KR19990012721A - Refrigerator Door Locking Device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator door locking device, wherein the upper surface (11) and the opening (14) formed with a plurality of fixing pieces (12) mounted on the lower cap (C) of the door (3) of the refrigerator are perforated. A cube-shaped main body 10 having a rear surface 13 and a rear surface on which a fixing groove 16 is formed; A compression and expandable elastic means 20 having a rear end 21 fixed to the fixing groove 16 of the main body 10 and having a front end 22; The body 31 is formed to be reciprocating in the main body 11 and the receiving groove 32 is formed on the front surface, and protruded to the rear surface of the body 31 and the front end portion of the elastic means (20) Reciprocating means 30 is formed integrally with the support rod 33 is fixed to the 22; A locking fixture 40 rotatably received in the receiving groove 32 of the reciprocating means 30, the protruding portion 40 protruding through the opening 14 of the main body 10; And a fixing part 51 mounted on the lower surface P of the refrigerator, a side part 52a on which the clasps 40 slide when the refrigerator is opened and closed, and a chain on which the clasps 40 are seated and accommodated. The locking bracket (50) having the locking groove (52) having the groove (54) is formed integrally, and the user can recognize the complete closure of the door and can keep the door in a completely closed state.

Description

Refrigerator Door Locking Device

The present invention relates to a refrigerator door locking device, but is not particularly limited, but when the door is closed in a state in which the food and beverages are excessively stored in the refrigerator main body and the door, the door is not completely closed and the cooling effect due to leakage of cold air, etc. It relates to a refrigerator door lock device that can keep the door in a completely closed state in order to prevent the degradation of.

In general, most homes are equipped with refrigerators, so food and beverages can be stored refrigerated or frozen to prevent deterioration or corruption.

In addition, as the standard of living improves recently, it is necessary to store a large amount of food and beverages, and accordingly, the refrigerator is becoming larger.

Such a large refrigerator is generally formed by separating the refrigerator body 1 into a freezer compartment 2 and a refrigerator compartment 3, respectively, as shown in FIG. That is, the freezer compartment 2 is installed at the upper portion of the refrigerator main body 1 and is isolated from the refrigerating compartment 2 at the lower portion thereof to form a refrigerating compartment.

In addition, each of the freezer compartment 2, the door 4 is mounted to the refrigerating chamber 3, the door 5 is individually rotatable, the refrigerator body (for the rotational operation of each such door 4, 5) 1) a plurality of hinges 6 are provided.

The freezing chamber 2 and the refrigerating chamber 3 are provided with a plurality of various shelves 7a and a stacking box 7b to properly store food and beverages and vegetables. In addition, each of the doors 4 and 5 is provided with various pockets 8a and egg cases 8b to store food and beverages.

In addition, gaskets 4a and 5a are provided around the inner side of each of the doors 4 and 5, and magnets are inserted into the gaskets 4a and 5a so that the doors 4 and 5 are closed when the doors 4 and 5 are closed. The doors 4 and 5 are closed by being attached to the freezing chamber 2 and the refrigerating chamber 3.

However, when the doors 4 and 5 are indifferently closed, the food and beverages are excessively stored in the freezer compartment 2 and the refrigerating compartment 3, or when the objects deviate from the volume of the freezer compartment 2 and the refrigerating compartment 3. Or, when food and beverage products are overloaded inside the doors 4 and 5, the doors 4 and 5 are not completely closed, so that cold air in the refrigerating chamber is leaked and the food and beverages are deteriorated or decayed.

In addition, even when the door is closed, the door is pushed open due to mutual interference between the food and beverage products stored in the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment and the food and beverage products stored in the door, thereby lowering the cooling efficiency.

Therefore, the present invention has been invented to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator door locking device that can prevent the deterioration of cooling efficiency by keeping the door of the refrigerator in a completely closed state.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator door locking device capable of confirming a completely closed state of a door.

This object is achieved by the present invention, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the upper surface is formed with a plurality of fixing pieces that are mounted to the lower cap of the door of the refrigerator, the front surface is formed with a perforated opening and the fixing groove is formed in the inner portion A cube-shaped body having a rear surface; Compression and expandable elastic means, one end of which is fixed to the fixing groove of the main body; A reciprocating means formed reciprocally in the main body and having a receiving groove formed in a front surface thereof, and a supporting rod protruding from a rear surface of the body and having a support rod inserted into and fixed to the front end of the elastic means; A locking ball that is rotatably received in the receiving groove of the reciprocating means and partially protrudes through the opening of the main body; And a clamping bracket integrally formed with a fixing part mounted on a lower surface of the refrigerator, and a clasp part having a side part at which the clasp is slid when the fridge is opened and closed and a locking groove at which the clasp is seated when the fridge is closed. Provided is a refrigerator door lock device, characterized in that.

1 is an exploded perspective view showing a main body and a door of a typical refrigerator.

Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view of the refrigerator door locking device according to the present invention.

3 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the refrigerator door is locked.

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

10: main body 11: upper surface

12: fixing piece 13: front side

20: elastic means 21: rear end

22: front end 30: reciprocating means

31: body 32: receiving groove

33: support rod 40: clamping ball

50: locking bracket 51: fixing part

52: imposition of government

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is an exploded perspective view of the refrigerator door locking device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the locking device according to the present invention with the refrigerator door closed.

2 and 3, the refrigerator door locking device according to the present invention is composed of a main body 10, elastic means 20, reciprocating means 30, the locking fixture 40 and the locking bracket 50.

In more detail, the main body 10 is formed in a cube shape fixed in place of the door cap C, which is shown by a dotted line in FIG. 3. A plurality of fixing pieces 12 are formed on the upper surface 11 of the main body 10, and the fixing pieces 12 are fixed to be fixed to the door cap C by, for example, bolts B. It is preferable that the hole 12a be drilled.

The front surface 13 of the main body 10 is formed with an opening 14 through which a part of the clasps 40, which will be described later, may protrude.

In addition, a fixing groove 16 to which one end of the elastic means 20 to be described later is fixed is formed inside the rear surface 15 opposite to the front surface 12.

The elastic means 20 is preferably formed of an expandable coil spring, the rear end 21 is fixed to the fixing groove 16 formed in the rear surface 15 of the main body 10 as described above and the front The end 22 is fixed to the reciprocating means 30 which will be described later in detail. In the present embodiment, the elastic means 20 is composed of two springs, the number may be arbitrarily selected according to the capacity of the refrigerator or the size of the door.

The reciprocating means 30 is inserted into the main body 10 so as to be reciprocated by the elastic means 20, the body 31 is formed with the receiving groove 32 and protruded to the rear of the body 31 And a support rod 33.

The receiving groove 32 formed in the body 31 has a predetermined radius of curvature, and is formed to accommodate a portion of the clasp fixture 40 described later. In addition, the support rod 33 is inserted and fixed through the other end 22 of the elastic means 20 serves to smoothly reciprocate the body 31.

In addition, the clasp (40) is formed in a bearing shape, the majority of the bearing is accommodated in the main body 10 and a part is exposed to the outside through the opening 14 formed in the front surface 13 of the main body 10. .

The locking fixture 40 is of course supported rotatably in the receiving groove 32 of the reciprocating means 30 in the body.

The clamping bracket 50 is fixed to the lower surface of the refrigerator body 51 is formed to be fixed, and the fixing portion 51 is formed integrally with the fixing portion 51, the locking portion 40 is locked to be released lock ( 52).

That is, the fixing part 51 is formed in the fixing hole 53 to be mounted on the lower surface of the refrigerator main body by, for example, the fixing bolt B. In particular, the fixing part 51 has the chain in place. A locking groove 54 is formed in which the tennis ball 40 can be accommodated and fixed.

The locking groove 54 is formed to have a radius of curvature in which a portion of the locking fixture 14 protruding through the opening 14 of the front surface 13 of the main body 10 can be easily inserted and received. desirable. Of course, the position of the lock groove 54 is preferably formed at the point where the lock sphere 40 is located in a state where the door of the refrigerator is completely closed.

As a result, the elastic means 20, the reciprocating means 30 and the locking fixture 40 are interpolated and installed in the main body 10 fixed to the lower cap C of the refrigerator door, and the corresponding locking bracket is a refrigerator. It is mounted on the lower surface (P) of the.

According to the operation mode of the door locking device configured as described above and installed in the refrigerator, for example, when closing the refrigerating chamber door 3 of the refrigerator, the front door 13 of the main body 10 is formed just before the door 3 is completely closed. The crystal ball 40 partially exposed through the opening 14 is in contact with the front end portion of the one side portion 52a of the clamping portion 52 of the locking bracket 50 and is pressed.

As described above, when the crystal ball 40 is pressed, the crystal ball 40 is moved into the main body 10. At this time, the pressing force applied to the crystal ball 40 is transmitted to the reciprocating means 30 and the elastic means 20. As the reciprocating means 30 is moved backward, the elastic means 20 is compressed.

Then, when the door 3 is completely closed and the lock ball 40 reaches the lock groove 54 formed in the fixing portion 52 of the lock bracket 50, the elastic force of the elastic means 20 in the main body 10 is reached. Simultaneously with the expansion, the reciprocating means 30 moves forward, and accordingly, the locking fixture 40 protrudes to the maximum range through the opening 14 of the main body 10 and is seated in the locking groove 54 so that the door (3) the bar is made, it is possible to recognize that the door to be used is completely closed because the metallic sound generated by the movement of the stopper (40) when seated in the lock groove (54) of the stop. have.

On the contrary, when the door 3 is opened, when the user pulls the door 3, the locking fixture 40 accommodated in the locking groove 54 is separated and the reciprocating means 30 inserted in the main body 10 is removed. ) And the resilient means 20 is linked to the reverse when the door is closed, the door 3 is opened.

As a result, if the refrigerator door lock device according to the present invention is applied to the refrigerator, the door can be kept in a completely closed state and can prevent the door from being opened due to the door's sliding after closing, thereby maintaining the cooling efficiency of the refrigerator in a normal state. It can prevent the corruption and deterioration of food and beverage products.

In addition, it is possible to easily recognize the complete closure of the door when the door is closed, there is an effect that can completely prevent the incomplete closure of the door due to inadvertent user.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (1)

The upper surface 11 having a plurality of fixing pieces 12 formed on the lower cap C of the door 3 of the refrigerator, the front surface 13 having the opening 14 formed therein, and the fixing groove 16 at the inner side thereof. A cube-shaped body 10 having a rear surface formed thereon; A compression and expandable elastic means 20 having a rear end 21 fixed to the fixing groove 16 of the main body 10 and having a front end 22; The body 31 is formed to be reciprocating in the main body 11 and the receiving groove 32 is formed on the front surface, and protruded to the rear surface of the body 31 and the front end portion of the elastic means (20) Reciprocating means 30 is formed integrally with the support rod 33 is fixed to the 22; A locking fixture 40 rotatably received in the receiving groove 32 of the reciprocating means 30, the protruding portion 40 protruding through the opening 14 of the main body 10; And Fixing portion 51 mounted on the lower surface (P) of the refrigerator, and the side portion (52a) the sliding block 40 is slid when opening and closing the refrigerator, and the locking groove 40 is accommodated when the refrigerator is closed And a lock bracket (50) having a lock portion (52) integrally formed with (54). Refrigerator door lock device, characterized in that consisting of.