KR20120039913A

KR20120039913A - A refrigerator

Info

Publication number: KR20120039913A
Application number: KR1020100101363A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김효수
Original assignee: 주식회사 대우일렉트로닉스
Priority date: 2010-10-18
Filing date: 2010-10-18
Publication date: 2012-04-26

Abstract

PURPOSE: A refrigerator is provided to prevent food smell from flowing from a storage room, or cold air loss caused that internal cold air is discharged to the outside when a refrigerator door opens. CONSTITUTION: A refrigerator comprises a body box(100) and a home bar door. The body box is installed in the inner side surface of a refrigerator door for opening and closing a storage room of a refrigerator body. The home bar door is penetrated through the front of the refrigerator door and opens and closes the body box. The storage room of the refrigerator body comprises a cold air outlet, a cold air inlet(101), and a cold discharge opening(102). Cold air is directly supplied to the body box through the cold air outlet. The cold air inlet is corresponded to the cold air outlet. The cold air flowed from the cold air inlet is discharged to the storage room through the cold air discharge opening.

Description

Refrigerator {A REFRIGERATOR}

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator capable of preventing the cool air inside the home bar from leaking to the outside when the refrigerator door is opened or closed.

In general, a refrigerator is a device that keeps food fresh for a certain period of time by lowering the temperature inside the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment as the refrigerant is repeatedly compressed, condensed, expanded, and evaporated.

The refrigerator includes a refrigerator main body provided with a freezer compartment and a refrigerating compartment to store food in a low temperature state, and a refrigerator door that opens and closes the front of the refrigerator main body so as to be opened and closed.

In addition, certain refrigerators are provided with a home bar so that beverages or other items can be easily put in and taken out without opening the refrigerator door.

Hereinafter, a refrigerator home bar according to the related art will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

As shown, the refrigerator home bar 10 according to the prior art is disposed inside the refrigerator door 2 to penetrate the front of the main body box 11 and the refrigerator door 2 to accommodate drinks or other items, etc. It consists of a groove bar door 12 to control the main body box 11 to be opened and closed, and a rear door 13 disposed behind the main body box 11 and forming a predetermined cold air flow hole 13a.

Therefore, when the user wants to withdraw beverages or other items stored in the main body box 11, the user pulls the home bar door 12 forward without opening the refrigerator door 2 or pulls the refrigerator door forward. After opening (2), the rear door 13 is rotated and pulled out.

However, since the refrigerator home bar 10 according to the related art has a structure in which the cold air flow holes 13a formed in the rear door 13 are always open, the main body box 11 is opened every time the refrigerator door 2 is opened and closed. Not only caused cold air loss due to leakage of cold air in the outside), but also caused the food smell stored in the storage compartment of the refrigerator to double the food smell with respect to the storage items in the main body box 11 through the cold air distribution hole 13a. There was this.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator that can prevent the cool air inside the home bar to leak out when opening and closing the refrigerator door.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator which can fundamentally prevent the storage goods stored in the home bar from becoming edible from other food smells.

In order to achieve the above object, the refrigerator according to the present invention comprises a main body box installed on the inner side of the refrigerator door for opening and closing the storage compartment of the refrigerator main body; And a home bar door penetrating the front surface of the refrigerator door to open and close the main body box, wherein a cold air outlet for directly supplying cold air to the main body box is formed in a storage compartment of the main body box; And a corresponding cold air inlet and a cold air outlet for discharging the cold air introduced into the cold air inlet into the storage compartment.

In addition, the cold air inlet and the cold air outlet is characterized in that the valve is formed respectively.

In addition, the cold air discharge port is characterized in that the discharge projection for coupling to push the valve when the refrigerator door is closed is coupled.

The discharging protrusion may have a structure in which the width gradually decreases from the cold air discharge port toward the cold air inlet.

On the other hand, the main body box is coupled to the pocket portion of the refrigerator door or characterized in that it is manufactured in a structure including the pocket portion.

In addition, the inner wall surface of the cold air outlet is characterized in that the inclined holding protrusions are formed so that the opening and closing action in the inclined state of the valve.

According to the present invention, the main body box has a structure in which the inside of the space for accommodating beverages or other items is completely sealed, so that the smell of food is introduced from the storage compartment or the cold air is leaked to the outside when the refrigerator door is opened. This can be prevented, the cold air is directly supplied into the main body box has the effect of maintaining the storage state of the beverage or other items in a fresh state.

1 is a cross-sectional view showing a refrigerator home bar according to the prior art.
2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of a refrigerator and a home bar according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a side cross-sectional view of the refrigerator door of FIG. 2.
4 is a cross-sectional view of the main body box of FIG.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a discharge protrusion part coupled to the cold air discharge port of FIG. 2.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying Figures 2 to 5 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The refrigerator according to the present invention includes a main body box 100 installed on the inner side of the refrigerator door 2 for opening and closing a storage compartment of the refrigerator main body 1, and a main body box 100 passing through the front surface of the refrigerator door 2. It is configured to include a home bar door 200 to open and close).

First, the main body box 100 is a storage space for storing and storing beverages or other items, and extends the open space of the pocket portion 2a formed on the inner side of the refrigerator door 2 to a predetermined height. It is made of a sealing structure.

In addition, the main body box 100 may be installed in the refrigerator door 2 by manufacturing the structure including the pocket part 2a regardless of the structure coupled to the pocket part 2a of the refrigerator door 2. Of course.

Since the main body box 100 is made of a completely sealed structure, food smells stored in the storage compartment of the refrigerator main body 1 may be prevented from flowing or cold air from flowing out to the outside when the refrigerator door 2 is opened. Can be.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 2, a separate cold air outlet 1a is formed in the storage compartment of the refrigerator body 1 to directly supply the cold air to the body box 100, and as shown in FIG. 3. The main body box 100 further includes a cold air inlet 101 corresponding to the cold air outlet 1a, and a cold air outlet 102 for discharging the cold air introduced from the cold air inlet 101 to the storage compartment.

That is, a part of the cold air supplied to the storage compartment of the refrigerator main body 1 flows to the cold air outlet 1a and is discharged to the cold air inlet 101 of the main body box 100, and is discharged to the cold air inlet 101. The cold air is repeatedly discharged to the storage room through the cold air outlet 102 and then repeatedly supplied to the cold air supply process.

In addition, as illustrated in FIG. 4, the valve 103 is formed at each of the cold air inlet 101 and the cold air outlet 102 of the main body box 100.

This is to prevent cold air from being lost to the outside through the cold air inlet 101 and the cold air outlet 102 when the refrigerator door 2 is opened.

In this case, the valve 103 may be opened by elastic rotation by a predetermined cold air discharge pressure, and may be connected to a structure that can be elastically restored again when the discharge pressure is released.

In particular, it is preferable to form the inclined maintenance protrusion 104 on the inner wall surface of the cold air outlet 102 so that the valve 103 can be opened and closed in an inclined state.

That is, the valve 103 of the cold air outlet 102 in the state in which the refrigerator door 2 is closed is opened by the pressure of cold air supplied from the cold air inlet 101, and the refrigerator door 2 is opened. When the supply of cold air is blocked, it is naturally closed by its own weight, thereby preventing external air from entering.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, it is preferable to additionally couple the discharge protrusions 300 to the cold air discharge ports 1a to further improve the discharge pressure of cold air so as to more stably supply cold air.

That is, when the refrigerator door 2 is closed, the ejection protrusion 300 naturally pushes and opens the valve 103 blocking the cold air inlet 101, thereby losing the cold air supplied into the main body box 100. Faster and safer supply.

The discharge protrusion 300 has a conical structure protruding from the cold air outlet 1a toward the cold air inlet 101 so that the width of the hollow inner diameter gradually narrows.

On the other hand, the home bar door (200) is hinged to the refrigerator door (2) is rotated in the vertical direction, when you want to take out drinks or other items stored in the body box 100, the refrigerator door (2) It provides a function that can be easily taken out by opening the home bar door 200 without opening.

Since the specific configuration of the home bar door 200 is the same as or similar to the home bar door applied in the conventional refrigerator art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

As described above, according to the present invention, the main body box 100 has a structure in which a space for accommodating beverages or other items is completely sealed, so that the smell of food is introduced from the storage compartment or when the refrigerator door 2 is opened. The cold air can be prevented from leaking to the outside to prevent the loss of cold air, and the cold air is directly supplied into the main body box 100 to maintain the storage state of beverages or other items in a fresh state.

1: refrigerator body
1a: cold air outlet
2: refrigerator door
100: main body box
101: cold air inlet
102: cold air outlet
103: valve
104: slope holding protrusion
200: home bar door
300: ejection protrusion

Claims

A main body box installed on an inner side of a refrigerator door for opening and closing a storage compartment of a refrigerator main body; And,
It includes a home bar door penetrating the front of the refrigerator door to open and close the body box,
A cold air outlet for supplying cold air directly to the main body box is formed in the storage compartment of the refrigerator main body, and a cold air inlet corresponding to the cold air outlet is provided in the main body box, and a cold air outlet for discharging cold air introduced into the cold air inlet into the storage compartment. Refrigerator, characterized in that further comprises.

The method of claim 1,
Refrigerator, characterized in that the valve is formed in the cold air inlet and the cold air outlet respectively.

The method according to claim 1 or 2,
And a discharge protrusion configured to push and open the valve when the refrigerator door is closed.

The method of claim 3,
And the discharge protrusion has a structure in which the width gradually decreases from the cold air discharge port toward the cold air inlet port.

The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The main body box is a refrigerator characterized in that the structure is coupled to the pocket portion of the refrigerator door or including the pocket portion.

The method of claim 2,
And an inclined holding protrusion formed on an inner wall surface of the cold air outlet so that the valve can be opened and closed in an inclined state.