JP4749199B2 - Storage - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement of a freezer compartment container of a storage in which a freezer compartment container with an upper surface opening can be drawn and stored in a front-rear freezer compartment in the front-rear direction.

A storage container 38 is attached to the back side of the pull-out door 37 that opens and closes the front opening of the freezer compartment so that the storage container 38 can be pulled out integrally with the pull-out door 37 and can be moved in the front-rear direction above the storage container 38. Although there is a refrigerator provided with the second storage container 39, the supply of cold air to the storage container 38 is not certain. (For example, patent document 1).
JP 2000-266252 A

  The present invention reliably introduces cool air into a freezer compartment in a storage unit in which a synthetic resin freezer compartment container with an upper surface opening is supported so that it can be pulled out integrally with a drawer door that opens and closes the front opening of the freezer compartment. Providing a configuration capable of suppressing a rise in the temperature of frozen food in the freezer compartment container so that the cold air in the freezer compartment container is difficult to leak when the drawer door is opened and the freezer container is pulled out It is.

  The storage of the first invention is provided with a pull-out door that opens and closes the front opening of the freezer compartment, and the freezer compartment container of the upper opening is supported in the freezer compartment so as to be retractable in the front-rear direction and integrated with the pull-out door. In the storage, a cold air outlet is provided on the back wall of the freezer compartment so as to protrude forward, a cold air inlet is formed at the upper part of the rear wall of the freezer compartment, and the cold air inlet has the drawer type An open / close plate is provided that opens the cold air inlet when pushed by the cold air outlet when the door is closed, and closes the cold inlet by moving away from the cold air outlet when the drawer door is opened. It is characterized by.

  The storage of the second invention is the storage according to the first invention, wherein the freezer compartment is slidable in the front-rear direction and detachably mounted on the main container having a deep upper surface opening and the left and right flanges at the upper end of the upper surface opening of the main container. A transparent auxiliary container having a shallow upper surface opening, a cold air outlet is formed in the front wall of the main container, and is detachably mounted on the peripheral edge of the auxiliary container so as to cover the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container A transparent plate-like lid is provided.

  The storage of the third invention is characterized in that, in the second invention, the cold air inlet is formed in a notched state in which an upper portion of the rear wall is recessed at a position below the auxiliary container.

  The storage of the fourth invention is any one of the first to third inventions, wherein the opening / closing plate is constantly urged in a direction to close the cold air inlet by a spring force or an action force of its own weight. It is.

  In the first invention, since the cold air outlet faces the cold air inlet when the drawer door is closed, the cold air blown out from the cold air outlet is surely flowed into the freezer compartment container, and the frozen food in the freezer compartment is cooled. It becomes good. And when a drawer-type door opens, since an opening-and-closing plate closes a cold air inlet, the cold air leakage from a cold air inlet is prevented and the temperature rise of frozen food can be suppressed. Since this operation is automatically performed by opening and closing the drawer-type door, there is no inconvenience for the user of the storage.

  In the second invention, in addition to the effects of the first invention, the auxiliary container prevents the main container from leaking cold air, and serves as a cold air guide in the main container, and the auxiliary container prevents the cold air leak from the auxiliary container, It can contribute to the suppression of the temperature rise of frozen food when the drawer door is opened. In addition, since the auxiliary container and the lid are transparent, it is possible to grasp the state in the auxiliary container through the lid, and it is possible to grasp the state in the main container through the lid and the auxiliary container. It becomes a preferable thing which can suppress the temperature rise of a foodstuff.

  In the third invention, in addition to the effects of the first invention or the second invention, since the cold air inlet can be formed in the main container, the cold air inlet is easily formed, and the auxiliary container is placed on the main container. Thus, the operation of introducing cold air into the main container and preventing cold air leakage can be stably performed.

  In the fourth invention, in addition to the effects of the first to third inventions, the open / close plate is always urged in the direction to close the cold air inlet, so that the temperature rise of the frozen food when the drawer door is opened is suppressed. Can be performed promptly.

  The present invention provides a storage door in which a drawer type door that opens and closes a front opening of a freezer compartment is provided, and a freezer compartment container having an upper surface opening is supported in a freely retractable and retractable manner in the freezer compartment integrally with the drawer door. A cold air outlet is provided on the back wall of the freezer compartment so as to protrude forward, a cold air inlet is formed in the upper part of the rear wall of the freezer compartment, and the drawer door is closed at the cold air inlet. An opening / closing plate is provided that is pushed by the cold air outlet to open the cold air inlet, and operates to close the cold air inlet by moving away from the cold air outlet when the pull-out door is opened. Examples of the present invention are described below.

  Next, an embodiment in which the storage of the present invention is a refrigerator-freezer will be described. 1 is a longitudinal side view of a refrigerator-freezer, FIG. 2 is a front view of a refrigerator-freezer body, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a freezer compartment container, FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the freezer compartment container, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional side view showing a cold air inlet portion to the freezer compartment container, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the main container and the auxiliary container of the freezer compartment separated from each other.

  The refrigerator-freezer 1 which concerns on Example 1 is the structure which partitions off the inside of the refrigerator-freezer main body 2 of front opening, and forms several storage chambers, and the front surface of each of these storage chambers can be opened and closed by each door. The refrigerator-freezer main body 2 has a heat insulating structure in which a foam heat insulating material 2C is filled between an outer box (outer wall plate) 2A and an inner box (inner wall plate) 2B. A refrigerator compartment 3, a freezer compartment 5, and a vegetable compartment 4 are partitioned from the top in the freezer main body 2, and the front opening of the refrigerator compartment 3 is closed by a left and right open door 3 </ b> A.

  Reference numeral 6 denotes a refrigerant compressor installed in a machine room provided at the bottom of the refrigerator-freezer body 2. The refrigerant compressed by the compressor 6 is condensed by a condenser 42 and passes through a decompression unit such as a capillary tube to be evaporated. After evaporating in the (cooler) 7, circulation is performed by returning to the compressor 6 and compressing again, and these constitute a refrigeration cycle. 8 is a blower that circulates the cold air cooled by the evaporator (cooler) 7 to the refrigerator compartment 3, the vegetable compartment 4, and the freezer compartment 5.

  In the freezer compartment 5, a synthetic resin freezer compartment container 10 having an upper opening is provided in the freezer compartment 3 having a front opening so as to be retractable in the front-rear direction. In order to make it easy to pull out and store the freezer compartment 10 in the front-rear direction, the left and right side walls of the freezer compartment 10 are supported by the left and right rails 22 or a support device 20 including a combination of the rails 22 and rollers 23, and the freezer compartment 5 The front opening is opened and closed by a pull-out door 9 supported by the support device 20 so as to be movable in the front-rear direction together with the freezer compartment 10. The illustrated support device 20 is configured such that the rail portions 22 of the left and right support members 21 extending horizontally from the back side of the door 9 are placed on rollers 23 attached to the left and right walls of the freezer compartment 5. The freezer compartment 10 is mounted on left and right support members 21 with flange portions on both the left and right sides of the freezer compartment 10 so as to be removable upward.

  The front opening of the vegetable compartment 4 is closed by a drawer-type door 41 that is drawn forward together with a vegetable container 40 supported so as to be able to be drawn out in the front-rear direction by a support device using left and right rails and rollers provided in the vegetable compartment 4. . A cold air supply passage 43 in the vertical direction is formed between the back wall 44 of the refrigerator compartment 3 and the inner box (inner wall plate) 2B of the back wall of the refrigerator body 2.

  The cold air cooled by the evaporator (cooler) 7 is circulated by an air blower 8 as shown by an arrow. That is, the cold air sent out from the blower 8 is supplied to the freezer compartment 5 from the cold air outlet 27 on the back of the freezer compartment 5 and flows into the freezer compartment 10 as will be described later. Returning from the cold air inlet 45 at the lower back of the freezer compartment 5 so that it is cooled again by the evaporator (cooler) 7, the same circulation is performed. Further, the cold air sent out from the blower 8 is supplied to the cold air supply passage 43 through the damper device 46, distributed to the cold air passages 43 </ b> A formed on the left and right sides of the cold air supply passage 43, and formed on the back wall 44 of the refrigerator compartment 3. The cold air outlet 47 is supplied to the refrigerator compartment 3.

  The cold air supplied to the refrigerating room 3 is sucked from a cold air suction port 48 formed at one side lower part of the back wall 44 of the refrigerating room 3, and flows downward through a cold air passage 50 formed at the rear of the freezing room 5. It blows out to the vegetable compartment 4 from the cold air outlet 51 opened at the rear part of the compartment 4. The cold air blown into the vegetable compartment 4 indirectly cools the vegetables and the like in the vegetable container 40 with most of the cold air and directly cools it with a part of the cold air that enters, and is placed at the top of the vegetable compartment 4 or the rear of the vegetable compartment 4. It returns so that it may be cooled again by the evaporator (cooler) 24 from the open cold air inlet 52, and the same circulation is performed.

  With such a configuration, the support member 21 is pulled out by pulling the pull-out door 9 forward, so that the freezer compartment container 10 placed on the support member 21 is pulled out, and the upper surface opening of the freezer compartment container 10 is frozen. Since it is located in front of the refrigerator body 2, it is easy to put frozen food into and out of the freezer compartment 10. In addition, the support member 21 is provided with a stopper portion that restricts the pull-out of the pull-out type door 9 so that the support member 21 is not detached from the support by the roller 23 by the forward pull-out.

  The freezer compartment container 10 has an opaque main container 10A having a deep upper surface opening, and a shallow upper surface transparent that is slidable in the front-rear direction and detachably mounted on the left and right flanges at the upper end of the upper surface opening of the main container 10A. The auxiliary container 10B includes a transparent plate-like lid 10C that is detachably mounted on the peripheral edge of the auxiliary container 10B so as to cover the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container 10B. The main container 10A is placed on the support member 21. By pulling the pull-out door 9 forward, the main container 10A, the auxiliary container 10B, and the lid 10C are pulled out together with the support member 21. For this reason, if the lid 10C is pushed into the deeper side of the freezer compartment 5 in the pulled-out state, the frozen food can be easily taken into and out of the auxiliary container 10B. If the auxiliary container 10B is pushed into the freezer compartment 5 together with the lid 10C, The frozen food can be easily taken in and out of the container 10A. The lower part of the main container 10A has a double wall structure.

  As described above, the freezer compartment container 10 is supported by the support device 20. In this case, the left and right side walls 10A3 and 10A4 of the main container 10A are supported by the support device 20, so that this support structure is used as the freezer compartment. The container 10 can be shared with the support of the freezer container 10 in the form of a single container in which the auxiliary container 10B is not provided, and the cost of the support device 20 can be reduced. Further, since the main container 10A is supported by the support device 20, it is easy to detachably support the entire freezer compartment container 10 including the auxiliary container 10B.

  The main container 10A includes a cold air inlet 25 at the upper part of the rear wall 10A1 of the main container 10A, and a cold air outlet 26 at the upper part of the front wall 10A2 of the main container 10A. The cold air inlet 25 is formed in a notched state in which the upper portion of the rear wall 10A1 is recessed at a position lower than the auxiliary container 10B, and the cold air outlet 26 is in a state in which a plurality of vertically long holes are formed at substantially equal intervals in the horizontal direction. Is formed. A cold air outlet 27 is provided on the back wall of the freezer compartment 5 so as to protrude forward. The cold air blown out from the cold air outlet 27 is supplied by the blower 8 with the cold air cooled by the evaporator (cooler) 7.

  The auxiliary container 10B is placed on the left and right flanges at the upper end of the top opening of the main container 10A, and the bottom surface of the auxiliary container 10B enters the main container 10A. It will be in the state covered with 10B. For this reason, the auxiliary container 10B prevents the cool air in the main container 10A from escaping upward. In addition, the auxiliary container 10B also serves as a cold air guide while the cold air entering the main container 10A from the cold air inlet 25 flows out from the cold air outlet 26.

  The lid 10C covers the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container 10B, and the main container 10A, the auxiliary container 10B, and the lid 10C are pulled out integrally by pulling the pull-out door 9 forward. 10C serves to prevent cold air leakage in the auxiliary container 10B, suppresses the temperature rise of the frozen food in the auxiliary container 10B, and the upper surface opening of the main container 10A is covered with the auxiliary container 10B. The temperature rise of the frozen food within 10A is also suppressed. Further, in this pulled out state, the auxiliary container 10B is covered with the lid 10C, and the auxiliary container 10B is slid rearward on the left and right flanges at the upper end of the upper opening of the main container 10A, thereby allowing the frozen food in the main container 10A to be frozen. However, since the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container 10B is covered with the lid 10C, the temperature rise of the frozen food in the auxiliary container 10B is suppressed.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the cold air inlet 25 of the main container 10 </ b> A is attached with an opening / closing plate 28 that is maintained by the shaft support portion 28 </ b> A so that the cold air inlet 25 is always closed by a spring force or an action force of its own weight. The freezer compartment container 10 (the main container 10A and the auxiliary container 10B in the figure) placed on the support member 21 moves toward the predetermined storage position of the freezer compartment 5 by closing the pull-out door 9, and this As the main container 10A moves toward the interior of the freezer compartment 5 toward the storage position, the cold air outlet 27 comes into contact with the opening / closing plate 28, and the opening / closing plate 28 resists the spring force or the acting force of its own weight. Is pushed forward by the cold air outlet 27. In the state where the drawer door 9 closes the front opening of the freezer compartment 5 and the freezer compartment container 10 is stored in a predetermined position of the freezer compartment 5, the open / close plate 28 in FIG. As shown, the shaft support portion 28A is pivoted to a substantially horizontal state and the cold air inlet 25 is opened. In this state, the cold air supplied from the cold air outlet 27 flows into the main container 10 </ b> A and flows out of the cold air outlet 26 into the freezer compartment 5. The cold air that has flowed into the freezer compartment 5 circulates back to the evaporator (cooler) 7 through a suction port provided in the lower part of the back wall of the freezer compartment 5 or the like. In addition, with the opening and closing plate 28 rotated to a substantially horizontal state as shown in FIG. 6, the front end of the opening and closing plate 28 does not move forward from the rear wall 10A1 of the main container 10A. Therefore, the rotation of the opening / closing plate 28 is not obstructed.

  Further, as the drawer-type door 9 is pulled forward, the freezer compartment 10 is pulled forward, so that the cold air outlet 27 is separated from the opening / closing plate 28 along with this drawing, and the opening / closing plate 28 has the spring force or Since the cold air inlet 25 is kept closed as shown in FIG. 3 by the action force of its own weight, the cold air in the main container 10A is prevented from escaping from the cold air inlet 25 in the pulled-out state.

  The auxiliary container 10B is formed by forming a portion 10B1 in which a part of the front wall (right side in the front view in the figure) is notched backward so that tall frozen food can be stored in the main container 10A. A region R where the auxiliary container 10B does not exist is formed in a part of the front portion. For this reason, a tall article can be stored in the region R. This is used to store tall items such as milk cartons in this region R when the combination of the main container 10A and the auxiliary container 10B as described above is used as the vegetable compartment container 40. It is convenient.

  In addition, when the lid 10C is detachably mounted on the upper ends of the left and right walls of the auxiliary container 10B so as to cover the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container 10B, there is a space in the front and back on the upper surface of the left and right walls of the auxiliary container 10B. If the projection is provided and the lid 10C is placed on the projection, it is possible to prevent the auxiliary container 10B and the lid 10C from being combined by freezing and difficult to separate.

  In the above embodiment, the freezer compartment container 10 is composed of the main container 10A and the auxiliary container 10B.

  The refrigerator-freezer of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and the form of the freezer and the form of the freezer container are not limited to the above-mentioned forms, and various forms of freezing are possible without departing from the technical scope of the present invention. It can be applied to refrigerators and freezer containers.

It is a vertical side view of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention. Example 1 It is a front view of the refrigerator-freezer main body which concerns on this invention. Example 1 It is a perspective view of the freezer compartment container which concerns on this invention. Example 1 It is a disassembled perspective view of the freezer compartment container which concerns on this invention. Example 1 It is a vertical front view of the part which supports the freezer compartment container which concerns on this invention to a support apparatus. Example 1 It is a vertical side view which shows the cold-air inlet part to the freezer compartment container which concerns on this invention. Example 1 It is the perspective view which the main container and auxiliary container of the freezer container which concern on this invention isolate | separated. Example 1

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Refrigeration refrigerator 2 ... Refrigeration refrigerator main body 3 ... Refrigeration room 4 ... Vegetable room 5 ... Freezing room 7 ... Evaporator (cooler)
8 ... Blower 9 ... Drawer door 10 ... Freezer container 10A ... Main container 10B ... Auxiliary container 20 ... Supporting device 21 ... Support member 22 ... Rail part 23 ... Roller 25 ... Cold air inlet 26 ... Cold air outlet 27 ... Cold air outlet 28 ... Opening / closing plate

Claims (4)

  In a storehouse provided with a drawer-type door that opens and closes the front opening of the freezer compartment, and a synthetic resin freezer compartment container on the top opening is supported in a freely retractable and retractable manner in the freezer compartment integrally with the drawer door, A cold air outlet is provided on the back wall of the freezer compartment so as to protrude forward, a cold air inlet is formed in the upper part of the rear wall of the freezer compartment, and the drawer door is closed at the cold air inlet. An opening / closing plate is provided that is pushed by the cold air outlet to open the cold air inlet, and operates to close the cold air inlet by moving away from the cold air outlet when the pull-out door is opened. To store.   The freezer compartment container includes a main container having a deep upper surface opening, and a transparent auxiliary container having a shallow upper surface opening that is slidable in the front-rear direction and detachably mounted on the left and right flanges at the upper end of the upper surface opening of the main container. Comprising a transparent plate-like lid that is detachably mounted on the peripheral edge of the auxiliary container so as to cover the upper surface opening of the auxiliary container, forming a cold air outlet on the front wall of the main container The storehouse according to claim 1 characterized by things.   The storage according to claim 2, wherein the cold air inlet is formed in a cutout state in which an upper portion of the rear wall is recessed at a position below the auxiliary container.   4. The storage according to claim 1, wherein the opening / closing plate is constantly urged in a direction to close the cold air inlet by a spring force or an acting force of its own weight. 5.

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