KR20100008104A - A vegetable box for refrigerator and refrigerator having the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A vegetable box for a refrigerator and the refrigerator with the same are provided to improve coupling structure with a cool air cover by making drawing out of the cold air cover open from a drawer body smooth. CONSTITUTION: A vegetable box for a refrigerator comprises a drawer main body(51), a cool air cover(55), a stopper, a deformation auxiliary unit(80). An accommodation space is formed in the drawer main body. The accommodation space is covered with the cool air cover. The drawer main body is connected with the cool air cover. The stopper is elastically transformed in order to clinch the drawer main body and cool air cover. The deformation auxiliary unit supports the elastic deformation of the stopper.

Description

A Vegetable Box for Refrigerator and Refrigerator having the same}

The present invention relates to a vegetable box, and more particularly, to a refrigerator vegetable box and a refrigerator having the improved structure of the fixing structure between the drawer body and the cold air cover covering the opened portion of the drawer body.

Generally, a refrigerator is divided into a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment to store and store food. The refrigerating chamber is kept at approximately 3-4 ° C. to keep food fresh and stored for a long time, while the freezer is kept at sub-zero temperature to keep food frozen.

Recently, various types of products have been released for a variety of purposes, such as Kimchi refrigerator. Kimchi refrigerator is a refrigerator made for the purpose of storing Kimchi, and keeps the internal storage space at 0 ~ 5 ℃ to allow the ripening and storage of Kimchi.

Recently, the Kimchi refrigerator is configured to allow independent temperature control of each storage space formed therein, so it can store not only kimchi but also various foods such as vegetables, fruits, and meat.

Such a kimchi refrigerator has a drawer-type kimchi refrigerator in which food is stored while the drawer-shaped door is drawn out / retracted from the front of the storage space, and a lid type (or lid) including a lid to allow food to enter and exit into the storage space opened upward. Upper opening and closing type) Kimchi refrigerator, and the combined kimchi refrigerator can be classified into the drawer type and lid type.

1 is a side view showing a structure of a general drawer type kimchi refrigerator, the kimchi refrigerator has a plurality of storage spaces 120 are formed inside the main body 110 forming the appearance.

The storage space 120 is recessed inwardly of the main body 110 and is formed in a shape of being opened forward, and the drawer door 130 is installed to be pulled out at the front surface of the opening.

A door handle 131 is provided on the front upper portion of the drawer door 130. The door handle 131 is to be gripped by the user during sliding operation of the drawer door 130 and protrudes forward.

And the rail 140 is mounted on both sides of the rear of the drawer door 130. The pair of rails 140 extends from the rear of the drawer door 130 to support the drawer door 130 and at the same time assist the mounting of the vegetable box 150 to be described below. It is inserted into the storage space 120 of the main body 110.

The main body 120 may be provided with a guide rail 141 for guiding the sliding of the rail 140, if necessary, the rail 140 itself of the drawer door 130 in place of the guide rail. It may also be configured to guide the sliding.

In this configuration, the drawer door 130 is selectively installed to open and close the opened front surface of the storage space 120 while being retractable from the main body 120.

On the other hand, the vegetable box 150 is mounted between the pair of rails 140. As shown in FIG. 2, the vegetable box 150 is formed in a size that can occupy most of the interior of the storage space 120 and is formed in a box shape having an upper side opened. The vegetable box 150 may be a storage container 160 for receiving food, including kimchi.

And the upper portion of the vegetable box 150, as shown in Figure 2 is a cold air cover 155 to shield and seal the open upper surface of the vegetable box 150 is located. The cold air cover 155 is formed in a shape corresponding to the shape of the open upper surface of the vegetable box 150, the vegetable box (sliding along the cover rail 152 formed in the upper edge region of the vegetable box 150) 150) to open and close.

One side of the cover rail 152 formed on the vegetable box 150, and one side of the cold air cover 155, the fixing means including a projection to fix the position when the cold air cover 155 sealed the vegetable box 150 Is provided.

By the way, the vegetable box and the cold air cover is easy to shift the combination of stone period in the plastic injection molding process or the process used by the user. Therefore, when food is put in the vegetable box, the cold air cover may not be opened well, which may cause a problem of opening the cold air cover with excessive force.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator vegetable box having an improved coupling structure between the cold air cover and the vegetable box so that the cold air cover can be smoothly opened or closed from the vegetable box.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a drawer body formed with a receiving space; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer body and the cold air cover; And it provides a vegetable box for a refrigerator including a deformation aid to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper.

The stopper may include a protrusion formed on the cold air cover and a contact portion formed on the drawer body to contact the protrusion.

The protrusion may have an upper convex shape, the contact portion may have a lower convex shape, and the upper portion of the protrusion and the lower portion of the contact portion may contact each other.

The contact part may move inward when the protrusion part and the contact part contact each other, and the contact part may elastically return when the protrusion part and the contact part are spaced apart from each other.

The drawer body may further include a sliding rail on which the cold air cover slides, and the protrusion may be formed on the sliding rail.

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

In order to achieve the above object, a drawer body formed with a receiving space and a sliding rail in another form of the present invention; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the sliding rail and covering the accommodation space; A protrusion formed on the cold air cover; A contact part formed on the sliding rail and elastically deformed and coupled to the protrusion part; And it is formed on at least one side of the contact portion provides a vegetable box for a refrigerator including a cutting groove for assisting the elastic deformation of the contact portion.

To achieve the above purpose. Another embodiment of the present invention a refrigerator main body equipped with a drawer door drawable; A drawer body detachable from the drawer door and having a receiving space therein; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the drawer main body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer body and the cold air cover; And it provides a vegetable box for a refrigerator comprising a cutting groove formed on at least one side of the drawer body to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper.

Effects of the vegetable box for a refrigerator according to the present invention described above are as follows.

First, it is possible to improve the fixing structure of the cold air cover and the vegetable box so that the cold air cover can be opened or closed smoothly from the drawer body by a simple structure improvement.

Second, even if the vegetable box contains a lot of food, the user can easily open and close the cold air cover without a great deal of effort.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention that can specifically realize the above object will be described.

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

As shown in FIG. 3, the kimchi refrigerator 1 of the present embodiment includes a main body 10 in which a plurality of storage spaces 20 are formed, a plurality of drawer doors 30 that open and close the storage space 20, and a drawer. It may be made including a vegetable box 50 mounted to the door 30.

The main body 10 may be formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the main body 10 may have a plurality of storage spaces 20 divided up and down. In the present embodiment, three storage spaces 20 are formed, but are not limited thereto.

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

The drawer door 30 is mounted to be slidable forward and backward. For this purpose, the drawer door 30 is supported toward the inside of the main body 10 while supporting the drawer door 30 on both sides of the rear side of the drawer door 30. A rail 40 is provided to allow the 30 to slide.

And the main body 10 is provided with a rail guide (not shown) for sliding the rail 40 is configured to guide the sliding of the drawer door 30.

The rear of the drawer door 30 is equipped with a vegetable box (50). More specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, in the open state of the drawer door 30, the vegetable box 50 is mounted on rails 40 on both sides coupled to the rear of the drawer door 30. Therefore, the vegetable box 50 is mounted to the rail 40 in a manner that overlaps from the top toward the rail 40 from below.

A mounting portion 53 may be provided in the upper region of the vegetable box 50 so that the vegetable box 50 may be easily mounted on the rail 40. The mounting portion 53 includes a stepped protrusion 53a formed to protrude from the side surface of the vegetable box 50 to correspond to the upper region of the rail 40 described above, and the stepped protrusion 53a is provided on the rail 40. Grooves can be formed. In this embodiment, the holder 53 is formed long on both sides along the horizontal direction of the vegetable box (50).

The vegetable box 50 may be accommodated in a plurality of storage containers 60 as shown in FIG. The storage container 60 is for accommodating food, including kimchi, the upper side is formed as a normal and a plurality of fastening ribs (not shown) protruding laterally formed on the upper side of the outer side.

And the opened upper surface of the storage container 60 is shielded by the container cover (61). The container cover 61 is for sealing the storage container 60, and consists of a container body 63 and a container cover 61 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

The storage container 60 may be seated in 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, only one seated. .

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 4, the vegetable box 50 includes a drawer body 51 having a receiving space, a cold air cover 55 slidingly coupled with the drawer body 51, and covering the receiving space, and elasticity. Deformed and may be composed of a stopper 70 for fixing the drawer body 51 and the cold air cover 55, and a deformation aiding portion 80 to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper 70.

As shown in FIG. 5, sliding rails 52 in which the cold air cover 55 slides are formed at both side edges of the drawer body 51, and the sliding rails 52 are bent in the cold air cover 55. The side part is slidably inserted. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 6, the cold air cover 55 may slide along the sliding rail 52 to open and close the receiving space of the drawer body 51.

As shown in (b) of FIG. 6, when the cold air cover 55 closes the opening of the drawer body 51, the stopper 70 may freely detach the cold air cover 55 from the drawer body 51. It serves to fix the drawer body 51 and the cold air cover (55) to prevent.

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

The protrusion part 71 may be provided to protrude on the inside of the bent side of the cold air cover 55, and may have a convex shape. And the contact portion 73 is formed on the sliding rail 52 of the drawer body 51, the lower portion may be disposed on the outside of the sliding rail 52 in a concave shape (see Figs. 6 and 7).

The upper portion of the protrusion 71 is preferably located higher than the lower portion of the contact portion 73. Therefore, the protrusions 71 and the contact portion 73 can be fixed to each other while elastically deformed when in contact with each other.

On the other hand, it is preferable that at least one of the drawer body 51 and the cold air cover 55 in which the above-mentioned stopper 70 is formed is made of a material which is easily elastically deformed.

In the present embodiment, the drawer body 51 in which the contact portion 73 is formed is made of a plastic material which is relatively large in elasticity and easily deformed. Therefore, the cold air cover 55 shown in (a) of FIG. 6 is moved to the left as shown by the arrow, and slides to a position covering the opening of the drawer body 51 as shown in (b) of FIG. When the contact portion 73 of the drawer body 51 which is in contact with the protrusion 71 of the cold air cover 55 is elastically deformed in the initial shape, the convex shape of the protrusion 71 and the concave shape of the contact portion 73 occlusion ( (B) of FIG. 7).

The deformation assisting part 80 serves to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper 70. The deformable auxiliary part 80 may be an incision groove formed on at least one side of the contact part 73.

In the present embodiment, the deformation assisting part 80 includes a pair of cutout grooves formed at both sides of the contact part 73. The cutting groove may have a shape in which the upper portion is opened to be recessed to a predetermined depth from the upper portion to the lower portion of the sliding rail 52. The deformable auxiliary part 80 allows the contact part 73 to secure a space for elastic deformation in the left and right directions in the drawing to facilitate elastic deformation of the deformable auxiliary part 80, that is, the contact part 73.

Therefore, when the user moves the cold air cover 55 to close the opening of the drawer body 51, the protrusion 71 of the cold air cover 55 approaches the contact portion 73 of the drawer body 51 while the contact portion 73 is closed. ) Is elastically deformed in the left and right directions, and thus the contact portion 73 is easily coupled with the protrusion 71 to prevent the cold air cover 55 and the drawer body 51 from being separated.

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

In addition, even if the vegetable box contains a lot of food, the user can easily open and close the cold air cover without a great deal of effort

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the drawings, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

In the present embodiment has been described that the vegetable box is provided in the kimchi refrigerator, the vegetable box of the present invention is not limited to the kimchi refrigerator may be provided in various kinds of refrigerators.

The shape of the incision groove and the distance from the contact portion 73 described in this embodiment will be deformable at the level of those skilled in the art.

As such, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be modified by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and such modifications will fall within the scope of the present invention.

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

2 is a perspective view of main parts of FIG. 1;

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

4 is a perspective view of main parts of FIG. 3;

Figure 5 is a side view of the vegetable box of Figure 3 separated.

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

7 is a schematic front sectional view of the stopper region of FIG. 6;

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

 1: kimchi refrigerator 10: main body

20: storage space 30: drawer door

31 door handle 40 rail

50: vegetable box 51: drawer body

52: sliding rail 53: mounting portion

53a: step 55: cold air cover

60: storage container 70: stopper

71: projection 73: contact portion

80: deformation aid (incision groove)

Claims (8)

Drawer body formed with a receiving space; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the drawer body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer body and the cold air cover; And Vegetable box for a refrigerator comprising a deformation assistance portion to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper. The method of claim 1, The stopper is, A protrusion formed on the cold air cover; The vegetable box for a refrigerator, characterized in that formed in the drawer body and comprises a contact portion in contact with the protrusion. The method of claim 2, The protrusion is a convex shape of the upper portion and the contact portion is a convex shape of the lower portion, the vegetable box for a refrigerator, characterized in that the upper portion and the lower portion of the contact portion is in contact with each other. The method of claim 3, The contact portion moves inward when the protrusion portion and the contact portion come into contact with each other, The vegetable box for a refrigerator, wherein the contact part is elastically returned when the protrusion part and the contact part are spaced apart. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 4, The drawer body further includes a sliding rail for sliding the cold air cover, The protrusion is a vegetable box for a refrigerator, characterized in that formed on the sliding rail. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, The strain assisting part is a vegetable box for a refrigerator, characterized in that the cut groove formed on at least one side of the contact portion. Drawer body formed with a receiving space and a sliding rail; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the sliding rail and covering the accommodation space; A protrusion formed on the cold air cover; A contact part formed on the sliding rail and elastically deformed and coupled to the protrusion part; And The vegetable box for a refrigerator, which is formed on at least one side of the contact portion and includes an incision groove to assist the elastic deformation of the contact portion. A refrigerator body to which a drawer drawer door is mounted; A drawer body detachable from the drawer door and having a receiving space therein; A cold air cover slidably coupled to the drawer main body and covering the accommodation space; A stopper elastically deformed to fix the drawer body and the cold air cover; And A vegetable box for a refrigerator comprising a cutout groove formed in at least one side of the drawer body to assist the elastic deformation of the stopper.

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