EP2464934A1

EP2464934A1 - Household refrigerator having a tank

Info

Publication number: EP2464934A1
Application number: EP10742797A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Christoph Becke; Max Eicher; Ralph Staud; Thomas Tischer
Original assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
Current assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
Priority date: 2009-08-10
Filing date: 2010-07-29
Publication date: 2012-06-20
Also published as: CN102472566A; DE102009028420A1; WO2011018350A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a refrigerator (1), particularly a household refrigerator, comprising a cabinet (2) having an inner container (3) forming a chilled space (7), and at least one tank (8) disposed in the chilled space (7) and comprising a storage chamber (27) and a first floor (11), wherein the tank (8) comprises at least one receptacle (10) separate from the storage chamber (27) for chilled goods and/or at least one accessory part (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) comprising a separate opening (17), particularly an opening at a front side (14, 14a) of the tank (8).

Description

Household refrigerator with a container

The invention relates to a refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising a body with an inner container which forms a cold room, and at least one container arranged in the cold room, which has a storage space and a first floor.

From DE 20 2005 020 901 U1 a refrigerated goods container of a refrigeration device is known, which has a storage space and a floor, as well as a handle.

The object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration device, in particular household refrigeration appliance with at least one container, whose possible uses are expanded. The object is achieved by a refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising a body with an inner container forming a cold room, and at least one arranged in the cold room container having a storage space and a first floor, wherein the container at least one separated from the storage space receptacle for Refrigerated goods and / or at least one piece of equipment comprises having a separate opening.

The container may comprise at least one receptacle for refrigerated goods and / or at least one equipment part having an opening at a front side of the container.

By recording with a separate, in particular front opening in the container, a user can better organize the storage space in the container and in particular feed the recording with refrigerated goods and / or equipment or remove the refrigerated goods and / or the equipment parts, without the container completely or in particular even without the container only partially remove or pull out of the household refrigerator. If, for example, the opening of the receptacle is provided on a side wall of the container, in particular in a front region, then it is sufficient to remove the container only slightly in order to be able to laterally pull out refrigerated goods and / or at least one equipment part from the receptacle. Access to the storage room, for example, remains largely hidden. Another advantage is that refrigerated goods and / or pieces of equipment can be stored one above the other, without that they lie on each other. Thus, for example, a shell, in particular an upwardly open shell containing, for example, a liquid to be frozen, are inserted into the receptacle and above the shell, another, possibly heavy refrigerated goods are inserted or remain there, without the liquid The additional receptacle enables refrigerated goods to be stored one above the other in such a way that they do not touch each other. As a result, it is also avoided, for example, that a frozen, frozen food to be frozen will again thaw or antautise other refrigerated goods that have already been frozen because of a contacting contact. The recording of the invention also increases the energy efficiency of household refrigeration appliance. Thus, for example, one or more ice cubes, which are stored in the receptacle, are quickly removed via the front opening, without the container having to be pulled out or removed. This avoids excessive entry of heat into the domestic refrigeration appliance, so that any otherwise necessary recooling can be dispensed with. Also, through improved clarity, the access time can be shortened to a desired by the user refrigerated goods, which in turn shortens the opening times of the door panel of the household refrigerator and thus the cold or energy losses can be minimized. The cold room can be a fridge or freezer room. The freezer compartment is generally used for freezing frozen food at about minus 18 degrees Celsius. The refrigerator is generally used for cooling stored goods at about plus 6 to 8 degrees Celsius. However, the cold room can also be a freshness holding compartment, which is provided for cooling stored goods, especially vegetables, salads and fish at about 0 to plus 4 degrees Celsius and is also referred to as zero degree compartment.

The at least one receptacle can be arranged below the first bottom of the container. In this case, the storage space above the first floor can be made larger than the storage space in the receptacle. As a result, in particular heavy and large refrigerated goods in the storage room above the first floor and in particular smaller and lighter or pressure-sensitive refrigerated goods can be stored below the first floor ie in the recording. In particular, refrigerated goods can also be stored loosely, ie without separate containers or equipment, such as refrigerated batteries, ice cube containers, freezer containers and trays in the receptacle. The receptacle is in particular for the storage of small and small items of refrigerated separated from each other and / or next to each other suitable. The at least one receptacle may be a well delimited by the first floor from above and by a second floor from below. The container has insofar a double bottom. The shaft may define a drawer or the equipment parts from above and below, so that the first and the second floor form a guide or a linear guide or a sliding bearing in which the drawer or the equipment part are pulled out completely or partially from the container to the front can.

The at least one receptacle may have a clear height which is between 20% and 50%, in particular 40%, of the height of the container above the first bottom. The clear height of the recording can be designed so large that in particular standard equipment parts, such as cold batteries, ice cube trays, freezer boxes and trays can be stored to save space. It can also be housed in suitable trays and cans especially sensitive food and frozen in particular. By being accommodated in a receptacle according to the invention, they are thus stored in direct access and, in particular, protected from the otherwise possibly heavy refrigerated goods. In other words, it is prevented by the receptacle that from above loaded refrigerated goods presses with his weight on the refrigerated goods arranged thereunder. Due to the first floor, which in particular forms an intermediate floor, the storage space in the container is separated from the storage space in the receptacle. The at least one receptacle may extend over less than the entire depth of the container, in particular over a depth of between 70% and 40%, in particular approximately 65%, of the depth of the container. A shot that accounts for less than 40% of the total depth causes a storage area that is too small to store common refrigerated goods. A receptacle which accounts for more than 70% of the total depth has the disadvantage, for example, with pull-out drawers, that a great moment acts on the drawer due to the large weight of the discharged refrigerated goods in the drawn-out drawer, so that the drawer in the receptacle could get stuck or even fall out. A recording, which accounts for between 70% and 40% of the total depth, ensures a balanced ratio between sufficient storage space and smooth running of the drawers or fittings when pulling out and inserting. A picture that accounts for about 65%, or about two thirds of the total depth a particularly favorable weight distribution or force distribution on the guides of the drawers or the equipment parts in the recording.

The at least one receptacle can have a guide for the at least one fitting part. As a guide grooves can be used, which are introduced into the side walls of the recording. In a variant, separate linear guides or telescopic rails can be used in particular for drawers. The guides can also be formed by the side walls and / or top and bottom surfaces of the recording.

The at least one receptacle can have a guide for at least one drawer, in particular a drawer with a second handle. All variants of guides can serve, in particular, to guide a drawer inserted into the receptacle linearly or telescopically, so that the drawer can be pulled out of the container, in particular with little effort, to the front and inserted again. The guide can be formed in all variants of the invention of the first floor and a second floor extending parallel to the first floor. As a result, separate components can be omitted as guides, which makes the production of household refrigerators cheaper. In addition, a guide through the first floor and a second floor extending parallel to the first floor makes sense for a piece of equipment which is positioned between two adjacent further pieces of equipment. That a guide through the first floor and a second floor running parallel to the first floor for a piece of equipment is useful if the piece of equipment rests against any of the inner side walls of the receptacle.

In the at least one receptacle of the container can be accommodated at least one piece of equipment from the group of cold batteries, ice cube containers, freezer boxes and trays. Thus, already present in the household appliance ie known equipment parts can be used in conjunction with a recording according to the invention. Specially trained pieces of equipment can thus be omitted. In particular, at least one receptacle for storing three pieces of equipment can be formed next to one another.

The at least one equipment part may have a second handle arranged in the region of the opening on a front side of the container. Thanks to the first handle, the container can be removed together with all the accessories or drawers used in the holder. By the second handle each piece of equipment alone can be removed from the recording. The container as such can remain positioned unchanged in the household appliance. By a projecting, in particular slightly projecting second handle the inserted into the receptacle fitting part can be easily removed without having to intervene deeply in the recording.

The first handle of the container and / or the second handle may be formed as a downwardly open recessed grip.

A front edge of the second floor may be recessed from the front edge of the first floor at least about the depth of the second handle or the opening of the recessed grip. Thus, in the second handle, especially when it is designed as a downwardly open recessed grip, be easily intervened, even if the equipment part or the drawer is completely inserted into the receptacle, i. The equipment together with the second handle with the front of the container closes and is even slightly set back. In other words, the grip recess is released by the recessed second floor. This would not be the case if the second floor were pulled the same distance forward as the first floor. Then the second floor would completely cover the handle or the grip.

Various embodiments of the invention are described with reference to the container shown in Figures 1 to 5b. From the detailed description of these specific embodiments, there are also other general features and advantages of the present invention.

Show it: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a household refrigerator with container;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a container according to Figure 1 with a receptacle according to the invention;

FIG. 3 a shows a perspective view of the container according to FIG. 2 with three accessory parts inserted into the receptacle in their inserted positions;

Figure 3b is a perspective view of the container according to Figure 2 with the three in the

Reception of equipment used in partially extended positions; Figure 4a is a perspective view of the container according to Figure 2 with a single inserted into the receptacle drawer in its retracted position.

FIG. 4b shows a perspective view of the container according to FIG. 2 with the individual drawer inserted into the receptacle in a partially extended position;

FIG. 5a shows a sectional view of the container according to FIG. 2 with a drawer shown in section according to FIG. 4a in its inserted position;

FIG. 5b is a sectional view of the container according to FIG. 2 with the drawer shown in section in accordance with FIG. 4b in the partially extended position.

A refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1 has a body-like housing 2 with an inner container 3. The inner container 3 delimits a cold space 4 formed as a cooling space 4a and a freezer space 4b. Front openings of the housing 2 are closable by means of two door leaves 5a and 5b. The door leaf 5 a shown on the right is mounted on the housing 2 so as to be pivotable about a vertical axis via a hinge arrangement. The right door leaf 5a has a cooling space in the closed position 4a facing inside 6a. On the inside 6a door racks 7a-e may be stored. In the example shown, three containers 8a, 8b and 8c according to the invention are arranged in the cooling space 4a. The left door leaf 5b is pivotally mounted on the housing 2 about a vertical axis via a hinge arrangement. The left illustrated door leaf 5b has a in the closed position the freezer compartment 4b facing inside 6b. In the illustrated example, two containers 8d and 8e according to the invention are arranged in the freezer compartment 4b. The refrigerator 1 may have a Eisstückebereiter 9 in its freezer compartment 4b.

In Fig. 2, a container 8 is provided with a receptacle 10 according to the invention. The container 8 has a first bottom 11 and side walls 12a and 12b, as well as a rear wall 13 (FIGS. 5a and 5b) and an end wall 14a as a front side 14. The end wall 14 is provided with a handle 15. The handle 15 has in the example shown a downwardly open recessed grip 16. The recessed grip 16 extends over the entire width of the end wall 14 or of the container 8. Below the base 11, the receptacle 10 is arranged. The receptacle 10 has an opening 17 in the region of approximately the lower third of the end wall 14. The opening 17 has a rectangular slot-like shape in the example shown. The opening 17 allows access to an interior 18 of the receptacle 10. The receptacle 10 or the interior 18 is bounded from above by the first floor 1 1 and from below by a second floor 19. Through the first bottom 11, the second bottom 19 and portions of the side walls 12a, 12b, the receptacle 10 forms a shaft 20. The receptacle 10 and the shaft 20 has a clear height H1. The clear height H1 in the example shown is about 40% of the above the first bottom 1 1 lying height H2 of the container. By lateral edge regions of the first bottom 1 1, the second bottom 19 and lower portions of the side walls 12a, 12b, a guide 21a shown on the left in FIG. 2 and a guide 21b shown on the right in FIG. 2 are formed. The guides 21a and 21b can be understood in this respect as rail-like linear guides.

As shown in FIG. 3 a, fittings 22 a, 22 b, 22 c can be inserted into the receptacle 10 or the shaft 20. The fitting part 22a, 22b, 22c may in particular be selected from the group of cold accumulators, ice cube trays, freezer tins and trays. In Fig. 3a and 3b three pieces of equipment 22a, 22b, 22c are shown, which are received in the at least one receptacle 10 for storage. The average equipment Processing part 22b is guided laterally in particular by the first fitting part 22a and the third fitting part 22c. In Fig. 3b, the three pieces of equipment 22a, 22b, 22c are shown by way of example with three different extended positions. Of course, each of the three pieces of equipment 22a, 22b, 22c individually completely from the receptacle 10 and the shaft 20 are removed. In the illustrated examples, the pieces of equipment 22a, 22b, 22c each have a second handle 23a, 23b, 23c, which may be formed in particular as a recessed grip 23e.

Instead of three pieces of equipment 22a, 22b, 22c or another variety of pieces of equipment, a single piece of equipment 22, for example in the form of a drawer 22d, can also be inserted into the receptacle 10 or the shaft 20. Such a drawer 22d is shown in Fig. 4a in the retracted position and Fig. 4b in a partially extended position. The contour of the drawer 22 d is adapted to the contour of the receptacle 10 and the shaft 20. In particular, the drawer 22d is bounded by the first floor 11, the second floor 19 and the side walls 12a, 12b. The first floor 1 1, the second floor 19 and the side walls 12 a, 12 b form the extent of the guide 21 for the drawer 22 d.

In Fig. 5a, the container 8 is shown with its storage space 27 and the exemplary drawer 22d of FIG. 4a in its retracted position in section. In Fig. 5b, the container 8 is shown with its storage space 27 and the exemplary drawer 22d of FIG. 4b in the partially extended position. The recording 10 or the

Shaft 20 has a receiving rear wall 24. The receiving rear wall 24 is set further forward relative to the rear wall 13 of the container 8. The receiving rear wall 24 may in particular be set further forward by an amount such that the receptacle 10 or the shaft 20 extends over less than the entire depth T2 of the container 8, in particular over a depth T1 between 70% and 40%, in particular about 65% of the depth T2 of the container extends. In all embodiments, a front edge 25 of the second bottom 19 opposite a front edge 26 of the first bottom 11 at least by the depth T3 of the second handle 23d and the opening of the handle 23e of the drawer 22d or the second handle 23a, 23b, 23c and The opening of the recessed grip 23e of the equipment parts 22a, 22b, 22c may be set back.

Claims

claims

1. Refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising a body (2) with an inner container (3) forming a cold room (7), and at least one in the cold room (7) arranged container (8) having a storage space (27) and a the first floor (1 1), characterized in that the container (8) comprises at least one receptacle (10) for refrigerated goods separated from the storage space (27) and / or at least one equipment part (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d), which has a separate opening (17).

2. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the receptacle (10) has the opening (17) on a front side (14, 14 a) of the container (8).

3. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) below the first bottom (1 1) of the container (8) is arranged.

4. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 3, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) through the first bottom (1 1) from above and through a second bottom (19) from below limited shaft (20).

5. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) has a clear height (H 1), which is between 20% and 50%, in particular 40% of the above the first floor (1 ) lying height (H2) of the container (8).

6. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) over less than the entire depth (T2) of the container (8), in particular over a depth (T1) between 70% and 40 %, in particular 65% of the depth (T2) of the container (8).

7. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) has a guide (21 a, 21 b) for the at least one fitting part (22 a, 22 b, 22 c, 22 d).

8. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the at least one receptacle (10) has a guide (21 a, 21 b) for at least one

Drawer (22d), in particular a drawer (22d) with a second handle (23d).

9. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the guide (21 a, 21 b) of the first bottom (1 1) and a parallel to the first bottom (1 1) extending second bottom (19) is formed.

10. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that in the at least one receptacle (10) of the container (8) at least one fitting part (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) from the group of cold packs, ice cube trays, freezer boxes and Shells is included.

11. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 10, characterized in that the at least one

Receiving (10) for storing three pieces of equipment (22a, 22b, 22c) is formed side by side.

12. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that the at least one equipment part (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) in the region of the opening (17) on a front side (14, 14a) of the container (8) arranged second handle (23a,

23b, 23c, 23d).

13. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 8 or 12, characterized in that the first handle (15) of the container (8) and / or the second handle (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d) as a downwardly open recessed grip (23e) is formed ,

14. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 13, characterized in that a front edge

(25) of the second floor (19) opposite the front edge (26) of the first floor (19). dens (11) at least by the depth (T3) of the second handle (23a, 23b, 23c) or the opening of the recessed grip (23e) is set back.