CN112181020A

CN112181020A - Cooking appliance, temperature display method and device of cooking appliance and storage medium

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Publication number: CN112181020A
Application number: CN202011067669.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王灏; 朱洁乐; 凌晓春; 延吉宝; 陈立鹏
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-30
Filing date: 2020-09-30
Publication date: 2021-01-05

Abstract

The invention provides a cooking appliance, a temperature display method and device of the cooking appliance and a storage medium. Wherein, cooking utensil includes: a housing, a cooking cavity being provided in the housing; the temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity and can acquire the temperature value in the cooking cavity; the light emitting component is arranged in the shell and connected with the temperature acquisition device, the light emitting component can project light into the cooking cavity, and the light color of the light projected by the light emitting component can be configured according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity. The change of the temperature in the cooking cavity can be clearly observed by the user, the user can further control the cooking appliance according to the change of the temperature in the cooking cavity, and the use experience of the user is improved.

Description

Cooking appliance, temperature display method and device of cooking appliance and storage medium

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of kitchen utensils, and particularly relates to a cooking utensil, a temperature display method of the cooking utensil and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

Microwave oven products have already been equipped with multipoint infrared sensors for auxiliary cooking, but the application of the sensors is not explicit enough, and users cannot intuitively perceive the temperature change in the microwave oven.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving one of the technical problems of the prior art or the related art.

To this end, a first aspect of the invention proposes a cooking appliance.

A second aspect of the present invention provides a temperature display method of a cooking appliance.

A third aspect of the present invention provides a temperature display device of a cooking appliance.

A fourth aspect of the invention is directed to a computer-readable storage medium.

In view of this, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance comprising: a housing, a cooking cavity being provided in the housing; the temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity and can acquire the temperature value in the cooking cavity; the light emitting component is arranged in the shell and connected with the temperature acquisition device, the light emitting component can project light into the cooking cavity, and the light color of the light projected by the light emitting component can be configured according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity.

The cooking appliance provided by the invention comprises a shell, a temperature acquisition device and a light-emitting assembly, wherein the shell is internally provided with a cooking cavity, the temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity, and the light-emitting assembly is arranged in the shell. Wherein, temperature acquisition device sets up in the culinary art intracavity, and the temperature of cooking utensil in culinary art in-process culinary art intracavity can rise along with going on of culinary art, and temperature acquisition device can directly cook the temperature value of intracavity to temperature acquisition device links to each other with light-emitting component, and temperature acquisition device can be with the temperature value direct routing who gathers to light-emitting component. The light colour that light emitting component sent the light is for the temperature value configuration according to the culinary art intracavity, and light emitting component can change the colour that sends light according to the temperature real-time change in the culinary art intracavity promptly to the light that light emitting component sent throws at the culinary art intracavity, and the change of observing the culinary art intracavity temperature that makes the user can understand is convenient for the user and further controls cooking utensil according to the change of culinary art intracavity temperature, has improved user's use and has experienced.

It is understood that the light emitting assembly may be an RGB LED light emitter, which can adjust the color of the emitted light. And light emitting component sets up in the casing, and light emitting component's luminous end is provided with transparent lamp shade on the inner wall in culinary art chamber towards the culinary art intracavity, with light emitting component's luminous end setting in transparent lamp shade, transparent lamp shade has good thermal-insulated effect, can avoid light emitting component to be heated and damage. Transparent lamp shade sets up to the lens form, can improve the area covered of light-emitting component light in cooking utensil to the light refraction that light-emitting component sent.

In a specific embodiment, a control unit is separately arranged in the light emitting assembly, the control unit in the light emitting assembly receives the temperature value sent by the temperature obtaining device, and the color of the light emitted by the light emitting assembly is controlled according to the temperature value to be configured according to the temperature value. The control unit only controlling the operation of the light emitting assembly is arranged in the light emitting assembly independently, so that the data processing amount of the main control unit of the cooking appliance is reduced, and the data processing efficiency is improved.

In another specific embodiment, the control unit of the light emitting assembly is selected to be externally arranged between the light emitting assembly and the temperature acquiring device, namely, the temperature acquiring device sends the acquired temperature value in the cooking cavity to the control unit, the control unit generates a corresponding control instruction for changing the color of light according to the received temperature value in the cooking cavity, the control instruction for changing the color of light is sent to the light emitting assembly, and the light emitting assembly configures the color of light according to the control instruction. The control unit arranged outside the light-emitting assembly can be integrated with the main control unit of the cooking appliance, so that the production cost of the light-emitting assembly is low. And the main control unit can also control other components in the cooking utensil according to the temperature value acquired by the temperature acquisition device.

In addition, according to the cooking utensil in the above technical solution provided by the present invention, the following additional technical features may also be provided:

in one possible design, the cooking chamber comprises: the temperature acquisition device can acquire the zone temperature value of each temperature sensing area in at least two temperature sensing areas.

In the design, the cooking cavity comprises at least two temperature sensing areas, and the temperature acquisition device acquires the zone temperature value of each temperature sensing area in the at least two temperature sensing areas so as to determine the temperature value in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance. The cooking cavity is divided into a plurality of temperature sensing areas, the temperature acquisition device is used for acquiring the partition temperature value of each temperature sensing area, the acquisition of the temperature of each position in the cooking cavity is realized, namely, the data volume of the collected partition temperature value is increased, and the accuracy of controlling the color of light emitted by the light emitting assembly is improved. According to the collected temperatures of the various zones, a user can quickly and clearly know the temperature distribution condition in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance.

In one possible design, the temperature acquisition device includes: the number of the temperature sensors is the same as that of the temperature sensing areas.

In this design, the temperature acquisition device includes a plurality of temperature sensors. The number of the temperature sensors is the same as that of the temperature sensing areas, and the temperature value acquisition positions of the temperature sensors correspond to the positions of the temperature sensing areas one to one. The temperature sensors with the same number as the temperature sensing areas are used for collecting the temperatures of the subareas in the temperature sensing areas in a one-to-one correspondence mode, so that all the subarea temperatures acquired at the same time can be guaranteed. And the temperature sensing end of the temperature sensor does not need to be moved, so that the accuracy of the acquired subarea temperature value is ensured, and the accuracy of subsequent control according to the subarea temperature value is improved.

In one possible design, the light emitting assembly includes: the light-emitting device comprises at least two light-emitting parts, wherein each light-emitting part in the at least two light-emitting parts can be configured with the light color of the projected light, the number of the light-emitting parts is the same as that of the temperature-sensitive areas, the irradiation position of the light projected by each light-emitting part corresponds to each temperature-sensitive area, and the light color of the light-emitting parts can be converted according to the partition temperature value of the corresponding temperature-sensitive area.

In this design, the light emitting assembly includes a plurality of light emitting sections. Each luminous part in the plurality of luminous parts can send the light of different colours, and the quantity of luminous part is the same with the quantity in temperature sensing area, and the light that the luminous part sent throws on a plurality of temperature sensing area one-to-one, and every luminous part can be based on the subregion temperature value of every temperature sensing area that temperature acquisition device gathered and dispose the colour that sends the light. The temperature change in a plurality of temperature sensing areas can be displayed. The user can intuitively observe the change situation of the temperature values of the subareas of the temperature sensing areas in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance.

In a specific embodiment, the bottom wall of the cooking cavity is divided into 64 temperature sensing areas, and 64 temperature sensors are arranged, namely 64 temperature sensing points, and 64 temperature sensing points correspond to the 64 temperature sensing areas, so that 64 subarea temperature values can be acquired. The light-emitting component comprises 64 light-emitting parts, light emitted by the 64 light-emitting parts is correspondingly projected into the 64 temperature-sensitive areas, the temperature-sensitive points, the light-emitting parts and the temperature-sensitive areas are set to be in one-to-one correspondence, and the light color of the light projected in the corresponding temperature-sensitive areas is adjusted according to the temperature values of the areas in the temperature-sensitive areas.

In another embodiment, divide the diapire of culinary art chamber into 64 temperature sensing areas to set up 8 temperature sensor, 8 temperature sensing points promptly, still be provided with driving motor in the cooking utensil, driving motor can drive 8 temperature sensor and move for the culinary art chamber relatively, drives temperature sensor motion through the motor, has realized that 64 subregion temperature values can be gathered to 8 temperature sensing points. The light-emitting component comprises 64 light-emitting parts, light emitted by the 64 light-emitting parts is correspondingly projected into the 64 temperature-sensitive areas, the temperature-sensitive points, the light-emitting parts and the temperature-sensitive areas are set to be in corresponding relation, and the light color of the light projected in the corresponding temperature-sensitive areas is adjusted according to the temperature values of the areas in the temperature-sensitive areas.

In one possible design, the temperature acquisition device is an array infrared thermometer.

In the design, the temperature acquisition device selects an array infrared thermometer, and the array infrared thermometer comprises a plurality of infrared temperature sensors, namely a plurality of temperature sensing points. The plurality of infrared temperature sensors are arranged corresponding to the temperature sensing area, so that the temperature values of the subareas in the temperature sensing area can be collected.

In one possible design, the cooking appliance further comprises: and the observation window is arranged on the shell, wherein the observation window is made of a transparent material.

In this design, cooking utensil still includes the observation window, and the observation window sets up on the casing, and the user can direct observation set up the condition in the culinary art intracavity in the casing through the observation window. The light emitting component emits light rays with different colors into the cooking cavity, so that a user can observe the change of the colors through the observation window. The use experience of the user is improved.

In a specific embodiment, the observation window of the cooking appliance is arranged on any side surface of the shell except the bottom surface, so that a user can observe the food in the cooking cavity and the change of the pipeline color of the light emitted by the light-emitting component through the observation window.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a temperature display method of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including: temperature acquisition device and luminous component, the temperature display method includes: acquiring an intracavity temperature value of the cooking cavity through a temperature acquisition device; and configuring the color of light projected by the light emitting component in the cooking cavity according to the temperature value in the cavity.

A second aspect of the present invention provides a temperature display method of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including a temperature acquisition device and a light emitting assembly. The temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity and can acquire the temperature value in the cooking cavity; the light emitting component is arranged in the shell and connected with the temperature acquisition device, the light emitting component can project light into the cooking cavity, and the light color of the light projected by the light emitting component can be configured according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity.

The temperature display method comprises the step of controlling the light-emitting component according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity collected by the temperature acquisition device, and specifically configuring the light color of light emitted by the light-emitting component. The light colour that light emitting component sent the light is for the temperature value configuration according to the culinary art intracavity, and light emitting component can dispose the colour that sends light according to the temperature real-time change in the culinary art intracavity promptly to the light that light emitting component sent throws at the culinary art intracavity, and the change of observing the culinary art intracavity temperature that makes the user can understand is convenient for the user and further controls cooking utensil according to the change of culinary art intracavity temperature, has improved user's use and has experienced.

In yet another embodiment, the control unit of the light emitting assembly is selected to be externally arranged between the light emitting assembly and the temperature acquiring device, that is, the temperature acquiring device sends the acquired temperature value in the cooking cavity to the control unit, the control unit generates a corresponding control instruction for changing the color of the light according to the received temperature value in the cooking cavity, the control instruction for changing the color of the light is sent to the light emitting assembly, and the light emitting assembly configures the color of the light according to the control instruction. The control unit arranged outside the light-emitting assembly can be integrated with the main control unit of the cooking appliance, so that the production cost of the light-emitting assembly is low. And the main control unit can also control other components in the cooking utensil according to the temperature value acquired by the temperature acquisition device.

It is understood that the temperature display method provided by the second aspect of the present invention is applicable to the cooking appliance provided by the first aspect of the present invention.

In addition, according to the temperature display method of the cooking appliance in the above technical solution provided by the present invention, the following additional technical features may be further provided:

in a possible design, the cooking cavity includes at least two temperature sensing areas, and the step of acquiring the temperature value in the cavity of the cooking cavity by the temperature acquiring device specifically includes: and acquiring the zone temperature value of any one of at least two temperature sensing areas in the cooking cavity.

In a particular embodiment, the temperature acquisition means comprises a plurality of temperature sensors. The number of the temperature sensors is the same as that of the temperature sensing areas, and the temperature value acquisition positions of the temperature sensors correspond to the positions of the temperature sensing areas one to one. The temperature sensors with the same number as the temperature sensing areas are used for collecting the temperatures of the subareas in the temperature sensing areas in a one-to-one correspondence mode, so that all the subarea temperatures acquired at the same time can be guaranteed. And the temperature sensing end of the temperature sensor does not need to be moved, so that the accuracy of the acquired subarea temperature value is ensured, and the accuracy of subsequent control according to the subarea temperature value is improved.

In a possible design, the light emitting assembly includes at least two light emitting portions, and the step of configuring the color of light irradiated in the cooking cavity according to the cavity temperature value of the cooking cavity specifically includes: determining the corresponding relation between the temperature sensing area and the light emitting part; and according to the numerical relation between the zone temperature value of any temperature sensing area and the set temperature value range, configuring the light color of the light emitted by the corresponding light emitting part.

In the design, the light-emitting component comprises at least two light-emitting parts, and the temperature value in the cooking cavity is configured according to the temperature value, so that the light color is set, and the corresponding relation between the temperature sensing area and the light emitted by the light-emitting parts is required to be determined. And the light color of the light emitted by the light emitting part is set according to the zone temperature of the corresponding temperature sensing area.

The light emitting assembly includes a plurality of light emitting portions. Each luminous part in the plurality of luminous parts can send the light of different colours, and the quantity of luminous part is the same with the quantity in temperature sensing area, and the light that the luminous part sent throws on a plurality of temperature sensing area one-to-one, and every luminous part can be based on the subregion temperature value of every temperature sensing area that temperature acquisition device gathered and dispose the colour that sends the light. The temperature change in a plurality of temperature sensing areas can be displayed. The user can intuitively observe the change situation of the temperature values of the subareas of the temperature sensing areas in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance.

In a possible design, the step of configuring the light color of the light emitted by the corresponding light emitting portion according to the numerical relationship between the temperature value of each partition and the set temperature value range specifically includes: controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the first color based on the partition temperature value within the set temperature value range; controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the light color of the second color based on the fact that the partition temperature value is smaller than the minimum value in the set temperature value range; and controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the light color of the third color based on the fact that the partition temperature value is larger than the maximum value in the set temperature value range.

In the design, the light color of the light emitted by the light emitting part is determined according to the numerical relationship between the partition temperature value acquired by the temperature acquisition device and the set temperature value range. When the temperature value of the subarea is in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at the middle-grade temperature, and the light emitting part is controlled to project the light of the first color in the temperature sensing area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea. When the temperature value of the subarea is smaller than the minimum value of the temperature values in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at a lower temperature, and the light-emitting part is controlled to project the light of the second color in the temperature-sensitive area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea. When the temperature value of the subarea is larger than the maximum value of the temperature value in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at a higher temperature, and the light emitting part is controlled to project the light of the third color in the temperature sensing area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea.

In one embodiment, the light emitting section is capable of emitting red, blue and green light. The red light corresponds to a higher temperature, that is, when the temperature value of the subarea is greater than the maximum value in the set temperature-range, the light-emitting part emits red light to be projected into the corresponding temperature-sensitive area. The blue light corresponds to a lower temperature, that is, when the temperature value of the sub-area is less than the minimum value of the set temperature-range, the light-emitting part emits the blue light to be projected into the corresponding temperature-sensitive area. The green light corresponds to the temperature of the middle gear, namely when the temperature value of the subarea is within the set temperature value range, the light emitting part emits green light to be projected into the corresponding temperature sensing area.

Wherein, light emitting component can select RGB LED (red green blue three-color lamp) illuminator for use, and RGB LED illuminator can send the light of red blue green three-color, can adjust the colour that sends light. And light emitting component sets up in the casing, and light emitting component's luminous end is provided with transparent lamp shade on the inner wall in culinary art chamber towards the culinary art intracavity, with light emitting component's luminous end setting in transparent lamp shade, transparent lamp shade has good thermal-insulated effect, can avoid light emitting component to be heated and damage. Transparent lamp shade sets up to the lens form, can improve the area covered of light-emitting component light in cooking utensil to the light refraction that light-emitting component sent.

In a possible design, the cooking appliance further includes a heating device, and before the step of acquiring the temperature value in the cavity of the cooking cavity by the temperature acquiring device, the method further includes: and receiving a cooking starting instruction, and controlling the heating device and the light-emitting assembly to start to operate.

In this design, cooking utensil still includes heating device, and heating device sets up in cooking utensil's cooking chamber, and heating device can heat the culinary art intracavity and cook. Cooking utensil is after receiving the culinary art start command, and control heating device begins to operate and heats cooking utensil's culinary art intracavity to control light emitting component operation, set up according to the light colour that light emitting component sent out light to the temperature value in the culinary art intracavity. The user can observe the light color in the cooking cavity at the beginning stage of cooking, and the change of the light color in the cooking cavity in the whole cooking process can be observed by the user along with the continuous cooking, so that the visual interactivity between the user and the cooking appliance is improved.

Wherein, the heating device can be one or the combination of a hot air device, an electric heating tube device and a steam generating device.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a temperature display device of a cooking appliance, comprising: a memory having a computer program stored therein; the processor executes the computer program stored in the memory to implement the temperature display method of the cooking appliance in any one of the above possible designs, so that the method has all the beneficial technical effects of the temperature display method of the cooking appliance in any one of the above possible designs, and redundant description is not repeated herein.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, in which a control program of a cooking appliance is stored, and when the control program of the cooking appliance is executed by a processor, the method for displaying a temperature of the cooking appliance in any one of the above possible designs is implemented, so that all the beneficial technical effects of the method for displaying a temperature of the cooking appliance in any one of the above possible designs are achieved, and redundant description is not repeated herein.

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 shows a schematic structural view of a cooking appliance of an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 shows a schematic view of a temperature sensitive area of a cooking appliance in another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a temperature display method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 shows one of the flow diagrams of a temperature display method of a cooking appliance according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a second schematic flow chart of a temperature display method of a cooking appliance according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 shows a schematic block diagram of a cooking appliance of a further embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a temperature display method of a cooking appliance according to still another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 shows a schematic block diagram of a temperature display apparatus of a cooking appliance according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the component names in fig. 1 to 2 is:

100: cooking appliance, 110 housing, 120: temperature acquisition means, 130: light emitting assembly, 140: a temperature sensing area.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those specifically described herein, and therefore the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A cooking appliance, a temperature display method of a cooking appliance, a temperature display apparatus of a cooking appliance, and a computer-readable storage medium according to some embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to fig. 1 to 8.

The first embodiment is as follows:

as shown in fig. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance 100, the cooking appliance 100 including: a housing 110 provided with a cooking cavity, a temperature acquisition device 120 installed in the cooking cavity, and a light emitting assembly 130 disposed in the housing 110. Temperature acquisition device 120 can gather the intracavity temperature value in culinary art chamber, and light-emitting component 130 links to each other with temperature acquisition device 120, and light-emitting component 130 can throw light to the culinary art intracavity, and wherein, the light color of the light that light-emitting component 130 throws can dispose according to the intracavity temperature value.

In this embodiment, the cooking appliance 100 includes a housing 110 having a cooking cavity disposed therein, a temperature acquisition device 120 disposed in the cooking cavity, and a light emitting assembly 130 disposed in the housing 110. Wherein, temperature acquisition device 120 sets up in the culinary art intracavity, and the temperature of cooking utensil 100 in culinary art in-process culinary art intracavity can rise along with going on of culinary art, and temperature value in temperature acquisition device 120 can direct culinary art intracavity to temperature acquisition device 120 links to each other with light-emitting component 130, and temperature acquisition device 120 can directly send the temperature value of gathering to light-emitting component 130. The light color of light emitting component 130 luminescence is for the temperature value configuration according to the culinary art intracavity, and light emitting component 130 can change the colour of sending light according to the temperature real-time change in the culinary art intracavity promptly to the light that light emitting component 130 sent throws in the culinary art intracavity, makes the change of observing the culinary art intracavity temperature that the user can be clear, and the user of being convenient for further controls cooking utensil 100 according to the change of culinary art intracavity temperature, has improved user's use and has experienced.

It is understood that the light emitting assembly 130 may be an RGB LED light emitter, which can adjust the color of the emitted light. And light emitting component 130 sets up in casing 110, and the luminous end of light emitting component 130 is provided with transparent lamp shade towards the culinary art intracavity on the inner wall in culinary art chamber, sets up the luminous end of light emitting component 130 in transparent lamp shade, and transparent lamp shade has good thermal-insulated effect, can avoid light emitting component 130 to be heated and damage. The transparent lampshade is arranged in a lens form, and can refract the light emitted by the light emitting assembly 130, so that the coverage area of the light emitting assembly 130 in the cooking appliance 100 is increased.

In a specific embodiment, a control unit is separately disposed inside the light emitting assembly 130, and the control unit inside the light emitting assembly 130 receives the temperature value sent by the temperature obtaining device 120, and controls the color of the light emitted by the light emitting assembly 130 to be configured according to the temperature value. The control unit which only controls the operation of the light emitting assembly 130 is separately arranged in the light emitting assembly 130, so that the data processing amount of the main control unit of the cooking appliance 100 is reduced, and the data processing efficiency is improved.

In another embodiment, a control unit of the light emitting assembly 130 is selectively arranged between the light emitting assembly 130 and the temperature obtaining device 120, that is, the temperature obtaining device 120 sends the collected temperature value in the cooking cavity to the control unit, the control unit generates a corresponding control instruction for changing the color of the light according to the received temperature value in the cooking cavity, and sends the control instruction for changing the color of the light to the light emitting assembly 130, and the light emitting assembly 130 configures the color of the light according to the control instruction. The control unit disposed outside the light emitting assembly 130 can be integrated with the main control unit of the cooking appliance 100, so that the light emitting assembly 130 is manufactured at a low cost. And the main control unit can also control other components in the cooking appliance 100 according to the temperature value acquired by the temperature acquisition device 120.

Example two:

as shown in fig. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance 100, the cooking appliance 100 including: a housing 110 provided with a cooking cavity, a temperature acquisition device 120 installed in the cooking cavity, and a light emitting assembly 130 disposed in the housing 110. Temperature acquisition device 120 can gather the intracavity temperature value in the culinary art chamber, and light emitting component 130 is connected with temperature acquisition device 120, and light emitting component 130 can throw light to the culinary art intracavity.

As shown in fig. 2, the cooking cavity includes a plurality of temperature sensing areas 140. The temperature acquisition means 120 includes a plurality of temperature sensors, the number of which is the same as the number of temperature sensitive areas 140. The temperature acquisition device 120 can acquire a temperature value of each temperature sensing area 140 in at least two temperature sensing areas 140. The light emitting assembly 130 includes a plurality of light emitting parts, each of the plurality of light emitting parts is capable of projecting light of a plurality of light colors into the cooking cavity, and the number of the light emitting parts is the same as the number of the temperature sensitive areas 140, an irradiation position of the light projected by each of the light emitting parts corresponds to each of the temperature sensitive areas 140, and the light emitting parts are capable of changing the light color according to a divisional temperature value of the corresponding temperature sensitive area 140.

In this embodiment, the cooking cavity includes at least two temperature sensing areas 140, and the temperature obtaining device 120 acquires the temperature value of each temperature sensing area 140 of the at least two temperature sensing areas 140, so as to determine the temperature value in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance 100. Divide a plurality of temperature sensing areas 140 with the culinary art chamber to gather every temperature sensing area 140's subregion temperature value through temperature acquisition device 120, realized the collection to each position temperature in the culinary art intracavity, the data volume through the subregion temperature value that improves the collection promptly, thereby improve the accurate nature of the light color control of sending light-emitting component 130. According to the collected temperatures of the respective zones, the user can quickly and clearly know the temperature distribution condition in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance 100. The temperature acquisition means 120 includes a plurality of temperature sensors. The number of the temperature sensors is the same as the number of the temperature sensing areas 140, and the temperature value collection positions of the temperature sensors correspond to the positions of the temperature sensing areas 140 one by one. The temperature sensors with the same number as the temperature sensing areas 140 are used for collecting the temperatures of the subareas in the temperature sensing areas 140 in a one-to-one correspondence mode, so that all the subarea temperatures acquired at the same time can be guaranteed. And the temperature sensing end of the temperature sensor does not need to be moved, so that the accuracy of the acquired subarea temperature value is ensured, and the accuracy of subsequent control according to the subarea temperature value is improved. The light emitting assembly 130 includes a plurality of light emitting parts. Each of the plurality of light-emitting portions can emit light of different colors, the number of the light-emitting portions is the same as the number of the temperature-sensitive areas 140, the light emitted by the light-emitting portions is projected onto the plurality of temperature-sensitive areas 140 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and each light-emitting portion can configure the color of the emitted light according to the temperature value of each temperature-sensitive area 140 collected by the temperature acquisition device 120. It is achieved that the temperature change in a plurality of temperature sensitive areas 140 can be displayed. The user can intuitively observe the change of the divisional temperature values of the respective temperature sensing areas 140 within the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance 100.

In a specific embodiment, the bottom wall of the cooking cavity is divided into 64 temperature sensing areas 140, and 64 temperature sensors are provided, that is, 64 temperature sensing points are provided, and 64 temperature sensing points correspond to the 64 temperature sensing areas 140, so that 64 divisional temperature values can be collected. The light emitting assembly 130 includes 64 light emitting parts, the light emitted by the 64 light emitting parts is correspondingly projected into the 64 temperature sensing areas 140, the temperature sensing points, the light emitting parts and the temperature sensing areas 140 are set to be in one-to-one correspondence, and the adjustment of the color of the light projected into the corresponding temperature sensing areas 140 according to the temperature values of the areas in the temperature sensing areas 140 is realized.

As shown in fig. 2, in another embodiment, the bottom wall of the cooking cavity is divided into 64 temperature sensing areas 140, and 8 temperature sensors, that is, 8 temperature sensing points, are provided, and a driving motor is further provided in the cooking utensil 100, and the driving motor can drive the 8 temperature sensors to move relative to the cooking cavity, and the motor drives the temperature sensors to move, so that 64 partitioned temperature values can be collected by the 8 temperature sensing points. The light emitting assembly 130 includes 64 light emitting parts, the light emitted by the 64 light emitting parts is correspondingly projected into the 64 temperature sensing areas 140, the temperature sensing points, the light emitting parts and the temperature sensing areas 140 are set to be in corresponding relation, and the adjustment of the color of the light projected into the corresponding temperature sensing areas 140 according to the temperature values of the areas in the temperature sensing areas 140 is realized.

In any of the above embodiments, the temperature acquisition device 120 is an array infrared thermometer.

In this embodiment, the temperature obtaining device 120 selects an array-type infrared thermometer, where the array-type infrared thermometer includes a plurality of infrared temperature sensors, i.e., a plurality of temperature sensing points. By arranging a plurality of infrared temperature sensors in correspondence with the temperature sensitive area 140, the temperature values of the divided areas in the temperature sensitive area 140 can be collected.

In any of the above embodiments, the cooking apparatus further comprises: and an observation window disposed on the housing 110, wherein the observation window is made of a transparent material.

In this embodiment, the cooking appliance 100 further includes an observation window disposed on the housing 110, through which a user can directly observe the condition in the cooking cavity disposed in the housing 110. The light emitting assembly 130 emits light of different colors into the cooking cavity, so that a user can observe the change of the color through the observation window. The use experience of the user is improved.

In one embodiment, the observation window of the cooking appliance 100 is disposed on any side of the housing 110 except the bottom surface, so that the user can observe the food material inside the cooking cavity through the observation window and the change of the line color of the light emitted from the light emitting assembly 130.

In any of the above embodiments, the cooking apparatus 100 is any of a microwave oven, a micro-steaming and baking integrated machine, a steam box, an oven, and a steaming and baking integrated machine.

It is understood that the temperature-sensitive area 140 in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance 100 is divided by the bottom wall in the cooking cavity, and the light projected by the light-emitting part is correspondingly irradiated on the bottom wall of the cooking cavity.

Example three:

as shown in fig. 3, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a temperature display method of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including: temperature acquisition device and luminous component, the temperature display method includes:

step S302, acquiring an intra-cavity temperature value of a cooking cavity through a temperature acquisition device;

step S304, configuring the color of the light projected by the light emitting component in the cooking cavity according to the temperature value in the cavity.

In this embodiment, the cooking appliance includes a temperature acquisition device and a light emitting assembly. The temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity and can acquire the temperature value in the cooking cavity; the light emitting component is arranged in the shell and connected with the temperature acquisition device, the light emitting component can project light into the cooking cavity, and the light color of the light projected by the light emitting component can be configured according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity.

The light-emitting component is controlled according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity acquired by the temperature acquisition device, and specifically, the light color of light emitted by the light-emitting component is configured. The light colour that light emitting component sent the light is for the temperature value configuration according to the culinary art intracavity, and light emitting component can dispose the colour that sends light according to the temperature real-time change in the culinary art intracavity promptly to the light that light emitting component sent throws at the culinary art intracavity, and the change of observing the culinary art intracavity temperature that makes the user can understand is convenient for the user and further controls cooking utensil according to the change of culinary art intracavity temperature, has improved user's use and has experienced.

Example four:

as shown in fig. 4, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a temperature display method of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including: the temperature acquisition device and the light-emitting component are arranged in the cooking cavity, the cooking cavity comprises at least two temperature sensing areas, and the temperature display method comprises the following steps:

step S402, receiving a cooking starting instruction, and controlling a heating device and a light-emitting component to start to operate;

step S404, obtaining a zone temperature value of any one of at least two temperature sensing areas in the cooking cavity;

step S406, configuring the color of the light projected by the light emitting component in the cooking cavity according to the temperature value in the cavity.

In this embodiment, the cooking cavity includes at least two temperature sensing areas, and the temperature obtaining device determines the temperature value in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance by collecting a zone temperature value of each temperature sensing area in the at least two temperature sensing areas. The cooking cavity is divided into a plurality of temperature sensing areas, the temperature acquisition device is used for acquiring the partition temperature value of each temperature sensing area, the acquisition of the temperature of each position in the cooking cavity is realized, namely, the data volume of the collected partition temperature value is increased, and the accuracy of controlling the color of light emitted by the light emitting assembly is improved. According to the collected temperatures of the various zones, a user can quickly and clearly know the temperature distribution condition in the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance.

Cooking utensil still includes heating device, and heating device sets up in cooking utensil's cooking chamber, and heating device can heat the culinary art intracavity and cook. Cooking utensil is after receiving the culinary art start command, and control heating device begins to operate and heats cooking utensil's culinary art intracavity to control light emitting component operation, set up according to the light colour that light emitting component sent out light to the temperature value in the culinary art intracavity. The user can observe the light color in the cooking cavity at the beginning stage of cooking, and the change of the light color in the cooking cavity in the whole cooking process can be observed by the user along with the continuous cooking, so that the visual interactivity between the user and the cooking appliance is improved.

As shown in fig. 5, the step of configuring the color of light irradiated in the cooking cavity according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity includes:

step S502, determining the corresponding relation between the temperature sensing area and the light emitting part;

in step S504, the light color of the light emitted from the corresponding light emitting unit is configured according to the numerical relationship between the temperature value in each temperature sensing area and the set temperature value range.

In this embodiment, the light emitting assembly includes at least two light emitting portions, and the setting of the color of the light according to the temperature value in the cooking cavity requires determining the relationship between the temperature sensing area and the light emitted by the light emitting portions. And the light color of the light emitted by the light emitting part is set according to the zone temperature of the corresponding temperature sensing area.

And according to the numerical relationship between each partition temperature value and the set temperature value range and the numerical range between the partition temperature value and the set temperature value range, configuring the light color of the light emitted by the corresponding light emitting part. The specific numerical relationship and the corresponding relationship of the color of the light emitted by the light emitting part are as follows:

controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the first color based on the partition temperature value within the set temperature value range;

controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the light color of the second color based on the fact that the partition temperature value is smaller than the minimum value in the set temperature value range;

and controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the light color of the third color based on the fact that the partition temperature value is larger than the maximum value in the set temperature value range.

In this embodiment, the light color of the light emitted by the light emitting unit is determined according to the numerical relationship between the temperature value of the partition collected by the temperature obtaining device and the set temperature value range. When the temperature value of the subarea is in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at the middle-grade temperature, and the light emitting part is controlled to project the light of the first color in the temperature sensing area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea. When the temperature value of the subarea is smaller than the minimum value of the temperature values in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at a lower temperature, and the light-emitting part is controlled to project the light of the second color in the temperature-sensitive area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea. When the temperature value of the subarea is larger than the maximum value of the temperature value in the set temperature value range, the temperature value of the subarea is considered to be at a higher temperature, and the light emitting part is controlled to project the light of the third color in the temperature sensing area corresponding to the temperature value of the subarea.

In one embodiment, the light emitting section is capable of emitting red, blue and green light. The red light corresponds to a higher temperature, that is, when the temperature value of the subarea is greater than the maximum value in the set temperature-range, the light-emitting part emits red light to be projected into the corresponding temperature-sensitive area. The blue light corresponds to a lower temperature, that is, when the temperature value of the sub-area is less than the minimum value of the set temperature-range, the light-emitting part emits the blue light to be projected into the corresponding temperature-sensitive area. The green light corresponds to the temperature of the middle gear, namely when the temperature value of the subarea is within the set temperature value range, the light emitting part emits green light to be projected into the corresponding temperature sensing area. Wherein the set temperature value range is selected to be more than or equal to 20 ℃ and less than or equal to 60 ℃. When the temperature of the subarea is lower than 20 ℃, the light emitting part corresponding to the temperature sensing area emits blue light, when the temperature of the subarea is within a set temperature value range, the light emitting part corresponding to the temperature sensing area emits green light, and when the temperature of the subarea is higher than 60 ℃, the light emitting part corresponding to the temperature sensing area emits red light.

Wherein, light emitting component can select for use RGB LED illuminator, and RGB LED illuminator can send the light of red blue green trichrome, can adjust the colour that sends light. And light emitting component sets up in the casing, and light emitting component's luminous end is provided with transparent lamp shade on the inner wall in culinary art chamber towards the culinary art intracavity, with light emitting component's luminous end setting in transparent lamp shade, transparent lamp shade has good thermal-insulated effect, can avoid light emitting component to be heated and damage. Transparent lamp shade sets up to the lens form, can improve the area covered of light-emitting component light in cooking utensil to the light refraction that light-emitting component sent.

Example five:

in a complete embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, a cooking appliance 600 includes:

the 64-point infrared sensor serves as a temperature acquisition device 602, and is configured to acquire temperature information inside the cavity, specifically acquire zone temperature values in 64 different temperature-sensitive regions in the cooking cavity, and transmit the 64 zone temperature values to a control unit 604.

The control unit 604 is selectively configured in the main control system of the cooking appliance 600, the control unit 604 processes and classifies 64 pieces of temperature information, temperature points are divided into three temperature levels of high temperature, medium temperature and low temperature, the high temperature is represented by red, the medium temperature is represented by green, and the low temperature is represented by blue.

The RGB LED tri-color lamp can receive a control command sent by the control unit 604 as the light emitting component 606, light the lamp beads at the corresponding positions and display the corresponding colors, and irradiate light onto the cavity bottom plate.

In this embodiment, a 64-point infrared sensor is disposed in the cooking cavity as temperature obtaining device 602, the temperature in the cooking cavity of cooking appliance 600 may increase along with the progress of cooking, temperature obtaining device 602 may directly cook the temperature value in the cooking cavity, and temperature obtaining device 602 is connected to light emitting assembly 606, and temperature obtaining device 602 may directly send the collected temperature value to light emitting assembly 606. The light color that light emitting component 606 sent the light is for the temperature value configuration according to the culinary art intracavity, and light emitting component 606 can change the colour that sends light according to the temperature real-time change in the culinary art intracavity promptly to the light that light emitting component 606 sent throws in the culinary art intracavity, makes the change of observing the culinary art intracavity temperature that the user can be clear, and the user of being convenient for carries out further control to cooking utensil 600 according to the change of culinary art intracavity temperature, has improved user's use and has experienced.

As shown in fig. 7, in another complete embodiment of the present invention, a method for displaying a temperature of a cooking appliance specifically includes:

step S702, starting heating;

step S704, turning on the light emitting component;

step S706, changing the color of the light according to the temperature distribution;

step S708, heating is ended;

in step S710, the light emitting assembly is turned off.

In this embodiment, the temperature display method of the cooking appliance is used for the cooking appliance in the above-described one complete embodiment. Cooking utensil receives the control command that the culinary art began, and control cooking utensil begins the operation, and heating device among the cooking utensil heats the culinary art in to the heating chamber, and control LED light is opened simultaneously, throws colored light on cooking utensil's diapire. Temperature acquisition device in cooking utensil's the culinary art intracavity detects the temperature distribution on the cooking utensil diapire, gather through the subregion temperature in a plurality of temperature sensing area on the diapire to the cooking chamber promptly, and adjust the light colour that sends as light emitting component with the LED lamp to corresponding according to the subregion temperature, the light colour that light emitting component sent the light is for the temperature value configuration according to the cooking intracavity, light emitting component can dispose the colour that sends light according to the temperature real-time change in the cooking chamber promptly, and the light that light emitting component sent throws in the cooking chamber, the change of observing the cooking intracavity temperature that makes the user can be clear, be convenient for the user further controls cooking utensil according to the change of cooking intracavity temperature, user's use experience has been improved.

Example six:

as shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention provides a temperature display apparatus 800 of a cooking appliance, including: a memory 802, the memory 802 having a computer program stored therein; the processor 804 and the processor 804 execute the computer program stored in the memory 802 to implement the temperature display method of the cooking appliance in any of the embodiments described above, so that the method has all the beneficial technical effects of the temperature display method of the cooking appliance in any of the embodiments described above, and redundant description is not repeated herein.

Example seven:

an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the temperature display method of the cooking appliance as in any of the above embodiments, thereby having all the beneficial effects of the temperature display method of the cooking appliance as in any of the above embodiments.

Examples of the computer-readable storage medium include a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, and an optical disk.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific arrangements and instrumentality described above and shown in the drawings. A detailed description of known methods is omitted herein for the sake of brevity. In the above embodiments, several specific steps are described and shown as examples. However, the method processes of the present invention are not limited to the specific steps described and illustrated, and those skilled in the art can make various changes, modifications and additions or change the order between the steps after comprehending the spirit of the present invention.

It should also be noted that the exemplary embodiments mentioned in this patent describe some methods or systems based on a series of steps or devices. However, the present invention is not limited to the order of the above-described steps, that is, the steps may be performed in the order mentioned in the embodiments, may be performed in an order different from the order in the embodiments, or may be performed simultaneously.

In the present invention, the term "plurality" means two or more unless explicitly defined otherwise. The terms "mounted," "connected," "fixed," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "connected" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; "coupled" may be direct or indirect through an intermediary. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the description herein, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means 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.

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

Claims

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

a housing, a cooking cavity being provided in the housing;

the temperature acquisition device is arranged in the cooking cavity and can acquire the temperature value in the cooking cavity;

a light emitting component arranged in the shell, the light emitting component is connected with the temperature acquisition device and can project light rays into the cooking cavity,

wherein, the light color of the light projected by the light-emitting component can be configured according to the intracavity temperature value.

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1,

the cooking chamber includes:

the temperature acquisition device can acquire the zone temperature value of each temperature sensing area in the at least two temperature sensing areas.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the temperature acquisition means comprises:

at least two temperature sensors, the number of temperature sensors is the same as the number of temperature sensing areas.

4. The cooking appliance of claim 3, wherein the light assembly comprises:

at least two light emitting parts, each of the at least two light emitting parts projecting light having at least two of the number of the light colors,

the number of the light-emitting parts is the same as that of the temperature-sensitive areas, the irradiation position of the light projected by each light-emitting part corresponds to each temperature-sensitive area, and the light color of the light-emitting parts can be changed according to the corresponding temperature value of the temperature-sensitive areas.

5. The cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4,

the temperature acquisition device is an array type infrared thermometer.

6. The cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

an observation window arranged on the shell,

wherein, the material of observation window is transparent material.

7. A temperature display method of a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance comprising: temperature acquisition device and light-emitting component characterized in that includes:

acquiring an intra-cavity temperature value of the cooking cavity through the temperature acquisition device;

and configuring the color of light projected by the light-emitting component in the cooking cavity according to the temperature value in the cavity.

8. The method for displaying the temperature of the cooking appliance according to claim 7, wherein the cooking cavity includes at least two temperature sensing areas, and the step of acquiring the temperature value of the cooking cavity by the temperature acquiring device specifically includes:

and acquiring the zone temperature value of any one of the at least two temperature sensing areas in the cooking cavity.

9. The method for displaying the temperature of a cooking appliance according to claim 8, wherein the light emitting module includes at least two light emitting portions, and the step of configuring the color of light to be irradiated into the cooking cavity according to the cavity temperature value of the cooking cavity includes:

determining a correspondence relationship between the temperature sensing region and the light emitting section;

and configuring the light color of the light emitted by the corresponding light emitting part according to the numerical relationship between the zone temperature value and the set temperature value range of any temperature sensing area.

10. The method for displaying the temperature of a cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the step of arranging the color of the light emitted from the light emitting portion according to the numerical relationship between the temperature value of each of the zones and the set temperature value range includes:

controlling the corresponding light emitting part to emit light with the light color of the first color based on the fact that the partition temperature value is within the set temperature value range;

11. The temperature display method of the cooking appliance according to any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein the cooking appliance further comprises a heating device, and before the step of acquiring the temperature value in the cavity of the cooking cavity by the temperature acquisition device, the method further comprises:

and receiving a cooking starting instruction, and controlling the heating device and the light-emitting assembly to start to operate.

12. A temperature display device of a cooking appliance, comprising:

a memory having a computer program stored therein;

a processor executing a computer program stored in the memory to implement the temperature display method of the cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

13. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that the computer-readable storage medium has stored thereon a control program of a cooking appliance, which when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the temperature display method of the cooking appliance according to any one of claims 7 to 11.