CN213040815U - Ice making device and refrigerator with same - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to an ice making device and a refrigerator with the same, wherein the ice making device comprises a bracket, a plurality of ice making boxes, a plurality of driven gears, a driving gear and a knob, the bracket is provided with a front wall and a rear wall which are spaced from each other in front and back, and the front wall is provided with a via hole; a plurality of ice-making housings arranged side by side between the front wall and the rear wall; the ice making box comprises an ice making grid, a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft, the first rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the front wall, and the second rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the rear wall; the driven gear is correspondingly sleeved on the first rotating shaft; the driving gear is meshed and connected between two adjacent driven gears; the axis of the driving gear is provided with a linkage shaft, and the linkage shaft penetrates out of the through hole forwards to be connected with the knob. The utility model discloses the ice-making box rotates through first pivot and second pivot to be connected on the support, and on first pivot was located to the driven gear cover, the driving gear passed through the universal driving shaft and linked to each other with the knob, fixed on the antetheca of support to with the driven gear meshing, with the rapid Assembly who realizes ice-making device.

Description

Ice making device and refrigerator with same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to ice making device and refrigerator with same.

Background

With the development of social economy and the improvement of living standard of people, the functional requirements of users on the refrigerator are higher and higher, and if the refrigerator is required to be internally provided with an ice making device. The ice making device can be divided into a common ice making box, a rotary ice making box and an automatic ice making machine according to the structural complexity. The structure and cost of the ice making machine are increased in sequence, so that the common ice making box is suitable for low-end products, the rotary ice making box is suitable for middle-end products, and the full-automatic ice making machine is suitable for high-end products.

In the related art, the rotary ice making box generally includes a plurality of ice making units, a knob is provided corresponding to each ice making unit, and a user generally rotates each knob to drop ice cubes of the ice making units, which is inconvenient to use; and the existing rotary ice-making box has a complex structure and is inconvenient to assemble.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide an ice making device to simplify the structure of rotatory ice making device among the prior art, be convenient for its assembly.

An object of the utility model is also to provide a refrigerator to reduce the cost of refrigerator.

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:

according to one aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides an ice making device, which comprises a bracket having a front wall and a rear wall spaced from each other in a front-rear direction, wherein the front wall is provided with a via hole; a plurality of ice-making housings arranged side by side between the front wall and the rear wall; the ice making box comprises an ice making case, a first rotating shaft arranged at the front end of the ice making case and a second rotating shaft arranged at the rear end of the ice making case, the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are coaxially distributed, the first rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the front wall, and the second rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the rear wall; the driven gears are respectively sleeved on the first rotating shafts in a one-to-one correspondence manner; the driving gear is meshed and connected between two adjacent driven gears; a linkage shaft protruding forwards is arranged at the axis of the driving gear, and the linkage shaft penetrates out of the through hole forwards; and the knob is arranged on the front side of the bracket and is connected with the front end of the linkage shaft.

In some embodiments of the present application, the bracket is an integrally formed structure to simplify the structure of the bracket and reduce the cost of the ice making device.

In some embodiments of the present application, a connecting sleeve protruding backward is disposed on the front wall of the bracket, and a sleeve opposite to the connecting sleeve is disposed on the rear wall of the bracket; the front end of the first rotating shaft is rotatably connected into the connecting sleeve, and the rear end of the second rotating shaft is rotatably connected into the sleeve.

In some embodiments of the present application, a torsion spring is sleeved on the second rotating shaft; the front end of the torsion spring is abutted against the ice cube tray, and the rear end of the torsion spring is abutted against the sleeve; the front end and the rear end of the torsion spring are respectively provided with a torsion arm, the torsion arm at the front end of the torsion spring is clamped on the ice cube tray, and the torsion arm at the rear end of the torsion spring is clamped on the rear wall of the support.

In some embodiments of the present application, a limiting ring groove distributed around the via hole is concavely formed on the front end surface of the front wall of the bracket; the knob comprises a turntable and a rotary handle arranged on the front side of the turntable; the center of carousel with the front end of universal driving shaft links to each other, the carousel adaptation install in the spacing annular in order to rotate in the spacing annular.

In some embodiments of the present application, a fixture block is disposed at a front end of the linkage shaft, and the fixture block is located at a front side of the via hole; an accommodating groove corresponding to the clamping block is formed in the knob, and a clamping hook extending backwards is arranged in the accommodating groove; the clamping hook is buckled with the clamping block.

In some embodiments of the present application, a thrust anti-back structure is disposed on a circumferential wall of the first rotating shaft to prevent the driven gear from moving axially relative to the first rotating shaft.

In some embodiments of the present application, the anti-thrust anti-back structure includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion protruding from the circumferential wall of the first rotating shaft, respectively, and the first protrusion is located at a front side of the second protrusion; the first clamping convex is clamped on the driven gear to prevent the driven gear from moving to the front end of the first rotating shaft; the second clamping protrusion abuts against the rear end face of the driven gear.

In some embodiments of the present application, a through hole and a slot communicated with the through hole are formed in the driven gear; the first rotating shaft comprises a shaft wall part extending along the circumferential direction and a clamping strip part extending along the radial direction; the shaft wall part is provided with a notch, the shaft wall part is arranged in the through hole in a penetrating mode, and the first clamping protrusion and the second clamping protrusion are arranged on the outer wall of the shaft wall part; the clamping strip part extends out of the notch and is clamped with the clamping groove.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention further provides a refrigerator, wherein a refrigerating compartment is provided therein; the refrigerator is provided with the ice making device; the ice making device further comprises an outer frame and an ice storage box, the outer frame is arranged in the refrigerating chamber, the support stretches into and is erected in the outer frame, and the ice storage box is arranged in the outer frame and is located below the support.

According to the above technical scheme, the embodiment of the utility model provides an at least have following advantage and positive effect:

in the ice making device provided by the embodiment of the utility model, the ice making device comprises a support, an ice making box, a driven gear, a driving gear and a knob, when in assembly, the driven gear is sleeved on a first rotating shaft, and the ice making box is directly and rotatably connected on the support through the front and back first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft, so that the rotary connection between the ice making box and the support is more stable, the connection structure is convenient to simplify, and the cost is reduced; the driving gear is connected with the knob through the universal driving shaft to be assembled and fixed on the front wall of the support, and therefore the rapid assembly of the ice making device is achieved. Meanwhile, the gears are meshed and matched, so that the knob can drive the two ice making boxes to rotate simultaneously, the rotation control structure of the ice making device is simplified, and the production cost of the ice making device is further reduced. In addition, the ice-making device may be applied to a refrigerator to reduce the cost of the refrigerator.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an internal structure of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an ice making apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view of fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of an ice making apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of fig. 5 from another perspective.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a main body portion of the ice making device in fig. 2.

Fig. 8 is an exploded view of fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the structure of fig. 8 from another perspective.

Fig. 10 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 7.

Fig. 11 is a partially enlarged view of the area a in fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a partially enlarged view of the region B in fig. 10.

Fig. 13 is an exploded view of the ice making housing and the driven gear of fig. 8.

Fig. 14 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 13.

Fig. 15 is a schematic view showing an assembly structure of the knob, the driving gear and the driven gear of fig. 8.

Fig. 16 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 15.

The reference numerals are explained below:

100. a box body; 101. a refrigeration compartment;

200. an ice making device;

1. an outer frame; 11. a guide rail; 12. positioning a groove; 13. a water filling port;

2. an ice bank;

3. a support; 31. a front wall; 311. connecting sleeves; 312. a via hole; 313. a limiting ring groove; 32. a rear wall; 321. a sleeve; 33. a side frame; 331. positioning the projection;

4. an ice-making box; 41. an ice making grid; 42. a first rotating shaft; 421. a first snap projection; 422. a second snap projection; 423. a shaft wall portion; 4231. a notch; 424. a clamping strip part; 43. a second rotating shaft;

5. a knob; 51. a turntable; 52. turning a handle; 53. an accommodating groove; 54. a hook is clamped;

6. a driven gear; 61. a through hole; 62. a card slot;

7. a driving gear; 71. a gear body; 72. a linkage shaft; 73. a clamping block;

8. a torsion spring.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments that embody features and advantages of the present invention will be described in detail in the following description. It is to be understood that the invention is capable of other and different embodiments and its several details are capable of modification without departing from the scope of the invention, and that the description and drawings are to be regarded as illustrative in nature and not as restrictive.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and for simplicity in description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated in a particular manner, and are not to be construed as limiting the present application.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, features defined as "first", "second", may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the described features. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the description of the present application, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

With the development of social economy and the improvement of living standard of people, the functional requirements of users on the refrigerator are higher and higher, and if the refrigerator is required to be internally provided with an ice making device. The ice making device can be divided into a common ice making box, a rotary ice making box and an automatic ice making machine according to the structural complexity. The structure and cost of the ice making machine are increased in sequence, so that the common ice making box is suitable for low-end products, the rotary ice making box is suitable for middle-end products, and the full-automatic ice making machine is suitable for high-end products.

In the related art, the rotary ice making box generally includes a plurality of ice making units, a knob is provided corresponding to each ice making unit, and a user generally rotates each knob to drop ice cubes of the ice making units, which is inconvenient to use; and the existing rotary ice-making box has a complex structure and is inconvenient to assemble.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an internal structure of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1, the ice making apparatus 200 of the present embodiment can be applied to a low temperature refrigeration device such as a refrigerator and an ice chest, for example. The refrigerator includes a cabinet 100, a plurality of refrigerating compartments 101 may be provided in the cabinet 100, and an ice making device 200 is disposed in one of the refrigerating compartments 101.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an ice making apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3 is an exploded view of fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 2.

Referring to fig. 2 to 4, the ice-making device 200 of the present embodiment includes an outer frame 1, an ice-making body, and an ice bank 2.

The outer frame 1 serves as an external support member, and has a front opening for placing the ice-making body and the ice bank 2 into the outer frame 1 through the front opening, or pulling out the ice-making body and the ice bank 2 from the outer frame 1 through the front opening.

The inner walls of the left and right sides of the outer frame 1 are respectively provided with a guide rail 11, and the guide rails 11 are used for installing the ice making main body into the outer frame 1 along the guide rails 11 and are erected on the guide rails 11.

The ice-making main body is used for making ice and comprises a bracket 3, an ice-making box 4 and a knob 5. The ice making main body is erected on the guide rail 11 through the bracket 3; the ice-making box 4 is provided with a plurality of ice-making boxes 4, the ice-making boxes 4 are arranged in the bracket 3 side by side, and the knob 5 is used for driving the ice-making boxes 4 to rotate on the bracket 3.

In some embodiments, the bottom surfaces of the two sides of the bracket 3 are provided with positioning protrusions 331 protruding downward, and the guide rail 11 of the outer frame 1 is provided with positioning grooves 12 matching with the positioning protrusions 331, so that the bracket 3 is positioned and erected on the guide rail 11, the bracket 3 is prevented from moving back and forth on the guide rail 11, and the stability of the ice making main body is improved.

The ice bank 2 is located below the ice making body to store the made ice cubes.

When the ice-making device 200 is placed in the refrigerator, the outer frame 1 may directly serve as an ice-making chamber of the refrigerator. Cold air in the refrigerator enters the outer frame 1, the ice making box 4 of the ice making main body is cooled and made ice, and made ice falls into the ice storage box 2 below through rotation of the knob 5 to be stored, so that a user can pull out the ice storage box 2 to take the ice conveniently.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of an ice making apparatus 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of fig. 5 from another perspective.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, in some embodiments, the top of the outer frame 1 is provided with water inlets 13, and the water inlets 13 are correspondingly arranged above the ice making box 4 one by one, so that when water needs to be added to the ice making box 4, water is directly added from the water inlets 13 at the top of the outer frame 1, and the ice making main body does not need to be pulled out of the outer frame 1, thereby simplifying operation and facilitating use.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of the ice making main body of fig. 2. Fig. 8 is an exploded view of fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the structure of fig. 8 from another perspective.

Referring to fig. 7 to 9, the ice making main body further includes a driven gear 6, a driving gear 7, and a torsion spring 8.

The bracket 3 is of an integrated structure and comprises a front wall 31, a rear wall 32 and side frames 33 which are integrally formed. The front wall 31 and the rear wall 32 are oppositely distributed at a front-back interval; the two side frames 33 are respectively positioned at the left and right sides of the front wall 31 and the rear wall 32 and are used for connecting corresponding ends of the front wall 31 and the rear wall 32, so that the bracket 3 has a frame body structure, and the ice making box 4 is conveniently installed in the frame body. Wherein, the positioning protrusion 331 is formed on the bottom surface of the side frame 33.

The front wall 31 of the bracket 3 is provided with a plurality of connection sleeves 311 protruding backward, and the rear wall 32 of the bracket 3 is provided with sleeves 321 opposite to the connection sleeves 311 one by one.

A through hole 312 is formed in the front wall 31 of the bracket 3, and the through hole 312 penetrates through the front wall 31 of the bracket 3 along the front-back direction; the front end surface of the front wall 31 of the bracket 3 is concavely provided with a limit ring groove 313 distributed around the hole.

Fig. 10 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 7. Fig. 11 is a partially enlarged view of the area a in fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a partially enlarged view of the region B in fig. 10.

Referring to fig. 8 to 12, the ice making housing 4 includes an ice making case 41, a first rotating shaft 42 protruding forward from a front end of the ice making case 41, and a second rotating shaft 43 protruding rearward from a rear end of the ice making case 41. The first rotating shaft 42 is rotatably connected in the connecting sleeve 311 of the front wall 31; the second rotating shaft 43 is rotatably connected in the sleeve 321; the first rotating shaft 42 and the second rotating shaft 43 are coaxially arranged, so that the ice cube tray 41 can synchronously rotate along with the first rotating shaft 42 and the second rotating shaft 43.

A plurality of driven gears 6 are arranged, through holes 61 are formed in the centers of the driven gears 6, the driven gears 6 are respectively sleeved on the first rotating shafts 42 in a one-to-one correspondence mode through the through holes 61, and the driven gears 6 can synchronously rotate with the first rotating shafts 42; the driven gear 6 is spaced from the front wall 31 of the frame 3, and the driven gear 6 is not in contact with the connecting sleeve 311, so that the front wall 31 of the frame 3 and the connecting sleeve 311 can prevent the driven gear 6 from being blocked by the first rotating shaft 42 when rotating.

Fig. 13 is an exploded view of the ice making housing 4 and the driven gear 6 of fig. 8. Fig. 14 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 13.

Referring to fig. 13 and 14, in some embodiments, the circumferential wall of the first rotating shaft 42 is provided with a thrust anti-back structure, which is used for preventing the driven gear 6 from moving axially relative to the first rotating shaft 42, so as to ensure that the front and back positions of the driven gear 6 on the first rotating shaft 42 are unchanged.

The anti-thrust anti-back structure comprises a first clamping protrusion 421 and a second clamping protrusion 422 which respectively protrude from the peripheral wall of the first rotating shaft 42 in the circumferential direction, wherein the first clamping protrusion 421 is positioned on the front side of the second clamping protrusion 422.

The first protrusion 421 can be a point-shaped protrusion structure, and a plurality of point-shaped protrusions are circumferentially distributed on the circumferential wall of the first rotating shaft 42. The first protrusion 421 can be engaged with the through hole 61 of the driven gear 6 or engaged with the front end surface of the driven gear 6 to prevent the driven gear 6 from moving to the front end of the first rotating shaft 42.

The second protrusion 422 may have an annular rib structure, and the size of the second protrusion 422 is larger than the diameter of the through hole 61 of the driven gear 6, so that the annular rib abuts against the rear end surface of the driven gear 6 to prevent the driven gear 6 from moving to the rear end of the first rotating shaft 42.

In some embodiments, the anti-thrust anti-back-off structure may also adopt a threaded structure (not shown), that is, an external thread is provided on the peripheral wall of the first rotating shaft 42, an internal thread is provided in the through hole 61 of the driven gear 6, and the driven gear 6 is tightly screwed on the first rotating shaft 42 to ensure that the front and back position of the driven gear 6 on the first rotating shaft 42 is unchanged.

Still referring to fig. 13 and 14, in some embodiments, the first shaft 42 includes a circumferentially extending shaft wall portion 423 and a radially extending snap strip portion 424. The peripheral wall portion and the locking strip portion 424 are integrally connected, that is, the peripheral wall portion and the locking strip portion 424 can synchronously rotate around the axis of the first rotating shaft 42.

The shaft wall portion 423 has a notch 4231, and due to the existence of the notch 4231, the shaft wall portion 423 has an unclosed arc-shaped structure, the cross section of which is in an unclosed arc shape, and the first clamping protrusion 421 and the second clamping protrusion 422 are both arranged on the outer wall of the shaft wall portion 423.

The outer diameter of the shaft wall 423 is matched with the aperture of the through hole 61 of the driven gear 6, when the driven gear 6 is sleeved on the shaft wall 423, the inner wall of the through hole 61 presses the first clamping protrusion 421, and the shaft wall 423 can slightly contract and deform towards the axis center of the shaft wall 423 due to the hollow inside of the shaft wall 423 and the non-closed arc structure of the shaft wall 423, so that the first clamping protrusion 421 can pass through the through hole 61; when the first locking projection 421 passes through the through hole 61, the second locking projection 422 abuts against the rear end surface of the driven gear 6, so that the first locking projection 421 and the second locking projection 422 are matched to ensure that the front and rear positions of the driven gear 6 on the first rotating shaft 42 are unchanged; after the first protrusion 421 passes through the through hole 61, the shaft wall 423 may return to its original shape and closely contact the inner wall of the through hole 61.

A clamping groove 62 for clamping with the clamping strip portion 424 is further arranged in the through hole 61 of the driven gear 6; the catching groove 62 communicates with the through hole 61. When the driven gear 6 is sleeved on the shaft wall portion 423 through the through hole 61, the clamping groove 62 is just clamped with the clamping strip portion 424, the driven gear 6 can be prevented from circumferentially rotating on the shaft wall portion 423 through the clamping groove 62, and then the driven gear 6 and the first rotating shaft 42 are enabled to integrally rotate synchronously.

Fig. 15 is a schematic view showing an assembly structure of the knob 5, the driving gear 7 and the driven gear 6 in fig. 8. Fig. 16 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 15.

Referring to fig. 15 and 16, the driving gear 7 includes a gear body 71 and a linkage shaft 72 projecting forward from an axis of the gear body 71. The gear body 71 is integrally formed with the linkage shaft 72.

The gear main body 71 is distributed between two adjacent driven gears 6 and is respectively meshed with the two driven gears 6; the linkage shaft 72 passes through the through hole 312 on the front wall 31 and is connected with the knob 5 at the front side of the through hole 312. Wherein, the front end surface of the gear body 71 and the rear end surface of the knob 5 are respectively attached to the front wall 31 of the bracket 3, so as to ensure that the front and rear positions of the gear body 71 are unchanged when the driving gear 7 is arranged on the front wall 31 of the bracket 3; therefore, a user can rotate the knob 5 to rotate the gear body 71 about the linkage shaft 72, so as to drive the driven gears 6 at two sides to rotate, and further drive the ice cube tray 41 to rotate through the first rotating shaft 42, and after the ice cube tray 41 rotates 180 degrees, ice cubes on the ice cube tray 41 can fall off under the action of gravity and fall into the ice storage box 2.

In some embodiments, the knob 5 includes a dial 51 and a knob 52 provided on a front side of the dial 51; the center of the rotary disc 51 is connected with the front end of the linkage shaft 72, and the rotary disc 51 is installed in the limiting ring groove 313 on the front wall 31 of the bracket 3 in a matching manner so that the rotary disc 51 can rotate in the limiting ring groove 313 by taking the linkage shaft 72 as a shaft, and further the rotating position of the gear main body 71 is more accurate and stable. When the gear is used, the rotating handle 52 is rotated to drive the rotating disc 51 to rotate, and the linkage shaft 72 drives the gear main body 71 to rotate.

In some embodiments, the driving gear 7 further includes a latch 73 disposed at the front end of the linkage shaft 72, and the latch 73 is located at the front side of the through hole 312. The fixture block 73 and the linkage shaft 72 can adopt an integrally formed structure, the fixture block 73 and the front end of the linkage shaft 72 penetrate through the through hole 312 together, and the size of the fixture block 73 is smaller than that of the through hole 312; or the fixture block 73 and the linkage shaft 72 adopt a split structure, the front end of the linkage shaft 72 penetrates through the through hole 312 and then is connected with the fixture block 73 into a whole, and with the structure, the size of the fixture block 73 can be larger than that of the through hole 312.

The knob 5 is provided with an accommodating groove 53 corresponding to the clamping block 73, the accommodating groove 53 can be opened in the turntable 51 and the rotary handle 52, and a clamping hook 54 extending backwards is arranged in the accommodating groove 53; the plurality of hooks 54 may be provided, and when the block 73 extends into the receiving slot 53, the hooks 54 are fastened to the block 73, so that the knob 5 is stably connected to the linkage shaft 72, the knob 5 and the driving gear 7 can rotate synchronously, and the knob 5 can be assembled quickly.

Referring to fig. 9 and 11, the torsion spring 8 is sleeved on the second rotating shaft 43 of the ice making box 4, and the torsion spring 8 may be a coil spring, and the front end of the torsion spring abuts against the ice making box and the rear end of the torsion spring abuts against the sleeve 321; when the ice cube tray 41 is assembled, the second rotating shaft 43 moves backward along the sleeve 321, so that the torsion spring 8 is compressed, and the front end of the first rotating shaft 42 is inserted into the connecting sleeve 311 on the front wall 31 of the bracket 3; then the ice cube tray 41 is loosened, and the ice cube tray 41 is stabilized on the bracket 3 by the elasticity of the torsion spring 8, thereby realizing the rapid assembly.

Meanwhile, the front end and the rear end of the torsion spring 8 are respectively provided with a torsion arm (not shown), the torsion arm at the front end of the torsion spring 8 is clamped on the ice making box, and the torsion arm at the rear end of the torsion spring 8 is clamped on the rear wall 32 of the bracket 3. When the ice cube tray 41 rotates 180 degrees, and after the ice cubes on the ice cube tray 41 fall off, the knob 5 is loosened, and the ice cube tray 41 can return to the initial state under the reset action of the torsion spring 8. According to the above technical scheme, the embodiment of the utility model provides an at least have following advantage and positive effect:

in the ice making device 200 of the embodiment of the present invention, the ice making device 200 includes a bracket 3, an ice making box 4, a driven gear 6, a driving gear 7 and a knob 5, when assembling, the driven gear 6 is sleeved on the first rotating shaft 42, the ice making box 4 is rotatably connected to the bracket 3 through the first rotating shaft 42 and the second rotating shaft 43 in front of and behind the ice making box, so that the rotation connection between the ice making box 4 and the bracket 3 is more stable, the connection structure is simplified, and the cost is reduced; the driving gear 7 is connected with the knob 5 through the linkage shaft 72 to be assembled and fixed on the front wall 31 of the bracket 3, so that the rapid assembly of the ice making device 200 is realized; meanwhile, the knob 5 can drive the two ice making boxes 4 to rotate simultaneously by meshing and matching of the gears, so that the rotation control structure of the ice making device 200 is simplified, and the production cost is further reduced. In addition, the ice-making device 200 may be applied to a refrigerator to reduce the cost of the refrigerator.

While the present invention has been described with reference to several exemplary embodiments, it is understood that the terminology used is intended to be in the nature of words of description and illustration, rather than of limitation. As the present invention may be embodied in several forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, it should also be understood that the above-described embodiments are not limited by any of the details of the foregoing description, but rather should be construed broadly within its spirit and scope as defined in the appended claims, and therefore all changes and modifications that fall within the meets and bounds of the claims, or equivalences of such meets and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. An ice making apparatus, comprising:

the bracket is provided with a front wall and a rear wall which are spaced from each other front and back, and the front wall of the bracket is provided with a through hole;

a plurality of ice-making housings arranged side by side between the front wall and the rear wall; the ice making box comprises an ice making case, a first rotating shaft arranged at the front end of the ice making case and a second rotating shaft arranged at the rear end of the ice making case, the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are coaxially distributed, the first rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the front wall, and the second rotating shaft is rotatably connected with the rear wall;

the driven gears are respectively sleeved on the first rotating shafts in a one-to-one correspondence manner;

the driving gear is meshed and connected between two adjacent driven gears; a linkage shaft protruding forwards is arranged at the axis of the driving gear, and the linkage shaft penetrates out of the through hole forwards; and

and the knob is arranged on the front side of the bracket and is connected with the front end of the linkage shaft.

2. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stand is of an integrally formed construction.

3. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein a connection sleeve protruding rearward is provided on a front wall of the holder, and a sleeve opposite to the connection sleeve is provided on a rear wall of the holder;

the front end of the first rotating shaft is rotatably connected into the connecting sleeve, and the rear end of the second rotating shaft is rotatably connected into the sleeve.

4. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein a torsion spring is sleeved on said second rotary shaft;

the front end of the torsion spring is abutted against the ice cube tray, and the rear end of the torsion spring is abutted against the sleeve; the front end and the rear end of the torsion spring are respectively provided with a torsion arm, the torsion arm at the front end of the torsion spring is clamped on the ice cube tray, and the torsion arm at the rear end of the torsion spring is clamped on the rear wall of the support.

5. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a retainer ring groove is concavely formed on a front end surface of the front wall of the holder so as to surround the through hole;

the knob comprises a turntable and a rotary handle arranged on the front side of the turntable; the center of carousel with the front end of universal driving shaft links to each other, the carousel adaptation install in the spacing annular in order to rotate in the spacing annular.

6. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a latch is provided at a front end of the linkage shaft, the latch being located at a front side of the through hole;

an accommodating groove corresponding to the clamping block is formed in the knob, and a clamping hook extending backwards is arranged in the accommodating groove; the clamping hook is buckled with the clamping block.

7. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a thrust anti-receding structure is provided on a circumferential wall of the first rotary shaft to prevent the driven gear from moving axially relative to the first rotary shaft.

8. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the thrust anti-receding structure includes first and second protrusions circumferentially protruded from the circumferential wall of the first rotation shaft, respectively, the first protrusion being located at a front side of the second protrusion;

the first clamping convex is clamped on the driven gear to prevent the driven gear from moving to the front end of the first rotating shaft;

the second clamping protrusion abuts against the rear end face of the driven gear.

9. An ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein a through hole and a catching groove communicating with the through hole are provided in said driven gear;

the first rotating shaft comprises a shaft wall part extending along the circumferential direction and a clamping strip part extending along the radial direction;

the shaft wall part is provided with a notch, the shaft wall part is arranged in the through hole in a penetrating mode, and the first clamping protrusion and the second clamping protrusion are arranged on the outer wall of the shaft wall part;

the clamping strip part extends out of the notch and is clamped with the clamping groove.

10. A refrigerator is provided with a refrigerating chamber therein; characterized in that the refrigerator has the ice making device according to any one of claims 1 to 9;

the ice making device further comprises an outer frame and an ice storage box, the outer frame is arranged in the refrigerating chamber, the support stretches into and is erected in the outer frame, and the ice storage box is arranged in the outer frame and is located below the support.

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