CN111166158A

CN111166158A - Cooking apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN111166158A
Application number: CN201911409677.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 林奇; 李轩宇
Original assignee: Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-31
Filing date: 2019-12-31
Publication date: 2020-05-19
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-31
Also published as: CN111166158B

Abstract

The invention belongs to the field of household appliances, and discloses a cooking device (100) which comprises: the box body (1) comprises a cooking cavity and a box body outer wall surrounding the cooking cavity, and a box body buckling part (11) is arranged on the box body outer wall; the flip type door body (2) is pivotally arranged at the front end of the cooking cavity; and the movable locking component (3) is elastically arranged on the flip type door body (2) and comprises a locking component buckling part (323) matched with the box body buckling part (11). According to the invention, the box body buckling part and the locking part buckling part are arranged in the cooking equipment, so that the locking part buckling part and the box body buckling part are buckled with each other in the closed state of the door body, and the sealing property can be effectively ensured even when pressure difference exists between the inside and the outside of the door body, thereby effectively preventing high-temperature steam from leaking to improve the use safety, and ensuring that the door body is easy to open and close to improve the use experience of a user.

Description

Cooking apparatus

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to cooking equipment.

Background

The existing steaming and baking oven only provides locking force at the pivoting joint of the door body in the working process to maintain the closed state, namely, the positions of the door body except the pivoting joint are not locked through other structures. Therefore, when the steam pressure is too high, the door body may have insufficient sealing performance due to the influence of the internal and external pressure difference, so that steam leakage is caused, and potential safety hazards exist. The sealing performance is improved by increasing the locking force at the pivoting joint of the door body, and the difficulty in opening the door is caused.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects or shortcomings in the prior art, the invention provides cooking equipment, which effectively improves the sealing property on the premise of ensuring that a door body is easy to open and close, thereby improving the use safety and improving the use experience of a user.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a cooking apparatus including:

the box body comprises a cooking cavity and a box body outer wall surrounding the cooking cavity, and a box body buckling part is arranged on the box body outer wall;

the flip type door body is pivotally arranged at the front end of the cooking cavity; and

the movable locking component is elastically arranged on the flip type door body and comprises a locking piece buckling part matched with the box body buckling part.

Optionally, two ends of the flip type door body are respectively a door body pivoting end pivotally mounted at the front end of the cooking cavity and a door body free end capable of overturning relative to the door body pivoting end, and the movable locking assembly is arranged at the door body free end.

Optionally, a locking piece mounting groove is formed at a free end of the door body, the movable locking assembly comprises a pre-pressed elastic piece and a rotary locking tongue rotating around a fixed pivot axis, the rotary locking tongue comprises a locking tongue pivot end and a locking tongue free end, the locking tongue pivot end is pivotally mounted in the locking piece mounting groove, and the locking tongue free end can rotate relative to the locking tongue pivot end and extends backwards out of the locking piece mounting groove;

the locking piece buckling part is formed at the free end of the lock tongue, the pre-pressing elastic piece acts on the pivot end of the lock tongue to provide pivot pre-pressing force, and the locking piece buckling part can be buckled with the box body buckling part under the action of the pivot pre-pressing force.

Optionally, the fixed pivot axis is perpendicular to the front-rear direction of the box, and the pre-pressing elastic member is a compression spring and is pressed between the groove front wall of the locking member mounting groove and the bolt pivot end.

Optionally, the fixed pivot axis is perpendicular to the front-back direction of the box body, and the fixed pivot axis is higher than the bottom end of the locking part buckling part.

Optionally, the pre-stressed elastic member is a torsion spring disposed coaxially with the fixed pivot axis.

Optionally, a manual control part for driving the pivoting is arranged on the rotary bolt.

Optionally, the rotary bolt further comprises a finger groove formed between the bolt pivot end and the bolt free end, and the manual control part is disposed on the bolt pivot end and at an opening end of the finger groove.

Optionally, the door body free end is formed with the closure mounting groove, activity closure subassembly is including tensile elastic component and rotatory spring bolt, rotatory spring bolt includes spring bolt pivot end and spring bolt free end, spring bolt pivot end is equipped with the pivot axle head that the side stretches out, the groove lateral wall of closure mounting groove is equipped with and is used for holding the pivot mounting groove of pivot axle head, the pivot mounting groove forms to follow the long trough-like that the fore-and-aft direction of box extends, the spring bolt free end can be relative the rotation of spring bolt pivot end and stretch out backward outside the closure mounting groove, the closure buckle part forms on the spring bolt free end, tensile elastic component is connected the spring bolt pivot end with between the groove antetheca of closure mounting groove.

Optionally, the flip type door body is pivotally mounted at the bottom of the front end of the cooking cavity and is configured to be capable of flipping downwards.

Optionally, the cooking apparatus is a steam box, an oven or a steam oven.

According to the cooking equipment, the box body buckling part is arranged on the outer wall of the box body, and the locking part buckling part is arranged in the movable locking component which is elastically installed on the flip type door body, so that the locking part buckling part and the box body buckling part are mutually buckled when the door body is in a closed state, the sealing performance can be effectively ensured even when pressure difference exists between the inside and the outside of the door body, high-temperature steam leakage is effectively prevented, the use safety is improved, and the door body can be ensured to be easily opened and closed to improve the use experience of a user.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which follows.

Drawings

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

fig. 1 is a schematic view of a cooking apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a clamshell door of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partial schematic view of the flip-top door body of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a partial schematic structural view of the movable locking assembly of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is another partial schematic structural view of the movable locking assembly of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a partial schematic view of the cooking apparatus shown in FIG. 1, wherein the flip-type door is in a closed state and the locking part is locked with the box locking part;

FIG. 7 is a partial schematic view of the cooking apparatus shown in FIG. 1, wherein the flip-type door is in a closed state and the locking portion of the locking member is disengaged from the locking portion of the case;

fig. 8 is a partial schematic view of the cooking apparatus in fig. 1, wherein the clamshell door body is in an open state.

Description of reference numerals:

100 cooking apparatus

1 case body and 2 flip type door body

3 Movable locking assembly

11 case body buckling part 21 door body pivoting end

Mounting groove for free end 23 locking piece of 22 door body

31 prepressing elastic piece 32 rotating bolt

33 pivot shaft 34 fixed block

321 bolt pivot end 322 bolt free end

323 locking element latching portion 324 manual control portion

325 finger position groove

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of specific embodiments of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative and explanatory of the invention and are not restrictive thereof.

A cooking apparatus according to the present invention is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 8, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a cooking apparatus 100, the cooking apparatus 100 including a cabinet 1, a flip-type door 2, and a movable locking assembly 3. Wherein, box 1 is equipped with box buckle portion 11 including culinary art appearance chamber and around the box outer wall in culinary art appearance chamber on the box outer wall. The flip type door body 2 is pivotally mounted at the front end of the cooking cavity and used for opening or closing the cooking cavity. The movable locking component 3 is elastically installed on the flip-type door body 2 and comprises a locking component buckling part 323. By controlling the activity of the movable locking component 3, the locking part buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 are buckled with each other in the closed state of the flip type door body 2, and the locking part buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 are separated from each other in the open state of the flip type door body 2.

Therefore, even when the pressure in the cooking cavity is too high in the working state of the cooking device 100, which causes too high pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the flip type door body 2, the locking piece buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 can be buckled with each other to ensure the sealing performance of the door body, so that the leakage of high-temperature steam is effectively prevented to improve the use safety. In addition, due to the arrangement of the movable locking assembly 3, the door body is not required to be maintained in a closed state only by providing locking force at the pivoting joint of the door body, and the door body can be ensured to be easily opened or closed without finely adjusting the locking force, so that the process difficulty is reduced, and the use experience of a user is effectively improved.

In one embodiment, manual control of the movable latch assembly 3 may be required to control the latching portion 323 and the case latching portion 11 to latch or unlatch from each other. Because the two ends of the flip type door body 2 are respectively the door body pivoting end 21 which is pivotally arranged at the front end of the cooking cavity and the door body free end 22 which can be overturned relative to the door body pivoting end 21, the movable locking component 3 can be arranged at the door body free end 22 for the convenience of user operation, so that a user can complete the continuous opening and closing actions of the door body by one hand. For example, when the door is opened, the latch engagement of the latch engaging portion 323 with the box engaging portion 11 and the outward pivoting of the door can be sequentially released by one hand. When the door body is closed, the door body can be pivoted inwards and the locking piece buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 can be buckled with each other by one hand in sequence. Of course, the control of the movable locking assembly 3 is not limited to manual control, and different control modes such as automatic control or semi-automatic control can be adopted.

In one embodiment, referring to the figures, a closure mounting slot 23 may be provided on the door body free end 22 for mounting the movable closure assembly 3. At this time, the movable latching assembly 3 includes a pre-pressed elastic member 31 and a rotary latch 32 rotating about a fixed pivot axis, and the rotary latch 32 includes a latch pivot end 321 and a latch free end 322. The lock tongue pivot end 321 is pivotally installed in the locking element installation groove 23, and the lock tongue free end 322 can rotate relative to the lock tongue pivot end 321 and extend backwards out of the locking element installation groove 23. For example, fixing blocks 34 may be respectively disposed on two groove sidewalls of the locking member mounting groove 23, and the bolt pivoting end 321 and the fixing blocks 34 may be connected by a pivoting shaft 33, so that the bolt free end 322 can rotate relative to the bolt pivoting end 321. In addition, the locking member fastening part 323 is disposed on the latch tongue free end 322, and the pre-pressure elastic member 31 acts on the latch tongue pivot end 321 to provide a pivot pre-pressure under which the locking member fastening part 323 can be fastened to the case fastening part 11.

Through the arrangement of the structure, the pivoting prepressing force provided by the prepressing elastic element 31 can ensure that the locking element buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 are mutually fastened and are not easy to separate, and when the door body needs to be opened, the rotating bolt 32 needs to be manually controlled to rotate and the buckling state of the locking element buckling part 323 and the box body buckling part 11 can be released by overcoming the pivoting prepressing force.

In one embodiment, with continued reference to the figures, the fixed pivot axis is disposed perpendicular to the fore-aft direction of the case, e.g., when the pivot axis 33 is provided, the pivot axis 33 is disposed perpendicular to the fore-aft direction of the case. The pre-pressure elastic member 31 is a compression spring and is pressed between the groove front wall of the locking member mounting groove 23 and the latch bolt pivoting end 321. When a plurality of compression springs are provided, referring to fig. 4, the plurality of compression springs may be sequentially spaced in a straight line between two groove sidewalls of the locking element mounting groove 23 to provide a more stable pivoting pre-stress. The compression spring is simple in structure and easy to install, so that the overall structure of the movable locking assembly 3 and the control mode thereof are facilitated to be simplified.

In another embodiment, the pre-pressing elastic member 31 may be a torsion spring, which is disposed coaxially with the fixed pivot axis and is also capable of applying a pivoting pre-pressure to the latch tongue pivoting end 321 in the door body closed state, so as to ensure that the locking member fastening portion 323 and the box fastening portion 11 are fastened to each other and are not easily disengaged.

In an embodiment, the fixed pivot axis may be higher than the bottom end of the locking member fastening portion 323 to ensure that the pivoting pre-pressure generated by the pre-pressing elastic member 31 has a downward component, so as to better ensure that the locking member fastening portion 323 and the box fastening portion 11 are fastened to each other.

It should be noted that the pre-stressed elastic member 31 may also be made of a material (e.g., plastic, metal, etc.) or a structure capable of providing a suitable torsion force, and is not limited to be provided as a spring structure, which is not listed here because there are many alternative embodiments.

In one embodiment, a manual control portion 324 for actuating the pivoting may be provided on the rotary latch 32 for manual control. For example, the manual control portion 324 may be disposed at different positions of the latch bolt pivoting end 321 or the latch bolt free end 322. When the manual control portion 324 is disposed at the latch bolt pivoting end 321, the manual control portion 324, the pivoting shaft 33 and the latch bolt free end 322 form a lever structure, so that the pre-pressing elastic member 31 and the locking member fastening portion 323 provide opposite torsion forces.

In one embodiment, referring to the figures, the rotary latch 32 further includes a finger recess 325 formed between the latch pivot end 321 and the latch free end 322, with the manual control portion 324 disposed on the latch pivot end 321 and at an open end of the finger recess 325.

Referring to fig. 6 to 8, for example, when it is required to open the door, a user may insert a finger into the finger groove 325 to break the manual control portion 324 upward, so that the compression spring is compressed by the manual control portion 324, and at the same time, the latch tongue free end 322 rotates upward to separate the locking piece fastening portion 323 and the box body fastening portion 11 from each other.

In one embodiment, the explanation can be continued with reference to fig. 6 to 8, but the structure of a part of the present embodiment is different from that of the previous embodiment, and only the marked member or structure is the same as that of the previous embodiment. In this embodiment, the free end 22 of the door body is formed with a locking piece mounting groove 23, and the movable locking assembly 3 includes a tensile elastic member and a rotary locking tongue 32. The rotary lock tongue 32 includes a lock tongue pivot end 321 and a lock tongue free end 322, and the lock tongue pivot end 321 is provided with a pivot shaft end protruding laterally. The groove side wall of the locking element mounting groove 23 is provided with a pivot mounting groove for receiving a pivot shaft end of the latch bolt pivot end 321, and the pivot mounting groove is formed in a long groove shape extending in the front-rear direction of the cabinet, and the latch bolt free end 322 can rotate relative to the latch bolt pivot end 321 and protrude rearward out of the locking element mounting groove 23. Further, a locking element catching portion 323 is formed on the latch tongue free end 322, and a tensile elastic member is connected between the latch tongue pivot end 321 and the groove front wall of the locking element mounting groove 23.

In other words, in the present embodiment, the pivot shaft end of the latch bolt pivot end 321 is slidable in the front-rear direction in the pivot mounting groove in the form of a long groove, and is pivotable at least at the rear end of the pivot mounting groove. Under this structure, when the needs closed door body, can control pivot axle head earlier and slide backward to the rear end of pivot mounting groove, then control spring bolt free end 322 upwards rotation, at the closed back of the door body, steerable spring bolt free end 322 is rotatory downwards so that closure part clamping part 323 and box clamping part 11 lock each other, and tensile elastic component is in tensile state this moment, and the leakproofness of the door body can effectively be guaranteed to its resilience force.

Generally, the flip type door 2 may be pivotally mounted at the bottom of the front end of the cooking cavity to be configured as a door structure capable of flipping downward. Of course, the flip-type door body 2 may be configured as an upward flip or a lateral flip, etc.

Specifically, the cooking apparatus 100 may be various types of home appliances such as a steam box, an oven, or a steam oven.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of the invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; may be mechanically coupled, may be electrically coupled or may be in communication with each other; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., 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 are not necessarily intended to 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. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A cooking apparatus, characterized in that the cooking apparatus (100) comprises:

the box body (1) comprises a cooking cavity and a box body outer wall surrounding the cooking cavity, and a box body buckling part (11) is arranged on the box body outer wall;

the flip type door body (2) is pivotally arranged at the front end of the cooking cavity; and

the movable locking component (3) is elastically arranged on the flip type door body (2) and comprises a locking component buckling part (323) matched with the box body buckling part (11).

2. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein two ends of the flip door (2) are respectively a door pivoting end (21) pivotally mounted at the front end of the cooking cavity and a door free end (22) capable of being turned over relative to the door pivoting end (21), and the movable locking assembly (3) is disposed at the door free end (22).

3. The cooking apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the door body free end (22) is formed with a locking piece mounting groove (23), the movable locking assembly (3) comprises a pre-pressed elastic member (31) and a rotary locking tongue (32) rotating around a fixed pivot axis, the rotary locking tongue (32) comprises a locking tongue pivot end (321) and a locking tongue free end (322), the locking tongue pivot end (321) is pivotally mounted in the locking piece mounting groove (23), and the locking tongue free end (322) can rotate relative to the locking tongue pivot end (321) and extends backwards out of the locking piece mounting groove (23);

the locking piece buckling part (323) is formed on the bolt free end (322), the prepressing elastic piece (31) acts on the bolt pivoting end (321) to provide pivoting prepressing force, and the locking piece buckling part (323) can be buckled with the box body buckling part (11) under the action of the pivoting prepressing force.

4. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the fixed pivot axis is perpendicular to a front-rear direction of the cabinet, and the pre-pressure elastic member (31) is a compression spring and is pressed between a front wall of the locking member mounting groove (23) and the locking tongue pivot end (321).

5. The cooking apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the fixed pivot axis is perpendicular to a front-rear direction of the case, and the fixed pivot axis is disposed higher than a bottom end of the locking member hooking part (323).

6. A cooking apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the pre-stressed elastic member (31) is a torsion spring arranged coaxially with the fixed pivot axis.

7. Cooking apparatus according to claim 3, characterized in that the rotary latch (32) is provided with a manual control (324) for actuating the pivoting.

8. The cooking apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the rotary latch (32) further comprises a finger recess (325) formed between the latch pivot end (321) and the latch free end (322), the manual control portion (324) being disposed on the latch pivot end (321) at an open end of the finger recess (325).

9. The cooking apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the door body free end (22) is formed with a locking piece mounting groove (23), the movable locking component (3) comprises a tensile elastic member and a rotary locking tongue (32), the rotary locking tongue (32) comprises a locking tongue pivot end (321) and a locking tongue free end (322), the locking tongue pivot end (321) is provided with a pivot shaft end with a side edge extending out, the groove side wall of the locking piece mounting groove (23) is provided with a pivot mounting groove for accommodating the pivot shaft end, the pivot mounting groove is formed in a long groove shape extending along the front-back direction of the box body, the locking tongue free end (322) can rotate relative to the locking tongue pivot end (321) and extends out of the locking piece mounting groove (23) backwards, the locking piece buckling part (323) is formed on the locking tongue free end (322), the tensile elastic member is connected with the locking tongue pivot end (321) and the groove of the locking piece mounting groove (23) Between the front walls.

10. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein the flip door body (2) is pivotally mounted at the bottom of the front end of the cooking cavity and is configured to flip downward.

11. The cooking device according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the cooking device (100) is a steam box, an oven or a steam oven.