KR19990057131A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, comprising: a support; A refrigerator body rotatable on the support portion and having a cylindrical cooling chamber and at least one door for opening and closing the cooling chamber; A gasket installed on a mutual contact surface between the support part and the refrigerator main body to maintain airtightness in the cooling chamber; A cold air distribution pipe installed in a central region of the cooling chamber in a standing direction to guide the flow of cold air, and having a plurality of cold air discharge ports opened in the cooling chamber along a longitudinal direction; It is installed in the support to form cold air, and includes a refrigeration cycle for supplying cold air in the cold air distribution pipe. As a result, the position of the kitchen or the room can be variably installed, and the indoor space can be efficiently used, and the quality of the room is improved. Since the position of the refrigerator door can be changed by rotating the refrigerator body, it is possible to conveniently take out or accommodate food in the cooling chamber regardless of the position of the user.

Description

Refrigerator

The present invention relates to a refrigerator.

The refrigerator generally has a rectangular cylindrical refrigerator body, a refrigerator door provided at the front of the refrigerator body to rotate and open the cooling chamber, and a refrigeration cycle for supplying cold air into the cooling chamber. Such a refrigerator is installed to be adjacent to a wall surface in a space such as a kitchen or a living room. At this time, the refrigerator door is opened and closed inward to accommodate or take out food in the cooling chamber.

By the way, in the conventional refrigerator, when food is accommodated in the cooling chamber or the food is withdrawn from the refrigerator, it is inconvenient to move to the front of the refrigerator. And, for configuration reasons, it must be installed adjacent to the wall at all times in the space to be installed, thereby having a problem that the indoor space cannot be efficiently used, and there is a limit to improving the quality of the room.

Therefore, the object of the present invention, in consideration of these problems in the prior art, can be installed in the kitchen or room variably, it is possible to use the indoor space efficiently, at this time, to improve the quality of the room To provide a refrigerator.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator, which enables to withdraw or accommodate food in the cooling chamber conveniently regardless of the position of the user.

1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator according to the present invention;

2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG.

3 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2;

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II of FIG. 2.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: refrigerator 3: refrigerator body

5: refrigerator door 7: sight window

8: cooling chamber 9: food shelf

10: cold air passage 14: support protrusion

15: bottom plate 16: cold air inlet

17: flow path forming unit 18: cold air outlet

21: support 23: support body

27: duct member 31: opening and closing cover

33: compressor 34: condenser

36: cooling fan 39: support leg

41: cold air distribution pipe 45: cold air discharge outlet

51: rail portion 53: receiving portion

55: guide rail 57: bearing

61: gasket 65: lamp

According to the present invention, there is provided a refrigerator, comprising: a support unit; A refrigerator body rotatable on the support portion and having a cylindrical cooling chamber and at least one door for opening and closing the cooling chamber; A gasket installed on a mutual contact surface between the support part and the refrigerator main body to maintain airtightness in the cooling chamber; A cold air distribution pipe installed in a central region of the cooling chamber in a standing direction to guide the flow of cold air, and having a plurality of cold air discharge ports opened in the cooling chamber along a longitudinal direction; It is achieved by a refrigerator, which is installed in the support to form cold air and includes a refrigeration cycle for supplying cold air into the cold air distribution pipe.

Here, the bottom surface of the refrigerator body may be configured such that the cold air suction port of the return duct for returning the cold air in the cooling chamber to the evaporator of the refrigeration cycle is formed radially around the cold air distribution pipe.

In addition, the refrigerator main body may be provided with at least one see-through window for viewing the inside of the cooling chamber along the circumferential direction.

In addition, a lamp may be provided at the upper end of the cold air distribution pipe.

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

1 is a perspective view of a circular refrigerator according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line II of FIG. 2. As can be seen from these figures, the present refrigerator 1 has a cylindrical support 21 and a cylindrical refrigerator body 3 rotatably provided on the support 21. A refrigeration cycle for forming cold air is provided in the support portion, and a cold air distribution pipe 41 for guiding movement of the cold air formed by the refrigeration cycle and supplying it to the cooling chamber is provided in the refrigerator body. Between the support 21 and the refrigerator main body 3, a rail unit 51 for rotatably supporting the refrigerator main body 3 is provided.

The support portion 21 includes a cylindrical support body 23 which is open upward, a circumferential duct member 27 that is accommodated and fixed in the support body, and a fixed leg 37 provided on the bottom surface of the support body 23, And it is comprised by the opening-closing cover 31 which closes the center area | region of a bottom face so that opening is possible. The support body 23 has a heat insulating material 12 interposed between the outer casing 11 and the inner casing 13, and the coupling groove 25 to which the duct member 27 is coupled along the circumferential direction of the upper inner wall surface thereof. ) Is formed. The duct member 27 of the partial arc is foamed and solidified therein, and the coupling protrusion 28 formed along the longitudinal edge thereof is coupled to the coupling groove 25 of the support body 23 to provide airtightness. Keeping up. The duct member 27 is further provided with a positioning unit 24 for setting and fixing the position of the evaporator 32 in the central region.

And, the support leg 39 is installed downward at a predetermined interval on the bottom surface of the support body 23. These are adjustable up and down, and serve to maintain the balance of the refrigerator 1 by contacting the installation bottom surface on which the present refrigerator 1 is located. The opening and closing cover 31 is coupled to the bottom surface of the support body 23 through a coupling member such as a screw, and the compressor 33 and the condenser 34 are provided with the partition wall 35 therebetween. A plurality of air holes 38 are formed on the plate surface on which the condenser 34 and the compressor 33 are fixed, and the partition wall 35 is provided with a cooling fan 36 toward the condenser 34. A refrigerant pipe 37 for connecting the compressor 33, the condenser 34, and the evaporator 32 to the refrigerant flow with each other is disposed between the inner casing 13 and the outer casing 11 of the support body 23.

Meanwhile, the refrigerator body 3 is shaped by a heat insulating material 12 filled between the outer casing 11 and the inner casing 13, and has a pair of openings 4 facing each other along the circumferential direction thereof, and a lower portion thereof. The bottom plate 15 which is provided in the surface and partitions the cooling chamber 8 and the support part 21 is provided. Each opening 4 is provided with a refrigerator door 5 capable of opening and closing left and right, and a plurality of viewing windows 7 are provided between the refrigerator doors 5 along the circumferential direction of the refrigerator body 3. The refrigerator door 5 is foamed and solidified with a heat insulating material 12 therein, and is provided with a gasket (not shown) for maintaining airtightness between the refrigerator body 3 and the refrigerator main body 3. And the see-through window 7 is provided with a double window in order to prevent the annual loss in a cooling chamber.

In the cooling chamber, a plurality of disk-type food shelves 9 are arranged horizontally along the vertical direction. They are seated on the supporting protrusions 14 protruding in the horizontal direction on the inner wall surface of the refrigerator main body 3 and can be arranged horizontally, whereby a plurality of food storage zones partitioned in layers are provided in the cooling chamber. The food shelf 9 is provided with a plurality of cold air passing holes (10).

The bottom plate 15 forms an outwardly inclined surface, and a cold air outlet 18 from the lower side is formed in the central region, and a plurality of cold air inlets 16 are provided on the outer side at predetermined intervals along the circumferential direction. Formed. The flow path forming part 17 which protrudes downwardly around the cold air outlet 18 and opposes the duct member 27 of the support part 12 at the lower part of the bottom plate 15 to form a cold air flow path is provided.

In the cooling chamber, a cylindrical cold air distribution pipe 41 fixed to the cold air outlet 18 formed in the center region of the bottom plate 15 in the standing direction is provided. The cold air distribution pipe 41 is provided with a plurality of cold air discharge ports 45 at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction thereof. In the lower part of the cold air distribution pipe 41, a blowing fan 47 for feeding cold air formed around the evaporator 32 into the cold air distribution pipe is provided. And the lamp 65 is provided in the upper part.

On the other hand, the rail unit 51 interposed between the refrigerator main body 3 and the support part 21 to rotatably support the refrigerator main body 3 includes a guide rail 55 and a rail groove of the guide rail 55. It is comprised by the accommodating part 53 rotatably accommodated in the inside, and the bearing 57 interposed therebetween. In this embodiment, the guide rail 55 is provided in the upper edge of the support part 21, and the accommodating part 53 is provided along the lower edge of the refrigerator main body 3. As shown in FIG. As a result, the refrigerator main body 3 is rotatable in the upper portion of the support part 21. In addition, a gasket 61 is provided between the rail part 51, that is, the guide rail 55 and the accommodating part 53, to block outflow of cold air and heat loss from the inside of the cooling chamber.

With this configuration, in the present refrigerator 1, when cold air is formed around the evaporator 32 by the operation of the refrigeration cycle, the blower fan 47 is operated to feed the cold air formed around the evaporator 32 into the cold air distribution pipe. Let's do it. Then, the cold air moving upward along the guide flow path 43 of the cold air distribution pipe 41 is evenly discharged into the cooling chamber through the plurality of cold air discharge ports 45. A temperature sensing sensor (not shown) is installed in the cooling chamber, and the refrigerator 1 maintains the inside of the cooling chamber at a predetermined set temperature based on the detection signal of the temperature sensing sensor.

On the other hand, the cold air discharged into the cooling chamber flows downward through the air passage hole 10 formed in the food shelf (9). Thus, it is introduced into the support through the cold air inlet 16 formed in the bottom plate 15, and moves to the evaporator side along the guide flow path between the duct member 27 and the bottom plate 15. Then, after being formed again as cold around the evaporator 32, it is supplied into the cold air distribution pipe by the blowing fan 47.

At this time, the user may open or close the refrigerator door 5 blocking the opening 4 of the refrigerator body 3 to accommodate or take out food in the cooling chamber. In the present refrigerator 1, the refrigerator main body 3 rotatably installed in the upper part of the support part 21 can be rotated, and can be arrange | positioned in the position which a user can open the refrigerator door 5 easily.

As described above, the circular refrigerator according to the present invention may be installed variably in a suitable place without the need to install in close contact with the wall in the kitchen or indoors. As a result, the indoor space can be efficiently used, and the quality of the interior is also improved at this time. Since the position of the refrigerator door can be changed by rotating the refrigerator body, it is possible to conveniently take out or accommodate food in the cooling chamber regardless of the position of the user.

Claims (5)

In the refrigerator, A support; A refrigerator body rotatable on the support portion and having a cylindrical cooling chamber and at least one door for opening and closing the cooling chamber; A gasket installed on a mutual contact surface between the support part and the refrigerator main body to maintain airtightness in the cooling chamber; A cold air distribution pipe installed in a central region of the cooling chamber in a standing direction to guide the flow of cold air, and having a plurality of cold air discharge ports opened in the cooling chamber along a longitudinal direction; And a refrigeration cycle installed in the support to form cold air and supplying cold air into the cold air distribution pipe. The method of claim 1, And a cold air suction port of a return duct for returning the cold air in the cooling chamber to the evaporator of the refrigerating cycle is radially formed around the cold air distribution pipe on the bottom surface of the refrigerator main body. The method of claim 1, The refrigerator body, characterized in that at least one viewing window for viewing the inside of the cooling chamber is provided along the circumferential direction. The method of claim 1, A refrigerator is provided at an upper end of the cold air distribution pipe. The method of claim 1, Means for rotatably supporting the refrigerator body on the support portion, A guide rail provided along an upper edge of the support part; A receiving part installed along a lower edge of the refrigerator body and rotatably received in a rail groove of the guide rail; And a bearing interposed between the rail groove of the guide rail and the accommodation portion.