JP3187890B2 - refrigerator - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

With the present invention relates to form a substantially sealed space inside the door of the freezing chamber, to effectively perform the refrigerator light irradiation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No.
No. 7, the cold air duct is provided on the ceiling of the freezing room to guide a part of the cold air from the cooler to the cold air inlet above the independent storage room provided on the door. A refrigerator having an interior light and an interior light cover having a cool air outlet below the interior light is disclosed. In particular, since the cool air outlet of the interior light cover is provided corresponding to the cool air inlet of the independent storage room, the two openings have a close positional relationship.

[0003]

When the door of the freezer compartment is opened, the interior light is turned on and the blower is stopped. Therefore, when the door is not securely closed, The interior lamp is turned on. At this time, since the interior light is located nearby, the interior light cover and the upper portion of the opening / closing lid that constitutes a part of the independent storage room are heated by the heat of the illumination of the interior light. If the lit state continues for a long time (ie the time of abnormal lit)
The, the cover opening and closing lid to be formed by an ordinary transparent resin, the cover and the opening and closing lid is not easy cause thermal deformation. In addition , since the interior light is located at the tip of the duct, it is difficult for light to reach the interior of the freezer compartment, and there is a problem in that it is difficult to see items in the interior compared to the front side of the freezer compartment .

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a refrigerator in which the position of the interior light in the duct is set rearward of the outlet of the duct . As a result, the light of the interior light is frozen
All over the room.

[0005] The present invention relates to a heat insulating box (2) having a front opening and the opening thereof.
Refrigerator that has room (12) with door (4) closing the mouth
The top of the room (12) is cooled by a cooler (24) at the tip.
Duct (42) with an outlet (42) for blowing out part of the
0), which is behind the outlet (42) of this duct (40).
At the approximate center of the duct, the cool air flowing through this duct (40)
An illumination room (45) is provided that is shut off and houses the interior light (44).
The cool air introduced into the duct (40) enters the lighting room (45) on the way.
Branches more left and right and merges in front of this lighting room (45) and blows out
It is characterized by being blown out from the mouth (42).

[0006]

[Action] Since than outlet Da transfected provided an illumination chamber that houses the interior lamp to the rear, tends to perform devised for span goes light in interior lamp to the rear. Also, since the illumination chamber and the outlet are separated from each other, there is no problem that the duct is deformed at the time of abnormal lighting of the interior light.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[0008] Reference numeral 1 denotes a household refrigerator, which is composed of a heat insulating box 2 having a front opening constituting a main body thereof, and doors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 for closing the opening. I have.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a horizontal partition wall for partitioning the inside of the heat insulating box 2 up and down. In this embodiment, a freezing compartment 12 is cooled above the horizontal partition wall 11 to a freezing temperature, and a lower portion is set to a temperature at which food does not freeze. It is a storage room to be cooled. The storage room is further vertically divided by a pre-partitioning member 13 and a partition plate 14, and the upper part of the partition plate 14 is cooled to a temperature of about 3 ° C, and the lower part is a temperature of about -1 ° C to 7 ° C. The selection chamber 16 can set the temperature in the band.

[0010] Door 3 and door 4 are doors revolvable corresponding to the freezing compartment 12, the door 4 is provided with a partition plate 17 that partitions the opening of the freezing chamber to the left and right. The doors 5 and 6 are rotatable doors corresponding to the refrigerator compartment 15, and the door 6 is provided with a partition 18 that partitions the opening of the refrigerator compartment to the left and right.

[0011] door 7 and doors 8, the vertical partition walls 30 are drawer-type door corresponding to the bottle chamber 19 and the vegetable compartment 20 is partitioned into left and right, upper surface for accommodating a respective mainly bottles and vegetables both doors Open containers 21 and 22
Is provided detachably. Partition plate 3 on the back side of the cold Koshitsu 12
The cooler 2 arranged in the cooler room 23 defined by 1
The cool air cooled in 4 is blown by the blower 25 to the freezing room 12, the refrigeration room 15, the bottle room 19, and the vegetable room 20 to cool each room.

The inner plate 33 of the door 4 of the freezer compartment 12 has two upper and lower door racks 35 each having a through hole 34 on the bottom surface.
A and 35B are provided. The inner plate 33 is provided with rack covers 36A and 36B rotatably in the vertical direction. The inner plate 33, the door racks 35A and 35B, and the rack covers 36A and 36B are provided in a substantially closed space of two stages up and down. K1
And K2 are formed. The rack cover 36A has an upper portion formed with a cool air inlet 37 facing an outlet 42 of a door duct 40 described later, and a transparent resin is used as a material of the rack cover.

The inner box top plate 12 forming the ceiling of the freezer compartment 12
A is provided with a duct cover 41, and the duct cover 41 and a ceiling form a door duct 40 communicating with the cooler room 23. The door duct 40 has an outlet 42 near the front end thereof, and an illumination room 45 for accommodating the interior lamp 44 is formed behind the outlet 42 (specifically, substantially at the center of the duct). An indentation 43 is provided. Irradiation light room 45 is intended to be formed by the indentations 43 of the transparent cover 46 Toko covering the indentations 43,
It is formed independently in the duct in such a manner that it is shielded from the cool air by the wall 41B constituting the dent of the duct cover so that the cool air flowing in the duct does not flow in. Irradiation light room is arranged interior lamp to a depth deepest portion of the indentation 43 described above forms a cross-sectionally substantially inverted T-shape as shown in FIG.
However, since the cold air introduced into the door duct 40 is to be blown out from the air outlet 42 join at the front of by illumination chamber 45 branches to the left and right by the depressions 43 for forming the illumination chamber in the middle, As shown in FIG. 4, when cut vertically in the lighting room portion, the inside of the duct is divided into two upper and lower layers by a duct cover 41B so that the cold air passage R is on the upper side and the lighting room is on the lower side. The duct cover 41 excluding or indentations 43 and the transparent cover 46 are set to be substantially flush. Note that a reflecting member 47 such as a metal foil may be pasted on the wall 41C located above the interior lamp 44 of the lighting room 45.

As described above, the lighting chamber 45 is provided behind the air outlet 42 of the door duct 40 so as to be shielded from the cool air.
When the interior lamp 44 is turned on abnormally, there is no problem that the walls forming the air outlet 42 and the cold air inlet 37 are deformed.
Further, since the illumination chamber 44 is formed in an inverted T-shape, the light of the interior lamp 44 can be transmitted from the cover 46 not only below the interior lamp but also in all directions in the front, rear, left and right directions. Entire freezing chamber for this to be able to irradiate light, while enhanced lighting effects, illumination chamber 45 is the position of the interior light 44 from the front of the freezing chamber 12 to a position in the middle of the door duct 40 It will be difficult to understand.

Further, since there is no interior light near the front end of the door duct 40, the front end can be made thinner, and the vertical lengths of the sealed spaces K1 and K2 can be adjusted to the length of the door of the freezer compartment. The height can be set to a length that maximizes the height within the height, and the volume of the sealed space can be increased as compared with the conventional one. In addition, with lighting room
The air outlet and the cool air inlet of the rack cover are too far apart.
The duct and rack cover change when the interior light turns on abnormally.
No defects to shape. Having arranged the illumination chamber behind the air outlet to is found, increasing the height of the illumination chamber, it does not become a height limit of the closed space formed in the door inside.

[0016]

According to the present invention, since than outlet Da transfected provided an illumination chamber backwards, Ru can be reduced the height of the tip portion of the dust transfected than the conventional. Also, since the illumination chamber is located behind the outlet, the light interior light
Can be irradiated toward the right and left rear portion and the interior light not only near the open mouth, the irradiation light range can be expanded than the conventional.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional side view of a freezer in a refrigerator of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the refrigerator showing a state where a door of the refrigerator is opened.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the door duct as viewed from the freezer compartment side.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG. 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Refrigerator 4 Door 12 Freezer room 35 Rack 36 Rack cover 40 Door duct 42 Outlet 44 Interior light 45 Lighting room

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A heat insulating box of the front opening (2) and in the refrigerator constructed the door (4) and unloading chamber (12) for closing the opening, condenser tip on the ceiling of the chamber (12) ( a duct (40) provided with air outlet (42) for blowing a part of the cooled cold air at 24), a rear than the air outlet of the duct (40) (42) the duct
Wherein a substantially central portion of the illumination chamber (45) provided for accommodating the duct (40) cool and blocked-compartment lamp flowing in (44), the cool air introduced into the duct (40) is, in the middle illumination
The lighting room (45) is branched right and left by the room (45).
Refrigerator characterized by being blown out from the outlet (42) .