JPH11201615A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain housing capacity and enable highly effective use while a refrigerator has a height facilitating usage and a depth and width suitable for installation conditions. SOLUTION: In a refrigerator having a refrigeration chamber 6, a vegetable chamber 7, a first freezing chamber 8 and a second freezing chamber 9 arranged in this order from above while an ice making mechanism is provided in the first freezing chamber 8, at least part of the ice making mechanism is buried in a second partition plate 18 formed between the vegetable chamber 7 and the first freezing chamber 8 and a protruding part 18a is formed by projecting the second partition plate 18 upward in proportion to embedding depth of the ice making mechanism. A container case 17 capable of being moved in front and rear directions against the refrigerator 1 is provided in the vegetable chamber 7 and a bottom of the container case 17 is formed in correspondence with a shape of the protruding part 18a.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a structure of a partition plate provided in a refrigerator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG.
Each cooling room was arranged in the order of the refrigerator room 6, the first freezing room 8, the second freezing room 9, and the vegetable room 7. Thus, unlike the conventional arrangement of the refrigerator compartment, the freezer compartment, and the vegetable compartment from the top, the arrangement of the refrigerator compartment, the vegetable compartment, and the freezer compartment has begun to appear from the top.

[0003] Such a thing is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 9-11310.
No. 7, the refrigerator compartment, vegetable compartment, upper freezer compartment and lower freezer compartment are arranged from the top, a water supply tank is arranged in the refrigerator compartment, and an automatic ice making mechanism and a water storage case are arranged in the refrigerator compartment. doing. Furthermore, the partition part for partitioning each room having a different temperature is substantially flat in the horizontal direction. In any case, there is a machine room at the bottom of the lowermost stage for mainly disposing the compressor.

[0004]

Therefore, if the freezer compartment, which was formerly located at the middle stage, is moved to the lowermost stage, since the machine room is located at the back of the lowermost stage, it is necessary to maintain the same capacity. It is necessary to increase the height of the freezer.

[0005] Further, the vegetable room moved from the lowermost stage to the middle stage has no machine room if only the capacity is taken into consideration, so that the height dimension can be reduced. However, vegetable rooms often contain plastic bottles in addition to vegetables.
Since liter bottles are often stored, it is necessary to maintain the height of the vegetable compartment.

[0006] From the above, when the capacity of each room is arranged as a refrigerator room, a freezer room, and a vegetable room while maintaining the same capacity, the total height of the refrigerator is increased. For this reason, there have been problems that the usability is deteriorated and that the installation is hindered.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 7-260306 discloses FIG.
As shown in the figure, the water supply tank 107 is provided in the refrigerator compartment 111, the automatic ice making mechanism 102 and the water storage case 105 are provided in the freezing room 110, and the automatic ice making mechanism 102 is slightly contained in the partition section 100 above the same. Although it is in a state, this is neither a problem raised nor a solution intended therefor.

The present invention solves this problem, makes the dimensions of the refrigerator easy to use, and maintains the storage capacity while ensuring the width and depth suitable for the installation conditions, thereby enabling highly efficient use. The purpose is to have a structure that can be used.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator having a freezing compartment and an ice making mechanism disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein at least a part of the ice making mechanism is provided with the freezing compartment. Since it is buried in the partition at the upper part of the chamber, waste of dead space in the height direction of the freezer can be eliminated.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the projection is formed by projecting the partition upward in accordance with the degree to which the ice making mechanism is buried, so that the thickness of the partition is made uniform. And the waste of the thickness of the partition can be eliminated.

The invention described in claim 3 is a cooling room having a storage case which can be moved in the front-rear direction with respect to the refrigerator directly above the freezing room via the partition part, and moves together with the storage case. And the bottom of the storage case is made to correspond to the shape of the projection, so that the space of the projection serving as a step of the partition in the cooling chamber can be efficiently used for storage.

In the invention described in claim 4, the convex portion is formed in parallel with the moving direction of the storage case, so that the storage case can be smoothly moved.

[0013] To summarize the above, in particular, the refrigerator compartment,
The arrangement of each room of the freezer room and the vegetable room is changed from the previous arrangement of the refrigerator room, the freezer room and the vegetable room from the top to the refrigerator room and the vegetable room from the top.
The change to the arrangement of the freezing compartments can be realized without maintaining the same capacity even if there is a machine compartment, without increasing the height dimension, and without impairing the storage capacity before the change.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A refrigerator according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The following embodiments are embodied examples of the present invention and do not limit the technical scope of the present invention. Note that the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description will be omitted.

FIG. 1 is an overall view of a refrigerator according to the present invention. FIG.
, 1 is a refrigerator, 2 is a side-opening refrigerator compartment door, 3 is a drawer vegetable compartment door, 4 is a drawer-type first freezer compartment door, 5 is a drawer-type second freezer compartment door, and 6 is a refrigerator compartment. , 7 is the vegetable room, 8 is the first
The freezing room 9 is a second freezing room. In the claims, the vegetable room 7 is referred to as a cooling room.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part of the refrigerator in FIG. 1 with all doors removed. In FIG. 2, 10 is a plurality of shelves provided for partitioning the inside of the refrigerator compartment 6 to efficiently store articles, 11 is a cool air outlet, 12 is a lamp in the refrigerator, 13 is a temperature controller, 14 is a chilled room, Reference numeral 15 denotes a water supply tank disposed in the refrigerator compartment 6 for storing water for ice making, and reference numeral 16 denotes a first partition plate which has heat insulating properties and partitions the refrigerator compartment 6 from the vegetable compartment 7.

Further, 17 is a storage case arranged in the vegetable room 7, 17a is a 2 liter plastic bottle storage section, 18
Has a heat insulating property and separates the vegetable compartment 7 and the first freezing compartment 8 from the second compartment.
A partition plate, 19 is a forward / reverse rotation device of an ice tray, 20a is an ice storage case portion disposed in the first freezing compartment 8, 20b is a frozen food storage case portion, and 21 is a first freezing compartment 8 having heat insulation. And the second
A third partition plate 22 for partitioning from the freezing room 9 is a storage case disposed in the second freezing room 9.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the refrigerator shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 23 denotes a machine room mainly including a compressor;
Is a water supply pump, 25 is a water supply pipe, 26 is an accessory storage case in the vegetable room, and 27 is an ice tray.

As shown in FIG. 1, the total height of the refrigerator 1 is H,
The height of the refrigerator compartment 6 is H1, the height of the vegetable compartment 7 is H2, the height of the first freezer compartment 8 is H3, and the height of the second freezer compartment 9 is H4. The total capacity of the refrigerator 1 is V, the capacity of the refrigerator compartment 6 is V1, the capacity of the vegetable compartment 7 is V2, the capacity of the first freezer compartment 8 is V3, and the second capacity is V2.
The capacity of the freezing room 9 is set to V4.

FIG. 4 shows, from above, a refrigerator compartment 6, a first freezer compartment 8,
Refrigerator 1 of the conventional example in which the second freezing room 9 and the vegetable room 7 are arranged.
Is shown. The total height of the refrigerator 1 is H, the height of the refrigerator compartment 6 is H1,
The height of the first freezer compartment 8 is h3, and the height of the second freezer compartment 9 is h
4. Let the height of the vegetable room 7 be H2. The total capacity of the refrigerator 1 is V, the capacity of the refrigerator compartment 6 is V1, and the capacity of the first freezer compartment 8 is v.
3. The capacity of the second freezer compartment 9 is v4, and the capacity of the vegetable compartment 7 is V2.
And

As shown in FIG. 1, when the second freezing compartment 9 having the capacity V4 is installed at the lowermost stage, the height h4 of the second freezing compartment 9 in FIG. Is as large as H4 in FIG. In addition, the height of the vegetable compartment 7 is maintained at H2 in order to store a 2 liter bottle. However, when the capacity of the vegetable room 7 is maintained at V2, the height of the entire vegetable room 7 does not need to be H2, and the height of a range for accommodating at least a 2 liter bottle may be H2. The height of H2 is not required to be H2, and a projection 18a is formed on the second partition plate 18 to provide a step.

Then, an ice tray 27 is buried in the projection 18a from the first freezer compartment 8 side. In addition, the second partition plate 18 has a convex portion 1 depending on the degree to which the ice tray 27 is embedded in the convex portion 18a.
8a is protruded upward, the second partition plate 18 can secure the same thickness as the other portions also in the convex portion 18a, and the heat insulating property does not decrease in the convex portion 18a. Further, the convex portion 18a is formed in parallel with the moving direction of the storage case 17, and a convex portion 17b is formed on the bottom surface of the storage case 17 so as to correspond to the shape of the convex portion 18a.

[0023]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator having a freezing compartment and an ice making mechanism disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein at least a part of the ice making mechanism is partitioned by an upper part of the freezing compartment. The dead space in the height direction of the freezing compartment can be eliminated because it is embedded in the portion.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the projection is formed by projecting the partition upward in accordance with the degree of burying the ice making mechanism, the thickness of the partition is made uniform. And the waste of the thickness of the partition can be eliminated.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooling chamber having a storage case which can be moved in the front-rear direction with respect to the refrigerator directly above the freezing chamber via the partition, and the cooling chamber moves together with the storage case. And the bottom of the storage case is made to correspond to the shape of the projection, so that the space of the projection serving as a step of the partition in the cooling chamber can be efficiently used for storage.

In the invention described in claim 4, the convex portion is formed in parallel with the moving direction of the storage case, so that the storage case can be moved smoothly.

In summary of the above, in particular, the refrigerator compartment,
The arrangement of each room of the freezer room and the vegetable room is changed from the previous arrangement of the refrigerator room, the freezer room and the vegetable room from the top to the refrigerator room and the vegetable room from the top.
The change to the arrangement of the freezing compartments can be realized without maintaining the same capacity even if there is a machine compartment, without increasing the height dimension, and without impairing the storage capacity before the change.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the entire refrigerator of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 1 with a door removed.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line AA shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a conventional refrigerator.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a partition of a refrigerator having a conventional ice making mechanism.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Refrigerator 2 Side-opening door of a refrigerator room 3 Pull-out door of a vegetable room 4 Pull-out door of a 1st freezer room 5 Pull-out door of a 2nd freezer room 6 Refrigerator room 7 Vegetable room 8 1st freezer room 9 2nd freezing Room 10 Shelf 11 Cold air outlet 12 Interior light 13 Temperature controller 14 Chilled room 15 Water supply tank 16 First partition plate 17 Vegetable room storage case 17a PET bottle storage portion 17b Convex portion 18 Second partition plate 18a Convex portion 19 Positive Reverse rotation device 20a Water storage case portion 20b Frozen food storage case portion 21 Third partition plate 22 Storage case of second freezing room 23 Machine room 24 Water supply pump 25 Water supply pipe 26 Small item storage case 27 Ice tray

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A refrigerator comprising a freezing compartment and an ice making mechanism disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein at least a part of the ice making mechanism is embedded in a partition at an upper portion of the freezing compartment. refrigerator. 2. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein said partitioning portion is projected upward to form a convex portion in accordance with the degree to which said ice making mechanism is buried. A cooling chamber having a storage case movable in the front-rear direction with respect to the refrigerator directly above the freezing chamber via the partition section; and a door moving with the storage case. 3. The refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the bottom surface of the storage case is made to correspond to the shape of the projection. 4. The refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein the projection is formed in parallel with a moving direction of the storage case.