CN219063838U - Ice making device and refrigerator - Google Patents
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The application discloses an ice making device and refrigerator, an ice making device includes: the ice conveying mechanism is used for conveying ice cubes; an ice making mechanism including an ice making tray for making ice cubes, the ice making tray being rotatable to pour the ice cubes; and the guide part is at least partially arranged below the ice making grid along the gravity direction, so that ice cubes poured out of the ice making grid can slide to the ice conveying mechanism along the guide part. The ice making device can enable ice cubes poured out of the ice making grid to slide down to the ice conveying mechanism more stably and controllably through the guide component.
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Technical Field
The application belongs to the field of ice making, and particularly relates to an ice making device and a refrigerator.
Background
The ice making device is mainly used in household appliances such as refrigerators and the like for making ice cubes.
In the related art, an ice making device is generally provided with an ice making tray for freezing a water source to form ice cubes. The water source on the ice making grid is frozen to form ice cubes and then directly poured out, and the ice cubes are easy to scatter and splash irregularly after being poured out, so that the subsequent centralized treatment of the ice cubes by the ice making device is not facilitated.
Accordingly, there is a need in the art for improvements and enhancements.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the application provides an ice making device and a refrigerator, which can enable ice cubes poured out of an ice making grid to be stably and controllably sent into an ice conveying mechanism.
In a first aspect, embodiments of the present application provide an ice making apparatus, including:
the ice conveying mechanism is used for conveying ice cubes;
an ice making mechanism including an ice making tray for making ice cubes, the ice making tray being rotatable to pour ice cubes; and
and the guide part is at least partially arranged below the ice making grid along the gravity direction, so that ice cubes poured out of the ice making grid can slide to the ice conveying mechanism along the guide part.
Optionally, the ice transporting mechanism includes:
a track member; and
an ice transporting plate slidably mounted to the rail member so as to be movable between a first position and a second position in a gravitational direction;
the ice making mechanism and the guide component are positioned between the first position and the second position, so that ice cubes which slide off the guide component can be received when the ice conveying plate moves to the first position.
Optionally, the guiding component comprises an inclined plane for the ice cubes poured by the ice making grid to slide down, and the orthographic projection of the ice making grid along the gravity direction is positioned in the inclined plane.
Optionally, the guide component further includes a first side wall, where the first side wall is disposed on a side of the ice making grid opposite to the ice transporting mechanism, and the first side wall is connected to one end of the inclined plane, which is close to the ice making grid.
Optionally, at least one end of the first side wall along a first direction is provided with a second side wall, and the first direction is parallel to the rotation axis of the ice making grid;
the ice making mechanism further comprises a first driving part arranged on the second side wall, and the first driving part is in transmission connection with the ice making grid so as to drive the ice making grid to rotate.
Optionally, the two ends of the first side wall along the first direction are both provided with the second side walls, and the first driving component and the ice making grid are arranged between the two second side walls;
the first driving part is fixedly arranged on one second side wall, and one end, far away from the first driving part, of the ice making grid is rotatably arranged on the other second side wall.
Optionally, the guiding component further comprises two guiding ribs, each end of the inclined plane along the first direction is provided with one guiding rib, the first direction is parallel to the rotation axis of the ice making grid, and the inclined plane and the two guiding ribs enclose to form a channel for sliding ice cubes poured out of the ice making grid.
Optionally, the ice making grid is provided with a plurality of holding tanks for holding ice cubes, and the distance between the two guide ribs is greater than the distance between the two holding tanks at two ends of the ice making grid along the first direction.
Optionally, the distance between the two guide ribs is smaller than the length of the ice making grid along the first direction.
In a second aspect, embodiments of the present application also provide a refrigerator including an ice making device as any one of the above.
In the embodiment of the application, ice cubes can be transported to a specific place for corresponding treatment through the ice transporting mechanism, so that parts inside the ice making device can be flexibly arranged through the ice transporting mechanism, or the ice making device can be flexibly arranged at different positions on the refrigerator. Further, through setting up the guide part, can play fine guide effect to the ice-cube that makes ice tray pouring to make ice-cube can more stable controllable landing in the fortune ice mechanism.
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The technical solution of the present application and the advantageous effects thereof will be made apparent from the following detailed description of the specific embodiments of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an ice making mechanism of the refrigerator shown in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the ice making tray of the ice making mechanism shown in fig. 2 rotated to an opening of the accommodating groove facing upwards.
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. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments herein without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the present application.
Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment of the application provides an ice making device 100, where the ice making device 100 may be used for making ice in a refrigerator, and may also be used for making ice in other home appliances, and the embodiment of the application is not limited thereto. Taking the ice making device 100 as an example, the refrigerator may be a double-door refrigerator, a single-door refrigerator or a triple-door refrigerator, which is not limited in this embodiment.
The refrigerator may include a cabinet 200 and a door 300. The cabinet 200 is provided with a storage compartment 21 such as a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment, or a wide-width variable temperature compartment. The door 300 is rotatably installed at the cabinet 200 to open or close the storage compartment 21. In this case, the ice making device 100 may be disposed in the storage compartment 21, may be disposed on the door 300, or may be partially disposed in the storage compartment 21 or partially disposed on the door 300, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an ice making mechanism of the refrigerator shown in fig. 1. The ice making device 100 may include an ice transporting mechanism 11, an ice making mechanism 12, and a guide member 13. The ice transport mechanism 11 is used for transporting ice cubes. The ice making mechanism 12 includes an ice making tray 121 for making ice cubes. The ice making tray 121 can be rotated to pour out ice cubes. The guide member 13 is at least partially disposed below the ice making tray 121 in the gravity direction so that ice cubes poured from the ice making tray 121 can slide toward the ice transporting mechanism 11 along the guide member 13.
It can be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, ice cubes can be transported to a specific place by the ice transporting mechanism 11 for corresponding processing, and then parts inside the ice making device 100 can be processed more flexibly by the ice transporting mechanism 11, or the ice making device 100 can be mounted to different positions on the refrigerator flexibly. Further, by providing the guide member 13, a good guide effect can be achieved for the ice cubes poured out of the ice making tray 121, so that the ice cubes can more accurately slide down into the ice transporting mechanism 11.
In some embodiments, the ice transport mechanism 11 may include a rail member 111 and an ice transport plate 112. The ice tray 112 is slidably mounted to the rail member 111 to be movable between a first position and a second position in a gravitational direction. The ice making mechanism 12 and the guide member 13 are positioned between the first position and the second position so that the ice pieces that slide off the guide member 13 can be received when the ice carrying plate 112 is moved to the first position.
The technical solution of the embodiment of the present application will be further explained and illustrated by taking the ice making tray 121 as an example of a reference position.
The lower end of the rail 111 is at the first position and is located at the lower side of the ice making tray 121. The upper end of the rail 111 is at the second position and is located at the upper side of the ice making tray 121. When the ice-conveying plate 112 is moved to the first position, or when the ice-conveying plate 112 is moved below the ice-making cells 121, the guided ice cubes of the ice-making cells 121 may slide down the guide member 13 by their own weight onto the ice-conveying plate 112. The ice sheet 112 may then transport the ice cubes to a second location, or above the ice tray 121, for corresponding processing; for example, the ice making device 100 may further include an ice bank 14 positioned at an upper side of the ice making cells 121, and ice cubes at the ice making cells 121 may be transported into the ice bank 14 thereabove by the ice transporting mechanism 11, so that parts inside the ice making device 100 may be more flexibly arranged.
The structure of the rail member 111 may be various, such as the rail member 111 may be a linear rail having a length direction parallel to a gravitational direction, in which case the ice making mechanism 12 and the guide member 13 are located on the same side of the rail member 111 in a horizontal direction. Of course, the track member 111 may be an arc track or a spiral track that spirals downward, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
The ice making device 100 may further include a second driving part (not shown) for driving the ice carrying plate 112 between the first position and the second position.
Specifically, the second driving part may be disposed on the housing 15 of the ice making device 100 and in driving connection with the ice transporting plate 112, or may be disposed on the rail member 111 and in driving connection with the ice transporting plate 112, or may be disposed on the ice transporting plate 112 and in driving connection with the rail member 111 or the housing 15 of the ice making device 100, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
The second driving part may be composed of a first motor and a first rack and pinion transmission assembly, a first screw transmission assembly or a first synchronous belt transmission assembly driven by the first motor, and the first motor may further drive the ice conveying plate 112 to slide through the first rack and pinion transmission assembly, the first screw transmission assembly or the first synchronous belt transmission assembly. Of course, the second driving member may also be the first electric push rod or the like, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
The ice transporting mechanism 11 may further include a limiting member 113, and the limiting member 113 is mounted to the ice transporting plate 112 to limit ice cubes carried on the ice transporting plate 112 from sliding down. Further, the ice cubes carried on the ice carrying plate 112 can be more stably carried from the first position to the second position.
The limiting member 113 may be a protrusion integrally formed on the ice transporting plate 112, or may be a rail movably mounted on the ice transporting plate 112, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
The above is some examples of the ice transporting mechanism 11 according to the embodiment of the present application, and the following continues to exemplify the guide member 13 according to the embodiment of the present application.
With continued reference to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic view of the ice making tray of the ice making mechanism shown in fig. 2 rotated to an opening of the accommodating groove. The guide member 13 may include a slope 131 for sliding off ice cubes poured from the ice making cells 121. The orthographic projection of the ice tray 121 along the gravity direction is located in the inclined plane 131. Further, when the ice-making cells 121 pour out the ice cubes, the ice cubes may fall onto the inclined surface 131 and slide down the inclined surface 131 onto the ice-conveying plate 112 positioned at the first position.
The inclined surface 131 may include a straight surface inclined to the gravity direction, a curved surface inclined to the gravity direction, or a straight surface and a curved surface connected to each other, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
In some embodiments, the guide member 13 may further include a first sidewall 132. The first side wall 132 is disposed on a side of the ice making tray 121 facing away from the ice transporting mechanism 11, and the first side wall 132 is connected to an end of the inclined surface 131 near the ice making tray 121. Further, during the rotation of the ice making tray 121, the ice cubes 121 may be prevented from being thrown to the area other than the inclined surface 131 by the first sidewall 132.
It is to be understood that the first side wall 132 may be a straight plate structure disposed along the gravity direction, or may be a straight plate structure with a certain inclination angle with the gravity direction, and the first side wall 132 may also be an arc-shaped plate structure, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
The first sidewall 132 is provided at least one end thereof with a second sidewall 133 along a first direction, which is parallel to the rotation axis of the ice making cells 121. The ice making mechanism 12 further includes a first driving component 122 disposed on the second sidewall 133, where the first driving component 122 is in transmission connection with the ice making tray 121 to drive the ice making tray 121 to rotate.
In some embodiments, the width of the first drive member 122 is less than the height of the first drive member 122. The width of the first driving part 122 is the maximum distance between the end of the first driving part 122 facing the ice transporting mechanism 11 and the end of the first driving part 122 far away from the ice transporting mechanism 11. The height of the first driving part 122 is the maximum distance between two ends of the first driving part 122 in the gravity direction. It will be appreciated that the ice transporting mechanism 11 occupies a relatively large space in the gravitational direction or the height direction of the first driving part 122, and the height direction of the first driving part 122 is set to coincide with the gravitational direction, so that the space occupied by the ice making device 100 in the width direction of the first driving part 122 can be saved, and the volume of the whole ice making device 100 can be reduced.
The first drive component 122 may be removably mounted to the second sidewall 133, such as by one or more of snap-in, screw-in, magnetic attachment, or the like, to the second sidewall 133.
Of course, in some other embodiments, the end of the first side wall 132 along the first direction may not be provided with the second side wall 133, and the corresponding first driving part 122 may also be provided on the housing 15 of the ice making device 100, the case 200 of the refrigerator, or the door 300 of the refrigerator, which is not limited in this embodiment.
The first driving part 122 may be a second motor or a second motor directly connected to the ice making grid 121, and the first driving part 122 may also be composed of a second motor and a second rack and pinion transmission assembly, a second screw transmission assembly or a second synchronous belt transmission assembly driven by the second motor, so that the second motor may drive the ice making grid 121 to rotate through the second rack and pinion transmission assembly, the second screw transmission assembly or the second synchronous belt transmission assembly.
The first side wall 132 is provided with a second side wall 133 at both ends in the first direction. The first driving part 122 and the ice making tray 121 are disposed between the two second sidewalls 133. The first driving part 122 is fixedly arranged on one second side wall 133, and one end of the ice making grid 121 far away from the first driving part 122 is rotatably arranged on the other second side wall 133. And both ends of the ice making tray 121 can be well supported to improve the stability of the ice making mechanism 12.
In some embodiments, a plurality of through holes 1331 may be provided on the second sidewall 133 to allow cool air to be blown toward the ice-making cells 121 through the through holes 1331, so that water contained in the ice-making cells 121 may be frozen to form ice cubes. Of course, in some other implementations, a smaller through hole 1331 may be formed on the first side wall 132 or the inclined surface 131 for the cool air to blow toward the ice making grid 121; alternatively, the through holes 1331 are not provided in the first side wall 132, the second side wall 133, and the inclined surface 131, and the cool air is blown from the side of the ice transporting mechanism 11 to the ice making grid 121, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
In some embodiments, the guide member 13 further includes two guide ribs 134. The inclined surface 131 is provided with one guide rib 134 at each end in the first direction. The inclined surface 131 and the two guide ribs 134 enclose a channel for sliding ice cubes poured from the ice-making grid 121. Furthermore, the ice cubes can be made to run along the two sides of the first direction in the sliding process, so that the ice cubes cannot slide into the ice conveying plate 112 completely.
The ice making tray 121 is provided with a plurality of receiving grooves 1211 for receiving ice cubes, and all the receiving grooves 1211 are opened to be the same. Further, the ice making tray 121 may be rotated such that the opening of the receiving groove 1211 faces upward to carry water, and then cooled air is blown toward the ice making tray 121 such that the water within the receiving groove 1211 is frozen to form ice cubes. Then, the ice making tray 121 may be rotated until the opening of the receiving groove 1211 is downward so that the ice cubes within the receiving groove 1211 may be poured out.
At this time, the distance between the two guide ribs 134 may be greater than the distance between the two receiving grooves 1211 at both ends of the ice making tray 121 along the first direction, so that all ice cubes poured from the ice making tray 121 may enter the channel defined by the inclined surface 131 and the two guide ribs 134.
The interval between the two guide ribs 134 may be smaller than the length of the ice making tray 121 in the first direction. It will be appreciated that, on the one hand, the greater the distance between the two guide ribs 134, the greater the likelihood of splashing during ice slip; conversely, when the distance between the two guide ribs 134 is smaller, the flowing range of the ice cubes during the sliding process is more fixed, so that the ice cubes can be more stably and controllably slid during the sliding process, so as to improve the stability and reliability of the ice making device 100. On the other hand, reducing the interval between the two guide ribs 134 may also save space of the ice making device 100 and the inside of the entire refrigerator.
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 ice making apparatus 100 and the refrigerator provided in the embodiments of the present application are described in detail, and specific examples are applied herein to illustrate the principles and embodiments of the present application, and the description of the above examples is only for helping to understand the method and core ideas of the present application; meanwhile, as those skilled in the art will vary in the specific embodiments and application scope according to the ideas of the present application, the contents of the present specification should not be construed as limiting the present application in summary.
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1. An ice making apparatus, comprising:
the ice conveying mechanism is used for conveying ice cubes;
an ice making mechanism including an ice making tray for making ice cubes, the ice making tray being rotatable to pour ice cubes; and
and the guide part is at least partially arranged below the ice making grid along the gravity direction, so that ice cubes poured out of the ice making grid can slide to the ice conveying mechanism along the guide part.
2. The ice making apparatus of claim 1, wherein the ice transporting mechanism comprises:
a track member; and
an ice transporting plate slidably mounted to the rail member so as to be movable between a first position and a second position in a gravitational direction;
the ice making mechanism and the guide component are positioned between the first position and the second position, so that ice cubes which slide off the guide component can be received when the ice conveying plate moves to the first position.
3. The ice making apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the guide member comprises a slope for ice cubes poured by the ice making trays to slide down, and an orthographic projection of the ice making trays in a gravitational direction is located in the slope.
4. The ice making apparatus of claim 3, wherein said guide member further comprises a first side wall disposed on a side of said ice making tray facing away from said ice transporting mechanism, said first side wall being connected to an end of said inclined surface adjacent said ice making tray.
5. The ice making apparatus of claim 4, wherein said first side wall is provided with a second side wall at least at one end thereof in a first direction, said first direction being parallel to an axis of rotation of said ice making tray;
the ice making mechanism further comprises a first driving part arranged on the second side wall, and the first driving part is in transmission connection with the ice making grid so as to drive the ice making grid to rotate.
6. The ice making apparatus of claim 5, wherein both ends of said first side wall in a first direction are provided with said second side walls, and said first driving member and said ice making tray are disposed between both of said second side walls;
the first driving part is fixedly arranged on one second side wall, and one end, far away from the first driving part, of the ice making grid is rotatably arranged on the other second side wall.
7. The ice making apparatus of claim 3, wherein said guide member further comprises two guide ribs, one said guide rib being provided at each end of said inclined surface in a first direction parallel to a rotation axis of said ice making tray, said inclined surface and said two guide ribs enclosing a channel for sliding ice cubes poured from said ice making tray.
8. The ice-making device according to claim 7, wherein the ice-making tray is provided with a plurality of receiving grooves for receiving ice cubes, and a distance between two of the guide ribs is greater than a distance between two receiving grooves of the ice-making tray along both ends of the first direction.
9. The ice making apparatus of claim 7, wherein a spacing between two of said guide ribs is less than a length of said ice making grid in said first direction.
10. A refrigerator comprising the ice making apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.
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