CN110384391B

CN110384391B - Interior pot subassembly and cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN110384391B
Application number: CN201910740985.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈亮; 张源智; 陈伟; 邓志宏; 曾国辉; 康津
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai; Gree Tosot Suqian Home Appliances Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-12
Filing date: 2019-08-12
Publication date: 2020-10-02
Anticipated expiration: 2039-08-12
Also published as: CN110384391A

Abstract

The invention provides an inner pot assembly and a cooking appliance. The interior pot subassembly includes: the bottom of the inner pot is provided with a through hole; the draining support is an elastic support, a flow guide channel is arranged on the elastic support and communicated with the through hole, and the elastic support abuts against the bottom of the inner pot. The elastic support is not easy to have dead angles and is convenient to clean, mechanical vibration noise cannot be generated between the elastic support and the inner pot in the actual use process, and diversion liquid can be prevented from flowing out along the side wall of the inner pot.

Description

Interior pot subassembly and cooking utensil

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to an inner pot assembly and a cooking appliance.

Background

The draining support of the existing electric cooker is an injection molding part, has many draining channel dead angles, is in contact with rice water, is not easy to clean, and is insanitary after long-term use. The waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support contacts with interior pot, can direct impact be used for installing the support of waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support when putting interior pot, and interior pot and injection molding direct contact can cause the mechanical vibration noise among the heating process.

In addition, when the solenoid valve action realizes the waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall function, the water route liquid easily gets into devices such as solenoid valve and leads to the function inefficacy. The solenoid valve assembly mode is complicated, and the reliability is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide an inner pot assembly and a cooking appliance, and aims to solve the problems that in the prior art, a draining support has more dead corners and is easy to generate noise with an inner pot.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an inner pot assembly comprising: the bottom of the inner pot is provided with a through hole; the draining support is an elastic support, a flow guide channel is arranged on the elastic support and communicated with the through hole, and the elastic support abuts against the bottom of the inner pot.

Further, interior pot subassembly still includes the wire reel, be provided with the mounting hole on the wire reel, the waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support mounting is in the mounting hole.

Further, a first annular flange is arranged on one side, close to the inner pot, of the wire spool, and surrounds the top end of the mounting hole; the draining support is provided with a second annular flange which faces away from the inner pot and protrudes, the second annular flange and the outer wall of the draining support are surrounded to form a clamping groove, and the first annular flange is clamped in the clamping groove.

Further, the waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support includes first support section and second support section, the second support section is located the bottom of first support section, first support section is loudspeaker column structure, the less one end of loudspeaker column structure opening with the second support section is connected, second annular flange sets up the periphery of first support section.

Further, the top of first support section is provided with sealed surrounding edge, interior pot bottom is provided with the recess, the through-hole is located on the tank bottom of recess, sealed surrounding edge supports the top and is in on the lateral wall of recess.

Furthermore, a corrugated part is arranged in the flow guide channel, a blind mounting hole is arranged in the corrugated part, the blind mounting hole extends from the bottom of the corrugated part to the direction close to the inner pot, and the corrugated part is connected with the inner wall of the flow guide channel through a connecting rib; the inner pot assembly further comprises a solenoid valve assembly, and the solenoid valve assembly is installed in the mounting blind hole.

Furthermore, the inner pot component also comprises a weight piece, and the weight piece is arranged at the through hole; the electromagnetic valve assembly comprises a valve body and an ejector rod, and the ejector rod is telescopically arranged in the valve body to jack the heavy hammer piece.

Furthermore, the heavy hammer piece comprises a bottom plate and a blocking column, the blocking column is installed on the bottom plate, the blocking column is installed at the through hole, the outer diameter of the bottom plate is larger than the inner diameter of the through hole, and the outer diameter of the blocking column is smaller than the inner diameter of the through hole.

Further, interior pot subassembly still includes the magnetic stripe support, the magnetic stripe support includes the location arch, the location arch is inserted and is established in the installation blind hole, the protruding inside hole of stepping down that sets up of location, solenoid valve subassembly is installed in the hole of stepping down.

Furthermore, the top end of the abdicating hole is hooked with the hanging part, and the bottom of the abdicating hole is provided with an elastic buckle; the valve body comprises a shell, the top of the shell is provided with a buckling lug, the buckling lug is hooked on the hooking part, and the elastic buckle is clamped at the bottom of the shell.

Furthermore, the shell comprises a first barrel body and a second barrel body, the first barrel body and the second barrel body are buckled, hooked, fixed and enclosed to form a cylindrical structure, and the connecting position of the first barrel body and the second barrel body is located at the middle position in the height direction of the cylindrical structure.

Furthermore, a positioning groove is formed in one of the bottom end of the draining support and the magnetic strip support, and a positioning strip matched with the positioning groove is arranged on the other one of the bottom end of the draining support and the magnetic strip support.

Further, the elastic support is a silica gel support.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance comprising an inner pot assembly as described above.

By applying the technical scheme of the invention, as the draining support is an elastic support, in the actual use process, the draining support is propped against the bottom of the inner pot and is communicated with the through hole through the flow guide channel on the draining support, and water in the inner pot can be discharged to the outside of the inner pot through the action of the flow guide channel and the through hole. Compared with a draining support obtained in an injection molding mode in the prior art, the elastic support is not easy to have dead corners and convenient to clean, and mechanical vibration noise cannot be generated between the elastic support and an inner pot in the actual use process.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an exploded view of the inner pot assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a cross-sectional view of the inner pot assembly of the present invention;

figure 3 shows schematically a perspective view of the draining stand of the present invention;

figure 4 shows schematically a top view of the draining stand of the present invention;

figure 5 shows schematically a cross-sectional view of a draining stand according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view schematically illustrating the through-hole being plugged by the weight member of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view schematically showing the weight member of the present invention with the through hole opened;

FIG. 8 schematically illustrates a first perspective view of the solenoid valve assembly of the present invention mounted on a magnetic strip support;

FIG. 9 schematically illustrates a second perspective view of the solenoid valve assembly of the present invention mounted on a magnetic strip support;

FIG. 10 schematically illustrates a cross-sectional view of the solenoid valve assembly of the present invention mounted on a magnetic stripe support;

FIG. 11 schematically illustrates a cross-sectional view of a solenoid operated valve assembly of the present invention prior to unsetting of the lugs;

FIG. 12 schematically illustrates a cross-sectional view of the solenoid operated valve assembly of the present invention after staking;

FIG. 13 schematically illustrates a perspective view of a solenoid operated valve assembly of the present invention after staking.

Wherein the figures include the following reference numerals:

10. an inner pot; 11. a through hole; 12. a groove; 20. a draining support; 21. a first support section; 22. a second stent section; 23. a flow guide channel; 24. sealing the surrounding edge; 25. a corrugated portion; 251. installing blind holes; 26. positioning a groove; 27. a card slot; 28. a second annular flange; 29. connecting ribs; 30. a wire spool; 31. a first annular flange; 32. mounting holes; 40. a solenoid valve assembly; 41. a valve body; 411. a housing; 4111. a first barrel body; 4112. a second barrel body; 42. a top rod; 43. buckling lugs; 50. a weight member; 51. a base plate; 52. plugging the column; 60. a magnetic strip support; 61. positioning the projection; 62. a hole of abdication; 63. a hooking part; 64. an elastic buckle; 65. and a positioning strip.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

Referring to fig. 1 to 13, according to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance, particularly, an electric rice cooker.

The cooking appliance comprises an inner pot assembly, wherein the inner pot assembly comprises an inner pot 10 and a draining support 20, wherein the bottom of the inner pot 10 is provided with a through hole 11; the draining support 20 is an elastic support, a flow guide channel 23 is arranged on the elastic support, the flow guide channel 23 is communicated with the through hole 11, and the elastic support abuts against the bottom of the inner pot 10.

Because the draining support 20 in this embodiment is an elastic support, in the actual use process, the draining support 20 is abutted against the bottom of the inner pot 10 and is communicated with the through hole 11 through the flow guide channel 23 on the draining support 20, and water in the inner pot 10 can be discharged to the outside of the inner pot 10 through the action of the flow guide channel 23 and the through hole 11. Compared with the draining support 20 obtained by injection molding in the prior art, the elastic support in the embodiment is not easy to have dead corners and is convenient to clean, mechanical vibration noise cannot be generated between the elastic support and the inner pot 10 in the actual use process, and diversion liquid can be prevented from flowing out along the side wall of the inner pot.

The draining support 20 in this embodiment is an elastic support, which can be in contact with rice water for a long time. The requirement of food sanitation is met, and the whole part can be taken down, turned over and cleaned.

Preferably, the elastic support in this embodiment is a silica gel support, has a simple structure, is not easy to have dead corners, is an edible grade silica gel piece, and has higher safety.

In order to facilitate the installation of the draining bracket 20, the inner pot assembly in the embodiment further comprises a wire spool 30, a mounting hole 32 is formed in the wire spool 30, and the draining bracket 20 is installed in the mounting hole 32, so that the draining bracket 20 can be supported conveniently.

The side of the wire spool 30 close to the inner pot 10 in the embodiment is provided with a first annular flange 31, and the first annular flange 31 surrounds the top end of the mounting hole 32; correspondingly, a second annular flange 28 protruding towards the inner pot 10 is arranged on the draining support 20, the second annular flange 28 and the outer wall of the draining support 20 are surrounded to form a clamping groove 27, and the first annular flange 31 is clamped in the clamping groove 27. The clamping groove 27 is matched with the first annular flange 31 on the wire spool 30 to support and position the draining bracket 20, and the draining bracket is simple in structure and convenient to install.

Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the draining rack 20 may also be fixed on the wire spool 30 by a structure such as a snap or a screw, but since the draining rack 20 in this embodiment is made of a silicone member, the manner of fixing the draining rack by the engaging slot 27 and the first annular flange 31 is more stable and reliable.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, the draining support 20 in this embodiment includes a first support section 21 and a second support section 22, the second support section 22 is located at the bottom of the first support section 21, the first support section 21 is in a horn-shaped structure, an end of the horn-shaped structure with a smaller opening is connected to the second support section 22, and a second annular flange 28 is disposed at the periphery of the first support section 21 so as to surround the outer wall of the second support section 22 to form an annular clamping groove 27.

First support section 21 in this embodiment is the loudspeaker column structure, is convenient for connect in the bottom of the through-hole 11 of interior pot 10, is convenient for with the water drainage that flows out from interior pot 10 to the water conservancy diversion passageway 23 of waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support 20, and second support section 22 is the columnar structure, in the direct mount hole 32, is convenient for be convenient for with the water drainage to the outside of interior pot 10 from through-hole 11 flows out.

Preferably, the top end of the first support section 21 is provided with a sealing surrounding edge 24, the bottom of the inner pot 10 is provided with a groove 12, the through hole 11 is located on the bottom of the groove 12, and the sealing surrounding edge 24 abuts against the side wall of the groove 12 to prevent water flowing out of the inner pot 10 from leaking outwards. After the inner pot 10 is placed, the sealing surrounding edge 24 has a certain compression amount to form a sealing area, and rice water in the inner pot 10 is effectively prevented from leaking out along the side wall.

Referring to fig. 1 to 13 again, the flow guide channel 23 of the present embodiment is provided with a corrugated portion 25 inside, the corrugated portion 25 is provided with a blind mounting hole 251 inside, the blind mounting hole 251 extends from the bottom of the corrugated portion 25 to a direction close to the inner pot 10, and the corrugated portion 25 is connected with the inner wall of the flow guide channel 23 through the connecting rib 29; the inner pot assembly further comprises a solenoid valve assembly 40, and the solenoid valve assembly 40 is installed in the installation blind hole 251.

In the actual use process, the solenoid valve assembly 40 is completely shielded by the corrugated portion 25, so that rice water is prevented from directly contacting the solenoid valve assembly 40, and the solenoid valve assembly 40 is protected conveniently.

The folding portion 25 in the present embodiment is configured to be stretchable, and the folding portion 25 has a surface with folds to facilitate stretching.

The inner pot assembly in this embodiment further includes a weight member 50, the weight member 50 being installed at the through hole 11; the electromagnetic valve assembly 40 comprises a valve body 41 and an ejector rod 42, wherein the ejector rod 42 is telescopically installed in the valve body 41 to jack up the weight part 50, and when the ejector rod 42 extends out of the valve body 41, the ejector rod 42 can simultaneously drive the corrugated part 25 to extend, so that the weight part 50 is jacked, the through hole 11 is opened, and draining action is performed.

Specifically, the weight member 50 in this embodiment includes a bottom plate 51 and a blocking column 52, the blocking column 52 is installed on the bottom plate 51, the blocking column 52 is installed at the through hole 11, the outer diameter of the bottom plate 51 is larger than the inner diameter of the through hole 11, the outer diameter of the blocking column 52 is smaller than the inner diameter of the through hole 11, the through hole 11 is conveniently blocked when the weight member 50 is in a natural state under the action of the bottom plate 51, the outer diameter of the blocking column 52 is smaller than the inner diameter of the through hole 11, and when the weight member 50 is actually used, as long as the push rod 42 pushes up the weight member 50, water in the inner pot 10 meters can flow into the draining support 20 along the gap between the blocking column 52 and the through hole 11.

The inner pot assembly in the embodiment further comprises a magnetic strip support 60, the magnetic strip support 60 comprises a positioning protrusion 61, the positioning protrusion 61 is inserted into the mounting blind hole 251, the positioning protrusion 61 is internally provided with a yielding hole 62, and the electromagnetic valve assembly 40 is mounted in the yielding hole 62.

Preferably, the top end of the abdicating hole 62 is hooked with the hanging part 63, and the bottom of the abdicating hole 62 is provided with an elastic buckle 64; the valve body 41 includes a housing 411, a fastening lug 43 is disposed on the top of the housing 411, the fastening lug 43 is hooked on the hooking portion 63, and the elastic buckle 64 is clamped at the bottom of the housing 411, so as to stably mount the solenoid valve assembly 40 in the avoiding hole 62.

The shell 411 in this embodiment includes first staving 4111 and second staving 4112, and first staving 4111 and second staving 4112 are buckled to hang fixedly and enclose and establish a cylindrical structure, and the hookup location of first staving 4111 and second staving 4112 is located the intermediate position department on the direction of height of cylindrical structure, avoids rice water to get into the inside of solenoid valve assembly 40.

It should be noted that, first staving 4111 and second staving 4112 are the structure that encloses the fender including a circular bottom plate and ring shape in this embodiment, and circular bottom plate and ring shape enclose to keep off integrated into one piece and set up, avoid circular bottom plate and ring shape to enclose to have the gap between the fender, can effective mode rice water enter into inside solenoid valve assembly 40.

In order to further improve the installation stability of the draining rack 20 in this embodiment, the bottom end of the draining rack 20 and the magnetic strip rack 60 in this embodiment are provided with positioning slots 26, and the other is provided with positioning strips 65 adapted to the positioning slots 26.

The corrugated part 25 on the draining bracket 20 covers the area of the solenoid valve assembly 40, so that the abnormal function caused by the water flow permeating into the solenoid valve assembly 40 after the solenoid valve assembly 40 operates and a water leakage channel is opened is avoided. The top rod 42 of the solenoid valve assembly 40 moves to push the area of the corrugated part 25 to move, and after the power is cut off, the area of the corrugated part 25 rebounds to return to the initial state.

From the above description, it can be seen that the above-described embodiments of the present invention achieve the following technical effects:

1. the draining bracket is a food-grade silica gel piece. Be provided with the water conservancy diversion passageway on the waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall support, cover the lower part water route completely, avoid rice water direct and solenoid valve assembly contact, the use security is higher.

2. The upper end of the draining support is in flexible contact with the inner pot, and a sealing surrounding edge is designed to prevent rice water from leaking.

3. The upper end of the draining bracket is provided with a corrugated part to cover the ejector rod of the electromagnetic valve assembly, and no liquid enters the device when the electromagnetic valve assembly acts.

4. The solenoid valve subassembly passes through the shell riveting back and passes through the direction assembly of portion of colluding with the magnetic stripe support lower extreme, and it is spacing that the upper end is bent the assembly through detaining the ear, and the bottom is detained fixedly through elasticity.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An inner pot assembly, comprising:

the cooker comprises an inner cooker (10), wherein the bottom of the inner cooker (10) is provided with a through hole (11);

the draining support (20) is an elastic support, a flow guide channel (23) is arranged on the elastic support, the flow guide channel (23) is communicated with the through hole (11), and the elastic support abuts against the bottom of the inner pot (10);

the inner pot assembly further comprises a wire spool (30), a mounting hole (32) is formed in the wire spool (30), and the draining bracket (20) is mounted in the mounting hole (32);

a first annular flange (31) is arranged on one side, close to the inner pot (10), of the wire spool (30), and the first annular flange (31) surrounds the top end of the mounting hole (32); a second annular flange (28) which protrudes towards the inner pot (10) is arranged on the draining support (20), a clamping groove (27) is formed by the second annular flange (28) and the outer wall of the draining support (20) in an enclosing manner, and the first annular flange (31) is clamped in the clamping groove (27);

the draining support (20) comprises a first support section (21) and a second support section (22), the second support section (22) is located at the bottom of the first support section (21), the first support section (21) is of a horn-shaped structure, the smaller end of the horn-shaped structure is connected with the second support section (22), and the second annular flange (28) is arranged on the periphery of the first support section (21);

a sealing surrounding edge (24) is arranged at the top end of the first support section (21), a groove (12) is arranged at the bottom of the inner pot (10), the through hole (11) is positioned at the bottom of the groove (12), and the sealing surrounding edge (24) is abutted against the side wall of the groove (12);

a corrugated part (25) is arranged in the flow guide channel (23), a blind mounting hole (251) is arranged in the corrugated part (25), the blind mounting hole (251) extends from the bottom of the corrugated part (25) to the direction close to the inner pot (10), and the corrugated part (25) is connected with the inner wall of the flow guide channel (23) through a connecting rib (29); the inner pot assembly further comprises a solenoid valve assembly (40), and the solenoid valve assembly (40) is installed in the blind installation hole (251).

2. Inner pot assembly according to claim 1, further comprising a weight (50), the weight (50) being mounted at the through hole (11);

the electromagnetic valve assembly (40) comprises a valve body (41) and a push rod (42), wherein the push rod (42) is telescopically arranged in the valve body (41) to jack the weight member (50).

3. Inner pot assembly according to claim 2, characterized in that the weight (50) comprises a bottom plate (51) and a blocking post (52), the blocking post (52) being mounted on the bottom plate (51), the blocking post (52) being mounted at the through hole (11), the outer diameter of the bottom plate (51) being larger than the inner diameter of the through hole (11), the outer diameter of the blocking post (52) being smaller than the inner diameter of the through hole (11).

4. The inner pot assembly according to claim 2, further comprising a magnetic strip support (60), wherein the magnetic strip support (60) comprises a positioning protrusion (61), the positioning protrusion (61) is inserted into the blind mounting hole (251), a yielding hole (62) is formed inside the positioning protrusion (61), and the solenoid valve assembly (40) is installed in the yielding hole (62).

5. The inner pot assembly according to claim 4, wherein the top end of the abdicating hole (62) is provided with a hooking part (63), and the bottom of the abdicating hole (62) is provided with an elastic buckle (64);

the valve body (41) comprises a shell (411), a buckling lug (43) is arranged at the top of the shell (411), the buckling lug (43) is hooked on the hooking part (63), and the elastic buckle (64) is clamped at the bottom of the shell (411).

6. The inner pan assembly of claim 5, wherein the outer shell (411) comprises a first barrel body (4111) and a second barrel body (4112), the first barrel body (4111) and the second barrel body (4112) are fastened, hooked and fixedly enclosed to form a cylindrical structure, and a connection position of the first barrel body (4111) and the second barrel body (4112) is located at a middle position in a height direction of the cylindrical structure.

7. Inner pot assembly according to claim 4, characterized in that the bottom end of the draining support (20) and the magnetic strip support (60) are provided with positioning grooves (26) on one and positioning strips (65) adapted to the positioning grooves (26) on the other.

8. The inner pan assembly of any one of claims 1 to 7 wherein the resilient support is a silicone support.

9. A cooking appliance comprising an inner pan assembly, wherein the inner pan assembly is as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8.