CN109549460B

CN109549460B - Panel assembly and cooking utensil with same

Info

Publication number: CN109549460B
Application number: CN201710891296.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱传斌; 郑晓春; 吴育权; 陈伟; 袁伟; 付正庭; 娄飞; 陈显怀; 朱林博
Original assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-09-27
Filing date: 2017-09-27
Publication date: 2021-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 2037-09-27
Also published as: CN109549460A

Abstract

The invention discloses a panel assembly and a cooking appliance having the same, wherein the panel assembly comprises: a support portion; a panel supported on the support portion, the panel being formed in a polygonal shape; the outer cover is arranged on the outer sides of the supporting portion and the panel in a surrounding mode, a penetrating hole is formed in the outer cover, and a part of the panel is exposed out of the penetrating hole. According to the panel assembly provided by the embodiment of the invention, the panel is arranged to be polygonal, so that the panel assembly is easy to position during assembly, the deviation phenomenon is avoided, the stress on the panel is uniform, and the panel is prevented from being damaged.

Description

Panel assembly and cooking utensil with same

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of cooking equipment, in particular to a panel assembly and a cooking appliance with the same.

Background

The glass panel of the electric cooker in the related art is fixedly connected with the face cover in a gluing mode, the connection is unreliable, glass and the panel are easy to separate from each other, the shapes of the outer contours of the glass panel and the face cover are consistent, the arc-shaped edge of the glass panel is not well positioned, the display deviation is easy to occur, in addition, the stress of the glass panel is uneven, and the edge of the glass panel is easy to stress and break.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, the invention provides the panel assembly which is safe and reliable in fixation and accurate in positioning.

The invention also provides a cooking appliance with the panel assembly.

A panel assembly according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention, comprising: a support portion; a panel supported on the support portion, the panel being formed in a polygonal shape; the outer cover is arranged on the outer sides of the supporting portion and the panel in a surrounding mode, a penetrating hole is formed in the outer cover, and a part of the panel is exposed out of the penetrating hole.

According to the panel assembly provided by the embodiment of the invention, the panel is arranged to be polygonal, so that the panel assembly is easy to position during assembly, the deviation phenomenon is avoided, the stress on the panel is uniform, and the panel is prevented from being damaged.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of vertexes of the panel are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the panel, and a distance L1 between each vertex and the inner side wall of the outer cover satisfies the following relation: l1 is more than 0 and less than or equal to 5mm, so that the panel is accurately positioned and is not easy to deviate, and the stress of the panel in the circumferential direction is uniform.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the edges of the panel are connected end to end along the circumferential direction of the panel, and the distance L2 between the midpoint of each edge and the inner sidewall of the outer cover satisfies the following relation: l2 is more than or equal to 0mm and less than or equal to 20mm, so that the positioning accuracy of the panel is ensured, and the deviation is prevented.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the outer cover is abutted against the panel and is connected with the supporting part in a buckling manner, the assembly process is simple, the operation is convenient, the installation procedures are reduced, the assembly efficiency is improved, and the assembly and disassembly are easy and convenient.

Optionally, the support portion comprises: the inner cover is provided with a supporting column suitable for supporting the panel; the display box assembly is arranged on the inner cover.

According to a further example of the present invention, the display box assembly or the inner lid limits a plurality of edges of the panel.

According to a further embodiment of the invention, the cover retains the edges of the panel such that the panel and cover remain relatively stationary.

According to an alternative example of the present invention, the outer cover and the inner cover or the display box assembly are coupled to each other by being engaged with each other.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the top of the outer cover is provided with a hem circumferentially surrounding the outer cover, the hem bearing against the panel, the hem defining the through hole.

According to an alternative example of the invention, the panel is a glass panel.

A cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the second aspect of the invention comprises a panel assembly according to the embodiments described above.

According to the cooking utensil provided by the embodiment of the invention, the distances between the vertex of the polygon formed by the panel and the inner side wall of the outer cover are equal, and the distances between the edges and the inner side wall of the outer cover are equal, so that the panel is safely and reliably fixed, the stress of the panel can be more uniform, and the edge of the panel is prevented from being broken due to stress; the panel is more accurately positioned, the problem of display deviation of the cooking appliance is avoided, and the user can conveniently observe the panel.

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

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a panel assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line K-K of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of a panel assembly according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a panel assembly according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line L-L of FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals:

s: a cooking appliance;

100: a panel assembly;

10: a support portion; 11: an inner cover; 12: a display box assembly;

20: a panel;

30: an outer cover; 31: and (4) folding the edge.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "circumferential", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

A panel assembly 100 according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention is described below with reference to fig. 1-6.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a panel assembly 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a support part 10, a panel 20, and an outer cover 30.

Wherein the panel 20 is supported on the support portion 10, the panel 20 is formed in a polygonal shape, and specifically, the panel 20 may be a triangle, a quadrangle, a pentagon, a hexagon, etc. (octagon as shown in fig. 5), the outer cover 30 is provided around the outer sides of the support portion 10 and the panel 20 along the circumferential direction of the panel 20, a through hole (the through hole is located at the middle portion of the outer cover 30) is provided on the outer cover 30, and a portion of the panel 20 is exposed from the through hole.

Therefore, according to the panel assembly 100 of the embodiment of the present invention, by setting the panel 20 to be polygonal, compared with the glass panel 20 in the related art, the panel assembly is not only easy to position during assembly and does not generate a deviation phenomenon, but also the panel 20 is uniformly stressed and is prevented from being damaged.

As shown in fig. 5, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of vertices on the panel 20 are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the panel 20, the plurality of vertices are spaced apart from the inner sidewall of the cover 30 by equal distances, the plurality of vertices may be spaced apart from the inner sidewall of the cover 30 by different distances, the panel 20 is substantially rectangular, and A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H represents eight vertices of the panel 20, wherein the A, B vertex and the G, H vertex are located on the left side of the panel 20, the C, D vertex and the E, F vertex are located on the right side of the panel 20, and the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H vertex is arranged along the circumferential direction of the panel 20 and is spaced apart from the inner sidewall of the panel 20 by equal or different distances, so that the panel 20 is accurately positioned, the misalignment phenomenon is not easy to occur, and the force applied to the panel 20 in the circumferential direction is uniform.

According to an alternative example of the present invention, the distance between each vertex and the inner side wall of the outer lid 30 is represented by L1, wherein L1 satisfies the following relation: l1 is more than 0 and less than or equal to 5mm, namely L1 is more than 0 and less than or equal to 5mm, for example, 1mm, 2mm, 3mm, 4mm and 5mm, the specific value of L1 can be selected according to actual needs, and L1 is limited within the above range, so that each vertex can be prevented from directly contacting with the inner side wall of the outer cover 30, and the panel 20 can be prevented from being separated from the outer cover 30 due to overlarge interval between each vertex and the inner side wall of the outer cover 30.

Referring to fig. 5, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of edges on the panel 20 are connected end to end along a circumferential direction of the panel 20, for example, a plurality of edges AB, BC, CD, DE, EF, FG, GH, HA on the panel 20, a distance between a midpoint of each edge and an inner sidewall of the outer cover 30 is equal, and a distance between a midpoint of each edge and an inner sidewall of the outer cover 30 may also be different, for example, a distance from a midpoint of AB to an inner sidewall of the outer cover 30 is equal to or different from a distance from a midpoint of BC to an inner sidewall of the outer cover 30, so as to ensure accurate positioning of the panel 20 and prevent deviation.

Further, a distance between a midpoint of each side and the inner sidewall of the exterior cover 30 is represented by L2, and L2 satisfies the following relationship: l2 is more than or equal to 0mm and less than or equal to 20mm, namely L2 is more than or equal to 0mm and less than or equal to 20mm, such as 1mm, 3mm, 5mm, 7mm, 9mm, 11mm, 13mm, 15mm, 17mm, 19mm and 20mm, the specific value of L2 can be selected according to the actual requirement, the value of L2 is limited in the range, the direct contact between the panel 20 and the inner side wall of the outer cover 30 is avoided, and the fixation reliability of the panel 20 and the outer cover 30 is ensured.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the upper end of the outer cover 30 is connected to the panel 20 in a stop manner, that is, the outer cover 30 is pressed on the upper surface of the panel 20, and the lower end of the outer cover 30 is directly connected to the support portion 10 by a snap fit, compared with the matching method of the panel cover and the panel 20 in the related art, the method not only adopts a mechanical method to replace a gluing process, but also has the advantages of simple assembly process, convenient operation, reduced installation procedures, improved assembly efficiency, and easy and convenient assembly and disassembly.

As shown in fig. 4, the support portion 10 optionally includes an inner cover 11 and a display box assembly 12, a support column is disposed on the inner cover 11, the display box assembly 12 is disposed between the inner cover 11 and the panel 20, and the support column on the inner cover 11 and the display box assembly 12 support the panel 20.

Optionally, the display box assembly 12 or the inner cover 11 limits a plurality of edges of the panel 20, specifically, the display box assembly 12 fixes and limits a plurality of edges of the panel 20, the inner cover 11 fixes and limits a plurality of edges of the panel 20, or the display box assembly 12 and the inner cover 11 fix and limit a plurality of edges of the panel 20 together, so that the panel 20 and the inner cover 11 keep relatively still.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the outer cover 30 limits the plurality of edges of the panel 20 along the circumferential direction of the panel 20, the outer cover 30 is wound around the outer circumferential edge of the panel 20, and the outer circumferential edge (the plurality of edges connected end to end) of the panel 20 is limited and fixed, so that the panel 20 and the outer cover 30 are kept relatively still.

Optionally, the lower end of the outer cover 30 is connected with the inner cover 11 or the display box assembly 12 in a mutually buckled manner, it can be understood that the outer cover 30 is connected with the inner cover 11 in a buckled manner, the outer cover 30 is connected with the display box assembly 12 in a buckled manner, the inner cover 11 and the display box assembly 12 are respectively connected with the outer cover 30 in a buckled manner, the lower end of the outer cover 30 is connected with the inner cover 11 or the display box assembly 12 in a buckled manner, and the upper end of the outer cover 30 is stopped to abut against the face cover so as to compress the panel 20 between the outer cover 30 and the inner cover 11.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the top of the outer cover 30 is provided with a flanged portion 31 circumferentially surrounding it, the flanged portion 31 bearing against the panel 20, the flanged portion 31 defining the through hole.

According to an alternative example of the present invention, the panel 20 is a glass panel 20, and the panel 20 is made of glass, and since glass is generally transparent, a user can see the inner lid 11 and the display box assembly 12 through the panel 20, which is convenient for the user to observe during operation.

As shown in fig. 6, a cooking appliance S according to a second aspect embodiment of the present invention includes the panel assembly 100 according to the above embodiment.

According to the cooking utensil S provided by the embodiment of the invention, the distances between the vertex of the polygon formed by the panel 20 and the inner side wall of the outer cover 30 are equal, and the distances between the multiple edges and the inner side wall of the outer cover 30 are equal, so that the panel 20 is safely and reliably fixed, the stress of the panel 20 can be more uniform, and the edge of the panel 20 is prevented from being broken due to stress; the positioning of the panel 20 is more accurate, the problem of display deviation of the cooking utensil S is avoided, and the user can observe the cooking utensil conveniently.

Other constructions and operations of the panel assembly 100 and the cooking appliance S having the same according to the embodiment of the present invention are known to those skilled in the art and will not be described in detail herein.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or 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 invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above 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.

While embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A panel assembly, comprising:

a support portion;

a panel supported on the support portion, the panel being formed in a polygonal shape;

the enclosing cover, the enclosing cover is around establishing the supporting part with the outside of panel, be equipped with on the enclosing cover and pass through the hole, partly follow of panel see through the hole and expose, a plurality of summits of panel are along the circumference interval of panel is arranged, every the summit with distance between the inside wall of enclosing cover is L1, many edges of panel are following the circumference end to end of panel is consecutive, every the mid point on limit with distance between the inside wall of enclosing cover is L2.

2. The panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the distance L1 between each apex and the inner side wall of the outer cover satisfies the relationship: l1 is more than 0 and less than or equal to 5 mm.

3. The panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the distance L2 between the midpoint of each of the edges and the inner side wall of the outer cover satisfies the relationship: l2 is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 20 mm.

4. The panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the outer cover abuts the panel and is snap-fit to the support.

5. The panel assembly of claim 4, wherein the support portion comprises:

the inner cover is provided with a supporting column suitable for supporting the panel;

the display box assembly is arranged on the inner cover.

6. The panel assembly of claim 5, wherein the display box assembly or the inner cover position multiple edges of the panel.

7. The panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the outer cover bounds multiple edges of the panel.

8. The panel assembly of claim 5, wherein the outer cover is snap-fit connected to the inner cover or the display box assembly.

9. A panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein the top of the outer cover is provided with a hem circumferentially therearound, the hem bearing against the panel, the hem defining the through-going aperture.

10. The panel assembly of any of claims 1-9, wherein the panel is a glass panel.

11. A cooking appliance comprising a panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 10.