This application claims the benefit, under 35 U.S.C. § 119, of Chinese patent application CN 201611142494.2, filed Dec. 12, 2016; the prior application is herewith incorporated by reference in its entirety
The present invention relates to the field of refrigeration appliances, in particular to a refrigeration appliance and a heat insulation door thereof.
A door of a traditional refrigerator is generally formed by foaming, and a user cannot see the interior of a refrigeration appliance from outside. The refrigeration appliance adopting a heat insulation glass module provides the possibility for the user to observe the interior of a refrigeration space without opening the door. However, if the heat insulation effect of the refrigeration appliance door with the heat insulation glass module is not ideal, condensations are likely to occur on the door.
An objective of the present invention is to provide an improved heat insulation door in order to solve at least one of the technical problems described above.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a heat insulation door for a refrigeration appliance, comprising a door body, wherein the door body comprises a heat insulation glass module comprising at least two layers of glass plates disposed with an interval; a doorframe that surrounds the heat insulation glass module, wherein the doorframe has a rear frame portion located at the back of the heat insulation glass module; and a door sealing strip connected to the back of the rear frame portion; and the door body further comprises at least one enclosed heat insulation cavity, wherein the heat insulation cavity is located between the door sealing strip and the heat insulation glass module along a front-to-rear direction or located on an inner side of the door sealing strip along a direction parallel to the door body.
Compared with the prior art, the heat insulation cavity of the present invention can play a role in isolation between the refrigeration space and the door body to prevent the cold air from reaching the door body, thereby preventing the door body from having condensation on an outer surface, and improving the heat insulation effect of the heat insulation door.
Optionally, a first sealing portion is disposed between edges of the adjacent glass plates to form an enclosed heat insulation layer between the adjacent glass plates.
Optionally, the door sealing strip is located on the inner side of the first sealing portion in the direction parallel to the door body. Thus, the heat insulation cavity and the door sealing strip are respectively staggered to the first sealing portion along the front-to-rear direction of the door so as to block cold air and to prevent the cold air from being leaked to the front side of the door body, thereby improving the condensation phenomenon.
Optionally, at least one heat insulation cavity is formed in the rear frame portion.
Optionally, at least one heat insulation cavity is formed between the rear frame portion and the door body.
Optionally, there is a gap between the rear frame portion and the door body, and the heat insulation cavity is located in the gap.
Optionally, along the direction parallel to the door body, the inner side of the rear frame portion and the door body are bonded through using glue or sealed by using a sealing member, and the outer side of the rear frame portion and the door body are bonded through using glue or sealed by using a sealing member.
Optionally, the heat insulation glass module is a vacuum glass module or a hollow glass module.
Optionally, the door body further comprises: a front door panel located in front of the heat insulation glass module and disposed with an interval from the heat insulation glass module; and a second sealing portion is disposed between the heat insulation glass module and the front door panel to form an enclosed heat insulation layer between the front door panel and the heat insulation glass module. The front door panel can be used for protecting the heat insulation glass module to prevent the heat insulation glass module from being directly exposed to a range that a user can reach, thereby preventing the breaking probability of the front door panel and also preventing the front door panel when being broken from injuring a user. Moreover, the front door panel can be used as a decoration panel to improve the appearance attractiveness of the heat insulation door.
Optionally, at least one heat insulation cavity is located on the inner side of the second sealing portion along the direction parallel to the door body.
Optionally, in a width and/or length direction of the door body, the front door panel has a protruding portion that extends out of the edge of the heat insulation glass module.
In some embodiments, along the front-to-rear direction of the door, the protruding portion completely shields the doorframe, so that the doorframe is concealed behind the door, and the ornamental performance of the door is improved.
Optionally, the doorframe further comprises: a first cooperative wall located in front of the rear frame portion and at the rear side of the protruding portion, and connected to the protruding portion; a second cooperative wall disposed at the rear frame portion and facing the heat insulation glass module; a connecting wall that connects the first cooperative wall and the second cooperative wall; and along the front-to-rear direction, the heat insulation glass module is located between the first cooperative wall and the second cooperative wall.
Optionally, the heat insulation glass module is directly or indirectly connected to the second cooperative wall.
Optionally, the door body is provided with a sealing portion on the edges of two adjacent layer structures having an interval, and projections of the sealing portions are overlapped with each other along the front-to-rear direction.
Optionally, the second cooperative wall covers the sealing portion. Thus, when the door sealing strip is disposed on the inner side of the rear frame portion, the door sealing strip can be located on the inner side of each sealing portion so as to be staggered to each sealing portion along the front-to-rear direction, thereby improving the heat insulation effect of the heat insulation door.
Optionally, the door body further comprises: a rear protective panel disposed at the back of the heat insulation glass module and disposed with an interval from the heat insulation glass module. The rear protective layer is used for protecting the heat insulation glass module at the back thereof and can be used as a decorative layer on the inner side of the heat insulation door.
Optionally, a third sealing portion is disposed between the edge of the heat insulation glass module and the edge of the rear protective panel to form an enclosed heat insulation layer between the heat insulation glass module and the rear protective panel.
Optionally, at least one heat insulation cavity is located on the inner side of the third sealing portion along the direction of the door body.
Optionally, the front door panel is a colorful crystal glass plate, thereby improving the appearance attractiveness of the heat insulation door.
Optionally, the rear protective panel is a toughened glass plate, a colorful crystal glass plate, or a plastic plate.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide an improved refrigeration appliance, and the refrigeration appliance comprises the heat insulation door of any one described above.
Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in a refrigeration appliance, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
The foregoing objectives, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of specific embodiments of the invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Referring to
The refrigeration space R1 of the refrigeration appliance R may be sealed by a layer of heat insulation door D, as shown in
In combination with
The heat insulation glass module G comprises at least two glass plates (11) disposed with an interval. As an example, the heat insulation glass module G in the present embodiment comprises two layers of glass plates 11. A first sealing portion S1 is disposed between edges of the adjacent glass plates 11 to form an enclosed heat insulation layer between the adjacent glass plates 11. Generally speaking, the first sealing portion S1 is in an annular shape that surrounds the edges of the glass plates 11. The heat insulation glass module G may be a vacuum glass module or a hollow glass module, and in the present embodiment, the heat insulation glass module is the vacuum glass module, i.e. the heat insulation layer between the two layers of glass plates 11 is a vacuum space.
The doorframe 20 can be divided into a side frame portion 21 and a rear frame portion 22, wherein the side frame portion 21 is located outside a peripheral surface of the heat insulation glass module G, the rear frame portion 22 is located at the back of the heat insulation glass module G along the front-to-rear direction X of the door, and a door sealing strip 30 and a mounting slot 20a for fixing the door sealing strip 30 are disposed at the back of the rear frame portion 22. The door sealing strip 30 is used for sealing between the heat insulation door D and a contact surface thereof in a closed state to prevent the leakage of cold air in the refrigeration space R1 of the refrigeration appliance, and the contact surface may be located in the box body (not shown) of the refrigeration appliance or may also be another door.
The heat insulation door D of the present solution further comprises at least one enclosed heat insulation cavity 20b. The heat insulation cavity 20b can be located between the door sealing strip 30 and the heat insulation glass module G along the front-to-rear direction X, or located on the inner side of the door sealing strip 30 along the direction parallel to the door body 10 (i.e. the direction parallel to the heat insulation glass module G). When the quantity of the heat insulation cavities 20b is multiple, some heat insulation cavities 20b can be disposed between the door sealing strip 30 and the heat insulation glass module G, and some heat insulation cavities 20b are located on the inner side of the door sealing strip 30.
The heat insulation cavity 20b of the present solution can play a role in isolation between the refrigeration space R1 and the door body 10 to prevent the cold air from reaching the door body 10, thereby preventing the door body from having condensation on an outer surface, and improving the heat insulation effect of the heat insulation door.
It shall be noted that in the present application, without otherwise specified, the “front-to-rear direction” refers to the front-to-rear direction of the door, i.e. a thickness direction of the door. The “front” is a direction pointing to a front surface of the door, and the “back” is a direction pointing to a back surface of the door. The “inner side” refers to one side, close to the center of the door body, of a plane in which the door body is located, i.e. one side away from the edge of the door.
Preferably, the door sealing strip 30 is at least partially located on the inner side of the first sealing portion S1. On this basis, the heat insulation cavity 20b is located on the inner side of the first sealing portion S1, thus, the heat insulation cavity 20b and the door sealing strip 30 are respectively staggered to the first sealing portion S1 along the front-to-rear direction of the door so as to block the cold air and to prevent the cold air from being leaked to the front side of the door body, thereby improving the condensation phenomenon.
In the present embodiment, as shown in
In some other embodiments, referring to
Continuously referring to
The front door panel 12 may be a toughened glass plate, a colorful crystal glass plate or a plastic plate, and is preferably the colorful crystal glass plate.
As shown in
In order to optimize the cold air leakage-proof effect, along the direction parallel to the door body 10, at least one heat insulation cavity 20b is located on the inner side of the second sealing portion S2 along the direction parallel to the door body 10. Meanwhile, the door sealing strip 30 is at least partially located on the inner side of the second sealing portion S2 on a same edge so as to increase a travel distance of the cold air from the refrigeration space to the second sealing portion S2, thereby reducing the leakage of the cold air. It can be seen from
An area of the front door panel 12 is based on the fact that the heat insulation glass module G is substantially covered, a dimension and a shape of the front door panel 12 may be basically consistent with that of the heat insulation glass module G or may also be greater than that of the heat insulation glass module G.
In the present embodiment, in a width and/or length direction of the door body 10, the front door panel 12 has a protruding portion 12a extending out of an edge of the heat insulation glass module G. The protruding portion 12a can be used for shielding other parts, for example, can be used for partially or completely shielding the doorframe 20. In the present embodiment, along the front-to-rear direction of the door, the protruding portion 12a completely shields the doorframe 20.
Continuously referring to
Specifically, the first cooperative wall 21a and the connecting wall 21b are disposed on the side frame portion 21, and the second cooperative wall 22a is disposed on the rear frame portion 22. The connecting wall 21b is located on the inner side of the side frame portion 21 and the outer side of the rear frame portion 22 and surrounds a peripheral edge of the heat insulation glass module G. Along the front-to-rear direction X, the heat insulation glass module G is located between the first cooperative wall 21a and the second cooperative wall 22a. The protruding portion 12a is connected to the first cooperative wall 21a, and the heat insulation glass module G may be directly or indirectly connected to the second cooperative wall 22a.
In the present embodiment, the rear frame portion 22 is bonded with the door body 10 by using glue through the second cooperative wall 22a, the inner side of the rear frame portion 22 is provided with a bulge 22b on one side facing the heat insulation glass module G, and the bulge 22b is pressed on the door body 10 to prevent the leakage of the glue. Or the position of the bulge 22b may be additionally provided with a sealing element or the bulge may be replaced with the sealing element, so as to improve the sealing performance of the refrigeration space.
It shall be noted that besides the heat insulation glass module G and the front protection 12, the door body 10 may further comprise other layer structures which are laminated with the heat insulation glass module G and the front door panel 12. In the door body 10 of a multilayer structure, the edges of two adjacent layer structures having an interval are provided with a sealing portion so as to form a heat insulation layer between two adjacent layer structures, wherein the projections of all sealing portions along the front-to-rear direction X are overlapped with each other. With respect to the door sealing strip 30, in general, the door sealing strip 30 is disposed on the inner side of the rear frame portion 22, and the door sealing strip 30 is preferably located on the inner side of each sealing portion, thus the second cooperative wall 22a covers each sealing portion.
Each heat insulation layer between the adjacent layer structures may also be vacuumized, or filled with inert gas so as to improve the heat insulation performance.
In other embodiments, referring to
A third sealing portion S3 is disposed between the edge of the heat insulation glass module G and the edge of the rear protective layer 13 to form an enclosed heat insulation layer between the heat insulation glass module G and the rear protective layer 13. Preferably, along the direction parallel to the door body 10, the door sealing strip 30 is at least partially located on the inner side of the third sealing portion S3 on a same edge, or at least one heat insulation cavity 20b is located on the inner side of the third sealing portion S3 along the direction of the door body 10 so as to reduce the leakage of the cold air. As shown in
Although the present invention is disclosed as above, the present invention is not limited thereto. Various changes and modifications may be made by any technical skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention shall be defined by the scope of the claims.
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