Ice breaking device and refrigerator

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides an ice breaking device and a refrigerator and relates to the technical field of preparation equipment of ice blocks in order to solve the problem that the ice blocks which are frozen together cannot pass through an ice outlet due to the fact that the ice blocks cannot be separated in an ice block mode in the prior art. The ice breaking device comprises an ice storage container, wherein an ice blade assembly is arranged in the ice storage container and comprises a spindle, fixed ice blades, movable ice blades and ice block separation structures, the spindle can drive the movable ice blades to rotate, the fixed ice blades and the ice block separation structures are located on two sides of the spindle respectively and are fixed relative to the ice storage container, when the spindle drives the movable ice blades to rotate in the first direction, the ice blocks in the ice storage container can be broken under the action of shearing force of the movable ice blades and the fixed ice blades, and when the spindle drives the movable ice blades to rotate in the second direction, the ice blocks which are frozen together can be separated under the matching of the movable ice blades and the ice block separation structures. The ice breaking device is applied to an attached ice maker of the refrigerator.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of ice cube preparation equipment, in particular to an ice crushing device and a refrigerator. Background technique [0002] With the continuous development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, in order to meet people's higher and higher requirements for quality of life, the functions of household appliances are also increasing, such as adding ice machines to refrigerators. The ice machine of the refrigerator comprises an ice making device and an ice crushing device, and the ice making device prepares ice cubes and stores them in a bucket-shaped container for people to use. At the same time, for the convenience of use, the technicians set the ice output mode of the refrigerator to the crushed ice mode and the ice cube mode. In the crushed ice mode, what people take are cut ice cubes; while in the ice cube mode, what people take are intact ice cubes. [0003...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] However, after the ice cubes are stored in the bucket-shaped container, the ice cubes that have been in contact for a long time will easily freeze together, and even the ice cubes in the entire bucket-shaped container will freeze together

In this solution, the frozen ice cubes can be cut into pieces in the crushed ice mode, but the frozen ice cubes cannot be separated in the ice cube mode. When taking ice cubes in the ice cube mode, there is There may be a problem that the frozen ice cubes cannot pass through the whole ice outlet or even block the whole ice outlet

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