阅读说明：本技术 一种出冰装置及具有该装置的制冰机 (Ice outlet device and ice maker with same ) 是由 丁正波 陈宇 李雄敏 李建兵 于 2021-10-09 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种出冰装置及具有该装置的制冰机,包括储冰腔、波轮、切换板和驱动组件,储冰腔上开设有第一出冰口和第二出冰口；驱动组件包括驱动电机、驱动轴套和弹簧,驱动轴套的下端部与驱动电机联动相连且其上端部与位于储冰腔内的波轮联动相连,驱动轴套的中部设置有搁置部；切换板套接在驱动轴套上且搁置在搁置部上,搁置部与切换板之间设置有啮合传动结构,弹簧使得搁置部始终具有向上运动与切换板稳定啮合传动的作用力,同时当切换板转动受阻时弹簧能够压缩以搁置部与切换板打滑。本发明通过驱动电机正转或者反转驱动切换板和波轮转动,实现不同出冰口的开启且波轮正常转动将冰块推入对应的出冰口,如此便于对冰块进行不同操作。(The invention discloses an ice discharging device and an ice maker with the same, wherein the ice discharging device comprises an ice storage cavity, a wave wheel, a switching plate and a driving assembly, wherein the ice storage cavity is provided with a first ice outlet and a second ice outlet; the driving component comprises a driving motor, a driving shaft sleeve and a spring, the lower end part of the driving shaft sleeve is linked with the driving motor, the upper end part of the driving shaft sleeve is linked with the wave wheel positioned in the ice storage cavity, and the middle part of the driving shaft sleeve is provided with a placing part; the switching plate is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve and placed on the placing part, a meshing transmission structure is arranged between the placing part and the switching plate, the spring enables the placing part to always have acting force for upward movement and stable meshing transmission of the switching plate, and meanwhile, when the rotation of the switching plate is blocked, the spring can be compressed to slip with the placing part and the switching plate. According to the ice cube pushing device, the switching plate and the impeller are driven to rotate by driving the motor to rotate in the forward rotation or reverse rotation mode, so that different ice outlets are opened, ice cubes are pushed into the corresponding ice outlets by the impeller rotating normally, and different operations on the ice cubes are facilitated.)

1. The ice discharging device is characterized by comprising an ice storage cavity, a wave wheel, a switching plate and a driving assembly, wherein a first ice outlet and a second ice outlet are formed in the side wall of the ice storage cavity;

the impeller and the switching plate are respectively and correspondingly arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the bottom of the ice storage cavity, the driving assembly coaxially drives the impeller and the switching plate to rotate, a limiting structure used for limiting the rotation of the switching plate is arranged on the lower surface of the bottom of the ice storage cavity so that the switching plate can rotate between a first position and a second position, and the switching plate respectively seals the first ice outlet and the second ice outlet when in the first position and the second position;

the driving assembly comprises a driving motor, a driving shaft sleeve and a spring, the driving motor is fixedly arranged below the ice storage cavity, the lower end part of the driving shaft sleeve is in linkage connection with an output shaft of the driving motor, the upper end part of the driving shaft sleeve penetrates through the bottom of the ice storage cavity to be in linkage connection with an upper impeller, and a placing part is arranged in the middle of the driving shaft sleeve;

the switching plate is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve and placed on the placing part, a meshing transmission structure is arranged between the placing part and the switching plate, the spring acts on the placing part to enable the placing part to always have acting force for upward movement and stable meshing transmission of the switching plate, and meanwhile, when the switching plate is blocked from rotating, the spring can be compressed to adapt to the downward movement of the placing part.

2. The ice making apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driving assembly further comprises a spring housing disposed outside the driving shaft housing, the spring housing being sleeved on the driving shaft housing and being in interference connection between the resting portion and the spring housing;

the placing part is integrally connected with the driving shaft sleeve, and the lower end part of the driving shaft sleeve limits circumferential rotation to be sleeved on an output shaft of the driving motor and can slide along the axial direction of the output shaft.

3. The ice making device according to claim 1, wherein a driving plate is disposed between the placement portion and the switching plate, the driving plate is sleeved on the driving sleeve and is mounted on the placement portion to limit circumferential rotation, a plurality of linking grooves are circumferentially disposed on an upper surface of the driving plate at intervals, and linking protrusions matched with the linking grooves are correspondingly disposed on a lower surface of the switching plate.

4. The ice making device of claim 3, wherein the linkage groove is provided with guiding slopes on both sides corresponding to the notches, and the lower end of the linkage protrusion is of a spherical structure.

5. The ice making device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the resting portion is provided with a retaining edge along the periphery of the outer edge thereof, the driving plate is embedded in an embedding groove formed by the retaining edge, the lower surface of the driving plate is provided with a clamping groove, and the upper surface of the resting portion is correspondingly provided with a clamping block matched with the clamping groove.

6. The ice discharging device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an ice crushing assembly correspondingly installed at the second ice outlet to crush passing ice cubes.

7. The ice making device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch plate has a fan-shaped structure and the outer edge thereof is turned upwards to form a baffle portion for covering the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet.

8. The ice making device according to claim 1, wherein the pulsator is mushroom-shaped, a plurality of concave pits are formed in the circumference of the upper surface of the head of the pulsator at intervals, and the rod of the pulsator is sleeved on the upper end of the linkage shaft sleeve.

9. The ice discharging device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lower surface of the head of the impeller is provided with a first water retaining rib corresponding to the periphery of the rod, and the upper surface of the bottom of the ice storage chamber is provided with a second water retaining rib corresponding to the first water retaining rib.

10. An ice maker comprising an ice making assembly, a water tank assembly, a control plate assembly, and the ice discharge apparatus of any one of claims 1-9;

the control board assembly is in signal connection with the ice making assembly, the water tank assembly and the ice discharging device;

the water tank assembly is used for supplying water required for ice making to the ice making assembly, and the ice making assembly is used for cooling the water supplied by the water tank assembly to prepare ice blocks;

the ice storage cavity of the ice discharging device is positioned below the ice making assembly to receive ice blocks prepared by the ice making assembly and discharge the ice blocks through the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet according to requirements.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of ice makers, in particular to an ice outlet device and an ice maker with the same.

Background

An ice maker (english name: ice maker or ice machine) is a refrigerating mechanical device that generates ice after water is cooled by a refrigerant of a refrigerating system through an evaporator; with the development of the ice maker technology, various ice makers appear in the existing market, and meanwhile, users do not meet simple ice cubes any more, and the demand for special ice such as ice slush and the like is more and more; however, the existing ice making machine only has one ice outlet, and only can simply prepare ice cubes or bullet ice, and other auxiliary chopping devices are needed to be purchased when special ice such as ice slush and the like is needed to be prepared, so that the use cost is greatly increased, the use experience is poor, and the ice making machine has an improved space.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provides an ice discharging device which simultaneously drives a switching plate and an impeller to rotate through a driving motor, and the switching plate covers a first ice outlet or a second ice outlet and the impeller pushes ice blocks into corresponding ice outlets through forward rotation or reverse rotation of the driving motor; when the switching board rotates to first position or second position and rotates obstructed, and driving motor during normal rotation, the driving shaft sleeve atress moved down this moment so that place take place to skid between the portion of putting and the switching board, so the switching board stably keeps in first position or second position and impeller can normally drive the rotation in order to push the ice-cube into corresponding ice outlet, so can carry out different operations to the ice-cube of different ice outlets, like the trash ice, so make the ice maker possess the function of preparing different ice products, user experience has been improved greatly and has felt.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides an ice discharging device which comprises an ice storage cavity, a wave wheel, a switching plate and a driving assembly, wherein a first ice outlet and a second ice outlet are formed in the side wall of the ice storage cavity;

the impeller and the switching plate are respectively and correspondingly arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the bottom of the ice storage cavity, the driving assembly coaxially drives the impeller and the switching plate to rotate, a limiting structure used for limiting the rotation of the switching plate is arranged on the lower surface of the bottom of the ice storage cavity so that the switching plate can rotate between a first position and a second position, and the switching plate respectively seals the first ice outlet and the second ice outlet when in the first position and the second position;

the driving assembly comprises a driving motor, a driving shaft sleeve and a spring, the driving motor is fixedly arranged below the ice storage cavity, the lower end part of the driving shaft sleeve is in linkage connection with an output shaft of the driving motor, the upper end part of the driving shaft sleeve penetrates through the bottom of the ice storage cavity to be in linkage connection with an upper impeller, and a placing part is arranged in the middle of the driving shaft sleeve;

the switching plate is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve and placed on the placing part, a meshing transmission structure is arranged between the placing part and the switching plate, the spring acts on the placing part to enable the placing part to always have acting force for upward movement and stable meshing transmission of the switching plate, and meanwhile, when the switching plate is blocked from rotating, the spring can be compressed to adapt to the downward movement of the placing part.

Further setting the following steps: the driving assembly further comprises a spring sleeve arranged outside the driving shaft sleeve, and the spring is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve and is connected between the placing part and the spring sleeve in an abutting mode;

the placing part is integrally connected with the driving shaft sleeve, and the lower end part of the driving shaft sleeve limits circumferential rotation to be sleeved on an output shaft of the driving motor and can slide along the axial direction of the output shaft.

Further setting the following steps: the device comprises a placing part, a driving plate and a switching plate, wherein the placing part is arranged on the lower surface of the switching plate, the driving plate is sleeved on a driving shaft sleeve and is installed on the placing part in a manner of limiting circumferential rotation, a plurality of linkage grooves are formed in the circumferential interval of the upper surface of the driving plate, and linkage protrusions matched with the linkage grooves are correspondingly arranged on the lower surface of the switching plate.

Further setting the following steps: the two sides of the linkage groove corresponding to the notch are provided with guide inclined planes, and the lower end part of the linkage protrusion is of a spherical structure.

Further setting the following steps: the placing part is provided with a blocking edge along the periphery of the outer edge of the placing part, the driving sheet is embedded in an embedding groove formed by enclosing the blocking edge, the lower surface of the driving sheet is provided with a clamping groove, and the upper surface of the placing part is correspondingly provided with a clamping block matched with the clamping groove.

Further setting the following steps: the ice crushing assembly is correspondingly arranged at the second ice outlet to crush the passing ice blocks.

Further setting the following steps: the switching plate is of a fan-shaped structure, and the outer edge of the switching plate is turned upwards to form a baffle part for sealing the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet.

Further setting the following steps: the wave wheel is mushroom-shaped, a plurality of concave pits are arranged on the periphery of the upper surface of the head of the wave wheel at intervals, and the rod part of the wave wheel is sleeved on the upper end part of the linkage shaft sleeve.

Further setting the following steps: the lower surface of the head of the wave wheel is provided with a first water retaining rib corresponding to the periphery of the rod part, and the upper surface of the bottom of the ice storage cavity is correspondingly provided with a second water retaining rib matched with the first water retaining rib.

The invention also provides an ice maker, which comprises an ice making assembly, a water tank assembly, a control panel assembly and an ice outlet device;

the control board assembly is in signal connection with the ice making assembly, the water tank assembly and the ice discharging device;

the water tank assembly is used for supplying water required for ice making to the ice making assembly, and the ice making assembly is used for cooling the water supplied by the water tank assembly to prepare ice blocks;

the ice storage cavity of the ice discharging device is positioned below the ice making assembly to receive ice blocks prepared by the ice making assembly and discharge the ice blocks through the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet according to requirements.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has simple and reasonable structure, and the switching board and the impeller are simultaneously driven to rotate by one driving motor, thereby greatly reducing the manufacturing cost; the switching plate is used for sealing the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet through forward rotation or reverse rotation of the driving motor, and the impeller is used for pushing ice blocks into the corresponding ice outlets; when the switching board rotates to first position or second position and rotates obstructed, and driving motor during normal rotation, the driving shaft sleeve atress moved down this moment so that place take place to skid between the portion of putting and the switching board, so the switching board stably keeps in first position or second position and impeller can normally drive the rotation in order to push the ice-cube into corresponding ice outlet, so can carry out different operations to the ice-cube of different ice outlets, like the trash ice, so make the ice maker possess the function of preparing different ice products, user experience has been improved greatly and has felt.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an ice dispenser according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a vertical cross-section of the ice dispenser;

FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the ice dispenser;

fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view of the switching plate;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the drive sleeve;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the driving plate;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of a vertical cross-section of an ice making machine of the present invention.

The following reference numerals are marked thereon in conjunction with the accompanying drawings:

100. an ice discharging device; 1. an ice storage cavity; 11. an ice outlet part; 111. a first ice outlet; 112. a second ice outlet; 113. a second water retaining rib; 2. an impeller; 21. a pit; 22. a first water retaining rib; 3. a switch board; 31. a baffle portion; 32. a linkage protrusion; 4. a drive assembly; 41. a drive motor 42, a drive shaft sleeve; 421. a placing part; 4211. blocking edges; 4212. a clamping block; 43. a spring; 44. a spring housing; 45. a driving plate; 451. a linkage groove; 452. a card slot; 5. a shredding assembly; 200. an ice making assembly; 300. a water tank assembly; 400. a control panel assembly.

Detailed Description

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, but it should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiment.

An ice discharging device of the present invention is shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 3, and comprises an ice storage chamber 1, a pulsator 2, a switching plate 3, a driving assembly 4 and a chopping assembly 5; the ice storage chamber 1 preferably has a cylindrical ice outlet 11, a first ice outlet 111 and a second ice outlet 112 are provided on a side wall of the ice outlet 11, and a chopping assembly 5 is installed at the second ice outlet 112 to chop passing ice cubes; impeller 2 and switch board 3 are installed respectively in the upper and lower both sides of the bottom of ice portion 11, drive assembly 4 is used for coaxial drive impeller 2 and switch board 3 to rotate, wherein impeller 2 can 360 rotations in ice portion 11, the lower surface of the bottom of ice portion 11 is provided with and is used for retraining switch board 3 pivoted limit structure so that switch board 3 retrains the rotation between primary importance and second place, switch board 3 covers first ice outlet 111 when primary importance and covers second ice outlet 112 when the second place, the limit structure of ice portion 11 bottom that corresponds can be spacing groove structure or the spacing fender muscle that corresponds primary importance and second place and set up.

In the above solution, as shown in fig. 2 in particular, the driving assembly 4 includes a driving motor 41, a driving shaft sleeve 42 and a spring 43, the driving motor 41 is fixedly installed below the ice storage chamber 1, the lower end of the driving shaft sleeve 42 is linked with the output shaft of the motor, and the upper end thereof passes through the bottom of the ice outlet 11 and is linked with the pulsator 2 above; the middle of the driving shaft sleeve 42 is further provided with a placing part 421, the switching plate 3 is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve 42 and placed on the placing part 421, a meshing transmission structure is arranged between the placing part 421 and the switching plate 3, the spring 43 acts on the placing part 421 to enable the placing part 421 to have acting force of upward movement and stable meshing transmission of the switching plate 3 all the time, and when the switching plate 3 is blocked to rotate, the spring 43 can be compressed under stress to enable the placing part 421 to move downward to break the meshing transmission structure between the placing part 421 and the switching plate 3 so as to ensure normal rotation of the driving motor 41.

In the above scheme, the downward movement of the resting portion 421 under force can be the downward sliding of the resting portion 421 along the driving shaft sleeve 42, or the downward movement of the whole driving shaft sleeve 42; preferably, the driving assembly 4 further includes a spring housing 44, the spring housing 44 is sleeved outside the driving shaft housing 42, and an upper end portion of the spring housing 44 can extend upwards to combine with the first ice outlet 111 and the second ice outlet 112 to form an ice outlet chute, the spring 43 is connected between a bottom portion of the spring housing 44 and the resting portion 421 in an abutting manner, the resting portion 421 is integrally connected with the driving shaft housing 42, a lower end portion of the driving shaft housing 42 is limited to be sleeved on an output shaft of the driving motor 41 in a circumferential direction and can axially slide along the output shaft, so that the resting portion 421 can enable the driving shaft housing 42 to integrally move downwards when being stressed.

In the above solution, as shown in fig. 4, 5 and 6, an annular driving plate 45 made of wear-resistant material is disposed between the resting portion 421 and the switch plate 3, the driving plate 45 is sleeved on the driving shaft sleeve 42 and is rotatably mounted on the resting portion 421, preferably, the resting portion 421 is provided with a retaining edge 4211 along its outer circumference, the upper surface of the resting portion 421 is provided with a plurality of latches 4212, the driving plate 45 is embedded in an embedding opening formed by the retaining edge 4211, and the lower surface of the driving plate 45 is provided with a locking groove 452 matched with the latches 4212; a plurality of linkage grooves 451 are uniformly arranged on the periphery of the upper surface of the driving sheet 45 at intervals, a plurality of linkage protrusions 32 matched with the linkage grooves 451 are arranged on the lower surface of the switching plate 3, preferably, guide inclined planes are arranged on two sides of the linkage grooves 451, which correspond to the notches, and the lower end parts of the linkage protrusions 32 are of spherical structures; thus, when the driving motor 41 drives the switch plate 3 to rotate between the first position and the second position, the upward elastic force of the spring 43 is greater than the downward acting force formed between the resting portion 421 and the switch plate 3, and at this time, the linkage groove 451 and the linkage protrusion 32 can be stably matched to drive the switch plate 3 to rotate; when the switch board 3 rotates to the first position or the second position, the upward elastic force of the spring 43 is smaller than the downward acting force between the resting portion 421 and the switch board 3, and at this time, the driving shaft sleeve 42 moves downward, and the spherical end portion of the linking protrusion 32 can conveniently pass through the guiding inclined surface and pass over the linking groove 451 to achieve the effect of slipping, thereby ensuring the normal rotation of the driving motor 41.

In the above-described configuration, as shown in fig. 4, the switching plate 3 has a fan-shaped structure, and the outer edge end portion of the switching plate 3 is folded upward to form the baffle portion 31 for covering the first ice outlet 111 or the second ice outlet 112.

In the above scheme, as shown in fig. 2, the wave wheel 2 is of a mushroom-shaped structure, the root of the wave wheel 2 is sleeved on the upper end part of the linkage shaft sleeve in a rotation-limited circumferential manner and can slide along the axial direction of the linkage shaft sleeve, a plurality of concave pits 21 are arranged at intervals on the outer edge of the wave wheel 2 corresponding to the upper surface of the head part of the wave wheel, and ice blocks can be conveniently thrown into corresponding ice outlets through the concave pits 21; the impeller 2 is provided with first manger plate muscle 22 corresponding to the periphery of the root corresponding to the lower end face of the head, correspondingly, the bottom of the ice outlet part 11 is correspondingly provided with second manger plate muscle 113 matched with the first manger plate muscle 22, so that the first manger plate muscle 22 and the second manger plate muscle 113 can be effectively matched to form a manger plate ring to prevent water from entering the manger plate ring.

The invention also provides an ice making machine, as shown in fig. 7, comprising an ice making assembly 200, a water tank assembly 300, a control panel assembly 400 and the ice discharging device, wherein the control panel assembly 400 is in signal connection with the ice making assembly 200, the water tank assembly 300 and the ice discharging device to control the work of each component in order; the water tank assembly 300 is used for supplying water required for ice making to the ice making assembly 200, the ice making assembly 200 is used for cooling the water provided by the water tank assembly 300 to prepare ice blocks, and the ice making assembly 200 can be an ice making assembly 200 in an ice format or a bullet ice making assembly 200; the ice storage chamber 1 of the ice discharging device is located below the ice making assembly 200 to receive ice cubes made by the ice making assembly 200 and discharge the ice cubes through the first ice outlet 111 or the second ice outlet 112 as required, and the driving motor 41 rotates forward or reversely to open the first ice outlet 111 or the second ice outlet 112 and throw the ice cubes into the corresponding ice outlet through the rotating impeller 2 for discharging.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has simple and reasonable structure, and the switching board and the impeller are simultaneously driven to rotate by one driving motor, thereby greatly reducing the manufacturing cost; the switching plate is used for sealing the first ice outlet or the second ice outlet through forward rotation or reverse rotation of the driving motor, and the impeller is used for pushing ice blocks into the corresponding ice outlets; when the switching board rotates to first position or second position and rotates obstructed, and driving motor during normal rotation, the driving shaft sleeve atress moved down this moment so that place take place to skid between the portion of putting and the switching board, so the switching board stably keeps in first position or second position and impeller can normally drive the rotation in order to push the ice-cube into corresponding ice outlet, so can carry out different operations to the ice-cube of different ice outlets, like the trash ice, so make the ice maker possess the function of preparing different ice products, user experience has been improved greatly and has felt.

The above disclosure is only an example of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and any variations that can be made by those skilled in the art should fall within the scope of the present invention.