The present application is a national phase entry of International Application No. PCT/CN2019/101943, filed Aug. 22, 2019, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201821433767.3, filed Sep. 3, 2018, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The present invention relates to the field of household appliances, and particularly relates to a refrigerator.
Drawers of some high-end refrigerators are provided with electrical components, such as a temperature control panel on a front end plate of a temperature-variable drawer of a high-end French refrigerator. A wire harness and a terminal component which are connected to an electrical component need to be buried in a slide rail of the drawer and connected to a box body of the refrigerator, so as to realize power transmission.
In the prior art, a through hole is generally provided for threading a wire harness. However, such a through hole usually has a relatively single function and is only used for the wire harness to pass through.
An objective of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator having a fixing structure with a wire harness guiding function.
Specifically, the present invention provides a refrigerator, including:
a storage compartment;
a drawer, arranged in the storage compartment in a drawable manner; and
a slide rail assembly, arranged between the drawer and a side wall of the storage compartment and comprising:
a first support member, extending along a pulling direction of the drawer and connected to a side wall of the storage compartment, a front end of the first support member provided with an installation part, wherein
a top of the installation part is fixedly provided with a terminal box cover; a bottom of the installation part is provided with an installation part fixing structure; the installation part fixing structure includes a plurality of claws configured to fix a wire harness threaded from the terminal box cover; the plurality of claws are arranged at intervals along an arc; and the arc is in a form that a middle part bulges upward and both ends hang downward.
Optionally, there are three claws respectively arranged at the middle part and both ends of the arc.
Optionally, each of the plurality of claws includes:
an arched tube, a side of the tube and the installation part forming an inlet of the wire harness; and
a baffle plate, erected on the side of the tube provided with the inlet of the wire harness and forming an access passage of the wire harness together with the tube, so that the wire harness enters inside the tube sequentially from the access passage of the wire harness and the inlet of the wire harness so as to fix the wire harness.
Optionally, the bottom of the installation part is in a box shape and includes a bottom wall and side walls surrounding the bottom wall; the bottom wall and the side walls define an accommodating cavity with an opening facing the side wall of the storage compartment; and the plurality of claws are located in the accommodating cavity.
Optionally, the side wall at the bottom of the installation part is provided with a notch for the wire harness threaded from the installation part fixing structure to pass through.
Optionally, the refrigerator further includes:
a second support member, extending along the pulling direction of the drawer and connected to the drawer; and
a wiring box, extending along the pulling direction of the drawer, and the wiring box together with the second support member defining a cavity which extends along the pulling direction of the drawer, and is used for threading the wire harness threaded from the installation part.
Optionally, the second support member includes a vertical plate part vertically arranged and a flat plate part protruding from the vertical plate part toward the first support member; and
the wiring box includes a first side surface arranged in parallel with the flat plate part, and a second side surface and a third side surface arranged at two ends of the first side surface and perpendicular to the first side surface, wherein the second side surface is attached to the vertical plate part, and the first side surface, the second side surface, the third side surface and the flat plate part define the cavity.
Optionally, a rear end and a front end of the cavity are respectively provided with a first opening and a second opening, so that the wire harness threaded from the terminal box cover is threaded into the cavity from the first opening, then is threaded out through the second opening, and is connected to an electrical component at a front end of the drawer.
Optionally, the cavity is internally provided with a plurality of cavity fixing structures arranged at intervals along the pulling direction of the drawer and used for threading and fixing the wire harness.
Optionally, the drawer is a drawable temperature-variable drawer.
In the present invention, the claws are arranged to be distributed along the above arc so that the wire harness forms a downward threading trend to ensure the direction of the wire harness. Furthermore, the claws may lock the wire harness, so that the wire harness is not easy to fall off and loosen when moving with the drawer. After actual tests on a model machine, the threading manner of the present invention enables the wire harness to pass the test of a large number of pulling times in a low-temperature storage environment.
Further, in the present invention, the installation part is arranged in a box shape with an accommodating cavity so as to provide an accommodating space for the wire harness and the installation part fixing structure, so that the wire harness can be embedded in the installation part and is not easy to rub against other components, thereby protecting the wire harness.
According to the following detailed descriptions of specific embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the drawings, those skilled in the art will more clearly understand the above and other objectives, advantages and features of the present invention.
Some specific embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the drawings by way of example and not limitation. The same reference numerals in the drawings indicate the same or similar components or parts. Those skilled in the art should understand that these drawings are not necessarily drawn in scale. In the drawings:
In the present embodiment, the claws are arranged to be distributed along the above arc so that the wire harness 50 forms a downward threading trend to ensure the direction of the wire harness 50. Furthermore, the above claws may lock the wire harness 50, so that the wire harness 50 is not easy to fall off and loosen when moving with the drawer 300.
Optionally, there are three claws respectively arranged at the middle part and both ends of the arc.
In another embodiment, as shown in
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In the present embodiment, the defined cavity may be in a cuboid shape. In other embodiments not shown, the wiring box 30 may also be in other specific shapes, such as a round tube shape, which is not limited herein.
In another embodiment, as shown in
When the drawer 300 in the refrigerator 1000 of the present embodiment is pulled out, since the front end of the wire harness 50 is limited by the claws, the end of the wire harness 50 is pulled out outward with the drawer 300, so that the position of the front end of the wire harness 50 relative to the storage compartment 200 does not change, and the part of the wire harness 50 located outside the wiring box 30 is drawn into the wiring box 30.
When the drawer 300 in the refrigerator 1000 is pulled back, the end of the wire harness 50 is retracted together with the drawer 300. Since the front end of the wire harness 50 is fixed by the claws, when the drawer 300 is pulled back, the distance between the first opening 31 of the wiring box 30 and the front end of the fixed wire harness 50 increases, and a part of the wire harness 50 in the wiring box 30 is drawn out of the wiring box 30.
Hereto, those skilled in the art should realize that although multiple exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described in detail herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, many other variations or modifications that conform to the principles of the present invention can still be directly determined or deduced from the contents disclosed in the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should be understood and deemed to cover all such other variations or modifications.
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