EP1563235A1 - Procede et dispositif pour surveiller la temperature dans un appareil frigorifique - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour surveiller la temperature dans un appareil frigorifique

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EP1563235A1
EP1563235A1 EP03773683A EP03773683A EP1563235A1 EP 1563235 A1 EP1563235 A1 EP 1563235A1 EP 03773683 A EP03773683 A EP 03773683A EP 03773683 A EP03773683 A EP 03773683A EP 1563235 A1 EP1563235 A1 EP 1563235A1
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temperature
sensitive element
refrigerator
property
buffer liquid
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Friedrich Arnold
Wolfgang Becker
Michael Neumann
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BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
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BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D29/00—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F25D29/008—Alarm devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01K—MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01K11/00—Measuring temperature based upon physical or chemical changes not covered by groups G01K3/00, G01K5/00, G01K7/00 or G01K9/00
    • G01K11/12—Measuring temperature based upon physical or chemical changes not covered by groups G01K3/00, G01K5/00, G01K7/00 or G01K9/00 using changes in colour, translucency or reflectance
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
    • F25D2400/36—Visual displays
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2700/00—Means for sensing or measuring; Sensors therefor
    • F25D2700/12—Sensors measuring the inside temperature

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for temperature monitoring in a refrigerator.
  • Refrigeration devices are usually equipped with temperature sensors which supply an electrical temperature measurement signal which is used by control electronics of the devices to regulate the operation of a compressor in such a way that the temperature detected by the sensor remains in a predetermined target range.
  • Such sensors are usually attached to a wall of the storage room of a refrigerator and essentially detect the air temperature prevailing in the storage room. This air temperature can fluctuate briefly, for example when a door of the refrigerator is opened.
  • a rapid reactivity of the temperature sensors is desirable in order to be able to quickly detect a warming in the storage space of the refrigeration device and to be able to react to it by starting up the compressor.
  • the temperature detected by such a sensor does not necessarily coincide with the temperature that prevails inside pieces of solid refrigerated goods or refrigerated goods containers that are located in the storage room. Their temperature hardly reacts to short-term penetration of warm air into the refrigerator. The location within the storage room at which such a piece of refrigerated goods is located has a greater influence on this temperature, since the temperature distribution inside a refrigerator, in particular a refrigerator, is generally not homogeneous. Such an inhomogeneous temperature distribution inside a refrigerator is in itself quite desirable in order to be able to store refrigerated goods with different demands on the storage temperature under optimal conditions.
  • an indicator for temperature monitoring of cooling and freezing devices which can be placed at various locations inside a refrigerator in order to determine whether the air temperature has exceeded a critical limit value at least temporarily.
  • the known indicator has a transparent cavity which is filled with an indicator liquid which freezes at the critical temperature, compliance with which is to be monitored. After the liquid has frozen, the indicator is set up so that the frozen liquid is in an upper region of the cavity. If the critical temperature is exceeded during operation of the refrigerator, so that the indicator liquid thaws, it collects in a lower part of the cavity. From this shift, a user can recognize the temporary exceeding of the critical temperature, even if in the meantime the refrigerator has automatically resumed normal operation and the indicator liquid in the cavity is frozen again.
  • This device is suitable to be able to detect a temporary failure of the cooling.
  • this device is suitable for monitoring compliance with a minimum cooling temperature desired for a specific item to be cooled, by selecting a liquid with a freezing point corresponding to this minimum temperature as the indicator liquid, the device at a location to be checked in the storage room of the Refrigeration unit is placed and after a certain time it is checked whether the liquid is frozen or not.
  • the problem arises, however, that the smaller the difference between the temperature at the device location and the freezing temperature of the liquid, the longer the time required to completely freeze the liquid, so that the freezing process takes a long time can, during which a reliable reading of the device is not possible.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for temperature monitoring in a refrigeration device which, on the one hand, make it possible to detect an average temperature over long periods of time (in the order of one hour or more), and on the other hand avoid long-lasting transition states in which a reliable reading is not possible.
  • the object is achieved by a method for temperature monitoring in a refrigeration device with the features of claim 1 or a device with the features of claim 5.
  • the thermal buffer mass ensures that the temperature equalization between the temperature-sensitive element and its surroundings is delayed in a similar way as if this element were surrounded by a thermal insulation layer, on the other hand, the buffer mass allows for small temperature differences between it and the temperature-sensitive element the exchange of comparatively large amounts of energy which are required for a phase transition or another change in a temperature-dependent property of the temperature-sensitive element.
  • the property of the temperature-sensitive element to be monitored for temperature monitoring is its physical state, then when the buffer mass reaches or falls below the freezing point of the temperature-sensitive element, a large amount of energy can be transferred between the buffer mass and the temperature-sensitive element and the phase transition can be considerably faster take place than is possible in the known device in which thermal insulation hinders the heat exchange between the indicator liquid and the environment.
  • the temperature-sensitive element can be of any desired type; it could be a thermoelectric element, a conventional thermometer utilizing the thermal expansion of a liquid, or the like. Since the application of the invention is essentially about proving that a certain desired cooling temperature for a chilled good is not exceeded, an element with a property can preferably be used as the temperature-sensitive element, each in a temperature range below or a temperature range above the one to be monitored Limit temperature has two different values and passes in the range of the limit temperature between these two values. As already mentioned and known from DE-U 87 17 267, this property can be the state of matter of an indicator liquid; the property is preferably the color of a surface of the temperature-sensitive element, which color changes as a function of temperature.
  • the buffer mass is preferably a liquid, preferably water, in the entire application temperature range of the method or device according to the invention and is contained in a container of the device according to the invention.
  • the container preferably has a capacity for the buffer liquid in the range from 50 to 250 cm 3 .
  • the temperature-sensitive element is preferably floatable in the buffer liquid, so that it is surrounded on all sides by the buffer liquid and is shielded by it against rapid temperature fluctuations in the environment.
  • the limit temperature at which the property of the temperature-sensitive element changes its value is preferably between +7 and + 10 ° C.
  • the invention is also implemented in a temperature-sensitive element for use in a device as defined above, which is floatable in water and has a property which assumes different discrete values above or below a limit temperature to be monitored.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a refrigerator, in which a
  • Fig. 2 shows the device for temperature monitoring on an enlarged scale
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic section of a household refrigerator 1 as an example of a refrigerator, in which the present invention is applicable.
  • the interior 2 of the refrigerator 1 is divided into a plurality of compartments 4, 5 by shelves 3.
  • the upper three compartments 4 are cooled by an evaporator (not shown) which is attached to a rear wall of the interior 2.
  • the lower compartment 5 is not in direct contact with the evaporator and is only cooled by heat and / or air exchange with the compartment 4 above. It is therefore generally warmer than the compartments 4.
  • the compartments 4 can also have different temperatures from one another, since the heat input from the outside into the compartments 4, depending on their share in the wall surface of the interior 2 or in a magnetic seal 6, between Housing and door of the refrigerator 1 runs, is different.
  • a temperature gradient can be established between the evaporator on the rear wall and the door, which means that the rear region of a compartment 4 can still be suitable for storing a certain food, while in a front region too high temperatures.
  • a device for temperature monitoring according to the invention is designated by 10 in FIG. 1 and is shown enlarged in FIG. 2.
  • the device comprises a transparent container 11, for example made of glass or transparent plastic, which is filled with water 12 in which a floating body 13 floats.
  • the floating body 13 serves as a temperature-sensitive element, that is to say an element with an obviously variable property as a function of the temperature, as will be described in more detail later.
  • the density of the float 13 is exactly the same as that of the water 12, so that the float 13 floats freely in the water 12 and convection currents that can form in the water 12 in the course of a temperature equalization between the water 12 and the surroundings of the device are unimpeded can follow.
  • the shape of the floating body 13 is largely arbitrary, here it has the shape of a fish, for the type of application of the floating body 13 according to the invention, floating in water, also for a user to be reminded when the floating body 13 is stored outside the refrigerator 1, possibly separately from the container 11.
  • the float 13 can e.g. be designed as a hollow body made of plastic, the inner cavity of which contains the amount of ballast material, such as sand, required for the floating body 13 to float in the water.
  • the outside of the floating body 13 is colored at least locally, here in the area of the eyes 14 of the fish, with a dye which changes its color in a clearly visible manner in a narrow temperature interval of a few degrees.
  • Such dyes e.g. change from black to green when a limit temperature is exceeded, are known for a large number of limit temperatures and are conventionally used for the construction of optical temperature display elements.
  • the envelope temperature of the dye used for the eyes 14 is expediently in a range from +7 to + 10 ° C.
  • the device 10 If the device 10 is placed with a quantity of, for example, approx. 125 cm 3 of water in the container 11 in the refrigerator 1, it takes at least one hour until the temperature of the water 12 matches that of the interior 2 within the accuracy of the display of the dye Has. If after this period the eyes of the fish are black, it means that the temperature at the location of the device is low enough for the storage of most perishable foods. However, if the eyes of the fish are green, the thermostat of the refrigerator 1 must be set to a lower temperature in order to be able to store perishable food at the location of the device 10 for a long time.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 each show a modification of the device 10 from FIG. 2.
  • the floating body 13 is specifically heavier than water and is suspended from a hollow body 15 floating on the water surface via a short thread 16, the length of which is so it is dimensioned that the floating body 13 floats approximately halfway in the water 12 when the container 11 is substantially filled with water, as shown in the figure.
  • the floating body 13 is specifically lighter than water and is connected by a thread 16 to a ballast body 17 which is denser than water and lies on the bottom of the container 11 and thus holds the floating body 13 halfway up the water 12.
  • the float 13 is also kept freely floating in the water 12 and does not lie on the bottom of the container 11 or floats on the water surface if the density of the float deviates from that of the water.
  • the requirements for accuracy in the manufacture of the float 13 are therefore lower than in the case of the device from FIG. 2, and the manufacture of the float is accordingly simpler.
  • the container 11 is not specifically adapted to its application in the device according to the invention.
  • the container 11 e.g. a drinking glass, an empty preserving jar, or a similar clear container that is normally found in a household and may be used mainly for other purposes.
  • the floating body 13 possibly together with the hollow body 15 or the ballast body 17 from the manufacturer of the refrigeration device Is made available. If the user temporarily does not use the device, it is sufficient to save the float 13 for later use; because the float can easily be used in another container 11, which is currently available at the relevant time, when it is used again later.
  • a float that reacts to several temperatures could of course also be provided.
  • dyes with different color change temperatures could be applied to different areas of its surface, or a dye or dye mixture could be applied to the same area, which can take on three (or more) colors, depending on whether the temperature is below one low critical temperature, above a high critical temperature or in between.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé pour surveiller la température dans un appareil frigorifique. Ce procédé consiste à placer une unité (10) qui est constituée d'un élément sensible à la température (13) et d'un liquide tampon thermique (12) à un endroit à surveiller d'un appareil frigorifique (1), puis à contrôler la température qui est détectée par l'élément sensible à la température, en observant une caractéristique variable, dépendant de la température, de l'élément (13), notamment la couleur d'une zone superficielle (14) de cet élément.
EP03773683A 2002-11-05 2003-10-31 Procede et dispositif pour surveiller la temperature dans un appareil frigorifique Withdrawn EP1563235A1 (fr)

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DE10251537A DE10251537A1 (de) 2002-11-05 2002-11-05 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Temperaturüberwachung in einem Kältegerät
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PCT/EP2003/012153 WO2004042299A1 (fr) 2002-11-05 2003-10-31 Procede et dispositif pour surveiller la temperature dans un appareil frigorifique

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