CN111839175B

CN111839175B - Cooking appliance, control method of cooking appliance and readable storage medium

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Publication number: CN111839175B
Application number: CN201910365242.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘化勇; 梁志佳; 罗飞龙; 瞿月红
Original assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-30
Filing date: 2019-04-30
Publication date: 2022-09-20
Anticipated expiration: 2039-04-30
Also published as: CN111839175A

Abstract

The invention discloses a cooking appliance, a control method of the cooking appliance and a readable storage medium, wherein the cooking appliance comprises: a housing assembly having a cooking chamber and a storage chamber; a drive assembly, the drive assembly is located shell subassembly, cooking utensil is provided with the clean mode in storage cavity, the drive assembly is constructed to be in cooking utensil is in drive when the clean mode in storage cavity the liquid discharge in the storage cavity. According to the cooking appliance disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, automatic liquid drainage can be realized after the storage cavity is cleaned, the use by a user is more convenient, the hand of the user can be prevented from being dirtied, the use experience of the user is better, the storage cavity is convenient to clean, the influence on the food cleaning efficiency and the cooking taste due to the dust deposition in the storage cavity can be effectively prevented, and the food in the storage cavity is prevented from going bad.

Description

Cooking appliance, control method of cooking appliance and readable storage medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of kitchen appliances, in particular to a cooking appliance, a control method of the cooking appliance and a readable storage medium.

Background

In the related art, the rice cooker with the rice box can accumulate a lot of rice flour after the rice box is used for a long time, which not only affects the rice washing efficiency, but also affects rice at the rice outlet, and even more, if the cover is not closed in time when the rice box is used, the phenomena of mildew, worm generation and the like can even occur in the rice box, so that the product can not be used.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, the cooking appliance can automatically discharge liquid after the storage cavity is cleaned, and is beneficial to cleaning the storage cavity.

The invention further provides a control method of the cooking appliance.

A cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a housing assembly having a cooking chamber and a storage chamber; a drive assembly, the drive assembly is located shell subassembly, cooking utensil is provided with the clean mode in storage cavity, the drive assembly is constructed to be in cooking utensil is in drive when the clean mode in storage cavity the liquid discharge in the storage cavity.

According to the cooking appliance provided by the embodiment of the invention, the driving assembly can drive the liquid in the storage cavity to be discharged out of the storage cavity when the cooking appliance is in the storage cavity cleaning mode, so that automatic liquid discharge can be realized after the storage cavity is cleaned, the use by a user is more convenient, the hands of the user can be prevented from being dirtied, the use experience of the user is better, the storage cavity is more convenient to clean, the influence of dust deposition in the storage cavity on the cleaning efficiency and cooking taste of food materials can be effectively prevented, and the deterioration of the food materials in the storage cavity can be prevented.

In addition, the cooking appliance according to the above embodiment of the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:

according to some embodiments of the invention, the cooking appliance is further provided with a feeding mode, the storage cavity is positioned at one side of the cooking cavity, the housing assembly is provided with a feeding channel which is communicated with the storage cavity and the cooking cavity, an inlet of the feeding channel is positioned at the bottom of the storage cavity, an outlet of the feeding channel is positioned at the upper part of the cooking cavity, and the driving assembly is communicated with the feeding channel so as to drive liquid into the cooking cavity in the cleaning mode and drive food materials in the storage cavity into the cooking cavity in the feeding mode.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the drive assembly has a feed mode, a drain mode and a wash mode, the drive assembly being adapted to drive foodstuff in the accumulator chamber into the cooking chamber when it is in the feed mode, to drive liquid in the accumulator chamber into the cooking chamber when it is in the drain mode and to drive liquid in the accumulator chamber when it is in the wash mode.

Further, the drive assembly includes a drive motor rotatable in a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction, the drive motor rotating in the first direction in the feed mode and the drain mode and rotating in the second direction in the wash mode.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the cooking appliance further comprises: and the liquid adding assembly is used for adding liquid into the storage cavity.

Furtherly, the upper portion of storage cavity is equipped with the filling opening, the liquid feeding subassembly passes through the filling opening to the liquid feeding in the storage cavity.

In some embodiments of the invention, the refill assembly is further configured to fill the cooking chamber with liquid and to withdraw liquid from the cooking chamber and/or the holding chamber.

Further, the liquid feeding subassembly includes: the water pump is used for being connected with a water source; one end of the first water pipe is connected with the water pump, and the other end of the first water pipe is communicated with the cooking cavity; one end of the second water pipe is connected with the water pump, and the other end of the second water pipe is communicated with the material storage cavity; the drain pipe, the one end of drain pipe with the water pump links to each other and the other end and external intercommunication, the liquid of culinary art intracavity is in pass through in proper order under the drive of water pump first water pipe the water pump with the drain pipe is discharged, and/or, the liquid of storage intracavity is in pass through in proper order under the drive of water pump the second water pipe the water pump with the drain pipe is discharged.

Further, the water pump is arranged on the shell assembly, the first water pipe extends downwards into the cooking cavity, and the second water pipe is communicated with the upper portion of the material storage cavity.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the control method of the cooking appliance comprises a shell assembly and a driving assembly, wherein the shell assembly is provided with a cooking cavity and a storage cavity which is suitable for being communicated with the cooking cavity, and the driving assembly is arranged on the shell assembly, and the control method comprises the following steps: controlling the cooking appliance to enter a storage cavity cleaning mode; and after the liquid in the storage cavity is fed, controlling the driving assembly to work so as to discharge the liquid in the storage cavity.

Further, cooking utensil is equipped with and is used for to add the liquid feeding subassembly of liquid in the storage chamber, control cooking utensil gets into storage chamber clean mode, includes the following step: and liquid is automatically added into the material storage cavity through the liquid adding assembly.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the control method further comprises the steps of: drive liquid outflow before the storage cavity, to blow in the storage cavity, so that the liquid motion in the storage cavity is in order to wash the storage cavity.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the controlling the cooking appliance to enter a stock cavity cleaning mode comprises the steps of: controlling the driving assembly to work so as to drive the liquid in the storage cavity to the cooking cavity; pumping out the liquid in the cooking cavity and discharging the liquid out of the cooking appliance.

In some embodiments of the present invention, after controlling the driving assembly to operate to discharge the liquid in the storage chamber, the control method further comprises the steps of: and controlling the driving assembly to drive the air in the storage cavity to flow so as to dry the storage cavity.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the cooking appliance can be read by the computer program, and the computer program can realize the control method of the cooking appliance according to the embodiment of the invention when being executed by the cooking appliance.

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 view of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals are as follows:

a cooking appliance 100;

a housing assembly 10; a cooking chamber 101; a material storage chamber 102; a feed channel 103; a filling opening 104; a bin mouth 105; a storage lid 11;

a drive assembly 20;

a charging assembly 30; a water pump 31; a first water pipe 32; a second water pipe 33; a drain pipe 34; a water inlet pipe 35.

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 "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like are used in the positional or orientational relationships indicated in the drawings only for the convenience of description and simplicity of description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the invention. In the description of the present invention, "the first feature" and "the second feature" may include one or more of the features, and "a plurality" means two or more.

A cooking appliance 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1, a cooking appliance 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a housing assembly 10 and a drive assembly 20.

Specifically, the housing assembly 10 has a cooking cavity 101 and a storage cavity 102, and the storage cavity 102 can be used for storing food materials, and the food materials are closer to the cooking cavity 101, which is beneficial to improving the convenience of adding food materials into the cooking cavity 101.

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the housing assembly 10 may include a housing, alternatively, the storage chamber 102 may be formed by a housing, or the storage chamber 102 may be formed by a storage bin, and the storage bin may be disposed in the housing or outside the housing, which is within the scope of the present invention. In the related art, the rice cooker with the rice box can accumulate a lot of rice flour after the rice box is used for a long time, which not only affects the rice washing efficiency, but also affects rice at the rice outlet, and even more, if the cover is not closed in time when the rice box is used, the phenomena of mildew, worm generation and the like can even occur in the rice box, so that the product can not be used.

Thus, in the present invention, cooking appliance 100 is provided with a reservoir cleaning mode, and drive assembly 20 may be provided on housing assembly 10, with drive assembly 20 being configured to drive liquid within reservoir 102 out of reservoir 102 when cooking appliance 100 is in the reservoir cleaning mode. That is to say, can add liquid in the storage cavity 102, in order to wash storage cavity 102, prevent that storage cavity 102 from storing for a long time eating material and deposit a large amount of dust, prevent that the dust in storage cavity 102 from getting into cooking chamber 101 when cooking utensil 100 is in the feed mode and influencing the subsequent cleaning efficiency of eating material or the culinary art effect, be favorable to improving the culinary art taste of eating material, and can effectively avoid the long-time deposit of dust in storage cavity 102 to lead to edible material phenomenons such as moldy, the worm, be favorable to improving cooking utensil 100's health, make cooking utensil 100 can normal use. The driving assembly 20 can automatically discharge the liquid in the storage cavity 102 after the cleaning is completed, manual liquid discharge of a user is not needed, liquid discharge is cleaner, the user operation is simpler and more convenient, the user can be prevented from dirtying the hand, and the use experience of the user is improved. Alternatively, the drive assembly 20 may include a pump or a fan, etc.

According to the cooking appliance 100 provided by the embodiment of the invention, the driving assembly 20 can drive the liquid in the storage cavity 102 to be discharged out of the storage cavity 102 when the cooking appliance 100 is in the storage cavity cleaning mode, so that automatic liquid discharge can be realized after the storage cavity 102 is cleaned, the use by a user is more convenient, the hand of the user can be prevented from being dirtied, the use experience of the user is better, the storage cavity 102 is more convenient to clean, the influence of dust deposition in the storage cavity 102 on the food cleaning efficiency and the cooking taste can be effectively prevented, and the food in the storage cavity 102 is prevented from going bad.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 may also be provided with a feed mode, and the drive assembly 20 is further configured to drive the foodstuff within the accumulator 102 into the cooking chamber 101 when the cooking appliance 100 is in the feed mode. Thereby, automatic food material feeding of the cooking appliance 100 can be realized.

Traditional cooking utensils such as electric rice cooker need cook again after the manual work adds rice, and each process all leans on the staff to go on, and it is longer to consume time, and user operation is inconvenient to eat material addition volume and be difficult to control. In the use process of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the invention, the user does not need to add food materials manually, so that the user operation is simpler and the use is more convenient. Alternatively, the foodstuff stored by the bin 102 in the present invention may be rice, beans, and the like.

In addition, drive assembly 20 both can be used for throwing in edible material under the feeding mode, can be used for discharging the liquid in the storage cavity 102 under the storage cavity cleaning mode again, and storage cavity 102 drainage and feeding share a drive assembly 20, can reduce cooking utensil 100's spare part quantity, simplify cooking utensil 100's structure, reduction in production cost. And after the liquid for cleaning the storage cavity 102 enters the cooking cavity 101, the cooking cavity 101 can be cleaned, so that water resources are fully utilized, and water saving is facilitated.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the storage chamber 102 may be located at one side of the cooking chamber 101, a feeding channel 103 may be provided in the housing assembly 10 to connect the storage chamber 102 and the cooking chamber 101, and the ingredients or liquid in the storage chamber 102 may enter the cooking chamber 101 through the feeding channel 103 under the driving of the driving assembly 20.

In addition, referring to FIG. 1, the inlet of the feeding channel 103 can be located at the bottom of the storage cavity 102, so that the food material or liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be discharged out of the storage cavity 102 through the feeding channel 103 more completely, and the food material or liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be prevented from being deposited in the storage cavity 102 because the food material or liquid cannot be completely discharged out. And the export of feedstock channel 103 can be located the upper portion of culinary art chamber 101, makes edible material or liquid can get into culinary art chamber 101 through the accent of culinary art chamber 101, is favorable to improving the integrality of culinary art chamber 101, and structural design is reasonable. The driving assembly 20 can be communicated with the feeding channel 103 to drive the liquid to enter the cooking cavity 101 in the cleaning mode and drive the food material to enter the cooking cavity 101 in the feeding mode, the connection structure of the driving assembly 20 is simpler, the driving force of the driving assembly 20 on the food material and the liquid is more sufficient, and the driving assembly 20 is also beneficial to preventing the food material and the liquid from entering the driving assembly 20 to cause the waste of the food material or the damage of the driving assembly 20.

In embodiments where the drive assembly 20 can drive both the dispensing of food material and the discharge of liquid, the drive assembly 20 may optionally comprise a suction fan or a blower.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the drive assembly 20 may have a feed mode, a drain mode, and a wash mode. When the driving assembly 20 is in the feeding mode, the food material in the storage cavity 102 can be driven to enter the cooking cavity 101, so that the food material can be automatically fed. When the driving assembly 20 is in the liquid discharging mode, the liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be driven into the cooking cavity 101, so as to realize the automatic discharge of the liquid in the storage cavity 102. When the driving assembly 20 is in the washing mode, the liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be driven to move, so that when the cooking appliance 100 is in the storage cavity cleaning mode and the storage cavity 102 has liquid therein, the driving assembly 20 drives the liquid to move, for example, roll, in the storage cavity 102, so that the liquid can impact the wall surface of the storage cavity 102, thereby achieving the automatic cleaning of the storage cavity 102, and the cleaning effect is good, and the liquid cannot overflow from the storage cavity 102.

For example, in some embodiments, the drive assembly 20 draws foodstuff within the accumulator chamber 102 into the cooking chamber 101 in a feed mode, draws liquid within the accumulator chamber 102 into the cooking chamber 101 in a drain mode, and blows air into the accumulator chamber 102 to move liquid within the accumulator chamber 102 in a wash mode. In other embodiments, the drive assembly 20 blows the contents of the accumulator chamber 102 into the cooking chamber 101 in a feed mode, blows the contents of the accumulator chamber 102 into the cooking chamber 101 in a drain mode, draws air into the accumulator chamber 102 in a wash mode, or blows air into the accumulator chamber 102 with a flow rate less than the flow rate in the drain mode to move the contents of the accumulator chamber 102.

Alternatively, the drive assembly 20 may be provided at any position within the housing assembly 10, either at the upper, middle or lower portions, as the case may require.

Further, the drive assembly 20 may include a drive motor that is rotatable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction. The driving motor can rotate in a first direction in the feeding mode and the discharging mode to discharge the food or the liquid in the storage cavity 102, for example, the function of sucking the food or the liquid out of the storage cavity 102 can be achieved, and the driving motor can rotate in a second direction in the washing mode to drive the liquid in the storage cavity 102 to move, for example, the function of blowing the liquid into the storage cavity 102 can be achieved. The driving assembly 20 has a more concise working state and is easy to control.

In the present invention, the liquid for cleaning the material storage chamber 102 may be added manually by the user or automatically by the cooking utensil 100. For example, in some embodiments, as shown in FIG. 1, the housing assembly 10 can be provided with a spout 105 at the upper end thereof, such that a user can either insert food material into the storage chamber 102 through the spout 105, add liquid to the storage chamber 102 through the spout 105, or manually clean the storage chamber 102 through the spout 105. In addition, the bin opening 105 can be further provided with an openable and closable storage cover 11, the storage cover 11 can prevent external impurities from entering the storage cavity 102 to pollute food materials, and liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be prevented from splashing in the cleaning process.

For example, in other embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, cooking utensil 100 may further include liquid adding assembly 30, liquid adding assembly 30 may add liquid into storage chamber 102, a user does not need to add liquid manually, cooking utensil 100 may implement automatic liquid adding of storage chamber 102, and the use is more convenient.

Further, as shown in fig. 1, the upper portion of the storage cavity 102 may be provided with a liquid filling port 104, the liquid filling assembly 30 may fill liquid into the storage cavity 102 through the liquid filling port 104, and in the liquid filling process, the liquid enters the storage cavity 102 from the upper portion of the storage cavity 102, so that the larger range of the wall surface of the storage cavity 102 may be cleaned, which is beneficial to improving the cleaning effect. Alternatively, the fill port 104 may be located on an upper portion of a sidewall of the accumulator chamber 102, or may be located on a top wall of the accumulator chamber 102, all within the scope of the present invention.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the filler opening 104 can be configured to impart a swirling flow to the liquid as it is ejected from the filler opening 104 to spiral along the sidewall of the storage chamber 102, facilitating further enhanced cleaning. Or the impact force of the liquid on the side wall of the storage cavity 102 can be increased by controlling the water outlet pressure of the liquid filling port 104, which is also beneficial to further improving the cleaning effect.

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the liquid in the storage chamber 102 may be directly discharged to the outside, or may be discharged into the cooking chamber 101 first and then discharged from the cooking chamber 101 to the outside, and the liquid in the cooking chamber 101 may be manually poured by a user, or may be automatically discharged by the cooking appliance 100.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the priming assembly 30 is further configured to both add liquid to the cooking chamber 101 and withdraw liquid from the cooking chamber 101. From this, after eating the material and getting into culinary art chamber 101, can be through liquid feeding subassembly 30 to the interior liquid feeding of culinary art chamber 101 to eating the material to in the culinary art chamber 101 and wasing, can realize full self-cleaning and eat the material automatically with liquid discharge after the washing is accomplished, and be favorable to realizing eating the washing repeatedly of material, wash cleaner. And after eating material and wasing the completion, can be through liquid feeding subassembly 30 to cooking chamber 101 interior liquid feeding to in cook eating material, cooking utensil 100 can realize that full-automatic edible material washs and full-automatic edible material cooks, and the user uses and experiences better. In embodiments where the liquid in the holding chamber 102 is discharged to the cooking chamber 101, the liquid discharged to the cooking chamber 101 can also be drained through the charging assembly 30.

Alternatively, the liquid in the accumulator chamber 102 can be discharged directly by the charging assembly 30, i.e., both the charging assembly 30 and the driving assembly 20 can be used to discharge the liquid in the accumulator chamber 102, and in the event of a failure of one, the liquid can be discharged through the other, or both can be discharged simultaneously, to improve the liquid discharge efficiency.

The present invention is not limited to a particular configuration of the charging assembly 30. Alternatively, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the charging assembly 30 may comprise: a water pump 31, a first water pipe 32, a second water pipe 33, and a drain pipe 34. Wherein, the water pump 31 is connected with a water source to drive water from the water source to enter the cooking chamber 101 and the storage chamber 102. Here, the "water source" may be a component of the cooking appliance 100 itself, or may be an external component, such as a tap water faucet, a water storage tank, or a water purifier. Alternatively, the water pump 31 may be directly or indirectly connected to the water source, for example, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the water pump 31 is connected to the water source via an inlet tube 35.

Referring to fig. 1, one end of a first water pipe 32 may be connected to the water pump 31, and the other end of the first water pipe 32 may communicate with the cooking chamber 101, one end of a second water pipe 33 may be connected to the water pump 31, and the other end of the second water pipe 33 may communicate with the material storage chamber 102, one end of a drain pipe 34 may be connected to the water pump 31, and the other end of the drain pipe 34 may communicate with the outside.

From this, under the drive of water pump 31, the liquid at water source can be in proper order through water pump 31 and first water pipe 32 in order to cook chamber 101 liquid feeding, the liquid at water source can be in proper order through water pump 31 and second water pipe 33 in order to the liquid feeding to storage cavity 102, optionally, the liquid in the culinary art chamber 101 can be in proper order through first water pipe 32, water pump 31 and drain pipe 34 discharge, optionally, the liquid in the storage cavity 102 can be in proper order through second water pipe 33, water pump 31 and drain pipe 34 discharge, in order to realize eating the discharge of material cleaning process and the clean in-process liquid in storage cavity 102, waterway structure integrates, and simple structure.

It should be noted that in some embodiments, the water pump 31 may be a single water pump, that is, the first water pipe 32, the second water pipe 33 and the water discharge pipe 34 are all connected to the same water pump 31, and the water pump 31 can drive the liquid to enter the cooking chamber 101 and the storage chamber 102 and drive the liquid in the cooking chamber 101 and the storage chamber 102 to be discharged. In other embodiments, the number of the water pumps 31 may be two, that is, a water inlet pump and a water discharge pump, which are matched with each other, and the first water pipe 32 and the second water pipe 33 are connected to the water inlet pump, so that liquid is added to the cooking cavity 101 and the material storage cavity 102 under the driving of the water inlet pump; the drain pipe 34 can be connected with a drain water pump, under the drive of the drain water pump, the liquid in the cooking cavity 101 is discharged to the outside through the first water pipe 32, the water inlet pump, the drain water pump and the drain pipe 34 in sequence, the liquid in the storage cavity 102 is discharged to the outside through the second water pipe 33, the water inlet pump, the drain water pump and the drain pipe 34 in sequence, or the liquid in the storage cavity 102 is discharged to the outside through the first water pipe 32, the water inlet pump, the drain water pump and the drain pipe 34 in sequence after entering the cooking cavity 101.

Further, as shown in fig. 1, the water pump 31 may be disposed on the housing assembly 10, and the first water pipe 32 may extend downward into the cooking cavity 101, so as to enhance the impact effect on the food material in the cooking cavity 101 when adding liquid to the cooking cavity 101, so that the food material is cleaned more cleanly, and when discharging the liquid in the cooking cavity 101, the liquid is pumped more cleanly, which is also beneficial to improving the food material cleaning effect, and the cleanness of the cooking cavity 101 is ensured. The second water pipe 33 can be communicated with the upper part of the storage cavity 102 to feed liquid from the upper part of the storage cavity 102, the liquid can flow downwards from the upper part of the storage cavity 102, the cleaning area in the feeding process is larger, and the cleaning effect of the storage cavity 102 is better.

Optionally, in the present invention, the water pump 31 may be disposed above the cooking cavity 101 to shorten the extension length of each water path pipe, such as the first water pipe 32, the second water pipe 33, and the drain pipe 34, so that the structure is simpler, and each water path pipe does not need to be moved or bent repeatedly during the use of the cooking appliance 100, which is beneficial to reducing the risk of water leakage; or the water pump 31 may be disposed at a lower portion of the housing assembly 10, for example, may be disposed at a cooker body portion of the cooking appliance 100, so as to reduce the weight of the lid portion of the cooking appliance 100, and facilitate keeping the water pump 31 away from the electronic components, thereby preventing the electronic components from being damaged when the water pump 31 leaks water.

Alternatively, the cooking appliance 100 may be an electric cooker, a pressure cooker, or the like.

The present invention further provides a control method of a cooking appliance, the control method of the cooking appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention may be used to control the operation of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and may also be used to control the operation of other cooking appliances, and the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention may operate by using the control method of the cooking appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention, and may also operate by using other control methods. A control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below, taking the cooking appliance 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention as an example.

As shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 includes a housing assembly 10 and a driving assembly 20, the housing assembly 10 has a cooking chamber 101 and a storage chamber 102 capable of communicating with the cooking chamber 101, and the driving assembly 20 is disposed on the housing assembly 10. As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the control method may include the steps of:

s1: controlling the cooking appliance 100 to enter a storage cavity cleaning mode;

s2: after the feed chamber 102 is filled, the drive assembly 20 is controlled to operate to discharge the liquid from the feed chamber 102.

Therefore, the influence of dust deposition in the storage cavity 102 on the cleaning efficiency and the cooking taste of the food materials can be prevented, the food materials in the storage cavity 102 can be prevented from going bad, the automatic liquid drainage of the storage cavity 102 can be realized according to the control method provided by the embodiment of the invention, and the storage cavity 102 is more convenient to clean.

Optionally, when the driving assembly 20 is controlled to work to discharge the liquid in the storage cavity 102, the liquid may be directly discharged to the outside or discharged to the cooking cavity 101, and the liquid discharged from the storage cavity 102 enters the cooking cavity 101 and then is used for cleaning the cooking cavity 101, so as to fully utilize water resources, and contribute to saving water and reducing consumption.

Further, as shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 is provided with a liquid adding assembly 30 for adding liquid into the storage cavity 102, and the step of controlling the cooking appliance 100 to enter the storage cavity cleaning mode may include the following steps:

s3: liquid is automatically added to the storage chamber 102 by the liquid addition assembly 30.

Therefore, according to the control method provided by the embodiment of the invention, automatic liquid adding of the storage cavity 102 can be realized, a user does not need to add liquid manually, and the storage cavity 102 is simpler and more convenient to clean.

In some embodiments of the invention, the control method may further comprise the steps of:

s4: before driving the liquid out of the accumulator chamber 102, air is blown into the accumulator chamber 102 to move the liquid in the accumulator chamber 102 to purge the accumulator chamber 102.

Therefore, the control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can realize automatic cleaning of the storage cavity 102, a user does not need to manually clean the storage cavity, the storage cavity 102 is simpler and more convenient to clean, and the user experience is better.

In some embodiments of the present invention, controlling the cooking appliance 100 into the storage cavity cleaning mode may include the steps of:

s5: controlling the driving assembly 20 to work to drive the liquid in the storage cavity 102 to the cooking cavity 101;

s6: the liquid in the cooking cavity 101 is drawn out and discharged out of the cooking appliance 100.

Therefore, after the cooking cavity 101 is cleaned or food materials in the cooking cavity 101 are cleaned, the control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can realize automatic liquid drainage of the cooking cavity 101, so that manual operation steps of a user are further reduced, and the use experience is better.

In some embodiments, the cooking appliance 100 may include a detection unit that may be used to detect the amount of liquid within the storage chamber 102. Optionally, when feeding liquid into the storage cavity 102, the detecting unit may detect at least one of a water level, a weight, a flow rate, and a volume of the liquid added into the storage cavity 102, and when detecting that the liquid addition amount reaches a predetermined value, the cooking appliance 100 may control to stop adding liquid, or send a prompt message to the user to prompt the user to stop adding liquid. When the liquid in the storage cavity 102 is discharged, the detection unit may detect whether the liquid in the storage cavity 102 is completely discharged, and after detecting that the liquid discharge is completed, the cooking appliance 100 may control to stop the liquid discharge.

In some embodiments of the present invention, after controlling the operation of the drive assembly 20 to expel the liquid within the reservoir chamber 102, the control method may further comprise the steps of:

s7: the control drive assembly 20 drives the air flow within the accumulator chamber 102 to dry the accumulator chamber 102.

From this, can realize the rapid draing of storage cavity 102 to the drying is thorough, and the user can be after clean the completion will eat the material and add to storage cavity 102 in, need not long-time waiting, and the user need not manual dry storage cavity 102 of wiping, and it is more convenient to use.

The present invention also provides a readable storage medium of the cooking appliance 100, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program can implement the control method of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention when being executed by the cooking appliance 100.

The control method of the cooking appliance 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the following description is illustrative only and not to be construed as limiting the invention.

As shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 includes a housing assembly 10, a driving assembly 20, and a liquid feeding assembly 30, the housing assembly 10 having a cooking chamber 101, a stock chamber 102, and a feeding passage 103, the stock chamber 102 having a liquid feeding port 104 at an upper portion thereof, the liquid feeding assembly 30 including a water pump 31, a first water pipe 32, a second water pipe 33, a water discharging pipe 34, and a water feeding pipe 35.

As shown in fig. 3, a method for controlling a cooking appliance 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of:

s31: starting a storage cavity cleaning mode of the cooking appliance 100;

s32: starting the water pump 31 to open a passage through which the water pump 31 communicates with the second water pipe 33;

s33: a certain amount of water is injected into the material storage cavity 102 through the water pump 31 and the second water pipe 33;

s34: the water pump 31 is turned off;

s35: starting a washing mode of the driving assembly 20 to tumble water in the storage cavity 102 to clean the storage cavity 102;

s36: after the storage cavity 102 is cleaned, the driving assembly 20 is switched to a liquid discharging mode to pump the liquid in the storage cavity 102 into the cooking cavity 101 through the feeding channel 103;

s37: starting the water pump 31 to open a passage through which the water pump 31 communicates with the first water pipe 32;

s38: the water in the cooking chamber 101 is discharged through the first water pipe 32, the water pump 31 and the drain pipe 34 in sequence by the water pump 31.

Other configurations and operations of the cooking appliance 100 and the control method 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 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.

In the description herein, references to the description of the terms "embodiment," "particular embodiment," "example," 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 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 cooking appliance, comprising:

a housing assembly having a cooking chamber and a storage chamber for storing foodstuff;

drive assembly, drive assembly locates shell subassembly, cooking utensil is provided with the clean mode of storage cavity under the clean mode of storage cavity cooking utensil is right the storage cavity washs, drive assembly is constructed to be in cooking utensil is in drive during the clean mode of storage cavity the liquid discharge in the storage cavity, drive assembly has pay-off mode, flowing back mode and washing mode, drive assembly is in it is suitable for the drive during the pay-off mode edible material in the storage cavity gets into the cooking cavity, be in it is suitable for the drive during the flowing back mode liquid in the storage cavity gets into the cooking cavity and be in it is suitable for drive liquid during the washing mode and be in the motion in the storage cavity.

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance is further provided with a feed mode, the holding chamber is located at one side of the cooking chamber, the housing assembly is provided with a feed channel communicating the holding chamber and the cooking chamber, an inlet of the feed channel is located at a bottom of the holding chamber and an outlet of the feed channel is located at an upper portion of the cooking chamber, and the drive assembly is in communication with the feed channel to drive liquid into the cooking chamber in the cleaning mode and to drive food material in the holding chamber into the cooking chamber in the feed mode.

3. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the drive assembly includes a drive motor rotatable in a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction, the drive motor rotating in the first direction in the feed mode and the drain mode and rotating in the second direction in the wash mode.

4. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising:

and the liquid adding assembly is used for adding liquid into the storage cavity.

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein a filling port is provided at an upper portion of the storage chamber, and the filling assembly fills the storage chamber with liquid through the filling port.

6. The cooking appliance of claim 4, wherein the refill assembly is further configured to be adapted to refill the cooking chamber with liquid and to withdraw liquid from the cooking chamber and/or the holding chamber.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 6, wherein the refill assembly comprises:

the water pump is used for being connected with a water source;

one end of the first water pipe is connected with the water pump, and the other end of the first water pipe is communicated with the cooking cavity;

one end of the second water pipe is connected with the water pump, and the other end of the second water pipe is communicated with the material storage cavity;

the drain pipe, the one end of drain pipe with the water pump links to each other and the other end and external intercommunication, the liquid of culinary art intracavity is in pass through in proper order under the drive of water pump first water pipe the water pump with the drain pipe is discharged, and/or, the liquid of storage intracavity is in pass through in proper order under the drive of water pump the second water pipe the water pump with the drain pipe is discharged.

8. The cooking appliance of claim 7, wherein the water pump is disposed in the housing assembly, the first water pipe extends downwardly into the cooking chamber, and the second water pipe communicates with an upper portion of the holding chamber.

9. A method of controlling a cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the housing assembly has a cooking chamber and a holding chamber adapted to communicate with the cooking chamber, the method comprising the steps of:

controlling the cooking appliance to enter a storage cavity cleaning mode, and cleaning the storage cavity by the cooking appliance in the storage cavity cleaning mode;

after the liquid in the storage cavity is fed, controlling the driving assembly to work so as to discharge the liquid in the storage cavity.

10. The method for controlling the cooking utensil of claim 9, wherein the cooking utensil is provided with a liquid adding assembly for adding liquid into the storage cavity, and the cooking utensil is controlled to enter a storage cavity cleaning mode, and the method comprises the following steps:

and liquid is automatically added into the material storage cavity through the liquid adding assembly.

11. The method for controlling a cooking appliance according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

drive liquid outflow before the storage cavity, to blow in the storage cavity, so that the liquid motion in the storage cavity is in order to wash the storage cavity.

12. The method for controlling a cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the step of controlling the cooking appliance to enter a storage cavity cleaning mode comprises the steps of:

controlling the driving assembly to work so as to drive the liquid in the storage cavity to the cooking cavity;

pumping out the liquid in the cooking cavity and discharging the liquid out of the cooking appliance.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein after controlling the drive assembly to operate to expel the liquid from the reservoir chamber, the method further comprises the steps of:

and controlling the driving assembly to drive the air in the storage cavity to flow so as to dry the storage cavity.

14. A readable storage medium of a cooking appliance, characterized in that the readable storage medium has stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by the cooking appliance, implements a control method of the cooking appliance according to any one of claims 9-13.