CN210077466U - Capsule and cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a capsule and cooking utensil, the capsule includes the packaging layer, the packaging layer forms for having the packaging structure who holds the chamber, it has edible material to hold the intracavity, just it sets up to the anaerobic environment to hold the intracavity, be provided with the coating that changes colour when oxygen on the internal surface of packaging layer, just the packaging layer include with the corresponding transparent part of coating, the colour of coating passes through transparent part is external to be shown. According to the utility model discloses, set up the coating on the internal surface of packaging layer, the coating can appear breakage, oxygen entering in the packaging layer and take place to change colour when holding the chamber to in time, remind the user to pay attention to directly perceivedly, avoided the possibility that the user eats rotten food by mistake.

Description

Capsule and cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil field, concretely relates to capsule and cooking utensil.

Background

A conventional cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker has a cooking cavity into which a user cooks food materials to be cooked before cooking. Some cooking appliances have a reservation function, but users often find that the food in the pot is more likely to go bad when the reservation function is actually used, and the longer the reservation time is. For example, if a user pre-cooks rice before going to work in the morning and returns to eat at night, the rice is usually dried and yellowed, and particularly smells are generated in summer, so that the existing cooking appliance cannot keep the rice fresh under the condition of long-time reservation.

For this reason, the applicant has conceived that the problem of the deterioration of food materials due to a long-term reservation can be solved by enclosing the pre-treated food materials such as rice, beans, etc. in a package and opening the package when the reservation time is reached and the cooking is to be performed, so that the food materials fall into the cooking cavity of the cooking appliance for cooking.

However, the conventional capsule for packaging food materials is usually evacuated or filled with inert gas, and if the package is broken or opened, oxygen may enter, causing the food materials to deteriorate. It is difficult for the user to directly detect the slight breakage of the package, and thus the deteriorated food may be mistakenly eaten.

Therefore, there is a need for a capsule and cooking appliance to at least partially address the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In the summary section a series of concepts in a simplified form is introduced, which will be described in further detail in the detailed description section. The inventive content does not imply any attempt to define the essential features and essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it implied to be intended to define the scope of the claimed solution.

For at least partly solve above-mentioned problem, the utility model provides a capsule for cooking utensil, the capsule includes the packaging layer, the packaging layer is formed to have the packaging structure who holds the chamber, it has edible material to hold the intracavity, just it sets up to anaerobic environment to hold the intracavity, be provided with the coating that changes colour when oxygen on the internal surface of packaging layer, just the packaging layer include with the corresponding transparent part of coating, the colour of coating passes through transparent part is outwards shown.

According to this scheme, set up the coating on the internal surface of packaging layer, the coating can appear damaged, oxygen entering takes place to discolour when holding the chamber in the packaging layer to in time, remind the user directly perceivedly to notice, avoided the possibility that the user eats rotten food by mistake.

Preferably, the coating is made of a vitamin C-containing material.

According to the scheme, the material containing the vitamin C can change color when meeting oxygen, the material containing the vitamin C is common, and the use cost is low.

Preferably, a plurality of said coatings are provided at different locations on the inner surface of said wrapper layer.

Preferably, the packaging layer is provided with a plurality of transparent portions corresponding to the plurality of coating layers, respectively.

Preferably, the coating covers the entire inner surface of the packaging layer.

Preferably, the whole packaging layer is made of transparent materials.

According to the above-mentioned several schemes, the capsule is broken at each position, and the user can find out in time by observing the coating layer arranged at each position.

Preferably, the coating is provided at the seal of the packaging layer.

According to the scheme, the capsule is most easily opened and damaged at the sealing part, and the coating is arranged at the sealing part, so that the integrity of the capsule package can be effectively detected.

Preferably, the color of the packaging layer corresponds to the type of the food material.

According to the scheme, a user can directly judge the type of the food material by observing the color of the packaging layer without reading text prompts such as labels on the packaging.

Preferably, the coating layer is disposed on an inner surface of the transparent part.

According to the scheme, a user can observe the color change condition of the coating through the transparent part conveniently.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance, comprising:

a cooking cavity; and

capsule mounting means for mounting a capsule as claimed in any preceding claim.

According to this scheme, cooking utensil is applicable to and uses the capsule to cook. The color of the color-variable area on the capsule changes along with the change of time, and the time for which the capsule is stored can be intuitively known by comparing the color of the color-variable area with the color on the contrast area, so that the freshness of the food materials in the capsule can be known.

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fig. 1 is a schematic view of a capsule according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in order to avoid obscuring embodiments of the present invention.

In the following description, a detailed structure will be presented for a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. It is apparent that the implementation of the embodiments of the present invention is not limited to the specific details familiar to those skilled in the art.

The present embodiment provides a capsule 100. It should be noted that the capsule 100 shown in fig. 1 is merely illustrative, and in reality, the capsule 100 may be provided in other various shapes such as a triangle.

The capsule 100 comprises a packaging layer 2, the packaging layer 2 being formed as a packaging structure with a receiving cavity 1. Food materials such as rice, beans, etc. can be stored in the receiving chamber 1. Preferably, the food materials stored in the accommodating cavity 1 can be cleaned in advance and other processing steps, so that the food materials are kept sanitary, the cleaning process before cooking is omitted, and vitamins and the like can be added into the food materials to balance the nutrition of the food materials.

The opening of the capsule 100 is sealed by a sealing membrane. Thus, the capsule 100 can be transported conveniently, and the food materials in the capsule 100 can be kept fresh. In order to further preserve the food materials, the accommodating cavity 1 is set to be an oxygen-free environment, for example, the sealed accommodating cavity 1 can be vacuumized or filled with protective gas such as inert gas to prolong the preservation period of the food materials.

The inner surface of the packaging layer 2 is provided with a coating 3, and the coating 3 can change color when meeting oxygen. If the packaging layer 2 is damaged or opened, air enters the accommodating cavity 1, and the coating 3 changes color after contacting oxygen in the air, so that a user is reminded to check the packaging layer 2 of the capsule 100 through color change.

In the present embodiment, the coating 3 is made of a material containing vitamin C. The material containing vitamin C can be darkened after contacting oxygen, the purpose of detection can be achieved, and the material containing vitamin C is common and low in use cost.

Meanwhile, a portion of the packaging layer 2 corresponding to the coating layer 3 is made transparent (this portion is referred to as a transparent portion 21). In this way, the user can observe the color change of the coating layer 3, i.e., confirm whether the coating layer 3 is oxidized, through the transparent part 21.

In the present embodiment, only one coating layer 3 is provided in the capsule 100, and the coating layer 3 has a small area and is attached to a partial area of the inner surface of the packaging layer 2, for example, the coating layer 3 may be provided on the inner surface of the transparent portion 21. But in other embodiments not shown there may also be a plurality of ways of providing the coating 3.

For example, the plurality of coating layers 3 and the plurality of corresponding transparent portions 21 corresponding to the plurality of coating layers 3 may be provided at different positions on the inner surface of the packaging layer 2, or the coating layers 3 may be entirely coated on the inner surface of the packaging layer 2, and the packaging layer 2 may be entirely made of a transparent material, so that any position of the packaging layer 2 where a damage occurs can be found in time. It is also preferable to provide the coating 3 at the seal (i.e., the opening covered by the sealing film), because this is most likely to cause opening, breakage, etc., and once this occurs, oxygen enters from the seal, the coating 3 changes color and can be detected by the user in a timely manner.

Preferably, in producing the capsule 100 in which different food materials are packaged, the color of the packaging layer 2 of the capsule 100 may be set to correspond to the food materials packaged therein. For example, the packing layer 2 of the capsule 100 encapsulating Thailand jasmine rice may be set to be red, and the packing layer 2 of the capsule 100 encapsulating pearl rice may be set to be yellow. In this way, the user can select a desired capsule 100 by directly distinguishing different capsules 100 containing different food materials by color. Please note that the transparent part 21 remains transparent to show the color of the coating 3.

According to the utility model discloses a capsule, can be with various edible material seal package such as rice, beans wherein. Set up coating 3 on the internal surface of packaging layer 2, coating 3 can appear damaged, take place to discolour when oxygen gets into and holds chamber 1 in packaging layer 2 to in time, remind the user to notice directly perceivedly, avoided the possibility that the user eats rotten food by mistake. And through inciting somebody to action the material encapsulates in the capsule, can avoid eating the pollution of various adverse circumstances in the material transportation to eating the material on the one hand, therefore can be fine keep eating the quality of material, on the other hand, can also make into the material of eating in the capsule and exempt from washing to eat the material, made things convenient for user's use and operation.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a cooking appliance. The cooking utensil of the utility model can be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpan, a soybean milk machine or a food processor, etc.

The cooking utensil comprises a pot body and a cover body. The cooker body is internally provided with a cooking cavity. The lid can be covered and close and seal the culinary art chamber on the a kind of deep pot body, and like this, the culinary art chamber has inclosed culinary art environment when the culinary art, can improve culinary art efficiency. The outer shells of the pot body and the cover body can be made of materials such as synthetic resin, so that the temperature of the outer shell is not affected by the high temperature in the cooking operation inside the cooking appliance, and the user is prevented from being scalded. Preferably, the cooking appliance may further have a control panel, and the control panel may have a temperature adjusting function and/or a time adjusting function to adjust the operating state of the cooking appliance to accommodate cooking of different food materials. The control panel can be arranged on the cooker body or the cover body, and can also be arranged at other positions of the cooking utensil.

Ingredients such as rice, beans, etc. used in cooking by the cooking appliance are stored in the capsule 100 as described above. A capsule mounting device is arranged on the cover body of the cooking appliance, and the capsule mounting device can be a capsule mounting plate. The capsule 100 is connected to the cooking appliance through a capsule mounting plate. One or more capsules 100 may be disposed on the capsule mounting plate, and the plurality of capsules 100 may be arranged, surrounded, or arranged in other suitable forms, which may be specifically designed by those skilled in the art according to actual situations.

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Terms such as "disposed" and the like, as used herein, may refer to one element being directly attached to another element or one element being attached to another element through intervening elements. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment, either alone or in combination with other features, unless the feature is otherwise inapplicable or otherwise stated in the other embodiment.

The present invention has been described in terms of the above embodiments, but it is to be understood that the above embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that many more modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching and are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A capsule (100) for a cooking appliance, the capsule comprising a packaging layer (2) formed into a packaging structure having a containing cavity (1) containing a food material therein, the containing cavity being provided with an oxygen-free environment therein, a coating layer (3) changing color upon oxygen being provided on an inner surface of the packaging layer, the packaging layer comprising a transparent portion corresponding to the coating layer, the color of the coating layer being externally displayed through the transparent portion.

2. The capsule according to claim 1, wherein the coating is made of a vitamin C-containing material.

3. Capsule according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the coating layers are provided at different positions of the inner surface of the packaging layer.

4. A capsule according to claim 3, wherein said packaging layer is provided with a plurality of said transparent portions, respectively corresponding to said plurality of said coating layers.

5. The capsule according to claim 1, wherein the coating covers the entire inner surface of the packaging layer.

6. The capsule of claim 5, wherein the packaging layer is entirely transparent.

7. The capsule according to claim 1, wherein the coating is provided at the seal of the packaging layer.

8. Capsule according to claim 1, wherein the color of the packaging layer corresponds to the type of food material.

9. The capsule according to claim 1, wherein the coating is provided on an inner surface of the transparent portion.

10. A cooking appliance, comprising:

a cooking cavity; and

capsule mounting means for mounting a capsule according to any of claims 1-9.

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