments, a vacuum chamber, a temperature changing chamber, etc. may be provided in the refrigerator, and the various aspects of the present application are equally applicable.

The front end of the storage chamber is open, so that a user can conveniently store or take out food materials through the opening.

The door 20 is coupled to a front end of the cabinet 10 to be rotatable with respect to the cabinet 10, thereby opening or closing the storage compartment.

The upper and lower ends of the door body 20 are supported on the cabinet 10 by hinge assemblies.

Since the wiring harness between the cabinet 10 and the door 20 is usually routed from the hinge assembly at the upper end, the present application takes the hinge assembly at the upper end of the door as an example for the following description:

referring to fig. 3 and 4, a hinge plate 11 is connected to an upper end of the case 10. The hinge plate 11 includes a connecting portion 111 at a rear end portion, and an extending portion 112 extending forward from the connecting portion 111; the connection portion 111 may be fixedly connected to the case 10 by screws.

The hinge assembly generally includes a hinge shaft and a hinge slot that cooperate with each other. The hinge shaft can be arranged on the bottom surface of the extension part 112 and vertically extends; the hinge slot may be provided at the upper end of the door body 20. When the door body 20 is in an assembled state, the hinge shaft is inserted into the hinge slot. In other embodiments, the positions of the hinge shaft and the hinge slot may be interchanged, i.e., the hinge shaft is provided on the door body 20 and the hinge slot is provided on the hinge plate 11.

Referring to fig. 2, the door 20 may be provided with a receiving groove 28 for receiving a portion of the extending portion 112 extending to the door 20, so as to prevent the hinge plate 11 from protruding from the top end of the door 20 to affect the overall appearance of the refrigerator.

The two ends of the hinge plate 11 in the left and right direction are respectively an outer end and an inner end, and the outer end is far away from the storage chamber of the box 10 than the inner end. The outer end of the hinge plate 11 is provided with an avoiding groove 113 which is concave towards the inner end, so that the front wall of the accommodating groove 28 is avoided when the door body 20 is rotated and opened; the inner side surface of the hinge plate 11 is a slope inclined from back to front.

Referring to fig. 5 to 9, the walk box 30 has a substantially flat box shape having substantially the same outer shape as the hinge plate 11. The wiring box 30 is connected to the upper end of the hinge plate 11, and the connection between the hinge plate and the wiring box can be realized by a screw or a clamping manner.

The front portion of the walk box 30 does not exceed the contour of the hinge plate 11 in projection of the top surface of the hinge plate 11. That is, the outer side surface of the front portion of the walk box 30 does not protrude from the outer side surface of the hinge plate 11 in the lateral direction.

For the sake of description, the front portion of the routing box 30 is defined as a box front 303, and the portion of the routing box 30 located behind the box front 303 is a box rear 302. The outer side of the box front 303 is flush with the outer side of the hinge plate 11 in projection of the top surface of the hinge plate 11, or the box front 303 is located within the contour of the hinge plate 11.

Like this, walk the anterior part profile of line box 30 less, do not exceed hinge plate 11, consequently can not additionally occupy the thickness space of door body 20, avoided door body 20 among the prior art to reserve installation space and increase its thickness size's problem for walking line box 30, walk line box 30 of this embodiment has small in size to and occupy the advantage that door body 20 space is little.

According to some embodiments of the present application, the side wall of the box back 302 is wrapped around the hinge plate 11, which facilitates the connection between the wiring box 30 and the hinge plate 11 in a form of a snap connection.

The bottom ends of the side walls of the box back 302 may be flush with the bottom surface of the hinge plate 11 so that the box back 302 may completely conceal the hinge plate 11 from the side without changing the depth of the receiving groove 28.

The door 20 may include a top cover 27, and the top cover 27 is fastened to the upper end of the receiving groove 28, so as to cover the front end of the wiring box 30 and ensure the overall appearance of the door 20.

In some embodiments of the present application, the open end of the wiring box 30 faces downward, and an accommodating space for accommodating the wiring harness 40 is enclosed between the wiring box 30 and the hinge plate 11. The wiring harness 40 from the cabinet 10 extends to the door 20 through the wiring box 30.

Referring to fig. 10, a hooking portion 33 may be disposed in the wire routing box 30 for limiting a routing position of the wire harness 40 in the wire routing box 30.

The hooking portion 33 may include a first hooking portion 331 and a second hooking portion 332 disposed left and right, and the wiring harness 40 is located between the first hooking portion 331 and the second hooking portion 332. The first hook 331 and the second hook 332 are hook-shaped and both extend downward from the top of the box 30.

Outlet 301 is provided on wire box 30, and wire harness 40 passes through wire box 30 from outlet 301 to door body 20. The outlet 301 may be formed by a notch in the wiring box 30.

In other embodiments of the present application, referring to FIG. 11, a walk-off box 30 may include a box body 31 and a box cover 32. The upper end of the box body 31 is opened, and the box cover 32 is covered on the upper end of the box body 31.

The lid 32 has a notch in its top wall, which forms an outlet 301.

For convenience of description, a portion of the hinge plate 11 from the rear end of the avoidance groove 113 to the front is defined as a plate front portion; the front portion of box 31 does not extend beyond the contour of the front of the panel in projection of the top surface of hinge panel 11. That is, the outer side of the front portion of case 31 is flush with the outer side of the front portion of the plate, or the outer side of the front portion of case 31 is located in the area formed by the front portion of the plate.

The rear part of the side wall of the box cover 32 covers the box body 31, and the bottom surface of the box cover 32 is flush with the bottom surface of the hinge plate 11, so that the aesthetic property of the refrigerator is ensured.

The side wall of the box cover 32 may not be provided at the front part, that is, the side wall of the box cover 32 has a notch at the front end of the box cover 32, so that the side wall of the front part of the walk-in box 30 does not exceed the outer side surface of the hinge plate 11 in the assembled state.

The box cover 32 and the box body 31 can be detachably connected in a screw and/or clamping mode, and the wire harness in the box body 31 can be disassembled and maintained by detaching the box cover 32 from the top end of the refrigerator.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, referring to fig. 12 and 13, a wire slot 311 may be disposed in the box 31, and the wire slot 311 extends in a substantially front-to-back direction to implement the wiring harness 40 from the rear cabinet 10 to the door 20.

The routing groove 311 includes a first blocking wall 3111 and a second blocking wall 3112 disposed opposite to each other on the left and right. The space between the first blocking wall 3111 and the second blocking wall 3112 forms a routing space of the wire harness 40 to restrict lateral movement of the wire harness 40.

The first blocking wall 3111 and the second blocking wall 3112 may be continuous or discontinuous along the extending direction of the cabling groove 311. In the present example, the first blocking wall 3111 is continuous and the second blocking wall 3112 is discontinuous.

The top end of the first blocking wall 3111 may be provided with at least one first blocking portion 3113 extending towards the second blocking wall 3112, or/and the top end of the second blocking wall 3112 may be provided with at least one second blocking portion 3114 extending towards the first blocking wall 3111, so as to limit the wire harness 40 from escaping from the upper end of the cabling slot 311.

The first stopper 3113 and the second stopper 3114 are arranged alternately in the extending direction of the routing groove 311.

The first stopper 3111, the second stopper 3112, the first stopper 3113 and the second stopper 3114 may be integrally formed with the case 31.

The refrigerator according to the embodiment of the present application may be applied to an embedded use environment, for example, the refrigerator is placed in a cabinet for use, and in order to avoid the door 20 of the refrigerator touching the cabinet when being opened, the door 20 needs to be capable of moving laterally while rotating.

Therefore, with continued reference to fig. 2 and 6, in the present embodiment, the hinge assembly has a biaxial structure, the hinge shaft includes the positioning shaft 12 and the guide shaft 13, and the hinge slot includes the positioning slot 21 and the guide slot 22; wherein the positioning shaft 12 is matched with the positioning groove 21, and the guide shaft 13 is matched with the guide groove 22. When the door body 20 is opened or closed, the positioning shaft 12 moves relatively in the positioning groove 21, and the guide shaft 13 moves relatively in the guide groove 22, so that the door body 20 rotates and moves transversely simultaneously to avoid a cabinet on the side of the refrigerator in embedded use. The specific structure of the biaxial hinge is suitable for the prior art, and is not described in detail herein since it is not the inventive point of the present application.

The outlet 301 is located substantially vertically above the positioning groove 21 when the door 20 is in the closed state. Stated another way, in the projection of the top surface of the door body 20, at least a portion of the outlet 301 is located in the positioning groove 21; the wiring harness 40 extends from the box body 10 into the wiring box 30, penetrates out of the wiring box 30 from the outlet 301, and then transversely extends towards the middle of the door body 20.

With reference to fig. 14 and 15, because the length of the positioning groove 21 is shorter than that of the guide groove 22 in the embodiment of the present application, the positioning shaft 12 and the positioning groove 21 are mainly matched to perform a positioning function, and the distance of the positioning groove 21 moving transversely relative to the positioning shaft 12 is shorter, so that the wire outlet 301 of the wire walking box 30 is arranged above the positioning groove 21, and in the opening and closing process of the door body 20, the distance of the positioning groove 21 moving transversely relative to the wire outlet 301 is shorter, so that the wire walking box 30 is prevented from being pulled transversely by a part of the wire harness 40 on the door body 20 when the wire walking along with the door body 20.

The outlet 301 may be opened upward, and the wiring harness 40 may be bent horizontally after passing through the wiring box 30 from the outlet 301.

Specifically, the wire harness 40 includes a first harness segment 41 and a second harness segment 42; the first wiring harness section 41 is disposed in the wiring box 30, and the second wiring harness section 42 is disposed on the door 20. The first and

second harness segments

41 and 42 are connected at an outlet 301. The second harness segment 41 has less lateral pull on the first harness segment 41 during the movement of the second harness segment 41 following the door body 20.

According to some embodiments of the present application, the door body 20 is provided with a wire inlet 23, a gap is provided between the wire inlet 23 and the wire outlet 301 of the wire routing box 30, and the second harness segment 42 extends to the wire inlet 23 after penetrating out of the wire outlet 301, and enters the door body 20 from the wire inlet 23.

Specifically, the wire inlet 23 is disposed inside the wire outlet 301, and the second wire harness segment 42 extends from the wire outlet 301 toward the middle of the door body 20, that is, the second wire harness segment 42 extends inward relative to the wire box 30. A section of interval is arranged between the wire inlet 23 and the wire outlet 301, so that the transverse wiring space of the second wire harness section 42 on the door body 20 can be prolonged, and the wire harness 40 has enough space to set a redundant length to compensate the transverse movement of the wire harness 40 in the opening and closing process of the door body 20; if the wire inlet 23 is arranged closer to the wire outlet 301, that is, the second wire harness section 42 is shorter, the wire harness is accumulated on the door body 20 when the redundant length is designed, so that the wiring mode of the present application is more reasonable.

The receiving groove 28 may include a first groove portion 25 and a second groove portion 26 arranged in a transverse direction, the front ends of the hinge plate 11 and the routing box 30 are located in the first groove portion 25, the second groove portion 26 is located inside the first groove portion 25, and a groove bottom of the second groove portion 26 is higher than a groove bottom of the first groove portion 25.

The wire inlet 23 is disposed in the second groove portion 26, and the second wire harness segment 42 is bent from the wire outlet 301 to above the wire box 30 and then continues to extend toward the second groove portion 26.

In some embodiments of the present application, the door body 20 may be provided with a wire clamping portion 24 located between the wire outlet 301 and the wire inlet 23 to limit the second wire harness segment 42, so as to ensure a wiring path of the second wire harness segment 42 between the wire outlet 301 and the wire inlet 23.

Specifically, the wire clamping portion 24 may include a first rib 241 and a second rib 242 arranged in front and back, and an interval between the first rib 241 and the second rib 242 forms a wire passing space of the second wire harness segment 42 to limit the second wire harness segment 42 from moving back and forth.

The upper end of the first rib 241 is provided with a blocking piece 243 extending towards the second rib 242 to limit the second cable segment 42 from coming out of the wire clamping part 24.

In other embodiments, the first rib 241, the blocking plate 243 and the second rib 242 may be provided in plurality according to the actual limiting requirement of the second cable segment 42.

In some embodiments of the present application, in order to make the thickness of the door body 20 as thin as possible, the double groove is generally provided on the door body 20 to be compact, and the positioning groove 21 is closer to the front wall of the door body 20, so that the second wire harness section 42 can be wired closer to the front wall of the door body 20, and thus, the second wire harness section 42 can be relatively short in wire and have a neat appearance.

According to the application, the front end outer side face of the wiring box 30 is not more than the outer side face of the hinge plate 11, so that the problem that the thickness of the door body 20 needs to be increased due to the fact that the wiring box 30 occupies the space of the door body 20 can be avoided.

According to this application, through outlet 301 setting at the vertical top of constant head tank 21 that will walk line box 30, the lateral shifting distance of pencil 40 when can reduce door body 20 switching as far as possible avoids pencil 40 atress or overlength pencil 40 to take place to twine.

According to the application, by arranging the wire inlet 23 on the door body 20 and the wire outlet 301 of the wire box 30 to have a certain interval, the wiring space of the wire harness 40 on the door body 20 can be prolonged so as to accommodate the redundant length of the wire harness 40 for compensating the transverse movement of the wire harness 40.

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

Claims

1. A refrigerator, characterized by comprising:

the box body is provided with a hinge plate;

the door body is provided with a containing groove and is used for containing the part of the hinge plate extending to the door body;

and the wiring box is connected to the upper end of the hinge plate, and at least the front part of the wiring box does not exceed the contour of the hinge plate on the projection of the top surface of the hinge plate.

2. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the walk-in box comprises a box rear, and a box front connected to a front end of the box rear; the side wall at the rear part of the box wraps the side surface of the hinge plate, and the outer side surface at the front part of the box is flush with the outer side surface of the hinge plate.

3. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the lower end of the wiring box is open, and an accommodating space for accommodating the wiring harness is enclosed between the hinge plate and the wiring box.

4. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 3, wherein a wire hooking part is provided in the wire box for limiting the wire harness.

5. The refrigerator according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the hinge plate is provided with a positioning shaft and a guide shaft, the door body is provided with a positioning groove engaged with the positioning shaft and a guide groove engaged with the guide shaft, the positioning groove is shorter than the guide groove;

the wiring box is provided with a wire outlet, and at least part of the wire outlet is positioned in the positioning groove when the door body is in a closed state on the projection of the top surface of the door body;

the wiring harness extends into the wiring box from the box body, penetrates out of the wiring box from the wire outlet, and then extends towards the middle of the door body.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein the door body is further provided with a wire inlet, and a gap is formed between the wire inlet and the wire outlet; and the wiring harness enters the door body from the wire inlet after passing through the wire outlet.

7. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 6, wherein a line between the inlet and the outlet is adjacent to a front wall of the receiving groove.

8. The refrigerator according to claim 6, wherein a wire clamping portion is further arranged on the door body and located between the wire inlet and the wire outlet for limiting a wire harness.

9. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the wiring box is provided with a notch, and the notch forms the outlet.

10. The refrigerator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the outlet has an upward opening, and the wire harness is passed out of the outlet upward and then bent laterally.