KR0130639Y1 - Half opening door device of a refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a half-opening refrigerator door apparatus, and the conventional door opening and closing apparatus opens the entire door to both sides, so that only half of the door can not be opened in a large refrigerator. It was difficult to avoid the problem of opening and closing the door and the loss of cold air because it needs to be opened.

In order to solve this problem, the present invention is a half-open refrigerator door device which is separated into a left door 201 and a right door 202 with the center door connection fixing part 210 as the center, and the door connection fixing part 210 ) Is formed to surround one side of the hinge side frame portion 212 of the left door 201 and the fixed part side when the front frame portion 218, which is the left side of the right door 202, is the right door hinge axis 203 point. A bending frame part 214 for hermetic seating of the left door 201 which is opened and closed about the center hinge shaft 217, and left / right at upper and lower ends of the hinge side frame part 212 and the front frame part 218. The central door device 213, 215, 217 connecting the right doors 201, 202 to each other provides a half-open refrigerator door device capable of opening only the left door which is a part of the refrigerator door or opening the entire left / right door.

Description

Half open refrigerator door device

The present invention relates to a refrigerator door of a relatively large refrigerator, and more particularly, a half-opened door that can be operated in half-open / full-open manner as needed to actively suppress cold loss when using a refrigerator. It relates to a refrigerator door device.

Refrigerator is a device that keeps food at a low temperature for long-term storage of food products. Small refrigerators usually have a freezer compartment and medium and large refrigerators have a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment. It is insulated.

In addition, the front of the freezer compartment and the refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator main body is provided to open and close the door, the door is connected to the upper and lower ends of one side by a hinge method, the hinge of the door is in the door pocket on the inner side of the door It is installed to be fully supported and rotated even when a certain weight of food is placed.

The opening of the refrigerator door hinged to the front of the refrigerator main body is known to open both sides, which is a conventional refrigerator door can be opened and closed only on one side or the right side, the right side or the left side at the initial time of manufacturing such a door The decision of which one is to be decided. For this reason, the user had to select either the right opening or the left opening of the refrigerator door in consideration of the place of use at the time of purchasing the refrigerator.

In addition, if you want to change the installation location of the refrigerator after purchasing the refrigerator, the refrigerator door is opened only on one side. There were unreasonable problems such as being received.

Therefore, it is conventionally known that the refrigerator door can be opened from both sides, and this technique is shown in Korean Patent Publication No. 93-5676.

Here, the hinge plates 102A and 102B having the hinge pins 2A and 2B are attached to the left and right ends of the refrigerator main body 3 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the hinge pins 2A, A fastening groove 101A is formed in which 2B are free to hang or peel from the open side of the door 1.

In addition, the door opening and closing device is provided inside the engaging groove 101A side of the door 1 side, which is hinged plates mounted on the top, bottom, left and right sides of the refrigerator body 3 to which the door 1 is attached. Hinge pins 2A and 2B of 102A and 102B, a rectangular fixed plate 4B provided to face the upper and lower portions of the door 1, and a pair of left and right latch plates 5A provided on the left and right sides of the fixed plate 4B. 5B and connecting members 6A, 6B, 6C provided between the latch plates 5A, 5B.

Between the fixing plate 4B and the latch plates 5A and 5B, springs 10A and 10B pressurize the latch plates 5A and 5B to hold positions for restraining and releasing the hinge pins 2A and 2B. The notch parts 101A and 101B are provided on the top and bottom and left and right sides of the door 1 to allow the refrigerator main body 3 side hinge pins 2A and 2B to enter and exit when the door is opened and closed. Among the 101A and 101B, the upper part of the door 1 is formed from the upper surface to the inner surface, and the lower part of the door 10 is formed from the lower surface to the inner surface.

In the conventional door opening and closing device, as shown in FIG. 3, the latch grooves of the latch plates 5A and 5B are intersected with the engaging grooves 101A and 101B which are engaged with the latch grooves while the openings of the latch grooves are respectively directed to the left and right. The door 1 is in the closed state because the hinge pins 2A and 2B are constrained in these intersections, and the state is maintained by the force to open the springs 10A and 10B.

When the door 1 is opened in such a state, when the left side opening / closing handle 16 side of the door 1 is pulled out, the latch groove of the latch plate 5B to which the left hinge pin 2B fits is pulled out. Direction, and the left latch plate 5B acts a clockwise restraint rotation force. With this operation, the prior art has been able to achieve door opening and closing in the left or right direction.

However, since the conventional door opening and closing device opens the entire door to both sides, it cannot be opened in only half of the large refrigerator. As a result, when the food is taken out from the refrigerator, all doors must be opened to open and close the door. The problem of high losses was difficult to avoid.

The object of the present invention is to research and develop in order to solve the conventional closed ends and problems as described above, by providing a door connection fixing part with a central hinge device in the center of the short-axis direction only the left door which is a part of the refrigerator door It is possible to open or open the entire left / right door to provide a half-open refrigerator door device that can actively suppress the cold air loss in the refrigerator while reducing the hard work due to the opening and closing of the large refrigerator door.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a half-open refrigerator door device that is separated from a left door and a right door with a center door connection fixing part at the center, and the door connection fixing part is a hinge side frame part of the left door. A bending frame part for airtight seating of the left door which is formed to surround the side and the front frame part, which is the left part of the right door, is opened and closed about the central hinge axis of the fixed part side when the front frame part is the right door hinge axis point, and the hinge side frame part and the front part There is a feature of the half-open refrigerator door device consisting of a central hinge device for connecting the left and right doors to the upper and lower ends of the frame part.

In addition, the central hinge device of the present invention, the left door hinge axis formed on the upper right and lower ends of the left door, the central hinge axis formed on the upper left and lower ends of the right door adjacent to the left door hinge axis, and the central hinge axis and the left door hinge It is characterized by a half-open refrigerator door device made of a hiji lever that is connected between the shafts and rotates about a central hinge axis.

1 is a reference perspective view of both open refrigerators in a conventional refrigerator.

2 is a reference diagram showing a peripheral portion of the refrigerator door in FIG.

3 is a plan view of the upper door opening and closing device in the closed state of the refrigerator door in FIG.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing a refrigerator door to which the half open refrigerator door apparatus according to the present invention is applied.

5 is a reference diagram showing in more detail the connecting portion of the left / right door in FIG.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

201: left door 202: right door

203: right door hinge shaft 210: door connection fixing portion

213: hinge lever 214: bending frame portion

215: left door hinge axis 217: center hinge axis

Hereinafter, specific features of the present invention will be more readily understood by explaining the present invention in detail based on the accompanying drawings.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing a refrigerator door to which the half-open refrigerator door apparatus according to the present invention is applied, Figure 5 is a reference diagram showing the connection portion of the left / right door in Figure 4 more specifically.

As shown in the figure, the refrigerator door is separated into a left door 201 and a right door 202 around a door connection fixing part 210 in the center, and the left / right doors 201 and 202 are door connection doors. The central hinge devices 213, 215, 217 of the government unit 210 are connected to each other.

The door connection fixing part 210 is covered while speaking on one side of the right door 201 and the left side of the right door 202 is the right door hinge axis 203 when the fixed side side hinge shaft 217 It consists of a bending frame part 214 for airtight seating of the left door 201 which opens and closes, and the center hinge apparatuses 213, 215, 217 provided in this bending frame part 214. The door connection fixing part 210 of the left / right doors 201 and 202 is provided with a gasket similar to the edges of the doors that are in close contact with each other when the left / right doors 201 and 202 are closed.

The central hinge devices 213, 215, 217 are installed at the door connection fixing part 210 and are positioned at the upper and lower ends of the right door 202, and are connected to the door connection fixing part 210. It is connected to the left door hinge shaft 215 fixed to the upper and lower ends of the door 201, the central hinge shaft 217 and the hinge shaft 215 of the left door 201, the central hinge shaft 217 of the right door 202 It consists of a hinge lever 213 to rotate around the center.

In addition, the door connection fixing part 210 is formed with a front frame part 218 constituting a front surface by speaking with the bending frame part 214, and the front frame part 218 of the left door 201 The hinge side frame part 212 is comprised as FIG.

In this case, the front edge portion 218 and the hinge side frame portion 212 is a corner portion where the outside interviews each of the bent jaw portion (b) on the front frame portion 218 side to match the bent jaw portion (b) The bending protrusion part a of the hinge side frame part 212 is provided.

The half-open refrigerator door device of the present invention having such a configuration may use only the left door 201 as needed when the refrigerator door is used, and may open and close both the left and right doors 201 and 202. At this time, when the refrigerator door is to be used as the center of the left door 201, foods frequently taken out of the foods stored in the refrigerator compartment are stored in the left space as much as possible, and foods not frequently taken out are stored in the right space. Release.

Then, when the user opens and closes the left door 201, the left door 201 is opened by using the handle 219, and the left door 201 is centered on the central hinge device of the door connection fixing part 210 of the center. Can open and close operation. In this operation, since the hinge lever 213 can rotate about the central hinge shaft 217, the left door 201 can be maintained in the half-opened state.

In addition, when opening and closing the entire refrigerator door, when the left door 201 is further opened and flipped, the left door 201 and the right door 202 may be opened around the right door hinge shaft 203 on the right door 202 side. Thus, the entire refrigerator door can be opened and used as necessary.

On the other hand, the hinge side of the left door 201 is a bending jaw (b) formed in the front frame portion 218 of the door connection fixing portion 210 as shown in FIG. 5 and the bending protrusion of the hinge side frame portion 212 By (a) it can help to maintain the airtightness when opening and closing the left door 201 from the door connection fixing portion 210.

In addition, the hinge lever 213 can maintain a better opening operation of the entire refrigerator door if it is provided with a stopper means for prohibiting the rotation operation as necessary.

As described in detail above, the half-open refrigerator door apparatus of the present invention can open only the left door or the left / right door as a part of the refrigerator door, unlike the conventional technology of opening the entire door of the refrigerator. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the hard work caused by the opening and closing of the large refrigerator door, and on the other hand, because it can actively suppress the cold air loss in the refrigerator, there is a specific effect that can be expected to save power.

According to the present invention, the door connection fixing part of the left / right door is also provided with a gasket similar to the edge of the door, and the airtightness is maintained when the left door is opened and closed from the door connection fixing part by the bending jaw of the front frame part and the bending protrusion of the hinge side frame part. There is a distinctive effect which can be made favorable.

Claims (2)

In the half-open refrigerator door device, which is divided into a left door 201 and a right door 202 around the center door connection fixing part 210, the door connection fixing part 210 is a left door 201. The hinge side frame portion 212 is formed to surround one side and the front frame portion 218, which is the left side of the right door 202 is the right door hinge axis 203 point of the fixed side side hinge hinge 217 The bending frame part 214 for hermetic seating of the left door 201 which opens and closes to the center, and the left / right doors 201 and 202 at the upper and lower ends of the hinge side frame part 212 and the front frame part 218 are mutually secured. Half open refrigerator door device consisting of connecting central hinges (213, 215, 217). The center hinge device (213, 215, 217) of the left door hinge axis 215 formed on the upper right and lower ends of the left door 201 and the right door 202 of the left door hinge axis (215) The hinge lever 213 is rotated around the central hinge shaft 217 by connecting both ends thereof to the central hinge shaft 217 formed at the upper left and lower ends, and the central hinge shaft 217 and the left door hinge shaft 215. Half open refrigerator door unit.