阅读说明：本技术 门密封圈、门组件及衣物处理设备 (Door sealing ring, door assembly and clothes treatment equipment ) 是由 张伟 丁浩 周震东 苗雨来 于 2019-10-18 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供了一种门密封圈、门组件及衣物处理设备,门密封圈构造有配合体及抵靠密封部,抵靠密封部与配合体连接,抵靠密封部包括第一唇边和第二唇边,第一唇边与第二唇边相连。本方案提供的门密封圈,在门体处于打开时,抵靠密封部与桶部装分离,在门体盖合桶部装时,抵靠密封部与桶部装抵靠,从而实现可动的门体与桶部装之间的密封,有效防止桶部装漏水,保证产品的密封可靠性及安全性,抵靠密封部与桶部装抵靠配合,门密封圈利用其弹性维持与桶部装抵靠并随桶部装同步运动,可以防止门体与桶部装之间泄漏的问题,提升门体密封可靠性。(The invention provides a door sealing ring, a door assembly and clothes treatment equipment. The door sealing washer that this scheme provided, when the door body is in and opens, support to lean on sealing and barrel dress separation, when the door body lid closes the barrel dress, support to lean on sealing and barrel dress to support, thereby realize the sealing between the movable door body and the barrel dress, effectively prevent that the barrel dress from leaking, guarantee the sealing reliability and the security of product, support to lean on sealing and barrel dress to support and lean on the cooperation, the door sealing washer utilizes its elasticity to maintain to support with the barrel dress and support and lean on and along with barrel dress synchronous motion, can prevent the problem of leaking between the door body and the barrel dress, promote a body sealing reliability.)

1. A door gasket (10) characterized in that,

the door seal ring (10) is configured with a matching body (11) and an abutting seal part (12), wherein the abutting seal part (12) is connected with the matching body (11), the abutting seal part (12) comprises a first lip edge (121) and a second lip edge (122), and the first lip edge (121) is connected with the second lip edge (122).

2. Door gasket (10) according to claim 1,

the first lip (121) and the second lip (122) together form a bifurcated structure with an opening at one end, the bifurcated structure has two branches, a part or all of the first lip (121) is formed into one branch of the bifurcated structure, and a part or all of the second lip (122) is formed into the other branch of the bifurcated structure.

3. Door gasket (10) according to claim 2,

two of bifurcation structure branch is one end and is connected the structure that forms the link, the other end is the free end, two the link combination of branch and free end are mutually separated, two from the link to the free end interval crescent between the branch for the opening forms the horn mouth that gradually increases.

4. Door gasket (10) according to claim 2 or 3,

one of the two branches is positioned at the outer side of the other branch and is obliquely and convexly arranged outwards; and/or

One of the two branches is positioned at the inner side of the other branch and is arranged in an inwards inclined and convex manner.

5. Door gasket (10) according to claim 2 or 3,

one of the two branches is located inside the other, and the inner branch has a tendency of reducing the wall thickness from the intersection of the bifurcated structure to the end of the inner branch.

6. Door gasket (10) according to claim 2 or 3,

one of the two branches is located outside the other branch, wherein the end of the outer branch away from the intersection of the bifurcating structure is formed with a thickened portion, and/or the outer branches are at least partially located opposite and spaced from the fitting body (11).

7. Door gasket (10) according to one of claims 1 to 3,

the abutting seal portion (12) further has a joining portion (123), the first lip edge (121) and the second lip edge (122) are joined to the joining portion (123), and the joining portion (123) is connected to the mating body (11).

8. Door gasket (10) according to claim 7,

the first lip edge (121) is at least partially opposite to the matching body (11) and is distributed at intervals, and the joining part (123), the first lip edge (121) and the matching body (11) jointly form a concave cavity (13).

9. Door gasket (10) according to claim 8,

the concave cavity (13) is a U-shaped cavity.

10. Door gasket (10) according to one of claims 1 to 3,

the matching body (11) is provided with a first sealing edge (111), a second sealing edge (112), a third sealing edge (113), a first connecting edge (114) and a second connecting edge (115);

the first sealing edge (111) and the second sealing edge (112) are arranged oppositely and at intervals, the first connecting edge (114) is connected with the first sealing edge (111) and the second sealing edge (112), and the first sealing edge (111) and the second sealing edge (112) surround to form a first groove body (116);

the second sealing edge (112) and the third sealing edge (113) are arranged oppositely and at intervals, the second connecting edge (115) is connected with the second sealing edge (112) and the third sealing edge (113), and the second sealing edge, the third sealing edge and the third connecting edge form a second groove body (117) in a surrounding mode.

11. Door gasket (10) according to one of claims 1 to 3,

the door sealing ring (10) is an integrally formed component.

12. A door assembly for a garment treatment device, comprising:

a door body (20);

the door gasket (10) according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the mating body (11) of the door gasket (10) is connected to the door body (20).

13. A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:

a barrel (30);

the door assembly as claimed in claim 12, configured to close or open a front bung of the drum (30), the first and second lips (121, 122) of the door gasket (10) of the door assembly abutting the drum (30) when the door assembly is closed to the front bung of the drum (30), the first and second lips (121, 122) being spaced apart from the drum (30) when the door assembly is open.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of sealing, in particular to a door sealing ring, a door assembly and clothes treatment equipment.

Background

The door glass commonly used by the drum washing machine in the current market is usually clamped between the inner ring and the outer ring of the plastic door, the door assembly is usually installed on the front sealing door in the installation mode, the door assembly only performs closing action and cannot move along with the movement of the washing machine, and in order to prevent water leakage, a sealing ring needs to be installed at the barrel part of the drum washing machine, but the sealing ring is easy to store dirt and has poor sanitation.

With the gradual increase of the requirements of users on health and hygiene, the drum washing machine begins to have a door-seal-free washing machine, and the washing machine with the structure needs a door body to realize the sealing of a barrel, the door body with the structure moves along with the barrel, and how to realize the reliable sealing between the movable door body and the barrel is a problem to be solved urgently at present.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a door gasket.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a door assembly having the door gasket described above.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a laundry treating apparatus having the door assembly as described above.

To achieve the above object, an embodiment of a first aspect of the present invention provides a door seal ring configured with a mating body and an abutting seal portion connected with the mating body, the abutting seal portion including a first lip and a second lip, the first lip being connected with the second lip.

The door sealing ring provided by the embodiment of the invention has the advantages that the matching body is assembled and connected with the door body, and the abutting sealing part is connected with the matching body, so that the barrel part is provided with the front barrel opening for putting clothes, the door body covers or opens the front barrel opening, the abutting sealing part is separated from the barrel part when the door body is opened, and the abutting sealing part abuts against the barrel part when the door body covers the barrel part, so that the sealing between the movable door body and the barrel part is realized, the water leakage of the barrel part is effectively prevented, the sealing reliability and the safety of a product are ensured, and the abutting sealing part is abutted and matched with the barrel part, so that the door sealing ring is kept abutting against the barrel part by using the elasticity of the door sealing ring and moves synchronously along with the barrel part in the working process, the problem of leakage between the door body and the barrel part can be prevented, and the sealing reliability of the door body is improved.

In addition, the door sealing ring in the above embodiment provided by the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:

in the above technical solution, the first lip and the second lip together form a bifurcated structure having an opening at one end, the bifurcated structure has two branches, a part or all of the first lip is formed as one branch of the bifurcated structure, and a part or all of the second lip is formed as the other branch of the bifurcated structure.

In the scheme, the first lip edge and the second lip edge are arranged to jointly construct a branched structure with an opening at one end, so that the resilience of the abutted sealing part can be further improved by utilizing the opening and closing of the branched structure, the abutted sealing effect on the first lip edge and the second lip edge is further strengthened and improved, the first lip edge is connected with the second lip edge through the branched structure, the first lip edge and the second lip edge are respectively abutted against the barrel under the door closing state, wherein the barrel is abutted against the first lip edge and applies acting force to the first lip edge, so that the first lip edge and the barrel are maintained in abutted sealing, meanwhile, partial acting force can be further applied to the second lip edge through the first lip edge, the second lip edge is enabled to be better abutted against the barrel, the more reliable sealing of the second lip edge and the barrel is realized, and the resilience effect generated by the second lip edge can also act on the first lip edge in a reverse manner, thereby promote the rebound effect of closing the door of first lip limit, reduce the power of closing the door, guarantee to close the door and feel, and the resilience force that produces through the second lip limit is in turn applied to first lip limit, can further promote to support between first lip limit and the barreled and lean on, further promotes the sealing reliability of a body department at first lip limit.

In the above technical scheme, two branches of the bifurcation structure are both structures with one end connected to form a connecting end and the other end being a free end, the connecting ends of the two branches are combined, the free ends are mutually separated, and the distance between the two branches is gradually increased from the connecting end to the free ends, so that the opening is formed into a gradually increased horn mouth.

In this scheme, set up between two branches from the link to free end interval crescent gradually, make the opening form the horn mouth of crescent, the design of horn mouth shape can make the resilience volume of opening and shutting of bifurcation structure bigger and resilience ability stronger, further promote the structure resilience effect that leans on sealing portion, stretch into the opening and lean on with two branches when leaning on at the barreled, the effort is applyed to two branches to the barreled, make the opening further open, area of contact between barreled and two branches is bigger, sealing effect is better, and one in two branches is applyed to another with partly of effort, make two branches further compress tightly the barreled, thereby further strengthen and promote the abutting on sealing effect on first lip limit and second lip limit, promote door sealing washer sealing reliability, and further promote the switch door and feel.

In any of the above technical solutions, one of the two branches is located at the outer side of the other branch and is convexly arranged in an outward inclining manner; and/or one of the two branches is positioned at the inner side of the other branch and is obliquely and convexly arranged inwards.

In the scheme, one of the two branches is arranged at the outer side of the other branch and is obliquely and convexly arranged outwards; and/or one of two branches is located the inboard of another and inwards inclines protrudingly to be established, like this, is favorable to increasing the area of contact between two branches and the barreled on the one hand, further strengthens and promotes the sealed effect of leaning on first lip and the second lip, and on the other hand is favorable to increasing the deformability of two branches, further promotes the resilience force of two branches.

In any of the above technical solutions, one of the two branches is located inside the other branch, and the end of the inside branch from the intersection of the bifurcated structure to the inside branch is in a tendency of thinning the wall thickness.

In this scheme, it is the trend that the tip that sets up inboard branch from the branching structure intersection inboard branch is the wall thickness attenuate, can understand that, it has bigger deformability more at the position that the wall thickness is thinner in inboard branch, and then has bigger resilience volume, can make inboard branch laminate in the barreled better, thereby further promote the sealing reliability between inboard branch and the barreled, and the wall thickness is to the design of tip attenuate, also more convenient in the demoulding process of product, the processing production of product is more simplified, the yields is also higher.

In any of the above technical solutions, one of the two branches is located outside the other branch, wherein a thickened portion is formed at an end of the outside branch away from the intersection of the bifurcating structures, and/or the outside branches are at least partially opposite to and spaced apart from the fitting body.

In this scheme, the end of the branch arranged on the outer side, which is far away from the intersection of the bifurcating structures, is formed with a thickened part, and it can be understood that the thicker the wall thickness of the part in the branch arranged on the outer side is, the higher the strength and rigidity of the part, therefore, in the state of closing the door, the barrel and the branch arranged on the outer side abut against and exert an acting force on the branch arranged on the outer side, so that the barrel and the branch arranged on the outer side maintain abutting against and sealing, and the branch arranged on the outer side has a tendency of moving in the opposite direction of the barrel, and meanwhile, a part of the acting force can be further exerted on the branch arranged on the inner side through the branch arranged on the outer side, so that the branch arranged on the inner side has a tendency of tilting outwards, so that the.

Set up the branch in the outside and distribute with the cooperation body position relatively and at interval at least partially, like this, the cooperation body forms certain dodging to the branch in the outside, make the branch in the outside have bigger deformation space, and then make the branch in the outside have better resilience ability, thus, when closing the door, the branch of barrel dress and outside supports and presses the cooperation body to supporting with the branch in the outside, and simultaneously, the bigger resilience that the branch in the outside produced can be applyed in the barrel dress, can make the branch in the outside support the laminating with the barrel dress better like this, make to support between the branch in the outside and the barrel dress and support the leakproofness better, when opening the door, the branch in the outside is released, the branch in the outside can more quick rebound reset, further promote to open the door and feel.

In any of the above technical solutions, the abutting seal portion further has a joining portion, the first lip edge and the second lip edge are combined with the joining portion, and the joining portion is connected to the mating body.

In this scheme, set up and link to each other with the cooperation body in the joint portion, realize the connection of first lip limit and second lip limit and cooperation body through a joint portion, the structure is simpler, and processing is more convenient.

In any of the above technical solutions, at least a portion of the first lip edge is opposite to and spaced apart from the mating body, and the engaging portion, the first lip edge and the mating body together form a concave cavity.

In the scheme, the joining part, the first lip edge and the matching body are arranged to jointly construct the concave cavity, so that a larger deformation space is formed between the first lip edge and the matching body, and the first lip edge has better resilience by utilizing the structural deformation and resilience of the concave cavity, so that, when the door is closed, the barrel part is abutted against the first lip edge and presses the first lip edge to the matching body, at the moment, the concave cavity body is collapsed to a certain degree to absorb the displacement of the first lip edge, the hand feeling of closing the door is improved, meanwhile, the structural resilience force generated by the cavity body can be applied to the first lip edge, so that the first lip edge and the barrel part can be better abutted and jointed, the abutting and sealing performance between the first lip edge and the barrel part is better, when the door is opened, the cavity body is released, the first lip edge can be quickly driven to reset by the structural resilience force generated by the cavity body, and the hand feeling of opening the door is further improved.

In the above technical solution, the concave cavity is a U-shaped cavity.

In this scheme, set up the concave cavity and be the U-shaped cavity, make first lip limit and cooperation body relative distribution and have certain interval, have bigger deformation space and structure resilience ability between first lip limit and the cooperation body, when closing the door, the barreled portion supports with first lip limit and supports and press first lip limit to the cooperation body, the resilience force is applyed to the barreled portion to first lip limit simultaneously, it is better to support to lean on the leakproofness between feasible first lip limit and the barreled portion, when opening the door, the bigger resilience force of first lip limit release, further promote to open the door and feel.

In any of the above technical solutions, the mating body has a first sealing edge, a second sealing edge, a third sealing edge, a first connecting edge and a second connecting edge; the first sealing edge and the second sealing edge are oppositely arranged at intervals, the first connecting edge is connected with the first sealing edge and the second sealing edge, and the first sealing edge, the second sealing edge and the first connecting edge form a first groove body in a surrounding manner; the second sealing edge and the third sealing edge are oppositely arranged at intervals, the second connecting edge is connected with the second sealing edge and the third sealing edge, and the second sealing edge, the third sealing edge and the third connecting edge form a second groove body in a surrounding mode.

In this scheme, set up and construct first groove body and second groove body on the cooperation body, provide the mounted position of the door body through first groove body and second groove body, and utilize the recess to press from both sides tight door body, prevent effectively that the door body is not hard up, drop, promote the installation reliability of the door body.

In any of the above technical solutions, the door seal ring is an integrally formed component.

In this scheme, set up the door sealing washer and be integrated into one piece parts, have processing convenience, efficient advantage, and also more do benefit to the shaping precision and the quality of each characteristic of accuse door sealing washer, for example, more do benefit to the shaping quality and the precision of guaranteeing first lip limit, second lip limit to the sealed effect of corresponding assurance door sealing washer.

An embodiment of a second aspect of the present invention provides a door assembly for a laundry treating apparatus, the door assembly comprising: a door body; in the door gasket according to any one of the above first aspects, the mating body of the door gasket is connected to the door body.

The door assembly provided by the above embodiment of the present invention has all the above beneficial effects by providing the door seal ring according to any one of the technical solutions of the first aspect, and details are not repeated herein.

An embodiment of a third aspect of the present invention provides a laundry treating apparatus, including: barreling; the door assembly according to the second aspect of the present invention is configured to close or open a front barrel opening of the barrel unit, wherein the first lip and the second lip of the door gasket of the door assembly abut against the barrel unit, and the first lip and the second lip are separated from the barrel unit when the door assembly is opened.

The clothes treatment equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention has all the beneficial effects by being provided with the door assembly in the technical scheme of the second aspect, and the description is omitted.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a door gasket according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the door assembly in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view A-A shown in FIG. 2;

fig. 4 is a partially enlarged schematic view of a sectional structure of the door assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 1 to 4 is:

10 door sealing rings, 11 matching bodies, 111 first sealing edges, 112 second sealing edges, 113 third sealing edges, 114 first connecting edges, 115 second connecting edges, 116 first groove bodies, 117 second groove bodies, 12 abutting sealing parts, 121 first lip edges, 122 second lip edges, 123 connecting parts, 13 concave cavity bodies, 20 door bodies, 21 door glass, 22 door inner rings, 23 door outer rings and 30 barrel parts.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those specifically described herein, and therefore the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

The door gasket 10 according to some embodiments of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 4.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, an embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention provides a door gasket 10, the door gasket 10 is configured with a fitting body 11 and an abutting sealing portion 12, wherein the fitting body 11 is configured to be assembled and connected with a door body 20 of a clothes processing apparatus, the abutting sealing portion 12 is connected with the fitting body 11, the abutting sealing portion 12 includes a first lip 121 and a second lip 122, the first lip 121 and the second lip 122 are connected, and the first lip 121 and the second lip 122 are configured to be abutted and matched with a barrel portion 30 of the clothes processing apparatus for sealing.

For example, the door gasket 10 provided in the present embodiment is used for a door assembly, in particular, a door assembly of a laundry treatment apparatus, which may be a washing machine, a dryer, a washing and drying machine, or the like. Taking the clothes processing equipment as a drum washing machine for example, the drum washing machine at least comprises an outer barrel for containing water and an inner barrel for containing washings, the outer barrel and the inner barrel together form a barrel 30 of the drum washing machine, the inner barrel is rotatably arranged in the outer barrel, wherein the barrel 30 is provided with a front barrel opening for putting in the washings, a stainless steel ring is arranged on the circumference of the front barrel opening, a door body 20 is hinged with the outer barrel to cover or open the front barrel opening of the barrel 30, or a door body 20 can be hinged with a shell of the drum washing machine and cover or open the front barrel opening of the barrel 30, a door sealing ring 10 is provided with a matching body 11 and an abutting sealing part 12, wherein the matching body 11 is assembled and connected with the door body 20 by means of screws, buckles, gluing and the like, preferably, the matching body 11 is provided with a connecting groove, and part of the door body 20 extends into the connecting groove to realize the assembly of the door sealing ring 10 and the door body 20, the abutting seal portion 12 is connected to the fitting body 11.

As shown in fig. 3, the abutting seal portion 12 includes a first lip 121 and a second lip 122, in detail, the first lip 121 is in an annular shape adapted to the stainless steel ring, one surface of the first lip 121 facing the stainless steel ring abuts against the stainless steel ring to seal a gap between the barrel 30 and the door 20, the second lip 122 is connected to the first lip 121, and the second lip 122 abuts against and cooperates with the stainless steel ring to seal the gap.

In the door gasket 10 provided by the above embodiment of the present invention, the mating body 11 is assembled with the door body 20, the abutting sealing portion 12 is connected with the mating body 11, it is understood that the tub 30 has a front tub opening for putting laundry, the door body 20 closes or opens the front tub opening, when the door body 20 is opened, the abutting sealing part 12 is separated from the barrel part 30, when the door body 20 covers the barrel part 30, the abutting sealing part 12 abuts against the barrel part 30, thereby realizing the sealing between the movable door body 20 and the barrel 30, effectively preventing the barrel 30 from leaking water, ensuring the sealing reliability and safety of the product, and the abutting sealing part 12 is abutted and matched with the barrel 30, thus, during operation, the door gasket 10 maintains its elasticity to abut against the barrel 30 and move synchronously with the barrel 30, the problem of leakage between the door body 20 and the barrel part 30 can be prevented, and the sealing reliability of the door body 20 is improved.