CN112393483A - Ice maker for refrigerator and refrigerator - Google Patents
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Abstract
An ice maker for a refrigerator and the refrigerator, the ice maker comprises an ice making grid plate, an ice storage device and an ice turning device. The ice making grid is configured to have a first state in which a first volume of ice is made and a second state in which a second volume of ice, different from the first volume of ice, is made; the ice storage device is arranged below the ice making grid plate and comprises a first ice storage area and a second ice storage area; the ice turning device is used for turning over the ice making grid plate and is configured to turn over the first ice accumulating block to the first ice storage area and turn over the second ice accumulating block to the second ice storage area. The setting mode can store ice cubes with different volumes in different ice storage areas respectively, so that a user can take the ice cubes with required volumes conveniently, and the user experience is improved.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of refrigeration equipment, in particular to an ice maker for a refrigerator and the refrigerator.
Background
With the development of social economy and the improvement of living standard of people, the refrigerator also becomes an indispensable household appliance in daily life of people.
The functions of the existing refrigerators are also more and more diversified to meet various needs of users, for example, the refrigerator with the ice maker can prepare ice cubes by using the ice maker to meet the needs of users for using ice, however, the existing refrigerators with the ice maker can prepare ice cubes with different volumes which are stored together, and it is very inconvenient for users to take the ice cubes with the required volumes.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above problems, an invention has been made to provide an ice maker for a refrigerator and a refrigerator that overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.
An object of the present invention is to provide an ice maker for a refrigerator which facilitates a user to take a desired volume of ice cubes.
It is a further object of the present invention to improve the ice shedding efficiency of such ice making machines.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator having the above ice maker.
The present invention first provides an ice maker for a refrigerator, comprising: an ice making panel configured to have a first state to make a first volume of ice and a second state to make a second volume of ice that is different from the first volume of ice; the ice storage device is arranged below the ice making grid plate and comprises a first ice storage area and a second ice storage area; and the ice overturning device is used for overturning the ice making grid plate and is configured to overturn the first ice accumulating block to the first ice storage area and overturn the second ice accumulating block to the second ice storage area.
Optionally, the ice making grid plate is provided with at least one ice making groove opening upwards, and the ice making machine further comprises a housing, the housing comprising: and the top plate is arranged above the ice making grid plate and is provided with at least one water supply hole, and the at least one water supply hole is used for supplying water to the at least one ice making groove.
Optionally, the ice maker further comprises a front panel pivot shaft extending in the front-rear direction and provided in the middle of the front end of the ice making panel: a mounting frame disposed in front of the ice making grid plate and including a first mounting plate connected to a lower surface of the top plate and extending downward and a second mounting plate extending rearward from a lower end of the first mounting plate; and the ice turning device includes: the gear is fixedly connected with the pivoting shaft of the front grating, and the axis of the gear and the axis of the pivoting shaft of the front grating are positioned on the same straight line; and the driving motor is arranged on the second mounting plate and used for driving the gear to rotate so as to drive the ice making grid plate to turn over through the gear.
Optionally, the housing further comprises a rear plate extending downward from the rear of the top plate, an arc-shaped rear plate slide is formed below the rear plate, and the ice maker further comprises: the rack is arranged below the gear, is provided with rack teeth meshed with the gear teeth of the gear and is configured to transversely translate along with the rotation of the gear, and a rack slide way extending along the longitudinal direction is formed in the middle of the lower part of the rack; and the ice storage device includes: the bottom plate is arranged below the rack; the side wall extends upwards from the edge of the bottom plate, the inner side of the front part of the side wall is provided with a front pivot hole, and the inner side of the rear part of the side wall is provided with a rear pivot hole; the bottom of the partition plate is provided with a first pivot shaft, two ends of the first pivot shaft are respectively inserted into the front pivot hole and the rear pivot hole, so that the first ice storage area and the second ice storage area are distributed on two transverse sides of the partition plate, the top of the partition plate is provided with a second pivot shaft, two ends of the second pivot shaft are respectively inserted into the rear plate slide way and the rack slide way, and therefore the moving direction of the transverse direction of the second pivot shaft is the same as the moving direction of the rack when the rack moves.
Optionally, a rear grid pivot shaft extending in a front-rear direction is disposed in a middle of a rear end of the ice making grid, and the ice making grid further includes: the turnover protrusion is fixedly connected with the pivot shaft of the rear grating plate and extends backwards to penetrate through the rear plate; and the housing further comprises: the matching bulge is arranged in the area, corresponding to the overturning bulge, of the rear surface of the rear plate and extends backwards; the turning protrusion is configured to abut against the matching protrusion in a process of turning the ice making grid plate by the ice turning device to limit a turning angle of the rear section of the ice making grid plate, so that the front section and the rear section of the ice making grid plate have different turning angles when the ice making grid plate is further turned after the turning protrusion abuts against the matching protrusion.
Optionally, the at least one ice making groove is a plurality of ice making grooves, the ice making grid plate is further provided with a plurality of connecting grooves, the connecting grooves are formed in the upper portions of the adjacent ice making grooves, and the connecting grooves are used for uniformly distributing water supplied from the at least one water supply hole to each ice making groove.
Optionally, wherein orthographic projections of the at least one water supply hole and the central axis of the ice making grid in the front-rear direction at any one horizontal plane at least partially coincide.
Optionally, the method further includes: a water supply mechanism configured to supply a first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole to make the first volume of ice cubes at each of the ice making grooves when the ice making grid is in the first state, and to supply a second amount of water different from the first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole to make the second volume of ice cubes at each of the ice making grooves when the ice making grid is in the second state.
Optionally, wherein the volume of the first volume of ice is greater than the volume of the second volume of ice, the first ice storage region has the same volume as the second ice storage region, and the ice maker further comprises: the ice detecting rod is arranged above the first ice storage area and used for detecting the ice amount of the first ice storage area; and the water supply mechanism is configured to alternately supply the first amount of water supply or the second amount of water supply to the at least one water supply hole according to the detection result of the ice detecting rod.
The present invention also provides a refrigerator including: the ice maker according to any of the above claims, wherein the ice maker is disposed in a freezer compartment of the refrigerator.
The invention provides an ice maker for a refrigerator and the refrigerator. The ice making grid is configured to have a first state in which a first volume of ice is made and a second state in which a second volume of ice, different from the first volume of ice, is made; the ice storage device is arranged below the ice making grid plate and comprises a first ice storage area and a second ice storage area; the ice turning device is used for turning over the ice making grid plate and is configured to turn over the first ice accumulating block to the first ice storage area and turn over the second ice accumulating block to the second ice storage area. The setting mode can store ice cubes with different volumes in different ice storage areas respectively, so that a user can take the ice cubes with required volumes conveniently, and the user experience is improved.
Further, the cooperation of the turnover protrusion and the matching protrusion can enable the front section and the rear section of the ice making grid plate to have different turnover angles after the turnover protrusion abuts against the matching protrusion and is further turned over. Therefore, ice cubes can be conveniently separated from the ice making grid plate to enter the ice storage device, and the ice removing efficiency of the ice making machine is improved.
The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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Some specific embodiments of the invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of an ice maker according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention from another perspective where an ice storage device is omitted;
FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of the structure shown in FIG. 3 with the cover omitted;
fig. 5 is an assembly view of a gear, a rack, an ice making grid plate, and a partition plate when an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention is in an ice making state;
fig. 6 is an assembly view of a gear, a rack, an ice making lattice plate, and a partition plate when an ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention is in an ice-turning state.
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This embodiment first provides an ice maker 200 for a refrigerator 10, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the refrigerator 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the refrigerator 10 may include a cabinet in which a storage compartment is defined, and the refrigerator 10 further has a door body for opening and closing the storage compartment.
The storage compartment may include a refrigeration compartment, a freezing compartment 100, and a temperature-changing compartment, and the temperature in the refrigeration compartment is generally between 2 ℃ and 10 ℃, preferably between 4 ℃ and 7 ℃, as is well known to those skilled in the art. The temperature range within the freezer compartment 100 is typically between-22 ℃ and-14 ℃. The temperature-changing chamber can be adjusted to-18 ℃ to 8 ℃ at will. The optimum storage temperatures for different types of items are different and the locations suitable for storage are different, for example, fruit and vegetable food is suitable for storage in the cold compartment and meat food is suitable for storage in the freezer compartment 100. The door may be a refrigerating compartment door for opening and closing a refrigerating compartment, a freezing compartment door for opening and closing the freezing compartment 100, or a temperature-varying compartment door for opening and closing a temperature-varying compartment, and a plurality of storage compartments of the refrigerator 10 of the present embodiment may share one door.
The refrigeration system is configured to provide cooling to the storage compartment. In some embodiments, the refrigeration system may be a refrigeration cycle system composed of a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device, an evaporator, and the like. The evaporator is configured to provide cooling directly or indirectly to the storage compartment. Since the refrigeration system of the refrigerator 10 is known per se to those skilled in the art, it will not be described in detail herein.
Fig. 2 is a schematic configuration view of an ice maker 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 3 is a schematic configuration view of another perspective view of the ice maker 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention from which an ice storage device 220 is omitted, and fig. 4 is a schematic configuration view of the configuration of fig. 3 from which a cover 240 is omitted, wherein the perspective view shown in fig. 2 is a left front perspective view, a right rear perspective view of the perspective view shown in fig. 3, and the perspective view shown in fig. 4 is a right front perspective view. The ice maker 200 is disposed in the freezing compartment 100 to make ice using cold of the freezing compartment 100.
The ice maker 200 includes an ice making panel 210, an ice storing device 220, and an ice turning device 230. The ice making panel 210 is configured to have a first state in which a first volume of ice is made and a second state in which a second volume of ice, different from the first volume, is made.
The ice making panel 210 may be provided with at least one upwardly open ice making groove 211, and in some embodiments, the ice making panel 210 is provided with one upwardly open ice making groove 211, so that the ice maker 200 may supply water corresponding to the first ice bank to the ice making groove 211 when the ice making panel 210 is in the first state, and supply water corresponding to the second ice bank to the ice making groove 211 when the ice making panel 210 is in the second state.
In other embodiments, the ice making panel 210 is provided with a plurality of ice making grooves 211 that are open upward, and the volumes of the ice making grooves 211 may be different, for example, the ice making grooves 211 are divided into a first ice making groove having a volume corresponding to a first ice block and a second ice making groove having a volume corresponding to a second ice block, when the ice making panel 210 is in the first state, only water is supplied to the first ice making groove, and when the ice making panel 210 is in the second state, only water is supplied to the second ice making groove.
The ice storage device 220 is disposed under the ice making grid 210, and the ice storage device 220 includes a first ice storage region 221 and a second ice storage region 222. In some embodiments, the ice storage device 220 may be a square storage container, in other embodiments, the ice storage device 220 may also be a cylindrical storage container, and the like, and the first ice storage region 221 and the second ice storage region 222 may be distributed along the front-rear direction of the ice maker 200, may also be arranged along the width direction of the ice maker 200, and the like.
The ice-turning device 230 is used to turn the ice-making grid 210 and is configured to turn a first ice bank to the first ice storage area 221 and a second ice bank to the second ice storage area 222. The setting mode can store ice cubes with different volumes in different ice storage areas respectively, so that a user can take the ice cubes with required volumes conveniently, and the user experience is improved.
The ice maker 200 may further include a housing 240, the housing 240 including a top plate 241, the top plate 241 being disposed above the ice making compartment 210, the top plate 241 being opened with at least one water supply hole 242, the at least one water supply hole 242 being used to supply water to the at least one ice making groove 211. In some embodiments, the top plate 241 is formed with a water supply hole 242, and water is supplied to the one or more ice making grooves 211 through the water supply hole 242, and in other embodiments, the top plate 241 is formed with a plurality of water supply holes 242, and the plurality of water supply holes 242 supply water to the one or more ice making grooves 211. The arrangement of the water supply hole 242 may improve the accuracy of a water supply position for supplying water to the ice making groove 211, thereby improving user experience.
In some embodiments, the upper surface of the top plate 241 may be provided with a mounting structure to mount the ice maker 200 to the inner container of the freezer compartment 100.
The ice making panel 210 may be provided at a front end middle portion thereof with a front panel pivot shaft 212 extending in a front-rear direction, and the ice making machine 200 may further include a mounting bracket 250, the mounting bracket 250 being disposed in front of the ice making panel 210, the mounting bracket 250 including a first mounting plate 251 connected to a lower surface of the top plate 241 and extending downward and a second mounting plate 252 extending rearward from a lower end of the first mounting plate 251.
In some embodiments, the top plate 241 is provided with downwardly extending side plates at both lateral sides thereof, and the second mounting plate 252 may be connected to the corresponding side plates to improve the stability of the connection of the mounting bracket 250 to the housing 240, and the front portion of the top plate 241 may be further provided with a front plate disposed in front of the first mounting plate 251 for decorating the ice maker 200, and an outer surface of the front plate may be provided with a knob or the like for mounting the ice maker 200.
And the ice turning device 230 may include a gear 231 and a driving motor 232, the gear 231 is fixedly connected with the front panel pivot shaft 212, and the axis of the gear 231 and the axis of the front panel pivot shaft 212 are located on the same straight line. The driving motor 232 is mounted on the second mounting plate 252 and is used for driving the gear 231 to rotate so as to drive the ice making grid plate 210 to turn over through the gear 231.
By mounting the driving motor 232 on the mounting bracket 250 coupled to the housing 240, the driving motor 232 is prevented from moving during operation, thereby improving the stability of the ice maker 200.
Wherein the housing 240 may further include a rear plate 243 extending downward from a rear portion of the top plate 241, an arc-shaped rear plate slide rail 244 is formed below the rear plate 243, and the ice maker 200 may further include a rack gear 260, the rack gear 260 being disposed below the pinion 231 and provided with rack teeth engaged with the gear teeth of the pinion 231, configured to be laterally translated along with the rotation of the pinion 231, and a rack slide rail 261 extending in a longitudinal direction is formed at a lower middle portion of the rack gear 260.
The ice bank 220 may include a bottom plate 223 disposed below the rack 260, a sidewall 224, and a partition 225. Fig. 5 is an assembly view of the gear 231, the rack gear 260, the ice making lattice plate 210, and the separation plate 225 when the ice maker 200 is in the ice making state according to one embodiment of the present invention, the ice making state of the ice maker 200 includes the ice making lattice plate 210 in the first state and the second state, fig. 6 is an assembly view of the gear 231, the rack gear 260, the ice making lattice plate 210 and the separation plate 225 when the ice maker 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention is in the ice-turning state, as is well known to those skilled in the art, fig. 6 illustrates an ice-turned state when the first ice bank is turned to the first ice storage region 221, the ice-turned state is caused by the gear 231 rotating clockwise (from a front-to-rear perspective) when the ice-making panel 210 is in the first state, the second bulk ice cube can be flipped over to the second ice storage area 222 by rotating the gear 231 counterclockwise (from a forward to rearward perspective) after the ice-making panel 210 is in the second state.
The side wall 224 extends upward from the edge of the bottom plate 223, and has a front pivot hole opened at the front inner side thereof and a rear pivot hole formed at the rear inner side thereof.
A first pivot shaft 226 is disposed at the bottom of the partition plate 225, two ends of the first pivot shaft 226 are respectively inserted into the front pivot hole and the rear pivot hole, so that the first ice storage area 221 and the second ice storage area 222 are distributed at two lateral sides of the partition plate 225, a second pivot shaft 227 is disposed at the top of the partition plate 225, and two ends of the second pivot shaft are respectively inserted into the rear plate slideway 244 and the rack slideway 261, so that the moving direction of the second pivot shaft 227 in the lateral direction (width direction of the ice maker 200) is the same as the moving direction of the rack 260 when the rack 260 moves.
Wherein, the shape of the arc-shaped back plate slide way 244 corresponds to the movement track of the second pivot shaft 227 inserted into one end of the back plate slide way 244, and the specific shape of the back plate slide way 244 can be determined according to experiments.
This arrangement allows the ice making panel 210 to be reversed leftward to reverse the ice to the left ice storage area when the gear 231 is rotated clockwise (from a front-to-rear perspective), and the rack gear 260 is moved rightward, and the lateral direction of the second pivot shaft 227 is also moved rightward, so that the ice entering the ice storage device 220 is smoother and not hindered by the separation plate 225.
The middle part of the rear end of the ice making grid plate 210 is provided with a rear grid plate pivot shaft 213 extending along the front-rear direction, and the ice making grid plate 210 further comprises a turnover protrusion 214, the turnover protrusion 214 is fixedly connected with the rear grid plate pivot shaft 213 and extends backwards to pass through the rear plate 243, that is, a rear plate opening is opened in the area of the rear plate 243 corresponding to the turnover protrusion 214, so that the turnover protrusion 214 passes through the rear plate 243 through the rear plate opening.
And the cover 240 further includes a fitting protrusion 245, the fitting protrusion 245 being provided at a region of the rear surface of the rear plate 243 corresponding to the turnover protrusion 214 and extending rearward. The turning protrusions 214 are configured to interfere with the mating protrusions 245 during the process that the ice-making cells 210 are turned by the ice-turning device 230 to limit the turning angle of the rear section of the ice-making cells 210, so that when the ice-making cells 210 are further turned after the turning protrusions 214 interfere with the mating protrusions 245, the front section and the rear section of the ice-making cells 210 have different turning angles, thereby twisting the ice-making cells 210, facilitating the ice cubes to be separated from the ice-making cells 210 to enter the ice storage device 220, and improving the ice-shedding efficiency of the ice-making machine 200.
The at least one ice making groove 211 may be a plurality of ice making grooves 211, the ice making grid 210 further has a plurality of connecting grooves 215, the upper portions of the adjacent ice making grooves 211 have connecting grooves 215, and the connecting grooves 215 are used for distributing water supplied from the at least one water supply hole 242 to each ice making groove 211. The arrangement of the connecting groove 215 ensures that the ice maker 200 can make ice cubes with the same volume when the ice making grid plates 210 are in the same state, thereby improving the user experience.
The orthographic projections of the central axes of the at least one water supply hole 242 and the ice making grid plate 210 in the front-back direction on any horizontal plane are at least partially overlapped, that is, the position of the water supply hole 242 is close to the middle part of the ice making grid plate 210, and the arrangement mode enables water supplied to the ice making grid plate 210 to be rapidly distributed to each ice making groove 211, so that the situation that the prepared water is not consistent in volume when the ice making grid plate 210 is in the same state due to rapid freezing of the ice making grooves 211 is avoided, and the user experience is improved.
The ice maker 200 may further include a water supply mechanism (not shown in the drawings), which may include a water storage tank for storing water, a water pipe connecting the water storage tank with the water supply hole 242, and the like. The water supply mechanism is configured to supply a first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole 242 to make a first volume of ice pieces at each ice making slot 211 when the ice making panel 210 is in the first state, and to supply a second amount of water different from the first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole 242 to make a second volume of ice pieces at each ice making slot 211 when the ice making panel 210 is in the second state. This arrangement allows all of the ice making grooves 211 of the ice making grid 210 to be simultaneously used for making ice, improving the ice making efficiency of the ice maker 200.
The volume of the first volume of ice blocks may be larger than the volume of the second volume of ice blocks, the volumes of the first ice storage region 221 and the second ice storage region 222 (the volumes of the first ice storage region 221 and the second ice storage region 222 when the ice maker 200 is in the ice making state, that is, the volumes of the first ice storage region 221 and the second ice storage region 222 when the separation plate 225 is located on the vertical plane) are the same, and the ice maker 200 may further include an ice probe 270, where the ice probe 270 is disposed above the first ice storage region 221 and is used for detecting the ice amount of the first ice storage region 221. And the water supply mechanism is configured to alternately supply the first amount of water supply or the second amount of water supply to the at least one water supply hole 242 according to the detection result of the ice-detecting lever 270.
For example, when the ice maker 200 starts to make ice, the ice detecting rod 270 detects that the first ice storage region 221 does not have ice, the water supply mechanism first supplies a first amount of water to the water supply hole 242, then supplies a second amount of water to the water supply hole 242, and then supplies the first amount of water to the water supply hole 242, and thus the water supply mechanism stops supplying water after the ice detecting rod 270 detects that the first ice storage region 221 is full of ice.
For another example, when the ice maker 200 starts making ice, the ice detecting rod 270 detects that the first ice storage region 221 does not have ice, the water supply mechanism first supplies the second amount of water to the water supply hole 242, then supplies the first amount of water to the water supply hole 242, and then supplies the second amount of water to the water supply hole 242, so that the water supply mechanism directly stops supplying water when the ice detecting rod 270 detects that the first ice storage region 221 is full of ice.
The arrangement mode enables the ice maker 200 to be more intelligent, and only one ice detecting rod 270 is needed to realize the ice maker, so that the cost is saved. And the ice detecting rod 270 can be powered by the driving motor 232, so that the ice maker 200 does not need to be additionally provided with a motor for driving the ice detecting rod 270, the cost is saved, the structure of the ice maker 200 is more compact, and the space is saved.
In other embodiments, the ice maker 200 may also include two ice probes 270 respectively disposed above the first ice storage region 221 and the second ice storage region 222, and the water supply mechanism is configured to determine whether to supply the first amount of water according to the ice probes 270 disposed above the first ice storage region 221 and determine whether to supply the second amount of water according to the ice probes 270 disposed above the second ice storage region 222.
The present embodiment further provides a refrigerator 10, the refrigerator 10 includes any ice maker 200 described above, and the ice maker 200 is disposed in the freezing compartment 100 of the refrigerator 10. For example, the ice maker 200 is mounted to the inner container of the freezer compartment 100 by a mounting structure on the top plate 241 of the ice maker 200.
The embodiment provides an ice maker 200 for a refrigerator 10 and the refrigerator 10, wherein the ice maker 200 comprises an ice making grid plate 210, an ice storage device 220 and an ice turning device 230. The ice making grid 210 is configured to have a first state in which a first volume of ice is made and a second state in which a second volume of ice, different from the first volume of ice, is made; the ice storage device 220 is disposed below the ice making grid 210, and includes a first ice storage region 221 and a second ice storage region 222; the ice-turning device 230 is used to turn the ice-making grid 210 and is configured to turn a first ice bank to the first ice storage area 221 and a second ice bank to the second ice storage area 222. The setting mode can store ice cubes with different volumes in different ice storage areas respectively, so that a user can take the ice cubes with required volumes conveniently, and the user experience is improved.
The cooperation between the turnover protrusion 214 and the fitting protrusion 245 may allow the front section and the rear section of the ice making panel 210 to have different turnover angles when the ice making panel 210 is turned over further after the turnover protrusion 214 collides with the fitting protrusion 245. Thereby facilitating the ice cubes to escape from the ice making grid 210 to enter the ice storage device 220, improving the ice shedding efficiency of such an ice maker 200.
Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail herein, many other variations or modifications consistent with the principles of the invention may be directly determined or derived from the disclosure of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.
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1. An ice maker for a refrigerator, comprising:
an ice making panel configured to have a first state to make a first volume of ice and a second state to make a second volume of ice that is different from the first volume of ice;
the ice storage device is arranged below the ice making grid plate and comprises a first ice storage area and a second ice storage area;
and the ice overturning device is used for overturning the ice making grid plate and is configured to overturn the first ice accumulating block to the first ice storage area and overturn the second ice accumulating block to the second ice storage area.
2. The ice maker of claim 1, wherein the ice making panel defines at least one ice making groove that opens upwardly, and further comprising a housing comprising:
and the top plate is arranged above the ice making grid plate and is provided with at least one water supply hole, and the at least one water supply hole is used for supplying water to the at least one ice making groove.
3. The ice maker as claimed in claim 2, wherein a front end middle portion of the ice making panel is provided with a front panel pivot shaft extending in a front-rear direction, and the ice maker further comprises:
a mounting frame disposed in front of the ice making grid plate and including a first mounting plate connected to a lower surface of the top plate and extending downward and a second mounting plate extending rearward from a lower end of the first mounting plate; and the ice turning device includes:
the gear is fixedly connected with the pivoting shaft of the front grating, and the axis of the gear and the axis of the pivoting shaft of the front grating are positioned on the same straight line;
and the driving motor is arranged on the second mounting plate and used for driving the gear to rotate so as to drive the ice making grid plate to turn over through the gear.
4. The ice maker of claim 3, wherein the housing further comprises a rear plate extending downwardly from a rear of the top plate, an arcuate rear plate slide being formed below the rear plate, and the ice maker further comprises:
the rack is arranged below the gear, is provided with rack teeth meshed with the gear teeth of the gear and is configured to transversely translate along with the rotation of the gear, and a rack slide way extending along the longitudinal direction is formed in the middle of the lower part of the rack; and the ice storage device includes:
the bottom plate is arranged below the rack;
the side wall extends upwards from the edge of the bottom plate, the inner side of the front part of the side wall is provided with a front pivot hole, and the inner side of the rear part of the side wall is provided with a rear pivot hole;
the bottom of the partition plate is provided with a first pivot shaft, two ends of the first pivot shaft are respectively inserted into the front pivot hole and the rear pivot hole, so that the first ice storage area and the second ice storage area are distributed on two transverse sides of the partition plate, the top of the partition plate is provided with a second pivot shaft, two ends of the second pivot shaft are respectively inserted into the rear plate slide way and the rack slide way, and therefore the moving direction of the transverse direction of the second pivot shaft is the same as the moving direction of the rack when the rack moves.
5. The ice maker as claimed in claim 4, wherein a rear shelf pivot shaft extending in a front-rear direction is provided at a rear end middle portion of the ice making shelf, and the ice making shelf further comprises:
the turnover protrusion is fixedly connected with the pivot shaft of the rear grating plate and extends backwards to penetrate through the rear plate; and the housing further comprises:
the matching bulge is arranged in the area, corresponding to the overturning bulge, of the rear surface of the rear plate and extends backwards;
the turning protrusion is configured to abut against the matching protrusion in a process of turning the ice making grid plate by the ice turning device to limit a turning angle of the rear section of the ice making grid plate, so that the front section and the rear section of the ice making grid plate have different turning angles when the ice making grid plate is further turned after the turning protrusion abuts against the matching protrusion.
6. The ice maker of claim 2, wherein the ice maker comprises
The at least one ice making groove is a plurality of ice making grooves, a plurality of connecting grooves are further formed in the ice making grating, the connecting grooves are formed in the upper portions of the adjacent ice making grooves and used for evenly distributing water supplied by the at least one water supply hole to each ice making groove.
7. The ice maker of claim 6, wherein the ice maker comprises
The orthographic projections of the central axes of the at least one water supply hole and the ice making grid plate along the front-back direction on any horizontal plane are at least partially overlapped.
8. The ice maker of claim 6, further comprising:
a water supply mechanism configured to supply a first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole to make the first volume of ice cubes at each of the ice making grooves when the ice making grid is in the first state, and to supply a second amount of water different from the first amount of water to the at least one water supply hole to make the second volume of ice cubes at each of the ice making grooves when the ice making grid is in the second state.
9. The ice maker of claim 8, wherein the first volume of ice cubes has a volume that is greater than a volume of the second volume of ice cubes, the first ice storage region has the same volume as the second ice storage region, and the ice maker further comprises:
the ice detecting rod is arranged above the first ice storage area and used for detecting the ice amount of the first ice storage area; and is
The water supply mechanism is configured to alternately supply the first amount of water or the second amount of water to the at least one water supply hole according to a detection result of the ice probe.
10. A refrigerator, comprising:
the ice maker according to any one of claims 1 to 9, which is provided in a freezer compartment of the refrigerator.
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