EP2531786A1 - Appareil de froid - Google Patents

Appareil de froid

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Publication number
EP2531786A1
EP2531786A1 EP11701786A EP11701786A EP2531786A1 EP 2531786 A1 EP2531786 A1 EP 2531786A1 EP 11701786 A EP11701786 A EP 11701786A EP 11701786 A EP11701786 A EP 11701786A EP 2531786 A1 EP2531786 A1 EP 2531786A1
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EP
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Prior art keywords
ice
opening
refrigerating appliance
door leaf
appliance according
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EP11701786A
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Hans Peter Werner
Albert Dirnberger
Gerhard Eckl
Norman Koch
Jose Manuel Lamuela Rosano
Gerald Schmidt
Georg Spiessl
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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
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/18—Storing ice
    • F25C5/182—Ice bins therefor
    • F25C5/185—Ice bins therefor with freezing trays
    • 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
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C2400/00—Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice
    • F25C2400/10—Refrigerator units
    • 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
    • F25C2500/00—Problems to be solved
    • F25C2500/08—Sticking or clogging of ice
    • 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
    • F25D2317/00—Details or arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Details or arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2317/06—Details or arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Details or arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces, not provided for in other groups of this subclass with forced air circulation
    • F25D2317/061—Details or arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Details or arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces, not provided for in other groups of this subclass with forced air circulation through special compartments

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a refrigeration device, in particular a household refrigerator, which has a freezer compartment in which an icemaker is arranged.
  • a refrigeration device in particular a household refrigerator, which has a freezer compartment in which an icemaker is arranged.
  • US 7,386,992 B2 discloses a household refrigerator, in whose door an ice dispenser is arranged. Within the cooling space of the household refrigerator, a heat insulated from the refrigerator icemaker is arranged, which is cooled by a connected to a freezer compartment of the household refrigerator channel. Ice produced by the ice maker is transported by a conveyor from the ice maker to the ice dispenser.
  • EP 1 598 618 A1 discloses a household refrigerating appliance with a body and a door leaf attached to the body, in which an icemaker is integrated.
  • the icemaker is designed to be thermally insulating against the environment.
  • the body includes a guide that carries cold air through openings in the icemaker with the door closed. When the door leaf is open, the openings are closed.
  • Object of the present invention is a, a refrigeration device with a in his
  • Clumping of the prepared and stored by means of the ice maker ice pieces is at least reduced.
  • a refrigeration device comprising a body with a coolable freezer compartment, a door leaf provided for opening and closing the freezer compartment, hinged to the carcass, and an ice maker arranged in the freezer compartment, which is an ice making device for the manufacture of
  • a refrigeration device is in particular a household refrigeration appliance understood, ie a
  • Refrigeration appliance for housekeeping in households or possibly also in the household
  • Gastronomy area is used, and in particular serves food and / or Store beverages in common household quantities at certain temperatures, such as a freezer or adegefrierkombination.
  • the refrigerator according to the invention therefore comprises the ice maker, which is e.g. Is supplied via a water pipe with water to produce pieces of ice with his ice making device and store in the ice storage container. Due to the temperature in the freezer compartment, the water freezes causing the pieces of ice to form. in the
  • the freezer compartment is sometimes opened by means of the door leaf, whereby the temperature of the freezer compartment is heated by the ambient temperature of the refrigerator. Since according to the invention of the ice maker or its
  • Ice making device and its ice storage container are surrounded by the insulating housing, there are conditions that the temperature fluctuates less in particular in the ice storage container due to an open door leaf. As a result, at least the risk of clogging of ice cubes stored in the ice storage container is reduced. This is particularly advantageous when the pieces of ice are relatively small, e.g. have a mass less than 5g.
  • the housing of the ice maker may be provided with at least one opening for flowing cold air from the freezer compartment into the housing. Thereby, the interior of the housing for freezing the ice pieces through the freezer compartment can be cooled in a relatively simple manner.
  • the ice maker has a closing device for opening and closing the opening.
  • the closing device can be designed, for example, as a flap, preferably as an electromechanical flap.
  • the draft can be controlled in the interior of the housing.
  • the refrigerator according to the invention can e.g. a control device which is adapted to control the closing device in dependence on the opening state of the door leaf. Then it is possible, as this is a variant of
  • cooling device is provided that the closing device is closed with the door open and opened with the door closed.
  • the closing device is closed with the door open and opened with the door closed.
  • the housing may include an output for dispensing pieces of ice stored in the ice storage bin.
  • the output is e.g. as another opening in the bottom of the
  • the icemaker may preferably another
  • Closing device for opening and closing the output include.
  • the output for the ice can therefore be released if necessary, for example, if a person wants to remove pieces of ice from the icemaker or its ice storage container.
  • the further closing device is e.g. designed as another flap.
  • the further closing device can be provided with a seal arranged on the side facing the further opening.
  • a potential freezing of the closing device, in particular with its seal, can be prevented if, as provided according to one embodiment of the refrigerating appliance according to the invention, this means comprises means for preventing freezing of the further closing device.
  • the means for preventing freezing of the further closure device can be designed, for example, as a heating device arranged in the region of the further opening.
  • a suitable means is also a blowing device, which is arranged, which blows cold air of the freezer compartment into the area around the further closing device.
  • the refrigeration device according to the invention may be arranged such that it actuates the means for preventing freezing of the further closure device depending on the opening state of the door leaf, in particular that this actuates the means for preventing freezing of the further closure device only when the door leaf is open.
  • Eisrer produced pieces of ice, especially relatively small pieces of ice of e.g. less than 5g without clumping longer storage. This may be accomplished by placing the icemaker in a sealed housing within the freezer compartment.
  • the icemaker optionally has electromechanical flaps which allow circulating air cooled from the freezer compartment to the interior of the icemaker housing. The flaps preferably close when the door leaf of the refrigerator is opened.
  • Ice maker for a water inlet can not heat air into the interior of the
  • the flap may be provided with a seal for opening and closing the ice lump dispensing of the ice maker to at least reduce air circulation through the closed dispensing.
  • this area may be e.g. be blown with cold air of the freezer compartment as soon as the door leaf of the refrigerator is opened. Also one
  • Heating means is a way to prevent freezing of the seal. Then frost will not form in the area of poetry, but in an uncritical place.
  • the icemaker optionally comprises the ice-making device and the ice bin (English: “hopper or ice bin”) which are arranged close to the freezer compartment by means of the casing 12.
  • the ice-making device is preferably one which does not comprise a heating device, eg a so-called "Twister” ,
  • the housing is preferably sealed against moisture arising from an open door leaf or during a defrost cycle.
  • Ice pieces can be stored longer unclimbed and thus can be optionally moved with a transport device of the ice storage container easier towards output.
  • An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying schematic drawings, whose only figure is a household refrigerator with a
  • Ice maker shows.
  • the figure shows a household refrigerator in the form of a freezer as an example of a refrigerator 1 in a sectional view.
  • the refrigeration device 1 has a body 2, which limits a freezer compartment 3. On the body 2 of the refrigeration device 1, a door leaf 4 is struck and the freezer compartment 3 can be cooled by a cooling device 5 known in the art in principle.
  • the cooling device 5 known in the art in principle.
  • Refrigeration device 5 is e.g. as a refrigeration cycle with at least one evaporator and at least one compressor. In the case of the present
  • the refrigeration device 5 e.g. an outlet 5a, via which the cooling device 5 can blow cooled air into the freezer compartment 3.
  • an icemaker 6 is arranged in the freezer compartment 3. This has a particular insulated housing 7, within which an ice-making device 8 and a
  • Ice storage container 9 are arranged.
  • the ice storage container 9 is arranged in the present embodiment below the ice-making device 8, so that pieces of ice produced by the ice-making device 8, which in particular have a mass smaller than 5 g, fall into the ice storage container 9.
  • the water required for the production of the pieces of ice is the ice-making device 8 via an inlet 10 arranged in the housing 7, e.g. is connected to a water pipe, not shown, supplied.
  • the bottom 1 1 of the housing 7 in its the door leaf 4 facing region an opening 1 1 a, which can be closed and opened by means of a flap 12.
  • an opening 1 1 a Through the opening 1 1 a 12 pieces of ice may fall out of the icemaker 6 when needed and open flap.
  • the ice storage container 9 a In order to transport the pieces of ice in the direction of flap 12, in the ice storage container 9 a
  • Transport device 13 which the ice pieces from the rear area of the
  • the transport device 13 comprises e.g. a worm drive.
  • an output device 14 is arranged in the case of the present embodiment. This comprises a arranged in the outer skin of the door panel 4 Ice dispensing 15 and one guided through the door leaf 4 channel 16.
  • the channel 16 ends on the one hand below the flap 12 of the icemaker 6.
  • the other end of the channel 16 opens into the ice dispenser 15, so when the door open 12 pieces of ice through the Soil 1 1 of the ice maker 6 fall into the channel 16 and can be taken at the ice dispensing 15.
  • the output device 14 has an actuating mechanism, not shown, upon actuation of the flap 12 opens so that the pieces of ice from the icemaker 6 through the channel 16 can reach the ice dispenser 15.
  • the flap 12 may have on its the bottom 1 1 of the housing 7 side facing a gasket, not shown.
  • a device not shown may be provided which blows cold air into the region of the flap 12 when the door leaf 4 is open. It can also be a non-illustrated
  • Heating device may be provided which heats the area around the flap 12 when the door leaf 4 is open.
  • the interior of the housing 7 of the ice-maker 6 must be cooled accordingly. This is in one of the walls of the housing 7 of the
  • Ice maker 6 at least one opening 17 is provided through which the cooled air of the freezer compartment 3 can flow.
  • the opening 17 may also be e.g. be opened and closed by means of another flap 18 to the interior of the icemaker. 6
  • the flap 18 is an electromechanical flap 18. This is e.g. connected via a line not shown in detail with a control device 19 of the refrigeration device 1, the e.g. also the
  • Cooling device 5 controls, so that the freezer compartment 3 at least approximately maintains a predetermined target temperature.
  • the control device 19 is also configured to open and close the electromechanical flap 18 if necessary.
  • the control device 19 is designed such that it automatically closes the electromechanical flap 18 as soon as the door leaf 4 is opened.
  • the information about the opening state of the door leaf 4 receives the control device 19, for example, from a door opening switch, not shown. If the door leaf 4 is closed again, the control device 19 automatically controls the electromechanical flap 18, so that it opens the opening 17 again.
  • the control device 19 is arranged such that it controls the electromechanical flap 18 such that it closes the opening 17 with the door leaf 4 open and opens with the door leaf 4 closed, so that the interior of the ice maker 6 by means of
  • Freezer 3 is cooled.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Devices That Are Associated With Refrigeration Equipment (AREA)
  • Production, Working, Storing, Or Distribution Of Ice (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un appareil de froid (1), comprenant un corps (2) doté d'un compartiment de congélation (3) réfrigérable, un vantail de porte (4) articulé au corps (2) pour ouvrir et fermer le compartiment de congélation (3), et un dispositif (6) de préparation de glaçons disposé dans le compartiment de congélation (3). Le dispositif (6) de préparation de glaçons comporte un dispositif (8) de production de glaçons, un réservoir (9) de glaçons pour entreposer les glaçons, et un boîtier isolant (7) qui abrite le dispositif (8) de production de glaçons et le réservoir de glaçons (9).
EP11701786A 2010-02-01 2011-01-21 Appareil de froid Withdrawn EP2531786A1 (fr)

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DE102010001464A DE102010001464A1 (de) 2010-02-01 2010-02-01 Kältegerät
PCT/EP2011/050791 WO2011092112A1 (fr) 2010-02-01 2011-01-21 Appareil de froid

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CN (1) CN102741629B (fr)
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WO (1) WO2011092112A1 (fr)

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CN102741629B (zh) 2015-07-15

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