CN220303954U - Ice making assembly - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an ice making assembly, which comprises an ice tray, wherein the ice tray comprises a box body and a baffle plate for dividing the interior of the box body into a plurality of ice tray grooves, the ice tray grooves comprise outer ring ice tray grooves which are jointly surrounded by side walls of the box body and the baffle plate, and a convex part which protrudes relative to the bottom surface of the box body is arranged at the position of the bottom surface of the box body corresponding to the outer ring ice tray grooves. According to the ice cube tray, the protruding parts corresponding to the outer ring ice cubes are arranged at the bottoms of the ice cubes, so that when ice cubes in the ice cubes are separated from the outer ring ice cubes, the bottoms of the outer ring ice cubes are deformed before the ice cubes at other positions, the protruding parts increase the deformation quantity of the outer ring ice cubes, the inner walls of the outer ring ice cubes are separated from the ice cubes, the outer ring ice cubes surrounded by the side walls of the box body and the partition plates can be separated from the ice cubes in the outer ring ice cubes rapidly, the ice cubes are prevented from being separated from the outer ring ice cubes difficultly, the separation of all the ice cubes from the ice cubes can be achieved without being pressed by a user, and the operation of the user is simpler and more labor-saving.

Description

Ice making assembly

Technical Field

The utility model relates in particular to an ice making assembly.

Background

As the demand for ice beverages increases, ice making assemblies for making ice cubes are increasingly used. Currently, ice trays on the market have the following drawbacks: when a user presses the ice grid to remove ice, the central position of the ice grid is larger than the deformation amount of the edge position, so that ice cubes in the ice grid grooves of the outer ring are difficult to separate, and the use experience of the user is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The present utility model provides an ice making assembly to solve at least one of the above problems.

In order to solve the technical problems, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: the utility model provides an ice-making subassembly, includes the ice tray, and the ice tray includes the box body and is used for separating the baffle of a plurality of ice tray grooves with box body inside, and the ice tray groove includes the outer lane ice tray groove that encloses jointly by the lateral wall of box body and baffle, and the bottom surface of box body corresponds the position department in outer lane ice tray groove and is equipped with the bellying for the bottom surface convex of box body.

In the above-mentioned ice-making assembly, the outer contour of the cross section of the case is polygonal, and the region of the bottom surface of the case provided with the protruding portion includes: corner regions corresponding to corners of the polygon; a straight-sided region corresponding to a straight side of the polygon; the protruding portion comprises a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion, the first protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the corner area, the second protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the straight side area, and the protruding height of the first protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body is larger than that of the second protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body.

In the above-described ice making assembly, the inner walls of the ice tray are inclined so that the cross-sectional area of the ice tray is gradually reduced from the opening inward.

In the above-mentioned ice making assembly, the baffle vertically and horizontally staggers and sets up in the inside of box body in order to separate into a plurality of ice tray grooves with the inside of box body, and the thickness of baffle increases gradually to the inside of ice tray groove by the opening in ice tray groove to make the inner wall slope setting in ice tray groove.

In the above-mentioned ice making assembly, the case includes a bottom plate and a side plate surrounding an outer peripheral side of the bottom plate, and an inner wall of the side plate is inclined so as to incline an inner wall of the ice tray.

In the above ice making assembly, the top of the partition plate is provided with a notch, and the notch is located at the crossing of the partition plate, so that the tops of the adjacent four ice tray grooves are connected through the notch.

In the ice making assembly, a guide cambered surface is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch, and the guide cambered surface is recessed towards the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch; alternatively, an inclined guide plane is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess.

In the above ice making assembly, the ice making assembly further comprises an upper cover, wherein the upper cover covers the top of the ice grid so as to cover all the ice grid grooves.

In the ice making assembly, the annular protruding ribs protruding out of the top surface of the upper cover are arranged on the top surface of the upper cover, and the annular protruding ribs are arranged at positions of the upper cover corresponding to the outer ring ice grid grooves.

In one such ice making assembly, the upper cover arches away from the ice tray to form an ice making gap between the upper cover and the top surface of the spacer above the ice tray.

The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows:

the utility model provides an ice-making subassembly, includes the ice tray, and the ice tray includes the box body and is used for separating the baffle of a plurality of ice tray grooves with box body inside, and the ice tray groove includes the outer lane ice tray groove that encloses jointly by the lateral wall of box body and baffle, and the bottom surface of box body corresponds the position department in outer lane ice tray groove and is equipped with the bellying for the bottom surface convex of box body. The technical scheme has the following technical effects:

according to the ice cube tray, the protruding parts corresponding to the outer ring ice grids are arranged at the bottoms of the ice cubes, so that the bottoms of the outer ring ice grids protrude out of the bottoms of other ice cubes, when a user reversely buckles the ice cubes and integrally presses the bottoms of the ice cubes to separate ice cubes in the ice cubes, the bottoms of the outer ring ice cubes deform before the ice cubes at other positions due to the arrangement of the protruding parts, deformation of the outer ring ice cubes is increased by the protruding parts, separation of the inner walls of the outer ring ice cubes from the ice cubes is assisted, the outer ring ice cubes surrounded by the side walls of the box body and the partition plates can be separated from the ice cubes in the outer ring ice cubes quickly, the ice cubes are prevented from being stopped in the outer ring ice cubes and difficult to separate, accordingly separation of all ice cubes from the ice cubes is facilitated, operation of the user is simpler and more labor-saving, and use experience of the user is improved.

In some embodiments, the outer contour of the cross section of the box body is polygonal, and the area of the bottom surface of the box body, corresponding to the area provided with the protruding part, comprises: corner regions corresponding to corners of the polygon; a straight-sided region corresponding to a straight side of the polygon; the protruding portion comprises a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion, the first protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the corner area, the second protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the straight side area, and the protruding height of the first protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body is larger than that of the second protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body. Because the ice cubes in the ice tray grooves corresponding to the corner areas are harder to break out than the ice cubes in the ice tray grooves corresponding to the straight edge areas, the protrusion height of the first protrusion parts of the corner areas is set to be larger than that of the second protrusion parts of the straight edge areas, so that the upper cover can be contacted with the first protrusion parts of the corner areas and then contacted with the second protrusion parts of the straight edge areas when pressing the protrusion parts, and the ice tray groove variables of the corner areas are increased, so that the ice cubes at the corners can break out quickly.

In some embodiments, the inner wall slope of ice tray groove sets up to make the cross sectional area of ice tray groove inwards reduce gradually by the opening, when inverting the ice tray, the horn-shaped opening of ice tray groove is down, and at this moment, the inner wall slope of ice tray groove is towards oblique below setting, can not form the jam to the lateral part of ice cube, and the user presses the bottom of ice tray groove, and the ice cube can deviate from fast in the ice tray groove, and the operation is more laborsaving.

In some embodiments, the box body includes the bottom plate and encircles the curb plate at the bottom plate periphery side, and the inner wall slope of curb plate sets up to make the inner wall slope in ice tray groove, so that all inner walls in ice tray groove that the outer lane was enclosed jointly by baffle and curb plate all slope setting, in order to help the ice-cube to deviate from fast in ice tray groove, improve user's use experience.

In some embodiments, the top of the separator is provided with notches at the intersections of the separator such that the tops of adjacent four ice tray slots are connected by the notches. The arrangement of the notch can control the liquid level of the ice tray grooves, and water flow in the ice tray grooves with higher liquid level can flow into the adjacent ice tray grooves through the notch, so that the liquid levels of all the ice tray grooves are basically level after the ice tray is filled with water, and the shape and the size of the prepared ice cubes are basically uniform.

In some embodiments, a guiding cambered surface is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch, and the guiding cambered surface is recessed towards the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch; alternatively, an inclined guide plane is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess. The guide cambered surface or the guide inclined surface can prevent a sharp included angle from being formed between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch, so that the phenomenon that liquid is accumulated at the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch to freeze into ice and is difficult to break off when ice cubes are made is avoided.

In some embodiments, the ice tray further comprises an upper cover, wherein the upper cover covers the top of the ice tray to cover all the ice tray grooves and prevent foreign matters from falling into the ice tray grooves in which ice is being made.

In some embodiments, the top surface of the upper cover is provided with an annular rib protruding out of the top surface of the upper cover, and the annular rib is arranged at a position of the upper cover corresponding to the outer ring ice tray groove. In the process that the user inverts the upper cover to press the bottom surface of the inverted ice grid to remove ice, the annular convex ribs press the bottom surface of the outer ring ice grid groove, then the top surface of the upper cover presses the bottom surface of the central ice grid groove, the deformation of the outer ring ice grid groove can be further increased through the arrangement of the annular convex ribs, the outer ring ice grid groove can be quickly separated from ice cubes in the outer ring ice grid groove, the ice removing difficulty is reduced, and the operation of the user is more labor-saving.

In some embodiments, the upper cover arches in a direction away from the ice tray slot to form an ice making gap above the ice tray slot between the upper cover and the top surface of the partition plate, and by providing the ice making gap, the upper cover can avoid ice cubes protruding out of the ice tray slot after the volume is increased, so that the top of the ice cubes are prevented from contacting and freezing on the bottom surface of the upper cover.

The features and advantages of the present utility model will be disclosed in detail in the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

The utility model is further described with reference to the drawings and detailed description which follow:

fig. 1 is a perspective view of an ice making assembly according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an ice tray according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of an ice making assembly according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of an ice-making assembly of the first embodiment with an ice tray being placed on an ice bank;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 4 in a first embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of an ice-making assembly according to the first embodiment, when an ice tray is inverted to an ice bank;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of portion B of FIG. 6 in a first embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an upper ring body in the first embodiment;

FIG. 9 is a partial cross-sectional view of an upper ring body in accordance with the first embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the lower ring body of the first embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a lower ring body in the first embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a partial cross-sectional view of the lower ring body in the first embodiment;

FIG. 13 is a partial schematic view of an ice tray according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 14 is a partial cross-sectional view of an ice tray in accordance with a first embodiment;

fig. 15 is a perspective view of the upper cover in the first embodiment;

FIG. 16 is a perspective view of a flexible ice making housing according to the second embodiment;

FIG. 17 is a sectional view of a flexible ice making housing in accordance with a second embodiment;

FIG. 18 is a perspective view of a flexible ice-making housing according to a second embodiment;

fig. 19 is a partial sectional view of the upper cover in the third embodiment.

Reference numerals:

100. an upper cover; 110. a cover body; 111. a top plate; 112. an outer edge; 120. annular stop bars; 130. an ice making gap; 140. annular convex ribs;

200. ice grid; 210. a first limit part; 211. an annular limit groove; 220. a first mating surface;

300. a flexible ice-making box; 310. a case body; 311. a bottom plate; 3111. corner regions; 3112. a straight edge region; 3113. a central region; 312. a side plate; 320. surrounding edges; 321. a slot; 330. a partition plate; 331. a notch; 332. a guide cambered surface; 340. ice tray grooves; 341. an outer ring ice grid groove; 342. a central ice tray slot; 350. a boss; 351. a first boss; 352. a second protruding portion;

400. a hard fixing ring; 410. an upper ring body; 411. a stop plate; 412. inserting plate; 413. a buckle; 420. a lower ring body; 421. a fixing groove; 422. a clamping groove; 423. the clamping bulge; 424. annular limit ribs; 430. an ice removing cavity;

500. an ice bank; 510. a second limit part; 520. annular positioning ribs;

600. a clamping piece; 610. a buckle plate; 620. a rotating shaft; 630. and clamping the convex ribs.

Detailed Description

The utility model provides an ice making assembly, which comprises an ice tray, wherein the ice tray comprises a box body and a baffle plate for dividing the interior of the box body into a plurality of ice tray grooves, the ice tray grooves comprise outer ring ice tray grooves which are jointly surrounded by side walls of the box body and the baffle plate, and protruding parts protruding relative to the bottom surface of the box body are arranged at positions, corresponding to the outer ring ice tray grooves, of the bottom surface of the box body. According to the ice cube tray, the protruding parts corresponding to the outer ring ice grids are arranged at the bottoms of the ice cubes, so that the bottoms of the outer ring ice grids protrude out of the bottoms of other ice cubes, when a user reversely buckles the ice cubes and integrally presses the bottoms of the ice cubes to separate ice cubes in the ice cubes, the bottoms of the outer ring ice cubes deform before the ice cubes at other positions due to the arrangement of the protruding parts, deformation of the outer ring ice cubes is increased by the protruding parts, separation of the inner walls of the outer ring ice cubes from the ice cubes is assisted, the outer ring ice cubes surrounded by the side walls of the box body and the partition plates can be separated from the ice cubes in the outer ring ice cubes quickly, the ice cubes are prevented from being stopped in the outer ring ice cubes and difficult to separate, accordingly separation of all ice cubes from the ice cubes is facilitated, operation of the user is simpler and more labor-saving, and use experience of the user is improved.

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present utility model will be explained and illustrated below with reference to the drawings of the embodiments of the present utility model, but the following embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present utility model, and not all embodiments. Based on the examples in the implementation manner, other examples obtained by a person skilled in the art without making creative efforts fall within the protection scope of the present utility model.

In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings are merely for convenience in describing the present utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present utility model.

Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more such feature. In the description of the present utility model, unless otherwise specified, the meaning of "a plurality" is two or more, unless otherwise clearly defined.

In the present utility model, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can be communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present utility model can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In the present utility model, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, a first feature "above" or "below" a second feature may include both the first and second features being in direct contact, as well as the first and second features not being in direct contact but being in contact with each other through additional features therebetween. Moreover, a first feature being "above," "over" and "on" a second feature includes the first feature being directly above and obliquely above the second feature, or simply indicating that the first feature is higher in level than the second feature. The first feature being "under", "below" and "beneath" the second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply means that the first feature is less level than the second feature.

Embodiment one:

as shown in fig. 1 to 15, the ice making assembly includes an ice tray 200, the ice tray 200 includes a flexible ice making housing 300 and a hard fixing ring 400, the flexible ice making housing 300 is made of a flexible material, and the whole is deformable, i.e., each portion of the flexible ice making housing 300 is deformable when an external force is applied thereto. The flexible ice-making housing 300 is provided with a plurality of ice tray grooves 340, and the ice tray grooves 340 are used to receive ice cubes. The hard fixing ring 400 surrounds the outer circumferential side of the flexible ice making housing 300 and is fixed to the flexible ice making housing 300.

The present utility model enables a user to hold the hard fixing rings 400 which are not deformed when the individual ice cubes in the ice tray 200 are removed from the ice tray grooves 340 by arranging the ice tray 200 in a structure of combining the flexible ice tray 300 for holding ice cubes and the hard fixing rings 400 surrounding the flexible ice tray 300, and then presses the bottom of the flexible ice tray 300, so that the side walls and the bottom wall of the ice tray grooves 340 are simultaneously deformed, and all the inner walls (i.e., the inner side walls and the inner bottom wall of the ice tray grooves 340) of the ice tray grooves 340 are simultaneously separated from the outer surfaces of the ice cubes, thereby facilitating the rapid removal of the ice cubes from the ice tray grooves 340. This embodiment operates more labor-effectively than the ice tray 200 in which only the bottom of the ice tray slot 340 is deformed. The arrangement of the hard fixing ring 400 ensures that the outermost ring of the ice tray 200 is provided with a part which does not deform, when the ice tray 200 receives water and makes ice or transfers, a user holds the hard fixing ring 400, the hard fixing ring 400 limits the deformation of the edge of the ice tray 200, the flexible ice making box 300 is not easy to deform, the liquid in the ice tray groove 340 is prevented from overflowing due to the deformation of the flexible ice making box 300, and the user is convenient to transfer the ice tray 200; when the user needs to de-ice the ice grid 200, the hard fixing ring 400 can be held, so that the user can apply force more conveniently when pushing the flexible ice making box 300 to deform by pressing, and the use experience of the user is improved.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, in this embodiment, the flexible ice making case 300 includes an integrally formed case body 310, a surrounding edge 320 and a partition plate 330, the partition plate 330 is used to divide the interior of the case body 310 into a plurality of ice grid grooves 340, the surrounding edge 320 is disposed at the top of the outer peripheral side of the case body 310, and the hard fixing ring 400 is detachably connected with the surrounding edge 320, so as to realize the fixation between the flexible ice making case 300 and the hard fixing ring 400, facilitate the installation and the detachment between the hard fixing ring 400 and the flexible ice making case 300, and enable a user to detach and clean the two by himself, so as to prevent dust from accumulating in a gap at the joint of the two, causing pollution of ice cubes, and simultaneously, the detachably connected flexible ice making case 300 and the hard fixing ring 400 can be independently replaced, so that when the flexible ice making case 300 or the hard fixing ring 400 is damaged, the maintenance replacement cost is reduced.

The hard retainer plate 400 includes an upper ring body 410 and a lower ring body 420, the upper ring body 410 is arranged above the surrounding edge 320, the lower ring body 420 is arranged below the surrounding edge 320, and when the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 are locked by locking members, the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 clamp the surrounding edge 320 together so as to realize detachable connection between the hard retainer plate 400 and the surrounding edge 320. Through setting up the structure that the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 combined together with stereoplasm retainer plate 400 for both can press from both sides tightly surrounding edge 320 when locking through the retaining member, firm in connection, need not to set up the structure that supplies the retaining member to pass on surrounding edge 320, make surrounding edge 320's structure simpler, easily keep the overall structure of flexible ice making box 300, reduce the processing manufacturing and the assembly degree of difficulty of flexible ice making box 300. The locking member in this embodiment may be a screw passing through the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 in sequence, or may be a buckle 413 or other structure. Preferably, as shown in fig. 8, a plurality of buckles 413 are provided on the upper ring body 410, as shown in fig. 10, clamping grooves 422 corresponding to the buckles 413 one by one are provided on the lower ring body 420, and when the buckles 413 are clamped with the clamping grooves 422, the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 on the upper side and the lower side of the surrounding edge 320 are locked to clamp the surrounding edge 320. The buckle 413 and draw-in groove 422 matched with structure, when connecting reliable and stable, the installation of being convenient for with dismantle, improve assembly efficiency reduces the dismantlement degree of difficulty, and the user can easily assemble and dismantle, improves user's use experience. Of course, it is understood that the positions of the catch 413 and the slot 422 in the present embodiment may be exchanged, that is, the catch 413 is disposed on the lower ring body 420 and the slot 422 is disposed on the upper ring body 410.

In addition, the locking member may be any conventional detachable connection mechanism, for example, a connection mechanism that uses an interference fit to achieve clamping, and those skilled in the art will appreciate that these detachable connection mechanisms are applicable to the present embodiment.

In order to quickly align the lower ring 420 and the surrounding edge 320, and improve the assembly efficiency, as shown in fig. 3 and 5, in this embodiment, a fixing groove 421 is provided at the top of the lower ring 420, the surrounding edge 320 is embedded in the fixing groove 421, and the cooperating surrounding edge 320 and fixing groove 421 can also limit the two in the horizontal direction, so as to prevent the two from being separated in the horizontal direction. The upper ring body 410 in this embodiment includes annular stop plate 411 and annular picture peg 412, and picture peg 412 locates the stop plate 411 bottom to protruding in stop plate 411 setting, is equipped with slot 321 at the top of surrounding edge 320, when carrying out the installation of upper ring body 410 and surrounding edge 320, peg graft picture peg 412 in slot 321 for stop plate 411 offsets with the top surface of surrounding edge 320, can realize the installation location of upper ring body 410 and surrounding edge 320, improves assembly efficiency, prevents that upper ring body 410 from taking place the displacement in the horizontal direction for surrounding edge 320. Through respectively positioning the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 on the surrounding edge 320, the upper ring body 410 and the lower ring body 420 can be accurately aligned, so that the clamping connection of the clamping buckle 413 and the clamping groove 422 is simpler and easier to operate.

As shown in fig. 2 and 5, the top surface of the hard fixing ring 400 is higher than the top surface of the flexible ice making case 300, and the bottom surface of the hard fixing ring 400 is lower than the bottom surface of the flexible ice making case 300, so that when the hard fixing ring 400 is mounted on the surrounding edge 320, the flexible ice making case 300 is completely located inside the space surrounded by the hard fixing ring 400, so that the hard fixing ring 400 can form a surrounding on the outer peripheral side of the flexible ice making case 300, and when the ice grid 200 is placed in the refrigerator for making ice, the hard fixing ring 400 can protect the flexible ice making case 300, prevent the side of the flexible ice making case 300 from being deformed by extrusion of other objects, so that water flow of the ice grid groove 340 overflows, and ensure that the shapes of prepared ice cubes are uniform.

As shown in fig. 14, in this embodiment, the inner walls of the ice tray 340 are obliquely arranged, so that the cross-sectional area of the ice tray 340 gradually decreases from the opening of the ice tray 340 to the inside of the ice tray 340, so that the ice tray 340 is in a horn shape with a larger opening, i.e. the longitudinal section of the ice cubes frozen in the ice tray 340 is trapezoid, and a demoulding bevel angle is provided for the ice cubes. When the ice tray 200 is inverted, the horn-shaped opening of the ice tray groove 340 is downward, at this time, the inner wall of the ice tray groove 340 is inclined towards the inclined lower direction, the side part of the ice cubes cannot be blocked, the user presses the bottom of the box body 310, the ice cubes can be rapidly separated from the ice tray groove 340, and the operation is more labor-saving.

In this embodiment, a plurality of separators 330 are provided, and the plurality of separators 330 are disposed in the interior of the box 310 in a crisscross manner, so as to divide the interior of the box 310 into a plurality of rows of ice cells 340, and two adjacent ice cells 340 share the same separator 330, so that the inner walls of the ice cells 340 on both sides of the separator 330 are all inclined, and in this embodiment, the thickness of the separator 330 is set to gradually increase from the opening of the ice cell 340 to the interior of the ice cell 340, and the structure is simple and reliable. The box body 310 includes bottom plate 311 and curb plate 312, and curb plate 312 encircles in bottom plate 311 periphery side, and the inner wall slope of curb plate 312 sets up to make the outer lane by baffle 330 and curb plate 312 enclose all inner walls of ice tray groove 340 all slope setting jointly, in order to assist the ice-cube to deviate from fast in ice tray groove 340, improve user's use experience.

As shown in fig. 3, 4 and 13, in this embodiment, a plurality of notches 331 are provided at the top of the partition 330, and notches 331 are provided at each intersection of the partition 330, so that the tops of four adjacent ice cells 340 can be connected through the notches 331, the height of the liquid level of the ice cells 340 can be controlled by the arrangement of the notches 331, and water flow in the ice cells 340 with higher liquid level can flow into the adjacent ice cells 340 through the notches 331, so that the liquid levels of all the ice cells 340 are level after the ice cells 200 are filled with water, and the shape and the size of the ice cubes made are substantially uniform. In this embodiment, a guiding cambered surface 332 is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess 331, and the guiding cambered surface 332 is recessed toward the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess 331, so as to prevent the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess 331 from forming a sharp included angle, and further avoid that liquid is accumulated at the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess 331 to freeze into ice and be difficult to break out when ice cubes are made. Of course, it is understood that the guiding cambered surface 332 in the present embodiment can be replaced by a guiding plane which is obliquely arranged.

In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 4 and 5, the ice making assembly further includes an upper cover 100 and an ice bank 500, the upper cover 100 being covered on top of the ice tray 200 to cover all of the ice tray grooves 340, preventing foreign matter from falling into the ice tray grooves 340 that are making ice. The ice tray 200 is installed at the top of the ice bank 500 to cover the ice bank 500, and after the ice tray 200 is used for preparing ice cubes, the ice cubes can be separated from the ice bank 500 for storage, so that the next ice making process can be carried out by continuously filling water into the ice tray 200, the number of ice cubes which can be provided by the ice making assembly is increased, and the requirement of a user on the ice cubes is met. The two sides of the ice storage box 500 are provided with the clamping pieces 600, the clamping pieces 600 are rotationally connected with the ice storage box 500, two sides of the hard fixing ring 400 are provided with the clamping protrusions 423, when the ice grid 200 is covered on the ice storage box 500, the clamping pieces 600 can be rotated to be clamped with the clamping protrusions 423 to realize locking of the ice grid 200 and the ice storage box 500, the ice grid 200 is stably covered on the top of the ice storage box 500, ice cubes in the ice storage box 500 are prevented from being separated from the ice storage box 500, and when the ice grid 200 is required to be separated from the ice storage box 500, unlocking of the ice grid 200 and the ice storage box 500 can be realized only by rotating the clamping pieces 600 to be separated from the clamping protrusions 423, so that the operation is simple and convenient. The preferred in this embodiment, the clamping piece 600 includes the buckle 610, the rotating shaft 620 and the protruding muscle 630 of joint, the same side of buckle 610 is located to the protruding muscle 630 of rotating shaft 620 and joint, and protruding muscle 630 of joint is located the rotating shaft 620 top, the rotating shaft 620 rotates and connects the lateral part at ice bank 500, the user can drive protruding muscle 630 of joint through rotating buckle 610 rotation, with the top lock of protruding 423 of joint, realize the locking of ice bank 500 and ice grid 200, easy operation is laborsaving, when the clamping piece 600 and protruding 423 joint of joint, the lateral part of ice bank 500 is vertically located to buckle 610, shelter from the rotating shaft 620, protruding muscle 630 of joint and protruding 423 of joint, it is more pleasing to the eye.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, in the embodiment, a first limiting portion 210 is provided on the top surface of the ice tray 200, and the top surface of the ice tray 200 provided with the first limiting portion 210 is defined as a first mating surface 220, and when the upper cover 100 is covered on the top of the ice tray 200, the first limiting portion 210 can limit the upper cover 100 in the horizontal direction; the second limiting part 510 is provided on the top surface of the ice bank 500, and when the ice tray 200 is being placed (i.e., the ice tray groove 340 of the ice tray 200 is placed upward) on the top of the ice bank 500, the second limiting part 510 can limit the bottom of the ice tray 200 in the horizontal direction; as shown in fig. 7, when the ice tray 200 is inverted (i.e., the ice tray groove 340 of the ice tray 200 is placed downward) on top of the ice bank 500, the first engaging surface 220 of the ice tray 200 abuts against the top surface of the ice bank 500, and the first and second limiting portions 210 and 510 engage to limit the ice tray 200 horizontally.

In this embodiment, by arranging the first limiting portion 210 on the first mating surface 220 of the ice tray 200 and arranging the second limiting portion 510 on the top of the ice bank 500, if the ice making assembly needs to be integrally assembled together to be placed in the refrigerator, the second limiting portion 510 can limit the ice tray 200 that is being placed on the top of the ice bank 500 in the horizontal direction, when the ice tray 200 is installed, a user can quickly align the ice tray 200 with the ice bank 500, after the ice tray 200 and the ice bank 500 are installed, the ice tray 200 can be prevented from moving in the horizontal direction relative to the ice bank 500, and by limiting the relative positions of the ice tray 200 and the ice bank 500, ice cubes in the ice bank 500 can be prevented from leaking out to a certain extent; meanwhile, the first limiting part 210 can limit the upper cover 100 covered on the top of the ice tray 200 in the horizontal direction, so that when the upper cover 100 is installed, a user can quickly align the upper cover 100 with the ice tray 200, and after the upper cover 100 and the ice tray 200 are installed, the upper cover 100 can be prevented from moving in the horizontal direction relative to the ice tray 200, thereby ensuring the covering effect of the upper cover 100 on the ice tray 200 and preventing foreign matters from falling into the ice tray groove 340 in which ice is being made. If ice cubes need to be separated from the ice tray 200, the upper cover 100 needs to be taken down, the ice tray 200 is reversely buckled at the top of the ice storage box 500, at this time, the first limiting part 210 and the second limiting part 510 are matched, and the second limiting part 510 can limit the ice tray 200 horizontally through the first limiting part 210, so that the ice tray groove 340 is always aligned with the ice storage box 500, and a user can conveniently ensure that the ice cubes are separated from the ice tray groove 340 into the ice storage box 500 when pressing the ice tray 200, and the ice cubes are prevented from falling onto a table surface outside the ice storage box 500 to cause pollution of the ice cubes. The first limiting part 210 and the second limiting part 510 are arranged, so that whether the ice grid 200 is placed forward or is buckled on the top of the ice storage box 500 in a reverse mode, ice cubes can be protected tightly all the time, the prepared ice cubes are prevented from being polluted, and the cleanness of the ice cubes is ensured, namely, the use experience of a user is ensured.

The first limiting portion 210 in this embodiment is an annular limiting groove 211, the annular limiting groove 211 is disposed at the top of the ice tray 200 for inserting the upper cover 100, an annular limiting rib 424 is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the first mating surface 220, and the annular limiting rib 424 protrudes from the first mating surface 220, so that the annular limiting groove 211 is formed on the inner side of the annular limiting rib 424. When the cover body 110 is installed, the cover body 110 is only required to be inserted into the annular limiting groove 211 and propped against the first matching surface 220, so that the cover body 110 can be quickly installed and positioned, after the cover body 110 is covered on the ice grid 200, the annular limiting ribs 424 encircle the periphery of the cover body 110, so that the cover body 110 is limited in the horizontal direction, the cover body 110 is prevented from moving horizontally, and the limiting effect is good. In this embodiment, the outer diameter of the upper ring 410 is smaller than that of the lower ring 420, when the upper ring 410 and the lower ring 420 clamp the surrounding edge 320 together, the annular stop plate 411 abuts against the first mating surface 220, so that a protrusion with a height lower than that of the annular spacing rib 424 is formed on the first mating surface 220, the annular spacing rib 424 surrounds the protrusion, so that the annular spacing groove 211 is formed between the outer peripheral side of the protrusion and the inner ring of the annular spacing rib 424, the protrusion and the annular spacing rib 424 cooperate with each other, the spacing effect of the upper cover 100 is better, the upper cover 100 is prevented from horizontally shaking on the first mating surface 220 of the ice tray 200, and the installation is more stable.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the upper cover 100 in this embodiment includes a cover body 110 and an annular stop rib 120 coaxially disposed, the annular stop rib 120 has an outer diameter smaller than that of the cover body 110, and the annular stop rib 120 is disposed on the bottom surface of the cover body 110. When the cover 110 is covered on the ice tray 200, the bottom surface of the edge of the cover 110 contacts with the top surface of the annular stop rib 424, and the annular stop rib 120 longitudinally extends into the annular stop groove 211. By arranging the annular stop rib 120 which is spliced with the annular limiting groove 211 on the cover body 110, on one hand, the bottom surface of the edge of the cover body 110 can be contacted with the top surface of the annular limiting rib 424, and when the cover body 110 is covered on the ice tray 200, the outer wall of the cover body 110 is basically flush and continuous with the outer wall of the ice tray 200, so that the aesthetic feeling is improved; on the other hand, the annular limiting groove 211 provides multidirectional limiting for the annular stop rib 120, and further limits the relative position between the cover 110 and the ice tray 200, so that the top of the ice tray 200 is completely shielded, and the top surface of the ice tray 200 is ensured to be clean. Of course, it is understood that the upper cover 100 in this embodiment may also be configured to have a simple structure including only the cover 110, and when in installation, the edge of the cover 110 is directly inserted into the annular limiting groove 211, so that the bottom surface of the edge of the cover 110 contacts the top surface of the lower ring 420, and the outer side surface of the edge of the cover 110 may abut against the inner ring of the annular limiting rib 424.

The second limiting part 510 in this embodiment is an annular positioning rib 520, the annular positioning rib 520 protrudes out of the top surface of the ice bank 500, when the ice tray 200 is being placed on the ice bank 500, the bottom surface of the lower ring body 420 contacts with the top surface of the ice bank 500, and the annular positioning rib 520 is located at the inner ring of the lower ring body 420 and can abut against the inner wall of the lower ring body 420 to limit the lower ring body 420 in the horizontal direction; when the ice tray 200 is reversely buckled on the ice bank 500, the annular locating ribs 520 are spliced with the annular limiting grooves 211 so as to limit the ice tray 200 in the horizontal direction, and the ice bank is simple in structure, convenient to install and detach by a user and good in limiting effect.

In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 4, when the upper cover 100 is covered on the ice tray 200, the cover body 110 arches in a direction away from the ice tray 340 to form the ice making gap 130 between the upper cover 100 and the top surface of the partition 330, the ice making gap 130 being located above the ice tray 340. As the volume of the liquid in the ice tray 340 increases when the ice is frozen, the top of the ice may protrude above the top surface of the ice tray 340. By providing the ice making gap 130, the upper cover 100 can avoid the ice cubes protruding from the ice tray 340 after the volume is increased, and avoid the top of the ice cubes from contacting and freezing on the bottom surface of the upper cover 100.

Referring to fig. 6 and 7, the upper cover 100 in this embodiment may be used to press the bottom surface of the ice tray 200 to remove ice, in addition to the function of covering the ice tray 200, i.e., after the user flip-ups the ice tray 200 on the ice bank 500, the upper cover 100 may be turned upside down to press the bottom surface of the upwardly-facing flexible ice making case 300 to remove ice cubes from the ice tray groove 340. The user presses the flexible ice making box 300 through the upper cover 100, so that the hands of the user do not need to directly contact the bottom surface of the low-temperature flexible ice making box 300, the frostbite of the hands of the user caused by the excessively low temperature of the flexible ice making box 300 is avoided, and the user experience is good.

The lower ring body 420 extends downward to enclose an ice-removing cavity 430 under the flexible ice-making housing 300. When ice grid 200 is being put and ice cubes are prepared, ice cubes in ice storage box 500 can be avoided by ice removing cavity 430, so that ice cubes in ice storage box 500 are prevented from upwards extruding flexible ice making box 300 to cause water flow in ice grid groove 340 to overflow, when ice grid 200 is reversely buckled on ice storage box 500, ice removing cavity 430 is located above flexible ice making box 300, upper cover 100 can extend into ice removing cavity 430, the wall surface around ice removing cavity 430 can limit upper cover 100 in the horizontal direction, when upper cover 100 presses flexible ice making box 300 downwards, flexible ice making box 300 can be aligned, extrusion ice removing of flexible ice making box 300 is realized, and operation is more stable.

In order to facilitate the upper cover 100 extending into the ice removing cavity 430, the side wall of the lower ring body 420 is inclined, so that the inner diameter of the ice removing cavity 430 gradually increases from the inner portion of the ice removing cavity 430 to the port of the ice removing cavity 430, when the ice grid 200 is reversely buckled on the ice storage box 500, the ice removing cavity 430 above the flexible ice making box 300 is in a horn shape with a big top and a small bottom, that is, the inner side wall of the lower ring body 420 is inclined, so that the upper cover 100 can be guided, and the upper cover 100 can accurately press the flexible ice making box 300.

Referring to fig. 4 to 7, the cover 110 includes a top plate 111 and an outer edge 112 connected to the peripheral side of the top plate 111, an included angle between the bottom wall of the outer edge 112 and the bottom surface of the top plate 111 is smaller than 180 degrees, the outer edge 112 is gradually inwardly contracted from the opening to one side of the top plate 111, that is, the outer diameter of the outer edge 112 is gradually reduced from one side far from the top plate 111 to one side near the top plate 111, so that the outer diameter of the upper portion of the cover 110 is smaller than the inner diameter of the ice removing cavity 430, when a user needs to place the cover 110 in the ice removing cavity 430, the upper portion of the cover 110 is more easily aligned with the ice removing cavity 430, and the inner side walls of the outer edge 112 and the lower ring 420 can guide the cover 110, so that the cover 110 is accurately aligned with the bottom of the flexible ice making box 300 to press without the accurate alignment of the user, and the use experience of the user is improved.

Example two

As shown in fig. 16, the difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is that in the present embodiment, the ice tray groove 340 on the flexible ice making housing 300 includes an outer ring ice tray groove 341 and a central ice tray groove 342, the periphery of the outer ring ice tray groove 341 is surrounded by the side wall of the housing 310 and the partition 330 together, and the periphery of the central ice tray groove 342 is surrounded by the partition 330 alone. As shown in fig. 17 and 18, a protrusion 350 protruding from the bottom surface of the case 310 is provided on the bottom surface of the case 310, and the protrusion 350 is correspondingly provided below the outer ring ice tray 341. The bottom surface of the outer ring ice tray 341 protrudes from the bottom surface of the central ice tray 342 by providing the protrusion 350 corresponding to the outer ring ice tray 341 at the bottom of the flexible ice making housing 300. Generally, when a user reversely buckles the ice grid and presses the bottom of the ice grid integrally by using a flat upper cover (or other tools) to release ice cubes, the deformation amount of the central ice grid groove 342 is larger than that of the outer ring ice grid groove 341, so that ice cubes are difficult to release from the outer ring ice grid groove 341. In this embodiment, the depth of the outer ring ice tray 341 is preferably set to be greater than that of the central ice tray 342, so that the bottom surface of the outer ring ice tray 341 is lower than that of the central ice tray 342, so that the protruding portion 350 is formed without thickening the bottom thickness of the outer ring ice tray 341, and the user can press the ice removing operation conveniently. Alternatively, the bottom of the outer ring of the grid grooves 341 may be thickened so that the height of the bottom of the outer ring of the grid grooves 341 is lower than the height of the bottom of the center grid groove 342.

Referring to fig. 18, the outer contour of the cross section of the case 310 in the present embodiment is polygonal, the protruding portion 350 is disposed on the bottom surface of the case 310, and the bottom surface of the case 310 includes a corner region 3111, a straight edge region 3112 and a central region 3113, wherein the corner region 3111 corresponds to a corner of the polygon, the straight edge region 3112 corresponds to a straight edge of the polygon, and the central region 3113 is an area surrounded by the corner region and the straight edge region; the protruding portion 350 includes a first protruding portion 351 and a second protruding portion 352, where the first protruding portion 351 is correspondingly disposed in a corner region 3111 on the bottom surface of the box body 310, the second protruding portion 352 is correspondingly disposed in a straight edge region 3112 on the bottom surface of the box body 310, the first protruding portion 351 and the second protruding portion 352 are protruding relative to the bottom surface of the box body 310, and the protruding height of the first protruding portion 351 is greater than the protruding height of the second protruding portion 352, that is, the first protruding portion 351 of the corner region 3111 protrudes from the bottom surface of the second protruding portion 352 of the straight edge region 3112. Because the ice cubes in the ice tray groove 340 corresponding to the corner region 3111 are more difficult to separate than the ice cubes in the ice tray groove 340 corresponding to the straight edge region 3112, the protrusion height of the first protrusion 351 of the corner region 3111 is set to be greater than the protrusion height of the second protrusion 352 of the straight edge region 3112, so that the upper cover contacts the first protrusion 351 of the corner region 3111 and then contacts the second protrusion 352 of the straight edge region 3112 when pressing the protrusion 350, thereby further increasing the deformation amount of the ice tray groove 340 of the corner region 3111, so that the ice cubes at the corner can separate quickly.

Optionally, the outer edge of the bottom surface of the case 310 may be rounded with reference to fig. 17, so as to further facilitate the escape of the ice cubes in the outer ring of the ice tray 341.

Embodiment III:

as shown in fig. 19, in this embodiment, an annular rib 140 is added on the basis of the second embodiment, the annular rib 140 is disposed on the top surface of the upper cover 100, the annular rib 140 protrudes from the top surface of the upper cover 100, and the annular rib 140 is disposed on a position of the upper cover 100 corresponding to the outer ring ice grid groove. In the process that the user inverts the upper cover 100 to press the bottom surface of the inverted ice grid for removing ice, the annular convex ribs 140 press the bottom surface of the outer ring ice grid groove, then the top surface of the upper cover 100 presses the bottom surface of the central ice grid groove, the deformation amount of the outer ring ice grid groove can be further increased by the arrangement of the annular convex ribs 140, the outer ring ice grid groove can be quickly separated from ice cubes in the outer ring ice grid groove, the ice removing difficulty is reduced, and the operation of the user is more labor-saving.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, and the protection scope of the present utility model is not limited to the above examples, and all technical solutions belonging to the concept of the present utility model belong to the protection scope of the present utility model. It should be noted that modifications and adaptations to the present utility model may occur to one skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present utility model and are intended to be within the scope of the present utility model.

Claims (10)

1. An ice-making assembly comprising an ice tray comprising a housing and a separator for separating the interior of the housing into a plurality of ice tray slots, characterized in that: the ice grid groove comprises an outer ring ice grid groove formed by the side wall of the box body and the partition plate in a surrounding mode, and a protruding portion protruding relative to the bottom surface of the box body is arranged at the position, corresponding to the outer ring ice grid groove, of the bottom surface of the box body.

2. An ice making assembly according to claim 1, wherein: the outline of the cross section of box body is the polygon, the bottom surface of box body corresponds to and is equipped with the region of bellying includes:

corner regions corresponding to corners of the polygon;

a straight-sided region corresponding to a straight side of the polygon;

the first protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the corner area, the second protruding portion is correspondingly arranged in the straight-edge area, and the protruding height of the first protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body is larger than that of the second protruding portion relative to the bottom surface of the box body.

3. An ice making assembly according to claim 1, wherein: the inner walls of the ice tray grooves are obliquely arranged so that the cross-sectional area of the ice tray grooves is gradually reduced from the opening inwards.

4. An ice making assembly according to claim 3, wherein: the partition boards are arranged in the box body in a crisscross mode so as to divide the box body into a plurality of ice grid grooves, and the thickness of the partition boards gradually increases from the opening of the ice grid grooves to the inside of the ice grid grooves so that the inner walls of the ice grid grooves are obliquely arranged.

5. An ice making assembly according to claim 3, wherein: the box body comprises a bottom plate and a side plate encircling the periphery of the bottom plate, wherein the inner wall of the side plate is obliquely arranged so that the inner wall of the ice tray groove is oblique.

6. An ice making assembly according to claim 3, wherein: the top of baffle is equipped with the notch, the notch is located the intersection of baffle to make the top of four adjacent ice tray grooves pass through the notch links to each other.

7. An ice-making assembly according to claim 6, wherein: a guide cambered surface is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch, and the guide cambered surface is recessed towards the included angle between the side wall and the bottom wall of the notch; alternatively, an inclined guide plane is connected between the side wall and the bottom wall of the recess.

8. An ice-making assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein: the ice tray also comprises an upper cover, wherein the upper cover covers the top of the ice tray so as to cover all ice tray grooves.

9. An ice making assembly according to claim 8, wherein: the top surface of upper cover is equipped with the protrusion in the annular protruding muscle of upper cover top surface, annular protruding muscle is located the upper cover with on the position that outer lane ice tray groove corresponds.

10. An ice making assembly according to claim 8, wherein: the upper cover arches in a direction away from the ice tray slot to form an ice making gap between the upper cover and the top surface of the partition plate above the ice tray slot.