KR100600085B1 - A auto rice cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fully automatic electric rice cooker that can be semi-circuit without supplying water to rice by rotating the inner rotor blades, causing the friction of the rice, the whole process of storage, semi, cooking, warming of the user's labor force In addition to the automatic operation without the need, and remote control through home networking, no user labor is required, and there is no need for a separate water supply and drainage structure, thereby reducing manufacturing costs. .

Cooker, Catering, Home Network, Watering

Description

Fully automatic rice cooker {A auto rice cooker}

1 is a block diagram of a full automatic rice cooker according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of a full automatic rice cooker according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a functional configuration of an automatic rice cooker according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10 control unit 12 timer

14: key input unit 16: display unit

18: power supply section 20: semi section

22: rice storage 24: delicacy storage

30: detection sensor unit 40: pen drive unit

42: pen 50: water supply control unit

52: water supply tank 60: heater

70: home server 72: network

74: terminal 80: magnetic valve

The present invention relates to an electric rice cooker, and more particularly, to a fully automatic electric rice cooker which can be semi-finished without supplying water to rice by causing the friction of the rice by rotating the inner rotary blades.

In the conventional cooking utensils, a person who washes the rice stored in the rice container according to the number of people to eat, puts it in an electric rice cooker or a pressure cooker, and then goes through a process of applying heat.

This process was provided with a separate rice container for storing the rice, the process of washing the rice directly by the user, and a cumbersome process required to put the rice in an electric rice cooker or pressure cooker.

In order to avoid such a cumbersome process, recently, an electric rice cooker in which a rice container for storing rice, a semi device for semi-rice washing, and a rice cooker have been disclosed.

Specifically, the electric rice cooker described above, a rice container for storing rice, a semi-device for supplying water to semi-seed rice, a cooking device for cooking semi-rice in this semi-apparatus, and sensing the heat and pressure of the cooking device for these A sensing sensor to adjust, the water purification device for supplying water to the semi-device and the cooking device, the electric rice cooker, that is, the microcomputer to control the respective components as a whole, inputting various control signals of the user to the microcomputer A key input unit and a power supply unit for supplying power to each of the components.

When the user inputs a cooking signal through the key input unit, the rice cooker discharges the rice by a predetermined amount by an appropriate amount for the number of people to eat, and the discharged rice is a semi-device using water supplied from the water purifier. After rinsing in, it is cooked by applying appropriate heat and pressure to the cooking apparatus.

In other words, the entire process is automatically made from the discharge of rice to cooking, so the user's labor is not necessary, which is very convenient, thereby saving time.

However, since the electric rice cooker is installed separately from the above-mentioned semi-apparatus and the cooking apparatus, there is a problem in supplying the semi-prepared rice to the cooking apparatus correctly.

In addition, in order to semi-rice, water must be supplied from the water tank to the semi-device so that a separate water supply and drainage structure should be provided. As a result, the structure of the entire rice cooker is complicated, and there is a problem that the manufacturing cost is also increased.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the whole process of storage, semi, cooking, warming of rice can be operated automatically without the user's labor, and also can be controlled remotely through home networking The purpose is to provide a full automatic rice cooker.

The configuration of the present invention devised to achieve the above object is as follows. The present invention is provided with a rotary blade that is rotated by a motor, and semi-finished through the friction between the rotary blade and the rice in accordance with the motor drive, the semi-section to supply to the inner cylinder of the rice cooker, the semi-section is installed on top A rice storage unit for storing rice and supplying rice to the semi-bubble, a water tank connected to the rice cooker to supply water to the inner barrel of the rice cooker, a heater part for supplying heat to the inside of the rice cooker to cook or warm rice; When a user's control command is input, after rotating the rotary blades installed inside the semi-section through the motor to semi-seed rice, to supply to the inner cylinder of the rice cooker, the water into the inner cylinder of the rice cooker through the water tank It is characterized in that it comprises a control unit for supplying or cooking the rice through the heater unit.

In addition, the pen is provided in the lower portion of the semi-section, and the pen driving unit for rotating the pen, and blows the rice supplied to the rice cooker in the free fall method from the semi-bubble to remove the by-products of the rice generated in the semi-bu One side is equipped with a strainer to filter the by-product separated by the pen, installed in the upper part of the semi-parts and stored in the functional rice or delicacy inside the delicacy storage unit to supply the functional rice or delicacy to the semi-part, and to supply water to the rice cooker It is further provided with a water tank.

Here, a magnetic valve is placed between the rice storage part or the delicacy storage part and the semi part, the semi part and the rice container, and the water supply tank and the rice container to control the supply of rice, delicacy, and water by the magnetic valve.

The control unit is connected to the home server and connected to the terminal through a network to enable remote control, or to be directly operable through the key input unit.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a block diagram of a full automatic rice cooker according to a first embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram of a full automatic rice cooker according to a second embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is an embodiment of the present invention Functional diagram of a full automatic rice cooker according to.

Fully automatic electric rice cooker according to the present invention is controllable by home networking, and conducts semi-, cooking, and warming processes from storage of delicacies or functional rice such as rice, beans, crude rice, brown rice, and the like without requiring the labor of the user. do.

Hereinafter, each component according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

First, as the rice storage unit 22 to store the rice, the internal storage of the rice at a constant temperature by the electronic refrigeration method, installed in the upper portion of the semi-part 20 to be described later semi-part 20 through a free-fall method. Feed the rice.

Semi part 20 is to semi-rice the rice supplied from the rice storage unit 22, having a rotary blade (not shown) therein and by rotating the rotary blade by a motor to cause friction with the rice Allow rice to be tasted or polished and then feed into the inner bowl of the rice cooker. Since the semi part 20 can adjust the rotation speed and the rotation time of the rotary blade through the key input unit 14 described later, the user can semi-reflect as desired by considering the amount of rice and cooking time.

In particular, the semi part 20, as described above, because the rice is polished and tasted through the rotation of the rotary blade, there is no need to supply water separately for the semi of the rice. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a water supply structure for supplying water from the water supply tank 50 described later to the semi-section 20, and a drainage structure for draining the water used for the semi in the semi-section 20. The structure is simplified and manufacturing costs can be reduced.

On the other hand, the rice supplied from the rice storage portion 22 to the semi portion 20 is adjusted by the magnetic valve (80). This is because the weight sensor (not shown) of the sensor unit 30 is installed inside the semi part 20 to detect the amount of rice dropped from the rice storage unit 22, so that more rice is dropped than the amount set by the user. Or a small amount is dropped, the controller 10 may control the magnetic valve 80 to adjust the amount of rice dropped by a predetermined amount.

The detection sensor unit 30 is an inner cylinder detection sensor (not shown) for detecting whether the inner cylinder is provided inside the cooker, and a temperature sensing sensor and a pressure sensing sensor (not shown) respectively detecting the temperature and pressure inside the cooker when cooking. And a weight sensor for sensing the amount of rice dropped from the rice storage part 22 to the semi part 20 to adjust the amount of rice dropped.

The sensor 30 is a sensor installed in place to perform different functions, but can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art, the detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

The pen 42 is blown to filter the various by-products generated after the semi-bubble 20 is rinsed out of the rice, and is installed in the lower part of the semi-bubble 20 to be blown to free-falling rice. . The pen driver 40 drives the pen 42 according to the control signal of the controller 10.

The water supply tank 50 stores water to be used for cooking or used as drinking water and supplies water to a rice bowl if necessary. The water supply tank 50 may not only supply water for cooking, but may also be provided with drinking water with a general water purification function. The water supply tank 50 is also controlled by the magnetic valve is adjusted the amount of water supplied to the rice cooker.

The heater unit 60 performs cooking and warming functions by applying heat to the rice cooker during cooking or warming, and includes a body heater 62, a lid heater 64, and a hot plate heater 66.

First, the body heater 62 is annularly installed in the body of the rice cooker, the lid heater 64 is installed in the lid of the rice cooker to prevent dew condensation at the end of cooking or warming, the hot plate heater 66 is the bottom of the rice cooker Installed on the side to heat the bottom of the cooker.

The power supply unit 18 supplies power to the heater unit 60 to perform cooking and warming functions, and also applies power to the rice cooker, and the display unit 16 is an electric rice cooker according to the present invention. By displaying the operation state of the user to allow the user to recognize the current operation of the electric cooker, the key input unit 14 is the user, such as the cooking speed or warming of the electric cooker, the rotating speed and rotation time of the semi-blade 20 Enter various control commands. The timer 12 provides the time data to the controller 10.

Finally, the control unit 10 is to control the electric rice cooker as a whole, the amount of rice and water, cooking time and warming temperature for each cooking amount is set in advance.

When the cooking command is input from the key input unit 14, the control unit 10 controls the magnetic valve 80 by an amount corresponding to the set cooking amount, so that the rice stored in the rice storage unit 22 is semi-part 20. To be dropped. When the rice is dropped by a predetermined amount in the semi-part (20), by rotating the rotary blades by a predetermined rotation speed and rotation time through the motor so that the rice is polished and polished, then by controlling the magnetic valve 80 to the rice cooker Drop it. At this time, by controlling the pen drive unit 40 to rotate the pen 42 to filter by-products generated during the semi-process.

The by-product filtered rice is dropped into the rice cooker, water is supplied to the water supply tank 50 by controlling the magnetic valve 80, and then to heat the heater 60 to perform the cooking function.

In addition, when a warm command is input, the heater unit 60 is controlled to perform a warm function, and is displayed on the display unit 16.

On the other hand, by displaying the current state through the display unit 16 during each process so that the user can recognize the current state.

In particular, the control unit 10 is connected to a home server 70 in the home and connected to a terminal such as a PC, a mobile phone, and a PDA through the network 72 so that the user can remotely control through home networking. .

Next, a second embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The second embodiment according to the present invention further includes a delicacy storage unit 24 for storing delicacies such as functional rice, beans, crude rice, and brown rice in the first embodiment, wherein the functional rice or delicacy is semi-bubble ( 20) further freely provided with a magnetic valve 80 to adjust the amount thereof.

Therefore, it is possible to put together the rice and functional rice or delicacy to cook.

Finally, the cooking process using the electric rice cooker will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

For reference, the electric rice cooker of the present invention may be directly controlled through the key input unit 14, or may be remotely controlled through a home network. Here, the electric rice cooker cooking process in the case of selecting a cooking function from a remote place through a home network will be described. do.

First, the user remotely connected to the home server 70 through the network 72 using the terminal 74, and then select the cooking function and cooking amount of rice or rice and delicacy in the electric rice cooker (S10) do.

As such, when the cooking function of the electric rice cooker is selected by the user, the rice and the delicacies that are already stored in the rice storage unit 22 and the delicacy storage unit 24 (S22 and S24) are opened while the magnetic valve 80 is opened. Free fall to the part 20, in this case is adjusted by the amount corresponding to the preset cooking amount by the magnetic valve (80).

The rice or rice and delicacies dropped into the semi-bubble 20 is semi-S30 through the netting and taste process while the rotary blade inside the semibubble 20 rotates at a predetermined time and speed, and in the semibubble 20 Semi-rice and delicacy are freely dropped into the rice cooker while the magnetic valve 80 is opened, at this time the pen drive unit 40 drives the pen 40 (S40) to filter out the by-products generated during the semi-process (S42). .

As such, the by-product filtered rice and delicacies are dropped into the rice cooker, and water is supplied from the water tank 50, which is as much as water corresponding to the amount of cooking water set in the controller 10 through the magnetic valve 80. By controlling, the amount of water is adjusted.

When the delicacy, rice, and water are supplied to the rice cooker, the trunk heater 62, the lid heater 64, and the hot plate heater 66 of the heater 60 are driven to heat and cook after a certain time has elapsed. Is completed, and then it switches to the keep warm function.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and can be implemented in various modifications within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

For example, the rice storage unit or the delicacy storage unit has been described in the above embodiment to be installed on the top of the product, but is not limited to this, can be installed in the bottom of the product can be supplied in a pumping manner.

In addition, in the water supply structure, a water supply tank having a water purification function may be installed in the product itself, or may be directly connected to the water supply. This may be variously applied depending on the installation environment.

According to the present invention configured as described above, the entire process of storing, semi-cooking, and keeping the rice can be automatically operated without requiring the labor of the user, and by controlling the remote site through home networking, It does not require any labor, and there is no need to provide a separate water supply and drainage structure in the rice cooker can reduce the manufacturing cost.

By using home networking, you can cook at a desired time even at a remote location, so you can use the electric cooker more conveniently and increase its utility value.

Claims (6)

Semi-finished portion having a rotary blade rotated by a motor to semi-semble the rice through friction between the rotary blade and the rice according to the motor drive, and to supply to the inner cylinder of the rice cooker; A rice storage unit installed at an upper portion of the semi portion to store rice and supplying rice to the semi portion; A water supply tank connected to the rice cooker to supply water to the inner cylinder of the rice cooker; A heater unit for heating or cooking rice by supplying heat to the inside of the cooker; And When the user's control command is input, after rotating the rotary blades installed inside the semi-section through the motor to semi-prepared rice, to supply to the inner cylinder of the rice cooker, the water into the inner cylinder of the rice cooker through the water tank Fully automatic electric rice cooker comprising a control unit for supplying or cooking rice to warm through the heater. The method of claim 1, A pen installed in the lower part of the semi part, and a pen driving part for rotating the pen, and blowing air from the semi part to the rice which is supplied to the rice cooker in a free fall manner to remove the by-product of the rice generated in the semi part. On the other hand, one side of the pen is equipped with a strainer to filter the by-product separated by the pen characterized in that the automatic electric rice cooker. The automatic rice cooker according to claim 1, further comprising a delicacy storage unit installed on the semi-section and storing functional rice or delicacy therein to supply the functional rice or delicacy to the semi-section. delete The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, A magnetic valve is placed between the rice storage part or the food storage part and the semi part, the semi part and the rice container, and the water supply tank and the rice container, to control the supply of the rice, the delicacy, and the water by the magnetic valve. Fully automatic rice cooker. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The control unit is connected to the home server is connected to the terminal via a network, the remote control is possible, or a full-automatic rice cooker, characterized in that directly operable through the key input unit.

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