JP6976377B2 - refrigerator - Google Patents

Description

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a refrigerator.

Since the refrigerator is frequently used during cooking and is installed in a relatively conspicuous place such as the center of the kitchen for ease of use in the kitchen, its appearance, especially the surface of the front door, is It needs to be easy to clean so that it is always clean and tidy.

In response to this need, a glass plate is attached to the surface of the front door so that the surface of the front door of the refrigerator is covered with a glass plate to make it easier to clean 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 be kept clean and clean at all times, but it is relatively difficult to attach the glass plate to the surface of the front door of the refrigerator securely and neatly. , Various mounting methods have been studied, and a relatively simple and clean mounting method is desired.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-58787

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

The refrigerator of the embodiment has a front plate arranged on the front surface of a rotary door that opens and closes a front opening, and end members provided at both ends of the front plate, and is free in the rotary door. The end member on the end side is abutted against the end surface on the free end side of the front plate, and a gap between the end member on the free end side and the end surface on the free end side of the front plate is formed. The front plate is arranged so as to be smaller than the gap between the end member on the rotating shaft side of the rotary door and the end surface on the rotating shaft side of the front plate .

It is a perspective view which shows the whole of the refrigerator which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view showing only the right door of the double door of the refrigerator refrigerator shown in FIG. 1 by disassembling. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of the right door taken along the line indicated by arrows AA in FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments 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 the entire refrigerator according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The refrigerator 1 shown in the figure is provided with a refrigerating chamber 3 at the uppermost portion, and the refrigerating chamber 3 is provided with a double door including a left door 3a and a right door 3b at a front opening thereof.

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

The vegetable compartment 7, the ice-making chamber 8, the upper freezing chamber 9, and the freezing chamber 10 have drawer-type doors 7a, 8a, 9a, and 10a attached to the front openings, respectively. 8. The main bodies of the upper freezing chamber 9 and the freezing chamber 10 are attached to the rear sides of the pull-out doors 7a, 8a, 9a and 10a via a frame or the like, and the pull-out doors are moved forward. When pulled out, each body is also pulled forward.

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

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the outer surfaces of the left door 3a and the right door 3b having double doors are completely covered with glass plates 13 and 14. Similarly, the outer surfaces of the drawer 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 colored glass materials having transparency or translucency, but may be, for example, acrylic resin or the like. This makes the surface of each door easy to clean and keeps it clean and tidy at all times.

The innermost doors of the refrigerating room 3, the vegetable room 7, the ice making room 8, the upper freezing room 9 and the freezing room 10 are formed of an inner plate made of, for example, a steel plate, and the inner plate thereof is formed. A vacuum heat insulating material is arranged in the space between the glass plate and the glass plate, and a foam heat insulating material made of urethane foam or the like is filled to improve the heat insulating performance. Further, the foamed heat insulating material adheres to the inner surface of the glass plate to fix the glass plate to the inner plate, and the glass plates 17, 18, 19 and 20 are disengaged by the foamed heat insulating material and the four door caps on the upper, lower, left and right sides described later. 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 door of the refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1 which is a double door. The left door 3a and the right door 3b constituting the Kannon opening type door of the refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1, and the pull-out doors 7a of the vegetable room 7, the ice making room 8, the upper freezing room 9 and the freezing room 10 respectively. , 8a, 9a, 10a are basically the same as the right door 3b of the refrigerating chamber 3 shown in FIG. 2, and therefore, the right door 3b of the refrigerating chamber 3 will be described below as a representative.

The right door 3b of the refrigerating chamber 3 shown in FIG. 2 has a glass plate material 21 constituting a glass plate 13 on an outer surface provided so as to completely cover the front surface of the right door 3b. In FIG. 2, the side where the glass plate material 21 is provided is the front side of the right door 3b, and the rear side opposite to the glass plate material 21 is the rear side of the right door 3b facing 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 for holding the glass plate 21 from the outside of the upper, lower, left, and right sides are provided on the upper, lower, left, and right outer peripheral portions of the glass plate material 21, respectively. The glass plate 21 is fixedly held by these four door caps 31, 33, 35, and 37 on the top, bottom, left, and right.

Further, inside the glass plate material 21, a door inner assembly 25, which is a rectangular frame, is provided along the outer peripheral portion of the glass plate material 21, and the door inner assembly 25 makes the right door 3b as a whole. It is assembled integrally. Further, a rectangular frame 27 is provided inside the door inner assembly 25 toward the inside of the refrigerating chamber 3. Although not shown, an inner plate made of, for example, a steel plate is attached to the frame 27, and the 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. In addition to improving the heat insulating 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 arrows AA in FIG. More specifically, in FIG. 2, the structure of the front part of the right door 3b including the glass plate 21 of the right door 3b, the left door cap 35 and the right door cap 37 taken along the line indicated by the arrows BB is a glass plate material. It is sectional drawing which shows the state that the left side door caps 35, 37 are in contact with 21 and are holding.

As shown in FIG. 3, the left door cap 35 has an L-shaped concave corner portion 35a at an end extending forward (downward in the figure), and a vertical surface 35b extending below the corner portion 35a. The end surface 21b of the left end portion 21a of the glass plate material 21 abuts on the surface, and the back surface 21c of the glass plate material 21 contacts the horizontal portion 35c extending laterally of the corner portion 35a. It is glued and fixed by. The protruding portion 35d constituting 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 protrude from the front surface 21d of the glass plate material 21 and is located behind. There is. That is, the front surface 21d of the glass plate material 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 constituting 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 back surface 21c of the 21 and the back surface 21c of the glass plate material 21 is adhesively fixed to the horizontal portion 35c of the left door cap 35 by the double-sided adhesive tape 41. ..

Further, the lower end portion of the end surface 21b of the glass plate material 21 that abuts on the vertical surface 35b of the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35, that is, the front corner portion 21e of the left end portion 21a of the glass plate material 21 is cut at the corner, so-called C. The surface is cut. This C-plane cut may be simply cut by cutting the corners, but may be polished and rounded after the cut.

Then, the tip 35e of the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 extends to the middle of the corner portion 21e cut on the C surface. That is, the tip 35e of the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 is terminated at a position equal to or less than half of the C-plane cut corner portion 21e, that is, a position not more than half, and does not extend any further. The corner portion 21e of the glass plate 21 cut on the C surface is exposed to prevent moisture from staying in this portion, and thus the generation of "mold" in this portion is prevented.

More specifically, by locating the tip 35e of the left door cap 35 behind the front surface 21d of the glass plate 21 so that the corner portion 21e of the glass plate 21 cut on the C surface is exposed, the cold air of the refrigerating chamber 3 is used. Cooling prevents the implantation of water droplets generated between the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 and the end surface 21b of the glass plate material 21, and this portion can be maintained in a dry state, whereby mold is generated in this portion. Can be prevented.

Further, by exposing the corner portion 21e of the glass plate material 21 and cutting the C surface, the end portion of the glass plate material 21 can be made to look beautiful, the aesthetic visibility can be improved, and the commercial value of the refrigerator 1 can be improved. By adopting the C-plane cut structure, it is possible to prevent damage to the glass plate material 21.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the right door cap 37 has a substantially U-shaped grip portion 37a formed at the end portion extending forward (downward in the same figure), which constitutes a left-right direction grip portion. Then, the grip portion 37a is gripped so as to cover the right end portion 21f of the glass plate material 21.

The gripping portion 37a is a short front extending portion 37b in which the back surface contacts the front surface 21d of the glass plate material 21, and a long rear extending portion in which the front surface is adhesively fixed to the back surface 21c of the glass plate material 21 via a double-sided adhesive tape 43. It is composed of a protruding portion 37c and a connecting portion 37d connecting 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 surface of the connecting portion 37d of the holding portion 37a and the end surface 21g of the right end portion 21f of the glass plate material 21. The gap 45 becomes longer even if the size of the glass plate material 21, that is, the lateral length in FIG. 3 varies due to manufacturing reasons and the like, and the glass plate material 21 becomes longer than a predetermined dimension. The portion is absorbed by the gap 45 so that the glass plate material 21 can be appropriately 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 material 21 is filled with a foamed heat insulating material made of urethane foam or the like to improve the heat insulating performance of the right door 3b, and the foamed heat insulating material is the inner surface of the glass plate material 21. The glass plate material 21 is fixed to an inner plate (not shown) by adhering to the glass plate material 21 so that the glass plate material 21 cannot be removed by the foamed heat insulating material and the left side door cap 35, the right side door cap 37, the upper door cap 31, and the lower door cap 33. That is, it is fixed so as not to come off, and the glass plate 21 is prevented from warping toward the front surface 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 for supporting the glass plate material 21, whereby the glass plate material 21 is reinforced.

As shown in FIG. 3, the glass plate material 21 is held by the left door cap 35 and the right door cap 37 in the left-right direction, whereas the glass plate material 21 is held in the vertical direction as shown in FIG. In, the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 are fixedly held, and the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 in the vertical direction are the grips of the right door cap 37 shown in FIG. It has a gripping portion similar to the gripping portion 37a, and the gripping portion holds the glass plate material 21 by the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 from the vertical direction. The structure of the holding portion of the upper door cap 31 and the lower door cap 33 is the same as that of the holding portion 37a of the right door cap 37 shown in FIG. 3, and the description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, in FIG. 3, the corner portion 35a constituting the left-right direction abutting portion is provided on the left end portion 21a of the glass plate material 21, and the gripping portion 37a constituting the left-right direction holding portion is the right end of the glass plate material 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 door cap 37 corresponding to the right end portion 21f of the glass plate material 21, and the holding portion 37a is provided. It may be provided on the left door cap 35 corresponding to the left end portion 21a of the glass plate material 21, and the point is that the corner portion 35a corresponds to either the left or right side of the glass plate material 21 and is a gripping portion. It suffices if 37a corresponds to the other side of the glass plate material 21.

Here, in referring to the door of the entire refrigerator 1 shown in FIG. 1, a door cap having a corner portion having the same structure as the corner portion 35a as the abutting portion is referred to as an abutting door cap, and is the same as the holding portion 37a. A door cap having a holding portion of a structure is 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 holding door cap, and the door cap at the right end of the left door 3a is a butt door cap. As described above, in the double door 3b of the double door type, the door cap at the left end is a butt door cap, and the door cap at the right end is a holding door cap. As a result, a butt door cap with a C-face cut is located at the abutting ends of the left door 3a and the right door 3b of the double door, thereby aesthetically pleasing the center of the front of the refrigerator 1. The visibility is improved and it looks beautiful. Further, the upper door cap and the lower door cap of both the left door 3a and the right door 3b of the double door type are all holding door caps.

Further, in each of the pull-out doors 7a, 9a, 11a and 13a of the vegetable compartment 7, the ice making chamber 8, the upper freezer compartment 9 and the freezer compartment 10, one of the door caps in the left-right direction is a butt door cap. The other is a holding door cap. In addition, all the door caps in the vertical direction are holding door caps.

In the refrigerator 1 configured as described above, the front surface of the Kannon opening type door composed of the left door 3a and the right door 3b is completely covered with the glass plate material 21, and the glass plate material 21 is any of the end portions in the left-right direction. One is held by the abutment door cap, the other is held by the holding door cap, and the inside of the glass plate 21 is filled with a foam heat insulating material made of urethane foam or the like to improve the heat insulating performance of the door. At the same time, this foamed heat insulating material adheres to the inner surface of the glass plate material 21 to fix the glass plate 21 to the inner plate, prevent the glass plate 21 from coming off, and prevent the glass plate 21 from warping toward the front side. ing.

Further, the corner portion 21e on the front side of the abutting door cap is cut on the C surface, and the protruding portion 35d of the left door cap 35 is cut to the following half of the middle of the corner portion 21e cut on the C surface. Although the tip 35e extends, it does not extend any further, so that the corner portion 21e of the glass plate 21 cut on the C surface is exposed, and moisture is prevented from staying in this portion, which in turn prevents the tip 35e from staying in this portion. The growth of mold is prevented. Further, by exposing the corner portion 21e of the glass plate material 21 and cutting the C surface, the end portion of the glass plate material 21 can be made to look neat, the aesthetic visibility can be improved, and the commercial value of the refrigerator 1 can be improved. 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 holding portion 37a of the right door cap 37 and the end surface 21g of the right end portion 21f of the glass plate material 21, the size of the glass plate material 21 is large. Even if it is scattered due to manufacturing reasons and becomes longer, it is absorbed by the gap 45, and the glass plate 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 is designed to be installed securely.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. This novel embodiment can be implemented in various other embodiments, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. The embodiments and variations thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

1 Refrigerator 3 Refrigerator room 3a Left door 3b Right door 7 Vegetable room 7a Draw-out door 8 Ice-making room 8a Draw-out door 9 Upper freezer room 9a Draw-out door 10 Freezer room 10a Draw-out door 21 Glass plate 21a Left end 21b End face 21c Back side 21d Front 21e Corner 21f Right end 21g End face 25 Door inner assembly 27 Frame 31 Upper door cap 33 Lower door cap 35 Left door cap 35a Square 35b Vertical surface 35c Horizontal part 35d Protruding part 35e Tip 35f Extension part 35g Holding part 37 Right door cap 37a Holding part 37b Front extending part 37c Rear extending part 37d Connecting part 41, 43 Double-sided adhesive tape 45 Gap

Claims (3)

A front plate placed in front of the rotary door that opens and closes the front opening,
The end members provided at both ends of the front plate and
Have,
And said end member and the end face of the front plate gap of the rotary shaft side of the rotary door between the end face of the front plate and the end member of the self Yoshitan side that put the rotary door A refrigerator in which the front plate is arranged so as to be smaller than the gap between the spaces, and the front surface of the front plate is located in front of the end member on the free end side. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the rotary door is a double door. The refrigerator according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an upper end member is provided at the upper end of the front plate, and the front surface side of the upper end of the front plate is covered with a part of the upper end member.

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