EP2223026A1 - Ice-making assembly of refrigerator - Google Patents
Ice-making assembly of refrigeratorInfo
- Publication number
- EP2223026A1 EP2223026A1 EP08861454A EP08861454A EP2223026A1 EP 2223026 A1 EP2223026 A1 EP 2223026A1 EP 08861454 A EP08861454 A EP 08861454A EP 08861454 A EP08861454 A EP 08861454A EP 2223026 A1 EP2223026 A1 EP 2223026A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- ice
- tray
- gear
- trays
- making
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- 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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- 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
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- F25C1/00—Producing ice
- F25C1/22—Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds
- F25C1/24—Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds for refrigerators, e.g. freezing trays
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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
- F25C1/00—Producing ice
- F25C1/10—Producing ice by using rotating or otherwise moving moulds
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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
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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
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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
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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
- F25C2400/00—Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice
- F25C2400/10—Refrigerator units
Definitions
- the present disclosure relates to an ice-making assembly of a refrigerator.
- Refrigerators are electric home appliances, which are used for storing foods at low temperatures close to or below zero degrees Celsius according to the kinds and states of the foods.
- an ice-making assembly for making ice is installed in the refrigerator.
- the ice-making assembly is installed to a refrigerator compartment or an inner surface of a refrigerator compartment door, or may be installed to a freezer compartment or an inner surface of a freezer compartment door according to the kinds of products.
- the related art ice-making assembly includes an ice-making tray functioning as a mold for making ice, a water tank for supplying water to the ice-making tray, and an ice bank for storing ice made in the ice-making tray.
- the water tank and the ice bank are removably coupled to the ice-making assembly, but the ice-making tray is fixed to the ice-making assembly.
- Embodiments provide an ice-making assembly adapted to removably couple an ice- making tray thereto.
- Embodiments also provide an ice-making assembly adapted such that a space receiving the ice-making tray is selectively open to improve cleaning and maintaining of the ice-making tray.
- an ice-making assembly of a refrigerator includes: a tray provided with a recess region for making ice; a frame receiving the tray and supporting both side ends of the tray; an ice bank on a lower side of the tray, the ice bank storing the ice made at the tray, the ice falling to the ice bank; a gear assembly at a side surface of the frame, the gear assembly rotating the tray; and a lever providing torque to the gear assembly to rotate the tray, wherein the tray is coupled to the frame such that the tray is slidingly withdrawable.
- an ice-making assembly of a refrigerator includes: a plurality of vertically arranged trays provided with a recess region for making ice; a frame receiving the trays and supporting both side ends of the respective trays; an ice bank on a lower side of the tray, the ice bank storing the ice made at the tray, the ice falling to the ice bank; and a gear assembly at a side surface of the frame, the gear assembly rotating the tray, wherein the trays are removably stored in the frame, and a coupling rib, receiving a rotation shaft of the gear assembly, protrudes from a side surface of each of the trays.
- the ice-making assembly for a refrigerator configured as described above, is adapted such that the tray, where ice is made, is selectively removed, so that the tray is easily removed when the tray is required to be cleaned.
- FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view illustrating an ice-making assembly for a refrigerator, which is installed to a door of the refrigerator, according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an ice-making assembly for a refrigerator according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating an ice-making device forming an ice-making assembly according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view illustrating an ice-making device forming an ice-making assembly for a refrigerator according to an embodiment.
- Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line I-I of Fig. 3.
- FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view illustrating an ice-making assembly 10 for a refrigerator, which is installed to a refrigerator door 5, according to one embodiment.
- the ice-making assembly 10 is coupled to an inside of the refrigerator door 5.
- the refrigerator door 5 may be a freezer compartment door or a refrigerator compartment door.
- the ice-making assembly 10 includes an outer case 11, an ice-making device 100 stored in the outer case 11, an ice bank 200 provided on a lower side of the ice-making device 100 to store ice made in the ice-making device 100, and a water storage 300 provided on an upper side of the ice-making device 100 to store water to be supplied to the ice-making device 100.
- the water storage 300 and the ice bank 200 are coupled to the ice-making assembly 10 such that the water storage 300 and the ice bank 200 are slidingly withdrawable.
- the water storage 300 is filled with water. In this state, the water storage
- the water stored in the water storage 300 is supplied through a predetermined passage to the ice-making device 100.
- the water supplied to the ice-making device 100 is frozen by chilly air supplied into the ice-making device 100.
- the ice is removed from the ice-making device 100 and stored in the ice bank 200.
- the ice is taken out by removing the ice bank 200 from the ice-making assembly 10.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an ice-making assembly for a refrigerator according to one embodiment.
- Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the ice-making device 100 forming the ice-making assembly according to this embodiment.
- Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the ice-making device 100 forming the ice- making assembly for a refrigerator according to an embodiment.
- Fig. 5 is a cross- sectional view taken along line I-I of Fig. 3.
- the ice-making device 100 includes trays 110 where ice is made, a frame 150 receiving the trays 110, a lever 120 rotating the trays 110, and a gear assembly coupled to an end of the tray 110 to transmit torque of the lever 120.
- the trays 110 are selectively withdrawn from or inserted into the frame 150.
- the trays 110 include an upper tray 112 and a lower tray 114, and the trays 110 are rotatably coupled to an inside of the frame 150.
- a rotation shaft 115 rotatably coupled to the frame 150, protrudes from a side surface of each tray 110, and a coupling rib 116, illustrated in Fig. 4, coupling with the gear assembly 130 protrudes from another side surface of the tray 110.
- the coupling rib 116 is bent a plurality of times to form an open side, and is coupled to a shaft of the gear assembly 130 when the tray 110 is installed to the frame 150.
- the rotation shaft 115 of the lower tray 114 is coupled to the frame 150 at a position spaced a predetermined distance backward from the rotation shaft 115 of the upper tray 112.
- the trays 110 are coupled to the gear assembly 130 and then rotated by the torque generated at the lever 120.
- the trays 110 rotate in a rotation direction of the lever 120.
- the lever 120 is rotatably coupled to a side surface of the frame 150, and par- ticularly, to a right surface of the frame 150, and thus provides the torque to the gear assembly 130. It will be appreciated that the lever 120 may be provided to a left surface of the frame 150.
- the gear assembly 130 includes a driving gear 131 integrally connected to the lever
- connection gear rotatably engaging with the driving gear 131
- driven gears rotatably engaging with the connection gear and coupling with the coupling ribs 116 of the trays 110.
- the gear assembly 130 is covered against the outside by a side cover 153.
- connection gear includes an upper connection gear 133 engaging with the driving gear 131, and a lower connection gear 134 operating integrally with the upper connection gear 133.
- the driven gears include an upper driven gear 136 engaging with the lower connection gear 134 at one position of the lower connection gear 134 and rotating the upper tray 112, and a lower driven gear 137 engaging with the lower connection gear 134 at another position of the lower connection gear 134 and rotating the lower tray 114.
- connection gears 133 and 134, and the driven gears 136 and 137 are rotatably coupled to the side surface of the frame 150. Ends of the driven gears 136 and 137 pass through driven gear holes 151 and 152 provided to the side surface of the frame 150 and are coupled to the trays 110, respectively.
- shafts 139 of the driven gears 136 and 137 are fitted into the coupling ribs 116 of the trays 110, respectively.
- the shafts 139 are fitted into the coupling ribs 116, so that torque of the driven gears 136 and 137 is transmitted to the trays 110.
- the shafts 139 have a non-circular cross section, so that the trays 110 and the driven gears 136 and 137 integrally rotate.
- the shafts 139 may be provided to the trays 110.
- connection gears 133 and 134 engaging with the driving gear 131 rotate in an opposite direction to a rotation direction of the driving gear 131.
- the lower connection gear 134 rotates the driven gears 136 and 137 in the rotation direction of the driving gear 131.
- one side surface of the frame 150, and particularly, an inner surface, opposite to the surface provided with the gear assembly 130, is provided with a rotation-limiting member limiting the rotating of the trays 110.
- the rotation-limiting member may be a protrusion.
- the trays 110 are rotated a predetermined angle by the rotation- limiting member, and then twisted.
- Inner side surface of the frame 150 and particularly, an opposite surface to the surface provided with the gear assembly 130, is provided with shaft insertion holes into which the rotation shafts 115 of the trays 110 are inserted.
- the shaft insertion holes include an upper shaft insertion hole 156 into which the rotation shaft 115 of the upper tray 112 is inserted, and a lower shaft insertion hole 157 into which the rotation shaft 115 of the lower tray 114 is inserted.
- the lower shaft insertion hole 157 is disposed on a lower rear side of the upper shaft insertion hole 156 to prevent ice, separated from the upper tray 112, from falling to the lower tray 114.
- Tray guides are recessed to a predetermined depth in the side surface of the frame
- the tray guides have lengths ranging from a front end of the inner surface of the frame 150 to the shaft insertion holes 156 and 157.
- the tray guides include an upper tray guide 154 guiding movement of the rotation shaft 115 of the upper tray 112, and a lower tray guide 155 guiding movement of the rotation shaft 115 of the lower tray 110.
- the tray guides 154 and 155 may extend for a width greater than an outer diameter of the rotation shaft 115, and the width may decrease from the front end of the side surfaces of the frame 150 toward the shaft insertion holes 156 and 157.
- Catch protrusions 158 are provided to connections between the shaft insertion holes
- each catch rib 170 is disposed vertically over the catch protrusion 158.
- a distance between the bent portion 171 and the catch protrusion 158 is designed to be smaller than the diameter of the rotation shaft 115.
- the catch ribs 170 are designed to have a predetermined elastic force.
- a tray door 160 is rotatably coupled to an open front surface of the frame 150.
- the tray door 160 is coupled to hinge-coupling parts 159, disposed in upper and lower ends of the front surface of the frame 150, so as to selectively cover the front surface of the frame 150.
- the tray door 160 is provided with chilly air introduction holes 162 to supply chilly air to the ice-making device 100.
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KR20070131103A KR101482256B1 (en) | 2007-12-14 | 2007-12-14 | Ice-making assembly for refrigerator |
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