EP3086062A1 - Réfrigérateur - Google Patents

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EP3086062A1
EP3086062A1 EP14871882.8A EP14871882A EP3086062A1 EP 3086062 A1 EP3086062 A1 EP 3086062A1 EP 14871882 A EP14871882 A EP 14871882A EP 3086062 A1 EP3086062 A1 EP 3086062A1
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front plate
dispenser unit
refrigerator
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Young Bae Hong
Kwon Chul Yun
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
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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
    • F25D23/028—Details
    • 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
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
    • 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
    • F25D11/00—Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic 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
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/06—Walls
    • 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
    • F25D23/08—Parts formed wholly or mainly of plastics materials
    • F25D23/082—Strips
    • F25D23/087—Sealing strips
    • 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
    • F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
    • F25D23/126—Water cooler
    • 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
    • F25D2331/806—Dispensers

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  • the present invention relates to a refrigerator having an improved structure in which a dispenser unit is coupled to a front plate of a door.
  • a refrigerator is an appliance that includes storage chambers and a cold air supply unit which supplies cold air to the storage chambers and keeps food fresh.
  • the temperature of the storage chamber is maintained in a predetermined range desired for keeping the food fresh.
  • Such a storage chamber of the refrigerator is provided with a front surface to be opened, and the open front surface is closed by a door at ordinary times to maintain the temperature of the storage chamber.
  • a plurality of storage chambers are partitioned by partitions, the storage chambers provided at an upper side among the plurality of storage chambers are opened and closed by double-door-type doors which are rotatably hinge-coupled, and the storage chambers provided at a lower side are opened and closed by drawer type doors which slides in a forward and backward direction.
  • a dispenser unit capable of discharging water and ice at an outside of a main body is provided at the double-door-type door, and the dispenser unit is coupled to a rear surface of the double-door-type door of the front plate.
  • an additional operation such as a taping operation or a sealing operation around an edge of the dispenser unit is required to prevent a thermal insulating material filling the inside of the double-door-type door from leaking between the front plate and the dispenser unit.
  • the front plate When the taping operation is performed between the front plate and the dispenser unit with subsidiary materials such as tapes to prevent the leakage of the thermal insulating material, the front plate may be bent while the thermal insulating material filling the inside of the double-door-type door is absorbed into the subsidiary material and hardened.
  • the subsidiary material has to be separated from the thermal insulating material such that the front plate is not bent, and to this end, the subsidiary material has to be covered with felt and the like into which the thermal insulating material is not absorbed so as not to be in contact with the thermal insulating material.
  • the present invention is directed to providing a refrigerator in which a gasket seals between a front plate of a door and a dispenser unit.
  • One aspect of the present invention provides a refrigerator including a main body, a storage chamber provided in the main body and having an open front surface, a door which is rotatably coupled to the main body, opens and closes the open front surface of the storage chamber, and has a front plate in which an opening is provided, wherein an inside thereof is filled with a thermal insulating material, a dispenser unit which is coupled to a rear surface of the front plate to seal the opening, and discharges water and ice to an outside of the main body, and a gasket which is coupled to an edge portion of the dispenser unit and seals between the front plate and the dispenser unit.
  • An insertion groove into which the gasket is inserted may be provided at the edge portion.
  • the gasket may be inserted into the insertion groove to protrude from a front surface of an edge of the dispenser unit, and may prevent the thermal insulating material from permeating between the front plate and the dispenser unit.
  • the inside of the door may be filled with the thermal insulating material to be in direct contact with the front plate.
  • a plurality of hooks by which the dispenser unit is fixed may be provided at the opening of the rear surface of the front plate.
  • a plurality of fixing holes fixed by the hooks may be provided in the dispenser unit.
  • the dispenser unit may be coupled to the rear surface of the front plate so that the hook is inserted into the fixing hole, and when the hook is inserted into the fixing hole, the hook may be bent so that the dispenser unit may be fixed to the front plate.
  • a cap which seals the fixing hole may be provided at the fixing hole to prevent the thermal insulating material from leaking through the fixing hole.
  • a protrusion protruding along a circumference of the opening may be provided at the rear surface of the front plate.
  • the protrusion may be provided to have a width of 30 mm from the opening, and to protrude 0.45 mm from the rear surface of the front plate.
  • an additional taping or sealing process for sealing between the front plate and the dispenser unit can be omitted.
  • the front plate may not be bent even when additional subsidiary materials, such as a tape or felt, are not used.
  • a refrigerator includes a main body 10, a plurality of storage chambers 20 provided in the main body 10 to open front surfaces, doors 30 pivotably coupled to the main body 10 to open and close the open front surfaces of the storage chambers 20, storage units 40 which are accommodated in the storage chambers 20 and slide in or out from the storage chamber 20, and a dispenser unit 70 coupled to the door 30 to discharge water and ice to the outside of the main body 10.
  • the main body 10 includes an inner case (not shown) forming the storage chambers 20, an outer case (not shown) forming an exterior, and a cooling air supplier (not shown) which supplies cooling air to the storage chambers 20.
  • the cooling air supplier may include a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, a blower fan, a cooling air duct, and the like, and a thermal insulating material U is foamed between the inner case and the outer case of the main body 10 and inside of the door 30 to prevent a leakage of the cooling air of the storage chambers 20 (see FIG. 10 ).
  • a machine compartment (not shown), in which the compressor which compresses a refrigerant and the condenser which condenses the compressed refrigerant are installed, may be provided at a lower portion in a rear side of the main body 10.
  • the plurality of storage chambers 20 may be partitioned into an upper chamber 21, an intermediate chamber 23, and a lower chamber 25 by partitions 11, and each of the chambers may refrigerate or freeze and store food as necessary.
  • a plurality of shelves 27 may be provided in the upper chamber 21 and divide the upper chamber 21 into a plurality of spaces, and a plurality of storage containers 29 capable of storing food and the like may be provided in the upper chamber 21.
  • the upper chamber 21 may be opened and closed by the doors 30 pivotably coupled to the main body 10, and the intermediate chamber 23 and the lower chamber 25 may be respectively opened and closed by the storage units 40 capable of sliding with respect to the main body 10.
  • Handles 31 may be provided on a front surface of the doors 30, and a plurality of door guards 33 capable of storing food and the like may be installed on a rear surface of the doors 30.
  • the storage units 40 may include drawer type doors 41 which open and close the intermediate chamber 23 and the lower chamber 25, and storage containers 43 installed on rear surfaces of the drawer type doors 41, and drawer handles 41a that a user can grip may be provided on the drawer type doors 41.
  • the storage containers 43 may be provided to be integrally formed with the drawer type doors 41, or may be provided by a method in which the storage containers 43 are manufactured separately from the drawer type doors 41 and are coupled to the drawer type doors 41.
  • the storage units 40 may slide in or out from the intermediate chamber 23 and the lower chamber 25 by sliding units 50.
  • the dispenser unit 70 is coupled to the door 30 so that a discharge groove 71 is exposed to the outside of the door 30, and water and ice in the main body 10 may be discharged to the outside of the main body 10 through the discharge groove 71 even without opening the door 30.
  • the door 30 includes a front plate 60 disposed at a front surface of the door 30 to form an exterior, and an opening 61 configured to expose the discharge groove 71 of the dispenser unit 70 to the outside is provided in the front plate 60.
  • the dispenser unit 70 is coupled to a rear surface of the front plate 60 so that the discharge groove 71 faces the front plate 60, and the discharge groove 71 is exposed to the outside of the door 30 through the opening 61.
  • a user may discharge water and ice included in the main body 10 through the discharge groove 71 exposed to the outside of the door 30.
  • a gasket 80 is coupled to the dispenser unit 70 coupled to the rear surface of the front plate 60 to prevent the thermal insulating material U filling the door 30 from leaking between the front plate 60 and the dispenser unit 70.
  • An insertion groove 75 into which the gasket 80 is inserted is provided at an edge portion 73 of the dispenser unit 70 to seal between the front plate 60 and the dispenser unit 70 so as to prevent the leakage of the thermal insulating material U by the gasket 80 inserted into the insertion groove 75.
  • the gasket 80 be inserted into the insertion groove 75 of the dispenser unit 70 to protrude forward from a front surface of the dispenser unit 70.
  • the gasket 80 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60 to more firmly seal between the front plate 60 and the dispenser unit 70.
  • the thermal insulating material U filling the door 30 is in direct contact with the rear surface of the front plate 60.
  • a plurality of hooks 63 are provided at the opening 61 of the front plate 60 to couple the dispenser unit 70 to the rear surface of the front plate 60, and a plurality of fixing holes 77 are provided in the dispenser unit 70 at positions corresponding to the plurality of hooks 63.
  • the dispenser unit 70 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60. Next, as illustrated in FIG. 8 , by bending the hooks 63, the dispenser unit 70 is fixed to the front plate 60.
  • the fixing hole 77 is covered by a cap 90 to be sealed as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9 to prevent the thermal insulating material U from leaking through the fixing hole 77.
  • the dispenser unit 70 When the dispenser unit 70 is fixed to the rear surface of the front plate 60, since the dispenser unit 70 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60, the surroundings of the opening 61 of the front plate 60 in contact with the dispenser unit 70 may be bent.
  • a protrusion 65 protruding from the rear surface of the front plate 60 along a circumference of the opening 61 may be provided at the rear surface of the front plate 60.
  • the protrusion 65 may be provided to have a width of approximately 30 mm from the opening 61, and to protrude approximately 0.45 mm from the rear surface of the front plate 60.
  • the protrusion 65 is provided along the circumference of the opening 61, when the dispenser unit 70 is coupled to the rear surface of the front plate 60, bends occurring at the surroundings of the opening 61 of the front plate 60 may be improved.
  • the gasket 80 is inserted into the insertion groove 75 of the dispenser unit 70 as illustrated in FIG. 3 , and then the dispenser unit 70 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60 as illustrated in FIG. 4 .
  • the dispenser unit 70 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60 by the fixing holes 77 being inserted into the hooks 63 of the front plate 60.
  • the dispenser unit 70 After the dispenser unit 70 is pressed against the rear surface of the front plate 60 by the hooks 63 being inserted into the fixing holes 77, the dispenser unit 70 is fixed to the front plate 60 by bending the hooks 63, and the fixing holes 77 are covered by the cap 90 to be sealed as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9 .

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