Classifications

• • 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
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D29/00—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • F25D29/005—Mounting of control devices
• • 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
  • F25D2327/00—Lighting arrangements not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2327/001—Lighting arrangements on the external side of the refrigerator, freezer or cooling box
• • 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
  • F25D2400/36—Visual displays
  • F25D2400/361—Interactive visual displays
• • 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
  • F25D2700/00—Means for sensing or measuring; Sensors therefor
  • F25D2700/04—Sensors detecting the presence of a person

Definitions

• the invention relates to a household refrigerator with a housing and with a housing arranged on the housing and separate device component, which is movable relative to the housing.
• the device component has a front wall which has a front side surface and a strip surface inclined thereto.
• the device component has a display and / or operating unit, which is formed on the strip surface.
• the device component also has a handle.
• a household refrigerator is known.
• This has a drawer, which has a front wall.
• the front wall has at its upper edge to the outside of the front wall obliquely inclined strip surface.
• At this strip surface in the middle of a display unit and control unit is formed.
• On the outside of the front wall an arcuate handle is arranged.
• the handle is formed separately and extends towards the front or the outside of the front wall of this drawer raised forward over so that it can be embraced.
• This bent handle bar is also spaced apart from a display unit integrated in an upper area in the front wall.
• a household refrigerator which has the features of claim 1.
• One aspect of the invention relates to a household refrigerating appliance having a housing and having a device component arranged on the housing and separate from the housing.
• the device component is movable relative to the housing.
• the device component has a front wall which has a front side surface and a strip surface inclined thereto.
• the front side surface and the strip surface are thus two separate surface regions, which are oriented differently from one another and thus do not extend in a common plane.
• the strip surface adjoins the front side surface, so that a visible side or front surface of the device component is formed by the front side surface and the side surface.
• the household refrigerator knows a display and / or control unit. This display and / or operating unit is formed on the strip surface.
• the household refrigerator has a handle which is arranged on the device component.
• the handle is formed in the strip surface as a trough, this trough being formed next to the display and / or operating unit.
• Such a configuration of a household refrigerating appliance arranges a plurality of functionally different components on a specific area of a front wall of the appliance component. On the one hand, this is the display and / or operating unit and, on the other hand, the handle. This is also still specifically shaped, namely as a trough.
• the handle Due to the specific shape of the handle, namely as a trough, which thus represents a trough-like or trough-like depression, secure and reliable engagement for a user is also possible at any time if, in addition to the device component in the region of the inclined strip surface, another component of the household refrigerating appliance is arranged , Especially through this inclined strip surface also result in easy access and a simple operation of the device component in the engaged state in the trough.
• the trough which constitutes the handle, is spaced apart from and, viewed in the longitudinal extent of the strip surface, next to the display and / or operating unit, is formed on the inclined strip surface.
• the handle representing the trough is formed centrally in the strip surface. This is advantageous in that no unilateral force effects on the device component when engaging in the handle and when pressing the device component, so that the movement of the device component is also possible symmetrical and, for example, a pivoting or linear displacement can also be carried out sidelock. An undesirable jamming and a resulting jerky movement pattern is thereby avoided.
• the front side surface is oriented vertically.
• the strip surface is completely uncovered towards the front and the front side surface ends at a lower edge of the strip surface. This means that no overlapping is formed in the direction in which the front side surface and the strip surface are arranged relative to one another and thus are positioned next to one another in this viewing direction and thus also in the spatial direction. In a projection of the front side surface and the strip surface in a plane, these surfaces are arranged without overlapping. The front side surface and the strip surface are thus arranged without overlapping in this spatial direction in which they are formed in series with one another. This is particularly advantageous in that the display and / or operating unit can then be designed to be large, and thus virtually also over a large proportion of Extend extent that measures along the narrow side of the strip area.
• a display and / or operating unit that is as large as possible is thus also producible in this inclined arrangement of the strip surface, which is then exposed completely and unrestrictedly towards the front and can not be obstructed by the front side surface, at least in places. This is also advantageous for the access and the tangibility of the trough.
• the trough is in particular designed such that it ends with its trough contour or its Muldenbegrenzungsrand spaced from the edges of the strip surface. This boundary edge of the trough is thus set back from the edges of the strip surface. This also creates a very ergonomic way to be able to intervene in this trough on the inclined strip surface and then to be able to grip them safely. An undesirable slipping or slipping is thereby avoided in particular.
• the household refrigerator in particular the device component, a lighting device.
• the lighting device is designed to illuminate or backlight the trough. This is very advantageous in that the position and / or the dimensions of the trough can also be visually displayed.
• the display of the position and / or the dimensions of the trough is also more accurate and contour sharpening allows, so no unwanted stray light in the area the display and / or operating unit can get and thus the display and / or operating unit is not undesirable visually impaired.
• the lighting device is designed to generate an optical stand-by display of the display and / or operating unit.
• the display and / or operating unit is deactivated in the non-required state and no lighting or the like of information is given to the display and / or control unit.
• the display and / or operating unit is a touch-sensitive unit, no further protruding mechanical controls are arranged so that then the display and / or operating unit in this stand-by operating state, so to speak, is not recognized.
• this optical representation of the stand-by display is advantageous.
• this optical stand-by display is formed by a light bar or a fine light strip. This allows a very discreet display of this operating state, which is fully recognizable to a user.
• this light bar or light strip is displayed on the inclined strip surface. In particular, it is formed directly adjacent to the display and / or operating unit, in particular between the display and / or operating unit and the edge, with which the inclined strip surface opens to the front side surface.
• the household refrigerating appliance has at least one proximity sensor. Furthermore, the household refrigerating appliance has a control unit, wherein a functional unit of the household refrigerating appliance can be activated by the control unit depending on a detected approach of a user to the appliance component by the proximity sensor. Thus, a use request or a specific operation of the household refrigeration device, such as opening the device component, can be foreseen by this proximity sensor and it can be done in this regard before pressing a setting that allows the user faster and easier to make this operation.
• the proximity sensor may be disposed on the device component itself or another device component.
• the domestic refrigerator has a dispenser unit for dispensing liquid and / or ice forming elements, such as crushed ice or ice cubes. This dispenser unit preferably has an expenditure tables, which is formed on a front side of a device component of the household refrigerating appliance and is accessible from the front. It can be provided in an advantageous embodiment that at least one proximity sensor is formed in this niche.
• the functional unit which can be activated by the control unit as a function of a signal of the proximity sensor, is the lighting device already mentioned above, with which in particular the trough can be backlit and / or a specific operating state of the display and / or Control unit is visually displayed. It can be provided that, depending on a detected approach of a user, the operating state of the lighting device is automatically changeable. For example, it may be provided that the backlighting of the trough is activated when a user approaches the domestic refrigeration appliance. Thus, a user can already clearly recognize this depression locally and / or with regard to its dimensions before the actual grasping of the depression, and thus carry out a faster and more targeted intervention in the depression.
• an operating state of the lighting device is automatically changed depending on a touch of the trough by a user.
• This is an alternative embodiment to the variant mentioned above, in which by recognizing an approximation of this operating state is automatically changed. In this alternative, therefore, an actual contact is required in order to be able to cause this change in the operating state of the lighting device.
• the inclined strip area extends over at least 50 percent, in particular at least 80 percent, in particular at least 90 percent, of the length of an edge of the front side surface, to which the inclined strip surface adjoins.
• the strip surface is the upper side of a plate strip, which may be made of real glass in particular.
• the plate strip is made of plastic, which is transparent at least in the area of the display and / or operating unit.
• the plate strip may be formed, for example, as an IML (in-mold labeling) film.
• the device component is designed as a drawer and the inclined strip surface is oriented horizontally and in particular represents an upper end of the front wall.
• the device component can also be designed as a door that can not move linearly, as in a drawer of the Case is, but is pivotable about an axis, in particular about a vertical axis is pivotable.
• the inclined strip surface is then oriented vertically, this being the orientation along the longitudinal axis of the strip surface.
• the strip surface is arranged at an angle between 100 ° and 160 °, in particular between 100 ° and 140 °, to the front wall of the handle. This is particularly advantageous in that through this specific orientation also an information presentation on it is particularly advantageous, because optical reflections or other reflections can be reduced thereby. The perceptibility of correspondingly presented information is advantageous in particular with such an inclined arrangement of the strip area.
• the strip area especially with its obliquely positioned positioning, thus enables a circumferentially and easily perceptible presentation of information by the display and / or operating unit, on the other hand also allows a user-friendly and smooth operation of the display and / or operating unit, as by the corresponding orientation of the strip surface quasi the user interface and the controls are user facing and therefore without a complex movement and thus without having to bend or bend a finger heavily, the operation can be realized.
• the accessibility to operate these controls on the strip surface is therefore very ergonomic.
• the display and / or operating unit has touch-sensitive operating elements.
• touch-sensitive operating elements As a result, the structure above the strip area is virtually not increased, since these touch-sensitive operating areas are formed with sensors arranged underneath. The space immediately adjacent to the strip surface is not affected.
• the display and / or operating unit comprises a TFT display.
• TFT display As a result, not only static but also dynamic information can be displayed, and the color variety as well as the presentation authenticity of information is therefore particularly high. Furthermore, this also allows a very flat construction of the display and / or operating unit, which in turn also little space is needed.
• the strip surface is made of real glass or smooth plastic. This makes it easy to clean. By a very smooth low-friction surface in this regard, even with the intervention of a user with his fingers in the recessed grip and touching the bottom wall, an undesirable touch feeling or an undesirable abrasion on a finger or the like can take place. This increases the user-friendliness.
• the design also conveys a very high-quality impression to be emphasized in terms of quality, so that a high-quality appearance occurs.
• the design favors the optical presentation of information. Just when optical signals are emitted by light sources, is an impairment by minimizes the material in terms of intensity attenuation and / or light falsification.
• the strip surface is limited in the direction of its longitudinal extension at opposite ends by boundary walls.
• boundary walls are in particular triangular, which then preferably results when the front wall is oriented vertically and the strip surface is arranged correspondingly inclined thereto.
• These lateral boundary walls do not protrude forward in the depth direction relative to the front side surface, so that here as well a very compact construction is realized.
• a certain lateral protective wall is formed precisely in the case of visual representations of information on the strip surface, so that no incident light impairs the perceptibility of the optically presented information.
• the household refrigerator is a household refrigerator for receiving food.
• It may, for example, be a refrigerator or a freezer or be a refrigerated combined freezer.
• food such as food or drinks can be introduced.
• information about the environmental conditions within the drawer such as a temperature or humidity can then be displayed.
• information may be represented by letters or symbols or numbers.
• the device component as a door, this can also be arranged for closing a receiving space for food.
• this can then be displayed.
• the terms “top”, “bottom”, “front”, “rear”, “horizontal”, “vertical”, “depth direction”, “width direction”, “height direction” are the intended use and intended arrangement of the device and a then in front of the device given standing and in the direction of the device looking observer given positions and orientations.
• Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a household refrigerator according to the invention
• Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a partial section of the household refrigerating appliance according to Fig. 1;
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another partial section of the household refrigerating appliance according to FIG. 1
• a household refrigerating appliance 1 is shown in one embodiment, which is designed for receiving food.
• the household refrigerator 1 may be a refrigerator or a freezer or a combined refrigerator-freezer. In the exemplary embodiment, it is a fridge-freezer combination device.
• the household refrigerator 1 has a housing 2, in which a first receiving space 3 is formed for food. This first receiving space 3 is for example a cooling compartment.
• the first receiving space 3 is bounded by walls of an inner container having a feed opening on the front side. This loading opening, and thus also the first receiving space 3, are closable on the front side by two separate doors 4a and 5a in the exemplary embodiment, each having a door leaf 4 or 5 as front walls.
• the two doors 4a and 5a are arranged side by side and each pivotable about a pivot axis oriented in the vertical direction (y-direction).
• the two doors 4a and 5a are pivotally mounted on the housing 2.
• the two doors 4a and 5a represent device components of the household refrigerating appliance 1.
• the household refrigerating appliance 1 also has a further receiving space 6, which represents a partial volume of the first receiving space 3.
• This further receiving space 6 represents a fresh food compartment in the first receiving space 3, in which a different humidity and / or different temperature to the remaining volume of the receiving space 3 can be set.
• This can be stored in this fresh food compartment, for example, fruits and vegetables and kept fresh longer.
• This fresh food compartment can be closed by a further door 7a, which is part of a drawer here and has a front wall 7. The drawer is thus only linearly displaceable in the depth direction (x-direction).
• This drawer is another device component, this drawer is also arranged and operable separately from the doors 4a and 5a.
• the household refrigerator 1 has a further separate receiving space 8, which is a freezer here.
• This further receiving space 8 can be closed at the front by a further door 9a, which has a front wall 9.
• the door 9a here is part of another drawer in the depth direction is linearly displaceable.
• the household refrigerator 1 comprises in an advantageous embodiment, a dispenser unit 10, which is designed for dispensing liquid and / or ice forming elements.
• the Dispenser unit 10 comprises an expenditure table 1 1, which is formed in the illustrated embodiment in the door 4a and is also accessible in the closed state of the door 4a front.
• a drinking vessel can be adjusted, in which then enters the dispensed liquid depending on an output request and / or invoke the ice forming elements.
• cooled drinks can thus also be dispensed through this dispenser unit 10.
• the door 5a has a front side surface 12. Furthermore, the door 5a, in particular the door leaf on a directly adjacent strip surface 13.
• the front surface 12 and the strip surface 13 extend in different planes.
• the strip surface 13 is arranged inclined to the front side surface 12. This means that the strip surface 13 is oriented obliquely rearward starting from an edge 13a, with which it opens onto the front side surface 12.
• the strip surface 13 extends in the vertical direction and thus in the height direction on the door 4a facing side.
• the strip surface 13 extends in the embodiment shown not over the entire height of the front side surface 12, but, as can be seen, from an upper edge of the front surface 12 starting over a partial height down.
• the door 4a is formed accordingly and has a front side surface 14 and a due to the perspective in Fig. 1 unrecognizable strip surface 15.
• a display and / or operating unit 16 is formed, which is preferably a touch-sensitive unit.
• the door 5 also includes a handle 17, which is formed as a trough 18 in the strip surface 13, in particular completely formed therein.
• the handle 17 in its configuration as a trough 18 is formed centrally with respect to the height of the strip surface 13 therein.
• the Lighting device 19 is designed for lighting, in particular rear lights, the trough 18.
• the lighting device 19 is also designed for visual display of an operating state of the display and / or operating unit 16.
• an optical display panel, in particular a strip or bar is formed, which is illuminated, in particular for displaying a stand-by Operating state of the display and / or operating unit 16.
• This light bar 20 is preferably formed between the display and / or operating unit 16 and the edge 13 a.
• the lighting device 19 is automatically activated. In particular, this can take place when a specific operating state of the display and / or operating unit 16 occurs. With regard to the backlight of the trough 18 can be provided that such a backlighting then takes place actively when a user 21 directly touches the trough 18. By such a touch-sensitive activation, the trough 18 can then be backlit.
• the household refrigerating appliance 1 has at least one proximity sensor 22, which can be arranged, for example, in the dispensing niche 11. With such, at least one proximity sensor 22, an approximation of the user 21 can be detected and then an activation of the lighting device 19 for backlighting of the trough 18 take place.
• the backlighting is thus already then when the user 21 approaches the household refrigerator 1, in particular is arranged within a specific distance to the household refrigerator 1, the strip surface 13, in particular the trough 18, but has not touched yet.
• the explained functions of the lighting device 19 are also valid for other lighting devices that are in communication with the door 4a and can backlight the trough there and / or visually display a specific operating state of the local display and / or control unit.
• the drawer with its door 7a which also has at its front wall 7, a front side surface 23 and an adjacent inclined strip surface 24.
• the inclined strip surface 24 is oriented horizontally and thus in the width direction (z-direction).
• the inclined strip surface 24 extends in particular over the entire width of the front side surface 23.
• a display and / or operating unit 25 is then also formed on the inclined strip surface 24.
• a trough 26 is then formed as a handle 27 in this inclined strip surface 24.
• the recessed grip 26 is designed with its dimensions completely within the dimensions of the inclined strip surface 24, in particular also at a distance from the edges delimiting the strip surface 24.
• a lighting device may be provided which is functionally designed in accordance with the lighting device 19.
• the drawer with its door 9a which has the front wall 9, has a front side surface 28 and an end face 29, which in turn is directly adjacent thereto and inclined thereto.
• this inclined end face 29 is oriented in the width direction and extends in particular over the entire width of the front side surface 28.
• this inclined end face 29 is an upper end of the front wall or the door 9 considered in the vertical direction, as is the case with the door 7 Case is.
• an optical display of a specific operating state of the display and / or operating unit 30 and / or a backlighting of the trough 31 may be provided by an individual lighting device.
• Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the partial section I in Fig. 1 is shown. It can also be seen here that the recessed grip 18 and the display and / or operating unit 16 are formed without overlapping with respect to one another and are spaced from one another in the strip surface 13.
• Fig. 3 is a partial section I I of the illustration in Fig. 1 is shown.
• the front side surface 23, viewed in the vertical direction, is formed without overlapping with the strip surface 24.
• the front side surface 12, viewed in the width direction is formed without overlapping with the inclined strip surface 13. This means that in all embodiments, the strip surface 13 is frontally not partially covered by the respective adjacent front side surfaces, but fully exposed to the front and are visible.
• an angle ⁇ is also drawn, which represents the inclination angle between the strip surface 24 and the front side surface 23, which is preferably formed between 100 ° and 160 °, in particular between 100 ° and 140 ° and with the other device components their strip surfaces and front surfaces is formed.
• the illustrated embodiments are not meant to be exhaustive and it can also household refrigerators 1 may be provided which have only a device component, for example, only a drawer or only a hinged door with such a configuration of a front side surface and a strip surface arranged inclined thereto, in which Handle and a display and / or operating unit are formed, are realized.
• embodiments may be provided which have only a plurality of swing doors, but no drawer.
• devices may be provided whose number of drawers is smaller or larger according to the illustrated in Fig. 1 embodiments. The number of swing doors may vary in this regard.
• the household refrigerating appliance 1 has a control unit 33 with which, in particular, the lighting device 19 can also be controlled.

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