EP2682693A2 - Appareil de réfrigération avec distribution de glace ou d'eau - Google Patents

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EP2682693A2
EP2682693A2 EP13173155.6A EP13173155A EP2682693A2 EP 2682693 A2 EP2682693 A2 EP 2682693A2 EP 13173155 A EP13173155 A EP 13173155A EP 2682693 A2 EP2682693 A2 EP 2682693A2
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Christoph Becke
Max Eicher
Swetlana Gorodezki
Maike Kirschbaum
Mathias Sigl
Ralph Staud
Thomas Tischer
Hans Peter Werner
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BSH 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
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
    • F25D2400/18—Aesthetic features

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  • the invention relates to a refrigerator with an ice dispenser or a water dispenser. Furthermore, the invention relates to a refrigerator unit comprising two refrigerators, of which the first refrigerator has an ice dispenser and the second refrigerator has a water dispenser.
  • Refrigeration appliances in particular designed as household appliances refrigerators are known and are used to housekeeping in households or in the catering sector to store perishable food and / or drinks at certain temperatures.
  • Such refrigerators are increasingly provided with an ice dispenser for dispensing water ice cubes and / or crushed ice (crushed ice). Further, such refrigerators are additionally provided with a water outlet for the discharge of cooled water. For the derivation of melted or dripping water provided with openings covers are provided.
  • ice dispensing and water dispensing have different visual appearances, which affects the overall visual impression, especially when two refrigerators are combined to form a refrigeration appliance ensemble, one of the refrigeration appliances having an ice dispenser and the other refrigerating appliance having a water dispenser.
  • the present invention is based on the recognition that a particularly visually appealing appearance can be achieved when the ice dispensing and water dispensing are optically matched.
  • the object according to the invention is achieved by a refrigeration device in which the ice dispenser or the water dispenser is assigned a water guidance surface is.
  • a refrigeration device is understood in particular to be a household appliance, that is to say a refrigeration device which is used for housekeeping in households or in the gastronomy sector, and in particular serves to store food and / or drinks at specific temperatures, such as, for example, a refrigerator, a freezer, a refrigerator Fridge freezer, a freezer or a wine fridge.
  • the water guide surface for guiding melt or dripping water is formed in a drip pan of the ice dispenser or the water dispenser.
  • the water guide surface forms a back wall of the ice dispenser or the water dispenser.
  • the water guide surface is concavely curved on the outside. This achieves the technical advantage that melted or dripping water in a top section of the rear wall experiences a greater acceleration due to gravity than in sections of the rear wall, which lie below the upper section in the refrigeration device vertical direction.
  • the water guide surface has a leading to the drip pan gradient.
  • the water guide surface in refrigerator depth direction on a positive slope is provided by this orientation of the slope of Wasserleit Structure particularly visually appealing ice and water issues.
  • the drip pan is associated with a cover.
  • a gap for the passage of melted or dripping water is formed between the water guide surface and the cover.
  • the cover is designed as a second water guide surface.
  • the second water guide surface has a leading to the drip pan gradient.
  • the cover in refrigerator depth direction on a negative slope is provided by the different orientation of the slopes of the first and the second Wasserleit Structure particularly visually appealing ice and water issues.
  • the second water guide is flat.
  • the first and / or second Wasserleit measurements on a lotus coating achieves the technical advantage of improving the water conductivity and preventing the formation of water marks which affect the visual appearance.
  • the ice or water dispenser is disposed on the outside of the refrigerator.
  • the object according to the invention is achieved by a refrigeration unit comprising two refrigerating appliances, of which the first refrigerating appliance has such an ice dispenser and the second refrigerating appliance has such a water dispenser, the first refrigerating appliance and the second refrigerating appliance each having a water guiding surface, each associated with the ice dispenser and the water dispenser.
  • the ice dispensing and the water dispensing are matched by their visual appearance perceptible to a user, so that a refrigeration appliance ensemble with the first refrigeration appliance with the ice dispenser and the second refrigeration appliance with the water dispenser has a visually appealing appearance.
  • Fig. 1 shows two refrigerators as embodiments of a first refrigeration device 102 and a second refrigerator 104, which together form a refrigerator unit 100.
  • the first refrigerator 102 as a freezer and the second refrigerator 104 are formed as a refrigerator.
  • the first refrigeration device 102 has a freezer door 106 freezer door 106 on its refrigerator front 110. By opening the freezer door 106, an interior of the first refrigeration device 102 can be made accessible in order to store or remove grated food in it. On the outside, i. accessible with the freezer door 106 closed, an ice dispenser 112 is disposed. Ice dispenser 112 is configured to dispense water ice cubes and / or crushed ice.
  • the second refrigeration appliance 104 has a refrigerator door 108 on its refrigerator front side 110. By opening the refrigerator door 108, an interior of the second refrigerator 104 can also be made accessible here in order to store or remove refrigerated goods therein. On the outside, i. accessible with the refrigerator door 108 closed, a water outlet 114 is arranged here. The water outlet 114 is designed to dispense cooled, liquid water.
  • Both refrigerators 102, 104 have for cooling of frozen or refrigerated each a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator (not shown), a compressor (not shown), a condenser (not shown) and a throttle body (not shown).
  • the evaporator is designed as a heat exchanger in which, after expansion, the liquid refrigerant is absorbed by heat from the medium to be cooled, i. Air inside the refrigerator, is evaporated.
  • the compressor is a mechanically driven component that draws refrigerant vapor from the evaporator and expels it at a higher pressure to the condenser.
  • the condenser is designed as a heat exchanger in which, after compression, the evaporated refrigerant is released by heat to an external cooling medium, i. the ambient air is liquefied.
  • the throttle body is a device for the continuous reduction of the pressure by reduction in cross section.
  • the refrigerant is a fluid used for heat transfer in the cryogenic system which absorbs heat at low temperatures and low pressure of the fluid and releases heat at higher temperature and higher pressure of the fluid, usually including changes in state of the fluid.
  • the FIGS. 2 and 3 show the ice dispenser 112.
  • the ice dispenser 112 has an ice dispensing housing 200, which was made in the present embodiment of plastic by injection molding.
  • the ice dispensing housing 200 has two opposing side walls 202, a back wall 204, a ceiling 206, and a floor 208.
  • an ice dispensing opening 212 Arranged in the ceiling 206 is an ice dispensing opening 212 through which water ice cubes and / or crushed ice may be dispensed. This operation can be triggered by operating an actuating lever 210 which is pivotally mounted in the refrigerator depth direction Y to the ceiling 206 and actuates a microswitch (not shown) connected to a control (not shown) of the ice dispenser 112 for signal transmission Water ice cubes and / or crushed ice (crushed ice) to effect.
  • a drip pan 214 is provided, in which melt water can collect.
  • the sump 214 is covered with a cover 216 arranged above the sump 214, which can be removed (see Fig. 5 ) to clean the sump 214.
  • the cover 206 is made in the present embodiment of plastic by injection molding.
  • both the rear wall 204 and the cover 216 are formed as water guide surfaces, which conduct melt water into the drip pan 214.
  • the back wall 204 and the cover 206 are provided with a lotus coating Mistake.
  • a gap 218 is formed between the cover 216 and the rear wall 204.
  • Fig. 4 shows that, for this purpose, the rear wall 204 has a leading to the sump 214 slope, so that melt water by gravity flows from the rear wall 204 into the sump 214.
  • the rear wall 204 is formed on the outside concave curved in the present embodiment. Thus, melt water in an upper portion of the rear wall 204 experiences greater acceleration by gravity than in portions of the rear wall 204 that are below the upper portion in refrigerator overhead Z direction.
  • the rear wall 204 in the present embodiment in the refrigerator depth direction Y has a positive slope, so that melt water flows by gravity from the rear wall 204 into the drip pan 214.
  • Fig. 4 shows Fig. 4 in that, in the present exemplary embodiment, the cover 216 designed as a meltwater guide surface has a negative gradient in the refrigeration device depth direction Y.
  • the cover 216 is flat.
  • Fig. 5 shows the drip tray 214 disposed in the floor 208 when the cover 216 has been removed.
  • the 6 and 7 on the other hand show the water output 114.
  • the water outlet 114 has a water dispensing housing 600, which was made in the present embodiment of plastic by injection molding.
  • the water dispensing housing 600 has the same structure as the ice dispensing housing 200, so it has two opposing side walls 602, a back wall 604, a ceiling 606 and a bottom 608.
  • the ice dispensing housing 200 has a smaller extension in refrigerator depth direction Y than the water dispenser housing 600.
  • the water dispenser 114 in the ceiling 606 has a water dispensing opening 612 through which cooled, liquid water can be dispensed. This process can also be triggered by actuating an actuating lever 610 which is mounted in the refrigerator depth direction Y pivotally mounted on the ceiling 606 and a micro-switch (not shown) which is connected to a controller (not shown) of the water output 114 control signal transmitting to the delivery to effect cooled, liquid water.
  • the ice dispenser 112 and the water dispenser 114 have the same structure.
  • a sump 614 is provided at the water outlet 114 in the bottom 608, in which dripping water can collect.
  • the collecting trough 614 has the same dimensions, ie the same width in refrigerating appliance width direction X, the same depth in refrigerating appliance depth direction Y and the same height in refrigerating appliance height direction Z.
  • the drip pan 614 is also covered with a cover 616 disposed above the drip pan 614, which can be removed (see Fig. 9 ) to clean the sump 214.
  • the cover 606 is made in the present embodiment of plastic by injection molding.
  • the cover 616 has the same structure and the same dimensions as the cover 216 belonging to the ice dispenser 112.
  • both the rear wall 604 and the cover 616 are designed as water guide surfaces, which guide dripping water into the drip pan 614.
  • the back wall 604 and the cover 616 are provided in the present embodiment with a lotus coating to improve the water conductivity and to prevent the formation of water spots. So that dripping water can enter the drip pan 614, a gap 618 is again formed between the cover 616 and the rear wall 604.
  • Fig. 8 shows that, for this purpose, the rear wall 604 has a leading to the drip pan 614 slope, so that melt water by gravity flows from the rear wall 604 into the drip pan 614.
  • the water output 114 is greater in the fall of the back wall 604 compared to the ice output 112 than the back wall 204 of the ice dispenser (see FIG Fig. 4 ).
  • the rear wall 604 in the present exemplary embodiment has a concave curvature on the outside. So also experiences the dripping water in an upper section of the Rear wall 604 a greater acceleration by gravity than in sections of the rear wall 604, which lie in refrigeration unit Z direction below the upper portion.
  • the back wall 604 as the rear wall 204 of the ice dispenser 112 in the present embodiment in the refrigerator depth direction Y has a positive slope, so that melt water by gravity flows from the rear wall 604 into the sump 214.
  • the cover 616 formed as a drip-water guiding surface like the cover 216 of the ice-suction 112, has a negative gradient in the refrigerator depth direction Y.
  • the cover 616 is also flat.
  • Fig. 8 shows the drip pan 614 disposed in the floor 608 when the cover 616 has been removed.
  • the disposition of the back wall 604 and the cover 616, each having a different slope and the formation of the gap 618 between the back wall 604 and the cover 616, gives the impression that dripping water virtually disappears in the void.
  • the ice dispenser 112 and the water dispenser 114 are aligned with their user perceivable visual appearance, so that a refrigeration unit ensemble with the first refrigerator 102 having the ice dispenser 112 and the second refrigerator 104 with the water dispenser 114 has a visually pleasing appearance.
  • Freezers Ensemble 600 Water dispenser housing 102 first refrigeration device 602 Side wall 104 second refrigeration device 604 rear wall 106 freezer door 606 blanket 108 refrigerator door 608 ground 110 Cold front panel 610 actuating lever 112 ice releasing 612 Water discharge opening 114 water issue 614 drip tray 616 cover 200 Eisausgabegephaseuse 618 gap 202 Side wall 204 rear wall X The refrigerator width direction 206 blanket Y The refrigerator depth direction 208 ground Z The refrigerator height direction 210 actuating lever 212 ice discharge 214 drip tray 216 cover 218 gap

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