CN207095129U - Refrigerator with ice making function - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a refrigerator with an ice-making function. The refrigerator comprises a refrigerator, a refrigerator door for opening and closing the refrigerator, a freezer, and a mechanism arranged on the refrigerator door. The ice compartment, wherein the refrigerator also includes an ice-making evaporator compartment, an ice-making fan and an ice-making evaporator arranged in the ice-making evaporator compartment, and the ice-making evaporator passes through the air inlet duct and the return The air duct communicates with the ice-making compartment, and the cold air at the ice-making evaporator is transmitted to the ice-making compartment through the ice-making fan through the air intake duct, and the heat of the ice-making compartment is It is transmitted back to the ice-making evaporator compartment through the return air duct, and a part of the air intake duct or a part of the return air duct of one of the air intake duct and the return air duct is set in the in the refrigerator. The refrigerator with the ice-making function has less cooling capacity loss and high ice-making efficiency.

Description

refrigerator with ice maker

technical field

The utility model relates to the field of household appliances, in particular to a refrigerator with an ice-making function.

Background technique

In the prior art, the air duct is buried inside the side wall of the refrigerating room. Since the refrigerating room is relatively thin, and the air duct is connected to the ice-making compartment on the door body from the rear side of the freezing room, the air duct is relatively long and the cooling capacity of the air duct is low. The loss will be large, and the ice-making efficiency will be greatly affected. In addition, usually the ice-making room, the refrigerator room and the freezer room of the refrigerator share an evaporator, and the cooling capacity flows back and forth between the ice-making room, the refrigerator room and the freezer room, especially the smell of food in the refrigerator room is easy to enter the ice-making room, causing The ice cubes are mixed with the taste of other foods, which affects the quality and taste of the ice cubes. In addition, the sharing of one evaporator between multiple chambers also complicates the structure of the air duct. Furthermore, there is also a shared evaporator for the freezer and the ice-making room. Similarly, the taste of food in the freezer will also enter the ice-making room, thereby affecting the quality and taste of the ice cubes.

Utility model content

The purpose of the utility model is to provide a refrigerator with an ice-making function, which has less cooling capacity loss and higher ice-making efficiency.

In order to achieve one of the purposes of the above-mentioned utility model, an embodiment of the utility model provides a refrigerator with an ice-making function. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator, a refrigerator door for opening and closing the refrigerator, and a freezer. and the ice-making compartment provided in the refrigerator door, wherein the refrigerator also includes an ice-making evaporator compartment, an ice-making fan and an ice-making evaporator located in the ice-making evaporator compartment, the The ice-making evaporator communicates with the ice-making compartment through the air inlet duct and the air return duct, and the cold air at the ice-making evaporator is transported to the ice-making chamber through the air inlet duct by the ice-making fan. compartment, the heat of the ice-making compartment is transferred back to the ice-making evaporator compartment through the return air duct, and part of the intake air of one of the intake air duct and the return air duct The duct or part of the return air duct is arranged in the refrigerator compartment.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the air inlet duct includes a first section of air inlet duct arranged in the refrigerator compartment and a second section of air inlet duct arranged on the door of the refrigerator compartment, so One end of the first section of the air intake duct is connected to the ice-making evaporator, the other end of the first section of the air intake duct is provided with a first air port, and one end of the second section of the air intake duct is connected to the In the ice-making compartment, the other end of the second section of the air inlet duct is provided with a second air outlet. When the door of the refrigerator compartment is opened, the first outlet is separated from the second outlet. When the refrigerator compartment door When the door is closed, the first air port is in contact with the second air port so as to communicate with the first section of the air inlet duct and the second section of the air inlet duct.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the first section of the air inlet duct is arranged substantially horizontally.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the return air duct includes a first section of return air duct arranged in the refrigerator compartment and a second section of return air duct arranged on the door of the refrigerator compartment , one end of the first return air duct is connected to the ice-making evaporator, the other end of the first return air duct is provided with a third air outlet, and one end of the second return air duct It is connected to the ice-making compartment, and the other end of the second return air duct is provided with a fourth air outlet. When the door of the refrigerator compartment is opened, the third air outlet is separated from the fourth air outlet. When the door of the refrigerating room is closed, the third air port is in contact with the fourth air port to connect the first section of return air duct and the second section of return air duct.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the second section of the return air duct includes a first part of the return air duct that can be operatively separated from or communicated with the first section of the return air duct and is connected to the ice-making compartment. A second part of the return air duct communicated with and arranged at an angle to the first part of the return air duct.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, one end of the air inlet duct is connected to the ice-making evaporator, the other end of the air inlet duct is provided with a fifth air port, and the ice-making compartment is provided with The sixth air port, when the refrigerator door is opened, the fifth air port is separated from the sixth air port, and when the refrigerator door is closed, the fifth air port is connected to the sixth air port to connect the air intake channel It communicates with the ice-making compartment.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the connection position between the air inlet duct and the ice-making compartment is located above the connection position between the return air duct and the ice-making compartment.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the ice-making evaporator compartment is arranged in the refrigerator compartment.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the utility model, the refrigerator also includes an ice maker and an ice storage box arranged in the ice-making compartment, and the door of the refrigerator room is provided with an ice storage box and a door of the refrigerator room. The external channel and the distributor, the distributor communicates with the channel.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the refrigerator also includes a freezing evaporator, a freezing fan, and an air volume regulating device, the freezing evaporator supplies cold air to the refrigerating room and the freezing room, and the air volume regulating device is used to adjust the The air volume blown by the freezing fan into the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment.

As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present utility model, the refrigerator also includes a freezing evaporator, a freezing fan, a refrigeration evaporator, and a refrigeration fan. The refrigerator blows cold air to the refrigerator compartment through the refrigerator fan.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effect of the utility model lies in: the technical solution provided by the utility model, the ice-making evaporator communicates with the ice-making compartment through the air inlet duct and the return air duct, and A part of the air inlet or a part of the air return of one of the air inlet and the return air is set in the refrigerator, so that the loss of cooling capacity of the refrigerator is small, which further greatly improves the cooling capacity of the refrigerator. ice making efficiency.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of a refrigerator with ice-making function in the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the refrigerator with ice-making function in the first embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of a refrigerator with ice-making function in the second embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the refrigerator with ice-making function in the second embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic perspective view of a refrigerator with ice-making function in a third embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The utility model will be described in detail below in conjunction with the specific embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. However, these embodiments do not limit the present utility model, and the structural, method, or functional changes made by those skilled in the art according to these embodiments are all included in the protection scope of the present utility model.

In the description of specific embodiments of the present invention, the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "bottom", " The orientation or positional relationship indicated by "inside" and "outside" is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the attached drawings, usually with reference to the normal use of the refrigerator, rather than indicating that the indicated position or element must have a specific orientation .

As shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the first preferred embodiment provided by the utility model discloses a refrigerator with an ice-making function, the refrigerator includes a refrigerating chamber 10, and is used to open and close the refrigerating chamber 10 The refrigerator compartment door 12, the freezer compartment 14 and the ice-making compartment 16 located at the refrigerator compartment door 12. The refrigerator also includes a freezer compartment door 18 for opening and closing the freezer compartment 14 .

The refrigerator also includes an ice-making evaporator compartment 20, an ice-making fan 22 and an ice-making evaporator 24 located in the ice-making evaporator compartment 20, and the ice-making evaporator 24 communicates with the ice-making evaporator through the air inlet duct and the return air duct. The ice-making compartment 16 is connected, and the cold air at the ice-making evaporator 24 is transported to the ice-making compartment 16 via the ice-making fan 22 through the air intake duct, thereby providing cooling capacity for the ice-making compartment 16 to make ice. The heat of the ice-making compartment 16 is transmitted back to the ice-making evaporator compartment 20 through the return air duct, so that the heat of the ice-making compartment 16 is taken away by the circulation of the wind. In this preferred embodiment, a part of the air intake duct or a part of the return air duct of one of the air intake duct and the air return duct is arranged in the refrigerator compartment 10 . Specifically, part of the air intake duct may be arranged in the refrigerator compartment 10 or part of the return air duct may be arranged in the refrigerator compartment 10 . Wherein, the refrigerating room 10 is surrounded by the left side wall 30, the rear side wall 32, the right side wall 34 and the upper side wall 36, and adopts part of the air inlet air duct to be set in the refrigerating room 10 or part of the return air duct to be located in the refrigerating room. In the chamber 10, instead of being located in the side wall of the refrigerating chamber 10, the cold energy entering the ice-making compartment 16 is avoided from dissipating through the side wall of the refrigerating chamber 10, thereby greatly reducing the cooling loss of the refrigerator, and further greatly Improved ice production efficiency.

In this preferred embodiment, the connection position between the air inlet duct and the ice-making compartment 16 is above the connection position between the return air duct and the ice-making compartment 16 .

In addition, the refrigerator also includes an ice maker 38 and an ice storage box 40 located in the ice-making compartment 16, and the door 12 of the refrigerator compartment is provided with a channel 42 and a distributor that communicate with the outside of the ice storage box 40 and the door 12 of the refrigerator compartment. 44 , the distributor 44 communicates with the channel 42 . Ice produced by the ice maker 38 may fall into an ice storage bin 40 located below the ice maker 38 , then pass through a channel 42 , and finally be dispensed into user containers by a dispenser 44 .

In this preferred embodiment, the refrigerator also includes a refrigerating evaporator 46, a refrigerating fan 48, a refrigerating evaporator 50, and a refrigerating fan 52. The refrigerating evaporator 46 blows cold air to the freezing chamber 14 through the refrigerating fan 48, and the refrigerating evaporator 50 blows cold air to the freezing chamber 14 through the refrigerating fan 48. 52 to blow cold air to the refrigerator compartment 10 .

The air intake duct includes a first section air intake duct 54 located in the refrigerator compartment 10 and a second section air intake duct 56 located on the refrigerator door 12, and one end of the first section air intake duct 54 communicates with the system. In the ice evaporator 24, the other end of the first section of the air inlet duct 54 is provided with a first air outlet 60, one end of the second section of the air intake duct 56 is connected to the ice making room 16, and the other end of the second section of the air intake duct 56 is provided with a The second tuyere 62. Wherein when the refrigerator door 12 is opened, the first air port 60 is separated from the second air port 62, so that the first section of the air inlet duct 54 is disconnected from the second section of the air inlet duct 56; A tuyere 60 is connected to the second tuyere 62 to connect the first section of the air inlet duct 54 and the second section of the air inlet duct 56, so that the cold air at the ice-making evaporator 24 passes through the ice-making fan 22 through the first section of the air inlet. The air duct 54 and the second section of the air intake duct 56 are transported to the ice-making compartment 16 for ice making.

Specifically, the ice-making evaporator compartment 20 is disposed in the refrigerator compartment 10 . Further, the ice-making evaporator compartment 20 is disposed adjacent to the bottom 64 of the refrigerator compartment 10 and adjacent to the rear side wall 32 of the refrigerator compartment 10 , and the first section of the air inlet duct 54 is substantially horizontally disposed. Of course, the first section of the air inlet duct 54 can also be set in other angles. In this preferred implementation, the door 12 of the refrigerating room 16 provided with the ice-making compartment 16 is arranged on the left side wall 30 of the refrigerating room 10, and the first section of the air inlet duct 54 is arranged adjacent to the left side wall 30, so that the number of air inlet ducts can be reduced. The length further reduces the cooling loss.

In addition, the return air duct includes a first section of return air duct 66 located in the refrigerator compartment 10 and a second section of return air duct 68 located on the door 12 of the refrigerator compartment. One end is connected to the ice-making evaporator 24, the other end of the first return air duct 66 is provided with a third air outlet 70, one end of the second return air duct 68 is connected to the ice-making compartment 16, and the second return air The other end of the air duct 68 is provided with a fourth air port 72. When the refrigerator compartment door 12 is opened, the third air port 70 is separated from the fourth air port 72, so that the first section of the return air duct 66 is separated from the second section of the air return duct. 68 disconnected. When the refrigerator door 12 is closed, the third air port 70 is connected to the fourth air port 72 so as to connect the first section return air duct 66 and the second section return air duct 68, so that the ice-making compartment 16 The heat is transferred back to the ice-making evaporator compartment 20 through the first return air duct 66 and the second return air duct 68 .

As shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the second preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, the difference between this preferred embodiment and the first preferred embodiment is that the setting of the air inlet duct is different, and in this embodiment, the refrigerator compartment and the freezer The chambers share one evaporator. The differences between this embodiment and the first embodiment will be described in detail below, and the others will not be described in detail.

In this embodiment, the air inlet duct 74 is only arranged in one section, and is arranged in the refrigerator compartment 10, wherein one end of the air inlet duct 74 communicates with the ice-making evaporator 24, and the other end of the air inlet duct 74 is provided with a second There are five air outlets 76, and the ice-making compartment 16 is provided with a sixth air outlet 78. When the refrigerator door 12 is opened, the fifth air port 76 is separated from the sixth air port 78, so that the air inlet duct 74 is separated from the ice-making compartment 16; when the refrigerator door 12 is closed, the fifth air port 76 is separated from the sixth air port. The tuyere 78 is butted to connect the air inlet duct 74 with the ice-making compartment 16, so that the cold air at the ice-making evaporator 24 is transported to the ice-making compartment 16 through the air inlet duct 74 via the ice-making fan for making ice. ice.

The air intake duct 74 is disposed adjacent to the left side wall 30 of the refrigerator compartment 10 , and the air intake duct 74 is disposed at an angle to the horizontal direction. In this way, the length of the air inlet duct 74 is shortened, the loss of cooling capacity is reduced, and the cooling efficiency is further improved. In this preferred embodiment, the arrangement of the return air duct is the same as that in the first embodiment, so no detailed description will be given here.

In this preferred embodiment, the refrigerating chamber 10 and the freezing chamber 14 share an evaporator. Specifically, the refrigerator includes a refrigerating evaporator 80, a refrigerating fan 82 and an air volume regulating device (not shown). The refrigerating evaporator 80 supplies cold air to the refrigerating chamber 10 and the freezing chamber 14. The air volume of the chamber 10 and the freezer chamber 14.

As shown in Figure 5, the third preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, in this preferred embodiment, the arrangement of the air inlet duct is similar to that of the first embodiment, in addition, the setting and arrangement of the evaporator are the same as those of the first embodiment, The difference from the first preferred embodiment is that the setting of the return air duct is different. The difference between this embodiment and the first embodiment will be described in detail below, and the others will not be described in detail.

In this preferred embodiment, the return air duct also includes a first section return air duct 84 located in the refrigerator compartment 10 and a second section return air duct 86 located on the refrigerator compartment door 12, which is the same as that in the first embodiment. The difference is that the first section of return air duct 84 is set at an angle to the horizontal direction. The second section of return air duct 86 includes a first part of return air duct 88 that can be operatively separated from or communicated with the first section of return air duct 84 and communicates with the ice-making compartment 16 and is connected to the first part of the return air duct. 88 is an angled second part of the return air duct 90 .

Specifically, one end of the first part of the return air duct 88 communicates with the second part of the return air duct 90, the other end of the first part of the return air duct 88 is provided with a seventh air port 92, and the first part of the return air duct 84 One end communicates with the ice-making evaporator 24 , and the other end of the first return air passage 84 is provided with an eighth air outlet 94 . When the refrigerator door 12 is opened, the seventh air port 92 is separated from the eighth air port 94, so that the first return air duct 84 is disconnected from the first return air duct 88; when the refrigerator door 12 is closed, the second The seventh air outlet 92 is in contact with the eighth air outlet 94 to connect the first return air duct 84 with the first partial return air duct 88 .

It should be understood that although this description is described according to implementation modes, not each implementation mode only contains an independent technical solution, and this description in the description is only for clarity, and those skilled in the art should take the description as a whole, and each The technical solutions in the embodiments can also be properly combined to form other embodiments that can be understood by those skilled in the art.

The series of detailed descriptions listed above are only specific descriptions for the feasible implementation modes of the present utility model, and they are not used to limit the protection scope of the present utility model. Embodiments or modifications should be included within the protection scope of the present utility model.

Claims (10)

1. a kind of refrigerator with ice making function, the refrigerator includes refrigerating chamber, for opening and closing the cold of the refrigerating chamber Zang Shixiangmen, refrigerating chamber and the ice making compartment located at the refrigerating chamber chamber door, it is characterised in that：The refrigerator also includes ice making and steamed Device compartment is sent out, the ice making blower fan and ice making evaporator indoor located at the ice making evaporator, the ice making evaporator is by entering Wind air channel and return airway are connected with the ice making compartment, and the cold air at the ice making evaporator passes through institute via ice making blower fan State wind inlet channel and be transferred to the ice making compartment, the heat of the ice making compartment is transmitted back to the ice making by the return airway The part wind inlet channel or part return airway of one of evaporator compartment, the wind inlet channel and the return airway are located at In the refrigerating chamber；

The return airway includes the first paragraph return airway being located in the refrigerating chamber and on the refrigerating chamber chamber door Second segment return airway, one end of the first paragraph return airway are communicated in the ice making evaporator, the first paragraph return air wind The other end in road is provided with the 3rd air port, and one end of the second segment return airway is communicated in the ice making compartment, the second segment The other end of return airway is provided with the 4th air port, when the refrigerating chamber chamber door is opened, the 3rd air port and the 4th wind Mouthful separate, when the refrigerating chamber chamber door is closed, the 3rd air port is relative with the 4th air port to be connect with by the first paragraph Return airway is connected with second segment return airway.

2. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the wind inlet channel includes being located at institute The first paragraph wind inlet channel in refrigerating chamber and the second segment wind inlet channel on the refrigerating chamber chamber door are stated, the first paragraph enters The one end in wind air channel is communicated in the ice making evaporator, and the other end of the first paragraph wind inlet channel is provided with the first air port, described One end of second segment wind inlet channel is communicated in the ice making compartment, and the other end of the second segment wind inlet channel is provided with the second wind Mouthful, when the refrigerating chamber chamber door is opened, first air port separates with second air port, when the refrigerating chamber chamber door is closed When, first air port is relative with second air port to be connect so that the first paragraph wind inlet channel and second segment wind inlet channel to be connected It is logical.

3. the refrigerator according to claim 2 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the first paragraph wind inlet channel is substantially It is horizontally disposed.

4. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the second segment return airway includes It can be connected by the Part I return airway that operatively separates or connect with first paragraph return airway and with the ice making compartment And it is at an angle of the Part II return airway set with the Part I return airway.

5. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that one end connection of the wind inlet channel In the ice making evaporator, the other end of the wind inlet channel is provided with the 5th air port, and the ice making compartment is provided with the 6th air port, when When the refrigerating chamber chamber door is opened, the 5th air port separates with the 6th air port, when the refrigerating chamber chamber door is closed, tendencies Mouth is relative with the 6th air port to be connect so that wind inlet channel and ice making compartment to be connected.

6. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the wind inlet channel and the ice making The link position of compartment is located at the top of the return airway and the link position of the ice making compartment.

7. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the ice making evaporator compartment is located at In the refrigerating chamber.

8. the refrigerator according to any one of claim 1 to 7 with ice making function, it is characterised in that the refrigerator is also Including the ice machine and ice bank located at the ice making compartment, ice bank and refrigeration chamber are communicated with the refrigerating chamber chamber door The passage and distributor of the outside of door, the distributor are connected with the passage.

9. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that refrigerator also include refrigerating evaporator, Blower fan and volume adjusting apparatus are freezed, the refrigerating evaporator is the refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber supplies cold air, and the air quantity is adjusted Regulating device is used to adjust the air quantity that the freezing blower fan is blown into the refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber.

10. the refrigerator according to claim 1 with ice making function, it is characterised in that refrigerator also include refrigerating evaporator, Blower fan, refrigeration evaporator and refrigeration blower fan are freezed, cold wind is blown to described cold by the refrigerating evaporator by the freezing blower fan Freeze room, cold wind is blown to the refrigerating chamber by the refrigeration evaporator by the refrigeration blower fan.