EP2898272B1 - Appareil réfrigérant muni d'un bac - Google Patents

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EP2898272B1
EP2898272B1 EP13759258.0A EP13759258A EP2898272B1 EP 2898272 B1 EP2898272 B1 EP 2898272B1 EP 13759258 A EP13759258 A EP 13759258A EP 2898272 B1 EP2898272 B1 EP 2898272B1
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Robert Briem
Astrid FONFARA-DÖRR
Anja Kammel
Christine Linke
Andreas Mahler
Bernd Pfister
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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
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
    • F25D23/04—Doors; Covers with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners

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  • the invention relates to a refrigeration device, having at least one arranged in the interior of the refrigerator container for receiving refrigerated goods, wherein the container has a base body and a displaceable on the base body between an open position and a closed position door, through which the container by a displacement the door can be opened or closed. Furthermore, the invention relates to a container for arrangement in an interior of such a refrigerator.
  • Refrigeration appliances in particular designed as household appliances refrigerators are known and are used to housekeeping in households or in the catering sector to store perishable food and / or drinks at certain temperatures.
  • CN 101709911 A discloses a refrigerator with a refrigerator door comprising a miniature door.
  • a sliding door is coupled via a support arm with the miniature door.
  • the sliding door is also connected to a return spring.
  • a sliding door is used as a partition between a small cooling area and the rest of the fridge's cooling area.
  • the return spring is also tensioned.
  • the closing of the miniature door is done by the restoring force of the return spring.
  • the miniature door is closed, the small cooling area is connected to the rest of the cooling area.
  • EP 2 299 215 A2 discloses an automatic door-closing device for automatically opening or closing a drawer without applying manual forces to the drawer, wherein a drive device is coupled to the drawer and the drawer Drive device is operated on the basis of signals from an input part and signals from a detection part with a controller.
  • the present invention is based on the recognition that the handling is already increased when a device for semi-automatic opening or closing of the door is provided.
  • the object according to the invention is achieved by a refrigeration device in which a drive device is in operative connection with the door for displacing the door.
  • a refrigeration device is understood in particular to be a household appliance, that is to say a refrigeration device which is used for housekeeping in households or in the gastronomy sector, and in particular serves to store food and / or drinks at specific temperatures, such as, for example, a refrigerator, a freezer, a refrigerator Fridge freezer, a freezer or a wine fridge.
  • the drive device is designed as an opening device.
  • the drive device only supports an opening movement of the door, but no closing movement of the door.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that no safety precautions for closing the container by moving the door must be provided, since the drive means the door only shifted to open and therefore no extremities of a user could be clamped by the drive means.
  • the drive device has a spring element which is operatively connected to the door to effect the displacement of the door.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that by the use of a spring element, the drive device has a particularly simple, yet reliable construction.
  • the spring element and the door are connected to each other to transmit spring force.
  • the drive device has a triggering element, with which the displacement of the door can be triggered.
  • a triggering element with which the displacement of the door can be triggered.
  • the drive device is designed to transmit mechanical energy of the door upon displacement of the door to the spring element.
  • the spring element is a spiral spring.
  • the spring element is in operative connection with a gear which meshes with a toothed rack, which is connected to transmit power to the door.
  • the drive device has a damper element, which is in operative connection with the door.
  • the damper element is in operative connection with the gear.
  • the drive device is in operative connection with a further door for displacing the further door.
  • another spring element of the drive device is in operative connection with the further door in order to effect a displacement of the door.
  • the drive device has a particularly simple but at the same time reliable construction through the use of a further spring element.
  • the spring element is connected to the other door spring force transmitting.
  • the drive device has a further triggering element, with which a displacement of the other door can be triggered. This will achieved the technical advantage that the operation of the drive device is even more convenient by the trigger element.
  • the drive device is designed for transmitting mechanical energy of the further door upon displacement of the further door to form a further spring element.
  • a further spiral spring in operative connection with another gear, which meshes with a further rack, which is in operative connection with the other door.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that a particularly compact, little space consuming drive device is provided.
  • the further gear with the further rack and the further rack are each connected to each other forces transmitting.
  • the object according to the invention is achieved by a container for arrangement in an interior of a refrigerator, wherein the container has a main body and a door slidably mounted on the body between an open position and a closed position, through which the container is displaced the door can be opened or closed, wherein a drive means is in operative connection with the door for displacing the door.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that a cumbersome manual opening and / or closing the door is no longer necessary, but it is sufficient to open and / or close the door to activate the drive device.
  • Fig. 1 shows a refrigerator as an embodiment of a refrigeration device 100 with an upper refrigerator door 114 and a lower refrigerator door 112 on its refrigerator front.
  • the refrigerator is used, for example, for cooling food and includes a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator (not shown), a compressor (not shown), a condenser (not shown) and a throttle body (not shown).
  • the evaporator is designed as a heat exchanger in which, after expansion, the liquid refrigerant is absorbed by heat from the medium to be cooled, i. Air inside the refrigerator, is evaporated.
  • the compressor is a mechanically driven component that draws refrigerant vapor from the evaporator and expels it at a higher pressure to the condenser.
  • the condenser is designed as a heat exchanger in which, after compression, the evaporated refrigerant is released by heat to an external cooling medium, i. the ambient air is liquefied.
  • the throttle body is a device for the continuous reduction of the pressure by reduction in cross section.
  • the refrigerant is a fluid used for heat transfer in the cryogenic system which absorbs heat at low temperatures and low pressure of the fluid and releases heat at higher temperature and higher pressure of the fluid, usually including changes in state of the fluid.
  • a container 104 is arranged, which is located in the interior 102 of the refrigeration device 100 when the lower refrigerator door 112 is closed.
  • the container 104 is in the present embodiment for receiving special chilled goods, namely eight pieces of butter commercial dimensions with a weight of 250g formed.
  • FIG. 1 shows Fig. 1 in that the container interior 118 of the container 104 is subdivided by a dividing wall 110 into two equal receiving spaces.
  • Each of the two receiving spaces is associated with a sliding door 106, 108.
  • one of the two receiving spaces can be opened in each case, or both receiving spaces can be closed.
  • Fig. 2 shows that in the present embodiment, the container 104 comprises a base body 200 and the two sliding doors 106, 108.
  • the base body 200 of the container 104 and the two sliding doors 106, 108 are made in the present embodiment of an optically transparent plastic material, so that an inspection of the container interior 118 is possible even with closed doors 106, 108.
  • the base body 200 is integrally formed by e.g. made of optically transparent plastic material by injection molding.
  • the main body 200 has a substantially cuboidal basic shape.
  • Fig. 3 shows that in the present embodiment, the base body 200, the aforementioned partition wall 110, two side walls 300 and a rear wall 302 and a bottom portion 308 has.
  • the doors 106, 108 each have a front portion 304 and a roof portion 306, which together result in an L-shaped profile in cross section.
  • the container 104 can be opened on both sides, i. the container 104 is opened both on its front side and on its upper side, so that a large access opening is available for the convenient removal or storage of refrigerated goods.
  • a respective front-side profile 310 and a rear-side profile 312 are assigned to each of the two doors 106, 108, which serve to guide the two doors 106, 108.
  • the Container 104 has a shelf 314 for attachment to the inside 116 of the lower refrigerator door 112.
  • the container 104 is assigned a drive device 316 in the present embodiment.
  • the drive device 316 is formed in the present embodiment as an opening device or automatic, which causes only a displacement of the door 106 from the closed position to the open position.
  • the drive device 316 can be actuated by a trigger element 318, whereupon the drive device 316 moves the door 106 in such a way that the receiving space assigned to the door 106 is opened and thus accessible to an operator.
  • the trigger element 318 is designed as a button, with a latching connection 324 of the door 104 with the container 104, in the present embodiment with the side wall 300, can be solved, which fixes the door 106 in the closed position.
  • the drive device 316 has a further triggering element 320 with which a further latching connection 326 of the further door 108 with the container 104, in the present exemplary embodiment with the opposite side wall 300, can be achieved.
  • the further triggering element 320 Upon actuation of the further triggering element 320, the further door 108 is displaced by the drive device 316, so that the receiving space associated with the further door 108 is opened and thus accessible.
  • designed as opening device or automatic drive means 316 only causes a displacement of the door 106 from the closed position to the open position.
  • Fig. 3 shows, finally, that in the present embodiment, the drive means 316 has a cover member 322 that protects the drive means 316 against the ingress of dirt or corrosion-promoting moisture.
  • Fig. 4 shows an embodiment of the drive means 316.
  • the drive means is arranged in the present embodiment on the roof portion 306 of the door 106. In alternative embodiments, however, the drive device 316 may also be arranged on the front section 304 of the door 106.
  • the drive device 316 has in the present embodiment, a gear 400, a rack 402 and a damper element 404.
  • the gear 400 meshes with the rack 402, which is fixedly connected to the door 106.
  • a rotational movement of the gear 400 results in a displacement of the door 106 so that it opens or closes, and conversely a displacement of the door 106 leads to a rotational movement of the gear 400.
  • the rotational movement of the gear 400 and thus the displacement of the door 106th damped by the damper element 404 which is connected to the gear 400 in the present embodiment to transmit power.
  • Fig. 5 shows that in the present embodiment, the gear 400 is in operative connection with a spring element 500 such that by a rotational movement of the gear 400, the spring element 500 tensioned and a relaxation of the spring element 500 causes a rotational movement of the gear 400 and thus a displacement of the door 106.
  • the spring element 500 is formed as a spiral spring 502, which is arranged in an inner space 504 of the hollow gear 322.
  • the drive device 316 is also designed to displace the further door 108 and therefore has a further toothed wheel 400, a further toothed rack 402 and a further damper element 404 as well as a further spring element 500 with the same construction as described above.
  • the door 106 is to be moved to the open position.
  • the trigger element 318 is actuated and thus the door 106 is released by releasing the latching connection 324.
  • the biased spring element 500 may relax.
  • the relaxation of the spring member 500 causes a rotational movement of the gear 400, which causes by the meshing with the rack 402 on the door 106, that the door 106 is displaced from the closed position to the open position.
  • the mechanical energy stored in the spring member 500 is transmitted to the door 106.
  • the damping element 404 causes the door 106 is not braked abruptly when reaching the open position by striking portions of the container 104.
  • the spring element 500 is relaxed.
  • the other door 108 can be moved to the open position.
  • the trigger element 320 is actuated and thus the further door 108 released by releasing the latching connection 326.
  • the biased spring element 500 may relax. Upon reaching the open position, the spring element 500 is relaxed.

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  1. Contenant (104) à disposer dans un espace intérieur (102) d'un appareil frigorifique (100), dans lequel le contenant (104) présente un corps de base (200) et une porte (106, 108) logée de manière déplaçable sur le corps de base (200), laquelle permet d'ouvrir ou de fermer le contenant (104) via un déplacement de la porte (106, 108), dans lequel un dispositif d'entraînement (316) se trouve en liaison fonctionnelle avec la porte (106, 108) pour le déplacement de la porte (106, 108), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (316) présente un élément à ressort (500) se trouvant en liaison fonctionnelle avec la porte (106, 108), afin d'occasionner le déplacement de la porte (106, 108) et en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (316) présente un élément de déclenchement (318, 320) permettant de déclencher le déplacement de la porte (106, 108).
  2. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (316) est exécuté sous forme de dispositif d'ouverture.
  3. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entrainement (316) est exécuté sous forme d'élément à ressort (500) afin de transmettre l'énergie mécanique de la porte (106, 108) lors du déplacement de la porte (106, 108) pour fermer la porte (106, 108).
  4. Contenant (104) selon l'une des revendications précédentes 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'élément à ressort (500) est un ressort en spirale (502).
  5. Contenant (104) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que l'élément à ressort (500) se trouve en liaison fonctionnelle avec une roue dentée (400) qui s'engrène avec une crémaillère (402) reliée en liaison fonctionnelle dormante avec la porte (106, 108).
  6. Contenant (104) selon l'une des revendications précédentes 1 ou 5, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entrainement (316) présente un élément amortisseur (404) se trouvant en liaison fonctionnelle avec la porte (106, 108).
  7. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'élément amortisseur (404) se trouve en liaison fonctionnelle avec la roue dentée (402).
  8. Contenant (104) selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (316) se trouve en liaison fonctionnelle avec une porte supplémentaire (108) pour le déplacement de la porte supplémentaire (108).
  9. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce qu'un élément à ressort supplémentaire (500) du dispositif d'entraînement (316) est relié à la porte supplémentaire (108) de manière à transmettre de l'énergie mécanique, afin d'occasionner un déplacement de la porte (108).
  10. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 8 ou 9, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (316) présente un élément de déclenchement supplémentaire (320) avec lequel le déplacement de la porte supplémentaire (108) est déclenchable.
  11. Contenant (104) selon la revendication 8, 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entrainement (316) est exécuté sous forme d'élément à ressort (500) afin de transmettre l'énergie mécanique de la porte supplémentaire (108) lors du déplacement de la porte supplémentaire (108).
  12. Contenant (104) selon l'une des revendications 8 à 11, caractérisé en ce qu'un ressort en spirale supplémentaire (500) se trouve en liaison fonctionnelle avec une roue dentée supplémentaire (400) qui s'engrène avec une crémaillère supplémentaire reliée en liaison fonctionnelle dormante avec la porte supplémentaire (106).
  13. Appareil frigorifique (100) avec au moins un contenant (104) disposé dans l'espace intérieur (102) de l'appareil frigorifique (100) afin d'accueillir des denrées à réfrigérer, selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 12.
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