JP6622980B2 - refrigerator - Google Patents

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 in this chilled room, upper and lower two-stage containers are arranged so as to be freely drawn out.

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

  In the case of the refrigerator as described above, there is a problem in that a high-height food cannot be stored because only a low-height container is arranged up and down.

  Then, embodiment of this invention aims at providing the refrigerator which can accommodate the food with a low height and a food with a high height in view of the said problem.

Embodiments of the present invention include a storage chamber, a first container provided in the storage chamber so as to be able to be drawn forward, and a second container provided independently of the first container and capable of being drawn forward. And in the left-right direction of the bottom portion of the first container, the bottom portion comprises an upper bottom plate and a lower bottom plate located below the upper bottom plate, and below the upper bottom plate of the first container. , said second housing space for housing the container is formed, wherein a front surface of the first container and the front surface of the second container Ri Do heavy up and down step of the lower bottom plates and the upper bottom plate In the refrigerator, a middle rail projects in the front-rear direction on the outside of the plate, and a rail that engages with the middle rail is provided on a side surface of the second container .

The front view of the refrigerator which shows one Embodiment of this invention. The longitudinal cross-sectional view seen from the right side of a refrigerator. The front view of a chilled room. The longitudinal section seen from the front of a chilled room. The perspective view of a 1st container and a 2nd container. The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the part with which the 1st container and the 2nd container have overlapped up and down. The longitudinal section of the 1st container. The partially expanded longitudinal cross-section of the state which accommodated the 1st container and the 2nd container. The partially expanded longitudinal section of the state which pulled out the 1st container. The partially expanded longitudinal cross-section of the state which pulled out the 2nd 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 the first container 60 and the second container 62. 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 portion of the refrigerator compartment 14 is provided on the right side of the refrigerator compartment 14, and a tank 50 is disposed on the left side of the chilled chamber 42. 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 wall plate 54 provided at the boundary between the tank 50, a right wall plate 56 constituting the right side surface of the refrigerator compartment 14, and a refrigerator compartment. 14 is surrounded by a back wall plate 58 constituting the back surface of the refrigeration unit 14 and a partition 38 constituting the bottom surface of the refrigerator compartment 14. Inside the chilled chamber 42, a first drawer 60 and a second container 62 are provided. It is arranged. 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 first container 60.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the first container 60 has a box shape with an open top surface, and has a top surface plate 604 and a bottom surface plate 637 at the bottom. The lower bottom plate 637 is horizontally disposed below the upper bottom plate 604 via the step plate 635. A left side plate 602 is erected from the left side of the upper bottom plate 604, and a right side plate 636 is erected from the right side of the lower bottom plate 637. The height of the right side plate 636 is higher than the left side plate 602 by the height of the step plate 635. A rear plate 603 is formed at the rear of the left side plate 602, upper bottom plate 604, lower bottom plate 637, step plate 635, and right side plate 636, and a front plate 601 is formed at the front. An upper small space 72 is formed by the left side of the front plate 601, the left side plate 602, and the left side of the back plate 603. An upper large space 74 having a height dimension larger than that of the upper small space 72 is formed by the right side of the front plate 601, the lower bottom plate 637, the right side plate 636, the right side of the rear plate 603, and the step plate 635. A storage space 77 that is long in the front-rear direction is formed below the upper bottom plate 604 and on the left side of the step plate 635. In the storage space 77, the second container 62 is stored in a freely retractable manner.

  As shown in FIGS. 6 to 8, an upper handle 605 is formed on the front portion of the front plate 601 of the first container 60. The lower part of the upper handle 605 is open, the upper part is closed, and a left notch 606 is cut out in a square shape slightly to the left of the center of the lower end of the upper handle 605. That is, the upper handle 605 is provided in front of the front plate 601 of the first container 60 so as to cover 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. A stepped portion 608 is formed on the lower left side 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. 9). 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. 8 to 10, a plurality of slit-like cold air circulation holes 609 are opened at predetermined intervals in the width direction at corners where the front plate 601 and the upper bottom plate 604 are combined. A plurality of cold air outlets 620 are open on the back plate 603 corresponding to the lower bottom plate 637 of the first container 60.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the left side plate 602 and the right side plate 636 of the first container 60 are each formed with a bulge portion 614 that bulges upward from the front to the center. The bulging portion 614 is for pushing up the lid 64.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a left rail 610 protrudes from the left side plate 602 of the first container 60 in a ridge direction in the front-rear direction. An upper right rail 611 protrudes from the top of the right side plate 636 in the front-rear direction, and a lower right rail 616 protrudes from the bottom in the front-rear direction. As shown in FIG. 4, an intermediate rail 618 protrudes from the step plate 635 on the outer side of the step plate 635 in the front-rear direction. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, an upper left rail receiver 612 is formed on the left wall plate 54 in the front-rear direction corresponding to the left rail 610, and an upper right rail receiver 613 on the right wall plate 56 corresponding to the upper right rail 611. Are formed in the front-rear direction. A lower right rail receiver 617 is formed in the front-rear direction corresponding to the lower right rail 616 at the lower portion of the right wall plate 56. A pair of left and right mounting ridges 619 protrude from the upper surface of the partition 38 corresponding to the lower bottom plate 637.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the second container 62 is stored in a storage space 77 located on the lower left side of the first container 60, and is arranged so as to be drawn out with respect to the partition body 38. A lower space 76 having a low height is formed inside the second container 62. As shown in FIG. 4, a pair of left and right mounting protrusions 619 and 619 protrudes in the front-rear direction on the right side of the upper surface of the partition 38, and the lower bottom plate 637 of the first container 60 is mounted thereon. ing. The second container 62 includes a front plate 621, a pair of left and right side plates 622, a back plate 623, and a bottom plate 624, and the upper surface is open. Further, a lower handle 625 is formed at the front portion of the front plate 621. The lower handle portion 625 is closed at the lower portion and opened at the upper portion, and a lower notch portion 626 is cut out in a square shape at the center of the upper end portion of the lower handle portion 625 and slightly on the right side. That is, the lower handle 625 is formed so as to cover the front plate 621 of the second container 62 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 FIG. 8, the lower end on the right side of the upper handle 605 is the upper end of the lower handle 625 of the second container 62 in a state where the second container 62 is stored in the storage space 77 of the first container 60. More than M = 1 mm to 5 mm forward.

  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 second container 62 is mounted thereon. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a pair of left and right protrusion rails 628 protrude from the pair of left and right side plates 622 and 622 of the second container 62. A rail receiver 629 corresponding to the left rail 628 is formed on the left wall plate 54 of the chilled chamber 42 in the front-rear direction, and the right rail 628 and the middle rail 618 of the step plate 635 of the first container 60 are engaged. ing. As shown in FIG. 4, the front lower part of the second container 62 is in a raised state when the front part of the partition body 38 swells upward, so that the second container 62 is pulled forward. This is to cope with the bulge.

  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 first container 60 to cool the meat and fish inside the first container 60. The cold air that has cooled the upper large space 73 of the first container 60 is discharged to the outside from a blowout port 620 opened in the back plate 603 of the first container 60. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 8, the cold air that has cooled the upper small space 72 of the first container 60 passes through the plurality of cold air circulation holes 609 in the lower front portion on the left side of the first container 60 and enters the second container 62. Flows in. The cold air flowing from the first container 60 cools the meat and fish inside the second container 62 and is discharged to the outside from the outlet 632 opened in the back plate 623 of the second 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. As a result, as shown in FIG. 9, when the first container 60 is pulled forward, the lid 64 is pressed by the left side plate 602, the front end of the right side plate 636 and the bulging portion 614, and the hinge 70 is centered. By rotating upward, the lid 61 is opened and does not obstruct the withdrawal of the first container 62.

(3) Effect According to the refrigerator 10 of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the food with height can be stored in the upper large space 74 of the first container 60, and the food with low height is the first container. 60 can be accommodated in the upper small space 72 or the lower space 76 of the second container 62.

  Also, as shown in FIG. 9, when the user puts his hand from below into the upper notch 606 on the left side of the upper handle 605 whose lower part is open and pulls it forward, the left rail 610 of the first container 60 is left It moves along the rail receiver 612, the upper right rail 610 moves along the upper right rail receiver 613, the lower right rail 616 moves along the lower right rail receiver 617, and the lower bottom plate 637 of the first container 60 is mounted. The first container 60 can be easily pulled out by moving in a state of being placed on the placing protrusion 619. 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.

  As shown in FIG. 10, when the user puts his hand into the lower notch 626 of the lower handle 625 whose upper side is open and pulls it forward, the left rail 628 of the second container 62 is moved to the rail receiver 629. , The right rail 628 moves along the middle rail 618, the bottom plate 624 of the second container 62 moves on the mounting protrusion 627, and the second container 62 is easily moved. Can be pulled out. At this time, as shown in FIG. 10, 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. 8, since the front surface of the upper handle 605 of the first container 60 is a light scattering surface 607, the user cannot see the inside of the first container 60 and the second container 62.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the lower end of the upper handle 605 of the first container 60 is positioned M forward from the upper end of the lower handle 625 of the second container 62 in the state of being housed in the chilled chamber 42. Therefore, the upper end surface of the lower handle 625 is excellent in design without being visible to the user.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 8, since the cold air vent hole 609 is opened from the front plate 601 to the bottom plate 604 of the first container 60, the cold air that has entered the first container 60 passes through the cold air circulation hole 609. It is easy to penetrate into the inside of the second container 62 after that.

  Also, as shown in FIG. 6, 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 first container 60, closes the chilled chamber 42, and cool air is generated. There is no escape to other parts of the refrigerator compartment 14.

(4) Modification In the above embodiment, the storage space 77 is provided on the lower left side of the first container 60. Instead, the storage space 77 is provided on the lower right side of the first container 60 or in the center. The second container 62 may be stored so that it can be pulled out forward.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the 1st container 60 and the 2nd container 62 were provided in the chilled chamber 42, you may provide not only in this but 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 ... 1st container, 62 ... 2nd container, 77 ... Storage space

Claims (8)

A storage room;
A first container provided in the storage chamber so as to be capable of being pulled forward;
A second container provided independently of the first container and capable of being pulled forward;
Have
In the left-right direction of the bottom of the first container, the bottom is composed of an upper bottom plate and a lower bottom plate located below the upper bottom plate,
A storage space for storing the second container is formed below the upper bottom plate of the first container,
Wherein Ri with the front of the first container and the front surface of the second container Do heavy vertically,
A middle rail projects in the front-rear direction on the outside of the step plate between the upper bottom plate and the lower bottom plate,
A rail that engages with the middle rail is provided on a side surface of the second container.
refrigerator. The bottom surface of the second container is placed on the bottom of the storage chamber;
The lower bottom surface of the first container is placed on the bottom of the storage chamber;
The refrigerator according to claim 1. The storage space is formed in the lower right side, the lower left side, or the lower center of the first container.
The refrigerator according to claim 1. An upper handle provided on the front surface of the first container and having a lower opening;
A lower handle provided on the front surface of the second container and having an upper opening;
Have
The upper handle and the lower handle overlap vertically.
The refrigerator according to claim 1. An upper notch is formed at the lower center of the upper handle,
A lower notch is formed at the upper center of the lower handle,
The refrigerator according to claim 4. The storage room is a refrigerator room;
The first container and the second 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 first container,
An upper surface of the first container and an upper surface of the second container are opened;
A cold air circulation hole is opened in the bottom surface of the first container corresponding to the second container,
The refrigerator according to claim 6. A lid is disposed so as to be openable and closable from the front end of the ceiling plate of the chilled chamber to above the front surface of the first container.
The refrigerator according to claim 7.

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