CN112006523A

CN112006523A - Cooking utensil's holding subassembly and cooking utensil

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Publication number: CN112006523A
Application number: CN201910473449.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄韦铭; 刘化勇; 邝坚; 邢胜华; 罗飞龙; 羊小亮; 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: 2019-05-31
Filing date: 2019-05-31
Publication date: 2020-12-01
Anticipated expiration: 2039-05-31
Also published as: CN112006523B

Abstract

The invention discloses a containing assembly of a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance, wherein the cooking appliance comprises a body part, a cooking cavity is arranged in the body part, the containing assembly is arranged in the cooking cavity and divides the cooking cavity into a containing cavity, a medium replacing cavity and a liquid channel communicated with the medium replacing cavity and the containing cavity, the containing assembly is arranged to replace a liquid second medium in the medium replacing cavity by using a gaseous first medium, so that the replaced second medium can enter the containing cavity through the liquid channel, the lower inlet of the liquid channel is lower than the highest point of the medium replacing cavity, and the lower part of the liquid channel is surrounded by the medium replacing cavity. According to the containing assembly provided by the embodiment of the invention, the liquid flow is controllable, the liquid can continuously wash the food materials, the food materials are more fully contacted with the liquid, the cooking effect is better, the second medium in the medium replacement cavity flows to the containing cavity from the lower part to the higher part more easily, and the washing effect on the food materials is favorably improved.

Description

Cooking utensil's holding subassembly and cooking utensil

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of kitchen equipment, in particular to a containing assembly of a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance.

Background

Draining rice, also called retort rice, which comprises the key steps of: boiling the washed rice in water, taking out the soup rice after a proper time, filtering, putting the filtered rice on a steamer for steaming, and keeping the rice soup for drinking.

The existing electric cooker can realize the function of draining rice, after the rice is put into the electric cooker, the rice is firstly soaked in water, and the rice and water separation is realized after the rice is boiled to a boiling state for a period of time. However, the cooked rice has high sugar content, which is not suitable for diabetics, and the user is easy to become fat after eating the cooked rice.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a container assembly for a cooking appliance, which can control the flow of liquid, so that the food material can contact with the liquid more sufficiently, and the container assembly is beneficial to cooking rice with lower sugar content.

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

According to the embodiment of the invention, the cooking appliance comprises a body part which is provided with a cooking cavity, the body part is arranged in the cooking cavity and divides the cooking cavity into a containing cavity, a medium replacing cavity and a liquid passage which communicates the medium replacing cavity and the containing cavity, wherein the containing component is arranged to replace a liquid second medium in the medium replacing cavity by a gaseous first medium so that the replaced second medium can enter the containing cavity through the liquid passage, the containing component is also arranged to enter the medium replacing cavity by the second medium which is out of the medium replacing cavity and is in a liquid state so as to occupy at least a part of the space occupied by the first medium, and a lower inlet of the liquid passage is lower than the highest point of the medium replacing cavity, and the lower part of the liquid channel is surrounded by the medium replacement cavity.

According to the cooking appliance disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the medium replacement is realized by utilizing the medium replacement cavity, so that the liquid second medium in the medium replacement cavity can enter the containing cavity through the liquid channel, the liquid flow becomes controllable, the liquid can continuously wash the food materials, the food materials are more fully contacted with the liquid, and the cooking effect of the food materials is favorably improved. And liquid channel and medium replacement chamber cooperation lead to liquid, and it is easier to make the second medium of medium replacement intracavity flow to holding the intracavity to the eminence by the low department, is favorable to improving the washing effect to eating the material.

In addition, the containing assembly of the cooking utensil according to the above embodiment of the invention may also have the following additional technical features:

according to the containing assembly of the cooking appliance, a liquid outlet for discharging liquid in the containing cavity out of the containing cavity is formed in the cavity wall of the containing cavity.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the upper outlet of the liquid channel is higher than the lowest point of the containing cavity and is surrounded by the containing cavity.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the medium replacement lumen, the containment lumen and the liquid channel are arranged coaxially.

In some embodiments of the invention, the containing assembly comprises: the containing part extends into the cooking cavity, and the containing cavity is formed by the containing part; the medium replacement part is arranged in the cooking cavity and positioned below the containing part, and the medium replacement cavity is formed by the medium replacement part or formed by matching the medium replacement part with the body part; a conduit, the fluid passage being formed by the conduit, the conduit penetrating the containing portion and the medium displacing portion such that an upper portion of the conduit extends into the containing chamber, and a lower portion of the conduit extends into the medium displacing chamber.

Optionally, the medium replacement part comprises: the upper peripheral edge of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part is in sealing contact with the lower part of the containing part, and the medium replacement cavity is formed by matching the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part, the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity and the lower part of the containing part, wherein the lower peripheral edge of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part is connected with the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity, or at least one part of the lower peripheral edge of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part is adjacent to and spaced from the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity so as to form a liquid return port communicating a gap between the containing part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity and the medium replacement cavity.

Further, the maximum distance L2 between the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity satisfies 0mm L2 mm 3mm, and more preferably 0mm L2 mm 0.5 mm.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the media displacement portion peripheral wall is configured to extend obliquely upwardly and inwardly along an axial direction thereof.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the bottom wall surface of the containing part is provided with a gas exhausting micropore communicating the containing cavity and the medium replacing cavity.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the bottom wall of the containing part is provided with a mounting hole, the conduit is inserted into the mounting hole, a downward protruding flange is arranged at the mounting hole, the outer circumferential surface of the conduit is provided with a positioning flange, the inner circumferential surface of the flange abuts against the outer circumferential surface of the conduit, and the lower end of the flange abuts against the positioning flange.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the distance H of the lower inlet from the bottom wall surface of the cooking chamber satisfies 0mm H20 mm, and more preferably 3mm H5 mm.

The cooking appliance comprises a containing assembly of the cooking appliance.

Further, the body part includes: pot body portion and upper cover portion, the upper cover portion lid is located pot body portion and with pot body portion cooperation forms the culinary art chamber, hold the peak distance of subassembly upper cover portion distance L1 satisfies 0mm and is less than or equal to L1 and is less than or equal to 3mm, and further preferred 0mm is less than or equal to L1 and is less than or equal to 1 mm.

Further, a handle is configured at the upper part of the containing assembly, and the highest point of the containing assembly is positioned at the handle.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the cooking appliance has a heating element controllable in at least one of heating time and heating power, the heating element being adapted to heat the liquid in the medium displacement chamber to boil to form the first medium.

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 schematic structural diagram of a cooking appliance in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, wherein the first medium does not replace the second medium in the medium displacement chamber;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a cooking appliance in which a first medium displaces a second medium in a chamber according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of an angle between an inner pan of a body portion of a cooking appliance and a holding assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another angle of the inner pan and the holding assembly of the body portion of the cooking appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a top view of the inner pan and containment assembly of the body portion of the cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line E-E of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of an angled configuration of a containment assembly of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of another angle of the container assembly of the cooking appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a top view of a holding assembly of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view taken along line F-F of FIG. 10;

FIG. 12 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. 1 at circle A;

FIG. 13 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. 1 at circle B;

FIG. 14 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. 1 at circle C;

fig. 15 is an enlarged schematic view of fig. 1 at circle D.

Reference numerals:

a cooking appliance 100; food material 200; a first medium 300; a second medium 400;

a body portion 10; a cooking chamber 101; a pot body part 11; an upper lid portion 12;

a holding assembly 20; a containing chamber 201; a media displacement chamber 202; a liquid channel 203; a drain port 204; a liquid return port 205; a housing portion 21; the exhaust micro-holes 211; mounting holes 212; a flange 213; a medium replacement section 22; a conduit 23; a positioning flange 231; a handle 24;

a heating member 30.

Detailed Description

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

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like, indicate orientations and positional relationships based on the orientations and positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are used merely for convenience in describing the present invention and for simplicity in description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element so referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present 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.

The cooking appliance 100 and the holding assembly 20 of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 15, according to the cooking appliance 100 of the embodiment of the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 may be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpot, an induction cooker or a health preserving pot, and the cooking appliance 100 is exemplified as an electric cooker in the present application, but this is not a limitation to the scope of the present invention. After reading the description of the present application, it is obvious for a person of ordinary skill in the art to apply the cooking appliance 100 of the present application to an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpan, an induction cooker, a health preserving pot, or the like, with the knowledge of the technical idea of the present application.

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

Specifically, the body part 10 has a cooking cavity 101 therein, the holding assembly 20 is provided in the cooking cavity 101, and the holding assembly 20 divides the cooking cavity 101 into a holding cavity 201, a medium replacement cavity 202 and a liquid passage 203. Wherein, hold the chamber 201 and be used for holding edible material 200, for example rice, optionally, medium replacement chamber 202 can be located and hold the below of chamber 201, holds chamber 201 intercommunication medium replacement chamber 202 and holds chamber 201. In some embodiments, the cooking cavity 101 may be a cavity defined by the pan body portion 11 and the upper cover portion 12 of the body portion 10.

The containing assembly 20 is configured to replace the liquid second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 with the gaseous first medium 300, so that the replaced second medium 400 can enter the containing cavity 201 through the liquid channel 203, and the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201 is sprayed and flushed, so that the food material 200 is fully contacted with the liquid. In the related art, the food materials are soaked in the liquid for a long time, and the food materials are in liquid mixing contact through liquid boiling, so that the mixing effect is poor, the liquid is not fully contacted with the food materials, and the mixing contact effect of the food materials and the liquid is worse at the stage of non-boiling of the liquid. And in this application, liquid second medium 400 is by medium replacement chamber 202 inflow hold chamber 201, makes the contact of liquid and edible material 200 not rely on the boiling of liquid to liquid flow is more abundant, and then makes liquid and edible material 200 contact more abundant, is favorable to improving the culinary art effect of edible material 200.

It should be noted that the first medium 300 may come from outside the medium replacement cavity 202, and the second medium 400 may be replaced by entering the medium replacement cavity 202; alternatively, the first medium 300 may be from inside the medium replacement cavity 202, for example, by heating the medium to replace the liquid, such as water, in the cavity 202, so that the gaseous first medium 300 is formed inside, and the first medium 300 may drain the liquid from the medium replacement cavity 202 to the liquid channel 203 from inside; of course, the source of the first medium 300 may also be a combination of the above two possibilities, but is not limited thereto. In addition, it should be noted that the first medium 300 may be water vapor and the second medium 400 may be water, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

For another example, the containing assembly 20 is further configured to utilize the second medium 400 outside the medium replacement cavity 202 and in a liquid state to enter the medium replacement cavity 202 to occupy at least a portion of the space occupied by the first medium 300, so as to allow the liquid in the containing cavity 201 to exit the containing cavity 201, and during the liquid exiting process, the liquid flows to flush the food material 200, so as to improve the sufficiency of contact with the food material 200. In other words, the liquid second medium 400 may enter the medium replacement cavity 202 to occupy at least a portion of the space previously occupied by the first medium 300, for example, when the cooking utensil 100 stops heating or the heating power is reduced, the first medium 300, such as water vapor, in the medium replacement cavity 202 is liquefied, and the liquid second medium 400, such as water, outside the medium replacement cavity 202 enters the medium replacement cavity 202 to replace the space previously occupied by the first medium 300.

In addition, when the volume of the medium replacement cavity 202 is not changed, the gas charging and discharging device can be used for charging gas into the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the pressure in the medium replacement cavity 202 is increased, and the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 enters the containing cavity 201 through the liquid channel 203; in an embodiment where the liquid in the holding chamber 201 can flow back to the medium replacement chamber 202, the air can be pumped from the medium replacement chamber 202 by using an air charging and discharging device, so that the pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202 is reduced, thereby achieving the effect of flowing back. When the volume of the cooking chamber 11 is variable, the function of flowing the liquid between the housing chamber 201 and the medium replacement chamber 202 can be also realized by inflating the medium replacement chamber 202 or extracting the gas in the medium replacement chamber 202 by using the gas inflating and deflating device.

In some embodiments, the liquid level in the containing chamber 201 can be increased after the second medium 400 in the medium replacement chamber 202 enters the containing chamber 201 through the liquid passage 203, while in other embodiments, the containing assembly 20 can be provided with a liquid outlet 204 for discharging the liquid in the containing chamber 201, so that the second medium 400 entering the containing chamber 201 can be further discharged through the liquid outlet 204, and the liquid level in the containing chamber 201 can be kept constant. Alternatively, the second medium 400 discharged from the holding chamber 201 may flow back into the medium replacement chamber 202.

Alternatively, in the present invention, the position of the liquid discharge port 204 may be flexibly set according to actual conditions. In some embodiments, the liquid outlet 204 may be disposed on a side wall of the containing chamber 201 as shown in fig. 8 and 9, in other embodiments, the liquid outlet 204 may also be disposed on a bottom wall of the containing chamber 201, and in still other embodiments, both the side wall and the bottom wall of the containing chamber 201 may be disposed with the liquid outlet 204, which is also within the scope of the present invention.

Furthermore, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1-3, the lower inlet of the liquid channel 203 is below the highest point of the media displacement chamber 202, and the lower portion of the liquid channel 203 is enclosed by the media displacement chamber 202. The gaseous first medium 300 can be effectively accumulated in the upper part of the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the liquid second medium 400 flows downwards in the medium replacement cavity 202 and then enters the liquid channel 203 from the lower inlet of the liquid channel 203, and the second medium 400 flows upwards in the liquid channel 203 to the containing cavity 201, so that the liquid second medium 400 is guided. The volume of the medium replacement cavity 202 is larger, pressure boosting is facilitated, the second medium 400 is prevented from being difficult to discharge into the liquid channel 203 due to the fact that the first medium 300 is discharged through the liquid channel 203, the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 flows from the lower part to the higher part more easily, and the efficiency of flushing the food material 200 by the second medium 400 is improved. And the lower inlet of the fluid passage 203 may be spaced apart from the rim of the containing assembly 20 to prevent the second medium 400 from flowing out of the medium replacement chamber 202 from the rim of the containing assembly 20, and to guide the second medium 400 into the fluid passage 203 more effectively.

Taking the cooking process of draining rice of the electric cooker as an example, in some embodiments, the working process of the cooking apparatus 100 may mainly include a boiling stage and a rice steaming stage, in the boiling stage, the electric cooker mainly heats periodically, after the boiling stage is finished, the electric cooker enters the rice steaming stage, and in the rice steaming stage, rice and water are separated.

Specifically, the specific working process of the electric cooker is as follows: during the cooking process of the electric cooker, firstly, a proper amount of clean water is poured into the cooking cavity 101, then the containing assembly 20 is placed into the cooking cavity 101, the water level in the cooking cavity 101 is enabled to be approximately higher than the highest point of the medium replacement cavity 202 (certainly, the water level can also be properly higher than the highest point of the medium replacement cavity 202 or properly lower than the highest point of the medium replacement cavity 202), and then the washed rice is placed into the containing cavity 201, wherein it should be noted that after the rice is placed into the containing cavity 201, the rice can be completely separated from water, the water can also be submerged into a part of the rice, and the water can also be submerged into all the rice. As shown in fig. 2, the rice water at this time may be separated, i.e., rice above, water below, and rice not soaked in water.

As shown in fig. 3, the electric rice cooker starts to heat the cooking cavity 101, when water in the cooking cavity 101 boils, a large amount of bubbles are generated in the water in the cooking cavity 101, a part of the bubbles are stored in the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the pressure in the medium replacement cavity 202 is increased, the water in the medium replacement cavity 202 is discharged into the liquid channel 203 as shown by an arrow in fig. 3 under the action of the pressure, and then enters the containing cavity 201 from the liquid channel 203, the water is in contact with the rice in the containing cavity 201, so that the rice can be boiled, and the rice can be washed in the process that the water enters the containing cavity 201, so that sugar in the rice can be separated out.

When the water level in the containing cavity 201 reaches a certain height, the electric cooker stops heating in time after being sensed by a time sensor or a signal sensor or by other known means, the water vapor in the medium replacing cavity 202 is rapidly cooled and liquefied, the pressure in the medium replacing cavity 202 is reduced, then the water in the containing cavity 201 can flow back to the medium replacing cavity 202, the water level in the containing cavity 201 is rapidly reduced, the water in the containing cavity 201 passes through the rice and falls off in the process of reducing the water level in the containing cavity 201, the water in the containing cavity 201 can also flush the rice, and the electric cooker can also realize rice-water separation discontinuously in the cooking process, for example, the electric cooker can repeatedly heat and stop the cooking cavity 101 by controlling control programs such as equivalent heating power and the like, and the water in the containing cavity 201 can repeatedly rise and fall back in the process of repeatedly heating the cooking cavity 101 by controlling the electric cooker, the water washes the rice in the repeated rising and falling processes, then the clear water gradually becomes rice soup, most of sugar in the rice is dissolved in the rice soup, and the sugar content of the rice is effectively reduced. After the boiling stage is finished, the electric cooker enters a rice steaming stage, rice and water are separated in the rice steaming stage, and the rice soup temperature is kept to be more than 80 ℃ by a control program, so that rice is steamed or braised.

And, electric rice cooker is at the boiling stage, through water at medium replacement chamber 202 with hold the intracavity 201 circulation flow, water can wash away the rice repeatedly, can further reduce the content of sugar in the rice, after the user eats up the rice, can make the user be difficult to fatten, simultaneously, also can make the rice be heated evenly, can make the rice fully absorb moisture to can prevent that rice from pressing from both sides the life, and then can promote the taste of rice.

In addition, in the rice steaming stage, because the water in the electric cooker is evaporated in the early stage and absorbs water from the rice, the original water level is reduced, and optionally, the distance from the water level in the final cooking cavity 101 to the rice at the bottom layer is more than or equal to 4mm in order to ensure the effects of separating the rice from the water and steaming the rice and prevent the rice from soaking the rice by rice soup.

According to the containing assembly 20 of the cooking appliance 100, the medium replacement is realized by using the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the liquid second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 can enter the containing cavity 201 through the liquid channel 203, the liquid flow becomes controllable, the liquid can continuously wash the food materials, the food materials are more fully contacted with the liquid, and the cooking effect of the food materials is improved. And the liquid channel 203 and the medium replacement cavity 202 are matched to guide liquid, so that the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 flows from the lower part to the higher part to the containing cavity 201 more easily, and the flushing effect on food materials is improved.

Since the containing assembly 20 of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention has the above beneficial technical effects, according to the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the medium replacement is realized by using the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the liquid-state second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 can enter the containing cavity 201 through the liquid channel 203, the liquid flow becomes controllable, the liquid can continuously wash the food material, the food material is more sufficiently contacted with the liquid, and the cooking effect of the food material is favorably improved. And the liquid channel 203 and the medium replacement cavity 202 are matched to guide liquid, so that the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 flows from the lower part to the higher part to the containing cavity 201 more easily, and the flushing effect on food materials is improved.

Optionally, the chamber wall that holds chamber 201 can be provided with leakage fluid dram 204, and leakage fluid dram 204 is used for making the liquid discharge that holds in the chamber 201 hold chamber 201 to make liquid can be holding chamber 201 and medium replacement chamber 202 inner loop flow, and then realize the repeated washing away of edible material 200 that holds in the chamber 201, it is better with the effect of liquid contact sufficiency to improve edible material 200. For example, in the embodiment shown in fig. 4 to 7, a plurality of liquid discharge ports 204 are disposed on the sidewall of the containing cavity 201, the upper outlet of the liquid passage 203 is disposed at the middle portion of the containing cavity 201, the second medium 400 flows into the containing cavity 201 from the middle portion of the containing cavity 201 and then flows toward the sidewall of the containing cavity 201 along the horizontal direction to be discharged from the liquid discharge ports 204 on the sidewall, and the second medium 400 has a larger range to wash the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201, so that the washing is more sufficient.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the liquid outlet 204 may also serve as a steam hole for steam to enter, for example, in a rice draining process of the electric rice cooker, after a rice steaming stage, rice is separated from water, and water vapor generated by water heating may enter the containing cavity 201 through the liquid outlet 204 to heat the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201, so as to achieve rice steaming or rice stewing, without an additional steam hole, the structure of the containing assembly 20 is simpler.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 7, an upper outlet of the liquid channel 203 may be higher than the lowest point of the containing cavity 201, and the upper outlet of the liquid channel 203 is surrounded by the containing cavity 201, so as to prevent the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201 from entering the liquid channel 203 through the upper outlet and causing the food material 200 to enter the medium replacement cavity 202, which affects normal cooking, and at the same time, increase an impact force on the food material 200 when the second medium 400 flows out from the upper outlet, which is beneficial to improving a flushing effect.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 7, the medium replacement cavity 202, the containing cavity 201 and the liquid channel 203 may be coaxially disposed, which is beneficial to reduce the resistance of the second medium 400 flowing in the medium replacement cavity 202, the liquid channel 203 and the containing cavity 201, and the second medium 400 flows more smoothly. And the structure that holds subassembly 20 is more even, is favorable to making to hold subassembly 20 atress more even, improves the stability that holds subassembly 20.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 8-11, the holding assembly 20 may include: a holding portion 21, a medium replacement portion 22, and a conduit 23. Wherein, hold portion 21 and stretch into cooking chamber 101 in, hold chamber 201 and form by holding portion 21, medium replacement portion 22 sets up in cooking chamber 101 to medium replacement portion 22 is located the below that holds portion 21, in the upper and lower direction, can reduce medium replacement portion 22 and the whole projection area who holds portion 21, under the certain circumstances of cooking utensil 100's size, can be convenient for put into cooking chamber 101 with medium replacement portion 22 and holding. Moreover, the heights of the medium replacement part 22 and the accommodating part 21 can be adjusted to better adapt to all-kind cooking appliances 100, and the requirements of different cooking appliances 100 such as an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an induction cooker and the like are met.

Alternatively, the media replacement chamber 202 may be formed by the media replacement part 22, and the media replacement chamber 202 may also be formed by the media replacement part 22 and the body part 10 in cooperation as shown in fig. 1 and 7, which are all within the scope of the present invention. In addition, the liquid passage 203 may be formed by a conduit 23, the conduit 23 penetrating the containing portion 21 and the medium displacing portion 22 such that an upper portion of the conduit 23 protrudes into the containing chamber 201 and a lower portion of the conduit 23 protrudes into the medium displacing chamber 202. The containing part 21 and the medium replacing part 22 are communicated through the conduit 23, so that the second medium 400 in the medium replacing cavity 202 can flow upwards into the containing cavity 201 through the conduit 23, and the structure of the containing assembly 20 is simpler.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments, the containing part 21 and the medium replacing part 22 may be integrated into a whole, as shown in fig. 11, the bottom wall of the containing part 21 is the top wall of the medium replacing part 22, and the conduit 23 penetrates through the cavity wall and penetrates out from the upper surface and the lower surface of the cavity wall to extend into the containing cavity 201 and the medium replacing cavity 202. In other embodiments, the containing part 21 and the medium replacing part 22 may be separate pieces, that is, the bottom wall of the containing part 21 and the top wall of the medium replacing part 22 are two cavity walls, and the conduit 23 is respectively inserted through the bottom wall of the containing part 21 and the top wall of the medium replacing part 22 to extend into the containing cavity 201 and the medium replacing cavity 202.

Further, as shown in fig. 11, the medium replacement part 22 may include a medium replacement part peripheral wall, an upper peripheral edge of the medium replacement part peripheral wall is connected to a lower portion of the containing part 21, and the medium replacement cavity 202 is formed by matching the medium replacement part peripheral wall, an inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101, and the lower portion of the containing part 21, so that the medium replacement part 22 has a simple structure, which is beneficial to simplifying a production mold and reducing production cost.

In some embodiments, the lower periphery of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part can be matched with the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101, for example, in sealing contact with the medium replacement part 22, so that the medium replacement part 21 can be fixed, the assembly 20 is fixed and stable, and the sealing contact is favorable for improving the boosting efficiency in the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the flushing efficiency of the food material 200 is improved. Optionally, the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part may be provided with a liquid return hole, and the liquid return hole communicates with the gap between the inner wall surfaces of the containing part 21 and the cooking cavity 101 and the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the second medium 400 flows from the containing cavity 201 to the gap between the inner wall surfaces of the containing part 21 and the cooking cavity 101, and then further flows back to the medium replacement cavity 202 through the liquid return hole, so as to realize backflow, which is favorable for realizing the circulation flow of the second medium 400 in the cooking appliance 100, and repeatedly flushing the food material 200.

In other embodiments, at least a portion of the lower peripheral edge of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part may be adjacent to and spaced apart from the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101 to form the liquid return port 205, and the liquid return port 205 communicates the gap between the containing part 21 and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101 and the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the second medium 400 flows from the containing cavity 201 to the gap between the containing part 21 and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101, and then further flows back into the medium replacement cavity 202 through the liquid return port 205 to realize backflow, which is favorable for realizing the circulation flow of the second medium 400 in the cooking appliance 100 and repeatedly flushing the food material 200.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 12, the maximum distance L2 between the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101 may satisfy 0L 23 mm, for example, L2 may be 0.5mm, 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5mm, etc. in some embodiments. The distance between the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity 101 is too large, and the first medium 300 and the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 are discharged from the medium replacement cavity 202 through the liquid return port 205, so that the pressure in the medium replacement cavity 202 is increased, and the second medium 400 is prevented from flowing into the liquid passage 203. Within the above size range, the first medium 300 in the medium replacement chamber 202 can be smoothly accumulated, so that the air pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202 can be easily increased during boiling, and the second medium 400 can mostly enter the containing chamber 201 from the liquid passage 203, so as to improve the washing effect on the food material 200.

Further, the maximum distance L2 between the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part and the inner wall surface of the cooking chamber 101 may preferably be 0mm or more and L2 or less and 0.5mm or less, and in this size range, the pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202 is more easily raised and the second medium 400 is more easily introduced into the liquid passage 203.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 11 and 12, the medium replacement part peripheral wall may be configured to extend obliquely upward and inward in the axial direction thereof, that is, the diameter of the medium replacement part peripheral wall is gradually changed, a small diameter end (e.g., the upper end in fig. 11) of the medium replacement part peripheral wall is connected to the lower portion of the containing part 21, a large diameter end (e.g., the lower end in fig. 11) of the medium replacement part peripheral wall is a free end, and the large diameter end of the medium replacement part peripheral wall extends in a direction away from the containing part 21. Therefore, the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part blocks the first medium 300 in the medium replacement cavity 202 from flowing out of the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the speed of the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 flowing into the liquid channel 203 can be increased, and the flushing efficiency of the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201 can be increased.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, the bottom wall surface of the containing portion 21 may be provided with air-discharge micro holes 211, and the air-discharge micro holes 211 communicate the containing chamber 201 with the medium replacing chamber 202. First medium 300 in the medium replacement chamber 202 can be arranged to holding the chamber 201 through exhaust micropore 211, can prevent on the one hand that medium replacement chamber 202 internal gas pressure is too high and the incident takes place, and on the other hand, first medium 300 can strike the edible material 200 that holds in the chamber 201 to the messenger holds the edible material 200 that holds in the chamber 201 not hard up or roll, and then does benefit to second medium 400 and holds the edible material 200 full contact in the chamber 201, is favorable to improving the homogeneity of edible material 200 culinary art.

The present invention is not particularly limited to the connection structure of the containing part 21 and the guide tube 23, and optionally, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 13, the bottom wall of the containing part 21 may be provided with a mounting hole 212, and the guide tube 23 may be inserted into the mounting hole 212 to limit the guide tube 23 from the radial direction of the guide tube 23. In addition, a flange 213 protruding downwards is arranged at the mounting hole 212, a positioning flange 231 is arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the conduit 23, the inner circumferential surface of the flange 213 can abut against the outer circumferential surface of the conduit 23 to further fix the conduit 23, so that the conduit 23 is not prone to shaking, the lower end of the flange 213 can abut against the positioning flange 231 to limit the conduit 23 in the axial direction of the conduit 23, the conduit 23 is prevented from being separated upwards from the containing part 21 when the air pressure in the medium replacement cavity 202 is too high, and the conduit 23 is more reliably connected with the containing part 21.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 14, the body portion 10 may include: the pot body part 11 and the upper cover part 12, the upper cover part 12 is covered on the pot body part 11 and is matched with the pot body part 11 to form the cooking cavity 101, the distance L1 between the highest point of the containing assembly 20 and the upper cover part 12 can satisfy that the distance L1 is not less than 0mm and not more than 3mm, for example, in some specific embodiments, the distances L1 can be respectively 0.5mm, 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5mm and the like. The upper cover part 12 is close to the highest point of the containing component 20, so that the containing component 20 can be limited, and the containing component 20 is prevented from being jacked up by overlarge pressure when liquid is boiled.

Further, the distance L1 between the highest point of the containing component 20 and the upper cover part 12 can be preferably 0mm or more and L1 or more and 1mm or less, and within the size range, the upper cover part 12 has a better limiting effect on the containing component 20, and can also effectively prevent the containing component 20 from vibrating in the cooking cavity 101 to cause overlarge cooking noise.

Still further, as shown in fig. 4 to 7, the upper portion of the containing assembly 20 may be configured with a handle 24 for facilitating the access of the containing assembly 20, and the highest point of the containing assembly 20 is located at the handle 24, that is, the highest point of the handle 24 is spaced apart from the upper lid portion 12 by a distance L1. Not only be convenient for the user to hold handle 24, be convenient for simultaneously hold subassembly 20 and upper cover portion 12 and pot body portion 11 cooperation, for example in some embodiments, hold the upper portion of subassembly 20 and can support in pot body portion 11, handle 24 can be upwards surpassed the upper end of pot body portion 11 in order to cooperate with upper cover portion 12, and structural design is reasonable.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 15, the distance H from the lower inlet of the liquid channel 203 to the bottom wall surface of the containing chamber 201 may satisfy 0mm ≦ H ≦ 20mm, for example, in some embodiments, H may be 2mm, 5mm, 10mm, 15mm, 18mm, and the like, respectively. Too close a distance between the lower inlet and the bottom wall surface of the containing cavity 201 increases the resistance of the second medium 400 entering the liquid channel 203, which affects the washing efficiency of the food material 200. When the distance between the lower inlet and the bottom wall surface of the containing chamber 201 is too long, the volume of the medium replacement chamber 202 is too small, the first medium 300 is likely to enter the liquid passage 203 from the lower inlet, which may affect the increase of the air pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202, and the amount of the second medium 400 located below the lower inlet, which is difficult to enter the liquid passage 203, may be large, which may affect the sufficient flow of the liquid in the containing chamber 201.

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the structure of the lower inlet of the liquid channel 203 includes, but is not limited to, the lower end surface of the conduit 23 shown in fig. 15, and in other embodiments, the lower inlet may be a notch or a through hole formed in the peripheral wall of the conduit 23, and in this case, the distance H between the lower inlet and the bottom wall surface of the containing chamber 201 may be understood as the distance between the lowest point of the lower inlet and the bottom wall surface of the containing chamber 201. It should be noted that when H is 0mm, the lower inlet may be provided in the peripheral wall of the duct 23.

Further, the distance H from the lower inlet of the liquid passage 203 to the bottom wall surface of the containing chamber 201 may preferably be 3mm or less and H or less and 5mm or less. Within this size range, the effect of reducing the flow resistance of the second medium 400 is better, and the pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202 is easier to be increased.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 may be provided with the heating member 30, the heating member 30 may heat the liquid in the medium replacement chamber 202 to boil to form the first medium 300, and whether the first medium 300 is generated may be controlled by controlling the heating or non-heating of the heating member 30, and thus whether the second medium 400 in the medium replacement chamber 202 flows into the holding chamber 201 through the liquid passage 203 may be controlled. Alternatively, the heating member 30 may be used only for forming the first medium 300, and the heating member 30 may be used for both forming the first medium 300 and cooking, so as to reduce the number of parts of the cooking appliance 100 and make the structure simpler.

In addition, at least one of the heating time and the heating power of the heating member 30 is controllable. For example, when the liquid in the medium replacement cavity 202 is boiled under different heating powers of the heating element 30, the amount of the generated first medium 300 is different, which results in different air pressures in the medium replacement cavity 202, and thus results in different volumes of the second medium 400 discharged from the medium replacement cavity 202, and in cooperation with the intermittent change of the heating power, the second medium 400 can flow from the medium replacement cavity 202 into the holding cavity 201, and flow from the holding cavity 201 back to the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the circulation can realize the circulation flow of the second medium 400 in the cooking appliance 100, and the flushing effect of the second medium 400 on the food material 200 is improved.

Specifically, when the amount of the first medium 300 is increased, the first medium 300 replaces the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202, so that the second medium 400 in the medium replacement cavity 202 flows into the containing cavity 201 through the liquid channel 203 to flush the food material 200 in the containing cavity 201; when the amount of the first medium 300 decreases, the air pressure in the medium replacement chamber 202 decreases, and the second medium 400 in the holding chamber 201 can flow back into the medium replacement chamber 202. From this, the volume of first medium 300 increases or reduces in the medium replacement chamber 202 to realize that second medium 400 circulates between medium replacement chamber 202, fluid passage 203 and the chamber 201 that holds, second medium 400 can be repeatedly washed away the edible material 200 that holds in the chamber 201, and edible material 200 culinary art effect is better.

Other constructions and operations of the cooking appliance 100 and the containing assembly 20 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 holding assembly of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance comprises a body part, the body part is provided with a cooking cavity, the holding assembly is arranged in the cooking cavity and divides the cooking cavity into a holding cavity, a medium replacement cavity and a liquid channel for communicating the medium replacement cavity and the holding cavity, wherein,

the containing assembly is arranged to replace a liquid second medium in the medium replacement chamber with a gaseous first medium, such that the replaced second medium can enter the containing chamber through the liquid passage, and is further arranged to enter the medium replacement chamber with the liquid second medium outside the medium replacement chamber to occupy at least a part of the space occupied by the first medium, the lower inlet of the liquid passage being lower than the highest point of the medium replacement chamber, and the lower part of the liquid passage being enclosed by the medium replacement chamber.

2. The cooking utensil holding assembly of claim 1 wherein the cavity wall of the holding cavity is provided with a drain port for draining liquid in the holding cavity out of the holding cavity.

3. The cooking utensil containment assembly of claim 1 wherein the upper outlet of the liquid channel is higher than and surrounded by the lowest point of the holding cavity.

4. The cooking utensil containment assembly of claim 1 wherein the media displacement chamber, the containment chamber and the liquid passage are coaxially disposed.

5. The cooking utensil containment assembly of claim 1, wherein the containment assembly comprises:

the containing part extends into the cooking cavity, and the containing cavity is formed by the containing part;

the medium replacement part is arranged in the cooking cavity and positioned below the containing part, and the medium replacement cavity is formed by the medium replacement part or formed by matching the medium replacement part with the body part;

a conduit, the fluid passage being formed by the conduit, the conduit penetrating the containing portion and the medium displacing portion such that an upper portion of the conduit extends into the containing chamber, and a lower portion of the conduit extends into the medium displacing chamber.

6. The cooking utensil containment assembly of claim 5 wherein the media displacement portion comprises:

a medium replacement part peripheral wall, an upper peripheral edge of the medium replacement part peripheral wall being connected to a lower portion of the containing part, the medium replacement chamber being formed by the medium replacement part peripheral wall, an inner wall surface of the cooking chamber, and the lower portion of the containing part in cooperation, wherein,

the lower periphery of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part is in sealing contact with the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity, or,

at least a part of the lower peripheral edge of the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part is adjacent to and spaced from the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity, so that a liquid return port communicating the gap between the containing part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity and the medium replacement cavity is formed.

7. The accommodating assembly of the cooking utensil as claimed in claim 6, wherein the maximum distance L2 between the peripheral wall of the medium replacement part and the inner wall surface of the cooking cavity satisfies 0L 23 mm, and more preferably 0mm L2 0.5 mm.

8. The cooking utensil containment assembly of claim 6 wherein the media displacement portion peripheral wall is configured to extend obliquely upwardly and inwardly along an axial direction thereof.

9. The holding assembly of the cooking utensil as claimed in claim 6, wherein the bottom wall surface of the holding part is provided with air-exhausting pores communicating the holding cavity and the medium replacement cavity.

10. The holding assembly of the cooking utensil as claimed in claim 6, wherein the bottom wall of the holding portion is provided with a mounting hole, the conduit is inserted into the mounting hole, a flange protruding downwards is arranged at the mounting hole, a positioning flange is arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the conduit, the inner circumferential surface of the flange abuts against the outer circumferential surface of the conduit, and the lower end of the flange abuts against the positioning flange.

11. The cooking utensil receiving assembly of claim 1 wherein the distance H from the lower inlet to the bottom wall of the cooking chamber is 0mm H20 mm, more preferably 3mm H5 mm.

12. A cooking appliance, characterized in that it comprises a containing assembly of a cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

13. The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the body portion comprises:

pot body portion and upper cover portion, the upper cover portion lid is located pot body portion and with pot body portion cooperation forms the culinary art chamber, hold the peak distance of subassembly upper cover portion distance L1 satisfies 0mm and is less than or equal to L1 and is less than or equal to 3mm, and further preferred 0mm is less than or equal to L1 and is less than or equal to 1 mm.

14. The cooking appliance of claim 13, wherein the upper portion of the pod is configured with a handle, the highest point of the pod being located on the handle.

15. The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking appliance has a heating element controllable in at least one of heating time and heating power, the heating element adapted to heat the liquid in the medium displacement chamber to boil to form the first medium.