Refrigerator with divider

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11835289-B2
Application number	US-202017434365-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2020
Priority date	Feb 26, 2019
Publication date	Dec 5, 2023
Grant date	Dec 5, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a refrigerator (10), including: a cabinet (100) in which a cooling chamber (200) located at a lower side and at least one storage compartment located above the cooling chamber (200) are defined, a bottom air inlet (110a) and a bottom air outlet (110b) being provided in a bottom of the cabinet (100) in a transverse direction at an interval; a compressor chamber (300) arranged behind the cooling chamber (200), in which a compressor (104), a heat dissipation fan (106) and a condenser (105) are sequentially arranged; and a divider (117) configured to completely isolate the bottom air inlet (110a) from the bottom air outlet (110b), such that external air entering the condenser (105) and heat dissipation air discharged from the compressor (104) are not crossed. In the refrigerator (10), the freezing chamber (132) is raised, a user has no need to bend down much to access to the freezing chamber (132), and the use experience is improved. In addition, by the divider (117), the bottom air inlet (110a) and the bottom air outlet (110b) are completely separated, so that the external air entering the condenser (105) and the heat dissipation air discharged from the compressor (104) are not crossed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A refrigerator, comprising:
a cabinet in which a cooling chamber located at a lower side and at least one storage compartment located above the cooling chamber are defined, a bottom air inlet and a bottom air outlet being formed in a bottom of the cabinet in a transverse direction at an interval;
a compressor chamber arranged behind the cooling chamber, in which a compressor, a heat dissipation fan and a condenser are sequentially arranged; and
a divider configured to completely isolate the bottom air inlet from the bottom air outlet to allow external air to enter the compressor chamber via the bottom air inlet located on one transverse side of the divider under the action of the heat dissipation fan, sequentially flow through the condenser and the compressor, and finally flow out from the bottom air outlet located on the other transverse side of the divider, such that the external air entering the condenser and heat dissipation air discharged from the compressor are not crossed; and
a fan fixing frame fixed in the compressor chamber in a front-rear direction and used to fix the heat dissipation fan,
wherein the divider is fixed to the fan fixing frame, wherein
the divider is snap-fixed to the fan fixing frame, wherein
the divider has a first vertically extending partition close to the bottom air outlet, and an accommodating slot is formed in a rear end of the first vertically extending partition;
a front end of the fan fixing frame extends forwards to form a protrusion; and
the protrusion of the fan fixing frame is fitted in the accommodating slot to realize snap fixing between the divider and the fan fixing frame.

2. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein
a rear part of the first vertically extending partition comprises a main body part, a first flange and a second flange, the accommodating slot is formed in the main body part, and the first flange and the second flange are formed by extending backwards from left and right sides of a rear end of the main body part respectively; and
a front part of the fan fixing frame is clamped between the first flange and the second flange.

3. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an evaporating dish fixed in the compressor chamber, wherein the condenser is arranged in the evaporating dish; and
the divider is fixed to the evaporating dish.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 3 , wherein the divider is fixed to the evaporating dish by abutting against each other.

5. The refrigerator according to claim 4 , wherein
the divider has a second vertically extending partition close to the bottom air inlet, and a lower part of a rear end of the second vertically extending partition is sunken forwards to form a horizontal abutting surface;
a front wall of the evaporating dish extends forwards to form a protrusion; and
the protrusion of the evaporating dish is fitted below the horizontal abutting surface to realize fixing of the divider and the evaporating dish by abutting against each other.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a supporting plate configured to be bottoms of the cabinet and the compressor chamber;
the divider is provided with a plurality of claws at its bottom;
the supporting plate is correspondingly provided with a plurality of clamping holes; and
the plurality of claws are fixed to the plurality of clamping holes so that the divider is fixed to the supporting plate.

7. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , wherein the divider is an integrally molded piece.

8. The refrigerator according to claim 1 , further comprising: an evaporator arranged in the cooling chamber and configured to cool an air flow entering the cooling chamber.

Assignees

• Qingdao haier refrigerator co ltd
• Haier Smart Home Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Jing
• Liu Jianru
• Cao Dongqiang
• Nie Shengyuan

Classifications

• F25D23/006 Primary

  for mounting refrigerating machinery components · CPC title

• F25D11/02

  with cooling compartments at different temperatures · CPC title

• F25D23/003 Primary

  for cooling refrigerating machinery · CPC title

• F25D2321/1411

  using compressor heat · CPC title

• F25D2323/00266

  through the bottom · CPC title