JP2000314582A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate putting in and out of articles and to save energy by decreasing the opening. SOLUTION: Shelves 9 and 11 are mounted on a shaft 5, fixed at a body, via a joint 8, a bearing 2 and a joint 10, a bearing 3, respectively, and a door 7 is mounted on a shaft 5 via a bearings 1 and 4. Two handles 14 and 15, on which electromagnets 12 and 13 and a sensor are mounted, are fixed at a door 7. When with the handle 14 grasped, the door 7 is opened, a sensor senses the opening and an electromagnet 12 is adhered to the shelf 9, and only the shelf 9 and the joint 8 are moved together with the door 7. When the handle 15 is grasped, conversely, the shelf 10 is moved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The refrigerator of the present invention has a door and a plurality of shelves attached to a shaft fixed to the main body of the refrigerator. When the door is opened by rotating the door, the one-stage shelf is rotated together with the door. It is possible to take out the whole part of the shelf on which the goods are put out of the refrigerator, and in this case, the goods can be taken out of the refrigerator or put in the refrigerator due to the fact that the shelf does not come off the axis You can quickly find what you want to remove from the refrigerator. This also shortens the time the door is open and the small opening of the refrigerator when the door is open,
Leakage of cold air is reduced, saving energy.

[0002] In a conventional refrigerator, when the entire part of the shelf on which items are placed is taken out of the refrigerator, the shelf comes off the refrigerator.
If most of the shelves are put out of the refrigerator, the shelves may come off the refrigerator.Therefore, a part of the shelves where the items on the shelves are placed, or a little more than half of the shelves, or no shelves at all So, by taking items out of the refrigerator, putting items in the refrigerator, and finding the items that you want to take out of the refrigerator, the time to take out and put in this item will be longer,
The time that the door is open is longer than that of the refrigerator of the present invention, and that the opening of the refrigerator is wide when the door is open,
And when pulling out the shelves, the door is opened and then the shelves are pulled out, so the time for opening the door is longer than that of the refrigerator of the present invention, the leakage of cold air is increased, and energy is wasted. Become.

Referring to the drawings, four parts, bearing 1, bearing 2, bearing 3, and bearing 4, are fitted into a shaft 5, and the inside of each is fixed to the shaft 5, and the upper end of the shaft 5 is a main body. 6 and the lower end of the shaft 5 is fixed to the lower part of the main body 6. Further, the lower left half of the front of the main body 6 is an opening, and all surfaces of the main body 6 other than the opening on the left are in a closed state. The door 7 is fixed to the bearing 1 and the bearing 4. One end of the joint 8 is fixed to the shelf 9, and the other end of the joint 8 is fixed to the bearing 2 with an appropriate gap between the shelf 9, the joint 8, and the bearing 2. I have. One end of the joint 10 is fixed to the shelf 11 and the joint 1
The other end is fixed to the bearing 3 with a suitable gap between the shelf 11 and the joint 10 and the bearing 3. In addition, bearing 1 and bearing 4
Are the same shape, and bearing 2 and bearing 3
Has the same shape. Also, joint 8 and joint 10
Has the same shape. The electromagnet 12 and the electromagnet 13 are fixed to the door 7, the electromagnet 12 corresponds to the shelf 9, and the electromagnet 13 corresponds to the shelf 11. The handles 14 and 15 fixed to the door 7 are both horizontal iron pieces,
It is made of a vertical cylindrical iron piece fixed to the tip of the iron piece, and the handles 14 and 15 have sensors attached to both of them. Note that, similarly to the conventional handle, the handle 16 to which the sensor is not attached is also fixed to the door 7. A packing 17, which has the same function as the packing of the conventional refrigerator, is attached to the door 7. An iron plate of an appropriate height is attached to the entire surface around the shelves 9 and 11, and an appropriate gap is provided between the upper end of the iron plate attached to the shelf 9 and the main body 6. It should be noted that the electromagnet 12 and the electromagnet 13 and the handles 14 and 15 are wired through a conductive wire in a hole formed horizontally on the shaft 5 and in a hole formed vertically on the center of the shaft 5. And handle 1
When nothing is touched, no electricity flows to the electromagnet 12, but when the handle 14 is touched, a sensor attached to the handle 14 detects the fact and supplies electricity to the electromagnet 12. 1, the electromagnet 12 adheres to the shelf 9 in the state of FIG. If you do not touch the handle 15,
Electricity does not flow to the electromagnet 13, but when the user touches the handle 15, a sensor attached to the handle 15 detects the fact, and the electromagnet 13 works to supply electricity to the electromagnet 13.
In the state of FIG. 1, the electromagnet 13 adheres to the shelf 11. In addition,
As in the prior art, the door 7 is provided with a door pocket. In this door pocket, the door 7 is closed (FIG. 1).
In the state (2), cool air enters appropriately from the gap between the shelf 9 and the main body 6 on the shelf 9. The shelves below the shelf 11, which are attached in the same manner as the shelves 9 and 11, are omitted. The same number of handles as the handles 14 (handles 15) fixed to the door 7 and the number of electromagnets 12 fixed to the door 7 corresponding to the omitted shelves are the same as the number of the omitted shelves.
The same electromagnet as (electromagnet 13) is also omitted. When the handle 14 is not touched, no electricity flows to the electromagnet 12, but when the handle 14 is touched, a sensor attached to the handle 14 detects that fact, and the electricity is supplied to the electromagnet 12. By the way, when the electromagnet 12 is operated, and when the handle 15 is not touched with anything, electricity does not flow to the electromagnet 13, but when the handle 15 is touched, a sensor attached to the handle 15 detects the fact, It is possible to operate the electromagnet 13 by applying electricity to the electromagnet 13 by a conventional technique.

The present invention has the above-mentioned structure. When the handle 14 is touched in the state of FIG. 1, the electromagnet 12 adheres to the shelf 9. Then, when the handle 14 is gripped and the handle 14 is rotated to the left, only the shelf 9 and the joint 8 are rotated to the left together with the door 7 to be in the state of FIG. Since the shelf 11 and the joint 10 do not move from the state of FIG. 1 to the state of FIG. 2, a part of the door 7 and a part of the packing 17 are Pass through the gap between three. Thereafter, when the door 7 is rotated clockwise from the state shown in FIG. 2, the shelf 9 pushed by the door 7 is rotated clockwise together with the door 7 and the joint 8, and the state shown in FIG. 1 is obtained. Since the shelf 11 and the joint 10 do not move from the state of FIG. 2 to the state of FIG. 1, a part of the door 7 and a part of the packing 17 include the shelf 11, the joint 10, and the bearing 3 Through the gap between. When the user touches the handle 15 in the state of FIG. 1, the electromagnet 13 adheres to the shelf 11.
Then, when grasping the handle 15 and rotating the handle 15 to the left,
With the door 7, only the shelf 11 and the joint 10 rotate left. At this time, since the shelf 9 and the joint 8 do not move, the door 7
And a part of the packing 17 pass through the gap between the shelf 9 and the joint 8 and the bearing 2. Thereafter, when the door 7 is rotated clockwise, the shelf 11 pushed by the door 7 is rotated.
Rotates rightward together with the door 7 and the joint 10 to the state shown in FIG. Also at this time, since the shelf 9 and the joint 8 do not move, a part of the door 7 and a part of the packing 17 pass through a gap between the shelf 9, the joint 8, and the bearing 2. When the handle 16 is pulled leftward from the state shown in FIG. 1, only the door 7 turns left. At this time, since the shelf 9 and the joint 8 and the shelf 11 and the joint 10 do not move, a part of the door 7 and a part of the packing 17 are removed by the gap between the shelf 9 and the joint 8 and the bearing 2, and 11 and the gap between the joint 10 and the bearing 3 at the same time, the door 7 opens. Thereafter, when the door 7 is rotated clockwise and the door 7 is closed, the state shown in FIG. 1 is obtained. At this time, the shelf 9 and the joint 8, and the shelf 11 and the joint 10
The door 7 and the packing 17 are not moved, so that the gap between the shelf 9 and the joint 8 and the bearing 2 and the shelf 1
1 and the gap between the joint 10 and the bearing 3 at the same time.

[0005] As described above, according to the present invention, the main body 6
The door 7 and the shelf 9 and the shelf 11 are attached to the shaft 5 fixed to the, and there is a gap between the shelf 9 and the joint 8 and the bearing 2, and the shelf 11 and the joint 10. When there is a gap between the bearings 3 and the hand is touched with the handle 14 in the state of FIG. 1, a sensor attached to the handle 14 detects this fact, and electricity is supplied to the electromagnet 12 so that the electromagnet 12 To work, the electromagnet 12
When the hand is touched to the handle 15 in the state of FIG. 1, a sensor attached to the handle 15 detects this fact, and supplies electricity to the electromagnet 13 to activate the electromagnet 13. Is attached to the shelf 11 so that the handle 1
4, pull the handle 14 in the counterclockwise direction, and
At the same time, only the shelf 9 and the joint 8 can be rotated counterclockwise, and the handle 15 can be gripped, the handle 15 can be pulled in the left rotation direction, and only the shelf 11 and the joint 10 can be rotated counterclockwise with the door 7. Therefore, only shelf 9 or shelf 11
The entire part on which only items can be placed can be taken out of the main body 6, and the shelves 9 or 11 that have been put out of the main body 6 do not come off the shaft 5, so that the goods can be stored in the refrigerator. You can quickly put things in and out of the refrigerator and find what you need. As described above, since the iron plate is attached to the entire surface around the shelves 9 and 11, the opening of the main body 6 is reduced, thereby reducing the leakage of cool air and saving energy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a refrigerator of the present invention when a door is closed.

FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of the refrigerator of the present invention when a door is opened by rotating a left shelf and a joint fixed to the shelf together with a door together with a door.

FIG. 3 is a schematic front view of the refrigerator of the present invention in the same state as in FIG. 1;

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] November 19, 1999 (1999.11.
19)

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Drawing

[Correction target item name] All figures

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

FIG.

FIG. 2

FIG. 3

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A refrigerator characterized in that a door and a plurality of shelves are attached to one shaft fixed to a main body of the refrigerator. 2. A single shaft fixed to a refrigerator body, wherein each of the plurality of shelves is connected to a respective shelf and a respective joint via a separate joint and a separate bearing. Refrigerator characterized by being installed so that there is an appropriate gap between each bearing. 3. A door comprising a plurality of electromagnets and a plurality of sensors, wherein a plurality of electromagnets and sensors are attached to the door such that one of the plurality of shelves corresponds to one of the plurality of electromagnets. When attaching a handle and touching one of the handles, a sensor attached to the one handle senses the fact and flows electricity to the one electromagnet,
The one electromagnet is adhered only to the one-stage shelf, thereby grasping one of the handles and moving the one handle in the rotating direction. Refrigerator characterized in that only the shelf moves in the direction of rotation.