EP2616752A2 - Réfrigérateur - Google Patents

Réfrigérateur

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Publication number
EP2616752A2
EP2616752A2 EP11735386.2A EP11735386A EP2616752A2 EP 2616752 A2 EP2616752 A2 EP 2616752A2 EP 11735386 A EP11735386 A EP 11735386A EP 2616752 A2 EP2616752 A2 EP 2616752A2
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Prior art keywords
refrigerator
heat exchanger
refrigerator according
line
bottle
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English (en)
Inventor
Jürgen BRENNEIS
Rainer Vogt
Giuseppe Margarino
Marco Reposo
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Red Bull GmbH
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Red Bull 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
    • F25D31/00—Other cooling or freezing apparatus
    • F25D31/006—Other cooling or freezing apparatus specially adapted for cooling receptacles, e.g. tanks
    • F25D31/007—Bottles or cans
    • 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
    • F25D23/06—Walls
    • F25D23/061—Walls with conduit means
    • 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
    • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
    • F25D2331/803—Bottles
    • 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
    • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
    • F25D2400/28—Quick cooling

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a refrigerator comprising a thermally insulated refrigerator, a refrigerator with which the refrigerator is cooled to a temperature below ambient temperature, and at least one door through which the refrigerator is accessible from the outside.
  • Such refrigerators are used for the storage of heat-sensitive goods or products. They are used primarily in households and in the catering industry, but also in the food processing industry, medicine and research. They generally consist of a thermally insulated cold room, which is used for storage of the corresponding goods or products and a refrigerator, with which the refrigerator is cooled.
  • the operation of the chiller is in principle arbitrary, but it is usually a compression chiller or more rarely an absorber. All refrigerator types are based on the following principle: heat is extracted from the interior of the refrigerator and discharged to the outside. Both are done with heat exchangers.
  • the typical operating temperature inside household or catering refrigerators is between 2 ° C and 8 ° C.
  • Household or catering refrigerators are available in different sizes. In addition to refrigerators with the typical for installation in household kitchens width of about 60cm and a height of up to 2m, especially in the catering relatively small refrigerators use that are placed, for example, clearly visible on a counter, so that the local guests offered each chilled Drinks or food.
  • Such presentation refrigerators usually have a transparent door and are the catering establishments of the beverage manufacturers available
  • CONFIRMATION COPY posed. This is usually done for advertising purposes and the refrigerators are accordingly provided with the brand, the product logo, an advertising message or the like.
  • the beverage manufacturer Drinks are increasingly stocked in cans or bottles with a maximum content of 0.5 liters and the serving of drinks, for example, in the units defined by the can or bottle contents.
  • the drinks held in the mentioned cans or bottles are often offered in catering establishments in combination with other beverages.
  • spirits are mixed in relatively small quantities so that a correspondingly large number of units of the mixed drink can be obtained from a spirit bottle.
  • the spirits must be kept in a refrigerated state, so it is necessary to put the bottle of spirits back into the refrigerator after each mixing beverage preparation.
  • the thus caused frequent opening and closing of the refrigerator leads to an inflow of warm ambient air into the refrigerator of the refrigerator, so that the refrigeration units smaller catering refrigerators because of their compact design and low cooling capacity often not in a position, a constant low temperature inside the refrigerator sure.
  • the present invention therefore aims to provide a cooling facility with which the above-mentioned disadvantages can be avoided.
  • the refrigerator in addition to the cooling of smaller beverage and / or food units to offer the possibility of simultaneous cooling of at least one beverage bottle to which the operator or the consumer can quickly and easily access without affecting the cooling of the other drinks or food.
  • the refrigerator should be as small as possible, if necessary, to allow placement on a bar or a counter. Furthermore, the refrigerator should be easy to transport.
  • the invention provides in a refrigerator of the type mentioned essentially that the refrigerator has a bottle cooler whose interior is designed to hold at least one bottle and can be cooled to a temperature below ambient temperature and its for adjusting and Removing a bottle provided opening is preferably arranged at the top of the refrigerator.
  • a bottle cooler By providing a separate bottle cooler, a further cooling possibility is created in addition to the generally cuboid cooling space, which is optimized especially for the inclusion of bottles. It is essential that the bottle cooler is accessible via its own, separate from the access to the refrigerator compartment opening, so that it is not necessary for removing and adjusting a bottle to open the door to the refrigerator.
  • the refrigerator is preferably designed as a simply transportable stand device.
  • the maximum external dimensions are preferably 50 * 50 * 80cm (width * depth * height).
  • the bottle cooler provided according to the invention can be cooled to a temperature below the ambient temperature, whereby W
  • the bottle cooler can be cooled by means of those refrigerating machine to a temperature below the ambient temperature, with which also the cooling space is cooled.
  • a particular challenge in the refrigerator according to the invention is to arrange the bottle cooler so that on the one hand, the refrigerator due to the bottle cooler is not reduced and on the other hand, the overall size of the refrigerator is not significantly increased.
  • a preferred embodiment of the refrigerator according to the invention provides in this context that above the cooling chamber, a chamber is arranged, in which the essential components of the refrigerator, in particular a compression element, are arranged and in which the bottle cooler protrudes from above.
  • the chamber is preferably that space above the cooling space whose base area substantially corresponds to the base area of the refrigerator. The chamber that arises due to the required height of the bottle cooler is thus used for the arrangement of at least some necessary for the operation of the refrigerator technical components.
  • the components of the chiller are thus arranged above the cooling space, so that a maximum footprint is available for the cooling room, so that overall optimum space utilization takes place.
  • the design or the mode of operation of the refrigerator in the invention is arbitrary.
  • the chiller preferably has a first heat exchanger for absorbing heat below the ambient temperature and a second heat exchanger for emitting heat above the ambient temperature.
  • the chiller may be formed, for example, as a compression refrigeration machine, in which a compression and an expansion element and the first and the second heat exchanger are connected in a circuit such that the heat exchangers are connected on both sides between the compression and expansion element.
  • the first heat exchanger has a meandering line, in particular an evaporator with at least one evaporator line and the second heat exchanger a meandering line, in particular a condenser having at least one capacitor line.
  • a particularly effective cooling of the bottle cooler succeeds if, as shown in a preferred embodiment, speaks, the bottle cooler with the at least one line of the first heat exchanger, in particular the evaporator line is wrapped.
  • a first section of the line of the first heat exchanger with the cooling space in thermally conductive contact and a second portion of the line of the first heat exchanger with the bottle cooler in thermally conductive contact in particular be wrapped in it.
  • the cooling space is limited by a lower inner wall element, at least two lateral inner wall elements and an upper wall element, that at least one of the inner wall elements an outer, of the inner wall element spaced wall element is assigned and that between the inner wall element and the associated outer wall element, a thermal insulation is arranged.
  • At least one wall of the refrigerator is thus designed double-walled. Between the inner and the outer wall member, a portion of the line of the first heat exchanger can be arranged in a simple manner.
  • a meandering extending portion of the line of the first heat exchanger is in thermally conductive connection with the outside of the lateral inner wall elements and possibly the lower inner wall element and this particular directly contacted.
  • the said thermal insulation should naturally be arranged on the side of the line of the first heat exchanger, which faces away from the cooling space.
  • the Lead of the first heat exchanger can of course also be arranged inside the refrigerator.
  • the cooling capacity of the refrigerator depends not only on a sufficient insulation of the refrigerator, but also crucial from the output of the second heat exchanger to the environment amount of heat, because this amount of heat determines the cold room or bottle cooler heat extractable amount. It must therefore be ensured that the second heat exchanger has a sufficiently large area over which the heat exchange with the environment can take place.
  • a meandering section of the line of the second heat exchanger is arranged in the chamber and interacts with means for improving or accelerating the heat release to the environment.
  • the means for improving or accelerating the heat emission may comprise, for example, a lamellar or lattice structure, with which the line of the second heat exchanger is in thermally conductive connection and this contacted in particular directly.
  • the means for accelerating the heat dissipation may comprise an electric fan, which is arranged in the vicinity of the line of the second heat exchanger.
  • FIG. 1 shows a view with the housing removed
  • FIG. 3 shows a further illustration with the housing removed
  • FIG. 1 shows a detail of a housing wall.
  • FIG. 1 shows a refrigerator 1 for catering purposes, which has two side walls 2, of which only one can be seen in FIG. 1, a door 3 arranged on the front side and a door 4 arranged on the rear side.
  • the refrigerator 2 has a cover plate 5.
  • the hinge for opening the front door 3 is denoted by 6 and the hinge for opening the rear door 4 is denoted by 7.
  • the hinges 6 and 7 are arranged so that the front door 3 is designed as a left-hinged door and the rear door 4 as a right-hinged door. Both the front door 3 and the rear door 4 have a window
  • the refrigerator is accessible through the doors 3 and 4 from the outside.
  • a bottle cooler In the upper part of the refrigerator 1 is a bottle cooler
  • the opening 10 is arranged at the top of the refrigerator 1.
  • the bottle cooler is cylindrical and dimensioned so that it can accommodate a 1-liter bottle in a standing position.
  • the opening 10 could be fired by a separate lid, in the present embodiment, the bottle cooler 9 but formed open above, so that the bottle cooler is subject to the bottle height no limits. If the bottle cooler is dimensioned such that depending on the bottle at least the neck of the bottle protrudes, the bottle can be very easily and quickly removed from the bottle cooler and put back into the bottle cooler.
  • the particular cylindrical interior of the bottle cooler is in open communication with the arranged, in particular cuboid cooling space, it is preferred if the bottle cooler forms a cooling volume separate from the cooling space.
  • the side walls 2 and the lower wall 11 are formed as double-walled elements and each consist of an inner wall element and an outer wall element. 2 and 3, the refrigerator is shown without the lateral outer wall elements, without the doors 3 and 4 and without the cover plate 5, wherein for the sake of clarity in Fig.2 only the evaporator line and in Fig.3 only the capacitor line is shown.
  • a cooling space 15 is bounded by two lateral inner wall elements 12, a lower inner wall element 13 and an upper wall element 14.
  • a chamber 16 is provided, are arranged in the technical components of the refrigerator and the bottle cooler 9.
  • the chamber 16 is separated from the cooling space by the wall element 14.
  • the chiller is designed as a compression refrigeration machine, in which a compression and an expansion element and a first and a second heat exchanger are connected in a circuit such that the heat exchanger connected on both sides between the compression and expansion element are.
  • the compression element is designed as a compressor 17.
  • the first heat exchanger comprises an evaporator line, which is wound in a first section 18 around the bottle cooler 9 and cools it.
  • the bottle cooler 9 has a thermally insulating jacket 19, which reduces the heat transfer from the outside, for example from the compressor 17 to the bottle cooler 9 together with the evaporator line 18.
  • the evaporator line of the first heat exchanger meanders and forms a cooling coil, which is attached to the lateral inner wall elements 12 and the lower inner wall element 13 and thereby cools the cooling space 15.
  • the two sections of the evaporator line 20 running on the lateral inner wall elements 12 are connected via a section running on the lower inner wall element 13.
  • the expansion element of the compression refrigerating machine is designed as a throttle, for example as an expansion valve or as a capillary tube.
  • the second heat exchanger comprises a capacitor line, which runs meander-shaped in a first section 21 and is arranged in the chamber 16. To improve the heat transfer to the environment, the capacitor line 21 is attached to a lamella or grid structure 22. Furthermore, in the chamber 16 in the vicinity of the capacitor line 21, an electric fan 23 is provided, which causes a further improvement of the heat release to the environment.
  • a second section 24 (FIG. 3)
  • the condenser line of the second heat exchanger runs meander-shaped on the inside of the lateral outer wall elements 25 and the lower outer wall element 26. The two sections extending on the lateral outer wall elements 26 the capacitor line 24 are connected via a running on the lower outer wall element 26 section.
  • thermal insulation 27 is arranged, for example made of a mineral wool or of foam (for example styrofoam or the like).
  • the bottom wall 11 is similarly constructed.
  • the operation of the compression refrigerating machine is as follows: A gaseous refrigerant is adiabatically charged by the compressor 17, i. compressed without heat exchange with the environment, whereby the refrigerant heats up.
  • the condenser which comprises the condenser line 21,24, the heat is released to the environment, whereby the medium condenses. Thereafter, it flows to the pressure reduction through a throttle and then further into the first heat exchanger, the evaporator comprising the evaporator line 18,20.
  • the evaporating refrigerant from the cooling chamber 15 and the bottle cooler 9 takes the necessary heat of evaporation and flows as gas on to the compressor 17th

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un réfrigérateur (1) comprenant une chambre froide (15) isolée thermiquement, une machine frigorifique permettant de refroidir la chambre froide (15) à une température inférieure à la température ambiante, et au moins une porte (3, 4) permettant d'accéder de l'extérieur à la chambre froide (15). Selon l'invention, le réfrigérateur comprend également un refroidisseur de bouteilles (9), dont l'espace intérieur est configuré pour loger au moins une bouteille et peut être refroidi à une température inférieure à la température ambiante, et dont l'ouverture (10) est ménagée de préférence sur la face supérieure du réfrigérateur (1) et permet de placer une bouteille et de l'enlever.
EP11735386.2A 2010-09-16 2011-07-18 Réfrigérateur Withdrawn EP2616752A2 (fr)

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AT0058110U AT12310U1 (de) 2010-09-16 2010-09-16 Kühlvorrichtung mit integriertem flaschensumpf
PCT/EP2011/003576 WO2012034613A2 (fr) 2010-09-16 2011-07-18 Réfrigérateur

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JP (1) JP5774705B2 (fr)
CN (1) CN103140730B (fr)
AT (1) AT12310U1 (fr)
AU (1) AU2011301448B2 (fr)
BR (1) BR112013005966A2 (fr)
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WO2012034613A2 (fr) 2012-03-22
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CN103140730A (zh) 2013-06-05
AU2011301448B2 (en) 2015-05-14
AU2011301448A1 (en) 2013-03-28
BR112013005966A2 (pt) 2016-05-03
JP5774705B2 (ja) 2015-09-09
AT12310U1 (de) 2012-03-15
ZA201301784B (en) 2014-10-29
WO2012034613A3 (fr) 2012-05-10

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