EP3056843B1 - Réfrigérateur - Google Patents

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EP3056843B1
EP3056843B1 EP16154486.1A EP16154486A EP3056843B1 EP 3056843 B1 EP3056843 B1 EP 3056843B1 EP 16154486 A EP16154486 A EP 16154486A EP 3056843 B1 EP3056843 B1 EP 3056843B1
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Changwoan Yang
Seungjin Choi
Hanhyo KIM
Yoomin PARK
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  • Embodiments relate to a refrigerator.
  • a door that opens and closes a storage compartment in a refrigerator may have a structure including an inner door and an outer door.
  • a housing which defines an accommodation space, may be installed at a rear surface of the inner door, which is in close contact with a cabinet.
  • An opening which allows access to an inside of the housing, may be formed at the inner door, and the opening may be blocked by the outer door.
  • a user may store items, e.g., food, which used, in the housing, and thus, may take out food stored in the housing by opening only the outer door and may also minimize leakage of cool air from the storage compartment.
  • items e.g., food, which used, in the housing
  • the cool air in the storage compartment of the refrigerator may not be smoothly supplied into the housing.
  • Food accommodated in the housing may serve as an obstacle that blocks flow of the cool air, and thus, the cool air supplied into the housing may not circulate.
  • a method in which a duct connecting an evaporation compartment with the housing is separately installed inside the cabinet of the refrigerator, has been proposed.
  • a disadvantage for this method is that a separate duct component may be installed at a side surface or an upper surface of the cabinet, and a separate insulation for the duct may be required.
  • an insulating effect of the duct may be lowered, dew condensation or ice formation may occur, and the duct may expand during a foaming process.
  • JP H03 175247 A relates to a refrigerator in which an openable cover is provided at the front of a door shelf of a freezing compartment so as to form an independent storage compartment, a cold air intake and a cold air outlet are respectively provided at the upper and lower parts of the independent storage compartment and a cold air duct is provided on the ceiling of the freezing compartment to introduce a portion of cold air from a chiller to the cold air intake.
  • the independent storage compartment 20 is used as a second freezing temperature band compartment
  • the other part of the freezing compartment is used as the first freezing temperature band compartment
  • the cold air duct is used as an exclusive cold air passage.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator having a cool air circulation structure according to an embodiment.
  • a refrigerator 10 may include a cabinet 11, which may have a storage space therein, and a door, which may be rotatably or slidably connected to a front surface of the cabinet 11 and may selectively open and close the storage space.
  • the storage space may include a refrigerator compartment 111 and a freezer compartment 112.
  • the refrigerator compartment 111 may be selectively opened and closed by a rotary or rotatable door 12, and the freezer compartment 112 may be selectively opened and closed by a drawer door 13.
  • the door 13, which may open and close the freezer compartment 112, may also be a rotatable door.
  • the doors 12, 13 When the doors 12, 13 are rotatable, the doors 12, 13 may be a pair of French doors, which may be rotatably connected to a left or first edge and a right or second edge of the front surface of the cabinet 11. At least one of the pair of French doors includes an inner door 121, which may be rotatably coupled to the front surface of the cabinet 11, and an outer door 122, which is rotatably coupled to the inner door 121 at a front surface of the inner door 121.
  • the inner door 121 and the outer door 122 may be referred to as a first door and a second door, respectively.
  • FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view of the door of the refrigerator according to the embodiment.
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a door basket provided at the door of the refrigerator according to the embodiment.
  • FIG. 4 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line V-V of FIG. 2 .
  • the door 12 of the refrigerator 10 includes the inner door 121, and the outer door 122.
  • the inner door 121 may include a door case 121a, which may form an external appearance of the inner door 121, a door liner 121b, which may be installed or provided at a rear surface of the door case 121a, and a door dike 121c, which may protrude from the door liner 121b at a predetermined length and may be provided along an outer edge of the door liner 121b.
  • a door case 121a which may form an external appearance of the inner door 121
  • a door liner 121b which may be installed or provided at a rear surface of the door case 121a
  • a door dike 121c which may protrude from the door liner 121b at a predetermined length and may be provided along an outer edge of the door liner 121b.
  • an access hole or an opening 121d having a predetermined size is formed inside the inner door 121, and the access hole 121d may be selectively opened and closed by the outer door 122.
  • the housing 14 may be coupled to the door dike 121c.
  • a width of the food accommodation space formed at the inner door 121 may be defined as a sum of a length corresponding to a thickness of the inner door 121 defined by the door case 121a and the door liner 121b, a protruding length of the door dike 121c, and a width of the housing 14.
  • the housing 14 may include upper and lower surfaces, left and right side surfaces, a rear surface, and an opened front surface.
  • a size of the opened front surface may correspond to a size of the access hole 121d.
  • a cool air inlet port 141, through which cool air may be introduced into the housing 14, is formed at the upper surface of the housing 14, and a plurality of cool air outlet ports 142 may be formed at the rear surface of the housing 14.
  • a plurality of basket supporting ribs 143 may protrude from an inner surface of the housing 14.
  • the plurality of basket supporting ribs or brackets 143 may be provided inside the housing 14 to be spaced apart from each other vertically at predetermined intervals.
  • Each of the basket supporting ribs 143 may horizontally extend from the inner surface of the housing 14 while having a predetermined width, and may continuously extend along the left and right side surfaces and the rear surface of the housing 14.
  • each of the basket supporting ribs 143 may extend from only inner surfaces of the left and right side surfaces of the housing 14.
  • One or more door baskets 15 are installed inside the housing 14. Each of the door baskets 15 may be seated on the basket supporting ribs 143 and may be coupled to the door dike 121c. The one or more door baskets 15 may be separably coupled to the door dike 121c. When the door baskets 15 are coupled to the door dike 121c, a bottom of each of the door baskets 15 may be in contact with the basket supporting ribs 143.
  • a fastening rib 121e which may protrude toward a center of the access hole 121d and vertically extend a predetermined length, may be formed at an inner surface of the door dike 121c. The fastening rib 121e may be inserted into a side surface of the door basket 15.
  • a cool air path 105 through which the cool air may pass, is formed between the front surface of the inner door 121 and front surfaces of the door baskets 15.
  • the front surfaces of the door baskets 15 are spaced backward apart from the front surface of the inner door 121 at a predetermined distance. Therefore, cool air from the refrigerator compartment 111 introduced into the cool air inlet port 141 may flow down along the cool air path 105, and then may be discharged again into the refrigerator compartment 111 through the plurality of cool air outlet ports 142.
  • Each of the door baskets 15 may be in a box shape, of which an upper surface may be opened.
  • each of the door baskets 15 may include a front portion 152, a rear portion 153, a left side portion 154 and a right side portion 155, which may connect ends of the front portion 152 and the rear portion 153, and a bottom portion 151, which may connect lower ends of the rear portion 153, the left and right side portions 154 and 155, and the front portion 152.
  • a basket installation part or mount 156 may be formed at each of left and right edges of the rear portion 153.
  • the basket installation mount 156 may further protrude from the rear portion 153.
  • the basket installation mount 156 may be coupled to the door dike 121c.
  • a distance L1 from a front end of the basket installation mount 156 to the front portion 152 of the door basket 15 may be longer than a distance L2 between the rear portion 153 and the front portion 152.
  • a fastening groove 157 in which the fastening rib 121e formed at the door dike 121c may be inserted, may be recessed from an outer surface of the basket installation mount 156.
  • the fastening rib 121e may be inserted into the fastening groove 157 in a direction in which the door basket 15 may be moved onto the fastening rib 121e, for example, a downward direction, and thus, the door basket 15 may be coupled to the door dike 121c.
  • the fastening rib 121e is inserted into the fastening groove 157 by moving the door basket 15 downward, the door basket 15 may be prevented from being separated from the inner door 121 while the inner door 121 is opened and closed.
  • the cool air descending path 105 is defined as a space formed by the rear portion 153 of the door basket 15, the basket installation mount 156, the access hole 121d, and a rear surface of the outer door 122.
  • a distance from the rear surface of the outer door 122 to the rear portion 153 of the door basket 15 may be defined as a width of the cool air descending path 105.
  • a cool air circulation fan 20 is installed or provided at an upper surface of a front portion of the cabinet 11.
  • the cool air circulation fan 20 is located at a position corresponding to just above the cool air inlet port 141 of the housing 14.
  • a fan seating groove 113 formed to be recessed at a predetermined depth may be formed at an inner upper surface of the cabinet 11 at which the cool air circulation fan 20 may be installed.
  • a wire 114 connected to the cool air circulation fan 20 may extend along an inside of the cabinet 11, and may be connected to a controller.
  • the cool air circulation fan 20 may be inclined at an angle corresponding to a gradient of the upper surface of the housing 14.
  • a bottom of the fan seating groove 113 may be inclined with a gradient, which is the same as a gradient of the upper surface of the housing 14.
  • the fan seating groove 113 may be recessed by a depth, which may accommodate the cool air circulation fan 20 such that the cool air circulation fan 20 may not interfere with the upper surface of the housing 14 when the door 12 is closed. That is, the fan seating groove 113 may be recessed with a predetermined depth so that a lower surface of the cool air circulation fan 20 may be spaced apart from the upper surface of the housing 14 at a predetermined distance when the cool air circulation fan 20 is installed at a ceiling of the refrigerator compartment 111.
  • the fan seating groove 113 may have a sufficient size such that the cool air in the refrigerator compartment 111 may be introduced to the cool air circulation fan 20. That is, when the door 12 is closed, a rear end of the fan seating groove 113 may be further rearward than the rear surface of the housing 14. Then, the cool air in the refrigerator compartment 111 may be suctioned to the cool air circulation fan 20 through a space defined between the rear surface of the housing 14 and a rear end of the fan seating groove 113.
  • the cool air suctioned by the cool air circulation fan 20 is supplied into the housing 14 through the cool air inlet port 141 of the housing 14, and the cool air supplied in the housing 14 may cool food inside the housing 14 in a refrigerated state.
  • a circulation process in which the cool air supplied in the housing 14 may flow down along the cool air descending path 105 and be discharged again into the refrigerator compartment 111 through the cool air outlet ports 142, may be repeated.
  • the cool air circulation fan is installed at the ceiling portion of the storage compartment inside the cabinet, the cool air in the storage compartment of the refrigerator may be supplied to the housing of the door, and the cool air may be smoothly circulated.
  • Embodiments disclosed herein provide a refrigerator which is able to provide the above-mentioned advantages.
  • a refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment; a door rotatably coupled to a front surface of the cabinet, and configured to selectively open and close the storage compartment; a housing installed at a rear surface of the door to define a food accommodation space, and having a cool air inlet hole formed at an upper surface thereof; a door basket or basket located inside the housing; and a cool air circulation fan or circulation fan installed or provided at an inner upper surface of the cabinet corresponding to an upper side of the cool air inlet hole when the door is closed, and configured to enable the cool air in the storage compartment to forcibly flow to an inside of the housing, wherein a cool air descending path or flow path is formed between a vertical surface that passes through a front surface of the door and a vertical surface that passes through a front portion of the door basket.
  • the refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment, a door rotatably coupled to a front surface of the cabinet that opens and closes the storage compartment, a housing provided at a rear surface of the door to define an accommodation space, a cool air inlet hole provided at an upper surface of the housing, a basket provided inside the housing and mounted to the door, the basket having a recess to provide an opening between the basket and the door, a circulation fan provided at an inner upper surface of the cabinet that corresponds to an upper side of the cool air inlet hole when the door is closed, and configured to circulate cool air from the storage compartment into an inside of the housing, and a cool air flow path formed by the opening to allow the cool air to flow through the inside of the accommodation space.
  • the circulation fan may introduce the cool air from the storage compartment into the housing through the cool air inlet hole, and the cool air introduced into the housing flows down along the cool air flow path.
  • the refrigerator further includes at least one cool air outlet port formed at a rear surface of the housing, and the cool air flowing down along the cool air flow path may be discharged into the storage compartment through the cool air outlet port.
  • a fan seating groove may be recessed from the inner upper surface of the cabinet at which the circulation fan is installed such that the circulation fan may not interfere with the upper surface of the housing when the door is closed.
  • the upper surface of the housing may be inclined at a gradient, and the circulation fan may be inclined at a gradient that corresponds to the gradient of the upper surface of the housing.
  • a width of the fan seating groove may extend further into a rear of the cabinet than a rear surface of the housing while the door is closed such that the cool air in the storage compartment may be suctioned to the circulation fan.
  • the door includes an inner door, in which the housing is provided at a rear surface thereof, and an outer door, which is rotatably connected to the inner door.
  • An edge of the rear surface of the inner door may be in close contact with the front surface of the cabinet while the inner door is closed, and an edge of a rear surface of the outer door may be in close contact with a front surface of the inner door while the outer door is closed.
  • An access hole may be formed inside the inner door and may be opened and closed by the outer door, the access hole having a same size as a front end of the housing.
  • the inner door may include a door case, of which a front surface may be in close contact with the rear surface of the outer door, a door liner, which may be coupled to a rear surface of the door case, and a door dike, which may protrude from an edge of the door liner and may be in close contact with a front surface of the housing.
  • the door dike may include a pair of vertical portions that extend along a left edge and a right edge of the access hole; and one or more fastening ribs that protrude from an inner surface of each of the pair of vertical portions.
  • the basket may include a front portion; a rear portion; left and right side portions that connect ends of the front portion and the rear portion; a bottom portion that connects the front portion, the left and right side portions, and the rear portion; and a basket installation mount, to which the fastening rib may be fastened, that extends out from left and right edges of the front portion.
  • the basket installation mount may include a fastening groove that extends vertically in the basket installation mount and may have a depth that corresponds to a protrusion size of the fastening rib. While the outer door is in close contact with the inner door, a front end of the basket installation mount and the rear surface of the outer door may be spaced apart from each other at a predetermined distance. While the outer door is in close contact with the inner door, a forward and backward width of a center of the cool air flow path may be a distance from the rear surface of the outer door to the front portion of the basket.
  • the refrigerator may further include a basket supporting rib that extends from an inner side surface of the housing toward a center of the housing and with which the bottom portion of the basket is in close contact when the fastening rib is completely inserted into the fastening groove.
  • any reference in this specification to "one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “example embodiment,” etc. means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the invention.
  • the appearances of such phrases in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.

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  1. Réfrigérateur, comprenant :
    une armoire (11) présentant un compartiment de stockage;
    une porte (12) couplée de manière pivotante à une surface avant de l'armoire (11) qui ouvre et ferme le compartiment de stockage, la porte (12) comprenant une porte intérieure (121) présentant un trou d'accès (121d), et
    une porte extérieure (122) qui est couplée de manière pivotante à la porte intérieure (121) ;
    un logement (14) fourni au niveau d'une surface arrière de la porte intérieure (121) pour définir un espace de rangement ;
    un trou d'arrivée d'air froid (141) situé au niveau d'une surface supérieure du logement (14) ;
    un panier (15) fourni à l'intérieur du logement (14) et monté sur la porte (12), le panier (15) présentant une cavité conçue pour fournir une ouverture entre le panier (15) et la porte (12) et une monture d'installation de panier (156) formée au niveau de chacun des bords gauche et droit d'une partie arrière (153) du panier (15) ; et
    un ventilateur de circulation (20) fourni au niveau d'une surface supérieure intérieure de l'armoire (11) qui correspond à un côté supérieur du trou d'arrivée d'air froid (141) quand la porte (12) est fermée, et conçu pour faire circuler de l'air froid depuis le compartiment de stockage jusque dans une partie intérieure du logement (14) ; et
    un trajet d'écoulement d'air froid (105) formé par l'ouverture pour permettre à l'air froid de circuler à travers l'intérieur de l'espace de rangement,
    caractérisé en ce que :
    le trajet d'écoulement d'air froid (105) est défini comme un espace formé par la partie arrière (153) du panier de porte (15), la monture d'installation de panier (156),
    le trou d'accès (121d) et une surface arrière de la porte extérieure (122),
    le ventilateur de circulation (20) est situé à une position correspondant à un emplacement juste au-dessus du trou d'arrivée d'air froid (141) du logement (14), et
    au moins un orifice de sortie d'air froid (142) est formé au niveau d'une surface arrière du logement (14), dans lequel l'air froid circulant vers le bas le long du trajet d'écoulement d'air froid (105) est déversé dans le compartiment de stockage à travers l'orifice de sortie d'air froid (142).
  2. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 1, le ventilateur de circulation (20) étant conçu pour introduire l'air froid provenant du compartiment de stockage dans le logement (14) à travers le trou d'arrivée d'air froid (141) et l'air froid introduit dans le logement (14) circule vers le bas le long du trajet d'écoulement d'air froid (105).
  3. Réfrigérateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 et 2, dans lequel une rainure d'assise de ventilateur (113) est en retrait par rapport à la surface supérieure intérieure de l'armoire (11) au niveau de laquelle le ventilateur de circulation (20) est installé de telle manière que le ventilateur de circulation ne gêne pas la surface supérieure du logement (14) quand la porte (12) est fermée.
  4. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la surface supérieure du logement (14) est penchée à une certaine inclinaison et le ventilateur de circulation (20) est penché à une inclinaison qui correspond à l'inclinaison de la surface supérieure du logement (14).
  5. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 3 ou 4, dans lequel une largeur de la rainure d'assise de ventilateur (113) s'étend davantage dans une partie arrière de l'armoire (11) qu'une surface arrière du logement (14) lorsque la porte (12) est fermée de telle manière que l'air froid dans le compartiment de stockage est aspiré vers le ventilateur de circulation (20).
  6. Réfrigérateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans lequel un bord de la surface arrière de la porte intérieure (121) est en contact étroit avec la surface avant de l'armoire (11) lorsque la porte intérieure (121) est fermée et un bord d'une surface arrière de la porte extérieure (122) est en contact étroit avec une surface avant de la porte intérieure (121) lorsque la porte extérieure (122) est fermée.
  7. Réfrigérateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, dans lequel le trou d'accès (121d) est formé dans la porte intérieure (121) et peut être ouvert et fermé par la porte extérieure (122), le trou d'accès (121d) ayant une dimension identique à celle d'une extrémité avant du logement (14).
  8. Réfrigérateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, dans lequel la porte intérieure (121) comprend
    un panneau de porte (121a) dont une surface avant est en contact étroit avec la surface arrière de la porte extérieure (122),
    un revêtement de porte (121b) qui est couplé à une surface arrière du panneau de porte (121a), et
    un rebord de porte (121c) qui fait saillie à partir d'un bord du revêtement de porte (121b) et qui est en contact étroit avec une surface avant du logement (14).
  9. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 8, dans lequel le rebord de porte (121c) comprend
    une paire de parties verticales qui s'étendent le long d'un bord gauche et d'un bord droit du trou d'accès (121d) ; et
    une ou plusieurs nervures de fixation (121e) qui font saillie à partir d'une surface intérieure de chaque partie de la paire de parties verticales.
  10. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 9, dans lequel le panier (15) comprend
    une partie avant (152) ;
    la partie arrière (153) ;
    des parties latérales gauche et droite (154, 155) qui relient des extrémités de la partie avant (152) et de la partie arrière (153) ; et
    une partie de fond (151) qui relie la partie avant (152), les parties latérales gauche et droite (154, 155) et la partie arrière (153) ;
    dans lequel la monture d'installation de panier (156) est fixée à la nervure de fixation (121e) et s'étend vers l'extérieur à partir des bords gauche et droit de la partie arrière (153).
  11. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 10, dans lequel la monture d'installation de panier (156) comprend une rainure de fixation (157) qui s'étend verticalement dans la monture d'installation de panier (156) et a une profondeur qui correspond à une dimension de saillie de la nervure de fixation (121e).
  12. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 11, dans lequel, lorsque la porte extérieure (122) est en contact étroit avec la porte intérieure (121), une extrémité avant de la monture d'installation de panier (156) et la surface arrière de la porte extérieure (122) sont espacées l'une de l'autre selon une distance prédéterminée.
  13. Réfrigérateur selon la revendication 10, dans lequel, lorsque la porte extérieure (122) est en contact étroit avec la porte intérieure (121), une largeur d'avant en arrière d'un centre du trajet d'écoulement d'air froid correspond à une distance de la surface arrière de la porte extérieure (122) à la partie avant (152) du panier (15).
  14. Réfrigérateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 10 à 13, comprenant en outre une nervure de support de panier (143) qui s'étend depuis une surface latérale intérieure du logement (14) vers un centre du logement (14) et avec laquelle la partie de fond (151) du panier (15) est en contact étroit quand la nervure de fixation (121e) est complètement insérée dans la rainure de fixation (157).
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