JPH01102287A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To facilitate an installing work for a door and prevent the door from being cracked or a pin from being broken by a method wherein the door is rotatably arranged at a front surface of a defined chamber in a refrigerator and a slant section is formed at the extremity ends of a pair of pins molded in opposition to both side surfaces of this door toward the forward direction of the main body of the refrigerator. CONSTITUTION: In the case that a door 13 is fixed to a frame 14, the door 13 is deformed forwardly into a main body 1 of a refrigerator under utilization of resiliency of resin, pins 13a of the door 13 are inserted into supporting sections 14b of the frame 14 and fixed there. At this time, since a slant section 13c is formed at the extremity end of the pin 13a, the extremity end of the pin 13a is not abutted against the side surface 14b of the frame 14, its deforming amount is low and the pin 13a can be inserted into the supporting section 14a. Accordingly, the door 13 is prevented from being cracked or the pin 13a is prevented from being broken and further the side surface 14b of the frame 14 is prevented from being damaged by the pin 13a.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerator having compartments formed within the refrigerator and a door provided at the front of each compartment.

BACKGROUND ART A conventional example will be explained with reference to FIGS. 6 to 8. 1 is the refrigerator itself, outer box 2. It is composed of an inner box 3 and a foamed heat insulating material 4 that is filled between the two boxes, and a partition wall 6 is formed by integral molding with the inner box 3, and a freezer compartment 6 is formed in the upper part and a refrigerator compartment 7 is formed in the lower part. has been done.

2nd page 8 is a compartment provided in most of the refrigerator compartment 70.
The sides are an inner box 3, the front side is a door 9 which can be opened and closed and is molded from resin, the bottom side is a bottom plate 10, and the rear side is separated from the refrigerator compartment 7 in a substantially hermetically sealed manner by a temperature control device 11. . The door 9 is provided with i pairs of pins 9a facing each other on both sides for rotatably supporting the door 9.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a picture frame in which a support portion 12a for engaging and supporting the pin 9a of the door 9 is provided on the side surface 12b, and the side surface 12b and the top surface 12a are integrally formed. The bottom plate 10 isolates the refrigerator compartment 7 and the compartment 8 so as to maintain the temperature of each compartment, and
2 and the inner box 3.

In such a configuration, when attaching the door 9 to the frame 12, the door 9 is deformed toward the front of the refrigerator main body 1 using the elasticity of the resin, as shown in FIG.
It was inserted and installed.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, with the above configuration, when installing the door 9,
The door 9 has to be greatly deformed, and at this time the door 9 cracks and the pin 9a breaks. Also, the pin 9a hits the side surface 12b of the frame 12 and causes the side surface 1 to break.
If the pin 2b is damaged, the pin 9a may stop halfway before being inserted into the support portion 12a, resulting in a situation where the pin 9a cannot be inserted. For this reason, it was considered to shorten the length of the pin 9a to facilitate the installation work of the door 9, but in that case,
There was a problem in that the door 9 easily came off when an impact was applied when opening and closing it, and it was very difficult to set the length of the pin 9a.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned problems, it is an object of the present invention to facilitate the work of installing a door and to prevent the door from cracking and pins from breaking.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the refrigerator of the present invention is provided with a rotatable door at the front of the compartment of the refrigerator, and a pair of pins molded opposite to each other on both sides of the door. A sloped portion is formed at the tip toward the front of the refrigerator body.

Function: With the above-described configuration, the present invention allows the door to be attached without significantly deforming the door to the extent that cracking the door or breaking the pin occurs when the door is attached.

EXAMPLE A refrigerator according to an example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Incidentally, the same parts as those in the prior art are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted.

In FIGS. 1 to 4, 13 is a door pivotally attached to the front surface of the compartment 8 so that it can be opened and closed, and pins 13a that support the door 13 so that it can be opened and closed are located on both sides of the door, facing the formed door flange 13b. It is provided. 13j is an inclined part formed at the tip of the pin 13a toward the front of the refrigerator main body 1;
In addition, a hollow portion 13d is formed inside the resin molding to prevent the occurrence of depressions, which are usually called sink marks and occur due to shrinkage of thick portions in resin molding.

When attaching the door 13 to the frame 14 in the above configuration,
As shown in FIG. 2, the door 13 is deformed toward the front of the refrigerator body 1 by using the elasticity of the resin, and the pin 13a of the door 13 is attached to the frame 14.
It is inserted and attached to the support part 14a of the. At this time, since the tip of the pin 13a is formed with a diagonal portion 13c, the tip of the pin 13a does not hit the side surface 14b of the frame 14, and the amount of deformation of the door 13 is small, and the pin 13a is attached to the support. 14a, there will be no cracking of the door 13 or bending of the pin 13a, and the pin 13a can be inserted into the frame 140 side 14.
No damage to b will occur.

Furthermore, since the workability of attaching the door 13 is improved without shortening the length of the door 13a, the door 13 does not easily come off due to impact when the door 13 is opened or closed. Furthermore, in this embodiment, since the pin 13a is provided behind the flange portion 13b of the door 13, when the door 13 is deformed when the door 13 is attached, when the door flange portion 13b is deformed, the pin 13a is further attached to the support portion 1.
4a can be easily inserted. Also, the hollowed out portion 13d of the pin 13a
This eliminates the occurrence of dents that occur during molding of the door 13, thereby preventing deformation of the pin 13a, and also preventing the pin 13a from breaking due to concentrated stress that occurs in the dent of the pin when the door 13 is impacted.

Effects of the Invention 6 As mentioned above, the present invention provides a rotatable door at the front of the compartment of the refrigerator, and a pair of pins formed oppositely on both sides of the door have tips that extend toward the front of the refrigerator body. This mechanism has a support part that engages with this pin to rotationally support the door, so when the door is installed, that is, when inserting the door pin into the support part, the door does not need to be deformed significantly. can be installed,
The door installation work becomes easier, and there is no possibility of the door cracking or pins breaking. Furthermore, since there is no need to shorten the length of the pin itself, there is no problem of the door coming off due to impact when the door is opened or closed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an assembled perspective view of the main parts of a refrigerator showing one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the main parts showing when the door is attached, and Fig. 3
The figure is an enlarged perspective view of the main part of the door, and Figure 4 is its vertical cross-sectional view.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a conventional refrigerator, Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view thereof, Fig. 7 is an assembled perspective view of its main parts, and Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view of its main parts showing when the door is attached. be. 1...refrigerator body, 8...compartment, 1
3... Door, 7 ・\-/ 13a... Pin, 13c... Inclined part,
14a...Support part.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A resin-based refrigerator comprising a compartment arranged inside the refrigerator, a pair of pins provided on the front side of the compartment facing each other on both sides, and an inclined part formed toward the front of the refrigerator body at the tip of the pin. A refrigerator comprising: a compartment door; and a support part that engages with the pin and rotatably supports the compartment.