KR20110137426A

KR20110137426A - Refrigerator

Info

Publication number: KR20110137426A
Application number: KR1020100057357A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 황계환
Original assignee: 주식회사 대우일렉트로닉스
Priority date: 2010-06-17
Filing date: 2010-06-17
Publication date: 2011-12-23

Abstract

PURPOSE: A refrigerator equipped with disinfection and sterilization room for sterilizing a container which contains drinking water is provided to enable a user to use a disinfection and sterilization room without the opening of a cold room by separately installing a disinfection and sterilization room in a freezer and a cold room. CONSTITUTION: A refrigerator comprises a disinfection and sterilization room body(21) and a disinfection and sterilization room. The disinfection and sterilization room body is located in a refrigerator body. The disinfection and sterilization room comprise a disinfection and sterilization room door(22). The disinfection and sterilization room door opens and closes the disinfection and sterilization room body.

Description

Refrigerator {REFRIGERATOR}

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator having a sterilization sterilization chamber for sterilizing / disinfecting a container and the like for drinking and drinking water in a predetermined space.

Generally, a refrigerator includes a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment, which are partitioned to store various foods in an optimal state for a long time, and the refrigerator compartment stores refrigerated foods to be stored above freezing temperatures, such as vegetables and fruits, and stores fish and meat in the freezer compartment. Frozen foods to be stored below the freezing temperature are stored.

The refrigerator has a main body in which a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment are formed, respectively, with an intermediate partition interposed therebetween, and a freezer compartment door and a refrigerating compartment door respectively coupled to the front left and right regions of the main body so that the front openings of the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment can be rotated.

The inside of the refrigerator is cooled by continuously supplied cold air, and the cold air is continuously generated by the heat exchange action of the refrigerant repeatedly performing cycles of compression, condensation, expansion, and evaporation. In addition, the cold air supplied into the refrigerator may be evenly transferred to the inside of the refrigerator by convection, so that food stored in the refrigerator may be stored at a desired temperature.

However, users who use such refrigerators have to prepare and use containers stored in other places to drink beverages and drinking water stored in the refrigerating chamber, and these containers are exposed to air and are infected with bacteria. Is likely to be.

Thus, in order to solve the above problems, a separate sterilization chamber for storing the container is provided in the refrigerating chamber, but after opening the refrigerating chamber door and opening the sterilization chamber door again, the container provided in the sterilization chamber and the like. As a result, the same article must be used, resulting in an increase in power loss due to an increase in the temperature inside the refrigerator compartment.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention, having a separate sterilization chamber body and a dedicated sterilization chamber door that can open and close the sterilization chamber body outside the main body of the refrigerator. It is to provide a refrigerator which can be used only in the sterilization chamber without opening the refrigerator compartment.

In order to achieve the above object, a refrigerator according to the present invention comprises a sterilization sterilization chamber body which is separately configured in a refrigerator body for taking out and inserting an article; And a sterilization sterilization chamber having a sterilization sterilization chamber door dedicated to the sterilization chamber body provided to open and close the sterilization chamber body to form a separate sealed space together with the sterilization chamber body.

The sterilization chamber body is characterized in that the sterilization device consisting of a heater device for heating to a high temperature and a sterilization lamp for sterilization through ultraviolet and infrared rays.

The lower part of the sterilization chamber body is provided with a drip tray, the drip tray is connected to the defrost hose installed to drain the defrost water generated in the evaporator, characterized in that configured to discharge the water stored in the evaporation name.

As described above, according to the refrigerator according to the present invention, by using a separate sterilization sterilization chamber separately provided in addition to the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment, it is possible to use only the sterilization sterilization chamber without opening the refrigerating compartment, due to the frequent opening of the refrigerating compartment by the use of the conventional sterilization sterilization chamber. There is an effect that can reduce the power loss generated.

1 is a perspective view showing a refrigerator according to the present invention.
2 is a schematic side cross-sectional view showing a refrigerator according to the present invention.

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

1 is a perspective view showing a refrigerator according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a schematic side cross-sectional view showing a refrigerator according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the refrigerator according to the present invention is rotatably mounted on a front surface of the main body 10 and a main body 10 partitioned into a refrigerating chamber 11 and a freezing chamber 12 by an intermediate partition. The refrigerator compartment door 13 and the freezer compartment door 14 for selectively opening and closing the refrigerating compartment 11 and the freezing compartment 12 are included. In addition, a plurality of shelves 15 and storage boxes 16 are provided in the storage space inside the main body 10.

On the other hand, the back of the refrigerator compartment door 13 and the freezer compartment 14 is provided with a plurality of baskets 17 for storing food, the freezer compartment 12 or the freezer compartment door 14 for producing ice An ice maker (not shown) is mounted.

In addition, the refrigerator according to the present invention is provided with a sterilization sterilization chamber 20, wherein the sterilization sterilization chamber 20 is a sterilization sterilization chamber body 21 for discharging and injecting an article such as a container, and the sterilization sterilization chamber body 21. It is provided to open and close the sterilization chamber body 21 with the sterilization chamber door 22 to form a separate sealed space.

The sterilization chamber 20 configured as described above can store container items such as infant bottles, cups, and bowls in the sterilization chamber body 21, and then sterilize non-inactivated bacteria to prevent bacterial infection of the articles for long-term storage. As a storage place, a sterilization apparatus 23 comprising a heater device for heating the interior of the sterilization chamber body 21 to a high temperature and a sterilization lamp for sterilizing the interior of the sterilization chamber body 21 by ultraviolet rays and infrared rays, etc. It is provided.

The sterilization apparatus 23 may have any configuration as long as it can sterilize the interior of the sterilization chamber body 21 in addition to the heater and the sterilization lamp.

The sterilization chamber 20 may be provided below the refrigerating chamber 11 or may be provided on the freezing chamber 12. However, the sterilization chamber 20 should be accommodated in a container that is easily damaged or damaged. Most preferably, it is located between the refrigerating chamber 11 and the freezing chamber 12.

In addition, the sterilization chamber 20 is provided with a box-shaped drip tray 24 under the sterilization chamber body 21 in which water remaining after washing the article flows out.

The drip tray 24 configured as described above is connected to the drip tray 24, which is connected to a defrost hose 31 installed to drain water in the air, that is, defrost water, generated when the evaporator 30 exchanges and cools the air. The water to be stored is evaporated in the evaporation name 33 provided in the machine room 32 via the defrost hose 31.

The sterilization chamber door 22 is preferably made of a heat insulating material such as the refrigerator compartment door 13 and the freezer compartment door 14 to prevent the cold air of the refrigerating chamber 11 and the freezing chamber 12 from leaking easily. That is, as long as the heat generated from the heater, etc. can be sufficiently insulated from the outside so that only the inside of the sterilization chamber body 21 remains, the material may be made of any material.

However, the sterilization chamber door 22 is preferably made of a transparent window visible inside the sterilization chamber body 21 from the outside in order to check the article contained in the sterilization chamber body 21.

Therefore, in the refrigerator according to the present invention, since the sterilization chamber door 22 is exposed to the outside, the article in the sterilization chamber 20 can be used without opening the refrigerating chamber door 13, so that the cold air in the refrigerating chamber 11 can be preserved as it is. It can be effective. As a result, power loss due to frequent opening of the refrigerating chamber 11 according to the use of the conventional sterilization chamber 20 can be reduced.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Anyone with a variety of modifications can be made, as well as such changes are within the scope of the claims.

20: sterilization chamber 21: the sterilization chamber body
22: sterilization room door 23: sterilizer
24: drip tray 30: drip tray
31 defrost hose 32: machine room
33: evaporation name

Claims

A sterilization chamber body configured separately in the refrigerator body for taking out and inserting the article; And
And a sterilization sterilization chamber having a sterilization sterilization chamber door exclusively provided for opening and closing the sterilization chamber body to form a separate sealed space together with the sterilization chamber body.

The method of claim 1,
The sterilizing apparatus, characterized in that the sterilization device consisting of a sterilization lamp for sterilizing through the ultraviolet and infrared rays heater device for heating to a high temperature inside the sterilization chamber body.

The method of claim 1,
The bottom of the sterilization chamber body is provided with a drip tray, the drip tray is connected to the defrost hose is installed to drain the defrost water generated in the evaporator, characterized in that the refrigerator stored in the interior is configured to discharge the evaporation name.