CN218955276U

CN218955276U - Water pan assembly and refrigerator

Info

Publication number: CN218955276U
Application number: CN202223198547.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 左丹丹; 李全星
Original assignee: TCL Home Appliances Hefei Co Ltd
Current assignee: TCL Home Appliances Hefei Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-11-29
Filing date: 2022-11-29
Publication date: 2023-05-02
Anticipated expiration: 2032-11-29

Abstract

The application provides a water pan assembly and a refrigerator, comprising a water pan, wherein the water pan comprises a bottom plate and a side plate, and the bottom plate and the side plate are enclosed to form a water receiving cavity; the evaporating pipe is partially accommodated in the water receiving cavity; the connecting piece is fixedly connected to the bottom plate and positioned at one side of the evaporation tube; and the positioning piece comprises a positioning body, the positioning body is detachably connected to the connecting piece, the positioning body is provided with a positioning groove with an opening facing the evaporation tube, and the positioning groove is used for propping the evaporation tube against the bottom plate. Through connecting the location body detachably of setting element in the connecting piece to can be convenient for the setting element install in the water collector, the constant head tank can mutually support with the bottom plate, in order to realize supporting the evaporating pipe and press and be fixed in on the bottom plate, thereby conveniently fix the evaporating pipe. Compared with the prior art, the evaporation tube pressing device has the advantages that the evaporation tube pressing device can not puncture the heat shrinkage sleeve outside the evaporation tube or damage the evaporation tube in a manner of pressing the evaporation tube into the buckle through the positioning groove, and the practicability is higher.

Description

Water pan assembly and refrigerator

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a water pan assembly and a refrigerator.

Background

The refrigerator is a common household appliance, and the preservation time of food is effectively prolonged by utilizing low temperature. However, in the using process of the refrigerator, moisture in air near an evaporator in a refrigerating system of the refrigerator is condensed on the evaporator to form frost, so that most of refrigerators also have a defrosting function, and generally, a water receiving disc assembly is arranged in the refrigerator to collect defrosting water and evaporate the defrosting water, so that the defrosting water does not need to be discharged to the outside of the refrigerator.

However, in the related art, the evaporation tube in the water pan assembly is clamped on the water pan through the buckle integrally formed on the water pan, the buckle is provided with an upward installation opening, and when the evaporation tube needs to be installed, the evaporation tube needs to be pressed into the buckle from the opening by force so that the evaporation tube is clamped into the buckle, thus the heat shrinkage sleeve arranged outside the evaporation tube is easy to damage, and even the evaporation tube is damaged.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a water collector subassembly and refrigerator to solve the easy damaged problem of evaporating pipe when the installation.

In a first aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a water tray assembly, comprising:

the water receiving disc comprises a bottom plate and side plates, and the bottom plate and the side plates are enclosed to form a water receiving cavity;

the evaporation tube is partially accommodated in the water receiving cavity;

the connecting piece is fixedly connected to the bottom plate and positioned at one side of the evaporation tube; and

the locating piece comprises a locating body, the locating body is detachably connected to the connecting piece, the locating body is provided with a locating groove with an opening facing the evaporation tube, and the locating groove is used for propping the evaporation tube against the bottom plate.

Optionally, the positioning body and the connecting piece are fastened with each other.

Optionally, the connecting piece is provided with the buckle groove, the setting element include with buckle groove matched with buckle, the buckle connect in the location body, be used for with buckle groove lock joint.

Optionally, the buckle protrudes out of the positioning body towards one side where the bottom plate is located.

Optionally, the positioning groove is configured as an arc structure matched with the evaporation tube.

Optionally, the water pan assembly further comprises a buffer member, wherein the buffer member is arranged in the positioning groove and is used for being abutted with the evaporating pipe.

Optionally, the evaporating pipe includes entering pipeline section, evaporating pipeline section and the discharge pipeline section of intercommunication in proper order, entering pipeline section and the discharge port intercommunication of refrigerator's compressor, the discharge pipeline section with the inlet port intercommunication of refrigerator's condenser, evaporating pipeline section tortuous shop in the bottom plate, the constant head tank be used for with evaporating pipeline section support press in the bottom plate.

Optionally, the evaporation tube section includes a plurality of straight tubes and a plurality of curved tubes, the plurality of straight tubes are arranged at intervals along the radial direction of the straight tubes, and two straight tubes are communicated through the curved tubes;

the positioning grooves are arranged in a plurality, the positioning grooves are arranged at intervals along the radial direction of the straight pipe, and one positioning groove is used for propping against one straight pipe.

Optionally, the water pan further comprises a supporting rib, wherein the supporting rib is connected to the side surface of the side plate, which is located in the water receiving cavity, and extends to be connected with the supporting surface of the bottom plate, which is located in the water receiving cavity.

On the other hand, the embodiment of the application also provides a refrigerator, which comprises the water pan assembly.

The embodiment of the application provides a water collector subassembly and refrigerator through connecting the location body detachably of setting element in the connecting piece to can be convenient for the setting element install in the water collector, and when the setting element is connected in the connecting piece, the constant head tank of location body can mutually support with the bottom plate, in order to realize supporting the evaporating pipe and pressing to be fixed in on the bottom plate, thereby conveniently fix the evaporating pipe. Compared with the prior art, the evaporation tube pressing device has the advantages that the evaporation tube pressing device can not puncture the heat shrinkage sleeve outside the evaporation tube or damage the evaporation tube in a manner of pressing the evaporation tube into the buckle through the positioning groove, and the practicability is higher.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings may be obtained from these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

For a more complete understanding of the present application and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals represent like parts throughout the following description.

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

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the connecting member and the positioning member in fig. 1 when they are fastened to each other.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the structure shown in fig. 1 when no positioning member is installed.

Reference numerals:

10. a water pan assembly;

11. a water receiving tray; 111. a bottom plate; 112. a side plate; 113. a water receiving chamber; 114. a support rib; 115. flanging;

12. an evaporation tube; 121. entering a pipe section; 122. an evaporation tube section; 1221. a straight pipe; 1222. bending the tube; 123. a discharge pipe section;

13. a connecting piece; 131. a buckle groove;

14. a positioning piece; 141. positioning the body; 1411. a positioning groove; 142. and (5) a buckle.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It will be apparent that the described embodiments are only some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely exemplary in nature and is in no way intended to limit the application, its application, or uses. All other embodiments, which can be made by a person skilled in the art without any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the present application based on the embodiments herein.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" or "implementation" means that a particular feature, component, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or implementation may be included in at least one embodiment of the present application. The appearances of such phrases in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments.

The embodiment of the application provides a water collector subassembly and refrigerator to solve the easy damaged problem of evaporating pipe when the installation. This will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The water pan assembly can be applied to a refrigerator. Such as a refrigerator, may include a cabinet provided with a refrigeration chamber, a condenser, an evaporator, and a compressor. The condenser, the evaporator and the compressor are respectively arranged in the box body and are communicated through the evaporating pipes, and it can be understood that the refrigerant can flow in the evaporating pipes so as to circulate among the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor.

It can be understood that the refrigerator further comprises a refrigerator liner and a door body, the refrigerator body is used as a shell of the whole refrigerator, and the refrigerator liner, the condenser and the compressor are all arranged in the refrigerator body. One or more refrigerating chambers are formed in the case, such as one refrigerating chamber formed in an upper portion of the case as a freezing chamber and another refrigerating chamber formed in a lower portion as a refrigerating chamber. The door body is rotatably installed on the case body to open or close the opening of the refrigerating chamber.

It should be noted that, in the use process of the refrigerator, moisture in the air near the evaporator is condensed on the evaporator to form frost, so most refrigerators also have a defrosting function to melt the frost into frost water, and in order to receive the frost water, the refrigerator may further include a water receiving tray assembly to collect the frost water.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a water pan assembly according to an embodiment of the present application. The water tray assembly 10 includes a water tray 11 and an evaporation tube 12, the water tray 11 includes a bottom plate 111 and a side plate 112, and the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 enclose to form a water receiving chamber 113. The evaporation tube 12 is partially accommodated in the water receiving chamber 113. It will be appreciated that the evaporating tube 12 comprises a metal tube for transporting a refrigerant and a heat-shrinkable sleeve sleeved on the metal tube for protecting the metal tube from damage. When the evaporation tube 12 positioned in the water receiving chamber 113 is delivering the high-temperature refrigerant, the high-temperature refrigerant transfers heat to the defrost water in the water receiving tray 11, so that the defrost water can be evaporated.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the pipe diameter and the shape of the evaporation pipe 12 are not limited, and the pipe diameter and the shape of the evaporation pipe 12 should be selected according to the specific application scenario, for example, the evaporation pipe 12 may be a circular pipe.

It should be noted that, the shape of the water receiving chamber 113 and the volume thereof depend on the shape and the size of the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112, for example, the water receiving chamber 113 is a circular chamber, the bottom plate 111 may be a circular plate, the side plate 112 may be a square plate, and the square plate may be bent into a circular cavity and then connected with the circular bottom plate 111 in a surrounding manner to form a housing having the circular water receiving chamber 113. For example, the water receiving chamber 113 is a square chamber, the bottom plate 111 may be a square plate, the side plates 112 may be four square plates, and the four square plates are connected end to form a square cavity and then are connected with the square bottom plate 111 in a surrounding manner to form a housing with the square water receiving chamber 113. The larger the dimensions of the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 are, the larger the water receiving chamber 113 enclosed by the two is. Accordingly, the shape and size of the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 can be selected and adjusted as needed, and are not particularly limited herein. The materials of the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 may be selected according to the specific application, and are not particularly limited, and for example, the materials of the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 may be the same or different. It will be appreciated that because the drip tray 11 is a housing having a drip chamber 113 defined by the bottom panel 111 and the side panels 112, the bottom panel 111 and the side panels 112 may be welded or glued together.

In some embodiments, since the water pan 11 is used for receiving the defrosted water after defrosting, in order to prevent the water in the water receiving chamber 113 from leaking out of the water pan 11, the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 may be enclosed together by injection molding or extrusion molding, or the like, and the shell with the water receiving chamber 113 is formed by injection molding or extrusion molding, or the like, so that the tightness between the bottom plate 111 and the side plate 112 is better, and the defrosted water can be effectively placed to leak out of the water pan 11 from the water receiving chamber 113.

In order to improve the overall structural strength of the water pan 11, the water pan 11 may further include a supporting rib 114, where the supporting rib 114 is connected to a side surface of the side plate 112 located in the water receiving chamber 113 and extends to be connected to a supporting surface of the bottom plate 111 located in the water receiving chamber 113.

It will be appreciated that a plurality of support ribs 114 may be provided on the side plate 112, wherein the plurality of support ribs 114 may be two, three, four, etc. to strengthen the side plate 112 and prevent deformation of the side plate 112.

In order to further make the strength of the water pan 11 having the water receiving chamber 113 higher, not to be easily deformed, a flange 115 may be provided at an end of the side plate 112 remote from the bottom plate 111.

It should be noted that, the shapes and sizes of the supporting ribs 114 and the flanges 115 are not particularly limited in the embodiments of the present application, and should be selected and adjusted according to the actual application.

It will also be appreciated that the flange 115 and the reinforcing ribs may be integrally formed with the drip tray 11 by injection molding or extrusion to enhance the overall strength of the drip tray assembly 10.

It should be noted that, in the related art, the evaporating tube in the water pan is clamped on the water pan through the buckle integrally formed on the water pan, wherein the buckle is provided with an upward installation opening, when the evaporating tube needs to be installed, the evaporating tube needs to be pressed into the buckle from the opening forcefully so that the evaporating tube is clamped into the buckle, and therefore, the heat shrinkage sleeve arranged outside the evaporating tube is easy to damage and even the evaporating tube is easy to damage.

In view of this, please refer to fig. 2 and 3 in combination with fig. 1, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of the connecting piece and the positioning piece in fig. 1 when they are fastened to each other, and fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the structure in fig. 1 when the positioning piece is not yet installed. The water collector subassembly 10 that this application provided includes connecting piece 13 and setting element 14, and connecting piece 13 fixed connection is in bottom plate 111 and is located one side of evaporating pipe 12. The positioning member 14 includes a positioning body 141, the positioning body 141 is detachably connected to the connecting member 13, the positioning body 141 is provided with a positioning groove 1411 opened toward the evaporation tube 12, and the positioning groove 1411 is used for pressing the evaporation tube 12 against the bottom plate 111.

It can be appreciated that the positioning body 141 of the positioning member 14 is detachably connected to the connecting member 13, so that the positioning member 14 can be conveniently mounted on the water receiving tray 11, and when the positioning member 14 is connected to the connecting member 13, the positioning groove 1411 of the positioning body 141 can be mutually matched with the bottom plate 111, so as to press and fix the evaporation tube 12 on the bottom plate 111, thereby conveniently fixing the evaporation tube 12, and the positioning stability of the evaporation tube 12 is higher by the mutual matching of the positioning groove 1411 and the bottom plate 111. In addition, compared with the mode of pressing the evaporation tube 12 into the buckle in the related art, the mode of pressing the evaporation tube 12 against the bottom plate 111 through the positioning groove 1411 can not puncture the heat shrinkage sleeve outside the evaporation tube 12 or cause the breakage of the evaporation tube 12, so that the practicability is higher.

It can be appreciated that, in order to facilitate the detachable connection between the positioning body 141 and the connecting member 13, the positioning body 141 and the connecting member 13 may be connected by a snap connection, i.e. the positioning body 141 and the connecting member 13 are fastened to each other.

Illustratively, a latch slot 131 may be provided on the connector 13, and the positioning member 14 includes a latch 142 mated with the latch slot 131, where the latch 142 is connected to the positioning body 141, and it is understood that the latch 142 is configured to latch with the latch slot 131. When the evaporation tube 12 needs to be fixed in the water pan 11, the buckle 142 on the positioning body 141 can be buckled with the buckle groove 131, and at this time, the positioning groove 1411 abuts against the evaporation tube 12 from one side of the evaporation tube 12 away from the bottom plate 111, so as to abut the evaporation tube 12 against the bottom plate 111 of the water pan 11, thereby fixing the evaporation tube 12.

In some embodiments, to facilitate the snap 142 on the positioning body 141 to snap with the snap groove 131 on the connecting piece 13, the snap 142 protrudes from the positioning body 141 toward the side of the bottom plate 111, and the opening of the snap groove 131 faces the side of the snap 142. Thus, when a force directed to the bottom plate 111 is applied to the positioning body 141, the buckle 142 can be engaged with the buckle slot 131, which is convenient and fast to operate.

In order to more clearly describe the structure of the positioning groove 1411, the specific structure of the positioning groove 1411 and the connection structure related thereto will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2, the positioning groove 1411 is configured as an arc-shaped structure that mates with the evaporation tube 12. By providing the positioning groove 1411 in an arc-shaped structure, it can be better matched with the evaporation tube 12, and the stability of fixation can be improved.

It will be appreciated that the radius of the arcuate structure may be slightly greater than the radius of the evaporator tube 12 or equal to the radius of the evaporator tube 12.

The compressor vibrates during operation, and transmits the vibration to the evaporation tube 12, causing the evaporation tube 12 to vibrate.

Based on this, the water pan assembly may further include a buffer (not shown) disposed in the positioning groove 1411 for abutting with the evaporation tube 12. When the positioning member 14 is connected to the connecting member 13, the buffer member is located between the groove wall of the positioning groove 1411 and the evaporation tube 12 to play a role of buffering and also to prevent being crushed by the positioning groove 1411 during vibration of the evaporation tube 12.

It will be appreciated that the cushioning member may be made of a material that isolates, dampens or counteracts vibration, for example, the cushioning member may be made of vibration damping foam such as EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer), PE (polyethylene), CR (neoprene), PU (polyurethane), PORON (polyurethane foam), D3O (expanding foam) or the like.

It will be appreciated that the portion of the evaporating tube 12 located within the water receiving chamber 113 of the water pan 11 may evaporate water within the water receiving chamber 113. In order to more clearly describe the specific structure of the evaporation tube 12, the structure of the evaporation tube 12 and the fixing structure associated therewith will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1, the evaporating pipe 12 includes an inlet pipe 121, an evaporating pipe 122 and an outlet pipe 123, which are sequentially connected, the inlet pipe 121 is connected to an outlet of a compressor of the refrigerator, the outlet pipe 123 is connected to an inlet of a condenser of the refrigerator, the evaporating pipe 122 is laid on the bottom plate 111 in a zigzag manner, and a positioning groove 1411 on the positioning body 141 is used for pressing the evaporating pipe 122 against the bottom plate 111.

The evaporation tube section 122 may include a plurality of straight tubes 1221, where the plurality of straight tubes 1221 are disposed at intervals along a radial direction of the straight tubes 1221, and the two straight tubes 1221 are connected to each other by a curved tube 1222 to form a serpentine shape. It will be appreciated that the serpentine evaporator tube section 122 can increase the evaporation area of the evaporator tube 12 as much as possible in a limited space to quickly evaporate the defrost water in the drip tray 11.

In some embodiments, the evaporation tube 122 is tiled on the bottom plate 111, and the evaporation tube 12 can directly contact with the defrosting water, so that heat loss is reduced, and efficiency of evaporating the defrosting water by the evaporation tube 122 is improved. In addition, since the evaporation tube sections 122 are tiled on the bottom plate 111, the distances between each tube section of the evaporation tube sections 122 and the bottom plate 111 are the same, so that the uniformity of the evaporation tube sections 122 for evaporating the defrosting water can be effectively improved.

It will be appreciated that the locating slot 1411 of the locating body 141 can bear against the straight tube 1221 of the evaporator tube section 122.

Since the straight pipe 1221 has a plurality of positioning grooves 1411, a plurality of positioning grooves 1411 may be provided correspondingly, and a plurality of positioning grooves 1411 may be provided at intervals in the direction of arrangement of the straight pipe 1221, and one positioning groove 1411 may be used to press one straight pipe 1221. It will also be appreciated that the locating body 141 of the locating member 14 extends in the direction of the alignment of the straight tubes 1221.

In order to enable the positioning member 14 to fix the straight pipe 1221 more stably, the locking buckles 142 may be provided at opposite ends of the positioning body 141, and at this time, the connecting members 13 provided with the locking slots 131 are provided in two corresponding to each other, and one connecting member 13 is provided in one corresponding to each locking buckle 142. In this way, the positioning body 141 can be connected more firmly.

In the foregoing embodiments, the descriptions of the embodiments are emphasized, and for parts of one embodiment that are not described in detail, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

The water pan assembly and the refrigerator provided by the embodiment of the application are described in detail, and specific examples are applied to illustrate the principle and the implementation of the application, and the description of the above embodiments is only used for helping to understand the method and the core idea of the application; meanwhile, those skilled in the art will have variations in the specific embodiments and application scope in light of the ideas of the present application, and the present description should not be construed as limiting the present application in view of the above.

Claims

1. A water tray assembly, comprising:

the evaporation tube is partially accommodated in the water receiving cavity;

2. The drip tray assembly of claim 1, wherein said positioning body is snap-fit to said connector.

3. The drip tray assembly of claim 2, wherein said connector is provided with a snap groove, said retainer includes a snap fit with said snap groove, said snap fit being connected to said retainer body for snap fit with said snap groove.

4. A drip tray assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein said catch projects from said locating body towards the side of said base plate.

5. The drip tray assembly of any one of claims 1-4, wherein said positioning slot is configured as an arcuate structure that mates with said evaporating tube.

6. The drip tray assembly of claim 5, further comprising a buffer disposed in said positioning slot for abutting said evaporator tube.

7. The drip tray assembly of claim 1, wherein said evaporator tube includes an inlet tube section, an evaporator tube section and an outlet tube section in sequential communication, said inlet tube section being in communication with an outlet of a compressor of a refrigerator, said outlet tube section being in communication with an inlet of a condenser of said refrigerator, said evaporator tube section being tortuous to be laid on said base plate, said positioning slot being for pressing said evaporator tube section against said base plate.

8. The drip tray assembly according to claim 7, wherein said evaporation tube sections comprise a plurality of straight tubes and a plurality of curved tubes, a plurality of said straight tubes being disposed at intervals along a radial direction of said straight tubes, two of said straight tubes being in communication through said curved tubes;

the locating grooves are arranged in a plurality, the locating grooves are arranged at intervals along the arrangement of the straight pipes, and one locating groove is used for propping against one straight pipe.

9. The drip tray assembly of claim 1, further comprising a support rib connected to a side of said side panel within said water receiving chamber and extending to connect with a support surface of said bottom panel within said water receiving chamber.

10. A refrigerator comprising a water tray assembly as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.