Refrigerator
AssigneeQingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd.
InventorsEnpin Xia, Hao Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu
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Abstract
The present invention provides a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a hinge body, wherein a positioning shaft and a guiding shaft are provided on the hinge body, and a positioning groove and a guiding groove are provided on the door; the door of the refrigerator according to the present invention may be moved by a distance in a direction away from a pivoting side when being opened, thereby avoiding inconvenience of opening the door due to the protrusion of the side wall of the door.
Claims16
A hinge assembly, which is used to connect a cabinet and a door, wherein the cabinet comprises an accommodation compartment and a pivoting side connected with the hinge assembly;
- during a process of opening the door, the hinge assembly drives the door to move from the pivoting side toward the accommodation compartment;
- wherein the hinge assembly comprises a positioning shaft and a positioning groove engaged with each other as well as a guiding shaft and a guiding groove engaged with each other, the positioning shaft is located at one of the cabinet and the door, the positioning groove is located at the other of the cabinet and the door, the guiding shaft is located at one of the cabinet and the door, and the guiding groove is located at the other of the cabinet and the door;
- the hinge assembly further comprises a pivoting groove communicated with the positioning groove, and a transition groove which is communicated with the guiding groove and is parallel with the pivoting groove;
- wherein the hinge assembly comprises a hinge body fixedly provided on the cabinet and a fixed block fixedly provided on the hinge body, the positioning shaft is located at the hinge body, the guiding groove is located at the fixed block, and the positioning groove and the guiding shaft are located at the door.
A hinge assembly, which is used to connect a cabinet and a door, wherein the hinge assembly comprises a positioning shaft and a positioning groove engaged with each other as well as a guiding shaft and a guiding groove engaged with each other, wherein the positioning shaft is located at the cabinet, the positioning groove is located at the door, the guiding shaft is located at one of the cabinet and the door, and the guiding groove is located at the other of the cabinet and the door;
- the cabinet comprises an accommodation compartment, the door comprises a front wall apart from the accommodation compartment and a side wall always sandwiched between the front wall and the accommodation compartment, a lateral ridge is formed between the front wall and the side wall;
- when the door is opened from the closed state to a second state, the guiding shaft is moved in the guiding groove to drive the positioning shaft to move in the positioning groove, such that a spacing between the positioning shaft and the lateral ridge is reduced, or a spacing between the positioning shaft and the front wall is reduced, or a spacing between the positioning shaft and the side wall is reduced, the hinge assembly further comprises a pivoting groove communicated with the positioning groove, and a transition groove which is communicated with the guiding groove and is parallel with the pivoting groove;
- wherein when the door is opened to the third state from the second state, the spacing between the positioning shaft and the lateral ridge is increased, or the spacing between the positioning shaft and the front wall is increased, or the spacing between the positioning shaft and the side wall is increased;
- wherein when the door is opened continuously from the third state, the spacing between the positioning shaft and the lateral ridge is kept unchanged, or the spacing between the positioning shaft and the front wall is kept unchanged, or the spacing between the positioning shaft and the side wall is kept unchanged.
A refrigeration apparatus including a hinge assembly, which is used to connect a cabinet and a door of the refrigeration apparatus, wherein the cabinet comprises an accommodation compartment and a pivoting side connected with the hinge assembly;
- during a process of opening the door, the hinge assembly drives the door to move from the pivoting side toward the accommodation compartment;
- wherein the hinge assembly comprises a positioning shaft and a positioning groove engaged with each other as well as a guiding shaft and a guiding groove engaged with each other, the positioning shaft is located at one of the cabinet and the door, the positioning groove is located at the other of the cabinet and the door, the guiding shaft is located at one of the cabinet and the door, and the guiding groove is located at the other of the cabinet and the door;
- the hinge assembly further comprises a pivoting groove communicated with the positioning groove, and a transition groove which is communicated with the guiding groove and is parallel with the pivoting groove;
- wherein the cabinet comprises an outer side surface which is adjacent to the hinge assembly and is located at an extended section of a door rotation path, the door comprises a front wall apart from the accommodation compartment and a side wall always sandwiched between the front wall and the accommodation compartment, a lateral ridge is formed between the front wall and the side wall;
- when the door is opened from the closed state to the second state, the hinge assembly drives the door to move, such that the lateral ridge is always located on one side of the outer side surface close to the accommodation compartment.
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