EP2064146A1 - Kältegerät mit eis- oder wasserspender - Google Patents
Kältegerät mit eis- oder wasserspenderInfo
- Publication number
- EP2064146A1 EP2064146A1 EP07802645A EP07802645A EP2064146A1 EP 2064146 A1 EP2064146 A1 EP 2064146A1 EP 07802645 A EP07802645 A EP 07802645A EP 07802645 A EP07802645 A EP 07802645A EP 2064146 A1 EP2064146 A1 EP 2064146A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- light
- emitting diode
- niche
- ice
- refrigerating appliance
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
- B67D1/0003—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being a single liquid
- B67D1/0014—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being a single liquid the beverage being supplied from water mains
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B67D3/00—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
- B67D3/0009—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes provided with cooling arrangements
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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
- F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
- F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
- F25C5/20—Distributing ice
- F25C5/22—Distributing ice particularly adapted for household refrigerators
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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
- F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
- F25D23/126—Water cooler
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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
- F25D2327/00—Lighting arrangements not provided for in other groups of this subclass
- F25D2327/001—Lighting arrangements on the external side of the refrigerator, freezer or cooling box
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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
- F25D27/00—Lighting arrangements
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a refrigerator with a dispenser for pourable or liquid refrigerated goods, in particular for ice or chilled water.
- a dispenser for pourable or liquid refrigerated goods, in particular for ice or chilled water.
- Such a dispenser is generally housed in a niche on an outer side of the housing of the refrigerator, on the one hand because the bottom of the niche can serve as a footprint for a container to receive the donated goods to be refrigerated, on the other hand because it can be avoided that parts of the Protect donors over the outside of the device and can be damaged by knocking.
- the attachment of the dispenser in the niche inevitably entails that a placed in the niche receptacle is poorly lit. If a user stands in front of the niche to monitor the level of the container and to be able to stop the dispensing process at a desired level, it blocks the light falling from the outside into the niche with his own body, so that the level is difficult to monitor unless a light source is provided at the niche itself.
- a light bulb could be used, but their efficiency is low.
- the high heat output of the bulb makes it necessary to make its environment from a heat-resistant material, which leads to significant additional costs compared to an unlit niche.
- the invention proposes a refrigerator with a housing and a mounted in a niche on an outside of the housing dispenser for pourable or liquid refrigerated goods, in which the niche is illuminated by at least one light emitting diode.
- the light emitting diode has a better efficiency than a light bulb, so that the heat dissipation associated with a desired illuminance in the niche is significantly reduced.
- the heat resistance requirements of the materials used are therefore reduced, which allows to fabricate the walls of the niche from a small number of items made of materials of low heat resistance.
- the typically small dimensions of a light emitting diode facilitate its placement in the niche.
- the semiconductor crystal of a light-emitting diode generally emits only at one of its surfaces and thus only in a half-space, it is generally not necessary to provide the light-emitting diode with an external reflector, which further reduces the space requirement and the cost of the lighting.
- a useful illumination of the niche results when the luminous flux is at least 70 lumens, but preferably 90 lumens
- the small footprint of a light emitting diode allows according to a preferred embodiment, to arrange them on a ceiling wall of the niche, even if a dispensing opening or openings of the dispenser are attached to this.
- the LED can illuminate a container placed in the niche from above, so that the filling level of the container regardless of its height is always illuminated and can be easily observed.
- the light-emitting diode In order to illuminate the filling level in the container, it is expedient for the light-emitting diode to be arranged adjacent to the dispensing opening, irrespective of where in the niche the dispensing opening for the goods to be cooled is arranged.
- such a light-emitting diode is expediently aligned so that it generates a parallel to the output direction of the goods to be cooled from the discharge opening light beam.
- the low power consumption of the light emitting diode allows it to operate in continuous operation.
- a user can see that the refrigeration device is powered and working, and a special operation indicator elsewhere in the refrigeration device becomes superfluous.
- an otherwise required switch for switching on and off the LED is saved, which further reduces the cost of the refrigerator.
- Figure 2 is an enlarged section through the niche of the refrigerator during the tapping of water.
- Fig. 3 is a similar to Fig. 2 section during the removal of ice.
- the drawn in a schematic section in Fig. 1 refrigeration device has a heat-insulating body 1 and a door 2, which define an interior space 3.
- the door 2 is shown here disguised with a furniture panel 10.
- a window 1 1 is cut, which leaves a niche 12 of the door 2 and above the niche 12, a control panel with multiple buttons 9.
- the interior 3 is maintained at a temperature below 0 ° C by an evaporator, which is housed in a divided in the upper region of the body evaporator chamber 4.
- An automatic icemaker 5 is arranged in the immediate vicinity of the evaporator chamber 4 in the interior 3, so that it can preferably be acted upon by cold air from the evaporator chamber 4 to freeze quickly filled by a user or automatically fed water. Since in the context of the invention generally any ice maker with automatic ejection of the finished pieces of ice is useful, this will not be described in detail here.
- Pieces of ice ejected from the icemaker 5 enter an accumulating bin 6 located thereunder.
- a motorized auger 7 at the bottom of the bin 6 is operable to convey pieces of ice to a discharge opening 8 at the door proximate end of the bin 6.
- One of the control buttons 9 is used to start the screw conveyor. 7
- a bulge 13 on the inside of the door surrounds the niche 12 and a water tank 14 which at the back of the niche in an insulating layer of the door second is embedded.
- the thickness of the insulating layer between the water tank 14 and the interior 3 on the one hand and between the water tank 14 and the niche 12 on the other hand is such that the water in the tank 14 does not freeze when the environment of the refrigerator has normal room temperature.
- the water tank 14 is connected via a supply line 15 and a check valve 16 to a building water pipe.
- a supply pipe 17 for ice extends through the insulating layer of the door 2 into a recess 20 formed on the ceiling of the recess 12.
- the feed pipe 17 is hermetically sealed by a heat-insulating flap 18, so that no hot air from the niche 12 can pass through the supply pipe 17 into the interior 3 of the refrigerator.
- a drain 19 extends from the tank 14 into the recess 20.
- a white light emitting diode 21 is mounted on a ceiling wall of the recess 20, .
- a power of the light emitting diode 21 of about 1W provides sufficient brightness in the niche 12.
- the light emitting diode 21 is wired in a manner not shown here so that it lights up as long as the refrigerator is in operation.
- the light-emitting diode 21 thus simultaneously has the function of an operating display of the refrigeration device.
- FIG. 2 shows an enlarged section through the recess 20 and its surroundings when the flap 18 is closed.
- the flap 18 comprises a flat-cylindrical body 22 which is filled with insulating material and which in the position shown lies close to an outlet opening 23 of the feed tube 17 shown in section is applied.
- the body 22 is latched by means of integrally formed hooks 24 on a plate 25 which is integral with a transverse to the cutting plane 26 shaft.
- the shaft 26 is driven by a motor, not shown, which opens the flap 18 temporarily in conjunction with an operation of the screw conveyor 7.
- a water outlet 27 is attached at the side facing away from the supply line 17 side of the shield 25, a water outlet 27 is attached.
- This water outlet comprises a cup 30 which is open at the bottom and integrally formed with the plate 25, in which a lip valve (not shown) is fixed by means of a cap 33 screwed on from below.
- a flexible rubber hose 29 is attached, which forms part of the derivative 19.
- the longitudinal axis of the water outlet 27 is oriented vertically, so that a vertically downwardly directed water jet 34 can be dispensed.
- the main beam direction of the light emitting diode 21 is parallel to the water jet 34, so that the water level of a placed in the niche 12, the water jet 34 collecting container 35 is illuminated.
- Fig. 3 shows the flap 18 in the open position. In this position, the check valve 16 is closed, so that no water exits at the outlet 27, this is folded away to the side.
- the light-emitting diode 21 is arranged outside the sectional plane of FIGS. 2 and 3, so that the open flap 18 does not block the light beam of the light-emitting diode 21 directed into the container 35.
- a light-emitting diode 31 may be arranged on a front wall of the recess 20, opposite the outlet opening 23. In this light-emitting diode 31 there is no danger that it will be blocked by the open flap 18, even if the light-emitting diode 41 is arranged in the sectional plane of Figures 2, 3.
- the waste heat generated by the light-emitting diodes 21 and / or 31 heats the air in the recess 20. Since the recess 20 is closed at the top, the heated air is difficult to escape from the recess 20, so that the waste heat efficiently to the at the discharge opening 23 adjacent edge of the flap 18 is transmitted, which represents the coldest point of the recess 20. Thus, the waste heat of the LEDs is used to prevent freezing of the flap 18 at the discharge opening 23.
- one or more light emitting diodes are disposed adjacent the recess 20 on the ceiling of the niche 12 to illuminate from above into a filling opening of a container placed thereon.
- Such a placement of the LEDs has the advantage that they are more easily accessible than a light-emitting diode within the recess 20, if a failure or a gradually decreasing by aging luminosity should make their replacement required.
- the likelihood that this is necessary is low, since the typical lifetime of a light emitting diode is of the same order of magnitude as that of the refrigeration appliance itself, even if the light emitting diodes operate continuously during the operating time of the device.
- the operating time of the LEDs is limited to the duration of a removal operation, for example by coupling the operation of the LEDs to one or more of the control buttons 9, so that they are only in operation, for example when the screw conveyor 7 in operation and the flap 18 is open to remove ice or while tapping water from the tank 14.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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- Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
- Devices That Are Associated With Refrigeration Equipment (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE202006013708U DE202006013708U1 (de) | 2006-09-07 | 2006-09-07 | Kältegerät mit Eis- oder Wasserspender |
| PCT/EP2007/058508 WO2008028780A1 (de) | 2006-09-07 | 2007-08-16 | Kältegerät mit eis- oder wasserspender |
Publications (1)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
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| EP2064146A1 true EP2064146A1 (de) | 2009-06-03 |
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Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| EP07802645A Withdrawn EP2064146A1 (de) | 2006-09-07 | 2007-08-16 | Kältegerät mit eis- oder wasserspender |
Country Status (5)
| Country | Link |
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| EP (1) | EP2064146A1 (de) |
| CN (1) | CN101511721A (de) |
| DE (1) | DE202006013708U1 (de) |
| RU (1) | RU2458852C2 (de) |
| WO (1) | WO2008028780A1 (de) |
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| DE202007013031U1 (de) * | 2007-09-17 | 2007-11-22 | BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH | Kältegerät mit Tauwasserkanal |
| DE102008041670A1 (de) | 2008-08-28 | 2010-03-04 | BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH | Spendernische für ein Kältegerät |
| KR101730183B1 (ko) | 2010-01-18 | 2017-04-25 | 엘지전자 주식회사 | 냉장고 및 냉장고 디스펜서 |
| KR101794346B1 (ko) * | 2010-07-30 | 2017-11-06 | 엘지전자 주식회사 | 댐퍼 어셈블리 제조방법 |
| EP2645028B1 (de) | 2012-03-30 | 2019-03-13 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Kühlvorrichtung mit beleuchtetem Eis-/Wasserspender |
| US9045327B2 (en) | 2013-04-03 | 2015-06-02 | General Electric Company | Liquid dispensing LED nozzle |
| DE102014206089B4 (de) | 2014-03-31 | 2018-01-18 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Haushaltskältegerät mit einer Spendereinheit mit zwei Verschlusselementen an einem Ausführkanal |
| DE102014206560A1 (de) | 2014-04-04 | 2015-10-08 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Haushaltskältegerät mit einer Spendereinheit für eine Flüssigkeit |
| DE102014213800A1 (de) | 2014-07-16 | 2016-01-21 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Kühlschrank mit einer Wasserspendereinheit und einem Phasenwechselmaterial |
| WO2026072036A1 (en) * | 2024-09-25 | 2026-04-02 | Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc. | Water dispenser with actuator for nozzle |
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- 2007-08-16 CN CNA200780032776XA patent/CN101511721A/zh active Pending
- 2007-08-16 WO PCT/EP2007/058508 patent/WO2008028780A1/de not_active Ceased
- 2007-08-16 EP EP07802645A patent/EP2064146A1/de not_active Withdrawn
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| RU2009110973A (ru) | 2010-10-20 |
| DE202006013708U1 (de) | 2006-11-09 |
| WO2008028780A1 (de) | 2008-03-13 |
| RU2458852C2 (ru) | 2012-08-20 |
| CN101511721A (zh) | 2009-08-19 |
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Inventor name: WRENCH, NATHAN Inventor name: YAZAN, KASIM Inventor name: NALBACH, PETER Inventor name: HEGER, BERND Inventor name: FLINNER, KLAUS Inventor name: FEINAUER, ADOLF Inventor name: DUMKOW, IRENE Inventor name: BUCHSTAB, MARTIN |
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