JP2016183823A - refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refrigerator in which a lower container can be easily drawn when an upper container and the lower container are arranged at two upper and lower stages.SOLUTION: A refrigerator comprises: an upper container 60 provided so as to be drawable frontward in a chilled chamber 42; a lower container 62 arranged below the upper container 60 and provided so as to be drawable frontward; an upper handle part 605 provided on the front of the upper container 60 and of which a lower part is open; and a lower handle part 625 provided on the front of the lower container 62 and of which an upper part is open. The upper and lower handle parts 605 and 625 are vertically overlapped.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to refrigerators.

  Conventionally, the refrigerator compartment of a refrigerator is provided with a chilled room for storing meat, fish, and the like, and upper and lower upper and lower containers are arranged in the chilled room so that they can be pulled out.

JP 2001-330361 A JP 2003-329362 A JP 2009-47384 A

  When the upper container and the lower container are provided vertically in the chilled chamber as described above, when the user pulls out the lower container forward, there is a problem that it is difficult to pull out by touching the bottom surface of the refrigerator compartment. .

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, an embodiment of the present invention aims to provide a refrigerator in which a lower container can be easily pulled out when two upper and lower upper containers and a lower container are arranged.

  Embodiments of the present invention include a storage chamber, an upper container provided in the storage chamber so as to be able to be drawn forward, a lower container disposed below the lower container and provided so as to be able to be drawn forward, An upper handle portion provided on the front surface of the upper container and having a lower open portion; and a lower handle portion provided on the front surface of the lower container and having an upper open portion, wherein the upper handle portion and the lower handle portion are vertically It is the refrigerator characterized by overlapping.

The front view of the refrigerator which shows one Embodiment of this invention. The longitudinal cross-sectional view of a refrigerator. The front view of a chilled room. The longitudinal section seen from the side of a chilled room. The expanded longitudinal cross-sectional view seen from the front of the upper container and the lower container. The principal part expansion longitudinal cross-sectional view of the state which accommodated the upper container and the lower container. The principal part expansion longitudinal cross-section of the state which pulled out the upper container. The principal part expansion longitudinal section of the state which pulled out the lower container.

  Hereinafter, the refrigerator 10 of one Embodiment is demonstrated based on FIGS.

(1) Structure of refrigerator 10 The structure of the refrigerator 10 is demonstrated based on FIG. 1 and FIG. FIG. 1 is a front view of the refrigerator 10, and FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view as seen from the side of the refrigerator 10.

  The cabinet 12 of the refrigerator 10 is a heat insulation box, and is formed of an inner box and an outer box, and a heat insulating material is filled between the inner box and the outer box. The inside of the cabinet 12 has a refrigerator compartment 14, a vegetable compartment 16, a small freezer compartment 18 and a freezer compartment 20 in order from the top, and an ice making room 21 is provided beside the small freezer compartment 18. A horizontal heat insulating partition 36 is provided between the vegetable compartment 16, the small freezer compartment 18 and the ice making compartment 22. The refrigerator compartment 14 and the vegetable compartment 16 are partitioned by a horizontal partition 38. The front door of the refrigerator compartment 14 is provided with double doors 14a and 14b. The vegetable compartment 16, the small freezer compartment 18, the freezer compartment 20 and the ice making compartment 21 have drawer doors 16a, 18a, 20a and 21a, respectively. Is provided.

  In the refrigerator compartment 14, a plurality of shelves 40 are provided horizontally, and a chilled chamber 42 is provided in the lower part. The chilled chamber 42 is a low-temperature chamber and stores meat and fish in an upper container 60 and a lower container 62 in two upper and lower stages. The chilled chamber 42 will be described in detail later. A plurality of door pockets 44 are provided on the back surface of the door 14 a of the refrigerator compartment 14. The vegetable compartment 16 is provided with drawer-type vegetable containers 46 and 48.

  A refrigeration evaporator (hereinafter referred to as “R EVA”) 28 is provided from the lower back of the refrigerator compartment 14 to the back of the vegetable compartment 16, and a refrigeration blower (hereinafter referred to as “R fan”) 30 is provided below the evaporator. Is provided. The R EVA 28 and the R fan 30 are arranged in an R EVA chamber 17 surrounded by an EVA cover 15.

  A freezing evaporator (hereinafter referred to as “F EVA”) 32 is provided in the F-evaporating chamber 29 from the back of the small freezer 18 and the ice making chamber 21 to the back of the freezing chamber 20, and a freezing blower is provided above it. (Hereinafter referred to as “F fan”) 34 is provided. A defrost heater (not shown) is provided below the F EVA 32.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the cold air cooled by the R evaporator 28 is blown to the refrigerator compartment 14, the chilled compartment 42 and the vegetable compartment 16 by the R fan 30. The cold air cooled by the F-evapor 32 is sent to the small freezer compartment 18, the ice making chamber 21 and the freezer compartment 20 by the F fan 34.

  A machine room 22 is provided at the bottom of the back surface of the cabinet 12, and the compressor 24 and the like constituting the refrigeration cycle 62 are placed thereon. A control plate 26 is provided at the upper back of the machine room 22.

(2) Structure of chilled chamber 42 The structure of the chilled chamber 42 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the chilled chamber 42 provided in the lower part of the refrigerator compartment 14 is provided on the right side of the refrigerator compartment 14, and a tank 50 is arranged on the left side. The tank 50 is arranged to supply water to an ice making tray of an ice making device provided in the ice making chamber 21.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the chilled chamber 42 includes a ceiling plate 52, a left plate 54 provided at the boundary between the tank 50, a right plate 56 constituting the right side of the refrigerator compartment 14, and the refrigerator compartment 14. Surrounded by a back plate 58 that forms the back surface and a partition 38 that forms the bottom surface of the refrigerator compartment 14, a drawer-type upper container 60 and a lower container 62 are arranged in two stages in the chilled chamber 42. Has been. A rotatable lid 64 is suspended by a hinge 70 between the front end of the ceiling plate 52 and the front end of the upper container 60.

  The upper container 60 includes a front plate 601, a pair of left and right side plates 602, a back plate 603, and a bottom plate 604, and an upper surface is opened. An upper handle 605 is formed at the front of the front plate 601. The lower part of the upper handle 605 is open, the upper part is closed, and an upper notch 606 is cut out in a square shape at the center of the lower end of the upper handle 605. In other words, the upper container 60 is provided in front of the front plate 601 so as to cover the upper handle 605 from above, and an insertion space 615 into which a hand can be inserted is formed between the front plate 601 and the upper handle 605. Further, a step portion 608 is formed at the lower portion of the front plate 601. This step 608 is for making it easier to insert a finger from below the upper handle 605 (see FIG. 7). The front surface of the upper handle 605 is formed in a staircase shape, and a light scattering surface 607 is formed. As shown in FIGS. 6 to 8, a plurality of slit-shaped cold air circulation holes 609 are opened at predetermined intervals in the width direction at the corner where the front plate 601 and the bottom plate 604 are combined. The pair of left and right side plates 602 of the upper container 60 is formed with a bulge portion 614 that bulges upward from the front portion toward the center portion. The bulging portion 614 pushes up the lid 64. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a pair of left and right protruding rails 610 protrude in the front-rear direction on the outside of the pair of left and right side plates 602 and 602 of the upper container 60. As shown in FIG. 5, rail receivers 612 are formed on the left plate 54 and the right plate 56 in the front-rear direction, corresponding to the pair of left and right rails 610 and 610, respectively.

  The lower container 62 is detachably disposed on the partition body 38, and includes a front plate 621, a pair of left and right side plates 622, a back plate 623, and a bottom plate 624, and an upper surface thereof is open. Further, a lower handle 625 is formed at the front portion of the front plate 621. The lower handle 625 is closed at the lower part, opened at the upper part, and a lower notch 626 is cut out in a square shape at the center of the upper end of the lower handle 625. That is, the lower handle 625 is formed in front of the front plate 621 of the lower container 62 so as to cover from below, and an insertion space 630 into which a hand can be inserted is formed between the front plate 621 and the lower handle 625. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a pair of left and right mounting protrusions 627 protrude in the front-rear direction on the upper surface of the partition plate 38, and the lower container 62 is mounted thereon. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a pair of left and right ridge rails 628 protrude from the pair of left and right side plates 622 and 622 of the lower container 62. Rail receivers 629 corresponding to the rails 628 are formed in the front-rear direction on the left plate 54 and the right plate 56 of the chilled chamber 42, respectively. As shown in FIG. 4, the lower front portion of the lower container 62 is in a bottom-up state because the front portion of the partition 38 swells upward, so that the lower container 62 bulges when pulled out forward. This is to correspond to. The back plate 623 of the lower container 62 is provided with a plurality of outlets 632.

  As shown in FIG. 6, in a state where the lower container 62 and the upper container 60 are stored in the chilled chamber 42, the lower end portion of the upper handle portion 605 is M = 1 mm to 5 mm more than the upper end of the lower handle portion 625 of the lower container 62. Projects forward.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a blowing port 66 is opened at the upper part of the back surface 58 of the chilled chamber 42 in order to blow the cold air cooled by the R-evaporator 28 to the chilled chamber 42. The cold air cooled by the R-eva 28 is blown into the chilled chamber 42 from the air outlet 66 and enters the upper container 60 to cool the meat and fish inside the upper container 60. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the cold air that has cooled the upper container 60 flows into the lower container 62 through a plurality of cold air circulation holes 609 in the lower front portion of the upper container 60. The cold air flowing from the upper container 60 cools meat and fish inside the lower container 62, and is discharged to the outside from the outlet 632 opened in the back plate 623 of the lower container 62. In this case, since cold air is blown out from the outlet 66 closest to the R-eva 28, the inside of the chilled chamber 42 is cooled more than the other parts of the refrigerator compartment 14, and a refrigerator temperature suitable for meat and fish ( 0 ° C. to 2 ° C.).

  A pressing piece 68 is formed at the left end of the lid 61. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 7, when the upper container 60 is pulled forward, the lid 64 is pressed upward by the front end portion of the side plate 602 and the bulging portion 614, and rotates upward about the hinge 70. The lid 61 opens and does not obstruct the drawer of the upper container 62.

(3) Effect In the refrigerator 10 of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, when the user puts his hand from below into the upper notch portion 606 of the upper handle portion 605 opened at the lower side and pulls it forward, The rail 610 of the upper container 60 moves along the rail receiver 612, and the upper container 60 can be easily pulled out. Further, the front end portion and the bulging portion 614 of the pair of left and right side plates 602 push up the lid 64.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 8, when the user puts a hand into the lower notch 626 of the lower handle 625 that is open upward and pulls it forward, the rail 628 of the lower container 62 extends along the rail receiver 629. The bottom container 624 of the lower container 62 moves and moves forward with the bottom plate 624 mounted on the mounting protrusion 627, and the lower container 62 can be pulled out easily. At this time, as shown in FIG. 8, the user puts his hand into the lower handle 625 from above, so that his / her hand does not hit the partition 38 corresponding to the bottom surface of the refrigerator compartment 14.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 6, since the front surface of the upper handle portion 605 of the upper container 60 is a light scattering surface 607, the inside of the upper container 60 and the lower container 62 cannot be seen by the user.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the lower end of the upper handle 605 of the upper container 60 is positioned M ahead of the upper end of the lower handle 625 of the lower container 62 in the state of being stored in the chilled chamber 42. The upper end surface of the lower handle portion 625 is excellent in design without being visible to the user.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, since the cold air vent hole 609 is opened from the front plate 601 to the bottom plate 604 of the upper container 60, the cold air that has entered the upper container 60 passes through the cold air circulation hole 609. It is easy to enter the inside of the container 62.

  In addition, a lid 64 that is pivotably suspended from the ceiling plate 52 of the chilled chamber 42 hangs down to the upper portion of the front plate 601 of the upper container 60, closes the chilled chamber 42, and cool air enters other parts of the refrigerator compartment 14. There is no escape.

(4) Modified Example In the above embodiment, the upper container 60 and the lower container 62 in the upper and lower stages are provided in the chilled chamber 42. However, the present invention is not limited to this and may be provided in another storage chamber.

  Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, this embodiment is presented as an example and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel 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 scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Refrigerator, 14 ... Cold room, 38 ... Partition, 42 ... Chilled room, 60 ... Upper container, 62 ... Lower container, 64 ... Cover, 605 ... · Upper handle, 606 · · · upper cutout portion, 607 · · · Light scattering surface, 609 · · · cold air flow hole, 625 · · · lower handle portion, 626 · · · lower cutout portion

Claims (8)

A storage room;
In the storage chamber, an upper container provided so as to be able to be pulled forward,
A lower container disposed below the lower container and provided so as to be able to be drawn forward;
An upper handle provided on the front surface of the upper container and having a lower opening;
A lower handle provided on the front surface of the lower container and having an upper opening;
Have
The upper handle and the lower handle overlap vertically.
A refrigerator characterized by that. The front end of the upper container protrudes forward from the front end of the lower container,
The refrigerator according to claim 1. A light scattering surface is formed on the front surface of the upper handle,
The refrigerator according to claim 1. An upper notch is formed at the lower center of the upper handle,
The refrigerator according to claim 1. A lower notch is formed at the upper center of the lower handle,
The refrigerator according to claim 1. The storage room is a refrigerator room;
The upper container and the lower container are arranged in a chilled chamber inside the refrigerated chamber,
The refrigerator according to claim 1. A blowout opening is opened on the back of the chilled chamber corresponding to the back of the upper container,
The upper surface of the upper container and the upper surface of the lower container are opened,
A cold air circulation hole is opened on at least the bottom surface of the upper container,
The refrigerator according to claim 6. From the front end of the ceiling plate of the chilled chamber to the upper front of the upper container, a lid is disposed so as to be openable and closable.
The refrigerator according to claim 7.

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