JP2016145691A - refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator capable of changing the position of an automatic ice maker within a freezing compartment.SOLUTION: A refrigerator comprises: a freezing compartment 30; a cold compartment 20; an automatic ice maker 70 provided in the freezing compartment 30; a tank 50 provided in the cold compartment 20 and storing water supplied to the automatic ice maker 70; and a water supply device 53 supplying the water of the tank 50 to the automatic ice maker 70, the freezing compartment 30 has installation positions P1, P2 for installing the automatic ice maker 70 at two positions different in a width direction, and the water supply device 53 comprises a straight pipe section 57 extending vertically between the two installation positions P1 and P2; a water pouring pipe section 58 bent horizontally from a tip end of the straight pipe section 57; and a rotation section 60 rotating the water pouring pipe section 58 about an axis of the straight pipe section 57.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to refrigerators.

  Conventionally, there has been proposed a refrigerator capable of moving an ice tray and an ice storage box so that a user can make ice at a free position in a freezer (see Patent Document 1 below).

  However, in recent years, refrigerators that automatically make ice by supplying water from a water supply tank installed in a refrigerator to an automatic ice maker via a water supply device have become mainstream. This place is fixed, and it is not possible to select a place to make ice according to the user's convenience.

JP 9-89426 A

  This invention is made | formed in view of the said situation, and it aims at providing the refrigerator which can change the position of an automatic ice making machine in a freezer compartment.

  The refrigerator of the present embodiment includes a freezing room, a refrigerating room, an automatic ice maker provided in the freezing room, a tank for storing water provided in the refrigerating room and supplied to the automatic ice making machine, and water in the tank. A water supply device for supplying water to the automatic ice making machine, the freezer has two installation positions at which the automatic ice making machine is installed in different positions in the width direction, and the water supply device has two installation positions. A straight pipe portion extending in the vertical direction, a water injection pipe portion bent in a horizontal direction from a tip of the straight pipe portion, and a rotating portion for rotating the water injection pipe portion about an axis of the straight pipe portion. Is.

It is sectional drawing of the refrigerator which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view of the refrigerator which removed the door. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIG.1 and FIG.2, the refrigerator 10 which concerns on this embodiment has the storage space formed in the inside of the heat insulation box 11 opened to the front. This storage space is partitioned vertically by a heat insulating partition wall 12, a refrigerator compartment 20 is provided below the heat insulating partition wall 12, and a freezer compartment 30 is provided above the heat insulating partition wall 12.

  The refrigerating room 20 is a space cooled to a refrigerating temperature (for example, 0 to 3 ° C.), and the inside thereof is further divided into upper and lower portions by an upper partition plate 21 and a lower partition plate 22. In this example, a water supply tank 50 is provided above the upper partition plate 21 toward one side of the heat insulation box 11, and a plurality of mounting shelves 23 are provided between the upper partition plate 21 and the lower partition plate 22. A drawer type storage container 24 is provided below the lower partition plate 22. The front opening of the refrigerator compartment 20 is closed by a refrigerator compartment door 25.

  The freezer compartment 30 is a space in which the inside is cooled to a freezing temperature (for example, −18 ° C. or lower), and is partitioned vertically by a mounting shelf 31, and an automatic ice maker 70 and an ice storage box above the mounting shelf 31. 71 is provided. The front opening of the freezer compartment 30 is closed by a freezer compartment door 32.

  At the rear of the freezer compartment 30, a cooler cover 34 that forms a cooler chamber 33 with the rear surface of the heat insulating box 11, and a duct plate 35 that is disposed in front of the cooler cover 34 and that constitutes the rear surface of the freezer compartment 30. Is provided.

  The cooler chamber 33 stores therein a cooler 36 and a blower fan 37. The cooler chamber 33 is connected to a refrigeration duct 38 formed between the cooler cover 34 and the duct plate 35, and air blown from the blower fan 37 flows into the refrigeration duct 38. The refrigeration duct 38 is connected to a refrigeration duct 41 provided on the back surface of the refrigeration chamber 20 via a flow path 40 provided with a damper 39 (see FIG. 3).

  The cooler 36 provided in the cooler chamber 33 constitutes a refrigeration cycle together with a compressor 42 provided at the lower part of the refrigerator 10, a condenser, a capillary tube (not shown), and the like, and refrigerant discharged from the compressor 42 is discharged. It is introduced via a condenser and a capillary tube. As a result, the cooler 36 is cooled to cool the air in the cooler chamber 33.

  When the blower fan 37 rotates with the damper 39 closing the flow path 40, the air in the cooler chamber 33 cooled by the cooler 36 is stored in the freezer compartment from the outlets 43 a and 43 b provided in the freezing duct 38. The inside of the freezer compartment 30 is cooled by blowing to 30. Further, when the blower fan 37 rotates with the damper 39 opening the flow path 40, the air in the cooler chamber 33 cooled by the cooler 36 is stored in the freezer compartment from the outlets 43 a and 43 b provided in the refrigeration duct 38. The freezing room 30 and the refrigerating room 20 are cooled by blowing out to the refrigerating room 20 from the blower outlet 44 provided in the refrigerating duct 41 while blowing out to 30.

  The air blown out to the refrigerator compartment 20 and the freezer compartment 30 cools the storage compartments 20 and 30 and then sucks the inlet 45 (see FIG. 2) and the heat insulating partition that opens into the freezer compartment 30 provided in the duct plate 35. It flows into the return duct 47 from the suction port 46 opened on the ceiling surface of the refrigerator compartment 20 provided on the wall 12, returns to the cooler chamber 33, and is cooled again by the cooler 36.

  The automatic ice making machine 70 includes an ice making tray 72 to which ice-making water is supplied from the water supply tank 50, and an ice making tray 72 that twists the ice making tray 72 to drop the generated ice into an ice storage box 71 provided below the ice making tray 72. An ice mechanism 73 and a detection lever 74 that swings up and down in the ice storage box 71 and detects the amount of ice stored by contacting the ice stored in the ice storage box 71 are provided.

  The automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 described above are suspended and fixed to the ceiling surface 30 a of the freezer compartment 30 via a holder 75. Specifically, the holder 75 includes a horizontal portion 75a having a substantially rectangular shape in plan view that covers the upper surface of the automatic ice making machine 70, and a pair of left and right vertical portions 75b and 75b that hang downward from the left and right ends of the horizontal portion 75a. Two rails 75c and 75d are provided on the upper and lower sides of the opposing surfaces of the pair of left and right vertical portions 75b and 75b. The automatic ice making machine 70 is inserted into the upper rail 75c, and the ice storage box 71 is placed in the lower rail 75d. Is inserted into the holder 75 in a state where the automatic ice maker 70 and the ice storage box 71 are stacked one above the other.

  On the ceiling surface 30 a of the freezer compartment 30, a locking claw 13 that locks with the horizontal portion 75 a of the holder 75 is provided. This locking claw 13 is locked to the horizontal portion 75a of the holder 75, thereby fixing the holder 75 and the automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 held by the holder 75 in a suspended state on the ceiling surface 30a. It arrange | positions at intervals above the mounting shelf 31 provided in the freezer compartment 30.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the locking claw 13 that fixes the holder 75 to the left side of the ceiling surface 30 a of the freezing chamber 30 and the locking claw 13 that fixes the holder 75 to the right side are freezing. It is provided on each of the left and right sides of the ceiling surface 30 a of the chamber 30. Thereby, in the freezer compartment 30, the installation positions P1 and P2 where the automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 are installed via the holder 75 are provided at two different positions in the width direction.

  Further, outlets 43a and 43b communicating with the refrigeration duct 38 are provided behind the two installation positions P1 and P2. Specifically, the air outlets 43a and 43b are provided above the ice tray 72 of the automatic ice making machine 70 installed at the installation positions P1 and P2, and the air of the refrigeration duct 38 moves forward from the rear above the ice tray 72. It comes to blow out towards. In this example, the air outlet 43a located behind one (left side in FIG. 2) installation position P1 has a freezer compartment 30 as compared to the air outlet 43b located behind the other (right side in FIG. 2) installation position P2. The opening area which opens is small, and the opening area is different between the outlet 43a and the outlet 43b.

  The water supply tank 50 includes a container 51 that stores water therein and a lid 52 that closes an upper opening of the container 51, and is detachably mounted in the refrigerator compartment 20. The water stored in the water supply tank 50 is supplied to the automatic ice maker 70 as ice making water by a water supply device 53 provided behind the refrigerator compartment 20 and the freezer compartment 30.

  The water supply device 53 draws up water stored in the water supply tank 50 with a water supply pump 54 and supplies it to an ice tray 72 of an automatic ice making machine 70 provided in the freezer compartment 30 through a water supply pipe 55.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the water supply pipe 55 includes a bent portion 56 extending from the rear side of the water supply tank 50 provided near one side portion of the heat insulating box 11 to the central portion in the width direction, and the bent portion 56. A straight pipe portion 57 extending upward and a water injection pipe portion 58 bent from the upper end of the straight pipe portion 57 and extending in the horizontal direction are provided. In the present embodiment, a power line (not shown) that supplies power to the automatic ice making machine 70 is provided along the water supply pipe 55.

  The straight pipe portion 57 penetrates the heat insulating partition wall 12 at the center in the width direction of the heat insulating box 11, that is, at an intermediate position between the two installation positions P 1 and P 2 provided in the freezer compartment 30. It passes through a refrigeration duct 38 formed between the duct plate 35 and an upper position of the freezer compartment 30.

  The straight pipe portion 57 is connected to the bent portion 56 so as to be rotatable about the axis via a turning portion 60 provided in the refrigerator compartment 20, and thereby extends forward from the upper end of the straight pipe portion 57. A water injection pipe portion 58 is provided so as to be rotatable around the axis of the straight pipe portion 57.

  The water injection pipe portion 58 enters the freezer compartment 30 from the freezing duct 38 through the lead-out hole 35a provided in the duct plate 35, and is located above the ice tray 72 of the automatic ice making machine 70 installed at one installation position P1. It extends to. A water injection port 58 a is formed below the tip of the water injection pipe 58, and water for making ice in the water supply tank 50 pumped up by the water supply pump 54 is injected from the water injection port 58 a to the ice tray 72.

  In the refrigerator 10 having such a configuration, in order to move the automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 installed at one installation position P1 as shown in FIG. 2 to the other installation position P2, first, the automatic ice making machine 70 is used. A power line for supplying power to the automatic ice maker 70 is removed and the holder 75 is removed from the ceiling surface 30 a of the freezer compartment 30. Then, the straight pipe portion 57 of the water supply pipe 55 is rotated about the axis to move the water injection port 58a of the water injection pipe part 58 from one installation position P1 to the other installation position P2.

  Then, the locking claw 13 provided at the installation position P2 is locked to the horizontal portion 75a of the holder 75, and the automatic ice maker 70 and the ice storage box 71 are provided at the other installation position P2 of the freezer compartment 30 together with the holder 75, and thereafter The transfer of the automatic ice maker 70 and the ice storage box 71 is completed by connecting the power supply line provided along the water supply pipe 55 to the automatic ice maker 70 arranged at the other installation position P2.

  In the refrigerator 10 of the present embodiment having the above-described configuration, the straight pipe portion 57 of the water supply pipe 55 is rotated around the axis so that the water injection pipe portion 58 is provided at any of the two installation positions P1 and P2. Since the water injection port 58 a can be moved, the position of the automatic ice making machine 70 can be changed in the freezer compartment 30.

  Moreover, in the refrigerator of the present embodiment, since the automatic ice maker 70 is suspended and fixed to the ceiling surface 30a of the freezer compartment 30 via the holder 75, the automatic ice maker 70 is easily fixed in the freezer compartment 30. can do. In addition, the automatic ice maker 70 can be fixed to the heat-insulating box 11 having high strength by suspending and fixing the automatic ice maker 70 on the ceiling surface 30a of the freezer compartment 30 so that the automatic ice maker 70 can be stably installed. it can. In addition, an automatic ice maker 70 and an ice storage box 71 fixed on the ceiling surface 30a of the freezer compartment 30 are provided with a mounting shelf 31 that divides the freezer compartment 30 up and down. Even if the machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 fall, it is supported by the mounting shelf 31 positioned immediately below, and the impact of the drop can be suppressed, and the automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 are prevented from being damaged. Can do.

  Moreover, in the refrigerator 10 of this embodiment, since the rotation part 60 which rotates the straight pipe part 57 in the water supply pipe | tube 55 of the water supply apparatus 53 is arrange | positioned in the refrigerator compartment 20 cooled to refrigeration temperature, it freezes. Thus, the turning operation of the turning portion 60 is not hindered, and the water injection pipe portion 58 can be smoothly turned around the axis of the straight pipe portion 57.

  Moreover, in the refrigerator 10 of this embodiment, since the blower outlets 43a and 43b are each provided in the back of two installation positions P1 and P2, even if it installs the automatic ice maker 70 in any installation position The low-temperature air cooled by the cooler 36 can be directly blown onto the automatic ice making machine 70. In addition, in this embodiment, the opening area opened to the freezer compartment 30 is different between the outlet 43a provided behind one installation position P1 and the outlet 43b provided behind the other installation position P2. Therefore, by installing the automatic ice making machine 70 at one installation position P1 located in front of the air outlet 43a having a small opening area, the water in the ice tray 72 can be frozen relatively slowly to generate highly transparent ice. By installing the automatic ice making machine 70 at the other installation position P2 located in front of the air outlet 43b having a large opening area, water in the ice tray 72 can be rapidly frozen to generate ice in a short time. it can.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the automatic ice making machine 70 and the ice storage box 71 are fixed to the ceiling surface 30a of the freezer compartment 30 has been described. However, for example, on the lower surface of the mounting shelf 31 provided in the freezer compartment 30 You may hang and fix, or you may fix to the bottom face 30b of the freezer compartment 30.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, these embodiment was shown as an example and is not intending limiting the range of invention. These embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the invention described in the claims and equivalents thereof as well as included in the scope and gist of the invention.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Refrigerator, 11 ... Heat insulation box, 13 ... Locking claw, 20 ... Cold room, 30 ... Freezer room, 30a ... Ceiling surface, 31 ... Mounting shelf, 32 ... Freezer compartment door, 33 ... Cooler room, 34 ... Cooler cover, 35 ... Duct plate, 36 ... Cooler, 37 ... Blower fan, 38 ... Refrigeration duct, 43a ... Air outlet, 43b ... Air outlet, 44 ... Air outlet, 50 ... Water supply tank, 53 ... Water supply device, 54 ... Water supply pump, 55 ... Water supply pipe, 56 ... Bending part, 57 ... Straight pipe part, 58 ... Water injection pipe part, 60 ... Rotating part, 70 ... Automatic ice maker, 71 ... ice storage box, 72 ... ice tray, 73 ... Ice-off mechanism, 75 ... Holder

Claims (6)

A freezer compartment, a refrigerator compartment, an automatic ice maker provided in the freezer compartment, a tank provided in the refrigerator compartment for storing water to be supplied to the automatic ice maker, and water in the tank is supplied to the automatic ice maker A water supply device,
The freezer compartment has two installation positions where the automatic ice maker is installed at different positions in the width direction,
The water supply device includes a straight pipe portion extending in the vertical direction between the two installation positions, a water injection pipe portion bent in a horizontal direction from a front end of the straight pipe portion, and the water injection pipe portion of the straight pipe portion. A refrigerator including a rotating unit that rotates about an axis.   The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the automatic ice maker is suspended and fixed to a ceiling surface of the freezer compartment or a lower surface of a shelf that vertically partitions the freezer compartment. A shelf that divides the freezer compartment vertically;
The refrigerator according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the automatic ice maker is suspended and fixed on a ceiling surface of the freezer and is provided above the shelf.   The refrigerator according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the rotating portion is provided in the refrigerator compartment.   The refrigerator of any one of Claims 1-4 by which the blower outlet which blows off the air cooled with the cooler to the said freezer compartment is each provided behind the said two installation positions.   The refrigerator according to claim 5, wherein an area opened to the freezer compartment is different between an outlet provided behind one of the installation positions and an outlet provided behind the other installation position.

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