JP2001116438A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of a refrigerator currently prevailing in view point of convenience that eggs can not be taken in or out easily for an average Japanese woman because a refrigeration compartment is located at the uppermost section higher than a vegetable compartment and a freezing compartment and the egg containing section is located at an upper part because of priority and lightweight as compared with bottles, and the like. SOLUTION: Since an egg containing section is provided at a lower space of the door of a refrigeration compartment, access is enhanced while utilizing a space effectively.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerator,
The present invention relates to an invention in which eggs are stored in a pocket formed on a refrigerator inner plate provided above a vegetable compartment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, an egg storage pocket of a commercially available refrigerator is housed in a pocket formed with a frame or the like on a door inner plate closing a front opening of the refrigerator. I always use it. One example of such a technique is disclosed in JP-A-6-185852.

FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part of the refrigerator, and FIG. 8 is a sectional view corresponding to the sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

In the drawing, 31 is a refrigerator room main body, 32 is a refrigerator main body, 32 is a refrigerator room, 33 is a refrigerator door for closing the front opening of the refrigerator room 32, and 34 is a refrigerator door. The inner plate, the door inner plate 34 is formed of a synthetic resin sheet by vacuum molding or the like, and a bank 35,
36 and the like. 37 is a frame. This frame 37
Are locked at both ends by the previous banks 35, 36, and the door inner plate 3
4 form a pocket 38. An egg 39 is placed in the pocket 38 as shown in the figure.

As is apparent from the figure, the egg 39 is in the pocket 3
8 in the width direction W1. In other words, the depth dimension D1 of the pocket 38 is set to a size such that two eggs 39 can be arranged.

On the other hand, the egg storage pocket 38 is generally formed in the refrigerator compartment door inner plate 34 as described above. Therefore, in the refrigerator as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, since the height of the refrigerator itself is 1300 mm or less,
Since the position of the pocket 38 from the installation surface is about 1200 mm, it is a very suitable place for the user to put the egg 39 in and out. This comes from the fact that the eggs 39 are easily damaged when putting them in and out.

However, recently, refrigerators have become larger,
In a refrigerator in which the height dimension is close to 1800 mm and the refrigerator compartment is provided at a position higher than the freezer compartment and the vegetable compartment, the position of the pocket 38 can easily become a serious problem. I can imagine. Commercially available refrigerators are generally provided with the pockets 38 in the refrigerator compartment door inner plate 34.

For example, when a standard Japanese woman (155 cm tall) uses the refrigerator main body 31 at a distance of 400 mm from the refrigerator main body 21, the position can be easily reached in a standing posture (600 mm to 1300 mm from the installation surface). It would have come off.

[0009]

As described above, if the height of the refrigerator is about 1300 mm or less (one door), eggs are stored in the upper part of the refrigerator door inner plate as shown in FIGS. If a pocket is formed, it will be within easy reach of a standard female standing posture, so it will not damage the egg when putting it in or out, but it will be as tall as a recent refrigerator When the size is close to 1800mm and the refrigerator compartment is the egg storage pocket in the refrigerator that can be mounted on the top of the freezer compartment and the vegetable compartment above, the standard female standing posture is easy There was a problem that the eggs could be out of the range.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems.

That is, a refrigerator compartment is provided above a freezer compartment, a vegetable compartment, etc., and a bottle storage or egg storage pocket is formed with a frame on a door inner plate of a door closing a front opening of the refrigerator compartment. In the refrigerator, an egg storage case is provided in the lowermost pocket formed in the inner plate of the door of the refrigerator, and the position of the egg storage case is set at 600 mm to 1300 mm from the installation surface.
Even in this kind of large refrigerator, when putting in and out of eggs,
The egg can be taken in and out without damaging the egg.

In order to further ensure the above means, the present invention is configured as follows.

(1) The lowermost pocket formed by the inner plate of the refrigerator compartment door with the frame is capable of storing a PET bottle or a beer bottle, and the egg storage case is locked to the frame to store the egg. This facilitates pocket formation.

(2) If the window provided in the frame provided to form the egg storage pocket is provided with a cutout, and the egg storage case is formed so as to be detachable from the egg storage pocket through the cutout, the above egg is provided. The space can be effectively used even when two storage cases are used.

(3) The egg storage case is engaged with the frame so that the longitudinal direction of the egg storage case is in the depth direction of the egg storage pocket, and a recess for receiving the rear end of the egg storage case is formed in the door inner plate. , Let a part of the frame protrude inside the warehouse,
By making it possible to install 10 egg storage packs, storage of bottles and the like is not significantly affected.

(4) Since the depth dimension of the middle pocket formed immediately above the lowermost pocket is increased only in the portion facing the egg storage case, the entire pocket can be effectively used.

[0017]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a refrigerator door pocket provided with the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a refrigerator provided with the door of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 4 is a view showing an embodiment different from FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line CC of FIG. 1, and FIG. 6 is a view showing an embodiment further different from FIGS.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a refrigerator main body, and the refrigerator main body 1 includes a second freezing room, a first freezing room,
A refrigerator with a vegetable room and a refrigerator room at the top. 2
Is a drawer-type door that closes the front opening of the second freezer compartment. When the door is pulled out, the container that constitutes the second freezer compartment is drawn out together with the door 2 to the outside. 3 is a drawer-type door that closes the front of the first freezer compartment.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a drawer-type door for closing the front opening of the vegetable compartment, and these doors 3 and 4 are also provided with a container (not shown) forming a chamber on the door, similarly to the above-mentioned second freezing compartment door.
The container is pulled out as the door is pulled out.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a refrigerator compartment door for closing a front opening of the refrigerator compartment. The refrigerating compartment door 5 is rotatably pivoted to the refrigerator main body 1 with a hinge 6 or the like. This kind of refrigerator body 1 has a very high height of about 1800 mm.

As a storage position for easily damaged items such as eggs, it can be said that a refrigerator that is easy to use is placed in a place where it can be easily reached. This position is, for example, when a standard Japanese woman (height 155 cm) uses the refrigerator body 1 at a distance of 40 cm from the refrigerator body 1, the range H (600 mm to 1300 mm from the installation surface 7) that can be easily reached in a standing posture is used. Become. Therefore, the position of the egg pocket, which will be described later, is preferably the position of the lowermost shelf of the refrigerator compartment door 5. This is because, as described above, a container cannot be formed in the vegetable compartment door 4 located below the refrigerator compartment door 5 so that a pocket cannot be formed like the refrigerator compartment door. is there.

Next, a structure for installing an egg storage case in the pocket of the refrigerator door 5 will be described with reference to FIG. Reference numeral 5 denotes a refrigerator compartment door, 8 denotes a door inner plate, and the door inner plate 8 is formed, for example, by forming a resin sheet of about 2 mm into a shape as shown in the figure by a vacuum molding method or the like. Reference numerals 9 and 10 denote banks formed on both sides of the door inner plate 8, which are integrally formed when the resin sheet is vacuum formed. 11 is a pocket provided for accommodating a large amount of bottles and the like. It is located at the bottom of the pocket created by the door inner plate 8 of the room door 5. Further, it is formed by attaching the frame body 12 to the previous banks 9, 10. Although details of the frame 12 are not shown in the drawings, a locking portion (not shown) provided on the frame 12 engages with a projection (not shown) formed on the door inner plate 8 side. It is attached by doing.

As shown in the figure, the frame 12 protrudes toward the refrigerator compartment such that beer bottles 13 can be arranged in two rows. (The shelf area on the refrigerator compartment side is reduced, but the convenience as a refrigerator is improved. 14 is an egg storage pocket. This egg storage pocket 14 is a pocket formed by the frame 12 and the banks 9 and 10. It is made by the side of 11 and usually shares the frame 12. The egg storage unit 15 is provided in two upper and lower stages.Usually, this egg storage unit 15 is a commercially available 10-pack. The egg pack is stored in the upper egg storage pocket 14 as shown in the figure, but is stored in the lower egg storage section. The egg pack is performed through a cutting window 16 provided in the frame 12.

Although not shown in the figure, the position of the above-mentioned egg storage pocket 14 is set at a distance of 13 from the installation surface 7 (see FIG. 2).
The position is around 00 mm. Reference numeral 17 denotes a middle pocket provided immediately above the egg storage part 15, and reference numeral 18 denotes a middle pocket enlargement part in which a part of a frame 19 forming the middle pocket 17 is protruded toward the egg storage part 14. By doing so, the enlarged portion 18 of the middle pocket 17 can be more effectively and effectively utilized.

Next, FIG. 3 shows an example in which an egg storage pocket 14 is formed on the pivot side of the refrigerator compartment door 5. In this case, the door pivot side (hinge 6)
The egg storage pocket 14 is provided on the (side), so that the egg 20 is not damaged by an impact when the refrigerator compartment door 5 is opened and closed.

In order to reduce the amount of the notch 22 of the shelf 21 disposed on the refrigerator compartment side, the heat insulating material 5a of the door 5 is made thinner and the door inner plate 8 is made as shown in FIG. Insulation material 5a
A recess 23 is formed on the side to secure a D1 dimension necessary for storing 10 egg packs.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example in which the egg storage pocket 14 is provided on the anti-axis side (opposite the hinge 6 side) of the refrigerator compartment door 5. In this case as well, the structure around the egg storage pocket is configured similarly to FIG. 3, and its position is merely on the anti-axis side.

Therefore, the egg 20 in the storage pocket 14 receives an impact when the door is opened and closed. However, since it is easy to put in and take out the egg 20, this position may be used when the egg 20 is used in a short time. Needless to say.

Next, in FIG. 5, the one shown in FIG.
0 indicates a state when the storage packs 24 and 25 are stored in the egg storage unit 15 or taken out using a storage case or the like.
At the time of storage, the egg storage packs 24 and 25 are set so that the point A passes through the point P of the egg storage part to the back side, and the egg storage pack 2
Nos. 4, 25 are held down at point P by an impact when the door is opened and closed, and do not move forward. (Both upper and lower)
When taking out the egg storage packs 24 and 25, the egg storage packs 24 and 25 are slightly lifted and taken out so that the point A of the egg storage packs 24 and 25 is released from the locking relationship with the point P of the egg storage part. In FIG. 5, it is needless to say that the enlarged portion 18 of the frame for forming the middle pocket can be lowered only to a position where the egg storage packs 24 and 25 do not collide when the eggs are stored.

Next, referring to FIG. 6, the lowermost pocket of the refrigerator door currently on the market will be described. As can be seen from the drawing, the recent pocket 11 is large enough to store a beer bottle 13 and a milk pack side by side. it has a D ₂ dimensions.
The D ₂ dimension has been approximated to the external dimensions of commercial egg storage pack 24. Therefore, as means for storing the egg storage packs 24 and 25 in the lowermost pocket of the refrigerator compartment door 5, means shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B can be considered.

In the case of the present invention, either (a) or (b) may be used, but as shown in (b), W1 of the egg storage packs 24 and 25 is used.
Write dimensions installed so as to be positioned D ₂ dimension side of the pocket, since it is not necessary to change greatly housing of the pocket 11 itself, in which can be effectively utilized pocket 11 itself.
Furthermore, since the width dimensions of the egg storage packs 24 and 25 are exactly the same as the diameter of the large bottle, if the storage of two beer bottles is sacrificed, for example, the arrangement is as shown in FIG. It is possible.

[0032]

Since the present invention has the structure as described above, the user can work out the egg storage pack at the position below the shoulder to put the egg storage pack in and out of the egg storage section. The work can be done without damage.

[0033] Further, according to the second aspect, the egg storage pack can be easily locked in the pocket portion. According to the third aspect of the present invention, the egg storage case can be easily locked in the pocket portion, and the egg storage case can be stored in two steps, and the pocket portion can be effectively used. You can do it. In addition, with the configuration according to the fourth aspect, a commercially available 10 egg storage pack can be stored without greatly sacrificing storage of other bottles. In addition, by configuring as in claim 5, it is possible to effectively utilize the pocket portion which becomes invalid by storing the eggs.

In the refrigerator of the present invention having such a structure, the loading and unloading of eggs is performed as follows. First, when storing or taking out in a state of being bought at a supermarket or the like (a state of being stored in an egg storage pack), FIGS.
As shown in, the pocket 1 prepared at the bottom of the refrigerator compartment door
As shown in the figure, the eggs are stored in an egg storage pocket 14 formed on the side of No. 1 and the egg storage pack 24,
Take it out like 25.

When taking out the eggs from the egg storage packs 24 and 25 and storing them in the egg storage pocket 14, an existing storage case (not shown) is prepared in the previous egg storage pocket 14. This becomes possible easily.

At this time, even if the refrigerator compartment is a refrigerator located above the freezer compartment and the vegetable compartment, the lowermost pocket 11 formed in the refrigerator door is 600 mm from the installation surface as shown in FIG. Since it is a position where a woman of average height of ~ 1300 mm can be easily operated, eggs can be easily taken in and out.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a refrigerator door pocket provided with the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a refrigerator provided with the door of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a view showing an embodiment different from FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line CC of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing an embodiment different from FIGS. 3 and 4;

FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part of a conventional refrigerator.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 7;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Refrigerator main body, 2 ... Drawer type door (for 2nd freezer compartment), 3 ... Drawer type door (for 1st freezer room), 4 ... Drawer type door (for vegetable room), 5 ... Refrigerator compartment door, 6 ... Hinges, 7
... installation surface, 8 ... door inner plate, 9 ... bank formed on the door inner plate,
10 ... embankment formed on the door inner plate, 11, 38 ... pocket, 12, 37 ... frame, 13 ... beer bottle, 14 ... egg storage pocket, 15 ... egg storage part, 16 ... cutting window, 17 ... middle pocket, 18: Enlarged portion of middle pocket 17, 19: Frame for making middle pocket, 20, 39: egg, 21: shelf, 2
2 ... notch, 23 ... hollow, 24, 25 ... storage pack,
31 ... refrigerator room main body, 32 ... refrigerator main body, 33 ... refrigerator door, 34 ... refrigerator door inner plate, 35, 36 ... bank.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yasuo Kurihara 709, Tomita, Ohira-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi 2 Inside Hitachi Tochigi Electronics Co., Ltd. (72) Yukihiro Endo 800, Tomita, Ohira-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi Stock Hitachi, Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A refrigerator compartment is provided above a freezer compartment, a vegetable compartment and the like, and a bottle storage or egg storage pocket is formed with a frame on a door inner plate of a door closing a front opening of the refrigerator compartment. In the refrigerator, an egg storage case is provided in a lowermost pocket formed in the inner plate of the refrigerator door, and the position of the egg storage case is set to be 600 mm to 1300 mm from an installation surface.