KR200153699Y1 - Cooling air supporting device in ref. - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cold air supply device of a separate refrigerator, and its purpose is to separate the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment through separate cabinets to efficiently store many stored foods, and to facilitate their assembly installation.

The cold air supply apparatus of the separate refrigerator according to the present invention includes a guide duct 300 for guiding a part of the cold air generated in the first cabinet 100 into the second cabinet 200, and inside the second cabinet 200. The return duct 400 for returning the air after the heat exchange action to the first cabinet 100 is exposed to the outside of the rear walls 101 and 201 of the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 so that the air can be removed and attached. Is coupled to, and a second fan 310 is mounted in the second cabinet 200 to guide the cold air circulation.

Therefore, the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 on the enclosure having a large content can be detachably provided to facilitate the transportation and installation thereof, and their vertically or horizontally arranged according to the installation space and the user's intention. By doing so, the space for the refrigerator can be effectively used. In addition, there is an advantage that the cold air circulation inside the second cabinet 200 is smoothly provided by the fan 310 separately provided.

Description

Cold air supply unit of the separate refrigerator

The present invention relates to a detachable refrigerator, and more particularly, to a cabinet in which a freezer compartment is formed and a cabinet in which a refrigerator compartment is formed separately, and to which one refrigeration cycle is applied, food can be efficiently stored and can be easily arranged. It relates to a cold air supply of the refrigerator.

In general, the refrigerator is configured to supply the cold air generated by heat exchange from the evaporator of the refrigeration cycle to the storage compartment to maintain the freshness of various foods for a long time.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional refrigerator having such a function includes an intermediate partition having a freezer compartment 20 for storing frozen food and a refrigerating compartment 30 for storing refrigerated food in the cabinet 10 constituting the outer body. It is partitioned up and down by 60, and the freezing chamber door 21 and the refrigerating chamber door 31 are installed to open and close it.

A cooling chamber 40 is formed at the rear of the freezing chamber 20 so as to be distinguished therefrom, and an evaporator 41 for generating cold air and a fan 42 for forcibly blowing the generated cold air to the freezing chamber and the refrigerating chamber are installed. The evaporator 4 is continuously supplied with a refrigerant through a compressor 80 forming a refrigeration cycle. That is, the compressor 80 compresses the refrigerant and sends it to a condenser (not shown), and the condensed refrigerant is continuously supplied to the evaporator 41 to generate cold air.

And there is provided a cold air duct 50 for appropriately supplying the cold air generated in the cooling chamber 40 to the freezer compartment 20 and the refrigerating compartment 30, which is built on the rear side of the freezer compartment 20 and the refrigerating compartment 30, respectively. It consists of the freezing chamber duct 51 and the refrigerating chamber duct 52 which were provided, and the several cold air discharge holes 22 and 32 arrange | positioned up and down here.

On the other hand, the freezing chamber 20 and the refrigerating chamber 30 has to be returned to the evaporator 41 in order to cool the air after the heat exchange action again, the intermediate partition 60 in order to guide the return of air evaporator 41 is installed The return duct 70 is formed to communicate with the lower portion of the cooling chamber 40.

In the conventional refrigerator configured as described above, when power is applied to operate the fan 42 and the compressor 80, the air in the freezing compartment 20 and the refrigerating compartment 30 passes through the return duct 70 to the evaporator of the cooling compartment 40. It flows into (41) and heat exchanges through it, turning into cold. Subsequently, the generated cold air flows along the freezing chamber duct 51 and the refrigerating chamber duct 52 by the blowing force of the fan 42, and through the freezing chamber 20 and the refrigerating chamber 30 through the respective cold air outlet holes 22 and 32. By supplying to, the frozen refrigerated food stored therein is freshly stored.

On the other hand, in recent years, the refrigerator is going to a large capacity of the food storage space according to the various needs of the consumer, conventionally, as described above, the freezer compartment 20 and the refrigerating compartment 30 is divided up and down inside one cabinet 10 Since it is formed, there is a limit to increasing the content thereof.

In addition, since the size of the cabinet 10 has to be largely manufactured in order to have a large capacity of the freezing chamber 20 and the refrigerating chamber 30, there is a problem in that transportation and installation thereof are difficult.

The present invention is to solve this problem, the main purpose of the present invention is a separate refrigerator consisting of a cabinet equipped with a freezer compartment and an evaporator for generating cold air and a refrigerator compartment is formed, a part of the cold air generated in the evaporator By installing the duct outside so that the refrigerator compartment is easily guided to the cabinet side is provided, it is to provide a cold air supply device of a separate refrigerator to facilitate its handling and to be arranged up and down or left and right according to the installation space and the user's intention.

And a second object of the present invention is to provide a separate cold refrigerator supply apparatus for smoothing the cold air circulation by installing a separate fan to forcibly suck the cold air generated in the evaporator to supply to the refrigerating chamber inside the cabinet where the refrigerating chamber is formed.

1 is a side sectional view showing the internal structure of a conventional refrigerator.

2 is a partial cutaway perspective view showing the internal structure of the separate refrigerator according to the present invention, showing a state arranged up and down.

Figure 3 is a partial cutaway perspective view showing a state arranged left and right of the removable refrigerator according to the present invention.

* Description of the protection of the main parts of the drawing

100: first cabinet 121: evaporator

150: cold air outlet 160: air inlet

200: second cabinet 220: inflow hole

230: discharge hole 300: guide duct

310: auxiliary fan 400: return duct

The present invention for achieving this object, the first cabinet is formed inside the freezer; An evaporator installed on a rear wall of the first cabinet to generate and supply cold air to a freezing chamber formed in the first cabinet; Claims [1] A refrigerator comprising: a refrigerating compartment having a refrigerating compartment supplied therein with a portion of cold air generated by an evaporator and having a second cabinet detachably installed from the first cabinet;

An inlet hole formed in the rear wall surface of the second cabinet to allow a portion of the cold air generated in the evaporator to flow into the refrigerating chamber, and a discharge hole formed in the rear wall surface of the second cabinet to discharge the heat exchanged air from the refrigerating chamber;

An air inlet formed on the rear wall of the first cabinet in communication with the lower end of the first cabinet so that the air discharged through the outlet hole flows into the lower part of the evaporator, and the rear wall of the first cabinet so that the cold air generated in the evaporator is supplied to the refrigerating chamber through the inlet hole. A cold air outlet formed in communication with the upper end of the evaporator;

A guide duct coupled at one end to communicate with the cold air outlet at the rear wall of the first cabinet and at the other end to communicate with the inlet hole at the rear wall of the second cabinet to guide the cold air discharged through the cold air outlet to the refrigerating chamber;

A fan installed in the inlet hole front side such that a portion of the cold air generated by the evaporator through the guide duct and the inlet hole is forcedly blown to the refrigerating chamber;

One end is coupled in communication with the discharge hole in the rear wall of the second cabinet and the other end is in communication with the air inlet at the rear wall of the first cabinet so that the air supplied to the refrigerating chamber by the fan and the heat exchange action is returned to the lower side of the evaporator. And a return duct.

Hereinafter, one preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Figure 2 is a partial cutaway perspective view schematically showing a separate refrigerator according to the present invention, showing a state arranged up and down.

In the detachable refrigerator according to the present invention, as shown in these, the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 in which the refrigerating chamber 210 are formed are arranged up and down therein. The freezing chamber door 111 and the refrigerating chamber door 211 for opening and closing the freezing chamber 110 and the refrigerating chamber 210 are respectively provided at the front surface of the refrigerator.

The first cabinet 100 formed in a quadrangular enclosure has a large freezing compartment 110 formed therein so as to store frozen food therein, which is divided into the rear wall 101 of the rear wall 101 of the first cabinet 100. A separate cooling chamber 120 is provided. The cooling chamber 120 is equipped with an evaporator 121 for generating cold air, a blowing fan 122 for forcibly blowing the generated cold air into the freezing chamber, and a cooling chamber (behind the freezing chamber 110) to guide the supply of cold air. Communicating with the 120, and the cold air duct 130, the plurality of cold air outlet hole 131 is formed up and down is arranged up front.

Part of the cold air generated by the evaporator 121 is discharged to the rear wall 101 of the first cabinet 100 to the outside, and the air heat exchanged with the cold air outlet 150 for supplying to the second cabinet 200 is returned. Air inlet 160 is formed so as to. The cold air outlet 150 is formed at an upper side of the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 in communication with the cold air duct 130 and the upper end so as to be connected to the upper part of the evaporator 121, and the air inlet 160 is an evaporator. (121) It is in communication with the lower portion is punctured to be spaced apart from the cold air outlet 150.

A machine room 140 is formed below the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100, which includes a compressor 141 for compressing a refrigerant, a condenser 142 and a condenser fan 143 for condensing the compressed refrigerant. This is installed.

In addition, the second cabinet 200 formed in the enclosure is also provided with a refrigerating chamber 210 large to store a lot of refrigerated food, the rear wall surface 201 of the inlet hole 220 through which cold air is introduced and the heat exchanged air The discharge hole 230 exiting the furnace is formed up and down. At this time, the front side of the inlet hole 220 is provided with an auxiliary fan 310 for forcibly sucking the cold air introduced through the guide duct 300 to be described later to blow into the refrigerating chamber 210.

Meanwhile, a guide duct for guiding a part of the cold air generated by the evaporator 121 of the first cabinet 100 into the second cabinet 200 and returning the air having undergone heat exchange to the lower side of the evaporator 121 again ( 300 and the return duct 400 are exposed to the outside and attached and detachable.

The guide duct 300 has a cold air flow path formed therein and extends to a predetermined length, and one end 301 thereof is coupled to communicate with the cold air outlet 150 at the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100. , The other end 302 is coupled to communicate with the inlet hole 220 in the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200. In addition, the return duct 400 having an air flow path formed therein also extends to a predetermined length, and one end portion 401 thereof is coupled to communicate with the discharge hole 230 at the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200. The other end 402 is coupled to communicate with the air inlet 160 on the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100.

Therefore, the cold air is supplied to the refrigerating chamber 210 formed in the second cabinet 200 through the cold air outlet 150, the guide duct 300, and the inlet hole 220. 230 and the return duct 400 and the cold air inlet 160 is returned to the lower part of the evaporator 121 again to be cooled again, which will be described in detail in the operation description.

Cold air is supplied into the second cabinet 200 separated from the first cabinet 100 through the guide duct 300 and the return duct 400, and the guide duct 300 and the return duct 400 are external. Because it is exposed to and attached to and detachable, the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 can also be separated by separating them so that the arrangement structure of the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 Can be changed.

Next will be described the operation of the separate refrigerator according to the present invention configured as described above.

First, when power is applied and the blower fan 122, the auxiliary fan 310, and the compressor 141 operate, the compressed refrigerant is condensed and supplied to the evaporator 121. Accordingly, the air in the freezing chamber 110 is introduced into the lower portion of the cooling chamber 120 by the blowing fan 122 and passes through the evaporator 121 to be cold. Most of the generated cold air is the cold air duct 130. It is supplied to the freezing chamber 110 through the cold air outlet 131 and heat exchanged with the stored food.

On the other hand, part of the cold air is smoothly supplied to the refrigerating chamber 210 of the second cabinet 200 through the cold air outlet 150, the guide duct 300 and the inlet hole 220 by the suction force of the auxiliary fan 310. The heat exchanged with the food stored therein and the heat exchange is completed, the air flows back into the lower part of the evaporator 121 through the discharge hole 230, the return duct 400, and the cold air inlet 160, and passes through the evaporator 121 to be cooled again. do.

Therefore, the cold air generated through one evaporator 121 is appropriately distributed and supplied to the freezing compartment 110 formed in the first cabinet 100 and the refrigerating chamber 210 formed in the second cabinet 200 to store food freshly. do. In this case, since the freezer compartment 110 and the refrigerating compartment 210 are separately formed in the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 so as to store food separately, the contents of the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 may be increased, and the second cabinet may be increased. The cold air circulation of the refrigerating chamber 210 having a large internal volume is smoothly performed by the auxiliary fan 310 installed in the 200.

In addition, the guide duct 300 and the return duct 400 installed to guide the cold air generated in the first cabinet 100 to the second cabinet 200 and return the heat exchanged air to the first cabinet 100 and the first cabinet 100. Since the two cabinets 200 are exposed to the outside to be attached and detachable, they can be disassembled to facilitate their transportation and installation.

In addition, in FIG. 2, the second cabinet 200 in which the refrigerating compartment 210 is formed is disposed on the first cabinet 100 in which the freezing compartment 210 is formed. The return duct 400 and the guide duct 300 are illustrated. After disassembling), according to the user's preference, the second cabinet 200 may be installed below and the first cabinet 100 may be installed thereon.

In addition, when the installation place of the separate refrigerator is narrow and it is difficult to vertically arrange, the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 may be arranged side to side. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, after the second cabinet 200 in which the refrigerating chamber 210 is formed on the side of the first cabinet 100 formed in the freezing chamber 110, the guide duct 300 and the return duct are arranged. When the 400 is installed again, the cold air supply to the refrigerating chamber 210 is smoothly performed, so that they can be easily installed even if the space is narrow.

In this way, the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 can be arranged up and down or left and right, the guide duct 300 and the return duct 400 for guiding the supply and return of cold air to the second cabinet 200 side. This is because the first cabinet 100 and the second cabinet 200 are exposed to the outside and are coupled to and detachable from each other.

As described above in detail, the cold air supply device of the separate refrigerator according to the present invention provides a guide duct for guiding a part of the cold air generated in the first cabinet into the second cabinet and the air that has undergone heat exchange in the second cabinet. A return duct for returning back to the first cabinet is coupled to the outside of the rear wall of the first cabinet and the second cabinet so as to be attached and detached, and a separate fan is installed inside the second cabinet to guide the cold air circulation. It is.

Therefore, the first cabinet and the second cabinet on the enclosure having a large content can be detachably provided to facilitate the transportation and installation thereof, and the refrigerator can be spaced up or down or left and right according to the installation space and user intention. It can be used efficiently. In addition, there is an advantage that the cold air circulation inside the second cabinet is smoothly provided by the fan provided separately.

Claims (1)

A first cabinet 100 having a freezing compartment 110 formed therein; An evaporator 121 installed on the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 to generate and supply cold air to the freezing chamber 110 formed in the first cabinet 100; In the separate refrigerator having a second cabinet (200) formed therein and a refrigerating chamber (210) supplied with a portion of the cold air generated by the evaporator (121) detachably from the first cabinet (100); The inlet hole 220 formed in the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200 and the air heat exchanged in the refrigerating chamber 210 such that a portion of the cold air generated by the evaporator 121 flows into the refrigerating chamber 210. A discharge hole 230 formed in the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200 so as to be discharged; Air inlet 160 formed to communicate with the lower end of the evaporator 121 on the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 so that the air discharged through the discharge hole 230 flows into the lower portion of the evaporator 121. And communicate with the upper end of the evaporator 121 to the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 so that the cold air generated by the evaporator 121 is supplied to the refrigerating chamber 210 through the inlet hole 220. Cold air outlet 150 formed to be; One end 301 is coupled to communicate with the cold air outlet 150 on the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 to guide the cold air discharged through the cold air outlet 150 to the refrigerating chamber 210. And the other end 302 is a guide duct 300 coupled to communicate with the inlet hole 220 in the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200; A fan installed at the front side of the inlet hole 220 such that a portion of the cold air generated by the evaporator 121 is forcedly blown to the refrigerating chamber 210 through the guide duct 300 and the inlet hole 220; One end portion 401 is formed at the rear wall surface 201 of the second cabinet 200 so that air supplied to the refrigerating chamber 210 by the fan 310 and completed the heat exchange operation is returned to the lower side of the evaporator 121. The other end 402 is coupled in communication with the discharge hole 230 and the other end 402 is provided with a return duct 400 coupled to communicate with the air inlet 160 in the rear wall surface 101 of the first cabinet 100 Cold air supply device of a separate refrigerator.