Disclosure of Invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a refrigeration appliance for solving the above-mentioned problems.
In order to achieve the aim, the invention provides refrigeration equipment, which comprises a first compartment and a second compartment which are arranged along the height direction, a foaming cavity which is positioned between the first compartment and the second compartment, and an air duct component which is matched with a refrigeration component to supply air and return air to the second compartment, wherein the air duct component comprises an air supply structural part, an air supply channel and an air supply structure, wherein the air supply structural part is arranged in the foaming cavity and is communicated with the first compartment and the second compartment along the height direction, and an air supply channel which is used for conveying cold energy from the first compartment to the second compartment is arranged in the air duct component; the air return structure is integrally connected with the air supply structure along the length direction, and an air return channel which is independent of the air supply channel and is used for carrying out air return on the second compartment is arranged in the air return structure; the material guide opening penetrates through the groove at the joint of the air supply structural member and the air return structural member along the width direction and is communicated with the foaming cavity; the refrigerating equipment further comprises a material injection pipe which is arranged at the bottom of the refrigerating equipment and extends along the height direction, and the projection of the air supply structural part along the height direction covers the projection of the material injection pipe along the height direction.
As a further improvement of the invention, the air duct component comprises a base and a sealing cover buckled with the base, wherein the base and the sealing cover are buckled in a sealing way to form a relatively independent air supply channel and a relatively independent air return channel.
As a further improvement of the invention, the air duct assembly further comprises a fixing structure fixedly connected with the base and the sealing cover, wherein the fixing structure comprises a positioning part protruding from one of the base and the sealing cover, and a positioning groove concavely arranged from the other one and matched with the positioning part.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the air supply structural member further includes a guide portion disposed obliquely, and the oblique direction and angle of the guide portion are disposed according to the widths of the first compartment and the second compartment.
As a further improvement of the invention, a baffle part which extends to the direction far away from the first compartment is arranged on one side of the guide part far away from the guide opening and is perpendicular to the guide part.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the injection pipe is located directly below the flow guiding portion.
As a further improvement of the invention, the return air structural member is arranged on one side of the first compartment and one side of the second compartment in a fitting way.
As a further improvement of the invention, the air return structure further comprises at least two material guide ribs which are arranged at intervals, wherein the material guide ribs are ribs which are arranged on the surface of the air return structural member and far away from the air return channel.
As a further improvement of the invention, the air duct component is made of polystyrene foam.
As a further improvement of the invention, the inner walls of the base and the sealing cover are provided with a plurality of supporting parts.
Compared with the prior art, the refrigeration equipment disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the air duct component is simple in structure and convenient to install by arranging the integrated air supply structural component and the integrated air return structural component; in addition, the air supply structural member is arranged in the foaming cavity, and the projection of the air supply structural member along the height direction covers the projection of the injection pipe at the bottom of the refrigeration equipment along the height direction, so that most of foaming materials sprayed by the injection pipe flow to the top of the refrigeration equipment along the surface of the air supply structural member during foaming, and the sufficient foaming materials are ensured at the top of the refrigeration equipment; meanwhile, a part of foaming materials flow into the foaming cavity between the first compartment and the second compartment through the material guide opening on the air duct component, so that the middle part of the refrigeration equipment is also provided with enough foaming materials, the foaming uniformity of the refrigeration equipment is improved, and the performance of the refrigeration equipment is ensured.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments shown in the drawings. These embodiments are not intended to limit the invention and structural, methodological, or functional modifications of these embodiments that may be made by one of ordinary skill in the art are included within the scope of the invention.
It will be appreciated that terms such as "upper," "lower," "outer," "inner," and the like, as used herein, refer to spatially relative positions and are used for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. The term spatially relative position may be intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures.
The invention provides a refrigeration device, which comprises a first compartment and a second compartment which are arranged along the height direction, and a foaming cavity which is positioned between the first compartment and the second compartment.
In the present invention, the refrigeration device may be any device capable of providing a refrigeration storage function, such as a refrigerator or a freezer, and the refrigeration device includes a case 1 and a door body, and as shown in fig. 1, the case 1 includes a housing 101 and an inner container 103, and a foaming material is filled between the housing 101 and the inner container 103. The inner container 103 of the refrigerating apparatus defines the storage compartments 3, and the refrigerating apparatus may be provided with a plurality of storage compartments 3 having different temperatures according to the needs of a user, and continuously provides cold to the storage compartments 3 through a refrigerating assembly provided in the refrigerating apparatus.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the refrigerating apparatus is a refrigerator, and for convenience of description and understanding, a horizontal direction is defined as a length direction, a vertical direction is a height direction, and a direction perpendicular to a paper surface is a width direction based on an angle of this view. The refrigerating apparatus is provided with two storage compartments 3 in a height direction, namely, a first compartment 301 and a second compartment 303, and in particular, the first compartment 301 may be a freezing compartment provided at a lower portion of the refrigerating apparatus and the second compartment 303 may be a refrigerating compartment provided at an upper portion of the refrigerating apparatus. A foaming chamber 5 is further provided between the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303, the foaming chamber 5 being defined by the inner container of the first compartment 301, the inner container of the second compartment 303 and the outer shell 101 of the refrigerator, and when the refrigerator is in a use state, the interior of the foaming chamber 5 needs to be filled with sufficient foaming material to ensure that the temperatures of the two compartments do not affect each other.
In the present invention, the refrigerating apparatus further includes an air duct assembly 7 for supplying and returning air to the second compartment 303 in cooperation with the refrigerating assembly. In the present embodiment, the cooling unit of the cooling device is provided in the first compartment 301, and the air supply and return to the second compartment 303 are achieved by the air duct unit 7 provided in the casing 1 cooperating with the cooling unit.
The air duct assembly 7 includes: a blower structure 701 provided in the foaming chamber 5 and communicating the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303 in the height direction, and having a blower passage 7011 for conveying cooling energy from the first compartment 301 to the second compartment 303; the air return structure 703 is integrally connected with the air supply structure 701 along the length direction, and is internally provided with an air return channel 7031 which is independent of the air supply channel 7011 and is used for returning air to the second compartment 303; the material guiding opening 9 penetrates through the groove at the joint of the air supply structural member 701 and the air return structural member 703 along the width direction, and is communicated with the foaming cavity 5.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the air duct assembly 7 includes an integrally disposed air supply structural member 701 and an air return structural member 703, wherein the air supply structural member 701 is disposed in the foaming chamber 5, an air supply channel 7011 is disposed in the air supply structural member 701, and the air supply channel 7011 is communicated with the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303 along the height direction, so that the cooling capacity provided by the refrigeration device is transferred from the first compartment 301 to the second compartment 303. The air return structure 703 is integrally connected with the air supply structure 701 along the length direction, and an air return channel 7031 is provided in the air return structure 703 for returning air to the second compartment 303. The supply air duct 7011 and the return air duct 7031 are two relatively independent ducts. It will be appreciated that the air supply structure 701 is connected to the external structure of the return air structure 703, and that the air supply channel 7011 and the return air channel 7031 are not in communication.
In the embodiment of the invention, the air duct assembly 7 is further provided with a material guiding opening 9, the material guiding opening 9 is a groove positioned at the joint of the air supply structural member 701 and the air return structural member 703, and the material guiding opening 9 penetrates through the joint along the width direction, so that the material guiding opening 9 is communicated with the foaming cavity 5, but the material guiding opening 9 is not communicated with the air supply channel 7011 and the air return channel 7031. It will be appreciated that the size of the material guiding opening 9 is set according to the size of the connection between the air supply structural member 701 and the air return structural member 703, and the material guiding opening 9 is not limited in shape and may be rectangular, circular, etc. while ensuring communication with the foaming chamber 5, and is not communicated with the air supply channel 7011 and the air return channel 7031.
The refrigerating device further comprises a material injection pipe 11 arranged at the bottom of the refrigerating device and extending along the height direction, and the projection of the air supply structural member 701 along the height direction covers the projection of the material injection pipe 11 along the height direction.
The refrigeration equipment disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the air duct assembly 7 is simple in structure and convenient to install by arranging the integrated air supply structural member 701 and the integrated air return structural member 703; in addition, by arranging the air supply structural member 701 in the foaming cavity 5, the projection of the air supply structural member 701 along the height direction covers the projection of the injection pipe 11 at the bottom of the refrigeration equipment along the height direction, so that most of foaming materials sprayed by the injection pipe 11 flow to the top of the refrigeration equipment along the surface of the air supply structural member 701 during foaming, and the sufficient foaming materials at the top of the refrigeration equipment are ensured; meanwhile, a part of foaming material flows into the foaming cavity 5 between the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303 through the material guide opening 9 on the air duct assembly 7, so that the middle part of the refrigeration equipment also has enough foaming material, the foaming uniformity of the refrigeration equipment is improved, and the performance of the refrigeration equipment is ensured.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the air duct assembly 7 includes a base 705, and a sealing cover 707 fastened to the base 705, where the base 705 and the sealing cover 707 are sealed and fastened to form a relatively independent air supply channel 7011 and a relatively independent air return channel 7031. Wherein, the base 705 is attached to the inner container 103 of the refrigeration device, the outer contour of the sealing cover 707 is the same as that of the base 705, and the sealing cover 707 and the base 705 are buckled together to form an independent air supply channel 7011 and an independent air return channel 7031. Therefore, compared with the conventional separated air inlet and return duct structure, the air duct assembly 7 is simple in structure and convenient to install. Further, in the present embodiment, the material of the air duct assembly 7 is selected from polystyrene foam, which is light and low in cost compared with the conventional air inlet/outlet duct structure made of plastic.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the air duct assembly 7 further includes a fixing structure 13 fixedly connecting the base 705 and the sealing cover 707, and the fixing structure 13 includes a positioning portion 1301 protruding from one of the base 705 and the sealing cover 707, and a positioning groove 1303 concavely provided from the other to be matched with the positioning portion 1301. The air duct assembly 7 is simple in structure and convenient to assemble by matching the positioning part 1301 with the positioning groove 1303. In this embodiment, the inner walls of the base 705 and the sealing cover 707 are provided with a plurality of supporting portions 709, the supporting portions 709 may be ribs extending from the inner wall of the base 705 towards the center, the plurality of supporting portions 709 arranged at intervals enhance the structural strength of the base 705, the supporting portions 709 of the sealing cover 707 are identical to the base 705, it is only necessary to ensure that the supporting portions 709 of the base 705 and the supporting portions 709 of the sealing cover 707 do not interfere during assembly, and the plurality of supporting portions 709 arranged at intervals also enhance the structural strength of the sealing cover 707.
Because dimensional errors can occur in the base 705 and the sealing cover 707 in the production and processing inevitably, gaps appear at the interface positions of the assembled base 705 and sealing cover 707, so that water vapor in the return air channel 7031 easily overflows and adheres to the connecting gaps of the adjacent air supply channels 7011, and the interface positions of the base 705 and the sealing cover 707 of the air supply channels 7011 freeze. In the invention, the material guiding opening 9 arranged at the joint of the air supply structural member 701 and the air return structural member 703 can guide foaming material to flow into the foaming cavity 5, so that the foaming uniformity is ensured, and meanwhile, the material guiding opening 9 is filled with sufficient foaming material, thereby sealing the interface gap of the base 705 and the sealing cover 707 at the interface position due to production errors, and avoiding the problem of icing at the interface gap of the air return structural member 703 caused by the occurrence of air blow between the air supply structural member 701 and the air return structural member 703.
In the present invention, the air-blowing structure 701 further includes a guide portion 7013 disposed obliquely, and the oblique direction and angle of the guide portion 7013 are disposed according to the widths of the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303. The side of the guiding part 7013 away from the material guiding opening 9 is further provided with a blocking part 7015 extending perpendicular to the guiding part 7013 in a direction away from the first compartment 301. The filling pipe 11 is located directly below the diversion portion 7013. For convenience of description and understanding, the case 101 of the refrigerator case 101 opposite to the door body is defined as a rear case, a direction approaching the rear case is a rear side, and a direction approaching the door body is a front side. Specifically, when the width of the inner container 103 of the first compartment is smaller than the width of the inner container 103 of the second compartment 303, the flow guiding portion 7013 may be provided as a plane gradually inclined rearward from bottom to top. When the injection pipe 11 sprays foaming materials, most of the foaming materials can be intercepted by the flow blocking part 7015, and the foaming materials can flow to the top of the refrigeration equipment along the flow guiding part 7013 due to the fact that the flow guiding part 7013 is a plane which is obliquely arranged, so that the foaming uniformity of the refrigeration equipment is ensured.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the return air structural member 703 is provided on one side of the first compartment 301 and the second compartment 303 in a bonding manner. The return air structural member 703 further comprises at least two material guiding ribs 7033 arranged at intervals, and the material guiding ribs 7033 are ribs arranged on the surface of the return air structural member 703 and far away from the return air channel 7031. Specifically, the air supply structure 701 is located the foaming intracavity 5, the return air structure 703 links to each other with the air supply structure 701, the laminating of return air structure 703 set up in first room 301 with one side of second room 303, for example, can set up in the left side of air supply structure 701, guide bar 7033 is the bead that sets up towards the rear side along the surface of return air structure 703, the guide bar 7033 of a plurality of intervals setting can guide the foaming material to the side flow at return air structure 703 place, avoid because the barrier of return air structure 703, produce the inhomogeneous problem of foaming material filling, better assurance refrigeration plant's thermal insulation performance.
It should be understood that although the present disclosure describes embodiments, not every embodiment is provided with a separate embodiment, and that this description is for clarity only, and that the skilled artisan should recognize that the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments that will be understood by those skilled in the art.
The above list of detailed descriptions is only specific to practical embodiments of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent embodiments or modifications that do not depart from the spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.