CN107157358B

CN107157358B - Food processor

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Publication number: CN107157358B
Application number: CN201710468734.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王跃; 李忠华; 魏喜明; 高弘錫; 马新强
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-06-20
Filing date: 2017-06-20
Publication date: 2023-06-16
Anticipated expiration: 2037-06-20
Also published as: CN107157358A

Abstract

The invention provides a cooking machine, comprising: the cup body, the bottom of the cup body has cutter head assemblies, there are stirring knife assemblies on the cutter head assemblies; the base is matched with the cup body, and is provided with a mounting groove; the vibration isolator is arranged on the mounting groove, is of an annular hollow structure, is matched with the cutterhead assembly, and is provided with a flange at one end; the motor component is arranged on the base and is connected with the stirring cutter component; after the cup body is arranged on the base, the vibration isolator is positioned between the cutter head assembly and the base. According to the cooking machine provided by the invention, the vibration isolator with the flanging is arranged on the mounting groove, so that the vibration and noise of the whole machine during working are reduced, and meanwhile, the vibration isolator also has good sealing and sound insulation effects on the joint of the cup body and the base, so that the vibration and noise level is further reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

Description

Food processor

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a food processor.

Background

Along with the improvement of social progress and the improvement of the daily living standard of people, the food mixer and the food processor are increasingly widely applied and popularized to thousands of households. Such food processor products generally consist of a lower base and an upper stirring cup. The base and stirring cup are in contact with each other and are connected by some kind of connection means to transmit torque.

In order to achieve better stirring and crushing effects on food, the rotating speed of a general stirring food processor is very high, so that the vibration noise at the joint between the base and the stirring cup is very high, and bad product experience is brought to a user.

The base and the stirring cup of the general stirring food processor are in buckle rigid connection and have no buffering and vibration reducing structure. Some broken food machines are simply provided with shock pads. The base of the stirring cooking machine is in fastening rigid connection with the stirring cup, and the stirring cooking machine is free of vibration damping pads and other vibration damping buffer structures, is easy to transfer vibration of the base, and can generate vibration between the stirring cup and the base due to process or manufacturing deviation. The damping pad of broken wall cooking machine is located the base top, and the during operation is in the bottom of stirring cup completely, only can reduce the vertical vibration between stirring cup and the base, can not reduce stirring cup horizontal direction's vibration, and the damping noise reduction effect is less.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, an embodiment of a first aspect of the present invention provides a food processor.

In view of this, according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a food processor, including: the cup body, the bottom of the cup body has cutter head assemblies, there are stirring knife assemblies on the cutter head assemblies; the base is matched with the cup body, and is provided with a mounting groove; the vibration isolator is arranged on the mounting groove, is of an annular hollow structure, is matched with the cutterhead assembly, and is provided with a flange at one end; the motor component is arranged on the base and is connected with the stirring cutter component; after the cup body is arranged on the base, the vibration isolator is positioned between the cutter head assembly and the base.

According to the cooking machine provided by the invention, the vibration isolation pad with the flange is arranged on the mounting groove, the hollow part of the vibration isolation pad is used for absorbing the vibration transmission in the horizontal direction between the cup body and the base, and the flange is used for absorbing the vibration transmission in the vertical direction between the cup body and the base, so that the vibration and the noise of the whole machine during working are reduced, and meanwhile, the vibration isolation pad also has good sealing and sound insulation effects on the joint of the cup body and the base, so that the vibration and the noise level are further reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

In addition, the food processor in the above embodiment provided by the invention may further have the following additional technical features:

in the above technical solution, preferably, the mounting groove is provided with a positioning groove; the vibration isolation pad is provided with a positioning protrusion which is matched with the positioning groove.

In this technical scheme, through fixed isolator of constant head tank and the bellied cooperation of location, not only can play the positioning action to the isolator like this, can guarantee simultaneously that the isolator can with mounting groove zonulae occludens, avoid droing.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the number of the positioning slots is three or four, and each positioning slot is uniformly arranged on the mounting slot; the number of the positioning bulges is three or four, and each positioning bulge is uniformly arranged on the vibration isolation pad.

In the technical scheme, the number of the positioning grooves and the positioning protrusions is three or four, and if the number of the positioning grooves and the positioning protrusions is three, the adjacent positioning grooves and the positioning protrusions can be arranged at an interval of 120 degrees; if the number is four, then adjacent constant head tank and location protruding can be separated by 90 setting, through setting up a plurality of constant head tanks and location protruding further guarantee the connection quality and the stability of both.

In any of the above-described aspects, preferably, an end portion of the positioning boss is provided with a chamfer.

In this technical scheme, the bellied tip in location is provided with the chamfer, and the protruding mounting of being convenient for is in the constant head tank like this to this installation effectiveness that promotes the vibration isolator, and improve holistic production efficiency.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the mounting groove is provided with a positioning column; the vibration isolation pad is provided with a positioning hole which is matched with the positioning column.

In this technical scheme, the vibration isolator passes through the cooperation mode of locating hole and reference column and installs on the mounting groove, and wherein the reference column can be a plurality of, like three or four to evenly set up in the mounting groove, the shape of reference column can be cylinder or prism simultaneously, and diameter or side can be equal to or slightly greater than the aperture of locating hole, can make vibration isolator and mounting groove realize interference fit like this and be connected, guarantees the zonulae occludens between the two, avoids the vibration isolator to drop.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the base is further provided with a buckle, and the buckle is used for fixing the vibration isolation pad located in the mounting groove.

In this technical scheme, through setting up the vibration isolator of buckle fixed mounting on the mounting groove to this stability that promotes vibration isolator installation also can conveniently take off the vibration isolator through adjusting the buckle simultaneously, so both the installation of vibration isolator of being convenient for, also the dismantlement and the cleaning maintenance of vibration isolator of being convenient for.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the cutterhead assembly is a cylindrical cutterhead assembly, and the diameter of the outer wall surface of the cutterhead assembly is greater than or equal to the diameter of the inner wall surface of the vibration isolation pad.

In this technical scheme, the diameter of the outer wall surface of blade disc subassembly is greater than or equal to the diameter of isolator inner wall surface makes the blade disc subassembly can realize interference fit between vibration isolator to this guarantees that blade disc subassembly and cup can be closely be connected with vibration isolator and base after the installation, realizes better function of making an uproar falls in the vibration damping.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the vibration isolator is a low-hardness high-damping vibration isolator.

In this technical scheme, through adopting low rigidity high damping isolator for the isolator can absorb the vibration of cup better, reduces the noise when the device operates, promotes user's use and experiences.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the vibration isolator is a rubber vibration isolator.

In the technical scheme, the vibration isolator made of the rubber material can be optimized, so that vibration can be absorbed, noise can be reduced, and meanwhile, the cost of the rubber material is low and the service life is long.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the method further includes: the upper coupler is connected with the stirring blade assembly; the lower coupler is connected with the motor assembly and is matched with the upper coupler; wherein, install the cup on the base back lower shaft coupling and be connected with last shaft coupling, the motor assembly drives stirring sword subassembly motion through lower shaft coupling and last shaft coupling after the cooking machine starts.

In the technical scheme, the motor component is connected with the stirring cutter component through the cooperation of the upper coupler and the lower coupler, and the motor in the motor component drives the stirring cutter component to do high-speed rotary motion, so that food in the cup body is crushed and stirred.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the bottom of the cup body is provided with a first thread; the cutter head assembly is provided with a second thread which is matched with the first thread.

In this technical scheme, install the blade disc subassembly through the cooperation of screw thread in the bottom of cup, can enough guarantee both stable connections like this, be convenient for the dismantlement, the washing and the maintenance of blade disc subassembly simultaneously.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the method further includes: foot pad, set up in the bottom of base.

In this technical scheme, the bottom of base is provided with the callus on the sole, absorbs the vibration of cooking machine lower part base when the work through setting up soft callus on the sole, reduces the collision and the impact between base and the contact surface, and then further reduces the noise of complete machine during operation, and the callus on the sole can make whole horizontal calibration simultaneously, avoids producing great friction and leads to too fast loss and the noise of part because of organism slope and relevant axle or part when leading to motor assembly motion.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processor is a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.

In this technical scheme, broken wall machine or mixer in all have the part of high-speed motion generally, can all produce great noise at the during operation, through adopting foretell relevant structure and setting, can reduce vibration (vertical direction and horizontal direction) and the noise of whole at the during operation effectively, promote user's use experience.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the invention will become apparent and may be better understood from the following description of embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the structure of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of A-A of the structure shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the cup in the configuration of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a left side view of the structure shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 10 is a schematic cross-sectional view of B-B in the structure of FIG. 9;

figure 11 is a schematic view of the vibration isolator of the structure of figure 1;

FIG. 12 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 11;

FIG. 14 is a schematic cross-sectional view of C-C of the structure of FIG. 13;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of the base in the configuration of FIG. 1;

FIG. 16 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 15;

FIG. 17 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 15;

fig. 18 is a schematic cross-sectional view of D-D in the structure shown in fig. 17.

The correspondence between the reference numerals and the component names in fig. 1 to 18 is:

1 a cooking machine, 102 a cup cover assembly, 104 a switch assembly, 106 a heat dissipation air duct, 108 an upper coupling, 110 a lower coupling, 12 a cup body and 122 a cutter head assembly, 124 stirring blade assembly, 14 base, 142 mounting groove, 1422 positioning groove, 144 foot pad, 16 vibration isolator, 162 flange, 164 positioning projection, 18 motor assembly.

Detailed Description

In order that the above-recited objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings and appended detailed description. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments of the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those described herein, and therefore the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A food processor according to some embodiments of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 18.

As shown in fig. 1 to 18, the present invention provides a food processor 1 including: the cup body 12, the bottom of the cup body 12 is provided with a cutter head assembly 122, and the cutter head assembly 122 is provided with a stirring cutter assembly 124; the base 14, the base 14 is adapted to the cup 12, and the base 14 is provided with a mounting groove 142; the vibration isolator 16 is arranged on the mounting groove 142, the vibration isolator 16 is of an annular hollow structure, the vibration isolator 16 is matched with the cutterhead assembly 122, and a flange 162 is arranged at one end of the vibration isolator 16; the motor assembly 18 is arranged on the base 14, and the motor assembly 18 is connected with the stirring blade assembly 124; wherein vibration isolator 16 is positioned between cutterhead assembly 122 and base 14 after cup 12 is mounted on base 14.

According to the cooking machine 1 provided by the invention, the vibration isolation pad 16 with the flange 162 is arranged on the mounting groove 142, the hollow part of the vibration isolation pad 16 is utilized to absorb the vibration transmission in the horizontal direction between the cup body 12 and the base 14, and meanwhile, the flange 162 is utilized to absorb the vibration transmission in the vertical direction between the cup body 12 and the base 14, so that the vibration and noise of the whole machine during working are reduced, and meanwhile, the vibration isolation pad 16 also has good sealing and sound insulation effects on the joint of the cup body 12 and the base 14, so that the vibration and noise level is further reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved. After experimental tests, the food processor 1 can reduce the overall noise by about 2dB compared with the food processor 1 without the vibration isolator 16 structure, and the base frequency noise band which directly reflects the vibration quantity is reduced by more than 5dB.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, as shown in fig. 11 to 18, a positioning groove 1422 is provided on the mounting groove 142; the vibration isolator 16 is provided with a positioning protrusion 164, and the positioning protrusion 164 is matched with a positioning groove 1422.

In this embodiment, the positioning groove 1422 and the positioning protrusion 164 are matched to fix the vibration isolator 16, so that not only can the positioning function of the vibration isolator 16 be achieved, but also the vibration isolator 16 can be ensured to be tightly connected with the mounting groove 142, and falling off is avoided.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, as shown in fig. 11 and 15, the number of the positioning grooves 1422 is three or four, and each positioning groove 1422 is uniformly disposed on the mounting groove 142; the number of the positioning projections 164 is three or four, and each positioning projection 164 is uniformly provided on the vibration isolator 16.

In this embodiment, the number of the positioning grooves 1422 and the positioning projections 164 is three or four, and if the number is three, the adjacent positioning grooves 1422 and positioning projections 164 may be disposed at intervals of 120 °; if the number is four, the adjacent positioning grooves 1422 and positioning projections 164 can be arranged at intervals of 90 °, and the connection quality and stability of the positioning grooves 1422 and the positioning projections 164 are further ensured by arranging a plurality of positioning grooves 1422 and positioning projections 164.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the end of the positioning protrusion 164 is preferably provided with a chamfer.

In this embodiment, the end of the positioning projection 164 is provided with a chamfer, which facilitates the installation of the positioning projection 164 into the positioning groove 1422, thereby improving the installation efficiency of the vibration isolator 16 and the overall production efficiency.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, the mounting groove 142 is provided with a positioning column thereon; the vibration isolator 16 is provided with a positioning hole which is matched with the positioning column.

In this embodiment, the vibration isolation pad 16 is mounted on the mounting groove 142 through the matching manner of the positioning holes and the positioning columns, wherein the positioning columns can be multiple, such as three or four, and are uniformly arranged in the mounting groove 142, meanwhile, the shape of the positioning columns can be a cylinder or a prism, and the diameter or the side length can be equal to or slightly larger than the aperture of the positioning holes, so that the vibration isolation pad 16 and the mounting groove 142 can be connected in an interference fit manner, tight connection between the vibration isolation pad 16 and the mounting groove is ensured, and the vibration isolation pad 16 is prevented from falling off.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a catch is preferably also provided on the base 14 for securing the vibration isolator 16 within the mounting slot 142.

In this embodiment, the vibration isolator 16 is fixedly installed on the installation groove 142 by the arrangement of the buckle, so that the installation stability of the vibration isolator 16 is improved, and meanwhile, the vibration isolator 16 can be conveniently removed by adjusting the buckle, so that the installation of the vibration isolator 16 is facilitated, and the disassembly, cleaning and maintenance of the vibration isolator 16 are also facilitated.

In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 to 8, the cutterhead assembly 122 is preferably a cylindrical cutterhead assembly 122, and the diameter of the outer wall surface of the cutterhead assembly 122 is equal to or greater than the diameter of the inner wall surface of the vibration isolator 16.

In this embodiment, the diameter of the outer wall surface of the cutterhead assembly 122 is greater than or equal to the diameter of the inner wall surface of the vibration isolation pad 16, so that interference fit between the cutterhead assembly 122 and the vibration isolation pad 16 can be achieved, and therefore the cutterhead assembly 122 and the cup body 12 can be tightly connected with the vibration isolation pad 16 and the base 14 after being mounted, and better vibration and noise reduction functions are achieved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the vibration isolator 16 is preferably a low stiffness, high damping vibration isolator 16.

In this embodiment, by adopting the low-hardness high-damping vibration isolator 16, the vibration isolator 16 can better absorb the vibration of the cup 12, reduce the noise during the operation of the device, and improve the use experience of the user.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the vibration isolator 16 is preferably a rubber vibration isolator 16.

In this embodiment, the vibration isolator 16 made of a rubber material may be preferable, and can absorb vibration and reduce noise, while the rubber material is low in cost and long in service life.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, as shown in fig. 5, further comprising: an upper coupling 108, the upper coupling 108 being connected to the blending blade assembly 124; the lower coupling 110, the lower coupling 110 is connected with the motor assembly 18, the lower coupling 110 is adapted with the upper coupling 108; wherein, install cup 12 on base 14 back lower shaft coupling 110 and be connected with last shaft coupling 108, the motor assembly 18 passes through lower shaft coupling 110 and last shaft coupling 108 and drives stirring sword subassembly 124 motion after cooking machine 1 starts.

In this embodiment, the motor assembly 18 is coupled to the blender blade assembly 124 by the cooperation of the upper coupling 108 and the lower coupling 110, and the blender blade assembly 124 is driven to rotate at a high speed by the motor in the motor assembly 18 to grind and blend the foodstuff within the cup body 12.

In one embodiment of the invention, the bottom of the cup 12 is preferably provided with a first thread; the cutterhead assembly 122 is provided with a second thread, and the second thread is matched with the first thread.

In this embodiment, the cutter head assembly 122 is mounted on the bottom of the cup 12 by the screw thread, so that stable connection of the cutter head assembly 122 and the cup can be ensured, and disassembly, cleaning and maintenance of the cutter head assembly 122 are facilitated.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, as shown in fig. 1, further includes: foot pad 144 is disposed at the bottom of base 14.

In this embodiment, the bottom of base 14 is provided with callus on the sole 144, absorbs the vibration of cooking machine 1 lower part base 14 when the work through setting up soft callus on the sole 144, reduces the collision and the impact between base 14 and the contact surface, and then further reduces the noise of complete machine during operation, and the callus on the sole 144 can make whole horizontal alignment simultaneously, avoids producing great friction and the too fast loss and the noise that lead to the part because of the organism slope leads to motor assembly 18 motion time relevant axle or part.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the food processor 1 is preferably a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.

In this embodiment, broken wall machine or mixer in general all have the part of high-speed motion, can all produce great noise at the during operation, through adopting foretell relevant structure and setting, can reduce vibration (vertical direction and horizontal direction) and the noise of whole at the during operation effectively, promote user's use experience.

In one embodiment of the present invention, preferably, as shown in fig. 1 and 5, the food processor 1 further includes: a cap assembly 102 for opening and closing the cup 12; a switch assembly 104 for starting or closing the food processor 1; the heat dissipation air duct 106 uses air flow to guide and dissipate heat and cool the motor assembly 18.

According to the food processor 1 provided by the invention, the stirring blade assembly 124 is driven to rotate at a high speed through the motor assembly 18, so that food in the cup body is crushed and stirred. The common food processor has the advantages that due to the high rotating speed of the motor, unbalanced load in the stirring cup and the like, vibration noise caused by the motor is large, the noise can radiate out of the food processor through the shell to influence the use experience of a user, meanwhile, a serious heating phenomenon exists in the motor assembly during working, heat must be dissipated through the heat dissipation fan, and the fan in the motor assembly 18 is positioned at the lower part of the motor assembly 18, so that the heat dissipation efficiency is improved; at the same time, the connection between the motor assembly 18 and the base 14 can be provided with a vibration damping structure, so that vibration and noise during operation of the device can be further reduced.

In the present invention, the term "plurality" means two or more, unless explicitly defined otherwise. The terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; "coupled" may be directly coupled or indirectly coupled through intermediaries. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In the description of the present specification, the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "particular embodiments," and the like, mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, but various modifications and variations can be made to the present invention by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A cooking machine, characterized by comprising:

the cup body, the bottom of the cup body is provided with a cutter head assembly, and the cutter head assembly is provided with a stirring cutter assembly;

the base is matched with the cup body, and a mounting groove is formed in the base;

the vibration isolator is arranged on the mounting groove, is of an annular hollow structure, is matched with the cutterhead assembly, and is provided with a flanging at one end;

the motor component is arranged on the base and is connected with the stirring knife component;

wherein, after the cup body is arranged on the base, the vibration isolation pad is positioned between the cutterhead assembly and the base;

a positioning groove is formed in the mounting groove;

the vibration isolation pad is provided with a positioning protrusion which is matched with the positioning groove; or (b)

A positioning column is arranged on the mounting groove;

the vibration isolation pad is provided with a positioning hole which is matched with the positioning column; or (b)

The base is also provided with a buckle, and the buckle is used for fixing the vibration isolation pad positioned in the mounting groove.

2. The food processor according to claim 1, wherein,

the number of the positioning grooves is three or four, and each positioning groove is uniformly arranged on the mounting groove;

the number of the positioning protrusions is three or four, and the positioning protrusions are uniformly arranged on the vibration isolation pad.

3. The food processor according to claim 1, wherein,

the end part of the positioning bulge is provided with a chamfer.

4. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the cutter head assembly is a cylindrical cutter head assembly, and the diameter of the outer wall surface of the cutter head assembly is larger than or equal to the diameter of the inner wall surface of the vibration isolation pad.

5. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the vibration isolation pad is a low-hardness high-damping vibration isolation pad.

6. The food processor according to claim 5, wherein,

the vibration isolator is a rubber vibration isolator.

7. The food processor according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:

the upper coupler is connected with the stirring blade assembly;

the lower coupler is connected with the motor assembly and is matched with the upper coupler;

the cup body is arranged on the base, the lower coupler is connected with the upper coupler, and the motor assembly drives the stirring knife assembly to move through the lower coupler and the upper coupler after the food processor is started.

8. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the bottom of the cup body is provided with a first thread;

the cutter head assembly is provided with a second thread, and the second thread is matched with the first thread.

9. The food processor according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:

and the foot pad is arranged at the bottom of the base.

10. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the food processor is a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.