Ice making structure with drainage function and ice maker
By designing rotatable ice box and overflow channels in the ice maker, the problem of ice cube condensation caused by overflow and drainage of the ice cube is solved, and the independent shedding and miniaturization design of ice cubes is achieved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202421039351.9
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-05-13
- Publication Date
- 2025-01-10
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
AI Technical Summary
During the ice making process, existing ice makers can easily cause water to overflow into the ice storage box, causing the ice to condense together, and the ice to condense easily during drainage. The increase in the drainage and drainage structure will increase the size of the ice makers.
An ice-making structure with drainage function is designed, including a support frame, an ice-making box and an ice-making device. The ice-making box is rotatably installed on the support frame, and an overflow channel is provided for discharge of overflow water, and the rotation angle is controlled to Avoid overflow and draining to the ice storage box and the ice cubes fall off when deiced.
It effectively avoids the overflow and drainage of the ice maker from the full water to the ice storage box, and realizes the independent fall of the ice cubes. Compared with the additional drainage structure, it occupies less space, which is conducive to the miniaturization design of the ice maker.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of ice making, in particular to an ice making structure and an ice making machine with a drainage function. Background Art
[0002] The ice maker uses the ice maker to cool the water in the ice box to generate ice cubes, and then thaws the ice cubes on the ice maker to the ice storage box. When the user needs ice, the ice cubes are taken out from the ice storage box. The current ice maker has the following shortcomings: on the one hand, if too much water is added to the ice box, it is easy for the water to overflow into the ice storage box, causing the ice cubes in the ice storage box to condense together; on the other hand, after ice making is completed, the ice box needs to be drained before thawed. If the water is drained to the ice storage box, it is easy to cause the ice cubes to condense together; on the other hand, a drainage structure is added between the ice making room and the ice storage box, and the overflow and drainage are avoided by the drainage structure. Since the ice in the ice making room needs to fall into the ice storage box, the drainage structure needs to be made with a large slope to ensure that the ice cubes fall off, resulting in an increase in the size of the ice maker. Utility Model Content
[0003] In order to overcome at least one defect of the above-mentioned prior art, the utility model provides an ice-making structure and an ice-making machine with a drainage function to solve the problem that the existing ice-making box overflows and drains water to the ice storage box, causing the ice cubes in the ice storage box to condense.
[0004] The utility model is a technical solution adopted to solve the problem. In the first aspect, the embodiment of the utility model discloses an ice-making structure with a drainage function, including a support frame, an ice-making box and an ice-maker, wherein the ice-making box is rotatably arranged on the support frame, and the ice-making box is provided with an ice-making cavity with an opening and an overflow channel connected to the ice-making cavity, wherein the ice-making cavity is used to hold water for ice-making, and the ice-maker is arranged on the support frame and used to condense the water in the ice-making cavity into ice cubes;
[0005] Wherein, when the ice-making structure is in the ice-making state, the ice-making box is in the initial state, and the overflow channel is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making cavity;
[0006] When the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box rotates relative to the support frame, and the overflow channel is used to discharge water in the ice-making cavity.
[0007] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, when the ice-making structure is in an ice-shedding state, the ice-making box rotates to a preset position relative to the support frame, and ice cubes on the ice maker fall off.
[0008] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the present utility model, when the ice-making structure is in an ice-making state, the opening of the ice-making cavity of the ice-making box faces upward, and the overflow channel is located on one side of the support frame;
[0009] When the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box rotates relative to the support frame from one side of the support frame to the other side, and the rotation angle α is 0°<α≤90°;
[0010] When the ice-making structure is in the ice-removing state, the ice-making box rotates from one side of the support frame to the other side to a preset position relative to the support frame, and the rotation angle β is 90°<β<180°.
[0011] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, the ice-making structure also includes a motor, which is disposed on the support frame and connected to the ice-making box, and the motor is used to drive the ice-making box to rotate relative to the support frame.
[0012] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, a lever is provided on the rotating shaft of the ice box, and a micro switch for detecting whether the ice box is rotated to a preset position is provided on the support frame, and the lever is used to trigger the micro switch when the ice box is rotated to the preset position.
[0013] As an optional implementation, in the embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, the ice-making box is a semi-cylindrical ice-making box, the ice-making cavity is a semi-cylindrical ice-making cavity, and the ice-maker is a long strip ice-maker whose shape is adapted to the semi-cylindrical ice-making cavity.
[0014] As an optional embodiment, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, the overflow channel is located on one side of the ice-making chamber and extends along the length direction of the ice-making chamber, the overflow channel includes an overflow port for connecting to the ice maker and a drain port for draining water, the overflow port is a long strip overflow port extending along the length direction of the ice-making chamber, and the drain port is located at the end of the ice-making box.
[0015] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, the outer circumference of the ice making box extends upward to form a water retaining rib, and the height of the water retaining rib is higher than the height of the overflow port.
[0016] As an optional implementation, in an embodiment of the first aspect of the utility model, the support frame is a shell-shaped support frame whose shape is adapted to the ice box, the shell-shaped support frame covers the ice box and the ice maker, and the ice maker is located between the support frame and the ice box.
[0017] In a second aspect, an embodiment of the utility model discloses an ice maker, comprising an ice maker body and the ice making structure with drainage function as described above, wherein the ice making structure with drainage function is arranged on the ice maker body.
[0018] Implementing the embodiments of the present utility model will have the following beneficial effects:
[0019] The utility model is provided with an ice-making structure including a support frame, an ice-making box and an ice-maker, wherein the ice-making box is rotatably arranged on the support frame, and an ice-making cavity with an opening and an overflow channel connected to the ice-making cavity are arranged on the ice-making box, and the ice-making cavity is used to contain water for ice-making, and the ice-maker is arranged on the support frame and is used to condense the water in the ice-making cavity into ice cubes. When the ice-making structure is in an ice-making state, the ice-making box is in an initial state, and the overflow channel is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making cavity; when the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box rotates relative to the support frame, and the overflow channel is used to discharge the water in the ice-making cavity. With such a design, on the one hand, when the ice-making structure is in the ice-making state, the ice box is in the initial state, and the overflow channel is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making chamber, so as to prevent the ice box from overflowing into the ice storage box when it is full of water; on the other hand, when the ice-making structure is in the drainage state, the ice box rotates relative to the support frame, and the overflow channel is used to discharge the water in the ice-making chamber, so as to prevent the ice box from draining into the ice storage box; on another hand, compared with adding an additional drainage structure, the design of providing an overflow channel on the ice box occupies less space, which is conducive to the miniaturization design of the ice maker. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0020] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the utility model or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the utility model. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative work.
[0021] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of the ice-making structure in the embodiment of the utility model;
[0022] Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of an ice-making structure in an embodiment of the utility model;
[0023] Figure 3 It is a schematic diagram of the structural decomposition of the ice-making structure in the embodiment of the utility model;
[0024] Figure 4 It is a structural schematic diagram of the ice making box in the embodiment of the utility model.
[0025] The meanings of the reference numerals are as follows:
[0026] 1-support frame; 11-water inlet; 2-ice making box; 21-ice making chamber; 22-overflow channel; 221-overflow port; 222-drain port; 23-water retaining rib; 3-ice maker; 4-motor; 5-lever; 6-micro switch. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0027] For better understanding and implementation, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention.
[0028] In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inside" and "outside" etc. indicating directions or positional relationships are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific direction, be constructed and operated in a specific direction, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the present invention.
[0029] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as those commonly understood by those skilled in the art of the present invention. The terms used herein in the specification of the present invention are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the present invention.
[0030] Please also read Figures 1 to 4 The utility model discloses an ice-making machine, which includes an ice-making machine body and an ice-making structure with a drainage function. The ice-making structure with a drainage function of the present solution includes a support frame 1, an ice-making box 2 and an ice-maker 3. The ice-making box 2 is rotatably arranged on the support frame 1. The ice-making box 2 is provided with an ice-making cavity 21 with an opening and an overflow channel 22 connected to the ice-making cavity 21. The ice-making cavity 21 is used to hold water for making ice. The ice-maker 3 is arranged on the support frame 1 and is used to condense the water in the ice-making cavity 21 into ice cubes. The ice-making structure is in an ice-making state (such as Figure 2 When the ice making box 2 is in the initial state, the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice making chamber 21, and the overflow channel 22 is used to communicate with the water tank to discharge the water into the water tank to prevent the water overflowing from the ice making chamber 21 from being discharged into the ice storage box; the ice making structure is in the drainage state (as shown in FIG. Figure 2 When the state shown in a is rotated to the state shown in b), the ice box 2 rotates relative to the support frame 1, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water in the ice making chamber 21; the ice making structure is in the de-icing state (such as Figure 2c), the ice box 2 rotates to a preset position relative to the support frame 1, and the ice cubes on the ice maker 3 fall off. When in use, after the ice making chamber 21 of the ice box 2 is filled with water, the ice maker 3 cools and condenses the water in the ice making chamber 21 into ice cubes. After ice making is completed, the water in the ice making chamber 21 is discharged to the water tank through the overflow channel 22, the ice maker 3 becomes hot, and the contact part between the ice cubes and the ice maker 3 melts and falls off to the ice storage box. After the ice maker 3 completes ice removal, the ice box 2 is reversed and reset to perform the next round of water addition and ice making.
[0031] With such a design, on the one hand, when the ice-making structure is in the ice-making state, the ice-making box 2 is in the initial state, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making chamber 21, so as to prevent the ice-making box 2 from overflowing into the ice storage box when it is full of water; on the other hand, when the ice-making structure is in the drainage state, the ice-making box 2 rotates relative to the support frame 1, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water in the ice-making chamber 21, so as to prevent the ice-making box 2 from draining into the ice storage box; on the other hand, compared with the additional drainage structure, the design of providing the overflow channel 22 on the ice-making box 2 occupies less space, which is conducive to the miniaturization design of the ice maker.
[0032] In some embodiments, in order to allow the overflow pipe to be converted between overflow and drainage during the rotation of the ice making box 2, when the ice making structure is in the ice making state, the opening of the ice making chamber 21 of the ice making box 2 faces upward, and the overflow channel 22 is located on one side of the support frame 1 (such as Figure 2 When the ice-making structure is in the drainage state, the ice-making box 2 rotates from one side of the support frame 1 to the other side relative to the support frame 1, and the rotation angle α is 0°<α≤90° (such as Figure 2 When the ice making structure is in the deicing state, the ice making box 2 rotates from one side of the support frame 1 to the other side to a preset position relative to the support frame 1, and the rotation angle β is 90°<β<180° (such as Figure 2 (as shown in c).
[0033] In some embodiments, the ice box 2 is a semi-cylindrical ice box 2, the ice chamber 21 is a semi-cylindrical ice chamber 21, and the ice maker 3 is a long strip ice maker 3 whose shape is adapted to the semi-cylindrical ice chamber 21. With such a design, the ice box 2 does not interfere with the ice maker 3 when rotating, and the structure is more compact.
[0034] Furthermore, the overflow channel 22 is located at one side of the ice-making chamber 21 and is extended along the length direction of the ice-making chamber 21. The overflow channel 22 includes an overflow port 221 for connecting to the ice-maker 3 and a drain port 222 for draining water. The overflow port 221 is a long strip overflow port 221 extending along the length direction of the ice-making chamber 21, and the drain port 222 is located at the end of the ice-making box 2. With such a design, on the one hand, since the overflow port 221 is a long strip overflow port 221 extending along the length direction of the ice-making chamber 21, it has better overflow and drainage effects; on the other hand, the drain port 222 is located at the end of the ice-making box 2, which can prevent the overflow channel 22 from being discharged to the ice storage box below.
[0035] Furthermore, the outer circumference of the ice making box 2 extends upward to form a water retaining rib 23 , and the height of the water retaining rib 23 is higher than the height of the overflow port 221 to ensure that the water in the ice making chamber 21 can be discharged along the overflow port 221 .
[0036] In some embodiments, the support frame 1 is a shell-shaped support frame 1 whose shape is adapted to the ice box 2, the shell-shaped support frame 1 covers the outside of the ice box 2 and the ice maker 3, and the ice maker 3 is located between the support frame 1 and the ice box 2. With such a design, the support frame 1 can also be used as a protective cover for the ice box 2 and the ice maker 3 to prevent dust and impurities from entering the ice making chamber 21.
[0037] Furthermore, since the support frame 1 covers the outside of the ice maker 3, in order to add water to the ice making chamber 21, a water inlet 11 is provided on the support frame 1, and the water inlet 11 is located above the ice making chamber 21 and is connected to the ice making chamber 21. With such a design, when the ice making chamber 21 needs to be filled with water, water is added to the water inlet 11, and the water in the water inlet 11 directly falls into the ice making chamber 21.
[0038] In some embodiments, in order to drive the ice box 2 to rotate, the ice making structure further includes a motor 4, which is disposed on the support frame 1 and connected to the ice box 2, and is used to drive the ice box 2 to rotate relative to the support frame 1.
[0039] Furthermore, in order to prevent the ice box 2 from rotating excessively, a lever 5 is provided on the rotating shaft of the ice box 2, and a micro switch 6 for detecting whether the ice box 2 is rotated to a preset position is provided on the support frame 1. The lever 5 is used to trigger the micro switch 6 when the ice box 2 is rotated to the preset position.
[0040] The utility model provides an ice-making machine, which comprises an ice-making structure including a support frame 1, an ice-making box 2 and an ice-maker 3. The ice-making box 2 is rotatably arranged on the support frame 1. The ice-making box 2 is provided with an ice-making cavity 21 with an opening and an overflow channel 22 connected to the ice-making cavity 21. The ice-making cavity 21 is used to contain water for ice-making. The ice-maker 3 is arranged on the support frame 1 and is used to condense the water in the ice-making cavity 21 into ice cubes. When the ice-making structure is in an ice-making state, the ice-making box 2 is in an initial state, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making cavity 21. When the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box 2 rotates relative to the support frame 1, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water in the ice-making cavity 21. When the ice-making structure is in an ice-removing state, the ice-making box 2 rotates relative to the support frame 1 to a preset position, and the ice cubes on the ice-maker 3 fall off. With such a design, on the one hand, when the ice-making structure is in the ice-making state, the ice-making box 2 is in the initial state, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water overflowing from the ice-making chamber 21, so as to prevent the ice-making box 2 from overflowing into the ice storage box when it is full of water; on the other hand, when the ice-making structure is in the drainage state, the ice-making box 2 rotates relative to the support frame 1, and the overflow channel 22 is used to discharge the water in the ice-making chamber 21, so as to prevent the ice-making box 2 from draining into the ice storage box; on the other hand, compared with the additional drainage structure, the design of providing the overflow channel 22 on the ice-making box 2 occupies less space, which is conducive to the miniaturization design of the ice maker.
[0041] The technical means disclosed in the solution of the utility model are not limited to the technical means disclosed in the above-mentioned implementation mode, but also include technical solutions composed of any combination of the above technical features. It should be pointed out that for ordinary technicians in this technical field, several improvements and modifications can be made without departing from the principle of the utility model, and these improvements and modifications are also regarded as the protection scope of the utility model.
Claims
1. An ice-making structure with drainage function, characterized in that: The ice making device comprises a support frame (1), an ice making box (2) and an ice maker (3), wherein the ice making box (2) is rotatably arranged on the support frame (1), the ice making box (2) is provided with an ice making cavity (21) having an opening and an overflow channel (22) connected to the ice making cavity (21), the ice making cavity (21) is used to contain water for making ice, and the ice maker (3) is arranged on the support frame (1) and is used to condense the water in the ice making cavity (21) into ice cubes; Wherein, when the ice-making structure is in an ice-making state, the ice-making box (2) is in an initial state, and the overflow channel (22) is used to discharge water overflowing from the ice-making cavity (21); When the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box (2) rotates relative to the support frame (1), and the overflow channel (22) is used to discharge water in the ice-making cavity (21).
2. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 1, characterized in that: When the ice-making structure is in an ice-shedding state, the ice-making box (2) rotates to a preset position relative to the support frame (1), and ice cubes on the ice maker (3) fall off.
3. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 2, characterized in that: When the ice-making structure is in an ice-making state, the opening of the ice-making cavity (21) of the ice-making box (2) faces upward, and the overflow channel (22) is located on one side of the support frame (1); When the ice-making structure is in a drainage state, the ice-making box (2) rotates relative to the support frame (1) from one side of the support frame (1) to the other side, and the rotation angle α is 0°<α≤90°; When the ice-making structure is in an ice-removing state, the ice-making box (2) rotates relative to the support frame (1) from one side of the support frame (1) to the other side to a preset position, and the rotation angle β is 90°<β<180°.
4. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 2, characterized in that: The ice-making structure further comprises a motor (4), wherein the motor (4) is arranged on the support frame (1) and connected to the ice-making box (2), and the motor (4) is used to drive the ice-making box (2) to rotate relative to the support frame (1).
5. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 4, characterized in that: A lever (5) is provided on the rotating shaft of the ice box (2), and a micro switch (6) for detecting whether the ice box (2) is rotated to a preset position is provided on the support frame (1), and the lever (5) is used to trigger the micro switch (6) when the ice box (2) is rotated to the preset position.
6. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: The ice-making box (2) is a semi-cylindrical ice-making box (2), the ice-making cavity (21) is a semi-cylindrical ice-making cavity (21), and the ice-maker (3) is a long strip ice-maker (3) whose shape is adapted to the semi-cylindrical ice-making cavity (21).
7. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 6, characterized in that: The overflow channel (22) is located at one side of the ice-making chamber (21) and is extended along the length direction of the ice-making chamber (21); the overflow channel (22) comprises an overflow port (221) for communicating with the ice-maker (3) and a drain port (222) for draining water; the overflow port (221) is a long strip overflow port (221) extending along the length direction of the ice-making chamber (21); and the drain port (222) is located at the end of the ice-making box (2).
8. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to claim 7, characterized in that: The outer circumference of the ice making box (2) extends upward to form a water retaining rib (23), and the height of the water retaining rib (23) is higher than the height of the overflow port (221).
9. The ice-making structure with drainage function according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: The support frame (1) is a shell-shaped support frame (1) whose shape is adapted to the ice box (2); the shell-shaped support frame (1) covers the outside of the ice box (2) and the ice maker (3); and the ice maker (3) is located between the support frame (1) and the ice box (2).
10. An ice making machine, characterized in that: The invention comprises an ice-making machine body and an ice-making structure with a drainage function as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the ice-making structure is arranged on the ice-making machine body.