CN211155189U - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking utensil, cooking utensil includes: the pot body assembly comprises a shell and a food container, wherein the food container is arranged in the shell, and forms a cooking cavity with an opening; the first cover body assembly is suitable for being connected with the pot body assembly to open or close the opening of the cooking cavity and comprises a first heating device for heating food in the food container; a partition, at least a portion of which is located within the cooking cavity and between the first cover assembly and the opening of the cooking cavity in a state where the first cover assembly closes the opening of the cooking cavity. According to the utility model discloses cooking utensil can prevent that high-temperature gas from directly blowing to food container's upper portion, reduces pot body assembly and goes up the temperature rise of exterior structure, is favorable to improving pot body assembly's structural reliability and life, improves user's use impression.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a kitchen appliance technical field, more specifically relates to a cooking utensil.

Background

In the related art, the gap between the outer shell cover of the cooking appliance and the side wall of the food container is small, so that the heat radiation is easily caused during the air-frying cooking process, and the temperature of the outer shell cover is increased.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving one of the technical problem that exists among the prior art at least. Therefore, an object of the utility model is to provide a cooking utensil, cooking utensil can effectively reduce the heat radiation, reduces the temperature rise of outer structure on the pot body subassembly.

According to the utility model discloses cooking utensil, include: a pan body assembly including a housing and a food container disposed within the housing, the food container forming a cooking cavity having an opening; a first cover assembly adapted to be coupled to the pan assembly to open or close an opening of the cooking cavity, the first cover assembly including a first heating device for heating food in the food container; a partition, at least a portion of which is within the cooking cavity and between the first cover assembly and the opening of the cooking cavity in a state where the first cover assembly closes the opening of the cooking cavity.

According to the utility model discloses cooking utensil through making at least partly between the opening that first lid subassembly and culinary art chamber are located to the separator, can prevent that high-temperature gas from directly blowing to food container's upper portion, reduces the temperature rise of outer structure on the pot body subassembly, is favorable to improving the structural reliability and the life of pot body subassembly, improves user's use impression.

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

according to the utility model discloses cooking utensil, the separator forms along the annular of the circumference extension of food container.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the inner peripheral wall of the separator extends gradually towards a direction close to the centre line of the separator in a direction away from the first cover assembly.

According to some embodiments of the utility model, still include the baking container, the removable setting of baking container is in the food container, be equipped with the fan on the first lid subassembly, the fan is used for carrying the process the high temperature gas after first heating device heats the culinary art intracavity.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the distance between the inner peripheral wall of the partition and the outer peripheral wall of the baking container is greater than the distance between the outer peripheral wall of the partition and the inner peripheral wall of the cooking cavity.

According to the utility model discloses a some embodiments, the bottom of toasting the container has the fresh air inlet, the internal perisporium of separator with be formed with the air current of passing that is suitable for high-temperature gas to pass through between the periphery wall of toasting the container, air current pass with the fresh air inlet intercommunication, the fan will high-temperature gas blows to flow through behind the air current pass through toast the container with the clearance that forms between the food container, then follow the fresh air inlet gets into toast in the container, be used for the heating toast the food in the container.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the opening of the cooking cavity is located at the top of the pot body assembly, and the partition is mounted on the first cover assembly.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the lower end of the separator is lower than the lower surface of the first cover assembly.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the spacer is provided with an installation portion, the spacer passes through the installation portion install in on the first lid component.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the housing includes a body and a housing cover, the housing cover being installed in the upper portion of the body, the food container being located in the body in a state where the first lid assembly closes the opening of the cooking cavity, the lower end of the housing cover being not lower than the lower end of the partition.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the cooking device further comprises a baking container, the baking container is removably arranged in the food container, the partition is mounted on one of the pot body assembly and the baking container, and the upper end of the partition is higher than the opening of the cooking cavity.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the separating element forms a ring shape extending in a circumferential direction of the food container, an annular edge of the separating element is in a horn shape gradually increasing in a direction away from an opening of the cooking cavity, and the separating element is clamped on the food container through a lower end of the horn shape; or the partition is connected with the roasting container through a plurality of connecting rods.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the extension of the part of the partition extending into the cooking cavity in the vertical direction is L, the depth of the cooking cavity is H, wherein H/6 is equal to or less than L and equal to or less than H/2.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the pot assembly comprises a second heating device for heating food in the cooking cavity, the cooking appliance further comprises a second cover assembly adapted to open or close an opening of the cooking cavity, wherein the cooking appliance has a first cooking mode and a second cooking mode, and the cooking appliance is in the first cooking mode in a state that the first cover assembly is covered on the pot assembly and the first heating device is operated; when the second cover body assembly covers the pot body assembly and the second heating device works, the cooking appliance is in the second cooking mode, the first cooking mode is a baking cooking mode, and the second cooking mode is a pressure cooking mode or an electric cooking mode.

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

fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a first cover assembly and a partition of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals:

a cooking appliance 100;

a pan body assembly 10; a cooking chamber 101; a gas flow passage 102; a body 11; a housing cover 12; a food container 13; a second heating device 14; a housing 15;

a baking container 20; an air inlet hole 201;

a first cover assembly 30; a first heating device 31; a protective cover 32; a fan 33;

a separator 40; a mounting portion 41;

a second cover assembly 50.

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 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 drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are merely for convenience of description and simplicity of 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 thus, are not to be considered as limiting.

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

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, a cooking appliance 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: pan assembly 10, baking container 20, first lid assembly 30 and partition 40.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1-3, pan body assembly 10 includes an outer shell 15 and a food container 13, food container 13 is disposed within outer shell 15, and food container 13 is formed with a cooking cavity 101 having an opening, and food can be placed within food container 13 for cooking. First cover assembly 30 can be connected to pan body assembly 10 to open or close the opening of cooking chamber 101, and first cover assembly 30 includes first heating device 31, and first heating device 31 is used for heating food in food container 13.

Therefore, when the first cover assembly 30 is covered on the pot body assembly 10 to close the opening of the cooking cavity 101 and the first heating device 31 is operated, the food in the food container 13 can be baked, fried, air-fried, etc., and the food is heated uniformly and the baking effect is good.

It should be noted that "food can be placed in the food container 13 for cooking" is to be understood in a broad sense. It is to be understood that the food may be placed directly in the food container 13 for cooking, or it is to be understood that the cooking appliance 100 further includes other accessories such as the roasting container 20, the roasting container 20 is disposed in the food container 13, and the food may be placed in the other accessories such as the roasting container 20 for cooking.

Since the temperature inside the cooking cavity 101 is high during the cooking process, the heat radiation from the cooking cavity 101 to the outside is large, and the temperature is increased, which may cause the structure of the cooking appliance 100 to be overheated. For example, in some embodiments, the housing 15 includes a body 11 and a housing cover 12, the housing cover 12 is mounted on the upper portion of the body 11, and a gap between the housing cover 12 and the inner peripheral wall of the cooking cavity 101 is small, which may cause a situation where the temperature of the housing cover 12 is high if the high-temperature air flow in the cooking cavity 101 is directly blown to the inner peripheral wall of the cooking cavity 101. For most cooking appliances 100, the outer housing 12 is usually made of plastic, and the excessive temperature rise may overheat the outer housing 12, which is not favorable for the structural stability and the service life of the outer housing 12.

Therefore, in the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 is further provided with the partition 40, as shown in fig. 3, at least a portion of the partition 40 is located in the cooking cavity 101 in a state where the first cover assembly 30 closes the opening of the cooking cavity 101, and the partition 40 is located between the first cover assembly 30 and the opening of the cooking cavity 101.

From this, the part that separator 40 is located between the opening of first lid subassembly 30 and culinary art chamber 101 can play the separation effect, with effectively reduce the high-temperature gas and directly blow to the upper portion of food container 13, or reduce the direct upper portion outward conduction through food container 13 of heat of high-temperature gas, and then reduced the outside heat radiation of high-temperature gas, pot body subassembly 10 goes up the temperature rise of exterior structure (here, exterior structure indicates the structure that is located one side of food container 13 dorsad culinary art chamber 101) and is lower, avoid appearing the overheated condition of structure on pot body subassembly 10, it is better to feel when user touches pot body subassembly 10, use experience has been improved. Meanwhile, the partition member 40 also facilitates the flow of the high temperature gas more into the food container 13 and the sufficient contact with the food in the food container 13 to improve the cooking efficiency.

According to the utility model discloses cooking utensil 100, through making at least partly between first lid subassembly 30 and the opening of culinary art chamber 101 of being located of separator 40, can prevent that high-temperature gas from directly blowing to the upper portion of food container 13, effectively reduce the temperature rise of outer structure on pot body assembly 10, be favorable to improving pot body assembly 10's structural reliability and life, improve user's use impression.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the separating element 40 can be made of plastic, silica gel or other materials with low thermal conductivity, so as to prevent the heat of the high-temperature gas from being conducted to the upper portion of the food container 13 through the separating element 40 and then to other structures of the pot body assembly 10, such as the outer shell 12, and to improve the thermal insulation effect.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, the partition member 40 forms a ring shape extending along the circumferential direction of the food container 13 to separate from the circumferential whole circle of the food container 13, so as to prevent the external structure on the pot body assembly 10 from being excessively high in temperature rise, and to provide more comprehensive protection.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the cooking apparatus 100 further includes a baking container 20, the baking container 20 is removably disposed in the food container 13, the first cover assembly 30 is provided with a blower 33, the blower 33 is used for conveying the high-temperature gas heated by the first heating device 31 into the cooking cavity 101, i.e. driving the high-temperature gas to blow toward the food, so as to improve the cooking effect and cooking efficiency of the food, and facilitate the air frying function. In some embodiments, the fan 33 may include a convection fan.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the bottom of the baking container 20 has air inlet holes 201, and a gas passing channel 102 for passing high-temperature gas is formed between the inner peripheral wall of the partition member 40 and the outer peripheral wall of the baking container 20, and the gas passing channel 102 is communicated with the air inlet holes 201.

Thereby, the high-temperature gas can flow in the direction indicated by the arrow in fig. 3. Specifically, after the fan 33 blows the high-temperature gas to the gas passing flow passage 102, the high-temperature gas flows through the gap formed between the baking container 20 and the food container 13, and then enters the baking container 20 from the air inlet hole 201 to be fully contacted with the food in the baking container 20 to heat the food; the heat-exchanged gas then returns to the first heating device 31 through the opening of the roasting container 20, and continues to flow circularly after being heated again by the first heating device 31. In this process, the partition member 40 may perform a partition and flow guiding function, that is, the high temperature gas heated by the first heating means 31 is guided into the air passing flow passage 102, instead of being directly blown onto the upper portion of the food container 13, and the high temperature gas may smoothly circulate through the air passing flow passage 102, so as to improve the cooking effect and the cooking efficiency.

It should be noted that, in the example shown in fig. 3, the air inlet 201 is disposed at the bottom of the baking container 20, so that the high-temperature air can pass through the food from bottom to top, and fully contact with the food is achieved, and meanwhile, the first heating device 31 directly bakes and heats the food from the upper side, so that the upper layer and the lower layer of the food are heated uniformly, and the cooking taste is better.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the distance between the inner circumferential wall of the partition 40 and the outer circumferential wall of the roasting container 20 is greater than the distance between the outer circumferential wall of the partition 40 and the inner circumferential wall of the cooking cavity 101. Therefore, the high-temperature gas can be prevented from flowing into the space between the partition 40 and the inner peripheral wall of the cooking cavity 101, and the high-temperature gas flows more between the partition 40 and the baking container 20, so that the high-temperature gas can enter the baking container 20 to heat food, and the cooking efficiency and the cooking effect are improved.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the inner peripheral wall of the divider 40 gradually extends in a direction away from the first cover assembly 30 toward a direction closer to the center line of the divider 40. When the separator 40 guides the high-temperature gas, the high-temperature gas can flow in the gas passing flow passage 102 in a direction close to the center line of the separator 40, that is, in a direction away from the peripheral wall of the food container 13, which is beneficial to reducing the inflow of the high-temperature gas between the separator 40 and the peripheral wall of the food container 13 and improving the heat insulation effect.

For example, in the example shown in fig. 2 to 4, the partition 40 includes a ring-shaped partition plate, and the ring-shaped partition plate extends downward in the vertical direction gradually and obliquely toward the direction close to the center line of the ring-shaped partition plate, so that not only is a good flow guiding effect achieved, but also the structure of the partition 40 is simple, and the partition 40 can be formed into a flow guiding ring and is easy to process.

The utility model discloses do not do special restriction to the mounting structure and the mounted position of separator 40, in some embodiments, the opening of culinary art chamber 101 is located the top of pot body subassembly 10, and separator 40 can be installed on one in first lid subassembly 30, pot body subassembly 10 and baking container 20, only need satisfy separator 40 can with first lid subassembly 30 with the spaced apart requirement of opening of culinary art chamber 101.

For example, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the dividing member 40 is mounted to the first cover assembly 30 such that the dividing member 40 can extend into and out of the cooking chamber 101 as the first cover assembly 30 opens and closes the opening of the cooking chamber 101 to facilitate user manipulation of the baking container 20 or food within the baking container 20.

In addition, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the lower end of the partition 40 is lower than the lower surface of the first cover assembly 30, so that, in the embodiment where the first cover assembly 30 is separable from the pan body assembly 10, the first cover assembly 30 can be supported on a placing surface such as a table top through the partition 40 after being removed from the pan body assembly 10, thereby preventing the placing surface from being burnt or causing a safety accident due to direct contact between a high temperature structure such as the first heating device 31 of the first cover assembly 30 and the placing surface.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the first cover assembly 30 further includes a protective cover 32, and the protective cover 32 is disposed on the lower side of the first heating device 31 to prevent a user from directly contacting the first heating device 31 to scald when the first cover assembly 30 opens the opening of the cooking cavity 101. In embodiments including the shield 32, the lower end of the partition 40 is lower than the lower surface of the shield 32 to prevent the shield 32 from directly contacting the placing surface to scald the placing surface.

In some specific examples, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, the partition member 40 is provided with a mounting portion 41, and the partition member 40 is mounted to the first cover assembly 30 through the mounting portion 41. For example, the inner peripheral wall of the partition member 40 is provided with a mounting portion 41, and the mounting portion 41 is connected with the first cover assembly 30 by a fastener, so as to realize the mounting and fixing of the partition member 40 and the first cover assembly 30. And the installation department 41 is a plurality of, and a plurality of installations 41 distribute along the circumference of partition portion, makes the fixed firm reliable of separator 40 on the one hand, and on the other hand can reduce the hindrance of installation department 41 to high temperature gas, increases the flow area of air channel 102, is favorable to improving the culinary art effect. Of course, in other embodiments, the mounting portion 41 may be an annular plate, and the annular plate is provided with a gas passing hole, so that high-temperature gas can pass through the gas passing hole and enter the gas passing channel 102.

In embodiments including the shield 32, as shown in fig. 3, fasteners may be threaded through the divider 40, the shield 32, and the first cover assembly 30 to simultaneously secure the divider 40 and the shield 32 to the first cover assembly 30, simplifying the mounting structure on the first cover assembly 30.

As shown in fig. 3, in the embodiment in which the housing 15 includes a body 11 and a housing cover 12, the housing cover 12 is mounted to an upper portion of the body 11, and the food container 13 is provided in the body 11. In a state where the first cover assembly 30 closes the opening of the cooking cavity 101, the lower end of the outer housing shell 12 is not lower than the lower end of the partition member 40, so that the partition member 40 can completely shield the position of the food container 13 corresponding to the outer housing shell 12, thereby reducing the heat conduction to the outer housing shell 12 as much as possible and achieving a better effect of reducing the temperature rise of the outer housing shell 12.

In some embodiments, the extension of the part of the partition 40 extending into the cooking cavity 101 along the vertical direction is L, the depth of the cooking cavity 101 is H, wherein H/6 is equal to or less than L is equal to or less than H/2, within the above size range, the partition 40 can play a good role in partitioning and guiding, and the partition 40 can be prevented from extending into the cooking cavity 101 to an excessive extent to influence the assembly and disassembly of the first cover assembly 30.

In an embodiment including the roasting container 20, the partition 40 may be mounted on the roasting container 20 with an upper end of the partition 40 higher than the opening of the cooking chamber 101. Thereby, the partition member 40 can effectively prevent the high temperature gas from blowing straight to the upper portion of the food container 13, and the partition member 40 has no influence on the opening operation of the first cover assembly 30 to open or close the cooking cavity 101, and the first cover assembly 30 is moved more easily.

For example, the partition member 40 may be formed in a ring shape extending in the circumferential direction of the food container 13, and the partition member 40 may be connected with the roasting container 20 by a plurality of connecting rods to achieve the fixing of the partition member 40, which is simple in structure. Here, the partition 40, the connecting rod, and the roasting container 20 may be a separate piece or may be formed as an integral piece.

Alternatively, in some embodiments, the dividing member 40 may be mounted on the food container 13 with the upper end of the dividing member 40 higher than the opening of the cooking chamber 101. This can also effectively prevent high temperature gas from blowing directly into the upper portion of the food container 13, which has good heat insulation effect and prevents the temperature of the structure outside the food container 13 from rising too high.

For example, the separating member 40 may be formed in a ring shape extending along the circumferential direction of the food container 13, and the annular edge of the separating member 40 is flared in a gradually increasing direction toward the opening away from the cooking cavity 101, and the separating member 40 may be caught on the food container 13 by the flared lower end thereof. The horn-shaped structure can play a good guiding role for high-temperature gas and also can play a role in fixing and limiting, and the separator 40 is simpler in structure.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, pot body assembly 10 includes a second heating device 14, second heating device 14 is used for heating food in cooking cavity 101, and cooking utensil 100 further includes a second cover assembly 50, and second cover assembly 50 can open or close the opening of cooking cavity 101.

The cooking appliance 100 has a first cooking mode and a second cooking mode, wherein the cooking appliance 100 is in the first cooking mode in a state that the first cover assembly 30 covers the pot assembly 10 and the first heating device 31 is operated, and the food can be steamed, braised, boiled, fried or air-fried by the first heating device 31. In a state where the second cover assembly 50 covers the pot assembly 10 and the second heating device 14 is operated, the cooking appliance 100 is in the second cooking mode, and the food is steamed, braised, boiled, fried, or air-fried only by the second heating device 14.

By replacing the first cover assembly 30 or the second cover assembly 50 covering the pot body assembly 10, the cooking appliance 100 can work in different cooking modes, and the cooking appliance 100 can meet more cooking requirements and achieve different cooking effects.

In some embodiments, first cover assembly 30 and second cover assembly 50 can be removable from pan assembly 10. When cooking utensil 100 realizes the change of the cooking mode by changing the cover body covering on pot body assembly 10, and the cover body covering on pot body assembly 10 is first cover body assembly 30 or second cover body assembly 50, the unused cover body can be separated from pot body assembly 10, so that the whole height of cooking utensil 100 is smaller, and the occupied space is reduced. In addition, in the process of detaching the first cover assembly 30 and the second cover assembly 50 from the pot body assembly 10, the required operation space is small, and the cooking utensil 100 can meet more kitchen placing and accommodating requirements. For example, the cooking appliance 100 may be placed in a kitchen cabinet for use, which greatly enhances the utility of the cooking appliance 100.

The utility model discloses an in some embodiments, first culinary art mode can be for toasting the culinary art mode, and under toasting the culinary art mode, first heating device 31 can be heated the food in pot body assembly 10 by the upside to realize the processing such as toasting, frying, the air of food and fry, food is heated evenly, toasts effectually. The second cooking mode may be a pressure cooking mode, in which the second heating device 14 may heat food in the pot assembly 10, and the second cover assembly 50 and the pot assembly 10 cooperate to change the air pressure in the cooking cavity 101 of the pot assembly 10 to form a positive pressure (i.e., the pressure in the cooking cavity 101 is greater than the external pressure) or a negative pressure (i.e., the pressure in the cooking cavity 101 is less than the external pressure). Under the pressure cooking mode, the food can be stewed, boiled, stewed and the like, the food cooking efficiency is high, and the nutrition extraction effect is better. Alternatively, the second heating means 14 may heat from at least one of the bottom and the side of the food. The cooking appliance 100 is formed as a baking electric pressure cooker, has two cooking modes of pressure cooking and baking cooking, and has strong practicability.

Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the second cooking mode may also be an electric cooking mode, so that the cooking apparatus 100 may be used as an electric cooker, a soup cooker, etc., which is also within the scope of the present invention.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the first cover assembly 30 and the pot body assembly 10 can be independently powered. From this, first lid subassembly 30 is split type with pot body subassembly 10, can separate completely, makes first lid subassembly 30 not only can cover and fits the food of pot body subassembly 10 in to pot body subassembly 10 and heat, and first lid subassembly 30 can also cover and fit other pot bodies for other culinary art environment to satisfy more user demands of user, cooking utensil 100's practicality is stronger.

In some embodiments, in the embodiment that the first cover assembly 30 and the pot body assembly 10 are independently powered, a power supply battery may be disposed in the first cover assembly 30, or as shown in fig. 1, the first cover assembly 30 may be provided with a power cord, and the power cord may be connected to an external power source to realize independent power supply, which is within the protection scope of the present invention.

Other constructions and operations of the cooking appliance 100 according to the embodiments 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 is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; 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 meaning 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," "specific 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 present 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 (14)

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

a pan body assembly including a housing and a food container disposed within the housing, the food container forming a cooking cavity having an opening;

a first cover assembly adapted to be coupled to the pan assembly to open or close an opening of the cooking cavity, the first cover assembly including a first heating device for heating food in the food container;

a partition, at least a portion of which is within the cooking cavity and between the first cover assembly and the opening of the cooking cavity in a state where the first cover assembly closes the opening of the cooking cavity.

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the divider forms an annular shape extending along a circumference of the food container.

3. The cooking appliance of claim 2, wherein an inner peripheral wall of the divider extends in a direction away from the first lid assembly gradually towards a direction closer to a centerline of the divider.

4. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising a baking container removably disposed within the food container, wherein the first lid assembly has a blower thereon for delivering the heated gas to the cooking chamber.

5. The cooking appliance of claim 4, wherein a distance between an inner peripheral wall of the divider and an outer peripheral wall of the baking container is greater than a distance between an outer peripheral wall of the divider and an inner peripheral wall of the cooking cavity.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the bottom of the baking container has air inlet holes, an air passage suitable for high temperature gas to pass through is formed between the inner peripheral wall of the partition and the outer peripheral wall of the baking container, the air passage is communicated with the air inlet holes, and the fan blows the high temperature gas to the air passage and then flows through a gap formed between the baking container and the food container, and then enters the baking container from the air inlet holes for heating the food in the baking container.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the opening of the cooking chamber is located at a top of the pan body assembly, and the divider is mounted to the first cover assembly.

8. The cooking appliance of claim 7, wherein a lower end of the divider is lower than a lower surface of the first lid assembly.

9. The cooking appliance of claim 7, wherein the divider is provided with a mounting portion by which the divider is mounted to the first lid assembly.

10. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the housing includes a body and a housing cover, the housing cover being mounted to an upper portion of the body, the food container being provided in the body, a lower end of the housing cover being not lower than a lower end of the partition in a state where the first cover assembly closes the opening of the cooking chamber.

11. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising a baking container removably disposed within the food container, the divider mounted to one of the pan body assembly and the baking container, an upper end of the divider being higher than an opening of the cooking cavity.

12. The cooking appliance of claim 11, wherein the separating member forms a ring shape extending along a circumferential direction of the food container, an annular edge of the separating member is flared in a direction away from the opening of the cooking cavity, the separating member is clamped to the food container by a lower end of the flared shape; or the partition is connected with the roasting container through a plurality of connecting rods.

13. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the partition extends into the cooking cavity by L in vertical direction, and the cooking cavity has a depth H, wherein H/6 ≦ L ≦ H/2.

14. The cooking appliance of any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein the pan assembly comprises a second heating device for heating food within the cooking cavity, the cooking appliance further comprising a second cover assembly adapted to open or close an opening of the cooking cavity,

wherein the cooking appliance has a first cooking mode and a second cooking mode,

when the first cover body assembly covers the pot body assembly and the first heating device works, the cooking appliance is in the first cooking mode;

when the second cover body assembly covers the pot body assembly and the second heating device works, the cooking appliance is in the second cooking mode, the first cooking mode is a baking cooking mode, and the second cooking mode is a pressure cooking mode or an electric cooking mode.

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