Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D29/00—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • F25D29/005—Mounting of control devices
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D23/00—General constructional features
  • F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
  • F25D23/126—Water cooler
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
  • F25D2400/36—Visual displays
  • F25D2400/361—Interactive visual displays

Definitions

• the invention relates to a household refrigerator.
• US 6,655,158 B1 discloses a refrigerator having a housing, a freezer compartment, an icemaker disposed within the freezer compartment, a fan associated with the icemaker, and a processor configured to control a set ice maker's ice making rate by adjusting the temperature of the refrigerator or refrigerator Fan controls.
• the object of the invention is to provide an improved domestic refrigerator with an icemaker and / or water dispenser.
• a domestic refrigerator comprising a body and a door pivotally mounted on the body, which delimit a thermally insulated cold room when the door is closed, a refrigerator for cooling the cold room, an icemaker and / or water dispenser, a first electronic module for controlling Rules of the refrigeration device, a separate from the first electronic module second electronic module for controlling / regulating the ice maker and / or water dispenser, a display / input module, with the first electronic module associated operating parameters adjustable and / or display and the icemaker and / or water dispenser associated functions operable and / or adjustable, and a bus system connecting the display / input module to the first electronics module and to the second electronics module.
• the household refrigerating appliance according to the invention can be, for example, a freeze-refrigeration combination appliance or a freezer and comprises the two separate electronic modules, of which the first electronic module is set up to control or regulate the refrigeration device so that, for example, the temperature of the cold room corresponds to a set target temperature.
• the refrigeration device includes, for example, one or more refrigeration circuits with evaporators, compressors, condensers and possibly solenoid valves, so that the first electronic module controls or regulates, for example, the operation of the refrigeration cycle or cycles.
• the second electronic module is set up to control or regulate the ice maker and / or the water dispenser of the refrigerator according to the invention, for example by regulating or controlling the amount of ice and / or water supply of fresh water to the water dispenser produced by the ice maker or dispensing ice or water controls.
• the domestic refrigerator according to the invention further comprises the display / input module, by means of which the first electronic module associated operating parameters are adjustable and / or displayable.
• An example of an operating parameter is the temperature of the household refrigerating appliance or its cold room, so that, for example, the desired temperature of the refrigerating room can be set and, if necessary, displayed with the display / input module. But it may also be possible that the display / input module displays the actual temperature of the cold room.
• the display / input module is also set up, which can be actuated and / or adjusted with functions assigned to the ice maker and / or water dispenser. Thus, e.g. a water or ice dispensing can be initiated by means of the display / input module.
• the display / input module communicates with the two electronic modules via the bus system.
• the two electronic modules arranged in or on the body, which is the case according to an expedient variant of the household refrigeration appliance according to the invention, and the display / input module is arranged in or on the door, which according to a preferred
• Embodiment of the household refrigeration appliance according to the invention is the case, then you need only a single data line between the body and the door to a
• the household refrigerating appliance has an ice and / or water dispensing module arranged in the door, into which the display / input module is integrated.
• the bus system can expediently have at least one data line, via which the display / input module communicates with the first electronic module and with the second electronic module, and a power supply line, via which the display / input module, the first electronic module and the second electronic module during normal operation of the household refrigerator are supplied with electrical energy.
• This embodiment of the household refrigerator according to the invention provides conditions for a reduced number of components and thus offers a cost savings.
• the domestic refrigerator according to the invention thus provides a modularized solution for the control / regulation of a household refrigerator with an icemaker and / or
• the control system has the bus system, e.g. a so-called Dbuss-Il.
• the control system may have separate control modules, however, the icemaker and / or water dispenser system may use the same display and input module as those provided for controlling the domestic refrigerator as such.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a freeze-refrigeration combination device, which is constructed according to the inventive design principle
• Fig. 2 shows a water and ice dispensing of the freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus of Figure 1, and
• Fig. 1 shows a freeze-refrigeration combination device 1 as an example of a household refrigerator in a perspective view.
• the freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus 1 has a housing 2 which delimits a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment.
• a door 3 for closing the refrigerator and a door 4 are struck for closing the freezer compartment.
• the door 3 has a handle 5 arranged on its outside and the door 4 has a handle 6 arranged on its outside, by means of which the doors 3, 4 can be opened.
• refrigerated goods can be stored in the refrigerator or refrigerated goods are removed from the refrigerator and with open door 4 can be stored in the freezer compartment frozen goods or frozen goods are removed.
• the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment may have compartments, not shown, on which the refrigerated goods or the frozen goods can be stored.
• the freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus 1 further comprises a refrigeration device 7 for cooling the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment.
• the refrigeration device 7 has e.g. in a well-known and not shown manner, one or more refrigeration circuits for the freezer compartment and for the refrigerator, which include, for example, in a conventional manner at least one evaporator, a condenser and a compressor, and optionally at least one solenoid valve.
• the freeze-refrigerator 1 has an icemaker and a water dispenser.
• the water dispenser comprises e.g. a arranged in the door 4 of the freezer compartment water tank 8, which is connectable to a tap water network.
• the ice cube making and storing part 9 of the ice maker is arranged inside the freezer compartment.
• the ice maker and the water dispenser comprise a common dispensing module 10, which is shown in detail in FIG. 2 and which is arranged in an indentation of the door 4 of the freezer compartment.
• the dispensing module 10 comprises a tray 1 1, on which a person not shown in the figures, for example, can turn off a glass or a cup to him or her with water from the water tank 8 or with ice from the ice cube producing and storing part 9 of the icemaker to fill. So that the person can fill her glass placed on the shelf 1 1 with water or ice, the freeze-refrigerator combination device 1 comprises a display / input module 12 shown in block diagram form in FIG. 3, which in the case of the present embodiment is part of the dispensing module 10.
• the display / input module 12 comprises in the case of the present embodiment, keys 13-16, of which, for example, the key 13 with “water”, the key 14 with “ice cube”, the key 15 with “crushed ice” and the key 16 with “Light” is labeled.
• the display / input module 12 additionally comprises a display 17, which may be u.a. indicates the actual temperatures of the refrigerator and the freezer compartment.
• the display / input module 12 also includes keys 18, 19 by means of which the target temperatures of the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment can be adjusted.
• the keys 18, 19 include in particular the operating functions "alarm” and "super" operation.
• the freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus 1 comprises a main electronic module 20 shown in FIG. a microcontroller or microprocessor, not shown, and is arranged to control the refrigeration device 7 and possibly also to regulate that the temperatures of the freezer compartment and the refrigerator at least approximately correspond to the set by the display / input module 12 target temperatures.
• the electronic components of the main electronic module 20 are arranged for example on a single board, which may be surrounded in particular by a housing, not shown. Control and regulating method for temperature control or temperature control of the refrigerator or the freezer compartment are known in principle to those skilled in the art and are therefore not further explained.
• the main electronic module 20 is arranged, for example, in or on the housing 2.
• the freeze-refrigeration combination 1 comprises a bus system 21, which connects, among other things, the display / input module 12 to the main electronic module 20.
• the bus system 21 has a data bus (read / write line) 22 for exchanging data between the display / input module 12 and the main electronic module 20.
• the bus system 21 also has one or more, preferably two, power lines 23, 24, which are provided to supply the display / input module 12 and the main electronic module 20 with electrical energy.
• freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus In the case of the present embodiment, the freeze-refrigerator combination apparatus
• an ice maker electronic module 25 shown in FIG. controls the function of the ice cube producing and storing part 9 of the ice maker and / or the filling of the water tank 8 and optionally regulates.
• the Eisrerelektronikmodul 25 includes, for example, a not shown microcontroller or microprocessor and also controls the output module 10 such that due to pressing the labeled "water” button 13, the parked on the tray 1 1 glass filled with water from the water tank 8, when Press the labeled with "ice cube” key 14 the parked glass on the tray 11 filled with ice cubes from the ice cubes producing and storing part 9 of the ice maker and pressing the labeled with "crushed ice” button 15 on the shelf
• I I parked glass with crushed ice (so-called “crushed ice") is filled, which makes an unspecified ice crusher (so-called “Ice Crusher”) from the ice cubes, which are located in the ice cube producing and storing part 9 of the ice maker.
• the ice maker electronic module 25 regulates e.g. Also, the amount of ice, the ice cube producing and storing part 9 of the ice maker or a supply of water from the fresh water mains in the water tank 8.
• the Eisrelektronikmodul 25 is arranged for example in or on the housing 2.
• the display / input module 12 can communicate with the ice maker electronic module 25, the ice maker electronic module 25 is likewise connected to the bus system 21.
• the display / input module 12 and the ice maker electronics module 25 can communicate and communicate with each other via the data bus 22.
• the Eisrerelektronikmodul 25 is also connected to the power lines 23, 24 to be supplied with electrical energy.
• the ice maker electronics module 25 which is responsible for the control of the water dispenser and / or the icemaker, and the display / input Module 12 to the main electronic module 20 via at least one common communication connection, in particular via a common bus system, such as 21, is in a simple manner a reliable setting of one or more operating parameters of the water dispenser and / or the icemaker at the same operating location as the other function settings, such as For example, the temperature setting for the refrigerator compartment and freezer, the freezer-cooling combination device ensured.
• the interaction of the functions of the various functional components of the freeze-refrigeration combination device is simplified.
• the ice maker electronics module 25 uses the common control electronics 20 via the data bus system 21, i. unitarily provided, display / input module 12 as the other functional components, such. the refrigeration circuit for the refrigeration compartment or the freezer compartment of the freeze-refrigeration combination device.
• a key press on one of the keys 18, 19, 13-16 initiates at least one control signal, which is transmitted to the main electronic module 20 via the common bus system 21.
• the main electronic module 20 transmits a control signal emanating from the ice maker electronic module 25 via the bus system 21 to the common display / input module 12.
• the Eisrelektronikmodul 25 is coupled control technology to the main electronic module 20 via its bus system 21, and its display / input module 12 shares, now the Eisr- / Wasserpenderkomponenten can easily install in different freezer-refrigeration combination device types and control by means of the anyway existing main electronic module or adjust. In particular, this integration simplifies the integration of the ice maker / water dispenser components into new refrigeration appliances.

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