WO2019105144A1

WO2019105144A1 - Ice breaking system

Info

Publication number: WO2019105144A1
Application number: PCT/CN2018/110803
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张奎; 朱小兵; 张延庆; 薛建军; 孙为首
Original assignee: 青岛海尔股份有限公司
Priority date: 2017-12-01
Filing date: 2018-10-18
Publication date: 2019-06-06

Abstract

An ice breaking system. The ice breaking system is provided with an ice outlet channel (9) located below an ice discharging port (10). On the basis of the position and structure configurations of the ice discharging port (10) and the ice outlet channel (9) in the ice breaking system, the impact strength of ice cubes discharged from the ice discharging port (10) on the inner wall of the ice outlet channel (9) when entering the ice outlet channel (9) is reduced, thereby reducing the probability of the ice outlet channel (9) being damaged by the ice cubes and the noise during the ice discharging by the ice breaking system.

Description

Crushed ice system

The present application claims the priority of the Japanese Patent Application Serial No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of ice making, and more particularly to a crushed ice system for processing large-sized ice into small-sized crushed ice and discharging it.

Background technique

With the improvement of human living standards, people's pursuit of quality of life is getting higher and higher. As an important tool for users' convenience, refrigerators are paying more and more attention to other functions besides freezing and freezing, such as refrigerators. Ice making function. The traditional refrigerator making ice is an ice making box with a certain regular shape grid inside the freezer compartment of the refrigerator. After the ice making is completed, the ice cubes in the ice making box can be used for pouring out, and the made ice cubes have the same shape as the grid. The shape, but the traditional method of ice production has the following problems: the ice making capacity of the ice making box is generally limited, and can not meet the user's demand for a large number of ice.

In view of this, the industry has begun to set up the technical research of setting the ice machine inside the refrigerator. The raw ice taken by the ice making mechanism is a large-sized whole ice, which cannot be directly used in many cases. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a kind of ice. A technical means for processing large-sized ice into small-sized crushed ice can be realized to solve the above problems.

Summary of the invention

The present invention is directed to the processing of large-sized ice into small-sized crushed ice. To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a crushed ice system, which is specifically designed as follows.

A crushed ice system comprising a ice crusher, the bottom of the ice crusher is provided with an ice discharge port, the crushed ice system further has an ice exit channel below the ice discharge port, and the ice exit channel comprises a funnel And a duct portion communicating with the lower end of the ice receiving portion, a top end of the ice receiving portion is formed with a passage inlet abutting the ice discharging port, and the duct portion is from a lower end of the ice receiving portion Forming downwardly in a spiral direction; a spiral trend line at the center of the duct portion intersects a tangent line at a joint position of the ice receiving portion and the duct portion with a plane of the passage entrance at a first side of the center of the passage entrance The projection of the geometric center of gravity of the ice vent on the plane of the channel entrance falls within the channel inlet and is offset toward the first side.

Further, the ice exit channel has a channel outlet disposed away from an end of the inlet of the channel, the ice exit channel includes a first housing and a second housing that are detachably detachable, the first housing and the second housing There are two pairs of snap fits between the housings to assemble the assembled edges forming the ice exit channels, each of which extends from the edge of the channel inlet toward the edge of the channel outlet.

Further, the ice exiting passage further has a funnel-shaped ice-receiving inner cover integrally formed by vertically extending, and the ice-receiving inner cover is embedded in the ice receiving portion and coincides with an inner wall of the ice receiving portion.

Further, at least a through hole is disposed in each of the first housing and the second housing at opposite positions on the ice receiving portion, and an outer wall of the ice receiving inner cover protrudes outwardly to be formed to be embedded in the The inside of the through hole is a boss that fixes the ice cover to the inside of the ice receiving portion.

Further, the ice crusher includes a shaft seat provided with the ice discharge port at the bottom, a fixed shaft fixedly disposed on the shaft seat, and a rotation set on the shaft seat with the fixed shaft as a rotation axis. a drum assembly is further disposed inside the drum, the ice skate assembly includes at least one fixed ice skate fixed to the fixed shaft and at least one rotating ice skate fixed to the inner wall of the drum and rotatable with the drum The rotating ice skate has a first rotational direction that is rotated relative to the fixed ice knife to cut the ice in the drum into crushed ice.

Further, the ice discharging port is disposed on one side of the fixed shaft and has a crushed ice discharge side for discharging crushed ice, and when the rotating ice blade is rotated in the first rotating direction, the rotating ice blade is arranged by the ice discharging port The upper side of the crushed ice discharge side enters the upper space of the ice discharge port, and the fixed ice blade is disposed directly above the crushed ice discharge side or at a position directly above the crushed ice discharge side.

Further, the rotating ice skates constituting the ice skate assembly and the fixed ice skates are alternately arranged along the fixed axis from top to bottom.

Further, the rotating ice skate further has a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction for directly pushing the whole ice into the ice discharge port; the top of the rotary drum is provided with an ice inlet baffle, and the An ice baffle is fixed on the fixed shaft and has an ice inlet for the whole ice of the top of the drum to enter the inside of the drum, the ice inlet is located at one side of the fixed shaft, and in the In a direction of rotation, the front side and the rear side of the ice inlet are both provided in a sawtooth structure.

Further, in the first rotation direction, the ice inlet and the ice discharge port are staggered.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: according to the position and structure arrangement of the ice discharge port and the ice exit channel in the ice crushing system of the invention, the ice block discharged from the ice discharge port can be reduced to the inner wall of the ice exit channel when entering the ice exit channel; The impact force, thereby reducing the probability of the ice channel being damaged by the ice block and the noise when the ice system is iced; in addition, the crushed ice system of the present invention is safer during operation.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic view showing the overall structure of an embodiment of the ice crusher of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a schematic view showing the structure of the ice crusher removing the gear cover and the drum casing;

Figure 3 is a schematic view showing the fitting of the bottom of the ice crusher;

Figure 4 is a schematic view showing a partial split explosion of the ice crusher;

Figure 5 is a schematic view showing a fit of a fixed ice skate and a rotating ice skate;

Figure 6 is a schematic view showing a cooperation of rotating a skate and a rotating drum;

Figure 7 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the drum;

Figure 8 is a plan view showing the internal structure of the drum;

Figure 9 is a plan view showing an ice inlet baffle provided on the upper side of the drum;

Figure 10 is a schematic view showing the assembly of the ice crushing system of the present invention;

Figure 11 is a schematic view showing the structure splitting shown in Figure 10;

Figure 12 is a first perspective view of the ice exit channel;

Figure 13 is a schematic view showing a second angle of the ice passage;

Figure 14 is a schematic view showing the arrangement of the ice discharge port and the ice exit channel;

Figure 15 is a schematic exploded view of Figure 13;

Fig. 16 is a view showing another angle of Fig. 15.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings, which are illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 16, which are preferred embodiments of the present invention.

1, 2, 3, and 4, the ice crusher of the present invention includes a shaft seat 1, a fixed shaft 2, a drum 3, and a power transmission assembly 4. Wherein, the fixed shaft 2 is fixed on the shaft seat 1, and the rotating drum 3 is disposed on the shaft seat 1 with the fixed shaft 2 as a rotating shaft, and the power transmission assembly 4 provides power for the rotation of the rotating drum 3.

More specifically, in the present embodiment, the shaft base 1 includes a shaft base 11 disposed at the bottom of the shaft base 1 and a drum casing 12 extending upward from the periphery of the shaft base 11, and the drum 3 is embedded in Inside the drum casing 12, the setting of the drum casing 12 can protect the rotating drum 3, and can also prevent unnecessary safety hazards when the drum 3 rotates; of course, it can be understood that in some simplified In the embodiment, the shaft seat 1 may also include only the shaft base 11, that is, the periphery of the drum 3 has no protective casing. The fixed shaft 2 is fixedly disposed on the shaft base 11, and as shown in FIG. 3, the fixed end 20 of the fixed shaft 2 passes through the shaft base 11 and is fixed by screw locking; of course, in other embodiments, the fixing is fixed. The shaft 2 can also be fixed to the shaft base 11 in other ways.

As shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, the ice crusher according to the present invention is provided with a skate assembly inside the drum 3, and the ice skate assembly includes at least one fixed ice blade 51 fixed to the fixed shaft 2 and at least one piece fixed to the ice cutter assembly. The inner wall of the rotating drum 3 can rotate the ice skate 52 with the rotating drum 3; the rotating drum 3 has a first rotating direction A for cutting the ice block, and when the rotating drum 3 rotates in the first rotating direction A, the rotating ice knife 52 relatively fixes the ice skate 51 A cutting motion is performed to cut the whole ice located in the drum 3 into crushed ice.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the cross section of the fixed shaft 2 may be set to a non-circular shape, for example, may be set to a hexagon or other shape, and one end of the fixed ice blade 51 is provided with a fixing hole 511 matching the sectional shape of the fixed shaft 2. One end having the fixing hole 511 is a fixed end of the fixed ice blade 51. The fixed ice knife 52 is sleeved on the fixed shaft 2 through the fixing hole 511 and fixed at a specific position on the fixed shaft 2, and the fixed ice knife 51 has a cutting surface for cutting The blade portion of the ice is formed by extending the fixed end toward the inner wall of one side of the drum 3; the fixed ice blade 51 according to the present invention is formed only on one side of the fixed shaft 2. Setting the fixed ice blade 51 in the above manner has the following advantages: once the fixed ice blade 51 is damaged, it can be quickly repaired by replacement. Of course, in other embodiments, the fixed ice skate 51 can also be secured to a particular location on the fixed shaft 2 by welding or other mechanical fastening.

In the embodiment, the rotating ice blade 52 is provided with a first rotating hole 521, and the rotating ice knife 52 is disposed on the fixed shaft 2 through the first rotating hole 521, and both ends of the rotating ice knife 52 are fixed to the inner wall of the rotating drum 3. Specifically, in the implementation process, the drum 3 is provided with a groove structure for fixing both ends of the rotating ice knife 52, and both ends of the rotating ice knife 52 are embedded inside the groove structure to realize a fixed connection with the drum 3. Of course, in other embodiments, the rotating ice skate 52 can also be indirectly fixed to the inside of the drum 3, and a specific implementation manner thereof can be referred to later.

Referring to Fig. 5, inside the drum 3, the fixed ice blade 51 and the rotating ice blade 52 are alternately arranged from top to bottom. Specifically, in the embodiment, the rotating drum 3 is provided with two fixed ice skates 51 and two rotating ice skates 52. In the direction from top to bottom, the rotating ice skates 52, the fixed ice skates 51, and the rotating ice skates are arranged alternately in parallel. 52 and fixed ice skates 51. As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, all of the fixed ice knives 51 constituting the ice knives assembly are stacked at intervals in the vertical direction, and all of the rotating ice knives 52 are also referred to in this design.

In the specific implementation process, the user generally has certain requirements on the size of the crushed ice inside the drum 3, and based on this, the horizontal plane between the fixed ice skates 51 and the rotating ice skates 52 which are alternately arranged has a specific spacing dimension. In the implementation of the embodiment, the distance between the fixed ice blade 51 and the rotating ice blade 52 is less than the size of the whole ice and larger than the size of the crushed ice, so that the whole ice can be prevented from being directly turned by the ice knife 52 from the phase. The two adjacent fixed ice skates 51 are pushed out. More specifically, between the fixed ice blade 51 and the rotating ice knife 52,

washers

74, 75, 76 for isolating and fixing the ice blade 51 and the rotating ice knife 52 are further provided, wherein the rotating ice knife 52 can be sleeved around the gasket and rotated around the gasket.

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the top of the rotating drum 3 of the ice crusher of the present invention is provided with an ice inlet 30 for the ice to enter, and the bottom of the shaft seat 1 is provided with an ice discharging port 10 for discharging the ice. In the first rotational direction A, the ice inlet 30 and the ice discharge port 10 are staggered.

Specifically, an ice baffle 50 is disposed above the rotating drum 3, and the ice baffle 50 is fixedly disposed on the fixed shaft 2. The specific fixing manner can refer to the setting manner of the fixed ice skate 51, and the ice baffle 50 and the ice baffle 50 thereof A gasket 73 for isolation is provided between the adjacent fixed ice skates 51 or the rotating ice skates 52. In the present embodiment, the ice inlet baffle 50 is provided with a substantially fan-shaped opening, the fan-shaped opening forming an ice inlet 30, the ice inlet 30 is located on one side of the fixed shaft 2, and the top of the rotating drum 3 is to be processed. Ice enters the inside of the drum 3 through the ice inlet 30. The shaft base 11 is also provided with a substantially fan-shaped opening, and the fan-shaped opening constitutes the ice discharge port 10, and the crushed ice processed by the fixed ice blade 51 and the rotating ice blade 52 is discharged through the ice discharge port 10. In other designs of the present invention, the ice inlet 30 and the ice discharge port 10 may be designed in other shapes, and are not limited to the sector structure.

In the present invention, in order to prevent the ice cubes entering the inside of the rotating drum 3 from the ice inlet 30 from being directly discharged from the ice discharging port 10, in the first rotational direction A, the ice inlet 30 and the ice discharging opening 10 are staggered; The ice discharge port 10 is also located on one side of the fixed shaft 2.

In a specific implementation process, the size of the overlapping portion of the ice inlet 30 and the ice discharge opening 10 in the vertical direction is smaller than the size of the whole ice. 8 and FIG. 9, in the present embodiment, the projection of the staggered ice inlet 30 and the ice discharge opening 10 in the vertical direction has an overlapping portion a, but the size of the overlapping portion a is smaller than that of the whole ice. The size is such that the whole ice entering from the ice inlet 30 is prevented from falling directly into the ice discharge port 10 and being discharged. It can be understood that, in other embodiments of the present invention, the projections of the staggered ice inlet 30 and the ice discharge opening 10 in the vertical direction do not overlap (it is understood that the size of the overlapping portion a is 0), The whole ice entering from the ice inlet 30 cannot fall directly into the ice discharge port 10.

In the present invention, both the fixed ice blade 51 and the rotating ice blade 52 have a knife edge side for cutting ice cubes. When the drum rotates and cuts the ice cubes in the first rotation direction A, the rotating ice knife 52 and the knife edge side of the fixed ice blade 51 jointly squeeze the ice. Piece. 7 and 8, the fixed ice blade 51 has a first knife edge side 510, and the rotating ice blade 52 has a second knife edge side 520. In the embodiment, the first cutting edge side 510 and the second cutting edge side 520 are both arranged in a zigzag configuration. In the first rotating direction A, the first cutting edge side 510 and the second cutting edge side 520 are oppositely disposed; In the first rotational direction A, the first knife edge side 510 is disposed on the rear side of the fixed ice blade 51, and the second knife edge side 520 is disposed on the front side of the rotating ice blade 52 (the rotating ice blade 52 has two sides on the two sides of the rotating hole 521) The segment blade structure is arranged in an axisymmetric manner on the knife edge side of the two-stage blade structure, so that the first knife edge side 510 and the second knife edge side 520 can jointly cut the ice block. In other embodiments of the invention, the first knife edge side 510 and the second knife edge side 520 may also be provided as a blade-like structure or other structure having a blade edge.

In the present invention, referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, the ice discharge port 10 has a crushed ice discharge side 100. When the rotary drum 3 is rotated in the first rotational direction A, the rotary ice cutter 52 enters the ice discharge directly above the crushed ice discharge side 100. The upper space of the mouth 10, the fixed ice knife 51 is disposed directly above the crushed ice discharge side 100 or at a position directly above the crushed ice discharge side 100.

In an embodiment of the invention, the fixed ice blade 51 is disposed at a position immediately above the crushed ice discharge side 100. As a preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, FIG. 7, and FIG. 8, the fixed ice blade 51 is located in the upper space of the ice discharge port 10, and at this time, the first knife edge side 510 of the fixed ice blade 51 faces the crushed ice discharge side 100. In order to prevent the whole ice entering the inside of the rotating drum 3 from being directly discharged from the crushed ice discharging side 100 of the ice discharging port 10, in this embodiment, the ice crusher is located at the lowermost end of the ice skate assembly as a fixed ice knife 51, and the lowermost end The pitch size L1 of the fixed ice blade of the fixed ice blade 51 and the crushed ice discharge side 100 is smaller than the size of the whole ice. According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the crushed ice after the ice skate assembly is processed can be quickly discharged from the ice discharge port, avoiding the accumulation of agglomerates inside the drum 3, and the whole ice cannot be discharged from the crushed ice discharge side 100.

Referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 , in the first rotation direction A, the rear side of the ice discharge port 10 is the crushed ice discharge side 100. During the crushing process, the rotating drum 3 drives the rotating ice knife 52 to rotate and fix. The ice skates 51 collectively realize the cutting process of the whole ice, and the crushed ice is discharged from the crushed ice discharge side 100 into the ice discharge port 10.

The drum 3 and the rotating ice skate 52 in the present invention further have a second rotation direction (not shown), and the second rotation direction is opposite to the first rotation direction A. Based on the above design structure of the present invention, the drum 3 is along the edge When the second rotation direction is rotated, the side of the rotating ice knife 52 opposite to the second knife edge side 520 directly pushes the whole ice entering the inside of the drum 3 from the ice inlet 30 into the ice discharge port 10, thereby realizing large-scale ice-making. Direct discharge. Specifically, referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, the ice discharging port 10 has a whole ice discharging side 101, and when the rotating drum 3 drives the rotating ice knife 52 to rotate in the second rotating direction, the rotating ice knife 52 is discharged from the whole ice of the ice discharging port 10. The upper side of the side 101 enters the upper space of the ice discharge opening 10, and the distance L2 between the side of the fixed ice knife 51 facing away from the knife edge side 510 and the entire ice discharge side 101 is larger than the size of the entire ice, so that the entire ice discharge is achieved.

In the embodiment in which the ice discharge port 10 shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 is a fan-shaped opening, the center of the circle in which the sector is located is located at the position of the fixed shaft 2, and the crushed ice discharge side 100 and the whole ice discharge side 101 respectively constitute The two radii of the central angle of the sector.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in order to make the ice entering from the ice inlet 30 quickly chopped and discharged by the ice skate assembly, in the first rotational direction A, the ice inlet 30 is disposed adjacent to the crushed ice discharge side 100; Specifically, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the projection of the ice inlet 30 on the bottom shaft base 11 of the axle seat 1 covers the crushed ice discharge side 100 of the ice discharge port 10. In this embodiment, the whole ice entering from the ice inlet 30 falls near the crushed ice discharge side 100 and is broken by the ice knife assembly, and the crushed crushed ice can be quickly discharged from the ice discharge port 10. Of course, it can be understood that in other embodiments of the present invention, the projection of the ice inlet 30 on the bottom shaft base 11 of the axle seat 1 is only close to the crushed ice discharge side 100 of the ice discharge port 10 without covering the broken The ice discharge side 100 (not shown). From another point of view, in this embodiment, in the first rotational direction A, the front side 500 of the ice inlet 30 and the rear side of the ice discharge port 10 (ie, the crushed ice discharge side 100) are in position. Approximate overlap.

In the above preferred embodiment, the front side 500 of the ice inlet 30 is provided with a structure having a cutting function, the specific structure of which may refer to the first edge side 510 of the fixed ice blade 51. In a specific implementation, the front side 500 of the ice inlet 30 and the first edge side 510 of the fixed ice knife 51 substantially coincide in the vertical direction. In the present embodiment, the ice inlet baffle 50 has the function of fixing the ice skate while defining the ice inlet 30. Of course, in other embodiments, the ice inlet 30 on the ice barrier 50 can also be used only for ice without the ice cutting function described above.

In still other more preferred embodiments, in the first rotational direction A, the front side 500 and the rear side 501 of the ice inlet 30 are each provided in a sawtooth configuration. Based on this arrangement, when the drum 3 is rotated in the first rotational direction A, the serrated structure of the front side 500 has the function of fixing the ice skate, which can assist the ice skate assembly to cut the whole ice into crushed ice; when the drum 3 rotates along the second When the direction is rotated and the whole ice is pushed out from the entire ice discharge side 101 of the ice discharge port 10 by the back side of the rotating ice knife 52, the whole ice may be caught between the rear side 501 and the back side of the rotating ice knife 52, if the rear side 501 is set It is a sawtooth structure, which can quickly chop the trapped ice cubes, so that the whole ice discharging process is smooth, and the problem that the rotating drum rotates in the second rotating direction and the whole ice is not smooth is effectively solved.

The front side 500 of the ice inlet 30 has a function of fixing a skate according to the embodiment. During the operation of the ice crusher, a rotating ice knife 52 is disposed between the ice inlet baffle 20 and the uppermost fixed ice skate 51. That is, the uppermost layer of the ice skate assembly is a rotating ice knife 51, which is designed to effectively utilize the ice cutting function of the front side 500 of the ice inlet 30.

In the practical application process of the present invention, an ice storage box (not shown) for providing large-sized ice cubes is generally disposed above the rotating drum 3. In a specific implementation process, the top of the rotating drum 3 is provided with a rotation. The ice-sliding mechanism is rotated synchronously to agitate the ice of the top of the drum 3, specifically, the ice-carrying mechanism is used to stir the ice inside the ice storage box to introduce the ice inside the ice storage box to the top of the rotating drum 3. Into the ice 30.

In a specific design, the ice-sliding mechanism includes a plurality of dials, the dial has a fixing portion fixed to the drum and a second rotating hole rotatable about the fixed shaft 2. As shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, the ice-picking mechanism in this embodiment includes two ice-picking sheets, namely, a first ice-picking piece 61 and a second ice-picking piece 62, a first ice-picking piece 61 and a second ice-picking piece 62. The fixing

portions

611 and 621 fixed to the rotating drum and the second

rotating holes

610 and 620 rotating around the fixed shaft 2 are respectively disposed on the upper portion.

In the specific implementation, as shown in FIG. 6, the fixing

portions

611 and 621 of the first ice sheet 61 and the second ice sheet 62 are respectively provided with card slots (not shown), and both ends of the rotating ice knife 52 are respectively provided. The inner wall of the rotating drum 3 is oppositely disposed with two recesses 32. The two fixing

portions

611 and 621 are respectively embedded in the two recesses 32 and realize the rotating ice knife 52 and The fixing between the drums 3. The two second

rotating holes

610, 620 of the dial are respectively rotatably sleeved on the fixed shaft 2. On the fixed shaft 2, a washer 71 is disposed between the two ice sheets, and the ice sheet 50 and the ice sheet above it are also A washer 72 is provided. In this embodiment, the specific shape configuration of the two ice sheets is matched with the internal structure of the ice storage box; referring to FIG. 6, the one end of the first ice sheet 61 away from the fixing portion 611 has a paddle (not labeled) which is tilted.

In this embodiment, the rotation of the drum 3 is realized by the power output of the motor 40. Referring to FIG. 2, in order to realize the rotation of the drum 3, a ring of meshing teeth 31 is disposed on the peripheral wall of the drum 3, and the power transmission assembly 4 has a direct drive gear 41 that meshes with the meshing teeth 31 to drive the rotation of the drum 3. In the present embodiment, the meshing teeth 31 are disposed at the lowermost edge position of the outer wall of the drum 3, and in other embodiments, the meshing teeth 31 may also be disposed at the middle or other positions of the outer wall of the drum 3 (Fig. Not shown).

In the present embodiment, a gear assembly 42 composed of a plurality of gears is further disposed between the motor 40 and the direct drive gear 41, and the motor 40 drives the direct drive gear to rotate through the gear assembly 42. Specifically, the gear assembly 42 in this embodiment includes two first bevel gears 421 and a second bevel gear 422 that are in mesh with each other, wherein the first bevel gears 421 are directly driven by the output shaft of the motor 40, and the second bevel gears 422 and the direct drive gear 41 are disposed on the same rotating shaft; when the motor 40 is running, the output shaft of the motor 40 drives the first bevel gear 421 to rotate, the first bevel gear 421 drives the second bevel gear 422 to rotate, and the second bevel gear 422 drives the same The direct drive gear 41 on the rotating shaft rotates, and the direct drive gear 41 cooperates with the meshing teeth 31 to realize the ice cutting process inside the drum 3.

In other embodiments, the direct drive gear 41 can also be driven directly by the motor 40, or the drum 3 can be directly driven by the motor 40 (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 1 , FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , the direct drive gear 41 in the present embodiment is fixed to the shaft base 80 via a rotating shaft (not shown). The shaft base 80 is provided with a package direct drive gear 41 . The gear housing 81 of the gear assembly 42 has better safety in the ice crusher involved in the present invention due to the arrangement of the gear housing 81. Referring to FIG. 3, a notch 13 is provided between the gear housing 81 and the drum shroud 12 for the direct drive gear 41 to engage with the meshing teeth 31. In some implementations, the gear housing 81 and the drum shroud 12 may be integrally formed such that the ice crusher of the present invention is modularized for ease of installation on other equipment, such as for ease of installation on a refrigerator.

It should be noted that in the present invention, the motor and the gear are used to realize the transmission of the drum power, and the direction change during the power transmission process is relatively easy to be realized, thereby ensuring a reasonable spatial structure of the designed ice crusher. . In some embodiments of the present invention, the rotation of the drum 3 (not shown) may also be achieved by means of a chain, a conveyor belt or the like.

The present invention also provides a crushing ice system. As shown in FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, the ice crushing system includes the ice crusher described above, and further, the crushed ice system further has an ice exiting channel below the ice discharging port 10. 9, the ice exit passage 9 includes a funnel-shaped ice receiving portion 91 and a duct portion 92 communicating with the lower end of the ice receiving portion 91. The top end of the ice receiving portion 91 is formed with the ice discharging port 10, as shown in FIG. The butted channel inlet 910, specifically, the end of the funnel-shaped ice receiving portion 91 having a large opening area is the channel inlet 910. The duct portion 92 in the present invention is formed to extend downward from the lower end of the ice receiving portion 91, and the end portion of the duct portion 92 away from the ice receiving portion 91 is provided with a passage outlet 920 for discharging the ice in the ice passage 9.

In order to reduce the impact force of the ice block discharged from the ice discharge port 10 on the inner wall of the ice exit channel 9 when entering the ice exit passage 9, the probability of the ice channel 9 being damaged by the ice block is reduced and the ice crushing system is reduced. In the case of the noise, the ice crushing system involved in the present invention adopts the following configuration.

Specifically, as shown in Fig. 14, the ice receiving portion 91 and the duct portion 92 have a joint position indicated by 900 in the figure, and the spiral trend line S at the center of the duct portion 92 has a line at the joint position indicated as 900. L, the tangent line L intersects the plane of the channel inlet 910 on the right side of the center O of the channel inlet 910, the right side area is labeled as the first side b, and the tangent line L intersects the plane of the channel inlet 910 at Lo. To achieve the effects described above, the projection of the geometric center of gravity H of the ice exit 10 on the plane of the channel inlet 910 falls within the channel inlet 910 and is offset toward the first side b.

Based on the above arrangement, the passage outlet 920 to the crushed ice port 10 has a relatively safe distance, which reduces the probability that the user or child accidentally cuts the hand through the ice exit passage 9 into the ice discharge port 10 by the ice skate assembly.

In a specific implementation, as shown in FIG. 15, the ice exit passage 9 includes a detachable first housing 901 and a second housing 902. The first housing 901 and the second housing 902 have two pairs of buckles. The assembly is assembled to form the assembled side of the ice channel 9. As shown in the figure, a pair of fitting edges 9a can be fastened to each other for connection and fixing, and a pair of fitting edges 9a are realized by a snap structure provided on the two fitting edges during the fastening assembly, and the specific structure of the buckle Reference may be made to some existing designs, which are not specifically expanded here; the assembly side 9b is assembled in the same manner as the assembled side 9a.

In the present embodiment, the

fitting edges

9a and 9b each extend from the edge of the passage inlet 910 toward the edge of the passage outlet 920. The manner in which the ice channels 9 are formed by assembling two separate components is simpler in process; in other words, the ice exit passages 9 are often injection molded, and the integral molding is difficult to manufacture. Of course, in other embodiments of the invention, the ice exit passage 9 is allowed to be integrally formed.

In the embodiment shown in the figure, in order to further reduce the damage to the ice exit passage 9 during the ice block discharge process, and prolong the service life of the ice exit passage 9, the present invention is combined with FIG. 12, FIG. 13, FIG. 15, FIG. The ice-out passage 9 further has a funnel-shaped ice-receiving inner cover 93 integrally formed with the upper and lower through-holes, and the ice-covered inner cover 93 is fitted in the ice receiving portion 91 and coincides with the inner wall of the ice receiving portion 91.

For the entire ice exit passage 9, the most vulnerable position is the area directly under the ice discharge port 10 of the ice crusher. The addition of the ice cover 93 has the following advantages: reducing the damage after the ice passage 9 is damaged. cost. Specifically, the manufacturing cost of the ice-receiving inner cover 93 is lower than the manufacturing cost of the first housing 901 and the second housing 902 based on the structural shape and size of the component; and the ice inner cover 93 is disposed in the ice receiving portion 91. The side wall is located directly below the ice discharge port 10 of the ice crusher, and is used for directly absorbing the impact of the ice block 10 to discharge the ice block, so as to avoid the ice block directly hitting the ice receiving portion 91, so that the ice-breaking system has a large probability of 9 The damaged component is the ice receiving inner cover 93 instead of the first housing 901 or the second housing 902. Thus, after the ice exit passage 9 is damaged, only the ice receiving inner cover 93 can be replaced, and the maintenance cost can be effectively reduced.

For ease of assembly, the ice-receiving inner cover 93 is fixed to the first housing 901 and the second housing 902 by snapping. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 16 , the first housing 901 and the second housing 902 are respectively provided with at least one through hole 911 at opposite positions on the ice receiving portion 91; in this embodiment, the first housing 901 is The ice receiving portion 91 is provided with two through holes 911. The second housing 902 is also provided with two through holes 911 on the ice receiving portion 91. The two through holes 911 and the second housing on the first housing 901 are provided. The two through holes 911 on the 902 are oppositely disposed. The outer wall of the ice-receiving inner cover 93 protrudes outwardly to form a convex portion 930 which can be embedded in the through hole 911. In the embodiment, the outer peripheral walls of the ice-receiving inner cover 93 are respectively provided with two protrusions 930. The protrusion 930 is embedded in the through hole 911 to fix the ice cover 93 to the inside of the ice receiving portion 91. It is convenient and simple to carry out the snapping by its own structure without using a fixing structure such as other screws, and the assembly efficiency can be improved.

It should be understood that, although the description is described in terms of embodiments, the embodiments are not intended to be construed as a single. The technical solutions in the embodiments may also be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments that can be understood by those skilled in the art.

The series of detailed descriptions set forth above are merely illustrative of the possible embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Changes are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.

Claims

A crushing ice system, comprising a ice crusher, the bottom of the ice crusher is provided with an ice discharging port, wherein the ice breaking system further has an ice exiting channel below the ice discharging port, the ice discharging The passage includes a funnel-shaped ice receiving portion and a pipe portion communicating with the lower end of the ice receiving portion, and a top end of the ice receiving portion is formed with a passage inlet that interfaces with the ice discharging port, and the pipe portion is self-joined a lower end of the ice portion is formed to extend downward in a spiral direction; a spiral trend line at a center of the duct portion intersects a tangent line at a joint position of the ice receiving portion and the duct portion with a plane of the passage entrance at a center of the passage entrance On the first side, the projection of the geometric center of gravity of the ice vent on the plane of the channel entrance falls within the channel inlet and is offset toward the first side.
The ice breaking system according to claim 1, wherein the ice exit passage has a passage outlet disposed away from an end of the passage inlet, the ice exit passage including a detachable first casing and a second casing a pair of fastening arrangements between the first housing and the second housing to assemble an assembly side of the ice exit channel, the mounting edges being all from the edge of the channel inlet to the The edge of the channel exit extends in the direction of the edge.
The ice crushing system according to claim 2, wherein the ice exiting passage further has a funnel-shaped ice-receiving inner cover integrally formed with an upper and lower through, wherein the ice-receiving inner cover is embedded in the ice receiving portion and The inner wall of the ice receiving portion is matched.
The ice crushing system according to claim 3, wherein at least a through hole is disposed in each of the first housing and the second housing at opposite positions on the ice receiving portion, The outer wall of the cover protrudes outwardly to form a convex portion that can be fitted into the through hole to fix the ice receiving cover to the inner side of the ice receiving portion.
The ice crushing system according to claim 1, wherein the ice crusher comprises a shaft seat provided with the ice discharge port at the bottom, a fixed shaft fixedly disposed on the shaft seat, and the fixed shaft Rotating a rotating drum disposed on the shaft seat for the rotation axis; the drum is further provided with a skate assembly, wherein the ice skate assembly includes at least one fixed ice skate fixed to the fixed shaft and at least one piece fixed to the The inner wall of the drum is rotatable with the rotating drum, the rotating ice skate having a first rotational direction that is rotated relative to the fixed ice knife to cut the ice in the drum into crushed ice.
The ice breaking system according to claim 5, wherein the ice discharging opening is disposed on one side of the fixed shaft and has a crushed ice discharge side for discharging crushed ice, and the rotating ice blade is along the first rotation When the direction is rotated, the rotating ice skate enters the upper space of the ice discharge opening directly from the crushed ice discharge side of the ice discharge port, and the fixed ice knife is disposed directly above the crushed ice discharge side or the crushed ice discharge side Near the top position.
The ice crushing system according to claim 5, wherein the rotating ice skates constituting the ice skate assembly and the fixed ice skates are staggered along the fixed axis from top to bottom.
The ice crushing system according to claim 5, wherein said rotating ice skate further has a second rotational direction opposite to said first rotational direction for directly pushing the whole ice into said ice discharge opening; An ice inlet baffle is disposed at the top of the drum, and the ice inlet baffle is fixed on the fixed shaft and has an ice inlet for the whole ice of the top of the drum to enter the inside of the drum, the ice inlet Located on one side of the fixed shaft, and in the first rotational direction, the front side and the rear side of the ice inlet are both provided in a sawtooth structure.
The ice breaking system according to claim 8, wherein in the first rotational direction, the ice inlet is offset from the ice discharge port.