Domestic refrigeration appliance with an individually creatable additional compartment and method for the formation of an additional compartment
10203151 · 2019-02-12
Assignee
Inventors
- HERBERT CIZIK (OTTENBACH, DE)
- JESSICA DITTMANN (LAUCHHEIM, DE)
- Andrea Fink (Gerstetten, DE)
- Claudia Weiβ (Neu-Ulm, DE)
- MARCUS WEHLAUCH (NATTHEIM, DE)
- Felix Wiedenmann (Heidenheim, DE)
Cpc classification
F25D2317/0664
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D25/025
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D2500/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/042
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D11/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/045
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D25/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D2400/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D25/005
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D23/069
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D23/08
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D23/067
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F25D23/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D25/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D11/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D23/08
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A domestic refrigeration appliance with a housing in which a receiving chamber for foodstuffs is formed, is delimited by walls of an interior container, and is formed with an additional compartment for foodstuffs in the receiving chamber comprising delimiting walls by way of which a receiving volume of the additional compartment is delimited. Delimiting walls can be separated and joined non-destructively, thus enabling the additional compartment to be reversibly assembled and disassembled in the receiving chamber.
Claims
1. A domestic refrigeration appliance with a housing in which a receiving chamber for foodstuffs is formed, which is delimited by chamber walls of an interior container and with an additional compartment for foodstuffs formed in the receiving chamber comprising delimiting compartment walls by means of which a receiving volume of the additional compartment is delimited from a remaining volume of the receiving chamber, at least one of the compartment walls formed by a chamber wall of the interior container, wherein the delimiting compartment walls can be separated and joined non-destructively, thus enabling the additional compartment to be reversibly assembled and disassembled in the receiving chamber, wherein a first position for the additional compartment in the receiving chamber is specified and a second position different therefrom is specified for the additional compartment, wherein the additional compartment can be assembled at the first position in the receiving chamber or can be assembled at the second position in the receiving chamber.
2. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional compartment is a keep-fresh compartment in which (1) an atmospheric humidity different to that in the receiving chamber can be set selectively, and/or (2) a temperature different to that in the receiving chamber can be set selectively.
3. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position can be selected in dependence on which wall of the interior container is to embody which locally specific delimiting wall of the additional compartment.
4. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the height-wise direction (y) of the domestic refrigeration appliance, the first position is arranged below the second position.
5. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional compartment comprises at least one further separate delimiting wall, which is a partition wall with which the receiving volume of the additional compartment can be separated into at least two partial volumes.
6. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 5, wherein the partition wall is a thermal insulation wall.
7. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 5, wherein the partition wall comprises at least one air duct with which cold air can be guided from outside of the additional compartment into the receiving volume of the additional compartment.
8. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional compartment comprises as a separate delimiting wall a frame with at least one feed-through opening said frame forming a front wall of the additional compartment.
9. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 8, wherein the frame comprises at least two separate feed-through openings formed next to one another in the width-wise direction (x).
10. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 8, wherein the additional compartment comprises at least one receiving drawer for foodstuffs, which is arranged so that it can be so that it can be pushed in and pulled out of the receiving volume formed by the delimiting walls through the feed-through opening.
11. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 10, wherein a sealing element surrounding a feed-through opening is arranged on a front side of the frame on which the receiving drawer lies in pushed-in state.
12. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 8, wherein the frame is pushed into separate holding rods on opposite sides.
13. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein a delimiting wall is a wall of the interior container or a compartment floor, which is arranged in the receiving chamber so that it can be non-destructively detached and divides the receiving chamber.
14. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional compartment comprises as separate delimiting walls a front wall, a bottom wall, a top wall, a rear wall and side walls.
15. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiving chamber includes a first side chamber wall and an opposite second side chamber wall, and the additional compartment including a front compartment wall, wherein the front compartment wall is secured to the first side chamber wall and the second side chamber wall.
16. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the first position the chamber wall forms at least one of the compartment walls and in the second position the chamber wall forms at least one of the compartment walls.
17. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional compartment is thermally insulated such that no unwanted alignment of storage conditions between the receiving volume of the additional compartment and the remaining volume of the receiving chamber occurs.
18. A domestic refrigeration appliance with a housing in which a receiving chamber for foodstuffs is formed, which is delimited by chamber walls of an interior container and with an additional compartment for foodstuffs formed in the receiving chamber comprising delimiting compartment walls by means of which a receiving volume of the additional compartment is delimited from a remaining volume of the receiving chamber, at least one of the compartment walls formed by a chamber wall of the interior container, wherein the delimiting compartment walls can be separated and joined non-destructively, thus enabling the additional compartment to be reversibly assembled and disassembled in the receiving chamber; wherein the additional compartment comprises at least one further separate delimiting wall, which is a partition wall with which the receiving volume of the additional compartment can be separated into at least two partial volumes; and wherein the partition wall comprises at least one air duct with which cold air can be guided from outside of the additional compartment into the receiving volume of the additional compartment.
Description
(1) Exemplary embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to schematic drawings, which show:
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(15) In the figures, the same elements or elements with the same functions are given the same reference numbers.
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(17) The chiller compartment 3 can be closed at the front side by one single door arranged in a pivotable manner on the housing 2. In the exemplary embodiment, it is provided that the chiller compartment 3 can be closed by a door 6 and a further door 7 at the front side. The two separate doors 6 and 7 can each be pivoted about a pivot axis in the height-wise direction (y-direction).
(18) In the chiller compartment 3, compartment bottoms 8 and 9, the number, position and embodiment of which should only be understood as being exemplary, are arranged at different heights and hence at different levels. They are in particular arranged on internal sides of opposite walls 10 and 11 (
(19) In the exemplary embodiment, an additional compartment 16 is also formed in the chiller compartment 3. The additional compartment 16 is intended to receive foodstuffs. It comprises several separate delimiting walls, by means of which a receiving volume 17 (
(20) The delimiting walls of the additional compartment 16 are formed so that they can be non-destructively detached and so that they can be separated and joined non-destructively. As a result, the additional compartment 16 can be reversibly assembled and dissembled again in the receiving chamber and hence in the chiller compartment 3.
(21) The modular design of this additional compartment 16 hence enables this additional compartment 16 to be created in the chiller compartment 3 for an individual user but also to be dismantled again.
(22) Hence this additional compartment 16 can be present or not present as required and hence then used for its intended function in the chiller compartment 3 or, if it is not required, disassembled.
(23) The additional compartment 16 is in particular a keep-fresh compartment in which an atmospheric humidity different from the remaining volume of the chiller compartment 3 and/or a temperature different to that in the remaining volume of the chiller compartment 3 can be set selectively. To this end, the domestic refrigeration appliance 1 comprises an adjusting apparatus as is explained below.
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(25) In this case, the additional compartment 16 comprises as a separate delimiting wall a top wall 18, as shown in
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(27) Moreover, a further delimiting wall of the additional compartment 16 is formed by the side wall 10 and a further delimiting wall by the side wall 11 of the interior container 15. In the embodiment shown, moreover a delimiting wall of the additional compartment 16 is also formed by the floor 14 of the interior container 15.
(28) To attach the separate delimiting walls in the form of the top wall 18 and the front wall 20 to the interior container 15, local fastening means are provided on the interior container 15 and/or the top wall 18 and/or the front wall 20.
(29) In particular, this defined locally arranged fastening means then also specifies a defined first installation position of the additional compartment 16 in the chiller compartment 3.
(30) Receiving drawers 24 and 25, as shown in
(31) It can also be provided that at least one receiving drawer 24 and/or 25 comprises a lid 28 (
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(36) This view also shows a further separate delimiting wall of the additional compartment 16, wherein this further separate delimiting wall represents a partition wall 30. This partition wall 30 is arranged in the receiving volume 17 of the additional compartment 16 such that, as can already be identified in
(37) Formed in the partition wall 30, are in particular one or more air ducts, wherein the air ducts feed into a rear edge 30a.
(38) This partition wall 30 can be formed in one piece but can also be assembled as a multi-piece component. Further explanations of this will be given in the following.
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(40) The frame 21 is in particular formed in one piece, in particular made of plastic.
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(42) It can additionally or alternatively be provided that, in the depth-wise direction (z-direction) of the domestic refrigeration appliance 1, at least two different depths are specified at which the holding rods 35 and 36 can be fastened, in particular screwed-on. This embodiment enables both dimensions of the additional compartment 16 to be set in the depth-wise direction and the general position in the height-wise direction to be selected.
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(45) In this case, the partition wall 30 has already been assembled in advance and arranged in its end position. As can be identified in this case, the frame 21 is preferably also fastened to this partition wall 30. To this end, a receptacle 40, which can be a recess or a trough or a groove, is also formed on a rear side of an intermediate web 39 (
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(50) The delimiting walls of the additional compartment 16 are preferably thermal insulation walls which have the result that no unwanted alignment of the storage conditions in the additional compartment 16 with those in the remaining volume of the chiller compartment 3 occurs. The frame 21 is then also correspondingly advantageous formed as a thermally insulated wall of this kind.
(51) Once again, with this embodiment, a floor 43 of the interior container 15 is the floor of the chiller compartment 4.
(52) It is in particular provided that the domestic refrigeration appliance 1 comprises a refrigeration circuit some of the components of which can be arranged in a machine room 45 of the domestic refrigeration appliance 1. As can be identified in the exemplary embodiment shown in
(53) This duct 49 terminates at an outlet 50. Preferably, a first outlet 50 and a second outlet 51 are provided so that, in this case, coupling of the duct 49 to the air ducts 31 and 32 at different heights is enabled. It can be provided that the outlets 50 and 51 can, for example, be closed by self-closing flaps. As a result, when assembling the additional compartment 16 at the first position shown in
(54) Air from the chiller compartment 3 is guided through a further through-opening 52 via a duct 53, in particular extending in a side wall of the housing 2 back to the evaporation chamber 48.
(55) It can also be provided that the cold air flowing via the air ducts 31 and 32 into the partial volumes 17a and 17b between for example a front edge of the top wall 18 and the feed-through openings 22 and 23 reaches the remaining volume of the chiller compartment 3 if an embodiment is provided there which does not require tightness such as that explained with the above example and hence a certain exchange of atmospheric humidity and/or temperature between the receiving volume 17 and the remaining regions of the chiller compartment 3 is to be provided.
(56) Instead of the two separate air ducts 31 and 32, it is also possible for one single duct to be provided in the partition wall 30 which then preferably comprises outlet openings 31a on both sides so that both partial volumes 17a and 17b can be correspondingly supplied with the same cold and/or moist air. However, preferably these two separate air ducts 31 and 32 are provided. As already explained, this partition wall 30 can be formed in one piece. However, it can also be formed in multiple pieces and, for example, formed as explained as explained with reference to
(57) The insulating bodies 54 and 55 preferably are each configured as flat pareliepipeds on the main surfaces on the mutually facing surfaces of which two horizontally extending grooves 62 and 63 are formed as recesses, wherein the upper groove 62 is in alignment with the air-passage openings 32a in the upper half of the drawer part 56. The insulating body 55 only differs from the insulating body 54 in its orientation. They can both be converted into one another by a 180 rotation about a horizontal axis 64 so that one air duct 31 or 32 is delimited by an insulating body 54, 55 on the groove 62 and the other on the groove 63. Through-openings 65 in the insulating body 54 are in alignment with air-passage openings 32a. Correspondingly, through-openings 66 in the insulating body 55 are in alignment with the air-passage openings 31a.
LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS
(58) 1 Domestic refrigeration appliance 2 Housing 3 Chiller compartment 4 Freezer compartment 5 Door 6 Door 7 Door 8 Compartment floor 9 Compartment floor 10 Wall 11 Wall 12 Rear wall 13 Top wall 14 Bottom wall 15 Interior container 16 Additional compartment 17 Receiving volume 17a Partial volume 17b Partial volume 18 Top wall 19 Storage chamber 20 Front wall 20a Front side 21 Frame 22 Feed-through opening 23 Feed-through opening 24 Receiving drawer 24a Front wall 25 Receiving drawer 25a Front wall 26 Sealing element 27 Sealing element 28 Lid 29 Lid 30 Partition wall 30a Rear edge 30b Holding-rod element 30c Front side 31 Air duct 31a Air-passage opening 32 Air duct 32a Air-passage opening 33 Stiffening structure 34 Strut 35 Holding rod 36 Holding rod 37 Receptacle 38 Receptacle 39 Intermediate web 40 Recess 41 Bearing web 42 Bearing web 43 Floor 44 Compartment floor 45 Refrigeration circuit 46 Evaporator 47 Partition wall 48 Evaporation chamber 49 Duct 50 Outlet 51 Outlet 52 Through-opening 53 Duct 54 Insulating body 55 Insulating body 56 Drawer part 57 Drawer part 58 Baseplate 59 Web 60 Rear corner 61 Recess 62 Groove 63 Groove 64 Horizontal axis 65 Through-opening 66 Through-opening