JP6722731B2 - refrigerator - Google Patents

Description

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a refrigerator.

Refrigerators are frequently used during cooking, and are installed in relatively prominent places such as the center of the kitchen so that they are easy to use in the kitchen, so their appearance, especially the surface of the front door, It should always be clean and easy to clean.

In response to such a need, a glass plate is attached to the surface of the front door of the refrigerator so that the surface of the front door of the refrigerator is covered with the glass plate to facilitate cleaning of the surface of the front door of the refrigerator. (For example, see Patent Document 1).

If you cover the front door of the refrigerator with a glass plate, the front door of the refrigerator is easy to clean and can always be kept clean, but it is relatively difficult to securely and cleanly attach the glass plate to the surface of the front door of the refrigerator. Various mounting methods have been studied, and a relatively simple and clean mounting method has been demanded.

JP, 2011-58787, A

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a refrigerator in which a glass plate can be easily and reliably attached to the surface of a front door while improving aesthetic visibility. ..

Refrigerator embodiment of the present invention includes a front plate covering a front face of the rotary door for opening and closing the front opening, a support member for supporting the front plate, wherein the the supporting member, the front A cover portion is provided to cover a side portion of the front plate so that a surface of the face plate is exposed, the cover portion is provided on a free end side of the rotary door, and the front portion on the free end side of the rotary door is provided. A front surface side edge of the face plate has a slope, and the cover portion covers the side surface side edge of the front plate on the slope, while the front surface edge of the front plate on the slope. exposing the side portion of the side edge of the front plate in said slope has a portion which is visible from the front of the refrigerator, the cover part, that not extend to the middle of the slope.

It is a perspective view showing the whole refrigerator concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a disassembled perspective view which decomposes|disassembles and shows only the right door of the double door type door of the refrigerator compartment of the refrigerator shown in FIG. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the right door taken along the line indicated by arrow AA in FIG. 1.

Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the present invention (hereinafter, referred to as embodiments) will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an entire refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the refrigerator 1 shown in the figure, a refrigerating compartment 3 is provided at the uppermost portion, and the refrigerating compartment 3 is provided with a double-door type double door consisting of a left door 3a and a right door 3b at its front opening.

Further, the refrigerator 1 is provided with a vegetable compartment 7 below the refrigerating compartment 3, and an ice making compartment 8 immediately below the vegetable compartment 7 and an upper freezing compartment also called a switching compartment that can be changed to any cooling state from refrigeration to freezing. The chambers 9 are provided side by side, and a freezing chamber 10 is provided at the lowest part immediately below the ice making chamber 8 and the upper freezing chamber 9.

The vegetable compartment 7, the ice making compartment 8, the upper freezing compartment 9 and the freezing compartment 10 have drawer-type doors 7a, 8a, 9a and 10a attached to the front openings, respectively. The main bodies of the upper freezing compartment 9 and the freezing compartment 10 are attached to the rear side of the respective drawer type doors 7a, 8a, 9a and 10a via a frame body, etc. When pulled out, each body is pulled out forward as well.

That is, concave handles 3ab and 3bb for hanging fingers are provided inside the doors at the lower end portions of the left door 3a and the right door 3b, respectively. Similarly, recessed handles 7b, 8b, 9b and 10b for hanging fingers are provided inside the doors at the upper ends of the drawer type doors 7a, 8a, 9a and 10a.

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 1, the outer surfaces of the left and right doors 3a and 3b having the double doors are entirely covered with glass plates 13 and 14. Similarly, the outer surfaces of the drawer type doors 7a, 8a, 9a and 10a6 are entirely covered with glass plates 17, 18, 19 and 20. These glass plates 17, 18, 19 and 20 are transparent or translucent colored glass materials, but may be acrylic resin or the like, for example. As a result, the surface of each door is easy to clean and can always be kept clean.

Each of the doors of the refrigerator compartment 3, the vegetable compartment 7, the ice making compartment 8, the upper freezing compartment 9 and the freezing compartment 10 is formed by an inner plate made of, for example, a steel plate on the innermost side facing the interior. A vacuum heat insulating material is arranged in a space between the glass plate and the glass plate, and a foam heat insulating material such as urethane foam is filled to improve heat insulating performance. Further, the foam heat insulating material is adhered to the inner surface of the glass plate to fix the glass plate to the inner plate, and the glass heat insulating material and four door caps, which will be described later, remove the glass plates 17, 18, 19 and 20 from each other. It is fixed so that it does not exist.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing only one right door 3b of the double doors of the refrigerator compartment 3 of the refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1 in an exploded manner. The left door 3a and the right door 3b which constitute the double door of the refrigerator compartment 3 of the refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1, and the pull-out doors 7a of the vegetable compartment 7, the ice making compartment 8, the upper freezing compartment 9 and the freezing compartment 10 respectively. , 8a, 9a, 10a are basically the same as the right door 3b of the refrigerating compartment 3 shown in FIG. 2, and therefore the right door 3b of the refrigerating compartment 3 will be described below as a representative.

The right door 3b of the refrigerating compartment 3 shown in FIG. 2 has a glass plate member 21 that constitutes a glass plate 13 on the outer surface provided so as to entirely cover the front surface of the right door 3b. In FIG. 2, the side on which the glass plate member 21 is provided is the front side of the right door 3b, and the rear side opposite to the glass plate member 21 is the rear side of the right door 3b toward the inside of the refrigerating chamber 3. Further, an upper door cap 31, a lower door cap 33, a left door cap 35, and a right door cap 37 that hold the glass plate member 21 from above, below, left, and right are provided on the upper, lower, left, and right outer peripheral portions of the glass plate member 21, respectively. The glass plate member 21 is fixedly held by these four door caps 31, 33, 35, 37 which are vertically and horizontally.

In addition, a door inner side assembly 25, which is a rectangular frame, is provided inside the glass plate member 21 so as to extend along the outer peripheral portion of the glass plate member 21. They are assembled together. Further, a rectangular frame body 27 is provided inside the door inner side assembly 25 and toward the inside of the refrigerator compartment 3. Although not shown, an inner plate made of, for example, a steel plate is attached to the frame 27, and a space between the inner plate and the glass plate 21 is filled with a foamed heat insulating material made of urethane foam or the like. While improving the heat insulation performance, the foamed heat insulating material adheres to the inner surface of the glass plate material 21 to fix the glass plate material 21, and the glass plate material 21 is fixed so as not to come off or warp.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the right door 3b taken along the line indicated by the arrow AA in FIG. More specifically, in FIG. 2, the glass plate material 21 of the right door 3b taken along the line indicated by the arrow BB, the structure of the front portion of the right door 3b including the left door cap 35 and the right door cap 37 is shown in FIG. It is sectional drawing shown in the state which left side and right side door caps 35 and 37 contact|abut and hold|maintain to 21.

As shown in FIG. 3, the left door cap 35 has an L-shaped recessed corner portion 35a at an end portion extending forward (downward in the figure), and a vertical surface 35b extending downwardly from the corner portion 35a. Is contacted with the end surface 21b of the left end 21a of the glass plate 21, and the horizontal portion 35c extending laterally of the corner 35a is contacted with the back surface 21c of the glass plate 21, specifically, the double-sided adhesive tape 41. It is glued and fixed by. The protruding portion 35d forming the vertical surface 35b of the corner portion 35a of the left door cap 35 has a rounded tip, and the rounded tip 35e does not project beyond the front surface 21d of the glass plate material 21 and is positioned rearward. There is. That is, the front surface 21d of the glass plate member 21 is located in front of the tip 35e of the left door cap 35. The corner portion 35a of the left door cap 35 constitutes a left-right abutting portion.

Further, the extending portion 35f forming the horizontal portion 35c of the corner portion 35a of the left door cap 35 extends along the back surface 21c of the glass plate material 21, and the horizontal portion 35c of the extending portion 35f and the glass plate material. As described above, the double-sided adhesive tape 41 is provided between the rear surface 21c of the glass plate 21 and the rear surface 21c of the glass plate 21. The rear surface 21c of the glass plate 21 is bonded and fixed to the horizontal portion 35c of the left door cap 35 by the double-sided adhesive tape 41. ..

Furthermore, the lower end of the end face 21b of the glass plate 21 that abuts the vertical surface 35b of the protrusion 35d of the left door cap 35, that is, the corner 21e on the front side of the left end 21a of the glass plate 21, is a so-called C cut. The face is cut. This C-plane cutting may be simply cutting by cutting the corners, but it may be ground after the cutting so as to have roundness.

Then, the tip end 35e of the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 extends to the middle of the corner portion 21e whose C surface is cut. That is, the tip end 35e of the protruding portion 35d of the left side door cap 35 ends at a place less than half of the C-face-cut corner 21e, that is, a place less than half and does not extend any more. The corners 21e of the C-face-cut glass plate material 21 are exposed, moisture is prevented from staying in this portion, and the occurrence of "mold" in this portion is prevented.

More specifically, by locating the tip 35e of the left door cap 35 rearward of the front surface 21d of the glass plate member 21 so that the corners 21e of the C plate-cut glass plate member 21 are exposed, the cold air in the refrigerating chamber 3 is changed. The cooling prevents the landing of water droplets generated between the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 and the end surface 21b of the glass plate member 21, and keeps this portion dry, which causes the generation of mold in this portion. Can be prevented.

Further, by exposing the corner portion 21e of the glass plate member 21 and cutting the C surface, the end portion of the glass plate member 21 can be seen cleanly, aesthetic visibility can be improved, and the commercial value of the refrigerator 1 can be improved. The C-plane cut structure can prevent damage to the glass plate member 21.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the right-side door cap 37 has a substantially U-shaped grip portion 37a forming a left-right grip portion at the end extending forward (downward in the figure). The right edge portion 21f of the glass plate member 21 is held by the holding portion 37a so as to cover the right end portion 21f.

The grip portion 37a is a short front extension 37b whose back surface contacts the front surface 21d of the glass plate 21, and a long rear extension whose front surface is adhesively fixed to the back surface 21c of the glass plate 21 via a double-sided adhesive tape 43. It is composed of a projecting portion 37c and a connecting portion 37d that couples the right end portion of the front extending portion 37b and the right end portion of the rear extending portion 37c.

Further, a gap 45 is formed between the inner side surface of the connecting portion 37d of the grip portion 37a and the end surface 21g of the right end portion 21f of the glass plate member 21. This gap 45 is increased even if the size of the glass plate material 21, that is, the length in the horizontal direction in FIG. 3 varies due to manufacturing reasons and the glass plate material 21 becomes longer than a predetermined size. The gap 45 is absorbed by the gap 45 so that the glass plate member 21 can be properly attached between the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 and the connecting portion 37d of the right door cap 37.

Although not shown in FIG. 3, the inside of the glass plate 21 is filled with a foamed heat insulating material such as urethane foam to improve the heat insulating performance of the right door 3b, and this foamed heat insulating material serves as an inner surface of the glass plate 21. The glass plate material 21 is fixed to an inner plate (not shown) by being adhered to the glass plate material 21, and the foam insulation material and the left door cap 35, the right door cap 37, the upper door cap 31, and the lower door cap 33 prevent the glass plate material 21 from coming off. That is, the glass plate 21 is fixed so that it does not come off, and the glass plate 21 is prevented from warping to the front side. Further, the upper door cap 31, the lower door cap 33, the left door cap 35, and the right door cap 37 have a reinforcing portion that supports the glass plate member 21, and the glass plate member 21 is reinforced by this.

As shown in FIG. 3, the glass plate member 21 is held by the left side door cap 35 and the right side door cap 37 in the left-right direction, while as shown in FIG. In the above, the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 are fixedly held, but the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 in the vertical direction are held by the right door cap 37 shown in FIG. The glass plate member 21 is held by the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 from the up and down direction by having a grip portion similar to the grip portion 37a. The structures of the grip portions of the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 are similar to those of the grip portion 37a of the right door cap 37 shown in FIG. 3, and a description thereof will be omitted.

Note that, in FIG. 3, a corner portion 35a that constitutes the left-right direction abutting portion is provided at the left end portion 21a of the glass plate member 21, and a grip portion 37a that constitutes the left-right direction grip portion is the right end of the glass plate member 21. Although it is provided in the portion 21f, the present invention is not limited to this, and the corner portion 35a is provided in the right side door cap 37 so as to correspond to the right end portion 21f of the glass plate material 21, and the grip portion 37a is provided. It may be provided on the left door cap 35 so as to correspond to the left end portion 21a of the glass plate member 21, that is, the corner portion 35a corresponds to one of the left and right sides of the glass plate member 21, and the grip portion. It is sufficient that 37a corresponds to the other side of the glass plate 21.

Here, when referring to the entire door of the refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1, a door cap having a corner portion having the same structure as the corner portion 35a serving as the butting portion is referred to as a butting door cap, and is the same as the grip portion 37a. A door cap having a structure holding portion will be referred to as a holding door cap. The door cap at the left end of the left door 3a of the double door of the refrigerator 1 is a bite-in door cap, and the door cap at the right end of the left door 3a is an abutting door cap. As described above, in the double door type right door 3b, the door cap at the left end is a butt door cap, and the door cap at the right end is a bite-in door cap. As a result, the abutting door caps with the C-side cuts are located at the ends of the left and right doors 3a and 3b of the double doors that face each other. It has improved visibility and looks neat. Further, the upper door cap and the lower door cap of both the double door type left door 3a and the right door 3b are grip-in door caps.

Further, each of the pull-out doors 7a, 9a, 11a and 13a of the vegetable compartment 7, the ice making compartment 8, the upper freezing compartment 9 and the freezing compartment 10 is a butt door cap in which one of the left and right door caps is an abutting door cap, The other is a grip door cap. Further, all the door caps in the vertical direction are grip door caps.

In the refrigerator 1 configured as described above, the front surface of the double door with the left door 3a and the right door 3b is entirely covered with the glass plate material 21, and the glass plate material 21 is located at any of the left and right ends. One side is held by the abutting door cap, the other side is held by the bite door cap, and the inside of the glass plate material 21 is filled with foamed heat insulating material such as urethane foam to improve the heat insulating performance of the door. At the same time, the foamed heat insulating material adheres to the inner surface of the glass plate member 21 to fix the glass plate member 21 to the inner plate, prevent the glass plate member 21 from coming off, and prevent the glass plate member 21 from warping to the front side. ing.

Further, the front side corner portion 21e of the abutting door cap is C-face cut, and the protruding portion 35d of the left side door cap 35 is cut to a position half or less of the middle of the C-face cut corner portion 21e. Although the tip end 35e extends, it does not extend further, so that the corner portion 21e of the glass plate material 21 having the C-plane cut is exposed and water is prevented from staying in this portion, and by extension, in this portion. Mold is prevented from occurring. Further, by exposing the corner portion 21e of the glass plate member 21 and cutting the C surface, the end portion of the glass plate member 21 can be seen clearly, aesthetic visibility can be improved, and the commercial value of the refrigerator 1 can be improved, and It is also possible to prevent the glass plate material 21 from being easily broken.

Further, since a gap 45 is formed between the inner surface of the connecting portion 37d of the grip portion 37a of the right door cap 37 and the end surface 21g of the right end portion 21f of the glass plate member 21, the size of the glass plate member 21 is increased. Even if the length of the glass plate 21 varies due to manufacturing reasons and becomes longer, the glass plate material 21 absorbs it in the gap 45 so that the glass plate material 21 is suitable between the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 and the connecting portion 37d of the right door cap 37. It can be attached securely.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described, this embodiment is presented as an example and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. The novel embodiment can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. The embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are also included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

1 Refrigerator 3 Refrigerator 3a Left door 3b Right door 7 Vegetable room 7a Drawer type door 8 Ice making room 8a Drawer type door 9 Upper freezing room 9a Drawer type door 10 Freezing room 10a Drawer type door 21 Glass plate material 21a Left end 21b End 21c Rear surface 21d Front 21e Corner 21f Right end 21g End surface 25 Door inner assembly 27 Frame 31 Upper door cap 33 Lower door cap 35 Left door cap 35a Corner 35b Vertical surface 35c Horizontal 35d Projection 35e Tip 35f Extension 35g Holding part 37 Right side door cap 37a Holding part 37b Front extension part 37c Rear extension part 37d Connecting parts 41, 43 Double-sided adhesive tape 45 Gap

Claims (3)

A front plate covering a front face of the rotary door for opening and closing the front opening,
A support member for supporting the front plate,
Have
The support member is provided with a cover portion that covers a side portion of the front plate so that the surface of the front plate is exposed.
The cover is provided on the free end side of the revolving door,
With a slope at the end of the front side of the front plate on the free end side of the revolving door,
The cover portion covers the side edge of the front plate on the slope, while exposing the front edge of the front plate on the slope ,
The side edge of the front plate in the slope has a portion visible from the front of the refrigerator,
The cover portion is, a refrigerator that not extend to the middle of the slope. A front plate covering a front face of the rotary door for opening and closing the front opening,
A support member for supporting the front plate,
Have
The support member is provided with a cover portion that covers a side portion of the front plate so that the surface of the front plate is exposed.
With a slope at the end of the front side of the front plate,
The cover portion covers the side edge of the front plate on the slope, while exposing the front edge of the front plate on the slope ,
The side edge of the front plate in the slope has a portion visible from the front of the refrigerator,
The cover portion is, a refrigerator that not extend to the middle of the slope. The said rotary door is a double door, and the surface of the edge part of the said front plate by the free end side of the said left and right rotary doors in the double door is exposed. refrigerator.

Images