Ice making device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11209203-B2
Application number	US-202016808384-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2020
Priority date	Mar 6, 2019
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

To provide an ice making device including an ice making tray, a drive unit configured to turn over the ice making tray, a frame including a frame body, the frame configured to support the ice making tray, and a fan motor configured to send wind to the ice making tray. The frame includes a block unit configured to contact a part of the ice making tray turning over to partially disturb the turning over of the ice making tray, and the fan motor is fixed only to a first frame part including one of a plurality of frame parts constituting sides surrounding a periphery of the ice making tray in a plan view of the frame.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ice making device comprising:
an ice making tray;
a drive unit configured to turn over the ice making tray;
a frame including a frame body, the frame configured to support the ice making tray; and
a fan motor configured to send wind to the ice making tray, wherein
the frame includes a block unit configured to contact a part of the ice making tray turning over to partially disturb the turning over of the ice making tray, and
the fan motor is fixed only to a first frame part as one of a plurality of frame parts constituting sides surrounding a periphery of the ice making tray in a plan view of the frame,
wherein the frame includes, of the plurality of frame parts, a second frame part as a frame part facing the first frame part across the ice making tray, and
a rotation center of the fan motor is located at a position closer to a side of the first frame part than a center position between the first frame part and the second frame part in the plan view of the frame.

2. The ice making device according to claim 1 , wherein
the frame includes a mounting unit configured to fix the ice making device in a freezing room, and
the mounting unit is provided on the first frame part.

3. The ice making device according to claim 2 , wherein
the first frame part includes a plurality of the mounting units, and
the fan motor is fixed between one of the mounting units and a different one of the mounting units included in the first frame part.

4. The ice making device according to claim 2 , wherein
an outer peripheral shape of the frame includes substantially rectangle in the plan view of the frame, and
the first frame part constitutes one of long sides in the plan view of the frame.

5. The ice making device according to claim 1 , wherein
the second frame part includes a plate-shaped frame part, and
the second frame part is provided with a notch through which wind from the fan motor blows in a horizontal direction.

6. The ice making device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first frame part includes a pedestal unit as a portion having a thickness in an up-down direction greater than a thickness of a different portion, and
the fan motor is fixed to the pedestal unit.

7. The ice making device according to claim 1 , wherein
the ice making tray is made of resin, and
the fan motor sends wind to the ice making tray from above the ice making tray.

8. An ice making device according to claim 1 comprising:
an ice making tray;
a drive unit configured to turn over the ice making tray;
a frame including a frame body, the frame configured to support the ice making tray; and
a fan motor configured to send wind to the ice making tray, wherein
the frame includes a block unit configured to contact a part of the ice making tray turning over to partially disturb the turning over of the ice making tray, and
the fan motor is fixed only to a first frame part as one of a plurality of frame parts constituting sides surrounding a periphery of the ice making tray in a plan view of the frame,
wherein an outer peripheral shape of the fan motor is substantially square in the plan view of the fan motor, and
the fan motor is fixed to the first frame part only at an end included in one side of the fan motor in the plan view of the fan motor.

Assignees

• Nidec Sankyo Corp

Inventors

• Saito Shunji
• Ito Akihiro
• Harata Takaji

Classifications

• F25C2305/0221

  rotating ice mould · CPC title

• F25C2600/04

  Control means · CPC title

• F25D2317/0681

  Details thereof · CPC title

• F25D2331/812

  Trays · CPC title

• F25D2400/40

  Refrigerating devices characterised by electrical wiring · CPC title