DOMESTIC REFRIGERATION APPLIANCE WITH AN INDIVIDUALLY CERATABLE ADDITIONAL COMPARTMENT AND METHOD FOR THE FORMATION OF AN ADDITIONAL COMARTEMENT
20170122651 · 2017-05-04
Inventors
- HERBERT CIZIK (OTTENBACH, DE)
- JESSICA DITTMANN (LAUCHHEIM, DE)
- Andrea Fink (Gerstetten, DE)
- Claudia WEIß (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
F25D25/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D11/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D25/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F25D17/04
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 walls of an interior container and with an additional compartment for foodstuffs formed in the receiving chamber comprising delimiting walls by means of which a receiving volume of the additional compartment is delimited, characterized in that the delimiting walls can be separated and joined non-destructively, thus enabling the additional compartment to be reversibly assembled and disassembled in the receiving chamber.
2. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the additional compartment is a keep-fresh compartment in which an atmospheric humidity different to that in the receiving chamber and/or temperature different to that in the receiving chamber can be set selectively.
3. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1, 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.
4. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 3, 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.
5. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 3, wherein in the height-wise direction of the domestic refrigeration appliance, the first position is arranged below the second position, and/or that the additional compartment comprises as separate delimiting walls a front wall, a bottom wall, a top wall, a rear wall and side walls.
6. 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.
7. The domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 6, wherein the partition wall is a thermal insulation wall and/or that 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. A method for the embodiment of an additional compartment for receiving foodstuffs in a receiving chamber for foodstuffs of a domestic refrigeration appliance as claimed in claim 1 with the following steps: provision of delimiting walls that can be non-destructively detached; arrangement of the delimiting walls that can be non-destructively detached such that a receiving volume of the additional compartment is formed, which is delimited by the delimiting walls, wherein at least some of the delimiting walls are connected so that they can be non-destructively detached so that the additional compartment can be reversibly dismantled again and re-assembled.
15. The method as claimed in claim 14, with one or more of the following steps: specification of a first position in the receiving chamber at which the additional compartment can be assembled in a modular manner; and/or specification of at least one second position different from the first position at which the additional compartment can be assembled in a modular manner; and/or the embodiment of the additional compartment as a keep-fresh compartment in which a different temperature and/or a different atmospheric humidity compared to the rest of the receiving chamber can be set in a defined manner by means of an adjusting apparatus of the domestic refrigeration appliance.
Description
[0046] Exemplary embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to schematic drawings, which show:
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[0060] In the figures, the same elements or elements with the same functions are given the same reference numbers.
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[0062] 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).
[0063] 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 (
[0064] 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 (
[0065] 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.
[0066] 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.
[0067] 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.
[0068] 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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[0070] In this case, the additional compartment 16 comprises as a separate delimiting wall a top wall 18, as shown in
[0071] As can also be identified in
[0072] 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.
[0073] 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.
[0074] 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.
[0075] Receiving drawers 24 and 25, as shown in
[0076] It can also be provided that at least one receiving drawer 24 and/or 25 comprises a lid 28 (
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[0081] 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
[0082] Formed in the partition wall 30, are in particular one or more air ducts, wherein the air ducts feed into a rear edge 30a.
[0083] 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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[0085] The frame 21 is in particular formed in one piece, in particular made of plastic.
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[0087] 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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[0090] 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 (
[0091] To this end,
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[0095] 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.
[0096] Once again, with this embodiment, a floor 43 of the interior container 15 is the floor of the chiller compartment 4.
[0097] 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
[0098] 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
[0099] 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.
[0100] 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.
[0101] 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
[0102] 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
[0103] 1 Domestic refrigeration appliance [0104] 2 Housing [0105] 3 Chiller compartment [0106] 4 Freezer compartment [0107] 5 Door [0108] 6 Door [0109] 7 Door [0110] 8 Compartment floor [0111] 9 Compartment floor [0112] 10 Wall [0113] 11 Wall [0114] 12 Rear wall [0115] 13 Top wall [0116] 14 Bottom wall [0117] 15 Interior container [0118] 16 Additional compartment [0119] 17 Receiving volume [0120] 17a Partial volume [0121] 17b Partial volume [0122] 18 Top wall [0123] 19 Storage chamber [0124] 20 Front wall [0125] 20a Front side [0126] 21 Frame [0127] 22 Feed-through opening [0128] 23 Feed-through opening [0129] 24 Receiving drawer [0130] 24a Front wall [0131] 25 Receiving drawer [0132] 25a Front wall [0133] 26 Sealing element [0134] 27 Sealing element [0135] 28 Lid [0136] 29 Lid [0137] 30 Partition wall [0138] 30a Rear edge [0139] 30b Holding-rod element [0140] 30c Front side [0141] 31 Air duct [0142] 31a Air-passage opening [0143] 32 Air duct [0144] 32a Air-passage opening [0145] 33 Stiffening structure [0146] 34 Strut [0147] 35 Holding rod [0148] 36 Holding rod [0149] 37 Receptacle [0150] 38 Receptacle [0151] 39 Intermediate web [0152] 40 Recess [0153] 41 Bearing web [0154] 42 Bearing web [0155] 43 Floor [0156] 44 Compartment floor [0157] 45 Refrigeration circuit [0158] 46 Evaporator [0159] 47 Partition wall [0160] 48 Evaporation chamber [0161] 49 Duct [0162] 50 Outlet [0163] 51 Outlet [0164] 52 Through-opening [0165] 53 Duct [0166] 54 Insulating body [0167] 55 Insulating body [0168] 56 Drawer part [0169] 57 Drawer part [0170] 58 Baseplate [0171] 59 Web [0172] 60 Rear corner [0173] 61 Recess [0174] 62 Groove [0175] 63 Groove [0176] 64 Horizontal axis [0177] 65 Through-opening [0178] 66 Through-opening