KR100652593B1 - Refrigerator with fuction of making ice rapidly - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function, comprising: an ice making chamber having a cold air outlet; An ice maker mounted inside the ice maker; An ice container installed under the ice maker to store ice; A guide part installed on one wall of the ice making chamber to change a direction angle so that the cold air flowing out from the cold air outlet is directed toward the ice maker; And a driving unit including a driving arm extending from the guide unit to the opposite side and a driving motor for driving the driving arm. Accordingly, it is possible to quickly produce ice when there is an urgent need for ice, and there is an effect of saving power consumption since no additional use of a compressor for increasing the refrigerant circulation is required.

Refrigerator, ice maker, rapid

Description

REFRIGERATOR WITH FUCTION OF MAKING ICE RAPIDLY}

1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator according to the prior art,

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the portion A of Figure 1,

3 is a cross-sectional view showing an ice making room of a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a front perspective view of the ice making chamber of FIG. 3;

5 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the direction angle of the guide of FIG. 3 is switched;

6 is a control block diagram of a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function of FIG. 3.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

130: ice making room 131: cold air outlet

132: ice maker 133: ice detection unit

135: ice bucket 200: guide portion

210: hinge shaft 230: drive motor

240: heater 250: mode input unit

260: timer 300: control unit

The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function, and more particularly, to a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function to increase an ice making speed of an ice maker without operating an additional compressor.

In general, a refrigerator is a device for keeping food and the like at a low temperature by providing a cooling chamber. A refrigerator may be used by dividing a low temperature range into a freezing chamber for keeping it at a low temperature below zero and a refrigerating chamber for keeping the image at a low temperature. In addition, as the demand for ice in recent years has increased, there has been an increase in an example in which an automatic ice maker that can make and provide only ice separately is installed in the refrigerator.

An example of such a refrigerator will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. As shown in these figures, the refrigerator 1 includes a refrigerator main body 10 in which a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment 13 are divided up and down by horizontal partitions 12, and the refrigerator main body 10 in front of the refrigerating compartment. The refrigerator compartment door 11 which is rotatably coupled with respect to (), and the freezer compartment door 20 which is installed to be pulled out in front of the freezing chamber 13 are provided.

The freezer door 20 includes a door panel 21 that opens and closes the front surface of the freezer compartment 13, a storage portion 22 opened upwardly in the lower portion of the rear surface of the door panel 21, and a storage portion 22. Guide frames 23 are formed on both sides to slide along the inner wall of the freezer compartment 13.

The freezing chamber 13 is divided into upper and lower layers, and the lower part of the freezing chamber door 20 is provided with a receiving portion 22, and the upper layer is divided into left and right, and one of the compartments has an ice making chamber 30 for making ice. have.

As shown in FIG. 2, the ice making chamber 30 receives ice from the ice maker 32 at the lower side of the ice maker 32 and an ice maker 32 which automatically receives water from the upper portion of the side wall. The ice container 35 to be stored and the cold air outlet 31 which supplies cold air into the ice-making chamber 30 in the upper part of the back wall of the ice-making chamber 30 are provided.

Accordingly, when the function of the refrigerator 1 is set to perform the ice making mode, when the information detected by the ice detector 33 is not in the ice state, the ice maker 32 is supplied with water to make ice and then the ice bucket ( The process of discharging to 35 is repeated until the ice bucket 35 is full of ice.

On the other hand, depending on the use environment of the refrigerator (1) when the amount of ice is used or when the ice stored in the ice bucket is not enough, there is a case that the ice is urgently needed, in this case, so-called ' It may also be possible to set the express refrigeration mode to the refrigerator (1).

When the 'express refrigeration mode' is activated, the output of the cold air is maintained for a predetermined time to increase the flow rate of the incoming cold air, the temperature of the freezer compartment 13 is quenched by the increased cold flow rate. The quenched freezing chamber 13 may be connected to the improvement of the ice making performance of the ice maker 32. However, the switch to the 'super defrosting mode' has a problem of increasing power consumption because it requires the operation of an additional compressor (not shown).

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator having a rapid ice-making function for rapidly increasing an ice making amount without additionally driving a compressor.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an ice making chamber formed with a cold air outlet; An ice maker mounted inside the ice maker; An ice container installed under the ice maker to store ice; A guide part installed on one wall of the ice making chamber to change a direction angle so that the cold air flowing out from the cold air outlet is directed toward the ice maker; A driving part including a driving arm extending from the guide part in an opposite direction, and a driving motor driving the driving arm; It provides a refrigerator with a rapid deicing function characterized in that it comprises.

In this case, the driving unit receives a mode input unit provided to be input by a user from outside, a ice detection unit for detecting whether the ice container is full of ice, a result value of the ice detection unit, and an input value of the mode insertion unit. It is preferable to further include a control unit for controlling the operation.

And, the present invention, the guide unit discloses a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function is rotatably coupled to the wall by a hinge axis.

In this case, it is preferable that the hinge shaft is further provided with a heater connected to the control unit to melt the hinge shaft when frozen.

The driving unit includes a driving arm extending from the guide portion to the opposite side of the hinge shaft, and a driving motor reciprocatingly driving the driving arm.

On the other hand, the control unit preferably further includes a timer to control the operation of the drive unit according to the time the direction angle of the guide unit is switched.

Hereinafter, a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function according to the present invention will be described in detail according to the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings, and detailed descriptions of related known functions or components will be omitted.

3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an ice making room of a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a front perspective view of the ice making room of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a direction angle of the guide part of FIG. 3. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a converted state, and FIG. 6 is a control block diagram of a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function of FIG. 3.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the refrigerator 100 having the rapid deicing function according to the present invention includes a refrigerator main body 110 having a freezing compartment 113 and a machine room at the rear side of the refrigerator main body 110. 101 and an ice making chamber 130 in which a part of the freezing chamber 113 is partitioned and provided.

Inside the ice making chamber 130, an ice maker 132 frozen by supplying water to an upper portion of the side wall and an ice bucket 135 provided to hold ice discharged from the ice maker 132 below the ice maker 132. And the hinge shaft 210 with respect to the rear wall adjacent to the cold air outlet 131 and the cold air outlet 131 so that cold air can flow out to the rear wall of the ice making chamber 130. The guide unit 200 is rotatably installed to guide the cold air flowing out from the cold air outlet 131 to the ice maker 132.

The guide portion 200 is for changing the direction of the cold air, it can be formed in a plate shape, the guide portion for providing a channel so that the cold air intensively directed to the ice maker 132 when running in the rapid deicing mode It is also possible to further provide a shield at the upper and lower ends of the 200.

The ice maker 132 includes an ice making unit 133 so as to detect an amount of ice stored in the ice container 135.

In addition, the refrigerator main body 110 includes a driving arm 220 which is integrally formed with the guide portion 200 on the opposite side of the hinge shaft 210 from the guide portion 200, and the driving arm 220 is hinged. A drive motor 230 is provided to rotate about 210. In this case, the drive motor 230 is preferably a solenoid operated in a linear reciprocating manner. In addition, a rotary motor capable of directly rotating the guide unit 200 may be mounted.

As shown in FIG. 6, the refrigerator 100 of the present embodiment includes a controller 300 that controls the operation of the driving motor 230, and the controller 300 can be input by a user from the outside. The operation of the driving motor 230 is controlled by receiving the mode input unit 250, the result of the ice detection unit 133, and the input value of the mode fitting unit 250.

As shown in FIG. 3, the hinge shaft 210 may heat the hinge shaft 210 to protect the driving motor 230 from overload when moisture in the ice making chamber 130 freezes due to continuous cold air. The heater 240 is provided in the longitudinal direction of the hinge shaft 210. The heater 240 is connected to the control unit 300, it can be operated when the rapid deicing mode is set or released.

The timer 260 may be connected to the controller 300 to control the driving of the driving unit 230 based on the time when the direction angle of the guide unit 200 is switched.

Hereinafter, the effect | action by the above structure is demonstrated.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the operation mode of the ice making chamber 130 is a general situation, the controller 300 controls the driving motor 230 to control the driving portion 230 of the cold air discharged from the cold air outlet 131. The direction angle is set so that the guide part 200 is substantially parallel to the direction of cold air or away from the cold air outlet 131 so as not to disturb the flow path and affect the temperature distribution of the freezer compartment 113.

When a situation requiring rapid deicing is input to the mode input unit 250, as shown in FIG. 5, when the ice container 135 sensed by the ice detection unit 133 is not in the ice state. By operating the driving motor 230 to move the direction angle of the guide portion 200 toward the ice maker 132, the cold air of the low temperature via the evaporator (not shown) is directly in contact with the ice maker 132, the compressor (not shown) It is possible to reduce the ice making time without additional operation.

When the remaining amount of ice in the ice bucket 135 reaches a full ice state or when a predetermined time input to the timer 260 has elapsed, the controller 300 continuously flows cold air to the entire temperature distribution of the freezer compartment 113. Operate the drive motor 230 to prevent adverse effects The direction angle of the guide part 200 is switched to the general position. Prior to this process, the controller 300 may smoothly rotate the frozen hinge shaft 210 by heating the heater 240 for a predetermined time.

As described above, according to the refrigerator having the rapid deicing function of the present invention, the change of the direction angle is performed such that the flow path of the cold air flowing out of the cold air outlet 131 toward one side of the ice making chamber 130 is directed toward the ice maker 132. By providing the guide unit 200 and the driving motor 230 for driving the guide unit 200 to be installed, it is possible to produce ice quickly when the urgent ice is needed, and further use of a compressor to increase the refrigerant circulation amount. Since there is no need for this, power consumption can be saved.

As described above with reference to the drawings illustrating a refrigerator having a rapid deicing function according to the present invention, the present invention is not limited by the embodiments and drawings disclosed herein, the scope of the technical idea of the present invention Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art.

Claims (6)

An ice making chamber in which a cold air outlet is formed; An ice maker mounted inside the ice maker; An ice container installed under the ice maker to store ice; A guide part installed on one wall of the ice making chamber to change a direction angle so that the cold air flowing out from the cold air outlet is directed toward the ice maker; A driving part including a driving arm extending from the guide part in an opposite direction, and a driving motor driving the driving arm; Refrigerator with a rapid deicing function, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, Control the operation of the drive unit by receiving a mode input unit that can be input by the user from the outside, the ice detection unit for detecting whether the ice bucket is full, the result value of the ice detection unit and the input value of the mode catching unit Refrigerator with a rapid deicing function, characterized in that it further comprises a control unit. The method according to claim 1 or 2, And the guide unit is rotatably coupled to the wall by a hinge shaft. The method of claim 3, The hinge shaft has a refrigerator with a rapid deicing function, characterized in that the heater further connected to the control unit to melt the hinge shaft when frozen. delete The method of claim 2, The control unit further comprises a timer for controlling the operation of the drive unit according to the time the direction angle of the guide unit is switched, the refrigerator with a rapid deicing function.

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