KR101531501B1 - A Vegetable Box for Refrigerator and Refrigerator having the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vegetable box for a refrigerator and a refrigerator having the same.

The present invention relates to a drawer main body having a receiving space formed therein; A chill cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer main body and the cool air cover; And a deformation support portion for assisting elastic deformation of the stopper.

According to the present invention, it is possible to open and close the chill cover that covers the drawer body of the vegetable box without applying a large force.

Vegetable box, refrigerator

Description

Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a vegetable box for a refrigerator and a refrigerator having the same.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vegetable box, and more particularly, to a vegetable box for a refrigerator and a refrigerator having the same, which improves the fixing structure between the drawer main body and the cooler cover covering the opened portion of the drawer main body.

Generally, a refrigerator is divided into a refrigerator and a freezer to store and store food. The refrigerating chamber is maintained at a temperature of about 3 to 4 ° C for fresh and long-term storage of the food, and the freezing chamber is kept at a sub-zero temperature for storage of the food in the frozen state.

In recent years, various types of refrigerators have been introduced for various purposes, such as a kimchi refrigerator. Kimchi refrigerator is a refrigerator designed to store kimchi. It keeps the internal storage space at 0 ~ 5 ℃ so that kimchi can be aged and stored.

In recent years, the Kimchi refrigerator is configured to allow independent temperature control of each storage space formed therein, so that it can store various foods such as vegetables, fruits, and meats as well as kimchi.

Such a kimchi refrigerator includes a drawer type kimchi refrigerator in which food is stored while a drawer type door is taken out / opened, and a lid (or a lid) including a lid so that food can be inputted / A top opening and closing type) kimchi refrigerator, and a combined type kimchi refrigerator in which the drawer type and the lid type are mixed.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a structure of a general drawer type Kimchi refrigerator. In the Kimchi refrigerator, a plurality of storage spaces 120 are formed inside a body 110 forming an outer shape.

The storage space 120 is recessed inwardly of the main body 110 and is opened to the front, and a drawer door 130 is installed on the opened front.

A door handle 131 is provided on an upper portion of the front surface of the drawer door 130. The door handle 131 is formed to protrude frontward for a user to grasp when sliding the drawer door 130.

The rails 140 are mounted on both sides of the rear side of the drawer door 130. The pair of rails 140 supports the drawer door 130 and assists the mounting of the vegetable box 150 to be described below and is extended from the rear surface of the drawer door 130 to the rear Is inserted into the storage space (120) of the main body (110).

The main body 120 may be provided with a guide rail 114 for guiding the sliding of the rail 140. If necessary, the rail 140 itself may be mounted on the drawer door 130 It may be configured to guide sliding.

With such a configuration, the drawer door 130 can be selectively drawn out from the main body 120 to selectively open and close the opened front of the storage space 120.

Meanwhile, a vegetable box 150 is mounted between the pair of rails 140. As shown in FIG. 2, the vegetable box 150 is sized to occupy most of the interior of the storage space 120, and is formed in a box shape having an open top. The vegetable box 150 may be equipped with a storage container 160 for storing food such as kimchi.

As shown in FIG. 2, a cooler cover 155 is disposed on the upper portion of the vegetable box 150 to shield and cover the opened upper surface of the vegetable box 150. The cooler cover 155 is formed in a shape corresponding to the shape of the opened upper surface of the vegetable box 150 and is slid along the cover rail 152 formed in the upper edge region of the vegetable box 150, 150 are opened and closed.

A cooler cover 155 is fixed to one side of the cover rail 152 formed on the vegetable box 150 and a side of the cooler cover 155 to fix the position when the vegetable box 150 is hermetically sealed. .

However, the vegetable box and the cooler cover are liable to be misaligned in the plastic injection molding process or in the process of use by the user. Therefore, when food is put into a vegetable box, the cold cover is not opened easily, and there is a problem of opening the cold cover with excessive force.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a vegetable box for a refrigerator in which the structure of the cooler cover and the vegetable box is improved so that the cooler cover can be smoothly opened or closed from the vegetable box.

According to an aspect of the present invention, A chill cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer main body and the cool air cover; And a deformation support portion for assisting elastic deformation of the stopper.

The stopper may include a protrusion formed on the cooler cover and a contact portion formed on the drawer body and contacting the protrusion.

The protruding portion may have a convex shape at the upper portion and the contact portion may have a convex shape at the lower portion, wherein the upper portion of the protruding portion and the lower portion of the contact portion are in contact with each other.

The contact portion may move inward when the protrusion and the contact portion come into contact with each other, and the contact portion may resiliently return when the protrusion portion and the contact portion are separated from each other.

The drawer body may further include a sliding rail on which the cooler cover is slid, and the protrusion may be formed on the sliding rail.

The deformed auxiliary portion may be a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the contact portion.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drawer main body including a receiving space and a sliding rail formed therein. A cold cover slidably coupled to the sliding rail and covering the accommodation space; A protrusion formed on the cold cover; A contact portion formed on the sliding rail and elastically deformed to be engaged with the protrusion; And a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the contacting portion to assist elastic deformation of the contacting portion.

To achieve the above object, In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator comprising: a refrigerator body to which a drawable door can be attached; A drawer body detachably attached to the drawer door and having a receiving space therein; A cooler cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer main body and the cool air cover; And a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the drawer body to assist elastic deformation of the stopper.

The effect of the vegetable box for a refrigerator according to the present invention described above is as follows.

First, improvements in the structure of the cooler cover and the vegetable box can be improved so that the cooler cover can be smoothly opened or closed from the drawer body by the simple structure improvement.

Second, even if there is a lot of food in the vegetable box, the user can easily open and close the cold cover without applying large force.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a kimchi refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the main part of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a side view of the vegetable box of FIG. Fig. 7 is a schematic front cross-sectional view of the stopper region of Fig. 6; Fig.

3, the kimchi refrigerator 1 of the present embodiment includes a main body 10 having a plurality of storage spaces 20, a plurality of drawer doors 30 for opening and closing the storage space 20, And a vegetable box (50) mounted on the door (30).

The main body 10 is formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the main body 10 may have a plurality of storage spaces 20 partitioned vertically. In this embodiment, three storage spaces 20 are formed, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Each storage space 20 is open at the front. That is, the storage space 20 is exposed through the front surface of the main body 10. The open front of the storage space 20 is selectively opened and closed by a drawer door 30 having a size corresponding to each storage space 20.

The drawer door 30 is slidably mounted on the drawer door 30. The drawer door 30 is slidably mounted to the drawer door 30 on the opposite sides of the drawer door 30, 30 are slidably moved.

The main body 10 is provided with a rail guide (not shown) through which the rail 40 is slid to guide sliding of the drawer door 30.

At the rear of the drawer door 30, a vegetable box 50 is mounted. More specifically, the vegetable box 50 is mounted on the rails 40 on both sides of the drawer door 30, which are coupled to the rear of the drawer door 30, with the drawer door 30 being opened as shown in FIG. Thus, the vegetable box 50 is mounted to the rail 40 in a superimposed manner from the top toward the rail 40.

The mounting portion 53 may be provided in the upper region of the vegetable box 50 so that the vegetable box 50 can be easily mounted on the rail 40. [ The mounting portion 53 includes a step 53a protruding from the side surface of the vegetable box 50 so as to correspond to the upper region of the rail 40. The rail 40 has a step 53a A groove to be laid can be formed. In this embodiment, the mounting portion 53 is formed long on both sides along the lateral direction of the vegetable box 50.

As shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of storage containers 60 may be accommodated in the vegetable box 50. The storage container 60 is for storing food such as kimchi. The storage container 60 is formed with a generally opened upper side, and a plurality of coupling ribs (not shown) formed laterally protruding from the upper side of the outer side.

The storage container 60 includes a container body 63 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and an upper surface opened, and a container cover 61 for shielding the container body 63. The container cover (61) is configured to seal the storage container (60).

The storage container 60 may be mounted on the vegetable box 50, such as two or four, and if necessary, it may be formed to correspond to the size of the vegetable box 50, .

4, the vegetable box 50 includes a drawer main body 51 having a receiving space, a cooler cover 55 slidingly connected to the drawer main body 51 and covering the receiving space, A stopper 70 for deforming the drawer main body 51 and the cool air cover 55 and a deformation supporting part 80 for assisting the elastic deformation of the stopper 70.

5, a sliding rail 52 on which a cooler cover 55 is slid is formed on both side edges of the drawer main body 51, and a bent amount of the cooler cover 55 is formed on the sliding rail 52 The side portion is slidably inserted. 6, the cooler cover 55 is slid along the sliding rail 52 to open and close the receiving space of the drawer main body 51. As shown in FIG.

6 (b), when the chill cover 55 closes the opening of the drawer main body 51, the stopper 70 is freely detached from the drawer main body 51 And serves to fix the drawer main body 51 and the chill cover 55 to each other.

The stopper 70 may include a protrusion 71 formed on the chill cover 55 and a contact portion 73 formed on the drawer body 51 and contacting the protrusion 71.

The protrusion 71 protrudes inward from the bent side of the cooler cover 55, and the protrusion 71 may have a convex shape. The contact portion 73 is formed on the sliding rail 52 of the drawer body 51 and may be disposed outside the sliding rail 52 in a convex shape as shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7.

Here, the upper portion of the protrusion 71 is preferably positioned higher than the lower portion of the contact portion 73. Therefore, when the protrusion 71 and the contact portion 73 are in contact with each other, they can be fixed to each other while being elastically deformed.

It is preferable that at least one of the drawer main body 51 and the cooler cover 55 in which the stopper 70 described above is formed is made of a material which is easily deformed elastically.

In this embodiment, the drawer main body 51 in which the contact portion 73 is formed is made of a plastic material whose elasticity is relatively large and easy to deform. Therefore, the cold cover 55 shown in Fig. 6 (a) is moved to the left as indicated by the arrow, and is slid to a position covering the opening of the drawer body 51 as shown in Fig. 6 (b) The contact portion 73 of the drawer main body 51 which is in contact with the protrusion 71 of the cooler cover 55 is resiliently deformed in the initial shape so that the protrusion 71 is convex upward and the convex shape downward of the contact portion 73 (See Fig. 7 (b)).

The deformation supporting portion 80 serves to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper 70. The deformed auxiliary portion 80 may be a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the abutment portion 73.

In the present embodiment, the deformation supporter 80 is formed of a pair of cut-out grooves formed on both sides of the contact portion 73. The cutout groove may have a shape in which the upper portion of the sliding rail 52 is recessed at a predetermined depth from the upper portion to the lower portion. The deformed auxiliary portion 80 facilitates elastic deformation of the deformed auxiliary portion 80, i.e., the abutting portion 73, by allowing the abutting portion 73 to secure a space for elastically deforming in the lateral direction in the drawing.

Therefore, when the user moves the chill cover 55 to close the opening of the drawer main body 51, the protrusion 71 of the chill cover 55 approaches the contact portion 73 of the drawer main body 51, So that the abutting portion 73 easily engages with the projecting portion 71 to prevent the chill cover 55 and the drawer main body 51 from being separated from each other.

Therefore, the vegetable box of the present invention can improve the fixing structure of the cooler cover and the vegetable box so that the cooler cover can be smoothly opened or closed from the drawer body by the simple structure improvement.

In addition, even if a lot of food is contained in the vegetable box, the user can easily open and close the cold cover without applying a large force

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the drawings, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

Although the vegetable box is provided in the kimchi refrigerator in the present embodiment, the vegetable box of the present invention is not limited to the kimchi refrigerator but may be provided in various kinds of refrigerators.

The shape of the incision groove described in this embodiment and the distance from the abutment portion 73 will be changeable at the level of a person skilled in the art.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the inventive concept as defined by the appended claims.

1 is a side view showing the structure of a general drawer type kimchi refrigerator.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the main part of Fig. 1; Fig.

3 is a perspective view of a Kimchi refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the main part of Fig. 3; Fig.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the vegetable box of FIG. 3; FIG.

6 is a side view of the operation of the vegetable box of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a schematic front section view of the stopper region of Figure 6;

Description of the Related Art

 1: Kimchi refrigerator 10: Body

20: Storage space 30: Drawer door

31: Door handle 40: Rail

50: Vegetable box 51: Drawer body

52: sliding rail 53:

53a: step 55: cold cover

60: Storage container 70: Stopper

71: protruding portion 73: contact portion

80: deformation support (incision groove)

Claims (8)

A drawer body having a receiving space formed therein; A chill cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper that elastically deforms outwardly from the drawer body to fix the cooler cover in front of a top surface of the drawer body; A deformation supporting portion having a cutting groove formed to separate the stopper from the upper surface to assist elastic deformation of the stopper; And And a protrusion formed to extend inward from a lower portion of the cooler cover to limit movement of the cooler cover in contact with the stopper. delete The method according to claim 1, Wherein the protrusion has a convex shape at the top and the stopper has a convex shape at the bottom, and the top of the protrusion and the bottom of the stopper are in contact with each other. The method of claim 3, The stopper moves inward when the protrusion and the stopper come into contact with each other, And the stopper is resiliently returned when the protruding portion and the stopper are separated from each other. The method according to claim 3 or 4, The drawer body further includes a sliding rail on which the cold cover is slid, Wherein the stopper is formed on the sliding rail. The method according to any one of claims 1, 3, and 4, And a cutting groove of the deformed auxiliary portion is formed on both sides of the stopper. A drawer body having a receiving space formed therein and having sliding rails formed on both upper ends thereof; A cold cover slidably coupled to the sliding rail and covering the accommodation space; Protrusions extending inwardly from lower portions of both sides of the cold cover and having an upwardly convex shape; A contact portion elastically deformed while selectively contacting the upper portion of the protruding portion, the lower portion having a convex shape extending outward from the sliding rail; And And a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the contacting portion to assist elastic deformation of the contacting portion. A refrigerator main body to which a pull-out drawer door is attached; A drawer body detachably attached to the drawer door and having a receiving space therein; A chill cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper that elastically deforms outwardly from the drawer body to fix the cooler cover in front of a top surface of the drawer body; An incision groove formed on at least one side of the stopper such that the stopper is spaced apart from the upper surface to assist elastic deformation of the stopper; And And a protrusion formed to extend inward from a lower portion of the cooler cover to limit movement of the cooler cover in contact with the stopper.

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