CN1975296A - Refrigerator - Google Patents
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- 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
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- 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
- F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
- F25C1/00—Producing ice
- F25C1/22—Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds
- F25C1/24—Construction of moulds; Filling devices for moulds for refrigerators, e.g. freezing trays
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- 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
- F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
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- F25C5/22—Distributing ice particularly adapted for household refrigerators
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- 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
- F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
- F25C2500/00—Problems to be solved
- F25C2500/08—Sticking or clogging of ice
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- 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
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- 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
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Abstract
A refrigerator includes a freezing chamber with a freezing chamber door, an ice making device provided in the freezing chamber and making ice, and a dispenser part provided with an ice outlet and discharging the ice made in the ice making device to an external side of the refrigerator. The dispenser part includes an ice lever selectively operating a supply and a stoppage of ice, a cover member moving between a closing position closing the ice outlet and an opening position opening the ice outlet in cooperation with the ice lever, a cover opening and closing sensor sensing opening and closing of the cover member, and a display part displaying a signal corresponding to the opening and closing of the cover member, from the cover opening and closing sensor. The refrigerator is capable of sensing the opening state of a cover accurately and reducing loss of energy.
Description
The cross reference of related application
The application advocates the priority of the korean patent application of filing an application in Korea S Department of Intellectual Property on November 29th, 2005 10-2005-0115118 number, and it is for reference that the disclosure content of this application is incorporated this paper at this.
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerator.More specifically, relate to a kind of refrigerator with improved distributor mechanism.
Background technology
Usually, conventional refrigerator has and is used to make food (for example meat and fish) to remain below the refrigerating chamber of the temperature of freezing and is used to make food (for example fruits and vegetables) to remain on the refrigerating chamber that is higher than the temperature of freezing.Refrigerating chamber comprises ice maker, described ice maker by from outside water supply installation supply water refrigerating chamber, making the ice of preliminary dimension, and hold ice made in the ice-making compartment and partly be set in the front portion of refrigerating chamber door from the distributor mechanism of the drinking water of outside.
Disclose an example of conventional refrigerator in korean patent application 1997-0082482 number with this distributor mechanism part.The distributor mechanism of conventional refrigerator partly is provided with the ice outlet and is used to open and cut out the lid of ice outlet, and described ice outlet makes ice-making compartment can be connected to the distributor mechanism part when supply ice.
Yet, when ice by card (catch) in this lid or lid because fault when staying open, traditional refrigerator can be connected to outside refrigerating chamber with it and turn round.In this case, frost can be bonded in the ice outlet, and the temperature in the refrigerating chamber raises and the increase operation ratio, thus the consumption that increases electric power.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, by providing a kind of refrigerator that can detect the open mode of lid exactly and reduce energy loss can obtain one aspect of the present invention.
Aspect that the present invention is other and/or advantage part are in the following description set forth, and partly will know to present from specification, perhaps can learn from enforcement of the present invention.
By providing a kind of refrigerator can obtain these aforementioned and/or others of the present invention, wherein said refrigerator comprises: the refrigerating chamber with refrigerating chamber door; Be positioned at described refrigerating chamber and make the ice maker of icing; And the distributor mechanism part, described distributor mechanism partly comprises ice outlet and ice made in the described ice maker is discharged to the outside of described refrigerator that wherein said distributor mechanism partly comprises: optionally handle the supply of ice and the ice control lever that stops; Cover component, described cover component and described ice control lever are mobile between the closed position of closing the outlet of described ice and the open position of opening described ice outlet jointly; Detecting the lid of opening and closing of described cover component opens and closure sensor; And the display part, described display part shows from described lid opens and the signal of opening and closing corresponding to described cover component of closure sensor.
According to embodiments of the invention, described refrigerator further comprises: the alarm part that is used to notify user's signal; And controller, to open and closure sensor when detecting described cover component and opening when described lid above the scheduled time, described controller can be controlled described alarm and partly operate.
According to embodiments of the invention, described refrigerator further comprises decay part, when after described distributor mechanism is partly discharged, being removed when icing of described ice control lever with stop supplies by being pressed in ice, described decay part makes closing of described cover component postpone predetermined time delay, and wherein said controller is operated the delay of described alarm part to control to and postponed described predetermined time delay.
According to embodiments of the invention, described display part comprises display.
According to embodiments of the invention, described alarm partly comprises acoustic alert device and/or visual alarm device.
According to embodiments of the invention, described lid is opened and closure sensor comprises optical sensing means.
By providing a kind of refrigerator can obtain aforementioned and/or others of the present invention, described refrigerator comprises the refrigerating chamber with door and is arranged in the described refrigerating chamber to make the ice maker of ice, described refrigerator comprises: be used to hold the distributor mechanism part from the ice of described ice maker, and comprise: be used for ice is discharged to the outlet of described refrigerator outside; Be used for optionally ice being fed to the control lever of described refrigerator outside via described outlet; Be used for opening jointly and closing the lid of described outlet with described control lever; Be used to detect the sensor of opening and closing of described lid; And display, described display shows the signal of opening and closing corresponding to the described lid that described sensor detected.
According to embodiments of the invention, described refrigerator further comprises the alarm part, and described alarm partly comprises audio devices or the sighting device that is used to send the signal that described sensor detects, thereby sends the alarm that described lid is opened to the user.
According to embodiments of the invention, described lid moves between in the primary importance of opening corresponding to described lid and corresponding to the second place of described cover closing.
According to embodiments of the invention, described sensor detect opening of described lid and described refrigerating chamber the door open.
According to embodiments of the invention, described lid is connected to described outlet in rotatable mode.
According to embodiments of the invention, described refrigerator further comprises controller, described controller determines whether detect described lid at described sensor has pass by the preset time cycle after being in described primary importance place, and operates described alarm part at described predetermined period of time past tense.
According to embodiments of the invention, the user preestablishes the described preset time cycle.
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These and/or others of the present invention and advantage will be understood from below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the explanation of embodiment being become clear and is easier to, wherein:
Fig. 1 illustrates the front perspective view of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 illustrates the side cross-sectional view of the refrigerating chamber of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 illustrates the calcspar of refrigerator according to an embodiment of the invention; And
Fig. 4 is the flow chart of explanation according to refrigerator of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
Now will be at length with reference to embodiments of the invention, example of the present invention illustrates in the accompanying drawings, wherein identical reference symbol is represented components identical among in the whole text.Below with reference to graphic description embodiment with the explanation the present invention.
In explanation, adopted double door formula refrigerator as an example, but the present invention is not limited to the refrigerator of any specific type, and therefore can changes the embodiment of the invention.
In Fig. 1 to Fig. 3, refrigerator according to the present invention comprises and is provided with refrigeration and the main body 1 of refrigerating chamber 2 and 3, opens and close door 4 and 5, the ice-making compartment 70 of refrigeration and refrigerating chamber 2 and 3 and the distributor mechanism part 60 that ice is fed to the refrigerator outside respectively.
Refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 are set to the right side and the left side of partition wall respectively.Refrigerating-chamber door 4 and refrigerating chamber door 5 are connected to refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 respectively, in order to open and to close the opening of its front.In addition, door portion saddle (door guide) 6 by be arranged vertically door 4 with 5 inboard vertical to hold the article of bottle-type.In addition, in the top of refrigerating chamber 2, be arranged vertically inboard separated a plurality of shelves 7, and in the bottom of described refrigerating chamber, arranged a plurality of drawers 8 refrigerating chamber 2.
Ice making member 70 is set in the top of refrigerating chamber 3 and comprises the ice maker 71 that is used for ice making, and a plurality of shelf (not shown) and a plurality of drawer (not shown) are arranged vertically in the bottom of described refrigerating chamber.In addition, be provided with distributor mechanism part 60 in the front surface of refrigerating chamber door 5, in order to be supplied ice made in the ice making member 70 and from the water of refrigerator outside.
Ice maker 71 is set in the ice-making compartment 70, and so that water is fed to ice maker 71 from outside water supply installation (not shown), and ice storage compartment 10 is positioned in ice maker 71 belows to store the ice from ice maker 71.In addition, ice separates the motor (not shown) and is set in the end of ice maker 71, and in order to separating the ice of being made by ice machine 71, and ice test rod 73 is set at ice maker 71 belows, in order to detect the quantity of the ice in the ice storage compartment 10.
Guiding shell 15 is set in first end regions of ice container 11, and ice outlet 17 is set in the bottom of described ice container, ice is discharged to the targeting part 9 that is arranged in the refrigerating chamber door 5.Guiding shell 15 can be configured to around first end regions the ice outlet 17 of ice container 11 in being arranged on its underpart.
Ice delivery unit 12 is set in the inboard of ice container 11.Ice delivery unit 12 comprises the drive motor (not shown) in second end regions that is arranged in ice container 11, the rotating shaft 13 of the first distolateral extension from the drive motor (not shown) towards ice container 11 and the helical blade 14 that is connected to rotating shaft 13, and described ice delivery unit can export 17 ice of discharging in the ice storage compartment 10 towards ice.Helical blade 14 is with rotating shaft 13 rotations, to discharge the ice in the ice store tools 11 towards ice outlet 17.
Targeting part 9 forms and is connected to refrigerating chamber door 5, makes can be supplied to distributor mechanism part 60 by the ice of icing outlet 17.
Cover component 64 is connected to ice outlet 69 to open and to close ice outlet 69 in rotatable mode.Cover component 64 comprises the shape corresponding to ice outlet 69.Cover component 64 and ice control lever 62 co-operate.As shown in Figure 2, when ice control lever 62 was pressed, cover component 64 moved to the open position " B " of opening ice outlet 69, and when pushing of ice control lever 62 was removed, cover component 64 moved to the closed position " A " of closing ice outlet 69.For example, cover component 64 can be connected to ice outlet 69 in rotatable mode.Yet cover component 64 is not limited thereto, and can change if necessary.Although cover component 64 and ice control lever 62 co-operate more than have been described, yet lid 64 and ice control lever 62 can form one, for example.
Lid is opened and closure sensor 65 detects the open position " B " of opening ice outlet 69, makes ice-making compartment 70 can be connected to the outside.Lid is opened and closure sensor 65 can be made by the various optical sensing means that detect light.For example, lid is opened and closure sensor 65 can be configured to have optical sensor (photo sensor), proximity transducer (proximate sensor) and light sensor/sensor.
Alarm part 68 lid is opened and closure sensor 65 in the signal that detected send the user to so that the user can identification signal.Alarm part 68 comprises the acoustic alert device of the sense of hearing that stimulates the user and/or stimulates the visual alarm device of user's vision.The acoustic alert device can be set to buzzer or siren.The visual alarm device can be set to be similar to the display of aforesaid display part 67 and the extra lamp that can glimmer.
Open and closure sensor 65 when detecting opening of cover component 64 and surpassing the scheduled time when lid, controller 100 control alarm parts 68 are operated.
Refrigerator according to the present invention may further include decay part 66, when ice control lever 62 when being removed after being pressed in supply ice, described decay part can make cover component 64 to the closed position the mobile delay preset time of " A ".Decay part 66 is not limited to the delay device of any particular type, and therefore can change.For example, decay part 66 can comprise oil damper that is connected with cover component 64 and the air damper that is attached thereto.When being removed after discharging ice and when icing delivery unit 12 and stopping with close cap member 64 immediately by being pressed in of ice control lever 62, decay part 66 can prevent undischarged ice and stay phenomenon in the targeting part 9.Herein, the ice that is configured to time delay to make ice delivery unit 12 to be transported is seen and can be discharged to the outside fully.
Controller 100 control alarm parts 68 make the operation of alarm part 68 can postpone described time delay.
Will be by the operation according to refrigerator of the present invention be described below with reference to Fig. 4.
In operation 1, the user selects the type of ice by button part.Then, when ice control lever when being pressed, the ice delivery unit is driven, and cover component " A " moves to open position " B " from the closed position.Then, lid is opened and whether closure sensor detects cover component and open and the result is presented on the display part.Not only when lid moves to open position " B ", and when the door of refrigerating chamber is opened, lid is opened and closure sensor can detect opening of cover component and is presented on the display part.When determining that cover component is opened in operation 1, ice stored in the ice container is discharged to outside by targeting part via the ice outlet by the ice delivery unit.When the user was supplied ice and then remove ice the pushing of control lever, the ice delivery unit stopped.Then in operation 3, controller is judged at lid and is opened and whether closure sensor passes by the scheduled time after at first detecting the opening signal of cover component.Then, described process moves to operation 5 from operating 3, in operation 5, even also can determine whether to detect opening signal after passing by at the fixed time.If detect opening signal in operation 5, then described process moves to the operation 7 that controller is partly operated alarm.Therefore, the user can identify the fault of cover component, thereby deals with problems fast.
Simultaneously, for example, the user can preestablish the scheduled time.
As selection, have according to embodiments of the invention under the situation of decay part at refrigerator, decay part can make cover component to the closed position predetermined time delay of motion delay of " A ".Therefore, even pass by afterwards also and can open and closure sensor 65 when detecting opening of cover component by lid when time delay predetermined in operation 5, described process moves to operation 7, and its middle controller drives the alarm part to notify the fault of user's cover component.In this case, the scheduled time is configured to comprise time delay.
Can detect opening of unwelcome cover component exactly by this structure with quick correction.Therefore, can prevent that frost from sticking in the targeting part, and can prevent that the temperature of refrigerating chamber from raising.In addition, the increase that can prevent cooling down operation in advance causes the increase of electric power consumption.
As mentioned above, can detect the open mode of cover component exactly according to refrigerator of the present invention, thereby reduce energy loss.
Although illustrated and illustrated several embodiments of the present invention, yet those of ordinary skills will be understood that under the prerequisite that does not depart from principle of the present invention and essence and can change these embodiment that scope of the present invention is limited by claim and equivalents thereof.
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1. refrigerator comprises:
Refrigerating chamber with refrigerating chamber door;
Be positioned at described refrigerating chamber and make the ice maker of icing; And
Distributor mechanism part, described distributor mechanism partly comprise ice outlet and ice made in the described ice maker be discharged to the outside of described refrigerator,
Wherein said distributor mechanism partly comprises:
Optionally handle the supply of ice and the ice control lever that stops;
Cover component, described cover component and the co-operating of described ice control lever are with mobile between the closed position of closing the outlet of described ice and the open position of opening described ice outlet;
Detecting the lid of opening and closing of described cover component opens and closure sensor; And
Display part, described display part show from described lid opens and the signal of opening and closing corresponding to described cover component of closure sensor.
2. refrigerator according to claim 1 further comprises:
Be used to notify the alarm part of user's signal; And
Controller is opened and closure sensor when detecting described cover component and opening above the scheduled time when described lid, and described controller is controlled described alarm and partly operated.
3. refrigerator according to claim 2, further comprise decay part, remove when ice with stop supplies when described ice control lever is pressed from described distributor mechanism is partly discharged after at ice, described decay part makes closing the time delay that delay is scheduled to of described cover component
Wherein said controller is controlled the delay operation of described alarm part to postpone described predetermined time delay.
4. refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein said display part comprises display.
5. refrigerator according to claim 4, wherein said alarm partly comprise acoustic alert device and/or visual alarm device.
6. according to the described refrigerator of claim 1 to 5, wherein said lid is opened and closure sensor comprises optical sensing means.
7. refrigerator, described refrigerator comprise the refrigerating chamber with door and are arranged in the described refrigerating chamber to make the ice maker of ice that described refrigerator comprises:
Be used to hold distributor mechanism part, and comprise from the ice of described ice maker:
Be used for ice is discharged to the outlet of described refrigerator outside;
Be used for optionally ice being fed to the control lever of described refrigerator outside via described outlet;
Be used for described control lever co-operating to open and to close the lid of described outlet;
Be used to detect the sensor of opening and closing of described lid; And
Display, described display shows the signal of opening and closing corresponding to the described lid that described sensor detected.
8. refrigerator according to claim 7 further comprises the alarm part, and described alarm partly comprises audio devices or the sighting device that is used to send the signal that described sensor detects, thereby sends the alarm that described lid is opened to the user.
9. refrigerator according to claim 8, wherein said lid move between in the primary importance of opening corresponding to described lid and corresponding to the second place of described cover closing.
10. refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein said sensor detect opening of described lid and described refrigerating chamber the door open.
11. refrigerator according to claim 7, wherein said lid is connected to described outlet in rotatable mode.
12. refrigerator according to claim 9, further comprise controller, described controller determines whether detect described lid at described sensor has pass by the preset time cycle after being in described primary importance place, and operates described alarm part at described predetermined period of time past tense.
13. refrigerator according to claim 12, wherein the user preestablishes the described preset time cycle.
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