KR20140049119A

KR20140049119A - Refrigerator

Info

Publication number: KR20140049119A
Application number: KR1020120113512A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김도현; 박원구; 표영주; 문정원
Original assignee: 동부대우전자 주식회사
Priority date: 2012-10-12
Filing date: 2012-10-12
Publication date: 2014-04-25

Abstract

The present invention discloses a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator body partitioned into a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment; A refrigerator door for opening and closing the refrigerating compartment; And a vegetable compartment coupled to an inner wall of the refrigerator door, wherein the vegetable compartment is withdrawn from the refrigerating compartment by the opening of the refrigerator door, and drawn into the refrigerating compartment by the closing of the refrigerator door.

Description

Refrigerator {REFRIGERATOR}

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a refrigerator for refrigerating and freezing food by using a heat exchange action of a refrigerant by a cooling cycle.

In general, a refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having storage spaces such as a freezer compartment, a refrigerator compartment, and a vegetable compartment, a refrigerating cycle apparatus provided inside the refrigerator body to maintain the storage spaces at a set temperature, and mounted at one side of the refrigerator body to open and close the storage space. It includes a door.

The inside of the refrigerating compartment has a different temperature for each location, and stores the refrigerated food at an appropriate location according to the type of the refrigerated food. In general, since the temperature at the top of the refrigerating compartment is the lowest and the temperature increases slightly downward, the fruits, vegetables, and the like, which require sufficient freshness, are stored in the vegetable compartment provided separately under the refrigerating compartment.

By the way, since the vegetable box provided in the conventional vegetable room is taken in and out by the slide method, it was inconvenient to take out the fruits, vegetables, etc. which were stored deep inside the vegetable box.

Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-0544154 (2006.01.11)

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator which can easily take out food from the vegetable room.

In order to achieve the above object, a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention, the refrigerator body partitioned into a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment; A refrigerator door for opening and closing the refrigerating compartment; And a vegetable compartment coupled to an inner wall of the refrigerator door, wherein the vegetable compartment is withdrawn from the refrigerating compartment by the opening of the refrigerator door, and drawn into the refrigerating compartment by the closing of the refrigerator door.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the vegetable compartment has a box shape, one side of which is coupled to the inner wall of the refrigerator door, the other side facing the one side is formed with a first opening for storing food; And a gasket coupled to an edge of the other side of the main body, wherein the gasket may seal between the other side of the main body and a wall of the refrigerating chamber when the vegetable chamber is introduced into the refrigerating chamber.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the other side of the main body is bent upward by a predetermined height from the bottom surface of the main body, the first opening may be formed between the upper end of the other side and the upper surface of the main body.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a second opening for storing food is formed on an upper surface of the main body, and the vegetable compartment may further include a door that opens and closes the second opening.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the refrigerator door is hinged to one side of the front side of the refrigerator compartment, and the vegetable compartment may move along a curved path around the hinge axis by rotating the refrigerator door about a hinge axis. have.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a sealing member may be installed in any one of the second opening and the door.

According to this invention, the food stored deeply in the inside of a vegetable compartment can be easily taken out.

The drawings described below are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
1 is a side cross-sectional view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view showing a moving path of the vegetable compartment according to opening and closing of the refrigerator door.
3 is a cross-sectional view of the vegetable chamber taken along line AA ′ of FIG. 2.
4 is a front view of the vegetable compartment in the direction of looking toward the inner wall of the refrigerator door.

Hereinafter, a refrigerator according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in adding reference numerals to constituent elements of each drawing, it should be noted that the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

(Example)

1 is a side cross-sectional view of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a refrigerator 10 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a refrigerator main body 100 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape with an open front surface. The internal space of the refrigerator main body 100 may be divided into a freezing compartment (not shown) and a refrigerating compartment 110 by a vertical partition wall (not shown). In the refrigerating chamber 110, a plurality of shelves 112 for storing food are spaced apart in the vertical direction.

An open front of the refrigerator body 100 is coupled to a refrigerator door 200 for opening and closing a freezer compartment (not shown) and the refrigerating compartment 110, and a cold air duct 300 at a position spaced inward from a rear side of the refrigerator body 100. ) Are combined. The cold air duct 300 is provided in a plate shape having a size corresponding to the rear surface of the refrigerator body 100. An evaporator 400, a blowing fan 500, and a defrost heater 600 are disposed between the cold air duct 300 and the rear surface of the refrigerator main body 100.

The evaporator 400 generates cold air by cooling the ambient air by vaporization of the refrigerant. The blowing fan 500 blows cold air generated by the evaporator 400 toward the refrigerating chamber 110. The defrost heater 600 supplies heat to the evaporator 400 to dissolve and remove frost formed on the evaporator 400. The defrost heater 600 is operated in the stop mode of the evaporator 400 and the blowing fan 500.

The cold air duct 300 is formed with a plurality of cold air outlets 320. The cold air outlets 320 may be formed to be spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction of the cold air duct 300. The cold air blown by the blowing fan 500 flows up and down along the longitudinal direction of the cold air duct 300 and is discharged to the refrigerating chamber 110 through the cold air discharge ports 320.

2 is a view showing a moving path of the vegetable compartment according to opening and closing of the refrigerator door. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the vegetable chamber along the line AA ′ of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a front view of the vegetable chamber in a direction looking toward the inner wall of the refrigerator door.

1 and 2 to 4, the vegetable chamber 700 is coupled to the lower end of the inner wall of the refrigerator door 200. The vegetable chamber 700 is withdrawn from the refrigerating chamber 110 by the opening of the refrigerator door 200, and is drawn into the refrigerating chamber 110 by the closing of the refrigerator door 200.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the refrigerator door 200 is hinged to the front surface of the refrigerating compartment 110 and opens and closes the refrigerating compartment 110 by rotating about the hinge axis. In this case, the vegetable chamber 700 is also moved along the curved path around the hinge axis, and is introduced into or retracted from the refrigerating chamber 110.

The vegetable chamber 700 includes a main body 720, a door 740, and a gasket 760.

The main body 720 may have, for example, a rectangular box shape. One side 722 of the main body 720 is coupled to the inner wall of the refrigerator door 200, the other side 724 of the main body 720 facing the one side 722 of the main body 720 to accommodate food storage. First openings 725 are formed. The other side surface 724 of the main body 720 is bent upward from the bottom surface of the main body 720 by a predetermined height, so that the first opening portion between the upper end of the other side surface 724 and the upper surface 726 of the main body 720. 725 may be formed.

In addition, a second opening 727 may be formed in the upper surface 726 of the main body 720 for storing food, and the second opening 727 may be opened and closed by the door 740. In addition, a sealing member may be installed in any one of the second opening 727 and the door 740.

The gasket 760 may have a generally rectangular ring shape and is coupled to the edge of the other side 724 of the body 720. The gasket 760 seals between the other side 724 of the main body 720 and the wall of the refrigerator compartment 110 facing the vegetable chamber 700 when the vegetable chamber 700 is introduced into the refrigerator compartment 110. In this embodiment, the case in which the gasket 760 is provided in the main body 720 will be described as an example. However, the gasket 760 may be provided in the wall of the refrigerating chamber 110 facing the other side 724 of the main body 720. have.

By the above-described configuration, the vegetable compartment 700 is withdrawn from the refrigerator compartment 110 in conjunction with the refrigerator door 200, wherein the first opening portion 725 formed at the other side 724 of the main body 720 is the refrigerator compartment It is located outside of 110. Accordingly, the user may easily store food such as fruits and vegetables in the vegetable compartment 700 through the first opening 725, and may easily carry out the food through the first opening 725.

When the vegetable compartment 700 is introduced into the refrigerator compartment 110 in conjunction with the refrigerator door 200, a gasket is formed between the other side 724 of the main body 720 having the first opening 725 and the wall of the refrigerator compartment 110. It is sealed by 760, whereby the internal temperature of the vegetable chamber 700 can be maintained at an appropriate temperature.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the same shall be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

100: refrigerator body 110: refrigerator compartment
200: refrigerator door 700: vegetable room
720: main body 725: first opening
727: second opening 740: door
760: gasket

Claims

A refrigerator main body divided into a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber;
A refrigerator door for opening and closing the refrigerating compartment; And
Including a vegetable compartment coupled to the inner wall of the refrigerator door,
And the vegetable compartment is drawn out of the refrigerator compartment by the opening of the refrigerator door and is introduced into the refrigerator compartment by the closing of the refrigerator door.

The method according to claim 1,
The vegetable room,
A main body having a box shape and having one side coupled to an inner wall of the refrigerator door and having a first opening for storing food on the other side facing the one side; And
A gasket coupled to an edge of the other side of the body,
And the gasket seals between the other side of the main body and a wall of the refrigerating compartment when the vegetable compartment is drawn into the refrigerating compartment.

3. The method of claim 2,
The other side of the main body is bent upward from the bottom surface of the main body by a predetermined height, characterized in that the first opening is formed between the upper end of the other side and the upper surface of the main body.

3. The method of claim 2,
A second opening for storing food is formed on the upper surface of the main body,
The vegetable chamber further comprises a door for opening and closing the second opening.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The refrigerator door is hinged to one side of the front side of the refrigerator compartment,
And the vegetable compartment moves along a curved path about the hinge axis by rotating the refrigerator door about the hinge axis.