EP1624264B1 - Refrigeration apparatus with tubular element - Google Patents

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EP1624264B1
EP1624264B1 EP05107107A EP05107107A EP1624264B1 EP 1624264 B1 EP1624264 B1 EP 1624264B1 EP 05107107 A EP05107107 A EP 05107107A EP 05107107 A EP05107107 A EP 05107107A EP 1624264 B1 EP1624264 B1 EP 1624264B1
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refrigeration apparatus
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Sukhanov Pavlin
Kharin Valentin
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Whirlpool EMEA SpA
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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
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
    • F25D23/028—Details

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  • the present invention relates to a refrigeration apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Refrigeration apparatus comprise a cabinet being suitable for containing one or more refrigeration cells. At least one door is present for closing the refrigeration cells; very often there is a door for each cell. The door is connected to the cabinet by means of hinges.
  • Refrigeration apparatus include refrigerators for domestic use; the following description will refer to said apparatus, without the invention being strictly limited thereto.
  • the cells are suitable for containing food; often there is a cell for fresh food and a cell for frozen food.
  • Said tubular element may be, for instance, the sheath of an electric cable; said electric cable may be used, for instance, to supply power to a light source being mounted on the door and facing inward, i.e. directed toward the refrigeration cell.
  • said tubular element may be, for instance, a pipe carrying a liquid; said pipe may be used, for instance, to supply a refrigerated water distributor being mounted on the door and facing outward.
  • the present invention aims at providing a new and improved solution compared to the state of the art.
  • the idea at the basis of the present invention is to keep the tubular element separated from the hinges.
  • This solution provides more flexibility in positioning and designing both the hinges and the structure for inserting the tubular element.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic sectional view of a domestic-use refrigerator according to the present invention, indicated as a whole with the reference number 1.
  • Said refrigerator comprises a cabinet 2 being placed on a base 11; in the illustration, the cabinet walls are very thick to indicate the presence of a thick layer of thermo-insulating material; in general, the thickness of the insulating material depends on the type of cell (in practice, on the operating temperatures of the cell) and, of course, on the type of insulating material employed; this is a common feature being well known to those skilled in the art.
  • Said refrigerator comprises two refrigeration cells, being indicated as a whole with the reference number 10; a cell 10A is used for fresh food and is located in the upper portion of the cabinet 2, and a cell 10B is used for frozen food and is located in the lower portion of the cabinet 2.
  • Two doors are provided, being indicated as a whole with the reference number 3, for closing the refrigerating cells 10; in particular, there is an upper door 3A for the cell 10A and a lower door 3B for the cell 10B.
  • the refrigerator 1 is fitted with a refrigerated water distributor, being indicated as a whole with the reference number 6, which is mounted on a door of the refrigerator; in the illustrated embodiment example, the distributor is mounted on the upper door 3A.
  • the refrigerated water distributor of the refrigerator is connected to the public drinking water supply.
  • the water arrives at the refrigerator 1 from the supply through a pipe; the figure only shows a short length of said pipe; the supply pipe is connected to the inlet of a first solenoid valve 12; the outlet of the solenoid valve 12 is connected to a pipe being indicated with the reference number 4.
  • the connection of the distributor 6 to the supply is represented as a single tubular element (being both simple and effective, and therefore preferable); other embodiments of the present invention may however comprise a number of interconnected tubular elements.
  • the pipe 4 starts from a cavity obtained in the lower portion of the cabinet 2 (also housing the solenoid valve 12) and then enters the rear wall of the cabinet 2, runs within the insulating material up to the top of the cabinet 2, enters the upper wall of the cabinet 2, runs within the insulating material, leaves the cabinet 2 and enters the door 3A; the pipe 4 then runs within the insulating material of the door 3A and reaches the distributor 6.
  • the above-mentioned cavity is also used, for example, for housing the refrigerator compressor.
  • the distributor 6 comprises a tank 61, which receives water through the pipe 4; the tank 61 is located within the refrigeration cell 10A, so that the water being present in said tank is refrigerated.
  • the distributor 6 also comprises a duct 62, being connected to the tank 61 through a second solenoid valve 63, which is used for distributing refrigerated water to the user.
  • a refrigerated water filter may be inserted downstream the tank 61 and upstream the valve 63.
  • means for controlling the supply of water to the tank 61 and means for controlling the distribution of water through the duct 62 comprise the solenoid valves 12 and 63 and an electronic control system (not illustrated), and are generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • the upper door 3A of the refrigerator according to the embodiment example of Fig. 1 has a recess 7 where the duct 62 comes out; the recess 7 is open outward and is used to receive, for example, a glass 8 (without the possibility of an effective rest), to be filled with water coming out from the duct 62.
  • said recess is not deep and therefore does not extend inside the refrigeration cells; thus the recess 7 does not subtract volume from the refrigeration cells, and the door 3A keeps a (thinner) layer of thermo-insulating material even in the area of the recess 7.
  • the refrigerator doors 3A and 3B are connected to the cabinet through hinges allowing the doors to be opened and closed by the user with a rotary movement about a vertical axis.
  • the hinges are not shown in Fig. 1 for simplicity's sake; in the field of refrigeration apparatus, different types of hinges are commonly used, which are generally known to those skilled in the art.
  • the refrigeration apparatus comprises a cabinet, at least one door and a tubular element being inserted into the cabinet on the one side and into the door on the other side; the door is connected to the cabinet through hinges, which allow it to rotate about an axis, and is fitted with an inner tubular seat allowing to insert the tubular element through a suitable mouth of said seat; said seat is substantially coaxial to the hinges; furthermore, the seat mouth is located on the door in a position being distant from the hinges.
  • Fig. 2 uses the same reference numbers as Fig. 1 to indicate corresponding elements; in particular, the cabinet is indicated with 2, the door with 3, and the tubular element with 4; besides, one of the hinges is indicated as a whole with 5, the hinge axis with 50, the tubular seat (inside the door 3) with 31 and its mouth with 311.
  • the door can rotate without been disturbed by the tubular element and without damaging the tubular element.
  • the passage of the tubular element and the hinges can be both positioned and designed more freely, thereby achieving a proper optimization of the same.
  • the tubular seat inside the door may have, for instance, a circular cross-section; alternately, the shape of the cross-section may also be, for example: triangular, square, hexagonal, octagonal, ....
  • the tubular element may be a pipe for carrying a liquid, like in all embodiments illustrated in the drawings; in this case, the present invention turns out to be rather useful, in that such a pipe is quite rigid and therefore it is on one hand more subject to damage due to the rotary movement of the door, and on the other it is more capable of disturbing the rotary movement of the door.
  • the tubular element may alternately be a sheath of an electric cable; in this case, the present invention is at any rate useful in that the sheath is subject to wear even though it is not extremely rigid.
  • tubular elements may be provided; typically, said tubular elements will be adjacent to each other and inserted in the same seats.
  • the door rotation axis corresponding to the axis of the hinges, is substantially vertical; the door can thus be opened with a limited effort.
  • the mouth of the tubular seat is located on an edge of the door, preferably on the upper edge of the door - the examples of Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 adopt this solution; the door has therefore no cavities for the insertion of the tubular element, and the tubular element turns out to be well protected and not easily accessible to the user.
  • the tubular element leaves the cabinet wall in the area corresponding to an insertion cavity 33 obtained on the door; the mouth of the tubular seat is located on the surface of said cavity. In this way, for instance, the tubular element is not required to reach the top of the refrigerator.
  • the refrigerator hinges may be different to one another depending on their position; a hinge may comprise a first hinge element being fastened to the cabinet and a second hinge element being fastened to the door, mounted on the first hinge element and rotating about an axis, i.e. the hinge axis; in the examples of Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, the hinge element fastened to the cabinet 2 is indicated with 51, and the hinge element fastened to the door 3 is indicated with 52.
  • a hinge element being indicated with 51, is fastened externally to the cabinet and is fitted with a pin (not shown in the illustration), and the other hinge element (also not shown) is fastened internally to the door and is mounted on said pin.
  • the hinge elements consist of brackets.
  • the hinge element fastened to the cabinet may be, for example, an "L" shaped bracket.
  • This solution is used in the example of Fig. 2, which refers to the upper hinge being located in the area of the refrigerator top; in this way, the hinge does not protrude above the refrigerator top.
  • the hinge element fastened to the door may be, for example, a "Z" shaped bracket.
  • This solution is used in the example of Fig. 2, which refers to the upper hinge being located in the area of the refrigerator top; in this way, the hinge does not protrude from the refrigerator door. Brackets being shaped as described are very easy to mount.
  • Fig. 3 shows an embodiment example of the upper hinge, being alternative to that of Fig. 2.
  • one of the hinge elements may be advantageously fastened to an edge of the door, in order to facilitate the assembly; for the purposes of the present invention, i.e. when it is necessary to lay a tubular element between the cabinet and the door, the hinge element is preferably fastened to the upper edge of the door.
  • the cabinet may be advantageously fitted with an inner tubular seat in order to insert the tubular element through a mouth of said seat on the cabinet.
  • said tubular seat (within the cabinet 2) is indicated with 21 and its mouth with 211; in particular, in the example of Fig. 2 said seat is located in the middle of the thermo-insulating material of the cabinet, whereas in the example of Fig. 3 said seat is located on the outer surface of the cabinet.
  • the cabinet inner tubular seat may advantageously be substantially perpendicular to the hinge axis; if the hinge axis is substantially vertical (as in most cases), the tubular seat will be substantially horizontal.
  • This solution is shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3; in the example of Fig. 4, the tubular element runs within a side wall of the cabinet, and therefore the tubular seat may be either horizontal or sloping (as shown).
  • An important feature of the present invention is the insertion of the tubular element into the tubular seats through suitable mouths of the latter, in particular as regards the door, being it movable.
  • a bush being inserted into the mouth of the door tubular seat and having a hole for the insertion of the tubular element; this solution is shown in Fig. 5, wherein the bush is indicated with 32, the seat with 31 and the tubular element with 4; the bush can thus protect the tubular element from damage.
  • the seat has preferably a circular inner cross-section and the bush has preferably a circular outer cross-section; also, these two diameters are nearly equal.
  • the axis of the door tubular seat is substantially coaxial to the hinges.
  • the hole of the bush is not perfectly coaxial to the bush axis (and therefore to the axis of the tubular seat); in fact, in this case the rigidity of the tubular element will prevent the bush from moving, so that any sliding can only occur between the bush and the tubular seat.
  • the bush 32 is totally inserted into the tubular seat 31 of the door 3.
  • the bush may also be fitted with a guide protruding from the mouth of the door tubular seat.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows the section of a domestic-use refrigerator having a refrigerated water distributor being connected to the public drinking water supply.
  • the refrigerated beverage distributor is advantageously provided with a refrigerated beverage tank; in this case, a non-refrigerated beverage flows in the pipe.
  • the refrigeration apparatus has a cell for fresh food being located in the upper portion of the cabinet and having its own door, and a cell for frozen food being located in the lower portion of the cabinet and having its own door, it is appropriate that the refrigerated beverage distributor is mounted on the door of the cell for fresh food.

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SI200530023T SI1624264T1 (sl) 2004-08-03 2005-08-01 Hladilni aparat s cevnim elementom
PL05107107T PL1624264T3 (pl) 2004-08-03 2005-08-01 Urządzenie chłodnicze z elementem rurkowym

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EP2743435B1 (en) 2012-12-11 2017-03-15 Whirlpool EMEA S.p.A Refrigerating appliance with guiding element for a flexible tubular element
ITTO20130710A1 (it) 2013-09-02 2015-03-03 Indesit Co Spa Apparecchio di refrigerazione con passaggio per elemento tubolare flessibile tra armadio e porta

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RU2005124668A (ru) 2007-02-10
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ATE357637T1 (de) 2007-04-15
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