Heat insulation box manufacturing method and heat insulation box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11221172-B2
Application number	US-201916241082-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2019
Priority date	Jul 8, 2016
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a heat insulation box, wherein said method involves disposing an outer box over the outside of an inner box such that there is space therebetween, covering an opening with an elastic sheet from the outside of the outer box, inserting a jig into the opening from the outside of the outer box to force the elastic sheet into the space between the inner box and the outer box, and injecting the urethane foam heat insulating material into the space between the inner box and the outer box so as to foam therein to form a recess with the elastic sheet tightly adhering to the surface thereof.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a heat insulation box including an inner box that stores an article therein, an outer box that includes an opening, and a foamed material that fills a space between the inner box and the outer box by foaming and includes a recessed portion in the opening of the outer box, the method comprising:
disposing the outer box outside the inner box with a space interposed therebetween;
covering the opening from outside of the outer box with an elastic sheet;
inserting a jig having a projected portion corresponding to the recessed portion from the outside of the outer box into the opening and pushing the elastic sheet into the space between the inner box and the outer box with the projected portion, the projected portion having a shape of a side surface that follows a side surface of a component to be disposed in the recessed portion; and
injecting the foamed material into the space between the inner box and the outer box and foaming the foamed material to form the recessed portion with the elastic sheet in close contact with a surface of the recessed portion,
wherein the elastic sheet is provided with a plurality of longitudinally and laterally aligned air-bleeding holes, and the plurality of air-bleeding holes are covered with a mesh sheet.

2. The method for manufacturing the heat insulation box according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic sheet is made of polyurethane elastomer.

3. The method for manufacturing the heat insulation box according to claim 1 , wherein the heat insulation box is a constituent component of a freezer.

4. The method for manufacturing a heat insulation box according to claim 1 , wherein
a positioning hole is provided in the elastic sheet while a positioning protrusion is provided on a back surface of the inner box, and
the positioning hole is inserted into the positioning protrusion to perform positioning of the elastic sheet with respect to the opening.

5. A heat insulation box, comprising:
an inner box that stores an article therein;
an outer box that includes an opening;
a foamed material that fills a space between the inner box and the outer box by foaming and includes a recessed portion in the opening of the outer box; and
an elastic sheet disposed in close contact with a surface of the recessed portion, wherein
a shape of a side surface of the recessed portion is a shape that follows a side surface of a component to be disposed in the recessed portion,
wherein the elastic sheet is provided with a plurality of longitudinally and laterally aligned air-bleeding holes, and the plurality of air-bleeding holes are covered with a mesh sheet.

6. A freezer, comprising:
the heat insulation box according to claim 5 , wherein
a cascade capacitor is disposed in the recessed portion.

Assignees

• Phc Holdings Corp

Inventors

• Kabumoto Takanari
• Mizumoto Kenichi

Classifications

• F25D23/064 Primary

  formed by moulding, e.g. moulding in situ · CPC title

• F25D23/02

  Doors; Covers (F25D23/08 takes precedence {locks or fastenings E05B65/0042}) · CPC title

• F25D11/00

  Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic refrigerators · CPC title

• F25D2331/804

  Boxes · CPC title

• F25D23/08

  Parts formed wholly or mainly of plastics materials · CPC title