KR20060068777A - A water-supply construction for refrigerators - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator water supply structure, wherein a first solenoid valve (12) is provided in a machine room to selectively allow water supply from an external water supply source (11), and the water supplied through the first solenoid valve is supplied to the refrigerator compartment. The third solenoid valve is purified through a filter 13 provided at the upper side and then to the outlet side of the bucket 18 provided adjacent to the inner wall of the automatic ice maker 16 and the refrigerating chamber 17 by the second solenoid valve 15. (19) is mounted and configured to supply water to the dispenser 20, so that the water supply to the dispenser and ice maker can be installed in spite of the limited space of the machine room in the refrigerator of smaller capacity, so that the dispenser and the ice maker can be installed. It is possible to achieve a high-quality refrigerator of a small capacity, there is an effect to improve the user's ease of use.

Refrigerator water structure

Description

Water structure for refrigerators {A WATER-SUPPLY CONSTRUCTION FOR REFRIGERATORS}

       1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a water supply structure of a conventional refrigerator.

       Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing an improved water supply structure for a refrigerator according to the present invention.

       Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

         10: machine room 11: water source

         12: first solenoid valve 13 filter

         15 second solenoid valve 16 automatic ice maker

         17: refrigerator 18: bucket

19: third solenoid valve 20: dispenser

The present invention relates to a water supply structure for a refrigerator, and in particular, since a valve must be provided in a machine room for supplying water to a dispenser and an ice maker, a dispenser used only in a large refrigerator can be employed in a refrigerator having a smaller capacity. The present invention relates to a refrigerator water supply structure that is improved to overcome space constraints.

Generally, refrigerators are used to store foods at a constant low temperature condition, but various functions are required due to improvement of living environment, and thus high-end refrigerators can be used to supply cooled beverages using cold air generated from the refrigerators. There is provided a dispenser and automatic ice maker for beverage supply.

In the refrigerator having such a dispenser and an automatic ice maker, as shown in the water supply diagram schematically illustrated in FIG. 1, water supplied from an external water supply source is a filter provided to the refrigerator compartment by a first valve 1 installed in a refrigerator machine room. The water purified by 2) is so configured that the purified water is supplied to the dispenser 4 and the automatic ice maker 5 through the second valve 3 of the machine room.

However, in the conventional refrigerator having the water supply structure as described above, since the first and second valves must be provided in the machine room, it is difficult to construct the dispenser and the automatic ice maker due to the space structure of the narrow machine room in the medium-sized refrigerator. The problem is that it is very difficult to use dispensers and automatic ice makers in large refrigerators with relatively large machine room space for two valves.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to reduce the space occupied by the machine room so as to solve the problem that the dispenser and the automatic ice maker can be adopted only in a large refrigerator under the constraint of the machine room space of the conventional refrigerator, so that the dispenser and the ice maker can be used in the medium size refrigerator. It is to provide an improved refrigerator water supply structure to enable water supply.

The refrigerator water supply structure of the present invention for achieving the above object is to be selectively supplied to the ice maker and the dispenser through a valve provided in the refrigerator machine room from the external water supply source, to selectively allow water supply from the external water supply source A first solenoid valve is provided to the machine room so that the water supplied through the first solenoid valve is purified through a filter provided in the upper part of the refrigerating chamber and then provided by the second solenoid valve adjacent to the inner wall of the automatic ice maker and the refrigerating compartment. The third solenoid valve is mounted on the outlet side of the configured to be configured to supply water to the dispenser.

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

2 schematically shows a configuration of an improved water supply structure according to the present invention. In the drawing, a left side shows a side structure of a refrigerator, and a right side shows a front structure of a refrigerator together with a water supply structure of a machine room and a refrigerator compartment of the refrigerator. Shows.                     

According to the present invention, the refrigerator machine room 10 is provided with a first solenoid valve 12 to selectively allow water supply from an external water supply source 11, wherein the water supplied through the first solenoid valve is the upper portion of the refrigerating compartment. The third solenoid valve (10) is purified through a filter (13) provided in the air outlet (16) on the outlet side of the water tank (18) provided adjacent to the inner wall of the automatic ice maker (16) and the refrigerating chamber (17) by the second solenoid valve (15). 19) is mounted to selectively feed the dispenser (20).

Although not shown in the drawing, the second solenoid valve 15 starts operation of the ice maker 16 or the dispenser 20 by a microprocessor and simultaneously opens the corresponding pipe to supply water according to the use of the ice maker or the dispenser. On the other hand, the third solenoid 19 is opened to operate the switch 21 provided in the dispenser to supply the beverage cooled by the cold air in the refrigerating compartment.

It is preferable that the first solenoid valve is always open, and it is preferable to shut off the water supply from the external water supply source for safety only when it is detected that an abnormality of the ice maker or the dispenser occurs.

In this way, in order to block or open water from an external water supply source, only the first solenoid valve is installed in the machine room, and the distribution valve installation method of installing the second and third solenoid valves in a position adjacent to the filter 13 and the dispenser 20. By adopting the water supply to the dispenser and the ice maker in a refrigerator having a smaller machine room space, which is relatively small, it is possible to provide convenience that the user can satisfy in a medium-sized refrigerator even for a user who does not need a large refrigerator. .

According to the present invention, the valves for selective water supply to the ice maker and the dispenser are distributed not only in the machine room of the limited space but also in positions adjacent to the filter and the bucket of the refrigerating compartment, respectively, despite the limitation of the limited machine room space in the refrigerator having a smaller capacity. The water supply to the dispenser and the ice maker is possible, so that the dispenser and the ice maker can be installed, thereby making it possible to achieve higher quality of the refrigerator having a smaller capacity and to improve the user's ease of use.

Claims (1)

In a refrigerator water supply structure in which selective water supply to an ice maker and a dispenser is made through a valve provided to the refrigerator machine room 10 from an external water supply source, a first solenoid to selectively allow water supply from an external water supply source 11. The valve 12 is provided in the machine room, and the water supplied through the first solenoid valve is purified through the filter 13 provided at the top of the refrigerating chamber and then by the automatic ice maker 16 and the refrigerating chamber by the second solenoid valve 15. A water supply structure for a refrigerator, characterized in that the third solenoid valve (19) is mounted on the outlet side of the bucket (18) provided adjacent to the inner wall of the (17) to supply water to the dispenser (20).

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