CN107773068B

CN107773068B - food processor

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Publication number: CN107773068B
Application number: CN201610755935.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱雷; 徐建飞; 陈炜杰; 曾祥和; 肖力; 唐燕; 佘艳; 钱云飞
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Consumer Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Consumer Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2016-08-29
Filing date: 2016-08-29
Publication date: 2023-09-01
Anticipated expiration: 2036-08-29
Also published as: CN107773068A

Abstract

The invention discloses a food processor, which comprises a host machine and a stirring cup assembly arranged on the host machine, wherein the host machine is provided with a mounting groove, the stirring cup assembly comprises a stirring cup, the lower end of the stirring cup is inserted into the mounting groove, a plurality of limiting units are arranged on the inner side wall of the mounting groove at intervals in the circumferential direction, a socket is formed between two adjacent limiting units, a plurality of buckles are arranged on the outer side wall of the lower end of the stirring cup at intervals, and the stirring cup rotates clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove to drive the buckles to be in clamped connection with one of the two adjacent limiting units. The assembly process of the food processor is simple and convenient.

Description

Food processor

Technical Field

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

Background

Food processors include a variety of machines that use a motor to drive a stirring blade to crush and squeeze food. Taking the broken food machine as an example, the rotating speed of the motor can reach more than 25000 r/min, so that the stirring cutter driven by the motor can instantly break the cell walls of vegetables and fruits, and can effectively extract plant biochemical elements, thereby being a preferred household appliance for modern household health care and preservation.

However, the stirring cup assembly of the existing food processor is mostly fixed on the machine base in a rotary fastening manner, and the stirring cup assembly is mostly screwed into the machine base along one direction (such as the clockwise direction), so that the assembly of the stirring cup assembly on the machine base is inconvenient in the use process.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a food processor, which aims to improve the convenience of assembling a stirring cup of the food processor on a host machine.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the food processor provided by the invention comprises a main machine and a stirring cup assembly arranged on the main machine, wherein the main machine is provided with a mounting groove, the stirring cup assembly comprises a stirring cup, the lower end of the stirring cup is inserted into the mounting groove, a plurality of limiting units are circumferentially arranged at intervals on the inner side wall of the mounting groove, a socket is formed between two adjacent limiting units, a plurality of buckles are arranged on the outer side wall of the lower end of the stirring cup at intervals, each buckle penetrates through the socket, and the stirring cup rotates clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove to drive the buckle to be in clamping connection with one of the two adjacent limiting units.

Preferably, the plurality of limiting units are positioned on the same horizontal plane and are circumferentially and uniformly arranged at intervals on the inner wall of the mounting groove.

Preferably, each limiting unit forms a U-shaped buckle, and openings of two adjacent U-shaped buckles are horizontally arranged in opposite directions, and when the stirring cup is installed on the host machine, the buckle is inserted into one U-shaped buckle of the two adjacent U-shaped buckles.

Preferably, each limiting unit comprises a baffle plate protruding from the inner wall of the mounting groove, a blocking rib is connected to the lower surface of the baffle plate, a socket is formed between two adjacent baffle plates, and when the stirring cup is mounted on the host machine, the buckle abuts against the baffle plate and the blocking rib which are connected.

Preferably, a bearing table is further formed below the plane where the baffle is located on the inner wall of the mounting groove, the bearing table is connected with the lower end of the blocking rib, two adjacent baffles, two adjacent blocking ribs and the bearing table enclose a buckling groove, and when the stirring cup is mounted on the host, the buckling groove clamps the buckle on one side.

Preferably, the length of the buckle is equal to the length of the socket, and the length of the socket is greater than one fourth of the length of the buckle slot and less than one half of the length of the buckle slot.

Preferably, the two ends of the baffle are provided with first guiding inclined planes, and the two ends of the second buckle are provided with second guiding inclined planes matched with the first guiding inclined planes.

Preferably, a clamping groove is further formed between the buckle and the stirring cup main body, and when the stirring cup is installed on the host machine, the baffle is inserted into the clamping groove.

Preferably, the stirring cup assembly further comprises a cup seat supported between the stirring cup and the main machine, a stirring knife assembly partially positioned in the stirring cup and a heating device for heating the stirring cup, and a motor for driving the stirring knife assembly is arranged in the main machine.

Preferably, the heating device comprises a magnetic conduction disc arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup and a coil disc arranged in the cup seat, and the coil disc is arranged opposite to the magnetic conduction disc; or the heating component comprises a heat conducting disc arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup and an electric heating tube or an electric heating film arranged at the bottom of the heat conducting disc.

Preferably, the food processor comprises a broken food processor, a juice extractor, a soybean milk machine and a stirrer.

According to the technical scheme, the plurality of limiting units are circumferentially arranged at intervals on the inner wall of the mounting groove of the main machine, the sockets are formed between two adjacent limiting units, the buckle arranged at the lower end of the stirring cup penetrates through the sockets, the stirring cup can rotate clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove in the process of assembling the stirring cup assembly on the main machine, the buckle is buckled with one of the two adjacent limiting units, and therefore the stirring cup assembly can be mounted on the main machine.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to the structures shown in these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of a food processor according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view at A-A in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure shown at B in FIG. 2;

fig. 4 is an exploded view of the food processor of fig. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an exemplary structure of a blender cup assembly of the food processor of FIG. 1;

fig. 6 is a schematic front view of an embodiment of a main machine of the food processor in fig. 1;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken at C-C of FIG. 6;

fig. 8 is a schematic perspective view of the host in fig. 6.

Reference numerals illustrate:

reference numerals	Name of the name	Reference numerals	Name of the name
				100	Food processor	17	Shell body
10	Host machine	171	Damping foot pad
				11	Mounting groove	19	Control panel
13	Limiting unit	30	Stirring cup assembly
				131	Baffle plate	31	Stirring cup
131a	First guiding inclined plane	311	Buckle
				133	Barrier rib	311a	Second guiding inclined plane
135	Socket	313	Clamping groove
				137	Bearing table	33	Cup holder
139	Buckle groove	35	Stirring knife assembly
				15	Motor with a motor housing	37	Cup cover assembly

The achievement of the objects, functional features and advantages of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in conjunction with the embodiments.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiments of the present invention are merely used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement, etc. between the components in a particular posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the particular posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.

In the present invention, unless specifically stated and limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "affixed," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "affixed" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral body; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly, through intermediaries, or both, may be in communication with each other or in interaction with each other, unless expressly defined otherwise. 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.

Furthermore, descriptions such as those referred to as "first," "second," and the like, are provided for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implying an order of magnitude of the indicated technical features in the present disclosure. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, the technical solutions of the embodiments may be combined with each other, but it is necessary to base that the technical solutions can be realized by those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, the combination of the technical solutions should be considered to be absent and not within the scope of protection claimed in the present invention.

The invention provides a food processor 100.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4 in combination, in an embodiment of the invention, the food processor 100 includes a main machine 10 and a stirring cup assembly 30 disposed on the main machine 10, the stirring cup assembly 30 includes a stirring cup 31, the main machine 10 is provided with a mounting groove 11, the lower end of the stirring cup 31 is inserted into the mounting groove 11, a plurality of limiting units 13 are circumferentially spaced on the inner side wall of the mounting groove 11, a socket 135 (refer to fig. 8) is formed between two adjacent limiting units 13, a plurality of buckles 311 are spaced on the outer side wall of the lower end of the stirring cup 31, each buckle 311 is inserted into the limiting space through the socket 135, and the stirring cup 31 rotates clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove 11 to drive the buckle 311 to be engaged with one of the two adjacent limiting units 13.

The main machine 10 comprises a shell 17, a mounting groove 11 is formed at the upper end of the shell 17, an opening is formed at the upper end of the mounting groove 11, and in the use process of the food processor 100, the stirring cup 31 in the stirring cup assembly 30 can be vertically and downwardly inserted into the mounting groove 11, so that preliminary fixing of the stirring cup 31 on the main machine 10 is realized. It will be appreciated that the mounting groove 11 of this embodiment is deep enough to support the stirring cup 31. The limiting unit 13 may be a fixed structure formed on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11, or may be a part mounted on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11, in other words, the limiting unit 13 may be integrally formed with the housing 17 in the injection molding process of the host 10, or may be mounted on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11 after the injection molding process of the housing 17 of the host 10. Wherein the insertion opening 135 is a gap between two adjacent limiting units 13, and in the process of inserting the stirring cup 31 into the mounting groove 11, the fastener 311 on the side wall of the stirring cup 31 passes through the insertion opening 135 and enters a limiting space surrounded by two adjacent limiting units 13.

According to the technical scheme, the plurality of limiting units 13 are circumferentially arranged at intervals on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11 of the main machine 10, limiting spaces are formed by surrounding two adjacent limiting units 13, the buckle 311 arranged at the lower end of the stirring cup 31 is contained in the limiting spaces, the stirring cup 31 can rotate clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove 11 in the process of assembling the main machine 10, the buckle 311 is buckled with one of the two adjacent limiting units 13, and therefore the installation of the stirring cup assembly 30 on the main machine 10 can be realized.

Further, the plurality of limiting units 13 are located at the same horizontal plane and are circumferentially and uniformly arranged at intervals on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11. In this embodiment, the plurality of limiting units 13 are disposed on the same horizontal plane and are disposed at equal intervals, so that the lower portion of the stirring cup 31 is stressed uniformly, and the overall structure is relatively stable during the use of the food processor 100.

The number of the limiting units 13 in this embodiment is 4, and the 4 limiting units are uniformly spaced at 90 ° angles, where the number of the sockets 135 is also 4 correspondingly, and in other embodiments, the number of the limiting segments 13 may be 2. It should be understood that the plurality of limiting units 13 may not be coplanar, the distance between one part of the plurality of limiting units 13 and the notch of the mounting groove 11 may be unequal to the distance between the other part of the plurality of limiting units 13 and the notch of the mounting groove 11, so as to form a certain gradient, it should be noted that, under the condition that the plurality of limiting units 13 are not on the same horizontal plane, a structure for limiting one buckle 311 may be formed by two adjacent limiting units 13, the limiting units 13 on the same horizontal plane and arranged in pairs may be symmetrically arranged in the radial direction of the mounting groove 11, and correspondingly, the plurality of buckles 311 are also symmetrically arranged in the gradient at the lower end of the stirring cup 31.

In order to reduce the cost of the food processor and facilitate the production of the food processor, the present embodiment preferably adopts a scheme in which the plurality of stopper units 13 are at the same level, and the following structural description is made with a scheme in which the plurality of stopper units 13 are at the same level.

The buckle 311 of the present invention is in a long strip shape, and the limiting units 13 may have various structures, in some embodiments, each limiting unit 13 may include a U-shaped buckle (not shown), and the openings of two adjacent U-shaped buckles are horizontally disposed opposite to each other to enclose a limiting space, and when the stirring cup 31 is installed on the host 10, the buckle 311 is inserted into one of the two adjacent U-shaped buckles.

In this embodiment, the two U-shaped buckles are arranged at intervals, and the openings of the two U-shaped buckles are arranged in opposite directions to form a limiting space, after the buckle 311 enters the limiting space through the socket 135 between the two U-shaped buckles, in the process that the stirring cup 31 is mounted on the host 10, the stirring cup 31 rotates clockwise or anticlockwise in the mounting groove 11, so that the buckle 311 is driven to be inserted into one of the U-shaped buckles to fix the stirring cup 31 on the host 10, and the whole structure is simple and stable.

In other embodiments, each limiting unit 13 may further include a baffle plate 131 protruding from an inner wall of the mounting groove 11, and the lower surface of the baffle plate 131 is connected with a blocking rib 133, two adjacent baffle plates 131 and two blocking ribs 133 enclose a limiting space, the socket 135 is formed between two adjacent baffle plates 131, and when the stirring cup 31 is mounted on the host 10, the buckle 311 abuts against the baffle plate 131 and the blocking rib 133 with one side connected.

After the stirring cup 31 of this embodiment is inserted into the mounting groove 11, the upper surface of the buckle 311 just abuts against the lower surface of the baffle 131, the buckle 311 and the baffle 131 form clearance fit, when the stirring cup 31 drives the buckle 311 to rotate clockwise or anticlockwise in the limiting space, the buckle 311 slides along the lower surface of the baffle 131, when the end part of the buckle 311 touches one side of the blocking rib 133, the stirring cup 31 is mounted in place on the host 10, the whole mounting process is simple, the rotating direction is not required to be judged, and the mounting structure is firm.

Further, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 7, a supporting table 137 is further formed below the plane of the baffle 131 on the inner wall of the mounting groove 11, and the supporting table 137 is connected to the lower end of the blocking rib 133, and two adjacent baffle plates 131, two adjacent blocking ribs 133 and the supporting table 137 enclose a fastening groove 139, and when the stirring cup 31 is mounted on the host 10, one side of the fastening groove 139 clamps the fastening buckle 311.

In this embodiment, the inner wall of the mounting groove 11 forms a structure of the buckling groove 139, when the stirring cup 31 is mounted on the host 10, the buckle 311 extends into the buckling groove 139 on one side, and the bearing table 137 and the baffle 131 respectively limit and clamp the upper and lower sides of the buckle 311, so that the stirring cup 31 is not easy to shake in the mounting groove 11, and the buckling connection structure is more stable.

In order to further improve the stability of the mounting structure of the stirring cup 31 and the host 10, the length of the socket 135 is set to be greater than one fourth of the length of the slot 139 and less than one half of the length of the slot 139 on the basis that the length of the buckle 311 is equivalent to the length of the socket 135.

Because the socket 135 is formed in the gap between two adjacent baffles 131, the socket 135 is substantially located in the middle of the buckling groove 139, and the length of the buckle 311 is equal to the length of the socket 135, in this embodiment, the length of the socket 135 is greater than one fourth of the length of the buckling groove 139 and less than one half of the length of the buckling groove 139, so that the matching length of the buckle 311 and the clamping groove 313 is at least one fourth of the length of the whole buckling groove 139, so that the connection structure between the stirring cup 31 and the buckle 311 of the host 10 is high in strength and better in overall stability.

Referring to fig. 5 and 7 in combination, in order to facilitate insertion of the buckle 311 into the buckle slot 139, in this embodiment, a first guiding inclined plane 131a is disposed at two ends of the baffle 131, and a second guiding inclined plane 311a matching with the first guiding inclined plane 131a is disposed at two ends of the second buckle 311.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3 in combination, in this embodiment, on the basis of realizing the limit engagement of the baffle 131 on the buckle 311, a slot 313 is further formed between the buckle 311 and the main body of the stirring cup 31, and when the stirring cup 31 is mounted on the host 10, the baffle 131 is inserted into the slot 313.

The main body of the stirring cup 31 of this embodiment is provided with a step surface above the buckle 311, a clamping groove 313 is formed between the upper surface of the buckle 311 and the step surface, and the thickness of the clamping groove 313 is equal to that of the baffle 131, so that in the process of installing the stirring cup 31 on the host 10, the buckle 311 passes through the socket 135 and the upper surface abuts against the lower surface of the baffle 131, at this time, the clamping groove 313 also clamps and fixes the baffle 131, and then the clamping groove 139 or the baffle 131 limits and fixes the buckle 311 and the clamping groove 313 limits and fixes the baffle 131, so that shaking is not easy to occur when the stirring cup 31 is installed on the host 10, and the stability of the clamping connection of the stirring cup 31 and the host 10 is further improved.

Referring again to fig. 1 to 3, the stirring cup assembly 30 of the present invention further includes a cup holder 33 supported between the stirring cup 31 and the main machine 10, a stirring blade assembly 35 partially disposed in the stirring cup 31, and a heating device (not shown) for heating the stirring cup 31, and a motor 15 for driving the stirring blade assembly 35 is disposed in the main machine 10.

Wherein, stirring cup 31 can set up the connecting thread in the lower extreme, and cup holder 33 passes through threaded connection with stirring cup 31, and when stirring cup subassembly 30 was installed in host computer 10, stirring cup 31 and cup holder 33 inserted simultaneously in mounting groove 11 to cup holder 33 is located mounting groove 11 bottom, and the bottom surface butt mounting groove 11 of cup holder 33's lower extreme face realizes the firm support to stirring cup 31. The upper end of the stirring cup 31 is detachably connected with a cup cover assembly 37. The main unit 10 may be provided with a plurality of damping foot pads 171 at the lower end of the housing 17, so that the overall machine has high stability during operation. A main control board (not shown) is arranged in the shell 17, and a control panel 19 electrically connected with the main control board is arranged on the surface of the shell 17.

The heating device comprises a magnetic conduction disc (not shown) arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup 31 and a coil disc (not shown) arranged in the cup seat 33, wherein the coil disc is opposite to the magnetic conduction disc; or the heating device comprises a heat conducting disc (not shown) arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup 31 and an electric heating tube or an electric heating film arranged at the bottom of the heat conducting disc.

The connection structure of the stirring cup 31 and the main machine 10 of the present invention can be applied to the food processor 100 with heating function, and can also be applied to the food processor 100 without heating function, wherein in the case of heating function, the heating device can be in a resistance heating mode, or in a solenoid heating mode, preferably in a solenoid heating mode, and the magnetic conducting disc can be integrally made of magnetic conducting metal, such as 430 stainless steel or cast iron. The magnetic conductive disc can be formed by attaching a magnetic conductive film to a disc body made of non-magnetic conductive materials such as ceramics. In the electromagnetic heating mode, the food processor 100 has a good heating effect.

The food processor 100 of the invention comprises a broken-wall processor, a juice extractor, a soymilk machine or a stirrer, wherein the broken-wall processor can integrate the functions of the juice extractor, the soymilk machine, the ice cream machine, the processor, the grinder and other products, and can instantaneously break the cell walls of food and release phytochemicals.

The foregoing description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and all equivalent structural changes made by the description of the present invention and the accompanying drawings or direct/indirect application in other related technical fields are included in the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a food processor, is in including host computer and setting stirring cup subassembly on the host computer, the host computer is provided with the mounting groove, stirring cup subassembly includes the stirring cup, the lower extreme of stirring cup is inserted and is located in the mounting groove, its characterized in that, the inside wall circumference interval of mounting groove is equipped with a plurality of spacing units, two are adjacent be formed with the socket between the spacing unit, stirring cup lower extreme lateral wall interval is provided with a plurality of buckles, each the buckle passes the socket, stirring cup in clockwise or anticlockwise rotation in the mounting groove can drive the buckle is in two adjacent alternative block is connected in the spacing unit.

2. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the plurality of limit units are disposed at the same horizontal plane and are circumferentially and uniformly spaced apart from the inner wall of the mounting groove.

3. The food processor of claim 2, wherein each of the limiting units forms a U-shaped button, and openings of two adjacent U-shaped buttons are horizontally disposed in opposite directions, and the button is inserted into one of the two adjacent U-shaped buttons when the stirring cup is mounted on the main machine.

4. The food processor of claim 2, wherein each of the limiting units comprises a baffle plate protruding from an inner wall of the mounting groove, a blocking rib is connected to a lower surface of the baffle plate, the socket is formed between two adjacent baffle plates, and the buckle abuts against the baffle plate and the blocking rib which are connected when the stirring cup is mounted on the main machine.

5. The food processor of claim 4, wherein a bearing table is further formed below the plane of the baffle plate on the inner wall of the mounting groove, the bearing table is connected with the lower end of the blocking rib, two adjacent baffle plates, two adjacent blocking ribs and the bearing table enclose a buckling groove, and when the stirring cup is mounted on the main machine, one side of the buckling groove clamps the buckle.

6. The food processor of claim 5, wherein the clasp has a length that is comparable to a length of the socket, the socket having a length that is greater than one-fourth of a length of the clasp slot and less than one-half of the length of the clasp slot.

7. The food processor of claim 4, wherein the baffle has first guide inclined surfaces at both ends, and the buckle has second guide inclined surfaces at both ends that match the first guide inclined surfaces.

8. The food processor of claim 4, wherein a slot is further formed between the buckle and the stirring cup main body, and the baffle is inserted into the slot when the stirring cup is mounted on the main body.

9. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the blender cup assembly further comprises a cup holder supported between the blender cup and the main machine, a blender blade assembly partially positioned within the blender cup, and a heating device for heating the blender cup, wherein a motor for driving the blender blade assembly is provided within the main machine.

10. The food processor of claim 9, wherein the heating device comprises a magnetic conductive plate arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup and a coil plate arranged in the cup holder, and the coil plate is arranged opposite to the magnetic conductive plate; or the heating device comprises a heat conducting disc arranged at the bottom of the stirring cup and an electric heating tube or an electric heating film arranged at the bottom of the heat conducting disc.

11. The food processor of any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the food processor comprises a wall broken processor, a juice extractor, a soymilk grinder, and a blender.