Classifications

• • 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
  • F25D17/00—Arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces
  • F25D17/04—Arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces for circulating air, e.g. by convection
  • F25D17/042—Air treating means within refrigerated spaces
  • F25D17/047—Pressure equalising devices
• • 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
  • F25D23/00—General constructional features
  • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a housing for a refrigeration device with a pressure compensation valve.
• Such a pressure compensation valve must have a large diameter in order to enable a rapid pressure compensation largely noiseless.
• Such a pressure compensation valve is a weak point in the insulation of the refrigerator, wherein the heat flow into the interior greatly increases with the diameter of the pressure compensation valve.
• Object of the present invention is therefore to output a housing for a refrigeration device with pressure compensation valve, on the one hand allows a noiseless or at least very quiet pressure equalization, but on the other hand avoids a strong heat flow through the pressure equalization valve.
• the object is achieved in that in a housing for a refrigeration device in which in a passage of a wall of the housing a pressure compensation valve is housed, the passage is provided on at least one side of the wall with an air-permeable cover.
• an air-permeable cover does not disturb the pressure balance, but it hinders slow flow of air, as caused in particular by convection.
• the cover is a grid.
• the cover may also be a plate covering the passage which should, however, be kept spaced from the wall containing the pressure compensating valve so as not to obstruct the inflow or outflow of air to and from the pressure compensating valve during pressure equalization.
• the cover may be provided with an anchoring portion engaging in the opening.
• the cover is attached to the inside of the wall. Namely, if the cover is attached to the outside, it may happen that the dew point is undershot between the cover and the pressure compensating valve, so that condensation may continuously be precipitated. In the case of the inside cover this danger does not exist, because then the area between
• Pressure compensation valve and cover is warmer than the interior communicating with it. This also reduces the tendency of the air flowing into the housing during a pressure equalization process to freeze the pressure balance valve.
• the cover of the pressure compensation valve can be made very inconspicuous by being integrated into a frame surrounding an opening of the channel.
• the frame also includes a grid covering the opening of the air duct.
• the pressure compensation valve is preferably mounted in a door of the housing, since there is the lowest probability that in a pressure equalization by waste heat of the refrigerator heated air is sucked into the interior.
• the pressure compensating valve can be easily formed by a received in the passage, kinked elastic sheet having abutting an inner wall of the passage edges.
• Fig. 1 is a view of a refrigerator according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a pressure compensation valve used in the refrigerator of FIG. 1, partly in section and partly in perspective view
• Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of Fig. 1;
• FIG. 4 shows a section through a passage-mounted cover according to a first embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view of a refrigerator door according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows a housing for a built-in refrigeration device with a body 1 and a hinged to the body 1, shown in a partially open position door 2.
• the door carries on its rear side facing away from the viewer a known per se, not shown here magnetic seal, in the closed position largely airtight on the front side 3 of the body rests, so that when air cools in an interior 4 of the device, it creates a negative pressure, the door 2 with great force against the front 3 depressed, unless action is taken for a pressure equalization between the interior 4 and the environment.
• a pressure compensation valve 5 is arranged slightly eccentrically in an upper region of the door. In the installed state of the refrigerator, the valve is not visible, since the door 2 is then covered with a decor panel, not shown in Fig. 1. This decorative plate is held at a distance of a few millimeters from the door 2, so that it does not obstruct the inflow of air to the pressure compensating valve 5.
• Fig. 2 shows the pressure compensation valve 5 and its surroundings partly in section, partly in a perspective view.
• a piece of the metallic outer skin of the door is designated 6.
• An inner skin is formed by a deep-drawn plastic shell, which is tightly connected at their edges, not shown, with the metal sheet of the outer skin.
• a section of the inner container is designated 7.
• an opening 9 is cut, which has the shape of a circle, reduced by two segments on opposite sides.
• a first sleeve 10 has been inserted and locked before joining the inner container 7 with the outer skin 6 from the side facing away from the viewer.
• the sleeve 10 is provided at its end facing the viewer with a flange 11, which, like the opening 9, has the shape of a circle with omitted lateral segments and therefore fits through the opening 9 in an orientation rotated by 90 ° relative to the orientation shown, and in FIG Oriented orientation is locked to her.
• notches 26 are shown for attachment of a cover, not shown in Fig. 2.
• locking notches or projecting locking fingers could also be formed on the sleeve 10, in particular on its flange 11.
• the inner container 7 is clamped in the configuration shown between the flange 11 and an elastically against the outer skin facing side of the inner container 7 pressing annular flange 12.
• the outer diameter of the annular flange 12 is larger than that of the opening 9, so that - not shown in Fig. 2 - insulation material, which fills the space between the outer skin 6 and inner container 7, can not get to the opening 9.
• a second annular flange 13 of smaller diameter than the first annular flange 12 is formed on the sleeve 10 adjacent to the outer skin 6 facing the end.
• This annular flange 13 is elastically on the inside of a conically widened portion 14 of a second sleeve 15 at.
• the sleeve 15 is fixed in the same manner as the sleeve 10 to the outer skin 6 by clamping it between a voltage applied to the outside of the outer skin 6 flange 16 and a voltage applied to the inner elastic annular flange 17.
• the elasticity of the annular flange 13 allows during assembly a displacement of the two sleeves 10, 15 against each other, through which a variable thickness of the door is compensated.
• the sleeve 15 is also mounted on the outer skin 6 prior to its assembly with the inner container 7.
• the expanded shape of the portion 14 favors the penetration of the sleeve 10 in the sleeve 15th
• the section 14 is followed by a short cylindrical section 18 of the sleeve 15, in which the sleeve 10 is held in a form-fitting manner.
• the free end of the sleeve 10 extends into a cup-like widening 19 of the sleeve 15, which adjoins the cylindrical portion 18 and which carries the flange 16 and the annular flange 17.
• the insulating material facing surface of the annular flange 13 assumes a concave shape.
• the interior of the sleeve 10 is divided by a longitudinal wall 20 diametrically.
• an elastic sheet 21 made of plastic is held astride.
• the blade 21 is of substantially elliptical shape so that its edges can snugly fit snugly against the sleeve 10 along its entire length.
• cap part 22 can be pushed out of the sleeve 10 of the internal pressure, on the one hand by the cap part 22 narrows the free cross section of the sleeve 10, on the other by a crossbar 23 which extends diametrically through a central opening 24 of the cap part 22.
• Fig. 4 shows a section of the inner container 7 with the recess 8 tightened thereto, a piece of the sleeve 10 and a cover 27 according to a first embodiment of the
• the cover 27 here comprises a circular, solid plate 28 corresponding to the shape of the depression 8, from the rear side of which locking fingers 29 and spacers 30 protrude.
• the locking fingers 29 engage in the notches 26 of the recess 8, wherein the rings around the recess 8 the inner container 7 contacting spacers 30 keep a gap 31 around the edge of the recess 8 open.
• a width of the gap 31 of a few millimeters is sufficient to an unhindered spread at a
• a cover 27 ' is mounted in the form of a grid in front of the recess 8.
• the grid 27 ' is located directly on the inner container 7 and is anchored by means of hairpin-shaped latching fingers 29' in the notches 26.
• the Grid includes a plurality of slanted slats 32, between which air that has passed the pressure compensation valve 5, can flow freely through, but block the view from the inside of the elastic sheet 21 of the pressure compensation valve 5 and thus not completely avoidable in normal operation icing of the Hide leaf 21.
• the fins 32 could also be oriented horizontally so as to affect as little as possible a flow of air flowing from the pressure balance valve into the interior; they also help to hide the icing of leaf 21, as they obscure the interior of pod 10.
• FIG. 6 A further embodiment of the invention is shown in Fig. 6 with reference to a perspective view of the inside of the refrigerator door 2.
• the door 2 shown in this figure belongs to a refrigeration device, the interior of which is subdivided into two chambers which can be temperature-controlled separately by circulation of cold air.
• An evaporator chamber as a source of cold air is arranged under the ceiling of the body of the refrigerator and supplies an upper storage chamber directly and a lower storage chamber via a guided in the rear wall of the body conduit with cold air.
• a return line through which air from the lower storage chamber flows back to the evaporator chamber extends vertically inside the door 2 and has at its upper edge an outlet opening 33, which is opposite to an inlet of the evaporator chamber with the door closed.
• the outlet port 33 is bordered by a plastic molded frame 34 which is snapped onto an inner wall 35 of the door or attached in any other suitable manner.
• the dimensions of the frame 34 are significantly larger than those of the outlet opening 33; it also covers the passage in which the pressure compensation valve 5 is housed. Accordingly, two windows are formed in an otherwise closed plate of the frame 34, one corresponding to the outlet opening 33 and another 36 behind which the passage of the pressure compensating valve 5 is located. Both windows are made inconspicuous by a pattern of parallel horizontal ribs 37 which extends substantially over the entire area of the frame 34 including the windows formed thereon, thus assuming the function of the slats 32 of Figure 5 for the window 36 of the pressure compensating valve.

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