CN218495497U - Refrigerator with a door - Google Patents
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The utility model provides a refrigerator, include: a box body; a storage space defined by the case, the storage space having an opening formed at a front side thereof; the first door and the second door are respectively and pivotally connected to two sides of the box body and configured to open or close the opening; a vertical beam assembly pivotally connected to the first door for closing a gap between the first door and the second door when the first door and the second door are closed; the vertical beam assembly includes a housing having an accommodating space; a heat insulating member disposed in the accommodating space; a metal member positioned at a front side of the case and closing the accommodating space, the metal member having an end bent toward the case; and the elastic sealing element is arranged at the longitudinal end of the metal piece and comprises a first part which is jointed with the end of the metal piece and a second part which extends from the first part of the elastic sealing element along the longitudinal direction, a first gap is formed between the first part and the shell, and the second part extends across the gap and abuts against the edge of the shell.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a refrigeration plant field especially relates to a refrigerator with to opening door.
Background
A refrigerator is a home appliance having a storage chamber for storing food and a cold air supply device supplying cold air to the storage chamber to store the food in a fresh manner. Refrigerators may be classified into different types according to storage compartments and doors thereof.
One of them is a refrigerator in which a storage chamber is provided, the storage chamber being divided into an upper side and a lower side by a horizontal partition, while a freezing chamber is formed at the upper side and a refrigerating chamber is formed at the lower side, or a refrigerating chamber is formed at the upper side, while a freezing chamber is formed at the lower side.
In another type, a refrigerator is provided with a storage chamber divided into left and right sides by a vertical partition, while a freezing chamber is formed at one side and a refrigerating chamber is formed at the other side. Or a refrigerator is provided therein with a storage compartment divided into upper and lower sides by a horizontal partition, while a refrigerating compartment is formed at the upper side and a freezing compartment is formed at the lower side, the refrigerating compartment at the upper side being opened/closed by a pair of doors.
A door seal is provided on a door of a refrigerator to seal a gap formed between a main body of the refrigerator and the door when the door is closed. However, with the split-door type refrigerator, the refrigerating chamber of the upper side is opened and closed by a pair of doors, but a vertical partition is not provided in the refrigerating chamber, and thus a gap formed between the pair of doors may not be sealed by a door seal. In order to seal the gap between the pair of doors, it is proposed to rotatably mount a vertical beam on one of the pair of doors.
The conventional side-by-side combination refrigerator generally includes a left door, a right door, and a reversible vertical beam, and when a pair of doors is closed, the vertical beam is rotated to a horizontal state with respect to the pair of doors to seal a gap between the pair of doors, and when one door provided with and mounted with the vertical beam is opened, the vertical beam is rotated to a vertical state with respect to the other door, so that the vertical beam does not interfere with the other door not provided with and mounted with the vertical beam, thereby sealing a gap between the two doors, and between the doors and a refrigerator body, to thereby achieve sealing of the refrigerator.
The vertical beam generally includes a plastic housing provided therein with an insulation configured to prevent cold air from being discharged from the storage compartment; a metal member formed of metal to be in close contact with a door seal installed at a rear surface of the door; a heat generating member configured to radiate heat to prevent frosting on the metal piece. Because the expansion coefficients of the metal piece and the plastic shell are different, the metal piece is arranged on the plastic piece, and the plastic top crack phenomenon can occur in cold and hot circulation.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a refrigerator with erect roof beam, the life of this refrigerator is longer.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a refrigerator, including:
a box body;
a storage space defined by the cabinet, a front side of the storage space forming an opening;
a first door pivotally connected to one side of the case and configured to open or close a portion of the opening;
a second door pivotally connected to the other side of the cabinet and configured to open or close another portion of the opening;
a vertical beam assembly pivotally connected to the first door for closing a gap between the first door and the second door when the first door and the second door are closed;
the vertical beam assembly includes a housing having an accommodating space; a heat insulating member disposed in the accommodating space; a metal member located at a front side of the case and closing the accommodation space, the metal member having an end bent toward the case; and the elastic sealing element is arranged at the longitudinal end of the metal piece and comprises a first part which is jointed with the end of the metal piece and a second part which extends from the first part of the elastic sealing element along the longitudinal direction, a first gap is formed between the first part and the shell, and the second part extends across the gap and abuts against the edge of the shell.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, a heating wire is provided between the metal member and the heat insulating member, and at least a part of the heating wire extends along the longitudinal bending of the metal member.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the heating wire is attached to the metal member facing one side of the accommodating space, the heating wire includes along the perpendicular to the first section and the second section that vertical interval set up, the first section forms the wavy line along longitudinal extension, the second section forms the straight line along longitudinal extension.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the heater strip includes a third section and a fourth section along being located at both ends of the metal member in the longitudinal direction, the third section and the fourth section are respectively formed with a plurality of bending sections of 180 degrees.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the second portion has a second gap with a bottom of the storage space along a longitudinal end, and a dimension of the second gap in the longitudinal direction is larger than a dimension of the first gap in the longitudinal direction.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the peripheral edge of the metal member forms a direction the flange of the accommodating space, and the flange is embedded into the side wall of the accommodating space.
As an embodiment of the utility model provides a further improvement, the turn-ups includes along longitudinal extension's side turn-ups, set up a plurality of draw-in grooves along longitudinal separation on the side turn-ups, it sets up a plurality of trips to correspond on accommodation space's the lateral wall, a plurality of draw-in grooves with a plurality of trips one-to-one joints.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, in the plurality of slots of the two side flanges, at least one slot on each side flange corresponds to at least one slot on the other side flange along the longitudinal position; at least one clamping groove on each side flanging is staggered with at least one clamping groove on the other side flanging along the longitudinal position.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the bottom of the accommodating space is formed with a plurality of ribs arranged at intervals in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the first portion of the elastic sealing member abuts against the plurality of ribs.
As a further improvement of an embodiment of the present invention, the metal member has a bottom flange, the bottom flange is along perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension is less than the main part of the metal member is along perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension, the first part of the elastic sealing element forms a clamping groove, the clamping groove is along perpendicular to the longitudinal sides are provided with blocking walls, the bottom flange is inserted into the clamping groove and blocked by the blocking walls.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a refrigerator is through reserving the clearance between elastic sealing element and casing to elastic sealing element's second part can shelter from this clearance, has both prevented to erect the roof beam subassembly and has taken place to damage because of expend with heat and contract with cold, also can make the outward appearance of erecting the roof beam subassembly more pleasing to the eye, erects the simple structure of roof beam subassembly moreover, and the reliability is high, thereby the cost is lower.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of a vertical beam assembly of the refrigerator of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 isbase:Sub>A cross-sectional view of the vertical beam assembly of FIG. 2 taken along line A-A;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the vertical beam assembly of FIG. 2 taken along line B-B;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged schematic view of portion a of the vertical beam assembly of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is an exploded schematic view of the vertical beam assembly of FIG. 2;
FIG. 7 is an exploded schematic view of the metal piece and elastomeric seal of the vertical beam assembly of FIG. 2;
fig. 8 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion b in fig. 7.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments shown in the drawings. However, these embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and structural, methodical, or functional changes that may be made by one of ordinary skill in the art based on these embodiments are all included in the scope of the present invention.
It will be understood that terms used herein such as "upper," "above," "lower," "below," and the like, refer to relative spatial positions of one element or feature with respect to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures for purposes of explanation. The spatially relative positional terms may be intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures.
As shown in fig. 1 to 6, a refrigerator according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is described, which includes a cabinet 10, the cabinet 10 defining a storage space, the front side of which forms an opening. The storage space may include a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber, which are arranged from top to bottom. The front opening of the refrigerating chamber is opened or closed by a pair of refrigerating doors.
The pair of refrigerating doors includes a first door 21 and a second door 22, the first door 21 being rotatably connected to one side of the cabinet 10 and configured to open or close a portion of the opening; the second door 22 is pivotally connected to the other side of the cabinet 10 and configured to open or close another portion of the opening. In order to close the gap between the first and second doors 21 and 22 in the closed state, the refrigerator further includes a vertical beam assembly 30 pivotally connected to the first door 21 for closing the gap between the first and second doors 21 and 22 when the first and second doors 21 and 22 are closed. Wherein each door is provided at an inner side thereof with a door seal for sealing a gap between the door and the cabinet 10 when the door is closed.
Specifically, the vertical beam assembly 30 includes a housing 31 having an accommodating space, a heat insulating member 32, and a metal member 33, the housing 31 may be made of a plastic member, a front side of the housing 31 is open, the heat insulating member 32 is disposed in the accommodating space of the housing 31, the metal member 33 is located at the front side of the housing 31 and closes the accommodating space, that is, the metal member 33 covers the opening side of the housing 31. Heating wires 36 are provided between the metal member 33 and the heat insulating member 32 for heating to prevent frost formation of the mullion assembly 30. Because the vertical beam assembly 30 and the box body 10 move relatively, the lower part of the vertical beam assembly has a gap with the box body 10, and in order to solve the problem of cold leakage of the gap, an elastic sealing element 35 is arranged at the bottom of the vertical beam assembly 30 and can play a role of sealing. However, the expansion coefficient of the metal member 33 and the casing 31 of the plastic member is not used, the metal member 33 is installed on the casing 31 of the plastic member, a gap is formed between the metal member 33 and the casing 31 of the plastic member in order to prevent the plastic member from cracking during the cooling-heating cycle, the elastic sealing member 35 is arranged between the metal member 33 and the casing 31 of the plastic member to shield the gap in order to achieve an attractive appearance, and the elastic sealing member 35 does not crack due to the ejection of the metal member 33 when the casing 31 of the plastic member shrinks in size by using the soft characteristic of the elastic sealing member 35. The bottom of the elastic sealing member 35 may abut on the box 10 or may have a gap with the box 10. A catching groove 355 may be formed at an upper end of the elastic sealing member 35, and a bottom of the metal member 33 is bent and inserted into the catching groove 355.
Specifically, in the present embodiment, the metal member 33 has an end portion bent toward the housing 31, the elastic seal 35 is disposed at a longitudinal end portion of the metal member 33, the elastic seal 35 includes a first portion 351 engaged with the end portion of the metal member 33 and a second portion 352 extending from the first portion 351 of the elastic seal 35 in the longitudinal direction, a first gap H is provided between the first portion 351 and the housing 31, and the second portion 352 extends through the first gap H and abuts against an edge of the housing 31. Through reserving clearance H between elastic sealing element 35 and casing 31 to this clearance H can be sheltered from to the second part 352 of elastic sealing element 35, both prevented that perpendicular roof beam subassembly 30 from taking place to damage because of expend with heat and contract with cold, also can make the outward appearance of perpendicular roof beam subassembly 30 more pleasing to the eye.
Further, at least a portion of the heating wire 36 between the metal member 33 and the heat insulating member 32 extends along the longitudinal curvature of the metal member 33 to more completely prevent the condensation of the mullion assembly 30. The heating wire 36 is attached to the side of the metal member 33 facing the accommodating space. The heating wire 36 comprises a first section 361 and a second section 362 which are arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal direction at intervals, the first section 361 forms a wavy line and extends along the longitudinal direction, the second section 362 forms a straight line and extends along the longitudinal direction, and therefore the area of the heating wire 36 covering the metal piece 33 is larger, and the anti-condensation effect is better. The heater strip 36 further comprises a third section 363 and a fourth section 364 located at two longitudinal ends of the metal piece 33, wherein the third section 363 and the fourth section 364 are respectively provided with a plurality of 180-degree bent sections, so that the contact area between the heater strip 36 and the metal piece 33 can be further increased, and the condensation of the vertical beam assembly 30 is avoided.
In this embodiment, the second portion 352 of the elastic sealing member 35 has a second gap with the bottom of the storage space at the end in the longitudinal direction, and the size of the second gap in the longitudinal direction is larger than the size of the first gap H in the longitudinal direction. The second gap prevents the vertical beam assembly 30 from rubbing against the inner container of the storage space when rotating, and further provides a space for the plastic housing 31 to thermally expand,
referring to fig. 7 and 8, the peripheral edge of the metal member 33 forms a flange facing the receiving space, and the flange is embedded in the sidewall of the receiving space to facilitate the connection between the metal member 33 and the housing 31. Specifically, the flange includes a side flange 333 extending along the longitudinal direction, a plurality of clamping grooves 331 are formed in the side flange 333 at intervals along the longitudinal direction, a plurality of clamping hooks 311 are correspondingly formed on the side wall of the accommodating space, and the plurality of clamping grooves 331 are clamped with the plurality of clamping hooks 311 in a one-to-one correspondence manner. By the clamping of the clamping groove 331 and the clamping hook 311, the connection between the metal piece 33 and the shell 31 is more reliable. Among the plurality of clamping grooves 331 on the two side flanges, at least one clamping groove on each side flange corresponds to at least one clamping groove on the other side flange along the longitudinal position; at least one clamping groove on each side flanging is staggered with at least one clamping groove on the other side flanging along the longitudinal position. In this way, the positions of the card slot 331 and the card hook 311 can be set according to the position of the element between the metal piece 33 and the housing 31 and the condition of the required clamping force, so that the connection reliability of the metal piece 33 and the housing 31 is stronger.
Further, the bottom of the accommodating space of the housing 31 is formed with a plurality of ribs 313 spaced apart from each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the first portion 351 of the elastic sealing member 35 abuts on the plurality of ribs 313, and the provision of the ribs 313 can provide stable support for the installation of the elastic sealing member 35.
In addition, referring to fig. 8, the metal member 33 has a bottom flange 335, the bottom flange 335 has a dimension perpendicular to the longitudinal direction smaller than a dimension perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the main body of the metal member 33, the first portion 351 of the elastic sealing member 35 forms a catching groove 355, the catching groove 355 has blocking walls 356 along both sides perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the bottom flange 335 is inserted into the catching groove 355 and blocked by the blocking walls 356. The blocking walls 356 on both sides of the elastic sealing member 35 can further provide protection for the bottom flange 335 of the metal member 33, and the elastic sealing member 35 can be stably clamped on the bottom flange 335 during installation, so that the assembly of the vertical beam assembly 30 is more convenient.
Utilize the refrigerator of this application, through reserving the clearance between elastic sealing element and casing to elastic sealing element's second part can shelter from this clearance, has both prevented to erect the roof beam subassembly and has taken place to damage because of expend with heat and contract with cold, also can make the outward appearance of erecting the roof beam subassembly more pleasing to the eye, erects the simple structure of roof beam subassembly moreover, and the reliability is high, thereby the cost is lower.
It should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment contains only a single technical solution, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should make the description as a whole, and the technical solutions in the embodiments can also be combined appropriately to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.
The above list of details is only for the practical implementation of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or modifications that do not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.
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1. A refrigerator, comprising:
a box body;
a storage space defined by the cabinet, a front side of the storage space forming an opening;
a first door pivotally connected to one side of the case and configured to open or close a portion of the opening;
a second door pivotally connected to the other side of the cabinet and configured to open or close another portion of the opening;
a vertical beam assembly pivotally connected to the first door for closing a gap between the first door and the second door when the first door and the second door are closed;
the method is characterized in that: the vertical beam assembly includes a housing having an accommodating space; a heat insulating member disposed in the accommodating space; a metal member located at a front side of the case and closing the accommodation space, the metal member having an end bent toward the case; and the elastic sealing element is arranged at the longitudinal end of the metal piece and comprises a first part which is jointed with the end of the metal piece and a second part which extends from the first part of the elastic sealing element along the longitudinal direction, a first gap is formed between the first part and the shell, and the second part extends across the gap and abuts against the edge of the shell.
2. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein a heating wire is disposed between the metal member and the heat insulating member, and at least a portion of the heating wire extends along a longitudinal curvature of the metal member.
3. The refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the heating wire is attached to a side of the metal member facing the accommodating space, and the heating wire includes a first section and a second section spaced apart from each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the first section forming a wavy line extending in the longitudinal direction, and the second section forming a straight line extending in the longitudinal direction.
4. The refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the heater wire includes third and fourth segments along both longitudinal ends of the metal member, and the third and fourth segments are respectively formed with a plurality of 180-degree bent segments.
5. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein an end of the second portion in the longitudinal direction has a second gap with a bottom of the storage space, and a size of the second gap in the longitudinal direction is greater than a size of the first gap in the longitudinal direction.
6. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein a peripheral edge of the metal member forms a flange facing the receiving space, the flange being embedded in a sidewall of the receiving space.
7. The refrigerator according to claim 6, wherein the flange includes a side flange extending in a longitudinal direction, a plurality of slots are formed in the side flange at intervals in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of hooks are correspondingly formed in the side wall of the accommodating space, and the slots are in one-to-one corresponding clamping connection with the hooks.
8. The refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein the flanges are formed at both sides of the plurality of slots, at least one clamping groove on each side flanging corresponds to at least one clamping groove on the other side flanging along the longitudinal position; at least one clamping groove on each side flanging is staggered with at least one clamping groove on the other side flanging along the longitudinal position.
9. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein a bottom of the receiving space is formed with a plurality of ribs spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the first portion of the elastic sealing member abuts against the plurality of ribs.
10. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein the metal member has a bottom flange, a dimension of the bottom flange perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is smaller than a dimension of the main body of the metal member perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the first portion of the elastic sealing member forms a notch, the notch is provided with blocking walls along two sides perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the bottom flange is inserted into the notch and blocked by the blocking walls.
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