Patents Assigned to QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 11713918
    Abstract: An engagement assembly, a drawer, and a refrigerator having same. The engagement assembly comprises a first engagement part matching the drawer and a second engagement part matching a refrigerator body; one of the first and second engagement parts is a gear, and the other one is a rack; the rack has a tooth surface that allows the gear to travel; the rack comprises a main rack and an extension rack; when the drawer is in a closed state, the tooth surface has a first stroke length; when the drawer is in an opening process, the extension rack moves to a travel path of the gear so that the tooth surface has a second stroke length; when the drawer is in a closing process, the extension rack is reset; the first stroke length is smaller than the second stroke length. The length of the tooth surface increases in the opening process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Bin Fei, Xiaobing Zhu, Xueli Cheng
  • Patent number: 11668510
    Abstract: A vacuum assembly for a refrigerator includes upper and lower sealing bodies, which are buckled to define a sealed cavity. A vacuum pump is provided in the cavity. A plurality of sheet members are arranged between the vacuum pump and a sealing box. A plurality of abutting parts are provided on the upper sealing body and abutting against tops of the sheet members. A step is provided at an end of the abutting part coming into contact with the sheet member. A top surface of the step abuts against the sheet member, and a side surface of the step abuts against the sheet member. A plurality of ribs are provided on the lower sealing body and spaced apart from the side walls to define limiting grooves. A plurality of guide grooves are provided on the lower sealing body and extend in a vertical direction to guide the sheet members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Chun Yang, Jianquan Chen, Enpin Xia
  • Patent number: 11549499
    Abstract: A muffler comprises a housing enclosed to form a hollow cavity, the cavity comprises a cylindrical chamber and a rectangular parallelepiped chamber, wherein one of bottom surfaces of the cylindrical chamber is connected with a first surface of the rectangular parallelepiped chamber, the cylindrical chamber communicates with an interior of the rectangular parallelepiped chamber, and the cylindrical chamber is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Yang, Hao Zhang, Enpin Xia, Jianquan Chen
  • Patent number: 11530867
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerator, a duct assembly and a duct fixture. The duct fixture includes a fixing seat having a through hole, a fixing disk, a limiting block disposed on a side of the fixing disk adjacent to a target mounting surface, and a positioning protrusion disposed on the fixing disk, an outer shape of the limiting block matches a mounting hole on the target mounting surface, a limiting groove for receiving the target mounting surface is formed between the limiting block and the fixing disk, and the positioning protrusion is disposed angularly with the limiting block around the central axis of the through hole. When the limiting block rotates to a staggered position relative to the mounting hole, the positioning protrusion enters the mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Yang, Hao Zhang, Enpin Xia
  • Patent number: 11448445
    Abstract: An ice crushing device and a refrigerator are provided, the ice crushing device includes a housing assembly including a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate, at least a portion of the driver being mounted in the housing; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; the housing assembly further includes an ice-discharging plate provided at a bottom of the ice bucket, the ice-discharging plate is provided with an ice-discharging port, wherein the housing includes a first portion that houses the ice bucket and a second portion in which the driver is mounted, a groove extending along the circumferential direction of the ice bucket is provided between the ice-discharging plate and the first portion, the groove is communicated with the ice-discharging port, and a lower edge of the ice bucket projects into the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Jianjun Xue, Chuan Cui, Zhenyu Zhao
  • Patent number: 11448443
    Abstract: An ice crushing device and a refrigerator, the ice crushing device comprising: a housing assembly comprises a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate, at least a portion of the driver being mounted in the housing; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; the housing assembly further comprises an ice-discharging plate provided at a bottom of the ice bucket, the ice-discharging plate is provided with an ice-discharging port communicated with the ice bucket, ice cubes are discharged out of the ice-discharging port after being crushed in the ice bucket by the ice crusher, a slope is disposed on the ice-discharging plate at a position adjacent to the ice-discharging port and along a rotary ice discharge direction, and the slope is located on an ice discharge side of the ice-discharging plate and disposed uphill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Jianjun Xue, Chuan Cui, Lihua Zuo
  • Patent number: 11448442
    Abstract: An ice crushing device and a refrigerator are provided, the ice crushing device includes a housing assembly having a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; the housing assembly further includes an ice-discharging plate provided at a bottom of the ice bucket, the ice-discharging plate is provided with an ice-discharging port communicated with the ice bucket, wherein the driver includes a motor, a gear assembly driven by the motor, and a gear box accommodating the gear assembly, the gear box has an input end connected with the motor and an output end, wherein the gear box is mounted on the housing, and an axis of the output end is disposed in parallel with a rotation axis of the ice bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Chuan Cui, Jianjun Xue, Qihai Du
  • Patent number: 11448444
    Abstract: An ice crushing device and a refrigerator are provided, the ice crushing device includes a housing assembly having a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; wherein the driver includes a motor and a gear assembly driven by the motor. The gear assembly includes a first bevel gear connected to the motor, a second bevel gear meshing with the first bevel gear, and a cylindrical gear coaxially arranged with the second bevel gear. A stop ring and a seal assembly that engage with each other are disposed between the second bevel gear and the cylindrical gear, the seal assembly matches the housing to separate the space between the second bevel gear and the cylindrical gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Jianjun Xue, Chuan Cui, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 11448446
    Abstract: An ice crushing device and a refrigerator are provided, the ice crushing device includes a housing assembly including a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; wherein the ice crusher includes an ice cutter shaft fixed with respect to the housing, and several movable ice cutters and several fixed ice cutters disposed on the ice cutter shaft at an interval, each movable ice cutter includes three blades evenly distributed in the circumferential direction, the ice crusher further includes three ice agitating rods connected to the ice cutter shaft, the three ice-agitating rods are fixed corresponding one to one with the three blades, and at least one of the blades or one of the ice agitating rods is fixed relative to circumferential direction of the ice bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Chuan Cui, Jianjun Xue, Bo Mi
  • Patent number: 11397036
    Abstract: An ice maker and a refrigerator are provided The ice maker has an ice making tray having a plurality of ice making spaces, a motor assembly for driving the ice making tray, and a bracket, the motor assembly is connected to the bracket, and the ice making tray has one end rotationally supported at the bracket; the ice maker further has a fan mounted at the bracket, the bracket has a top plate located at an upper portion of an opening of the ice making space and a side plate located at one side of the top plate, one end of the ice making tray is supported at the side plate, a supporting plate extends from a side edge of the side plate relative to the ice making tray, and the fan is connected to the supporting plate and has an air guide direction towards the ice making tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianjun Xue, Qihai Du, Yanqing Zhang, Xiaobing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11391509
    Abstract: The present invitation provides a rotatable storage rack, including a drawer, a storage rack body for slidingly receiving the drawer, and a sliding assembly disposed between the drawer and the storage rack body; wherein the sliding assembly includes a curved slide rail and a first pulley moving along the curved slide rail, the curved slide rail includes a horizontal section and a bent section, and the bent section is tangent to the horizontal section and arranged at an angle; when the first pulley moves along the horizontal section, the drawer is pulled out when the first pulley moves along the bent section, the drawer rotates downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Zhu, Hao Zhang, Haoquan Liu, Chun Yang
  • Patent number: 11313599
    Abstract: A refrigerator cooling system, comprising a pipe forming a loop and, sequentially provided on the pipe, a compressor, a condenser, a refrigerant amount regulator, a capillary tube, and an evaporator. The refrigerant amount regulator comprises a storage device and an adjustor provided within the storage device. The storage device is provided therein with a storage cavity for holding a refrigerant. The storage device is provided with an opening for the storage cavity to be in communication with the pipe. The adjustor comprises a sealer used for opening or closing the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cong Han, Zhenhua Tian, Xuefeng Han
  • Patent number: 11274877
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oxygen-control freshness preservation refrigerator, comprising a cabinet with a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment. A partition plate for separating the refrigerating compartment from the freezing compartment is arranged in the cabinet. The refrigerator further has a freshness preservation compartment arranged inside the refrigerating compartment and an oxygen control device for reducing the oxygen content inside the freshness preservation compartment, the oxygen control device comprises a gas-regulating membrane assembly and a gas extraction assembly. The gas-regulating membrane assembly has at least one gas-regulating membrane for selective gas permeation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Bo Jiang, Jianquan Chen, Chun Yang, Liyan Wang
  • Patent number: 11274875
    Abstract: A sound-insulating refrigerator vacuum assembly, comprising a sealed box receiving a vacuum pump, the sealed box body comprises an upper sealing body and a lower sealing body, the upper sealing body and the lower sealing body can be snap-fitted to define a receiving cavity, and the vacuum pump is placed in the receiving cavity; the vacuum assembly further comprises an air pipe member, the air pipe member comprises an air inlet pipe, an air outlet pipe and a base plate that are integrally formed, and the air inlet pipe and the air outlet pipe are disposed through the base plate; a notch portion is provided in the sealed box, and an outer edge of the base plate matches the notch portion in shape; the vacuum pump is connected with a muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianquan Chen, Chun Yang, Hao Zhang, Enpin Xia
  • Patent number: 11255597
    Abstract: A seal includes a buckling portion. The buckling portion is composed of two H-shaped members that are flexibly connected. The two H-shaped members are buckled with each other to form a mounted state. The H-shaped member has a first arm and a second arm which are parallel to each other, and a connecting portion which connects the first arm and the second arm. The connecting portion has an arcuate surface. The arcuate surfaces of the two H-shaped members cooperatively define a hollow cavity when the two H-shaped members are in the mounted state. A vacuum assembly and a refrigerator are disclosed to respectively have the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Chun Yang, Enpin Xia, Jianquan Chen
  • Patent number: 11236938
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a recessed refrigerator supported on a supporting surface, the refrigerator including a cabinet, a door movably disposed at a front side of the cabinet, a compressor compartment formed in a rear lower portion of the refrigerator and a compressor and a heat dissipating fan located in the compressor compartment, the cabinet including a bottom plate, the bottom plate being disposed apart from the supporting surface, and the bottom plate including a compressor compartment bottom plate located below the compressor compartment, the compressor compartment bottom plate being formed with a main air inlet and a main air outlet communicating the external with the compressor compartment, air from the external, driven by the heat dissipating fan, entering the compressor compartment through the main air inlet and then flowing to the external through the main air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Yang, Lisheng Ji, Enpin Xia, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11209207
    Abstract: An engagement assembly, a drawer, and a refrigerator having same. The engagement assembly comprises a first engagement part matching the drawer and a second engagement part matching a refrigerator body; one of the first and second engagement parts is a gear, and the other one is a rack; the rack has a tooth surface that allows the gear to travel; the rack comprises a main rack and an extension rack; when the drawer is in a closed state, the tooth surface has a first stroke length; when the drawer is in an opening process, the extension rack moves to a travel path of the gear so that the tooth surface has a second stroke length; when the drawer is in a closing process, the extension rack is reset the first stroke length is smaller than the second stroke length. The length of the tooth surface increases in the opening process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Bin Fei, Xiaobing Zhu, Xueli Cheng
  • Patent number: 11150009
    Abstract: A water storage device and a refrigerator, the water storage device comprising: a housing having a water inlet end and a water outlet end, and a water distribution plate. The water distribution plate divides a water storage cavity into a water inlet cavity and a water outlet cavity; a gap for allowing water to flow through is provided between the outer edge of the water distribution plate and the inner wall of the housing; when the water distribution plate moves from the water inlet end towards the water outlet end, water entering the water inlet cavity from the water inlet end will not mix with cold water in the water outlet cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Jianjun Xue
  • Patent number: 11150011
    Abstract: A refrigerator control method, including: upon acquiring a signal indicating that a person approaches to open a door, controlling a camera to move from an initial position to a first position; upon acquiring a signal indicating that the door switches to an open status, controlling the camera to move to a second position; upon acquiring an opening angle of the door, and controlling the camera to capture an image of an interior of the door when the opening angle is less than a threshold angle; upon acquiring a signal indicating that the door switches to the closed status, controlling the camera to move to the first position and capture an image of an interior of the door; and upon acquiring a signal indicating that the door is closed, controlling the camera to return to the initial position and capture an image of an interior of the refrigerating compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guixi Li, Bing Wang, Qinghai Zhao, Lei Zhang, Shujun Song, Yuliang Jiao, Qingfu Wang, Chunxue Wang
  • Patent number: 11079165
    Abstract: A refrigerator door body comprises a door body frame and a glass panel attached to a front side of the door body frame. The door body frame comprises sheet metal frames located on two sides, end covers located on upper and lower sides, and connecting assemblies connecting the sheet metal frames to the end covers. The end cover is provided with a side flange and a covering edge located on an outer side of the side flange. After the end covers and the sheet metal frames are assembled, the side flange is fitted to an inner side of the sheet metal frame, and the covering edge is fitted to an outer side of the sheet metal frame, thereby ensuring that an end portion of the sheet metal frame is not easily eroded by moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinqiang Dou, Shufei Ren, Meng Wang, Peng Wang