EP2329209A2 - Niche de distribution pour un appareil de réfrigération - Google Patents

Niche de distribution pour un appareil de réfrigération

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EP2329209A2
EP2329209A2 EP09781625A EP09781625A EP2329209A2 EP 2329209 A2 EP2329209 A2 EP 2329209A2 EP 09781625 A EP09781625 A EP 09781625A EP 09781625 A EP09781625 A EP 09781625A EP 2329209 A2 EP2329209 A2 EP 2329209A2
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Prior art keywords
dispenser
niche
receptacle
emitting diodes
table according
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German (de)
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EP2329209B1 (fr
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Songtao Lu
Alexander Rupp
Lisheng Zhang
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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
    • F25D27/00—Lighting arrangements
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a dispenser for a refrigerator, in particular a household refrigerator, can be spent on the contents of the refrigerator, such as ice or chilled water, without having to open a door of the device.
  • a user who stands in front of the device to remove chilled material usually shadows the niche with his body. Without a lighting device mounted in the niche itself, it is therefore often difficult to detect the level of a vessel placed in the niche and to end a removal process in time when a desired level of the vessel is reached.
  • Object of the present invention is to provide a dispenser for a refrigeration appliance, which avoids the disadvantages described above.
  • the lighting device of the dispenser niche is formed of a plurality of light-emitting diodes. Since light-emitting diodes achieve a higher efficiency than thermal radiators, they heat their environment only slightly even at high light intensity, so that at most small safety margins between the light-emitting diodes and temperature-sensitive parts of the dispenser must be maintained. Since the dimensions of the light-emitting diodes are small, there is no difficulty in accommodating several of them to the contents of a vessel placed in the niche to illuminate from different directions. Dark shadows that make it difficult to correctly estimate the level can be avoided.
  • the plurality of light-emitting diodes are preferably arranged in the form of a polygon.
  • the light-emitting diodes are expediently located in a wall of the niche having a discharge opening for the material to be removed.
  • the polygon overlaps the dispensing opening to minimize shadows in a vessel placed in the niche.
  • the contour of the dispensing opening surrounds the polygon.
  • Each light-emitting diode may expediently be assigned a beam-shaping optical element in order to shape the beam cone of the light-emitting diode to match the shape of the niche.
  • the jet-forming elements can be integrally connected to each other.
  • the light-emitting diodes and the beam-shaping elements are accommodated in at least one downwardly open receptacle.
  • glare of the user can be avoided by radiating out of the niche light.
  • a single receptacle is provided which surrounds the dispensing opening.
  • This receptacle can expediently be circular or in particular circular sector-shaped.
  • the light-emitting diodes can be arranged on a common printed circuit board in order to simplify the assembly.
  • the receptacle in the wall is preferably shaped to allow the placement of the circuit board therein in a single orientation in which electrical contacts of the wall and the circuit board contact each other. Thus, a correct contact of the circuit board is guaranteed solely by their attachment in the recording.
  • the inserted into the receptacle parts such as the LEDs, their circuit board or the beam-forming elements in the receptacle, the latter is preferably closed at the bottom by a cover part.
  • the cover part can be at least locally transparent in order to allow light from the light emitting diodes to pass through.
  • the beam-shaping elements may expediently be formed integrally with the cover part.
  • the cover part may also have openings aligned with the light emitting diodes. Then the lid part itself may be opaque.
  • the beam-shaping elements then preferably engage in the openings.
  • the cover part may in particular be friction-welded to the wall.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic section through a refrigerator with a dispenser niche.
  • Fig. 2 is an exploded view of a fitting of the
  • FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the fixture and a printed circuit board to be mounted thereon;
  • Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fixture with fully assembled lighting device.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic section through a household refrigerator, in which in a
  • Door 1 is a niche 2 formed for the release of ice and chilled water.
  • a passageway 3 extends from an outlet opening of an inside of the
  • the flap 5 can shut off the lower end of the passage channel 3 in a position shown in dashed lines in order to prevent the inflow of hot air from the niche 2 into the interior of the refrigeration device, or it can, as shown here by solid lines, be pivoted away from the passage channel 3, to let ice through.
  • An outlet end of a hose 7 connected to a cold water tank 6 is mounted above the flap 5 in a position such that when the flap 5 is closed water can be tapped via the hose 7 from the tank 6 into a vessel 8 placed in the niche.
  • the flap 5 is concealed for their protection behind a plastic injection-molded aperture 9, an opening 10, which is passed by issued water and ice, is formed in a horizontal bottom plate 1 1 of the aperture 9.
  • Fig. 2 shows the aperture 9 in an enlarged perspective view.
  • a plate which in the mounted state fills a vertical frame 12 of the aperture 9 is omitted in Fig. 2, so that the pivotable flap 5 and a motor or electromagnet 13 driving it are visible.
  • the opening 10 is surrounded on the underside of the bottom plate 11 of two annular, an arcuate receptacle 14 limiting ribs 15, 16.
  • a complementary to the receptacle 14 as a circular arc shaped circuit board 17 is provided for placement in the receptacle 14. It is equipped on its underside with SMD LEDs 18. In the present case, there are six light-emitting diodes 18, which form the corners of an equilateral hexagon. Of course, the number of light emitting diodes 18 may be larger or smaller depending on their power and the desired illuminance in the niche 2.
  • a transparent plastic body 19 is shown, which is like the circuit board 17 complementary to receptacle 14 circular arc.
  • recesses 30 may be provided for receiving the LEDs 18, so that in the assembled state of the plastic body 19 between the LEDs 18, the circuit board 17 can touch.
  • the recesses 30 may each have at their bottom a jet-forming surface, such as a concave or convex lens be provided to transform the most narrowly focused beam of the LEDs 18 in a divergent beam, with which the niche 2 can be uniformly illuminated.
  • Cylindrical projections 20 on the underside of the plastic body 19 are respectively arranged opposite the LEDs 18, so that they are irradiated by them.
  • the projections 20 may be formed as lenses for beam shaping.
  • an opaque plastic ring 21 is shown, which has to the projections 20 complementary openings 22 and to a centering pin 23 of the bottom plate 1 1 complementary opening 24.
  • the ring 21 is provided to be placed after attachment of the circuit board 17 and the plastic body 19 in the receptacle 14 on the ribs 15, 16 and secured thereto by friction welding.
  • Fig. 3 shows a view of the bottom plate 11 and the circuit board 17 from below. It can be seen here at the bottom of the receptacle 14 on both sides of the centering pin 23 two curved, in each case in its center from the bottom of the receptacle 14 splayed leaf springs 25 which are connected via unillustrated vias of the bottom plate 1 1 with a supply or ground potential. At the upper side of the printed circuit board 17 facing away from the observer in FIG. 3, two contact fields 26 shown as dashed circles in the figure are placed such that, when the printed circuit board 17 is placed in the receptacle 14, they respectively project the projecting middle region of the bent leaf springs 25 touch.
  • Each of the two contact pads 26 is connected via a via 27 with one of two concentric tracks 28 on the underside of the circuit board 17, which supply the LEDs 18.
  • a correct contacting of the LEDs 18 is ensured solely by the placement of the circuit board 17 in the receptacle 14.
  • At least one further leaf spring 29 in the receptacle 14, preferably diametrically opposite the centering pin 23 may be arranged.
  • the leaf spring 29 is electrically unconnected.
  • the three leaf springs 23, 23, 29 fix the circuit board 17 and the plastic body 19 by holding both pressed against the ring 21.
  • Fig. 4 shows the aperture 9 with ready-mounted lighting device.
  • the receptacle 14 is covered by the ring 21, and in the openings 22 of the ring, the projections 20 of the plastic body 19 can be seen.
  • the projections 20 are convex and convex act as a short focal length converging lens which transforms the narrow beam of an LED 18 into a beam diverging beyond its focal point.
  • the ring 21 and the plastic body 19 may be fused in a single mold part.
  • This molding may be completely transparent, or it may be provided with an opaque coating away from the exit regions of the LED rays.
  • the SMD LEDs 18 can be replaced by LEDs with a known, dome-shaped plastic housing, which takes over the beam-forming function of the projections 20 of the plastic body 19 and engages in their place in the openings 22 of the ring 21.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Arrangement Of Elements, Cooling, Sealing, Or The Like Of Lighting Devices (AREA)
  • Devices That Are Associated With Refrigeration Equipment (AREA)
  • Fastening Of Light Sources Or Lamp Holders (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne une niche de distribution (2) pour un appareil de réfrigération, notamment un appareil électroménager de réfrigération, comportant un dispositif d'éclairage destiné à éclairer au moins partiellement la niche au moyen de plusieurs diodes électroluminescentes (18).
EP09781625.0A 2008-08-28 2009-08-07 Niche de distribution pour un appareil de réfrigération Active EP2329209B1 (fr)

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PL09781625T PL2329209T3 (pl) 2008-08-28 2009-08-07 Nisza dozownika do urządzenia chłodniczego

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DE102008041670A DE102008041670A1 (de) 2008-08-28 2008-08-28 Spendernische für ein Kältegerät
PCT/EP2009/060291 WO2010023090A2 (fr) 2008-08-28 2009-08-07 Niche de distribution pour un appareil de réfrigération

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US20110139817A1 (en) 2011-06-16
US9243841B2 (en) 2016-01-26
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