KR20160081147A

KR20160081147A - Cold Showcase

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Publication number: KR20160081147A
Application number: KR1020140194479A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 오대훈
Original assignee: 롯데알미늄 주식회사
Priority date: 2014-12-30
Filing date: 2014-12-30
Publication date: 2016-07-08

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerated display case, comprising: a display case body provided with a plurality of shelves for displaying articles at a predetermined height interval with an evaporator for generating cool air so that the displayed products maintain a low temperature state; And a plurality of guide plates installed inside the duct to guide the movement of the cold air to the lower portion of the shelf so that cool air is blown from the air outlet of the duct and the plurality of air outlets Accordingly, not only the entire temperature of the main body of the display case can be uniformly maintained but also the cool air of the same temperature can be supplied, and the coolness of the same temperature can be supplied to the products displayed on the shelves, The cool air is ejected at a distance close to the article An effect that can increase the efficiency of the machine is obtained.

Description

Cold Showcase

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerated display case, and more particularly, to a refrigerated display case capable of uniformly blowing cool air from a refrigerated display case to each shelf.

In general, a refrigerated display case (aka Open Showcase) is installed for the purpose of storing and selling products on display in department stores, large discount stores, convenience stores, supermarkets, etc., So that the purchaser can increase the desire to purchase the product.

These showcases are continuously cooled through a circulation process that compresses, condenses, expands, and evaporates the refrigerant gas.

In addition, the open showcase is divided into various forms depending on the purpose. It is divided into various types such as flat surface type, multistage face type, and open type depending on objects to be displayed such as objects to be displayed such as vegetables, drinks, instant food such as kimbab or lunch .

In the present invention, an open showcase having a front surface opened among various types of showcase will be described. A typical open showcase includes a main body case on a hull with a front open, a device for performing a refrigeration cycle on the bottom of the main body case, A duct for supplying cool air to the wall and the cool air discharge port while circulating heat exchanged from the evaporator of the machine room to the rear and upper parts of the main body case, The shelf consists of a shelf on which the desired product is placed.

As a result, the displayed products can maintain the freshness by continuously supplying cold air.

Such a refrigerated display case is installed with a plurality of shelves maintaining a predetermined height. The cold air in the refrigerated display case is blown out from the upper end of the display case through the flow path formed on the rear surface of the display case toward the lower part.

As a result, a relatively large amount of cold air is supplied to the cold air near the top, and cold air is supplied to the cold air, and a relatively small amount of cold air is supplied to the lowermost end of the showcase. .

Thus, the temperature of the cool air supplied to the display unit is different from each other, and the products placed on the shelves of the display unit are supplied with cool air of different temperatures, which makes it impossible to maintain the temperature of the display unit uniformly.

In addition, there is a problem that the freshness of the article placed on the display case is changed due to the unevenness of the cold temperature of the display case.

For example, Patent Document 1 below discloses an open showcase for both cold and hot springs.

An open showcase for both cold and warm-up according to the following Patent Document 1 is an open showcase for displaying and storing goods. The open showcase comprises a body case opened frontward, a machine room for supplying cold air to the lower portion of the body case, A duct for supplying cool air to the inside of the main body case, a fixing bracket detachably coupled to both sides of the inside of the main body case at a plurality of stages, a passage for the rear duct is blocked in the middle of the main body case, And the remaining cooling air is circulated downward, a heating shelf for forming a shelf room provided on the upper side fixing bracket with reference to the partition shelf, and a fixing bracket provided on the lower fixing bracket for forming a refrigerator compartment A base shelf is disclosed.

Discloses a cold air circulation structure of an open showcase according to Patent Document 1 below.

The cold air circulation structure of the open showcase is communicated with the upper half of the vertical lower half and the upper half of the lower half by a space between a pair of the central frame plates constituting the evaporator provided under the space between the rear side heat insulating panel and the rear inner side plate, And a space between the upper surface heat insulating panel and the upper surface intermediate plate. The vertical upper half portion is formed as a space between the upper surface heat insulating panel and the upper surface intermediate plate, And an air circulating duct for an air curtain having a horizontal portion communicating with the air circulation duct.

A vertical portion defined in a space between the rear surface heat insulating panel and the rear inner side plate excluding a vertical portion of the air circulation duct for the air curtain, a vertical portion formed between the upper surface intermediate plate and the upper surface inner side plate, And air is introduced through the air inlet holes for the air curtains and the cooling air inlet holes formed in the lower central portion of the rear inner side plate and the both side portions of the rear inner side plate and the air circulation duct for cooling the air curtain and the cooling air circulation duct As shown in Fig.

Korean Patent Publication No. 20-1996-006616 (published on February 25, 1999) Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-1998-0047232 (published September 15, 1998)

However, according to the refrigerated showcase according to the related art, the freshness of the products placed on the display case can not be kept the same due to the outflow of cool air from the uppermost end of the refrigerated display case, and the cooler temperatures reaching the shelves are different, There was no problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerated display case in which cold air of the same temperature is uniformly blown off at different heights.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerated display case in which the air amount can be ejected equally at different heights.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the refrigerated display unit according to the present invention comprises an evaporator for generating cold air so as to maintain a low temperature state of a displayed article, and a display case body having a plurality of shelves, A duct installed to blow cool air cooled by the evaporator downward from an upper portion of the main body of the showcase, and a plurality of guide plates installed in the duct to guide the movement of cool air to the lower portion of the shelf .

And the duct includes a cool air discharge port formed to discharge cool air into the lower portion of the shelf.

The duct includes a first flow path formed to discharge cool air from the upper portion of the showcase body to a lower portion thereof, and a second flow path formed to discharge cool air into the lower portions of the plurality of shelves, wherein the first flow path and the second flow path are identical And are arranged at equal intervals so that positive cold air is supplied.

The guide plates include a first guide plate, a second guide plate and a third guide plate installed so that cool air is blown out from under the plurality of shelves provided at different heights, and the first guide plate, the second guide plate, Are arranged at equal intervals so as to be supplied with cold air.

As described above, according to the refrigerated showcase according to the present invention, the entire temperature of the main body of the showcase can be maintained as well as the cool air of the same temperature can be supplied as the cool air is blown out from the duct outlet and the plurality of cool air discharge openings, It is possible to maintain the freshness of all the articles at the same level, and it is possible to increase the efficiency of the cool air by ejecting cool air at a distance close to the article at the cool air discharge port formed in each of the plurality of shelves .

1 is a side view showing a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a front view showing a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a partially enlarged view of a refrigerated display cabinet according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view showing a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It is a partial enlarged view.

The refrigerated display unit according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an evaporator 12 for generating cold air so as to maintain a low temperature state of a displayed product and a display case body 12 having a plurality of shelves 13 A duct 20 installed to blow the cool air cooled by the evaporator 12 from the upper portion of the main body 10 to the lower portion of the main body 10 and the lower portion of the shelf 13 inside the duct 20, And a plurality of guide plates 30 installed to guide the movement of the cool air into the cooler.

1 to 3, the refrigerated display case of the present invention can be provided with a plurality of shelves 13 for displaying a plurality of articles (or products) And a plurality of guide plates 30 for guiding the same amount of cool air to be blown out from the cool air blow-out port 34, and a cool air blow-out port 34 formed at a predetermined height interval so as to evenly blow cool air of the same temperature in the lower part have.

The display case body 10 can blow cool air so as to maintain freshness by keeping the displayed articles at an appropriate temperature. The cold air is generated through the normal refrigeration cycle, and the machine room 11 capable of installing the components constituting the refrigeration cycle may be formed in the main body 10 of the showcase.

A compressor (not shown), an expansion valve (not shown) and a condenser (not shown), which constitute a refrigeration cycle, may be installed in the machine room 11, (12) can be installed.

The evaporator 12 is for supplying cool air and can supply cool air to the front of the main body 10 of the showcase.

In addition, a shelf 13 capable of displaying a plurality of articles can be installed on the front surface of the showcase body 10, and the shelf 13 can be stably installed in the showcase body 10 .

In addition, the shelf 13 may have a detachable structure that can be installed at different heights according to articles to be displayed, and the shelf 13 is formed by different lengths of protrusions as the cool air naturally flows from the upper portion to the lower portion .

A duct 20 may be installed on the upper portion of the evaporator 12 to move the cool air generated from the evaporator 12. One end of the duct 20 may be connected to the upper end of the main body 10 of the showcase and an outlet 21 may be formed at the end of the duct 20 to blow cool air supplied through the duct 20 .

A first flow path 22 for supplying cool air to the air outlet 21 and a second flow path 23 for supplying cold air to the lower portion of the shelf 13 may be formed in the duct 20.

The first flow path 22 and the second flow path 23 can maintain the same gap. The first flow path 22 is a flow path formed so that chilled air is blown out from the air blow-out port 21 formed at the end of the duct 20 and the second flow path 23 is a flow path formed through the air blow- (34).

That is, the first flow path 22 is a flow path for supplying cool air to the spouting port 21 which is the uppermost end of the showcase body 10 and the second flow path 23 is a flow path for supplying cool air to the spouting device body 10 formed on the lower side of the shelf 13, And the cool air is supplied to the cool air discharge port 34 of the air cleaner.

The first flow path 22 and the second flow path 23 may be formed so as to maintain the same interval so that the same amount of cool air is supplied (or discharged).

A plurality of guide plates 30 may be installed in the duct 20. The guide plate 30 may be installed to guide the movement of the cool air so that the cool air generated in the evaporator 12 is ejected from the cool air ejection port 34.

A plurality of the guide plates 30 may be installed so as to correspond to the number of the shelves 13 provided in the showcase body 10. That is, when four shelves 11, 12, 13, and 14 are installed on the showcase body 10, the guide plates 30 may be provided with three guide plates 31, 32, and 33.

The guide plate 30 may be installed in the second flow path 23 of the duct 20. The guide plate 30 may be installed in a second flow path 23 for supplying cool air sprayed through the shelf 13. A first guide plate 31, a second guide plate 32 and a third guide plate 33 may be installed in the second flow path 23 of the duct 20.

These three guide plates 31, 32, and 33 can be installed so as to maintain the same interval so that a uniform amount of cold air is supplied.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, when four shelves 13 are installed, the three guide plates 31, 32, and 33 can be changed depending on the number of the shelves 13. Therefore, And the guide plate 31 may vary depending on the size of the display case body 10 or the number of shelves 13.

The first guide plate 31 may be installed to supply cool air to the shelf 13 installed at the second height of the showcase body 10 and the second guide plate 32 may be installed at the third height of the showcase body 10 And can be installed to supply cool air to the installed shelf 13.

The third guide plate 33 may be installed to supply cool air to the shelf 13 installed at the fourth height of the main body 10 of the showcase.

A cool air discharge port 34 through which the cool air moved along the guide plate 30 is discharged may be formed in the lower portion of the shelf 13. As shown in FIG. 2, the cool air discharge port 34 is formed by ejecting cool air generated from the evaporator 12, and may be formed in a lengthwise direction below the shelf 13 in which a plurality of cool air spouts are installed.

The following is a detailed description of the association of refrigerated showcases according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the refrigerated showcase according to the embodiment of the present invention causes cool air to be blown out from the cool air discharge port 34 at the lower portion of the shelf 13 of the showcase body 10.

This allows cool air to be emitted from the lower portion of the shelf 13 installed at the uppermost stage of the showcase body 10 and at a predetermined height interval, thereby maintaining the freshness of the products displayed on each shelf 13.

A machine room 11 in which a compressor (not shown), an evaporator 12 and the like are installed is provided at a lower portion of the showcase body 10 and a duct (20) can be installed.

The duct 20 can form the air outlet 21 so that the cool air generated from the evaporator 12 can be blown out from the upper end of the main body 10 of the showcase 10. The duct 20 can cool air at a position adjacent to the evaporator 12 A first flow path 22 for moving the air to the air outlet 21 and a second flow path 23 for moving the air to the respective shelves 13.

The first flow path 22 and the second flow path 23 may be partitioned at equal intervals so that the same amount of cool air is supplied. That is, the interval between the first flow path 22 and the second flow path 23 is divided at a ratio of 1: 1 so that the same cold air can be moved.

A plurality of guide plates 30 may be provided in the second flow path 23 of the duct 20. The guide plate 30 moves the cool air to the cool air discharge port 34 formed at the lower portion of the shelf 13 of the showcase body 10. [

The guide plates 30 may include a first guide plate 31, a second guide plate 32 and a third guide plate 33 which are kept at the same interval and the three guide plates 31, 32, The interval can be maintained.

That is, the three guide plates 31, 32, and 33 may be arranged at equal intervals so that the same amount of cold air is supplied.

A plurality of shelves 13 may be provided at predetermined height intervals so that the articles can be placed on the showcase body 10. The shelves 13 may be configured to be detachable so that the height can be adjusted as required .

A cool air jet opening 34 having a predetermined size can be formed below the shelf 13. The cool air discharge port 34 causes the cool air moved along the first guide plate 31, the second guide plate 32 and the third guide plate 33 of the duct 20 to be ejected.

That is, the cool air that has been moved along the first to third guide plates 31, 32, and 33 is blown by the same amount of cool air toward the lower portion of each ship 13 through the cool air discharge port 34.

A method of operating a refrigerated display case according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. FIG.

1 to 3, the refrigerated showcase according to the embodiment of the present invention appropriately displays the article to be displayed on the shelf 13 of the showcase body 10, So that the temperature of the main body 10 of the showcase can be appropriately maintained.

That is, the air sucked into the machine room 11 of the showcase body 10 is lowered in temperature by the refrigeration cycle. While the evaporator 12 is installed between the machine room 11 and the duct 20, It is converted to low cold air.

The cool air is moved along the duct 20 installed on the upper portion of the evaporator 12. [ At this time, the cool air is divided into the same amount by the first flow path 22 and the second flow path 23 provided at the inlet of the duct 20 and is moved.

The divided cold air is moved along the first flow path 22 and the second flow path 22. The cool air moved to the first flow path 22 flows through the air outlet 21 formed at the upper end of the showcase body 10 And is sprayed to the lower part of the main body 10 through the display case 10.

In addition, the cold air moved along the second flow path 23 is divided into the same amount by the first guide plate 31, the second guide plate 32 and the third guide plate 33 provided at equal intervals.

That is, the cool air that moves along the space between the duct 20 and the first guide plate 31 is ejected through the cool air ejection port 34 formed on the lower side of the first shelf 13a, 2 guide plates 32 are blown out through the cool air blow-out port 34 formed on the lower side of the second shelf 13b.

The cool air that is moved along the second guide plate 32 and the third guide plate 33 is ejected through the cool air ejection port 34 formed on the lower side of the third shelf 13c.

In such a display case, cool air is blown out through an air outlet 21 formed in the duct 20, and cold air is blown out from the lower portion of each shelf 13, so that the articles displayed on each shelf 13 are cooled . &Lt; / RTI >

In addition, since the chilled air is divided and ejected from the air outlet 21 and the air outlet 34, cold air of the same temperature can be supplied to the articles in each shelf 13.

In addition, as the cool air is blown out from the air outlet 21 of the duct 20 and the plurality of air outlets 34, the entire temperature of the showcase body 10 can be uniformly maintained, .

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

10: Showcase body 11: Machine room
12: Evaporator 13: Shelf
20: duct 21: air outlet
22: first flow path 23: second flow path
30: guide plate 31: first guide plate
32: second guide plate 33: third guide plate
34: Cool air outlet

Claims

An evaporator for generating cold air so that the displayed articles are maintained at a low temperature, a display case main body having a plurality of shelves for displaying the articles at a predetermined height,
A duct installed to blow cool air cooled by the evaporator toward the lower part of the main body of the showcase,
And a plurality of guide plates installed inside the duct to guide the movement of cool air to the lower portion of the shelf.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the duct includes a cool air discharge port formed to discharge cool air to a lower portion of the shelf.

The method according to claim 1,
The duct includes a first flow path formed to discharge cool air from the upper portion to the lower portion of the showcase body,
And a second flow path formed to discharge cool air into the lower portions of the plurality of shelves,
Wherein the first flow path and the second flow path are disposed at equal intervals so that the same amount of cool air is supplied.

The method according to claim 1,
The guide plate includes a first guide plate, a second guide plate, and a third guide plate installed to blow cool air from below the plurality of shelves installed at different heights,
Wherein the first guide plate, the second guide plate, and the third guide plate are disposed at equal intervals so as to supply the same amount of cool air.