EP2376848A2 - Appareil frigorifique comprenant un dispositif de distribution de glace et/ou de liquide - Google Patents

Appareil frigorifique comprenant un dispositif de distribution de glace et/ou de liquide

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EP2376848A2
EP2376848A2 EP09799559A EP09799559A EP2376848A2 EP 2376848 A2 EP2376848 A2 EP 2376848A2 EP 09799559 A EP09799559 A EP 09799559A EP 09799559 A EP09799559 A EP 09799559A EP 2376848 A2 EP2376848 A2 EP 2376848A2
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recess
door
wall
heat
insulating
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Yufa Bai
Wuba Lei
Alexander Rupp
Gang Yu
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BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
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BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
    • F25D23/126—Water cooler
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/20—Distributing ice
    • F25C5/22—Distributing ice particularly adapted for household refrigerators
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C2400/00—Auxiliary features or devices for producing, working or handling ice
    • F25C2400/10—Refrigerator units
    • 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
    • F25D2201/00—Insulation
    • F25D2201/10—Insulation with respect to heat
    • F25D2201/14—Insulation with respect to heat using subatmospheric pressure
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B40/00—Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances, e.g. induction cooking or efficient technologies for refrigerators, freezers or dish washers

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  • the following invention relates to a refrigerator, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, with a housing having a plurality of at least one insulating layer having walls surrounding an interior to be cooled, and / or at least one, at least one insulating layer having door, wherein in a wall of the housing and / or in the door an externally accessible recess is provided.
  • the inner wall of the housing and / or the door is usually in the direction of the interior of the refrigerator relative to her offset from the remaining inner wall surface, ie In the region of the recess, the inner wall of the housing and / or the door projects into the interior of the refrigeration device with respect to the remaining inner wall surface.
  • the recess or indentation locally inwardly projecting wall of the housing and / or the door of the available interior space is reduced.
  • the recess or indentation in the wall and / or the door can entail the risk of unwanted energy losses.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, with a recess for an ice and / or liquid dispenser whose energy efficiency is improved.
  • a refrigeration device in particular domestic refrigeration device, of the type mentioned above, characterized in that the wall and / or the door in the region of its recess has at least one heat-insulating element, which has a lower thermal conductivity compared to their insulating layer.
  • Ice and / or liquid dispensing device is provided to improve.
  • the wall thickness of the wall and / or door in the region of its recess thinner than in the case be selected without heat-insulating element requires less interior space for the wall and / or door.
  • a sufficient thermal insulation of the recess relative to the cooled interior can be achieved.
  • the formation of condensation moisture in the recess, in particular on a rear side of the recess is reduced or avoided.
  • the wall structure and / or door structure in the region of the recess can be simplified by the at least one heat-insulating element.
  • the insulating element is formed as a vacuum element, i. as an element in which a cavity with vacuum is provided. Due to the vacuum, a very good thermal insulation of the recess is possible even with a small thickness of the vacuum element. Thus, the wall thickness of the wall and / or door in the region of the recess can be made thin by the one or more vacuum elements in order to achieve sufficient insulation.
  • the heat-insulating element in the form of at least one plate is formed, which covers at least one rear wall of the recess partially or completely inside and / or outside, or this forms wholly or partially.
  • the heat-insulating element adjacent to the recess and be covered on the inside and / or outside with at least one foamed insulating layer.
  • the one or more heat-insulating elements are adapted partially or completely to the respectively desired inner contour of the recess with respect to their geometry shape.
  • the cavity of the recess can be particularly easily or partially surrounded or frame with at least one heat-insulating element, in particular the inside wall side line.
  • the respective heat-insulating element acts on the interior of the refrigerator facing side of the wall or the door as a shuttering part for the recess.
  • the heat-insulating element is e.g. is formed as a curved plate which covers a rear wall and two side walls of the recess partially or completely on the inside and / or outside, or forms them wholly or partly.
  • the heat-insulating element is designed as a two-angled, in particular as a trapezoidal angled plate, which covers a rear wall and two side walls of the recess partially or completely inside and / or outside, or this whole or partially forms.
  • the inner surface of the recess is partially or completely covered by one or more heat-insulating elements and / or the one or more outer walls of the recess are formed by one or more heat-insulating elements.
  • the respective heat-insulating element can thus be provided partly or wholly as an additional casing part or casing part on the inner sides of one or more outer walls of the recess. It is expediently from the rear, i. inside the chamber applied to the inside of the respective housing wall or inside of the outer wall of the door in the region of the recess.
  • the respective heat-insulating element already partially or completely forms one or more outer walls of the recess on its own. In this case, therefore, the respective heat-insulating element can advantageously replace the previously existing outer wall of the recess, which simplifies their structural design.
  • the respective, heat-insulating element has a higher rigidity than the insulating material layer in the interior of the housing wall or door of the refrigerator. This makes the area around the recess sufficiently stable mechanically, ie loadable, that the recess mechanical Stresses by the installed ice / liquid dispenser and other loads sufficiently withstand.
  • the heat-insulating element adjoins the recess or forms its outer wall partially or completely, and is covered on the inside and / or outside with at least one, preferably foamed, insulating layer.
  • the insulating material layer on the inside of the respective wall or door, which is largely mechanically stable and at the same time further improves thermal insulation capability.
  • the heat-insulating element is arranged at least on a rear wall of the recess. It preferably covers the entire rear wall of the recess.
  • the rear wall of the recess is a critical area with respect to the heat transfer, so that its covering by the heat-insulating element enables a good insulation of the recess.
  • the heat-insulating element also covers two opposite side walls of the recess in addition to the rear wall.
  • the element may preferably be formed as a curved plate. The use of the bent plate offers, in particular, the advantage of cost-effective production of the heat-insulating element.
  • the element has the shape of a doubly angled plate, wherein the rear wall and two opposite side walls of the recess are covered.
  • This additional, lateral enclosure an additionally optimized thermal insulation of the recess is achieved. Due to the angled shape of the plate, it is possible to cover the substantially rectangular recess to save space with the element and to isolate.
  • an output device is provided above the recess, the element reaching as far as the output device, but leaving it freely accessible, ie not covering it.
  • the wall of the housing or the door in particular on the rear side of the recess, has at least one heat-insulating element and a layer of insulating material which also covers other surface areas of the wall of the housing and / or the door.
  • the element is fastened by means of an adhesive connection, in particular with a double-sided adhesive tape, to an inner side or rear side of the rear wall and / or the respective side wall of the recess.
  • an adhesive connection in particular with a double-sided adhesive tape
  • This type of attachment is easy to perform and allows application, in particular foaming, of the insulating layer on a back side of the heat-insulating element and in other areas of the wall of the housing and / or the door.
  • the recess is arranged in a door, in particular in a wing of a double door, which serves to close the interior of the housing.
  • This embodiment is particularly suitable for built-in refrigerators, where only the door is accessible from the outside.
  • the insulating layer on the back of the heat-insulating element is thinner than in areas laterally offset from the recess or above and / or below it. This makes it possible to reduce the space required by the recess in the interior of the refrigerator.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of a household refrigerating appliance according to the invention with a recess for an ice and / or liquid dispensing device
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of the rear side of the door of the refrigerator of FIG. 1 with a first exemplary embodiment of a vacuum element as a heat-insulating element for the recess in the door;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a detail of the vacuum element of FIG. 2,
  • Figure 4 shows a schematic representation of the back of the door of the refrigerator of
  • Vacuum element for the recess in the door Vacuum element for the recess in the door
  • FIG. 5 shows a detail of the vacuum element of FIG. 4 in a perspective view
  • Figure 6 schematically viewed from the side a cross section through the door of
  • FIG. 4 in the region of its recess
  • FIG. 7 shows a cross-section through a further advantageous embodiment of the thermal insulation of a door of the household refrigerating appliance of FIG. 1 in the region of its recess
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic illustration of a further expedient, alternative embodiment of a door for the household refrigerating appliance of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a household refrigerating appliance 1, which has a heat-insulating container 2.
  • the household refrigerating appliance can be designed, for example, as a refrigerator, a freezer and / or a refrigerator and freezer combination appliance.
  • His container 2 has walls 3, which surround at least one interior. It comprises two side walls, a rear wall, a ceiling element and a bottom element such that a preferably approximately cuboid container is formed with a frontal access opening.
  • This is here in the embodiment by two pivoting doors 4 closed.
  • the two doors 4 are in the form of double doors, which are mounted on the outer sides pivotally mounted on the housing of the container 2.
  • the container 2 has a multilayer structure.
  • the inner container IB is preferably made by deep drawing of one or more plastic plates. It encloses an interior space with at least one refrigerator compartment and / or freezer compartment.
  • the respective door is constructed, i. it has an insulating material layer 22 between its inner wall shell IS and its outer wall shell AS (see for example Figure 6).
  • the insulating material for the respective insulating material layer may be formed, for example, as a PU foam (polymethane).
  • a substantially rectangular recess or recess or indentation 5 is introduced into which a vessel for receiving ice and / or cooled liquid, in particular water, can be adjusted.
  • the recess 5 is bounded by two side walls 6, a rear wall 7, a ceiling wall 26 and a grid 13 in a bottom surface.
  • the recess 5 could also be in one be introduced lateral wall 3 of the container 2.
  • the respective door 4 has in each case an inner intermediate layer 22 of thermally insulating material which fills the cavity between its inner wall shell or inner lining IS and its outer wall shell AS in order to thermally insulate the interior of the household refrigerating appliance 1 from its surroundings.
  • the insulating material may be formed, for example, as a PU foam (polymethane).
  • the recess 5 may be additionally closed depending on the selected embodiment via a sliding door or a hinged door.
  • the recess 5 is accessible from the outside, so that cooled liquid, in particular water, and / or ice can be removed from the household refrigerating appliance 1 by means of an ice / liquid dispensing device without the opening of the door 4 is required.
  • the delivery of the cooled liquid or ice for example, via a corresponding input via controls 24, which are arranged on the door 4, or automatically when setting the vessel into the recess 5.
  • an automatic ice maker is provided in the household refrigerating appliance 1, which has a collecting container for prepared ice, which is conveyed into the recess 5 via an ice chute and an output device.
  • the household refrigerating appliance may have a cooling device for liquid, for example water or juice, which dispenses liquid into the recess 5 via the dispensing device.
  • a cooling device for liquid for example water or juice
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of the inside 9 of the outer wall shell or outer housing wall AS of the door 4 in the region of the recess 5, viewed from the interior of the household refrigerating device before the application of the insulating layer 22 and the inner wall shell IS.
  • the recess 5 is surrounded on the side facing the interior of its rear wall 7 and the two side walls 6 of a thermally insulating element 10 as an additional formwork part.
  • the rear wall 7 and / or the two side walls 6 of the recess 5 may also already be formed solely by the thermally insulating element 10.
  • the thermally insulating element 10 is formed in the embodiment of Figure 2 in the form of a curved plate or panels.
  • the particular cup-shaped, preferably partially circular cylindrical, curved plate is attached with its two narrow lateral end edges 1 1 on the inside 9 of the outer housing wall AS and covers the recess 5 at its two side walls 6 and at the rear wall 7 from.
  • possibly only a part of the rear wall 7 and / or a part of the side walls 6 may additionally be covered and / or formed by the thermal element 10.
  • a thermally insulating material is selected which has a lower thermal conductivity than the insulating material of the inner intermediate layer 22 of the door 4.
  • the thermal element 10 is in the form of a vacuum element, in particular a vacuum panel.
  • the thermal element 10 is formed for example of plastic and has at least one cavity in which there is a negative pressure relative to the atmospheric pressure.
  • the thermal element 10 may be a vacuum which is up to 90% below atmospheric pressure or below.
  • the cavities of the thermal element 10 may be expediently filled with a thermally insulating gas.
  • the bottom side of the recess 5 of Figure 2 is covered with the grid 13, to allow, if necessary, a discharge of liquid, if this example. when filling a drinking vessel next to it injected.
  • an ice / liquid dispensing device 12 is provided, wherein the housing of the ice / liquid dispenser 12 can simultaneously form the top wall 26 of the recess 5.
  • the dispenser 12 has a chilled fluid supply port 14 which projects into the recess 5.
  • the dispensing device 12 has a feed opening 15 for feeding and ejecting ice cubes into the recess 5.
  • the feed opening 15 may be closed with a flap, not shown, which is held by a spring in a closed position and automatically opens when feeding ice and releases the ice into the recess 5.
  • the free, inner surfaces 9 whose outer housing wall or front wall AS with an insulating material, in particular Covered PU foam, so that an insulating layer 22 is formed.
  • a rear wall or inner wall lining IS is placed on the insulating layer 22 and connected to the front wall AS.
  • the insulating layer may be applied as a foam that cures or as a solid in the form of plates. According to a first advantageous embodiment variant, the rear side and the side walls of the recess 5 remain free of the insulating layer.
  • the rear side of the thermally insulating element 10 and the further free areas of the rear surface 9 of the outer housing wall AS are covered with the insulating layer 22 (see FIG. 6).
  • the thermally insulating layer 22 is seated on the inside of the thermally insulating element 10 of the recess 5 and on the other free, inner surfaces of the inner surface 9 of the outer housing wall AS. In this way, a largely positive embedding of the thermally insulating element 10 in the insulating layer 22 is achieved.
  • the front edges of the thermal element 10 are connected via an adhesive connection with the inner surface 9 of the outer housing wall AS.
  • a double-sided adhesive tape can be used.
  • the thermal insulation in the region of the recess 5 is further improved.
  • a plurality of thermally insulating elements 10 may be provided which cover different areas of the recess 5.
  • the thermally insulating elements 10 may also have different thermal bathleitrangeen.
  • a thermally insulating element that covers a side wall 6, have a greater thermal conductivity than a thermal element that covers the rear wall 7 of the recess 5 from the rear.
  • FIG. 3 shows schematically in a perspective view the thermally insulating element 10 of FIG. 2 as a detail. It is designed in the form of a curved or curved plate. The lateral end edges 11 of the curved plate are covered with a double-sided adhesive tape 19, with which the attachment to the inner surface 9 of the outer housing wall AS is produced.
  • the curved plate is designed in particular as a shell-shaped, in particular part-circular cylindrical, formwork element.
  • FIG. 4 shows, as a further embodiment of a thermally insulating element 10, an angled plate 16 which covers two side surfaces 6 and the rear wall 7 of the recess 5.
  • the plate 16 has a plane-like base plate 18 and two laterally angled, planar-surface partial plates 17. It is preferably formed in one piece. Viewed in cross-section perpendicular to the rear-side inner surface 9 of the outer housing wall AS, it is U-shaped in profile with legs spread outwards, i. their imaginary envelope is trapezoidal.
  • the angled plate 16 allows a relatively accurate cover the cuboid recess 5.
  • the thermal element 10 can be connected via adhesive connections to the rear wall 7 and / or with the side walls 6 of the recess.
  • the recess 5 can also taper inwardly in such a way that its side walls 6 run parallel to the angled partial plates 17 of the thermally insulating element 10.
  • a largely accurately fitting layering or nesting of the wall parts of the recess 5 and the one or more thermally insulating elements 10 applied from the rear, in particular glued on, is carried out.
  • the recess can be made mechanically largely stable.
  • the respective, additionally provided, thermally insulating element is formed material stiffer than the insulating material layer of the door.
  • FIG. 5 shows a schematic perspective view of the thermally insulating element 10 of FIG. 4 as a detail. It has the shape of a doubly angled plate 16, wherein the angled sub-plates 17 at an angle greater than 90 ° in With respect to the base plate 18 are aligned such that there is a trapezoidally expanded, half-shell-shaped formwork element.
  • a double-sided adhesive tape 19 is applied on the inside of the sub-plates 17, the base plate 18 and the end edges of the sub-plates 17, which are the inner surface 9 of the back of the outer housing wall facing AS.
  • FIG. 6 shows a cross-section through a finished door 4 viewed from the side in the region of the recess or indentation 5, whose boundary walls 6, 7 in the interior 28 of the inner container IB of the household refrigerating appliance 1 further than the remaining inner surfaces 9 of the outer wall shell AS of the door 4 protrude.
  • the thermally insulating element 10 is applied directly only on the rear wall 7 of the recess 5.
  • the thermally insulating element 10 extends substantially from the top wall 26 of the recess 5 down to a bottom plate 21 which is disposed below the grid 13.
  • the door 4 has the outer housing wall AS and the inner housing wall IS, between which the layer 22 of insulating material is introduced.
  • the outer housing wall AS and the inner housing wall IS may be formed of plastic.
  • the insulating layer 22 is also arranged in the region of the recess 5 and in the region of the dispensing device 12.
  • a thinner layer of the insulating material may be sufficient in the region of a rear wall of the recess 5 than in other areas of the inner surface of the door 4. The use of the additional heat-insulating plate in the region of the recess with the dispenser in combination with a thinner layer of insulating material is sufficient under a variety of practical circumstances to properly insulate the door in the region of the recess 5.
  • the thermal element 10 is here in the embodiment of Figure 6 so covered with a thinner layer 22 of insulating material as portions of the door laterally and / or above and / or below the recess 5.
  • the channels to the feed opening 15 and the supply port 14 in The area of the dispenser 12 is kept clear in the layer 22 in order to be able to connect the corresponding lines or the ice chute of the ice / liquid dispenser.
  • Figure 7 shows a further advantageous embodiment, in which the thermally insulating element 10 is not the wall parts 6, 7 of the recess 5 directly contacting, but spaced with a gap to the wall parts 6, 7 is arranged.
  • the insulating material 22 is also arranged in this front space between the thermally insulating element 10 and the wall parts 6, 7 of the recess 5, the insulating material 22 is also arranged. This sits on the back of the thermally insulating element 10 as an insulating jacket.
  • the thermal element 10 is from both sides, i. covered at its front in the direction of the recess 5 and at its rear side in the direction of the inner shell IS with the thermally insulating layer 22. In particular, it is completely embedded in the insulating material layer 22 and encased by it.
  • FIG. 8 shows, viewed from the rear, a door 4 with a front front housing wall AS into which the recess 5 is introduced, in particular formed.
  • the recess 5 is covered at least on its rear wall 7 with the thermally insulating element 10.
  • the thermally insulating element 10 is embedded in the insulating layer 22, on the back of the inner shell IS is applied.
  • the thermally insulating element 10 may be formed as a flat plate, as a bent plate, as angled plate or in the form of several plates. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un appareil frigorifique (1), en particulier un appareil électro-ménager frigorifique, qui comprend un boîtier (2) présentant plusieurs parois (3) qui présentent au moins une couche isolante (22) et entourent un espace intérieur (28) à refroidir; et/ou au moins une porte (4) qui présente au moins une couche isolante (22), une ouverture (5) accessible de l'extérieur étant pratiquée dans une paroi (3) du boîtier (2) et/ou dans la porte (4). Selon l'invention, la paroi (3) et/ou la porte (4) présentent dans la zone de l'ouverture (5) qu'elle comporte, au moins un élément d'isolation thermique (10, 16) qui a une conductivité thermique plus faible que celle de sa couche isolante (22).
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