CN216620432U - Shelf limiting assembly, inner container structure and refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a shelf limiting assembly, an inner container structure and a refrigerator, wherein the shelf limiting assembly comprises two fixing ribs which are arranged at two sides of the cavity wall of a containing cavity at intervals, each fixing rib extends from an opening end to a closed end along a first direction, and each fixing rib forms a limiting gap extending along the first direction; the rack limiting assembly further comprises a lock tongue, the lock tongue is connected to one end of the fixing rib in a matching mode, and the lock tongue can move in the first direction under the action of external force to extend into or leave the limiting gap; when the spring bolt stretches into the spacing clearance, the spring bolt forms fixed position with the fixed rib jointly. Above-mentioned inner bag structure, through the spring bolt locking shelf of activity, consequently need not to reserve the space that supplies the spacing lug of shelf to remove, avoided the shelf to take place to upwarp or rock in the use.

Description

Shelf limiting assembly, inner container structure and refrigerator

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a shelf limiting assembly, an inner container structure and a refrigerator.

Background

With the improvement of living standard, the safety consciousness of people is continuously enhanced, and the refrigerator has very high utilization rate as the essential household appliance in daily life, so that the requirement of people on the safety of the refrigerator is higher and higher. The shelf in the refrigerator inner container is used as a part for bearing food, and has higher safety requirement.

In order to meet the national safety requirements, a fixing or limiting mechanism is usually arranged on the shelf to be connected with a support frame in the inner container in a matching mode, so that the shelf cannot be designed in an extremely simple and low-cost mode. Moreover, in order to cooperate with the limiting mechanism of the shelf, a supporting frame for mounting the shelf has a large mounting gap, so that the shelf is easily upwarped or shaken in the use process, and the use experience of the refrigerator is influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Therefore, the shelf limiting assembly, the inner container structure and the refrigerator are needed to solve the problem that a shelf of the refrigerator is prone to upwarp or shake.

According to one aspect of the application, a shelf limiting assembly is provided and is installed on a liner main body with a containing cavity, the containing cavity is provided with an opening end and a closed end which are oppositely arranged in a first direction, the shelf limiting assembly comprises two fixing ribs, the two fixing ribs are arranged on two sides of the wall of the containing cavity at intervals, each fixing rib extends from the opening end to the closed end along the first direction, and each fixing rib is constructed to form a limiting gap extending along the first direction;

the rack limiting assembly further comprises a lock tongue, the lock tongue is matched and connected with one end of the fixing rib, and the lock tongue can move in the first direction under the action of external force to extend into or leave the limiting gap; when the spring bolt stretches into the limiting gap, the spring bolt and the fixing ribs jointly form a fixing position.

In one embodiment, the fixing rib comprises a rib main body, a first limiting unit and a second limiting unit, the rib main body is arranged on the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity and extends along the first direction, the first limiting unit and the second limiting unit are arranged at two opposite ends of the rib main body in the first direction at intervals, a limiting gap is defined between the first limiting unit and the second limiting unit, and the lock tongue is arranged on one side, facing the second limiting unit, of the first limiting unit.

In one embodiment, the first limiting unit comprises a first limiting support, the first limiting support is mounted on the rib main body, the first limiting support is provided with a bolt extending groove communicated with the limiting gap, and the bolt is movably coupled to the first limiting support and retracts into or extends out of the first limiting support through the bolt extending groove.

In one embodiment, the first limiting unit includes a sliding shaft, the sliding shaft is limited in the first limiting bracket and can move back and forth along the first direction, one end of the lock tongue is movably connected to the sliding shaft, and the other end of the lock tongue is driven by the sliding shaft to retract into or extend out of the first limiting bracket.

In one embodiment, the first limiting unit further comprises an elastic resetting piece, the elastic resetting piece is limited in the first limiting bracket, and the elastic resetting piece is used for applying acting force to the sliding shaft to enable the lock tongue to extend out of the first limiting bracket.

In one embodiment, the first limiting unit further includes a retainer ring, the sliding shaft includes a sliding shaft main body and a stopping portion circumferentially surrounding the sliding shaft main body, one end of the sliding shaft main body is movably connected to the lock tongue, the retainer ring is sleeved on one end of the sliding shaft main body far away from the lock tongue and abuts against the first limiting support along the first direction, and the elastic resetting member abuts against between the retainer ring and the stopping portion.

In one embodiment, the first limiting bracket is provided with a pull rod extending groove, the sliding shaft further comprises a sliding shaft pull rod, the sliding shaft pull rod extends out of the pull rod extending groove, and the sliding shaft pull rod can slide in the pull rod extending groove along the first direction.

In one embodiment, the first limiting bracket is provided with a limiting clamping groove extending along the first direction, and one end of the rib main body is inserted into the limiting clamping groove along the first direction.

In one embodiment, a second limiting groove is formed in one side, facing the first limiting unit, of the second limiting unit.

According to another aspect of the application, a liner structure is provided, including the above shelf limiting assembly, the liner structure further comprises a liner main body with a containing cavity, the containing cavity is provided with an opening end and a closed end which are oppositely arranged in the first direction, and the shelf limiting assembly is arranged in the containing cavity.

According to another aspect of the application, a refrigerator is provided, which comprises the inner container structure.

In one embodiment, the refrigerator further comprises a shelf, and two side edges of the shelf in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction are respectively limited in the limiting gap of the same shelf limiting component.

Above-mentioned inner bag structure, through the spring bolt locking shelf of activity, consequently compare in prior art and need set up the technical scheme of spacing lug on the shelf, need not to reserve the space that supplies the spacing lug of shelf to remove on the spacing subassembly of shelf, the shelf of having avoided the assembly to accomplish has great empty work, and then has avoided the shelf to take place to upwarp or rock in the use. And, other protection parts do not need to be additionally arranged to additionally protect the shelf, so that the packaging cost of the refrigerator is reduced.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a partial structural schematic view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 2 at A;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a portion of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 3 at B;

FIG. 6 is a front view of a first spacing unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of the first position-limiting unit shown in FIG. 6;

fig. 8 is an exploded view of the first position limiting unit shown in fig. 6.

The reference numbers illustrate:

100. a refrigerator; 10. a box body; 20. a liner body; 210. an accommodating chamber; 40. fixing ribs; 41. a rib main body; 43. a first limit unit; 432. a first limit bracket; 431. a first limiting part; 4311. a claw; 4312. a first mounting portion; 4313. a second mounting portion; 4314. a threaded mounting hole; 4316. the pull rod extends out of the groove; 433. a second limiting part; 4332. a bolt mounting shaft; 4334. the lock tongue extends out of the groove; 434. a sliding shaft; 4341. a sliding shaft main body; 4343. a stopper portion; 4345. hanging a shaft; 4347. a sliding shaft pull rod; 436. An elastic reset member; 438. a retainer ring; 45. a second limit unit; 47. a latch bolt; 472. a bolt mounting part; 4721. a bolt mounting hole; 4723. a lug; 4723a, lug attachment holes; 474. a locking portion; 4741. a guide surface; 50. and (4) a shelf.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the utility model and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be considered limiting of the utility model.

Furthermore, 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 at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "upper," "lower," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not denote a unique embodiment.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a refrigerator 100 for refrigerating or freezing food or other articles. The refrigerator 100 includes a cabinet 10 and a liner structure accommodated in the cabinet 10, the liner structure includes a liner body 20 having an accommodating chamber 210 for food, the accommodating chamber 210 has an open end and a closed end oppositely arranged in a first direction, and a user can take and place food through the open end.

Further, in order to realize the layered placement of the food items to improve the storage capacity of the receiving cavity 210, the refrigerator 100 further includes at least one shelf 50 for placing the food items, and the inner container structure further includes at least one set of shelf limiting components for mounting the shelf 50. Specifically, the spacing subassembly of a set of shelf includes two fixed ribs 40, and two fixed ribs 40 set up in the chamber wall both sides that hold chamber 210 at the interval in the second direction of perpendicular to first direction, and every fixed rib 40 extends to the blind end from the open end along the first direction, and the relative both sides edge of shelf 50 in the second direction can be spacing respectively on two fixed ribs 40 of the spacing subassembly of same shelf.

Preferably, a plurality of sets of shelf limiting components are arranged in the inner container main body 20, the shelf limiting components are arranged at intervals in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, the refrigerator 100 also comprises a plurality of shelves 50, and each shelf 50 is limited on one set of shelf limiting components.

In the present application, the first direction is a left-right direction of the refrigerator 100 (i.e., an X direction in fig. 1), the second direction is a front-rear direction of the refrigerator 100 (i.e., a Y direction in fig. 1), and the third direction is a height direction of the refrigerator 100 (i.e., a Z direction in fig. 1). The front end of the shelf 50 refers to an end of the shelf 50 located at the open end of the receiving cavity 210, and the rear end of the shelf 50 refers to an end of the shelf 50 located at the closed end of the receiving cavity 210.

As described in the background art, one end of the existing fixing rib is provided with a limiting groove, one end of the shelf forms a limiting lug protruding downwards, and the limiting lug is limited in the limiting groove, so that the shelf can be limited to move in the first direction. However, adopt above-mentioned assembly method, need reserve the space that supplies spacing lug to remove along the first direction in order to avoid interfering the assembly of shelf on fixed rib, and the setting that removes the space then leads to supplying the clearance of shelf male slot on the third direction too big to the shelf after the assembly is accomplished has great sky in the first direction and works, in the shelf use, easily leads to the shelf to upwarp or rock, makes the food on the shelf even drop, and the user of not being convenient for uses.

Moreover, as large-capacity refrigerators are increasingly popularized, the weight of the refrigerators increases, and transportation problems are increased. For avoiding the shelf to damage in violence transport and the transportation of refrigerator, need additionally increase the protection piece to the shelf at present usually, increase the buffering foam at both ends around the shelf for example, perhaps adopt the buffering foam to protect and adopt the sticky tape fixed to the left and right sides of shelf simultaneously to show to increase unnecessary material cost and cost of labor, make the more complicated loaded down with trivial details of packaging process simultaneously, reduced packing efficiency.

As shown in fig. 2 and 4, in order to solve the above problem, two fixing ribs of the same set of fixing ribs 40 are symmetrically disposed, and each fixing rib 40 is configured to form a limiting gap extending along a first direction. The shelf limiting assembly further comprises a locking tongue 47, the locking tongue 47 is connected to one end of the fixing rib 40 in a matching mode, and the locking tongue 47 can move in the first direction under the action of external force to extend into or leave the limiting gap. When the locking tongue 47 extends into the limit gap, the locking tongue 47 and the fixing rib 40 form a fixing position together to clamp one end of the shelf 50.

Thus, when the shelf 50 is installed, one end of the shelf 50 is firstly lapped on the bolt 47, then the shelf 50 is pressed downwards to enable the bolt 47 to enable the bolt 50 to leave the limiting gap, and the shelf 50 without the block of the bolt 47 can enter the limiting gap. When the shelf 50 enters the limit gap, the latch tongue 47 losing the force applied by the shelf 50 extends into the limit gap again and forms a fixing position together with the fixing rib 40, so that the shelf 50 located in the limit gap is locked in the third direction to prevent the shelf 50 from being separated from the limit gap from the third direction.

Because above-mentioned inner bag structure is through setting up in the spring bolt 47 locking shelf 50 of fixed rib 40, need set up the technical scheme of spacing lug on shelf 50 in prior art, need not to reserve the space that supplies the spacing lug of shelf 50 to remove on the spacing subassembly of shelf, avoided the shelf 50 that the assembly was accomplished to have great sky in the third direction to work, and then avoided shelf 50 to take place to upwarp or rock in the use. Moreover, additional protection of the shelf 50 is not required during transportation of the refrigerator 100 by additionally providing other protection members, thereby reducing the packaging cost of the refrigerator 100.

With reference to fig. 2 and 4, each fixing rib 40 includes a rib main body 41, a first limiting unit 43, and a second limiting unit 45. The bead body 41 is formed on the wall of the accommodating chamber 210 and extends from the open end to the sealed end of the accommodating chamber 210 in the first direction. The first limiting unit 43 and the second limiting unit 45 are arranged at the two opposite ends of the rib main body 41 in the first direction at intervals, a limiting gap extending along the first direction is defined between the first limiting unit 43 and the second limiting unit 45, and the length of the limiting gap in the first direction is matched with the length of the shelf 50, so that the shelf 50 can be limited in the limiting gap.

The locking tongue 47 is installed at one side of the first limiting unit 43 facing the second limiting unit 45, the locking tongue 47 can be controlled to switch between a first state of extending out of the first limiting unit 43 and a second state of retracting into the second limiting unit 45, and when the locking tongue 47 is in the first state, the locking tongue 47 and the first limiting unit 43 form a fixed position together to clamp the shelf 50.

Specifically, the shelf 50 is substantially a flat plate structure, in other embodiments, the shelf 50 may also be a full-covered structure, or an assembled structure with extruded strips arranged in front and back, and the shelves 50 with different structures can be connected with the shelf limiting assembly without arranging a convex limiting structure.

Referring to fig. 5 to 8, the latch 47 includes a latch mounting portion 472 and a locking portion 474, and the locking portion 474 is connected to one end of the latch mounting portion 472 in the length direction and extends to be bent in the width direction of the latch mounting portion 472. A bolt mounting hole 4721 is formed in the center of the bolt mounting part 472, two lugs 4723 arranged at intervals are arranged at one end of the bolt mounting part 472 far away from the locking part 474, and two lug connecting holes 4723a are respectively formed in the two lugs 4723. A side end surface of the locking part 474 remote from the tongue mounting part 472 is obliquely extended to form a guide surface 4741 to be engaged with the shelf 50.

As such, the latch bolt 47 may be movably installed in the first limiting unit 43 through the latch bolt installation hole 4721, and the locking part 474 may rotate following the latch bolt installation part 472 to extend or retract into the first limiting unit 43.

The first stopper unit 43 includes a first stopper bracket 432, a sliding shaft 434, an elastic restoring member 436, and a retainer ring 438, and the sliding shaft 434, the elastic restoring member 436, and the retainer ring 438 are assembled in the first stopper bracket 432 to adjust the state of the latch bolt 47.

Specifically, the first limiting bracket 432 is a hollow shell structure, and has a bottom wall and a side wall formed by extending from the edge of the bottom wall toward the same direction, and the side wall circumferentially surrounds the bottom wall to form a limiting space with an opening at one end. When the first limiting bracket 432 is installed on the fixing rib 40, one side of the side wall of the first limiting bracket 432, which is far away from the bottom wall, is attached to the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity 210. Further, the first limiting bracket 432 is substantially L-shaped, and includes a first limiting portion 431 and a second limiting portion 433, the first limiting portion 431 extends along the first direction, and the second limiting portion 433 is connected to one end of the first limiting portion 431 in the first direction, which is far away from the second limiting unit 45, and extends along the third direction in a direction far away from the rib main body 41.

The side wall of the first position-limiting portion 431 is convexly provided with two claws 4311 symmetrically arranged in the third direction, and the claws 4311 can be clamped on the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity 210 of the liner main body 20 to fix the first position-limiting support 432 to the liner main body 20. The first position-limiting portion 431 is provided therein with a first mounting portion 4312 and a second mounting portion 4313. First installation department 4312 and second installation department 4313 set up along first direction interval, and second installation department 4313 is located one side that first installation department 4312 is close to spacing portion 433 of second, and the mounting groove that is used for spacing sliding shaft 434 is all seted up to first installation department 4312 and second installation department 4313.

One side of the first mounting portion 4312, which is away from the second mounting portion 4313, is provided with a limiting clamping groove 4317, and the limiting clamping groove 4317 extends along the first direction and penetrates through a side wall of the first limiting portion 431, which faces the second limiting unit 45. A threaded mounting hole 4314 is formed in the limiting clamping groove 4317, and the central axis of the threaded mounting hole 4313 extends along the second direction. Thus, the first limiting bracket 432 is inserted into the rib main body 41 through the limiting clamping groove 4317 and is fixedly connected with the rib main body 41 through the threaded mounting hole 4314.

The protruding spring bolt installation axle 4332 that is equipped with along the second direction extension of diapire of second spacing portion 433, spring bolt installation axle 4332 are used for installing spring bolt 47, and spring bolt protrusion groove 4334 has been seted up towards one side lateral wall of second spacing unit 45 in second spacing portion 433, and spring bolt 47 can pass spring bolt protrusion groove 4334 and stretch out first spacing support 432.

The sliding shaft 434 includes a sliding shaft main body 4341, a stopper portion 4343, and a hanging shaft 4345. The sliding shaft main body 4341 has a cylindrical structure extending along a first direction, a stopping portion 4343 circumferentially surrounds the sliding shaft main body 4341 and is located at a middle position of the sliding shaft 434, and a hanging shaft 4345 is located at one end of the sliding shaft main body 4341 and protrudes out of both sides of the sliding shaft main body 4341 along a radial direction. Thus, the sliding shaft body 4341 is clamped between the first installation portion 4312 and the second installation portion 4313 of the first limiting portion 431, and the stopping portion 4343 can be abutted against one side of the second installation portion 4313 facing the first installation portion 4312.

Further, the first limiting portion 431 is further formed with a pull rod extending groove 4316, the pull rod extending groove 4316 is located between the first mounting portion 4312 and the second mounting portion 4313, and the pull rod extending groove 4316 is a waist shape extending along the first direction in the length direction. The sliding shaft 434 further includes a sliding shaft pull rod 4347, one end of the sliding shaft pull rod 4347 is connected to the sliding shaft 434, the other end of the sliding shaft pull rod 4347 extends out of the pull rod extension groove 4316, and the sliding shaft pull rod 4347 can slide in the pull rod extension groove 4316 along a first direction, so as to drive the sliding shaft 434 to move along the first direction.

The retainer ring 438 is sleeved on one end of the sliding shaft body 4341 far away from the hanging shaft 4345, the elastic restoring member 436 is formed by a spring, the elastic restoring member 436 is sleeved on one end of the sliding shaft body 4341, and two opposite ends of the elastic restoring member 436 respectively abut against the retainer ring 438 and the second mounting portion 4313. The elastic restoring member 436 may apply a force to the sliding shaft 434 away from the second position limiting unit 45 in the first direction, so as to maintain the latch tongue 47 in the second state.

The first stopper unit 43 is assembled as follows:

firstly, the lug 4723 of the lock tongue 47 is sleeved on the hanging shaft 4345 of the sliding shaft 434, and then the elastic restoring piece 436 and the retainer ring 438 are sleeved on one end of the sliding shaft body 4341 far away from the hanging shaft 4345.

Then, the lock tongue 47 is mounted on the lock tongue mounting shaft 4332 through the lock tongue mounting hole 4721, the lock tongue 47 is rotated to limit the lock tongue 47 in the second limiting portion 433, the check ring 438 and the elastic restoring member 436 are compressed to clamp the sliding shaft 434 into the first mounting portion 4312 and the second mounting portion 4313, the check ring 438 abuts against the first mounting portion 4312, the stop portion 4343 of the sliding shaft 434 abuts against the second mounting portion 4313, and the elastic restoring member 436 abuts against between the check rings 438 and 4343.

Thereafter, the sliding shaft 434 pushes the latch 47 to rotate by being pushed by the elastic restoring member 436, so that the locking part 474 protrudes out of the first stopper bracket 432 through the latch protrusion groove 4334.

Finally, the claw 4311 of the first limiting unit 43 assembled with the locking tongue 47 is inserted into the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity 210 of the liner main body 20, is coupled to the rib main body 41 through the limiting clamping groove 4317, and finally passes through the threaded mounting hole 4314 with a fastener to fixedly connect the first limiting bracket 432 to the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity 210.

The shelf 50 is mounted as follows:

first, the rear end of the shelf 50 is inserted into the second limit groove of the second limit unit 45 of the fixing rib 40 on both sides of the liner, and the front end of the shelf 50 is freely lapped on the latch tongue 47 of the first limit unit 43 and is abutted against the guide surface 4741 of the latch tongue 47.

Then, the shelf 50 is pressed downwards along the third direction, the latch 47 is forced to retract backwards into the first limiting bracket 432, at this time, the elastic resetting piece 436 is in a compressed state, and the front end of the shelf 50 which is not blocked by the latch 47 falls onto the rib main body 41 to be in a horizontal state.

Finally, since the latch 47 loses the force applied by the rack 50, the elastic restoring member 436 moves the sliding shaft 434 in the first direction, and further rotates the latch 47 to extend the locking part 474 out of the latch extending groove 4334 to lock the rack 50 in the third direction.

The shelf 50 is disassembled as follows:

first, the sliding shaft pull rod 4347 of the shelf limiting component on one side is pushed to move towards the direction close to the second limiting unit 45 along the first direction, so as to drive the sliding shaft 434 to move towards the direction close to the second limiting unit 45 along the first direction against the acting force of the elastic resetting piece 436, the lock tongue 47 is switched from the first state of extending out of the first limiting bracket 432 to the second state of retracting into the first limiting bracket 432 under the driving of the sliding shaft 434, so as to contact the fixed limit at the front end of the shelf 50, and the shelf 50 can be lifted up to remove the limiting gap from the side of the shelf 50.

The other side of the shelf 50 is then moved out of the limit gap in the same operation manner, and finally the shelf 50 is lifted up to draw the shelf 50 away from the second limit unit 45, thereby completing the disassembly of the shelf 50.

Above-mentioned inner bag structure and refrigerator 100 can firmly be spacing shelf 50 in the inner bag structure through the setting of first spacing unit 43 and second spacing unit 45, has solved the problem that shelf 50 upwarps and rocks easily, has promoted user's use and has experienced and the security performance, need not to set up extra shelf 50 protective material in addition in the transportation to furthest has reduced the additional cost of product, has improved production efficiency greatly. In addition, the shelf 50 applied to the shelf limiting component can be designed to be a flat plate in a very simple manner without increasing a limiting structure, and the installation of shelves 50 with different thicknesses and different types can be realized by adjusting the distance between the locking tongue 47 and the rib main body 41 in the third direction and the distance between the second limiting grooves.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the utility model. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

Claims (12)

1. A shelf limiting assembly is mounted on a liner main body (20) with a containing cavity (210), the containing cavity (210) is provided with an open end and a closed end which are oppositely arranged in a first direction, the shelf limiting assembly is characterized by comprising two fixing ribs (40), the two fixing ribs (40) are arranged on two sides of the cavity wall of the containing cavity (210) at intervals, each fixing rib (40) extends from the open end to the closed end along the first direction, and each fixing rib (40) is constructed to form a limiting gap extending along the first direction;

the shelf limiting assembly further comprises a locking tongue (47), the locking tongue (47) is connected to one end of the fixing rib (40) in a matching mode, and the locking tongue (47) can move in the first direction under the action of external force to extend into or leave the limiting gap; when the locking bolt (47) stretches into the limiting gap, the locking bolt (47) and the fixing rib (40) form a fixing position together.

2. The shelf limiting assembly according to claim 1, wherein the fixing rib (40) comprises a rib main body (41), a first limiting unit (43) and a second limiting unit (45), the rib main body (41) is arranged on the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity (210) and extends along the first direction, the first limiting unit (43) and the second limiting unit (45) are arranged at intervals at two opposite ends of the rib main body (41) in the first direction, the first limiting unit (43) and the second limiting unit (45) define and form the limiting gap, and the locking tongue (47) is arranged at one side of the first limiting unit (43) facing the second limiting unit (45).

3. The shelf limiting assembly as defined in claim 2, wherein the first limiting unit (43) comprises a first limiting bracket (432), the first limiting bracket (432) is mounted on the rib main body (41), the first limiting bracket (432) is provided with a locking tongue extending groove (4334) communicated with the limiting gap, and the locking tongue (47) is movably coupled to the first limiting bracket (432) and extends into or out of the first limiting bracket (432) through the locking tongue extending groove (4334).

4. The shelf limiting assembly according to claim 3, wherein the first limiting unit (43) comprises a sliding shaft (434), the sliding shaft (434) is limited in the first limiting bracket (432) and can move back and forth along the first direction, one end of the locking tongue (47) is movably connected to the sliding shaft (434), and the other end of the locking tongue (47) retracts into or extends out of the first limiting bracket (432) under the driving of the sliding shaft (434).

5. The rack limiting assembly according to claim 4, wherein the first limiting unit (43) further comprises an elastic restoring member (436), the elastic restoring member (436) is limited in the first limiting bracket (432), and the elastic restoring member (436) is used for applying force to the sliding shaft (434) to extend the latch tongue (47) out of the first limiting bracket (432).

6. The rack limiting assembly according to claim 5, wherein the first limiting unit (43) further comprises a retainer ring (438), the sliding shaft (434) comprises a sliding shaft main body (4341) and a stopping portion (4343) circumferentially surrounding the sliding shaft main body (4341), one end of the sliding shaft main body (4341) is movably connected to the lock tongue (47), the retainer ring (438) is sleeved on one end of the sliding shaft main body (4341) away from the lock tongue (47) and abuts against the first limiting bracket (432) along the first direction, and the elastic restoring member (436) abuts against between the retainer ring (438) and the stopping portion (4343).

7. The shelf-limiting assembly of claim 6, wherein the first limiting bracket (432) defines a pull-bar-extending slot (4316), the sliding axle (434) further comprises a sliding axle pull bar (4347), the sliding axle pull bar (4347) extends out of the pull-bar-extending slot (4316), and the sliding axle pull bar (4347) is slidable in the first direction within the pull-bar-extending slot (4316).

8. The shelf limiting assembly according to claim 3, wherein the first limiting bracket (432) is provided with a limiting slot extending along the first direction, and one end of the rib main body (41) is inserted into the limiting slot along the first direction.

9. The shelf stop assembly according to claim 2, wherein the second stop unit (45) is provided with a second stop groove at a side facing the first stop unit (43).

10. A liner structure, characterized in that, including the shelf limiting component of any one of claims 1 to 9, the liner structure further includes a liner main body (20) having a containing cavity (210), the containing cavity (210) has an open end and a closed end oppositely arranged in a first direction, and the shelf limiting component is arranged in the containing cavity (210).

11. A refrigerator comprising the inner container structure of claim 10.

12. The refrigerator according to claim 11, further comprising a shelf (50), wherein two side edges of the shelf (50) in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction are respectively limited in the limiting gap of the same shelf limiting assembly.

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