CN211483992U

CN211483992U - Cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN211483992U
Application number: CN201921397639.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘世强; 姚斌
Original assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-26
Filing date: 2019-08-26
Publication date: 2020-09-15
Anticipated expiration: 2029-08-26

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking utensil, including a kind of deep pot body, lid, suggestion device and controlling means. An inner pot is arranged in the cooker body. The cover body is arranged on the cooker body in an openable and closable manner, and when the cover body covers the cooker body, a cooking space is formed between the cover body and the inner pot. The prompting device is used for sending out prompting information for prompting cooking. The control device comprises a timing module with a timing function, the timing module is electrically connected with the prompting device and is configured to control the prompting device to send out prompting information at preset time. According to the utility model discloses, cooking utensil can send the prompt message that reminds the user to cook at scheduled time, can avoid the user to forget the condition that starts the culinary art from this to instant culinary art is compared the reservation culinary art and can be guaranteed that food has good taste.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil's technical field.

Background

When cooking rice using a cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker, people usually choose to cook rice simultaneously with cooking so as to be able to enjoy both the rice and the rice when they are in the best taste immediately after being taken out of the pot. However, some users (especially the elderly) forget to start cooking after putting rice and water into the cooking appliance, resulting in an awkward situation in that the rice does not start cooking after the meal is taken out of the pot. Some cooking appliances avoid this by a reservation function. For example, a user puts rice and water into a cooking appliance in advance, and then the cooking appliance automatically cooks rice at a predetermined time to be cooked. Thereby preventing the rice from being uncooked when the food is taken out of the pot. However, in the reserved preparation time, the rice is easy to be soaked in water excessively to affect the taste and even to be soaked badly to affect the health. The above situation brings a bad use experience to the user.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a cooking appliance to at least partially solve the above mentioned 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.

In order to solve the above problem at least in part, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance including:

the cooker body is internally provided with an inner pot;

the cover body is arranged on the cooker body in an openable and closable manner, and when the cover body covers the cooker body, a cooking space is formed between the cover body and the inner pot;

the prompting device is used for sending out prompting information for prompting cooking; and

the control device comprises a timing module with a timing function, is electrically connected with the prompting device and is configured to control the prompting device to send out the prompting information at preset time.

According to the utility model discloses, cooking utensil can send the prompt message that reminds the user to cook at scheduled time, can avoid the user to forget the condition that starts the culinary art from this to instant culinary art is compared the reservation culinary art and can be guaranteed that food has good taste.

Optionally, the control device is configured to control the prompting device to stop sending the prompting message after the prompting message lasts for a first duration. Therefore, the influence of the continuously sent prompt information on the normal life of the user can be avoided.

Optionally, the first duration is 10s-5 min. Therefore, the proper first duration can ensure that the prompt message can play a sufficient reminding role.

Optionally, after the prompting device stops sending the prompting information for the second duration, the control device controls the prompting device to send the prompting information again. Therefore, the user can be reminded again under the condition that the reminding function cannot be achieved in the previous time.

Optionally, the second duration is 10s-5 min. Therefore, the second duration is short, and the reservation time can be prevented from being missed.

Optionally, the control device further includes a key module, and the control device controls the prompt device to stop sending the prompt information in response to an operation of the key module. Therefore, the user can actively cancel the reminding through the key module.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises a timing power supply, the timing module being continuously powered by the timing power supply, the timing module being configured to time in real time in synchronism with the time of the predetermined time zone. Therefore, the timing module can synchronize timing with life time, and is convenient to use.

Optionally, the control device is configured to control the prompting device to send out the prompting message at the predetermined time of each day. Therefore, the daily repeated reminding can be realized through one-time setting.

Optionally, the predetermined time comprises at least two different points in time within the same day. Thus, reminders can be made before each meal of the day.

Optionally, the prompting device includes a buzzer and/or a voice module for emitting voice information, and the prompting information is sound. Therefore, the sound reminding effect is good.

Drawings

The following figures of the embodiments of the present invention are used as part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings, embodiments and descriptions of the invention, which are used to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

fig. 1 is a schematic view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a control schematic diagram of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control method for a cooking appliance 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 preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, however, other embodiments of the invention are possible in addition to these detailed descriptions.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a cooking appliance and a control method for cooking using the same.

The cooking utensil of the utility model can be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpan, etc.

As shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 according to the present invention includes a cover 120 and a pot body 110. The pot body 110 is substantially in a rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a cylindrical inner pot receiving portion into or from which the inner pot 111 can be freely put or taken out to facilitate cleaning of the inner pot 111. The upper surface of the inner pot 111 has a circular opening for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., therein. The bottom of the inner pan 111 is typically also provided with heating means 180 (see fig. 2) for heating the inner pan. It can be understood that the cooking device 100 according to the present invention can be used for cooking other cereals, such as bean rice, besides rice. The cooking appliance 100 will be described in detail below, taking rice cooking as an example.

The cover 120 has a substantially rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and substantially corresponds to the shape of the pot body 110. The lid body 120 is pivotally connected to the pot body 110 in an openable and closable manner for covering the pot body 110 and constituting a cooking space between the inner pot 111 and the lid body 120.

As shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 further includes a control device 130. The control device 130 includes a main control chip, which may be electrically connected to functional elements of the cooking appliance 100, such as the heating device 180, and send signals to control the functional elements to perform corresponding operations. According to the utility model discloses, be provided with the timing module in the main control chip. Thus, the control device 130 has a timer function.

In one embodiment, the timing module may be a Real-Time Clock module (i.e., RTC). In this way, the control device 130 can implement a real-time timing function. For example, the timing is synchronized with reference to the standard time of a predetermined time zone. Preferably, the timing of the control device 130 can be kept synchronized with the Beijing time. However, the timing of the control device 130 can also be synchronized with the times of other time zones, if desired.

The timing module needs to continuously supply power when executing a real-time timing function so as to avoid inaccurate timing caused by timing interruption. As shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 includes a timing power source 140 for supplying power to a timing module of the control device 130. The timing power source 140 may be a battery provided on the cooking appliance 100.

In addition, the cooking appliance 100 is also connected with a main power supply 150 for supplying power to the cooking appliance 100 for performing a cooking function. Wherein the main power supply 150 may be mains power. The control device 130 may also implement a timing function when it is powered only by the main power supply 150. However, since the cooking appliance 100 does not maintain a continuously connected state with the main power supply 150, the control device 130 cannot time in real time when only the main power supply 150 supplies power, and thus it is inconvenient to adopt a real-time timing function. The normal timing function may be selected at this time. The timing mode of the ordinary timing function may include a timing mode that is not limited by actual time, such as a count-up mode or a count-down mode.

As shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 includes a prompting device 160 for issuing a prompting message. The prompt message may be a message to remind the user of cooking, etc. The prompting device 160 is electrically connected to the control device 130 and can be operated under the control of the control device 130. Preferably, the prompting device 160 may be configured as a buzzer. The control device 130 controls the buzzer to emit sound as the prompt information. Preferably, the prompting device 160 can also be configured as a voice module including a speaker. The control device 130 controls the voice module to send out the reminding content broadcasted in the form of voice as the prompt message. The prompt message in the form of sound can have a good reminding effect compared with other types of prompt messages (such as visual messages).

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, controlling means 130 can acquire time through the timing function of the timing module of self to control suggestion device 160 and send the prompt message of reminding the user to cook when reaching scheduled time. Thereby, the situation that the user forgets to cook can be avoided. So that the user can put rice and water into the inner pot 111 for cooking after being reminded. Compared with a long-time reservation cooking mode, the instant cooking mode does not enable the rice to be soaked for a long time, and therefore the rice can have better mouthfeel.

This is described in detail below in conjunction with the flow chart shown in fig. 3.

After the cooking appliance is powered on, the user can operate it. First, the user can set a desired reminder time through an input device (not shown) such as a key module or a touch screen. Preferably, as shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance may further include a display device 170, such as a display screen, for displaying information related to the above-mentioned setting, for the convenience of the user. Specifically, the reminder time may be set in the following two setting manners.

For a cooking appliance provided with the timing power supply 140, the timing module of the control device 130 can be continuously powered by the timing power supply 140 to realize a real-time timing function, i.e., synchronously timing with reference to the standard time of the predetermined time zone.

For example, the user lives in a region that is timed with Beijing time, and thus the time of the timing module can be set to be synchronized with the Beijing time. In this case, the reminder time may be set to a predetermined time point T1. For example, the reminder time is set to 45 minutes at 10 am in Beijing. When the time reaches 45 minutes in 10 am of Beijing, the control device 130 knows that the reminding time is up through the timing module, thereby controlling the reminding device 160 to send out reminding information to remind the user of cooking. After receiving the prompt message, the user can recognize that cooking is needed, and then starts the cooking operation.

Of course, the reminding time can also be set to be two or more time points in one day so as to achieve the effect of reminding before each meal. Preferably, the cooking appliance may be further configured to issue a prompt message each day when the predetermined time point is reached. This can eliminate the trouble of duplicate setting.

For a cooking appliance without a timing power supply, the timing module of the control device 130 can obtain power supply only when the cooking appliance is connected to the main power supply 150. That is, the timing module may perform the timing function only after the cooking appliance is turned on. And thus is not suitable for timing synchronized with the standard time of the predetermined time zone. Only the normal timing functions, such as count up or count down, etc., can be selected. In this case, the reminder time may be set to a time period, that is, a time period from a current time set by the user to a desired reminder time.

For example, the user makes a setting at 9 am and wishes to start cooking separately at 10 am 45. The reminder time was set to 1 hour and 45 minutes by calculation. After the setting is completed, the timing module starts to time in minutes or seconds. After 1 hour and 45 minutes, the control device 130 knows that the reminding time is up through the timing module, so as to control the reminding device 160 to send out reminding information to remind the user of cooking. After receiving the prompt message, the user can recognize that cooking is needed, and then starts the cooking operation.

Preferably, the cooking appliance may be provided with a key module for inputting setting information, or performing other operations (e.g., starting cooking or selecting a function, etc.). Further, the control device 130 may be configured to control the prompting device 160 to stop operating in response to the operation of the key module. That is, after the prompting device 160 sends the prompting message, the user can trigger the key of the key module to stop sending the prompting message by the prompting device 160. The triggered key can be a specific key or a key combination, or can be any key.

Preferably, the control device 130 may be configured to control the prompting device 160 to stop working after the prompting device 160 sends out the prompting message and lasts for the first duration t 1. Therefore, even if the user does not operate the cooking appliance, the prompting device 160 automatically stops operating after the first duration t1, so as not to generate adverse effects due to the continuous sound. Preferably, the first duration t1 may range from 10s to 5 min. In various embodiments, the first duration t1 may be 10s, 30s, 1min, 3min, 5min, or any value within the above range.

However, there is a disadvantage in that the user may not hear the prompt message and cannot implement the reminding function. Therefore, further, the control device 130 may be further configured to control the prompting device 160 to issue the prompting message again after the prompting device 160 automatically stops working for the second duration t2, so as to remind again. Preferably, the second duration t2 may range from 10s to 5 min. In various embodiments, the second duration t2 may be 10s, 30s, 1min, 3min, 5min, or any value within the above range.

It will be appreciated that if the user does not cancel the reminder by, for example, triggering a button, the notification device 160 may continue to emit the notification message for a first duration t1, and briefly cease to operate for a second duration t2, and then emit the notification message again, and alternately repeat the two states. Until the user actively cancels the reminder. At this time, the prompting device 160 stops working, and this reminding is completed. Thus, the effect of reminding can be realized to the maximum extent.

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

1. A cooking appliance, characterized in that it comprises:

the cooker comprises a cooker body (110), wherein an inner pot (111) is arranged in the cooker body (110);

the cover body (120) is arranged on the pot body (110) in an openable and closable manner, and when the cover body (120) covers the pot body (110), a cooking space is formed between the cover body (120) and the inner pot (111);

the prompting device (160), the said prompting device (160) is used for sending out the prompting message of reminding cooking; and

the control device (130) comprises a timing module with a timing function, the control device (130) is electrically connected with the prompting device (160) and is configured to control the prompting device (160) to send out the prompting information at a preset time.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the control device (130) is configured to control the prompting device (160) to stop issuing the prompting message after the prompting message lasts for a first duration (t 1).

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the first duration (t1) is 10s-5 min.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the control device (130) controls the prompting device (160) to issue the prompting message again after the prompting device (160) stops issuing the prompting message for the second duration (t 2).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the second duration (t2) is 10s-5 min.

6. The cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the control device (130) further comprises a key module, and the control device (130) controls the prompting device (160) to stop issuing the prompting message in response to an operation of the key module.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising a timing power source (140), the timing module being continuously powered by the timing power source (140), the timing module being configured to time in real time in synchronization with a standard time of a predetermined time zone.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 7, wherein the control device (130) is configured to control the prompting device (160) to issue the prompting message at the predetermined time of day.

9. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the predetermined time comprises at least two different points in time within the same day.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the prompting device (160) comprises a buzzer and/or a voice module for emitting voice information, the prompting information being a sound.