CN211961755U - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a cooking utensil, eat material installation storehouse, cang gai, controlling means and induction system including at least one driving motor, prepackage. The driving motor is used for executing a cooking function, and the pre-packaged food material mounting bin is used for accommodating pre-packaged food materials; the bin cover is arranged on the pre-packaged food material installation bin and used for opening and closing the pre-packaged food material installation bin; the control device can control the driving motor to start and stop; the sensing device is arranged on the pre-packaged food material installation bin and is electrically connected with the control device. The sensing device is configured to be capable of detecting the opening and closing state of the pre-packaged food material installation bin, and the control device is configured to control the driving motor to stop running when the sensing device detects that the pre-packaged food material installation bin is in the opening state. From this, the storehouse lid can trigger induction system from opening to the lid in-process that closes, and controlling means can be when the material installation storehouse of packing in advance is in the open mode control driving motor stall moreover, avoids producing the potential safety hazard.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model discloses generally relate to cooking utensil's technical field.

Background

A conventional cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker has a cooking space 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 pretreated food materials such as rice and beans in a package, and opening the package when the reservation time is reached and the cooking is required, so that the food materials fall into the cooking space of the cooking appliance for cooking. The applicant has conceived a capsule installation magazine that can automatically bring the capsule to the open position. However, when the capsule installation chamber is in a moving state, a user may easily cause a safety hazard when opening the capsule installation chamber.

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

To solve the above problem at least in part, the present invention provides a cooking appliance, comprising:

at least one drive motor;

a pre-packaged food material mounting bin for accommodating pre-packaged food materials;

the bin cover is arranged on the pre-packaged food material installation bin and used for opening and closing the pre-packaged food material installation bin;

the control device can control the start and stop of the driving motor; and

the sensing device is arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin and is electrically connected with the control device, the sensing device is configured to be capable of detecting the opening and closing state of the pre-packaged food material mounting bin,

wherein the control device is configured to control the driving motor to stop running when the sensing device detects that the pre-packaged food material mounting bin is in an open state.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, this cooking utensil have at least one and are used for carrying out the driving motor of culinary art function, and usable material installation storehouse is eaten to the packing in advance holds the material of eating of packing in advance in addition, still is provided with on the material installation storehouse of packing in advance simultaneously and is used for opening and close the storehouse lid of material installation storehouse in advance in order to play the guard action. In addition, a control device and an induction device electrically connected to the control device are further arranged in the cooking appliance, and the control device can control the driving motor to start and stop. The utility model discloses in, the in-process that the storehouse lid closed the material installation storehouse in advance to the lid can trigger induction system from opening, controlling means can control driving motor stall when induction system detects material installation storehouse in advance to pack and is in the open mode, only make from this when material installation storehouse is in the lid and closes the state in advance to pack, driving motor can just normally operate, in case material installation storehouse is in the open mode in advance to pack, then controlling means will control driving motor stall based on induction system's detection, and through such a mode, when the user opens material installation storehouse is eaten to pack in advance, driving motor can stall, avoid producing the potential safety hazard from this.

Optionally, a rotating device is arranged in the pre-packaged food material installation bin, and the rotating device can drive the pre-packaged food material to move under the driving of the driving motor.

In such a mode of setting, the material of packing in advance is placed after the material installation storehouse is eaten in advance to the packing, and rotating device can drive the material of packing in advance and move to predetermined culinary art position.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises a first trigger portion disposed on the bin cover and a second trigger portion disposed on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin, wherein in a process that the bin cover moves from an open state to a closed state, the first trigger portion pushes the second trigger portion from an initial position to a trigger position for triggering the sensing device, and when the bin cover is in the open state, the first trigger portion is far away from the second trigger portion, and the second trigger portion returns to the initial position.

In the arrangement mode, in the process that the bin cover moves from the opening state to the covering state, the induction device can be triggered through the interaction between the first trigger part and the second trigger part, and then the driving motor is controlled to start and stop.

Optionally, the sensing device is a microswitch.

In such an arrangement, the microswitch has a good sensing effect, and therefore the microswitch can be used as the sensing device.

Optionally, the cooking appliance comprises a lid, the pre-packaged food material mounting bin being provided on the lid.

In such an arrangement, the pre-packaged food material mounting bin is arranged in the cover body, so that the structure of the cooker body is more compact.

Optionally, the lid comprises an open and closed end and a pivot end opposite the open and closed end, the lid being pivotably connected to the pre-packaged food material mounting bin at the pivot end.

In such an arrangement, the bin cover is pivotally connected to the pre-packaged food material mounting bin for ease of operation by the user.

Optionally, the first triggering portion is disposed at the opening and closing end and configured to protrude from a protrusion protruding from a lower surface of the bin cover, a through hole extending along a height direction of the pre-packaged food material mounting bin is disposed on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin, the second triggering portion is configured to penetrate through the through hole and extend to a push rod in the lid body, and the push rod can move up and down along an axial direction of the through hole.

In such an arrangement, the plunger is movable within the through-hole, whereby interaction between the plunger and the protrusion can be used to trigger the sensing means.

Optionally, the ejector pin is provided with a shifting block, and the shifting block triggers the sensing device when the ejector pin is in the triggering position and is far away from the sensing device when the ejector pin is in the initial position.

In such an arrangement, the sensing device can be triggered by a paddle arranged on the top bar.

Optionally, an elastic member is further sleeved on the ejector rod, and the elastic member applies a biasing force to the ejector rod to enable the ejector rod to move from the trigger position to the initial position.

In such a setting mode, the ejector rod is far away from the triggering position by utilizing the biasing force applied to the ejector rod by the elastic piece, and the situation that the bin cover is not covered on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin is avoided, the ejector rod triggers the sensing device, so that the control device normally controls the motor to operate, and misjudgment is generated.

Optionally, a circle of flange part is arranged on the top rod, the shifting block is connected to the flange part, and one end of the elastic element abuts against the flange part.

In such an arrangement, the flange portion can preferably move the elastic member to the initial position by driving the jack.

Optionally, the cooking utensil further comprises a fixing plate, a through hole is formed in the fixing plate, the push rod extends through the through hole, and the other end of the elastic piece abuts against the fixing plate.

In such an arrangement, the fixing plate can be used to fix the elastic member in an auxiliary manner, and the through hole can prevent interference with the movement of the push rod.

Optionally, the sensing device is fixed on the fixing plate.

In such an arrangement, the sensing device may be secured by a securing plate.

Drawings

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

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

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the cover shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the cover shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the lid of FIG. 2; and

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the jack in fig. 2.

Description of reference numerals:

10: pre-packaged food material installation bin 11: top rod

12: a shifting block 13: elastic piece

14: flange portion 15: fixing plate

16: the sensing device 20: rotating device

21: the wing plate 30: storehouse cover

31: projection 40: cover body

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 utility model provides a cooking appliance which can be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, a food processor or other electric heating appliances and the like. The cooking appliance according to the present invention has substantially the same structure as a conventional cooking appliance except for the structure of the cover body, and thus, for the sake of brevity, only the structure of the cover body will be described in detail below. The cooking appliance generally includes a pot body (not shown) and a lid body 40.

Wherein, the cooker body can be roughly constructed into a round-corner cuboid shape, and an inner pot is arranged in the cooker body. The pot body can be internally provided with a cylindrical inner pot containing part, and the inner pot can be freely placed into the inner pot containing part or taken out of the inner pot containing part so as to be convenient for cleaning the inner pot. The upper surface of the inner pot has a circular opening for containing materials to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., into the inner pot. A heating means (not shown) for heating the inner pot, etc. may be further provided in the pot body. Of course, the inner pot may also be fixedly arranged in the pot body, or a concave cooking cavity may also be arranged in the pot body instead of the inner pot.

The lid body 40 may be pivotably connected to the pot body by a pivot shaft, and may be openable and closable with respect to the pot body. When the cover body 40 is covered on the cooker body, a cooking space is formed between the cover body 40 and the inner pot.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil can use the repackaging to eat the material and cook in advance. The pre-packaged food materials each comprise a receiving cavity with an opening. Food materials or water used for cooking, etc. may be stored in the receiving chamber, and the opening of the receiving chamber is sealed by a sealing film. Preferably, about 50-200g of food material, such as rice, millet or beans, etc., can be stored in one package to form pre-packaged food material, thereby accommodating cooking needs of different food quantities and different numbers of people.

Through using the prepackaged edible material, the cooking utensil of being convenient for is taken automatically regularly and quantitatively, is favorable to improving the automation of culinary art. In addition, the food materials stored in the package 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 nutrient substances such as vitamins and the like can be added into the food materials to balance the nutrition of the food materials. The packaging of the pre-packaged food material can also seal and store the food material to play a role in preservation, or the preservation period of the food material can be further prolonged by means of vacuumizing the containing cavity or filling protective gas into the containing cavity and the like.

In addition, the cooking appliance in the present embodiment further includes at least one driving motor, a pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10, a bin cover 30, a control device (not shown), and a sensing device 16.

Among them, preferably, the cooking appliance in the present embodiment includes a plurality of driving motors. The plurality of driving motors can respectively execute different cooking functions under the control of the control device, for example, the driving motors can drive the pre-packaged food materials to move to a preset opening position and drive the cutting device to cut the pre-packaged food materials. In addition, in some cooking appliances having a water adding device, the driving motor may also drive the water adding device to add water into the cooking space or the washing space. The pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 can be used for containing pre-packaged food materials, the bin cover 30 is arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 and can open and close the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10, for example, the bin cover 30 can be arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 in a covering mode and can be used for covering the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 to protect the pre-packaged food materials.

In addition, the control device can control the cooking utensil to execute the cooking function, and the control device in the embodiment is electrically connected with the driving motor and can control the starting and stopping of the driving motor. The sensing device 16 is arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 and is electrically connected with the control device, and the sensing device 16 can detect the opening and closing states of the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10. The control means is configured to control the driving motor to stop when the sensing means detects that the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 is in the open state, so that the above-mentioned various cooking operations (e.g., rotating, cutting, adding water, etc.) driven by the driving motor are stopped.

Therefore, only when the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 is in a closed state, the driving motor can normally operate, once the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 is in an open state, the control device controls the driving motor to stop operating based on detection of the sensing device, and in such a way, when a user opens the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10, the driving motor can stop operating, so that potential safety hazards are avoided.

Further, in the present embodiment, a rotating device 20 is disposed in the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10, and the rotating device 20 can be driven by the driving motor to drive the pre-packaged food material to rotate, so as to move the pre-packaged food material to an open position, where the pre-packaged food material can be opened and the food material in the package can fall into the cooking space.

In the present embodiment, the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10 is provided on the lid body 40 of the cooking appliance. In other embodiments, not shown, the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 may also be provided on the pot body.

As shown in fig. 1, the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 is provided on an upper surface of the cover body 40, and the rotating means 20 is configured as a rotating disk including a plurality of wings 21 uniformly provided along a circumferential direction thereof, for example, the rotating disk in fig. 1 includes 10 wings 21. Between adjacent wings 21 pre-packaged food material can be placed, wherein each pre-packaged food material is configured in a substantially sector-shaped form and is arranged along the circumferential direction of the turntable. The pre-packaged food material is mounted on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 with the opening substantially downward. A feeding channel communicated with the cooking space is arranged below the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10.

The rotating device 20 is driven by the driving motor to rotate to drive the pre-packaged food materials to move, so that each pre-packaged food material is moved to the opening position. At this position, the sealing film of the pre-packaged food material can be pierced and cut using an opening device configured as a cutting knife, opening the pre-packaged food material. The food material in the receiving cavity of the pre-packaged food material automatically enters the cooking space through the feeding channel under the action of gravity. In the process of opening the pre-packaged food material, the cutting knife moves upwards and abuts against the sealing film of the pre-packaged food material. At this time, the pre-packaged food material is restricted from moving and is further punctured by the cutting tool.

Specifically, the cooking appliance further includes a first triggering portion provided on the bin cover 30 and a second triggering portion provided on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10. When the bin cover 30 moves from the open state to the closed state, the first trigger pushes the second trigger from the initial position to the trigger position of the trigger sensing device 16, and when the bin cover 30 is in the open state, the first trigger is away from the second trigger, and the second trigger returns to the initial position. The interaction between the first and second triggering portions is used to trigger the sensing device 16, thereby changing the control state of the control device.

Illustratively, the sensing device 16 may be a microswitch, which has a good sensing effect, so that the microswitch can be connected to the circuit of the control device, and when the microswitch is triggered, the control device can control the driving motor to operate normally based on the triggered result of the microswitch.

In addition, the sensing device 16 may be configured as other suitable detection devices. For example, the sensing device 16 may be a displacement sensor, and the displacement sensor is used to sense the movement of the second triggering portion, so as to detect the open/close state of the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10. Of course, the sensing device 16 may also be an infrared emitter and an infrared receiver which are arranged in pairs, and the movement of the second triggering portion is utilized to change the infrared transmission state between the infrared emitter and the infrared receiver, so as to detect the opening and closing state of the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10. It will be appreciated that other forms of sensing means 16 may be used by those skilled in the art to detect the opening and closing of the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10.

In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 is provided on the cover 40 of the cooking appliance. As shown in fig. 5, the bin cover 30 includes an opening and closing end and a pivoting end opposite to the opening and closing end, and the bin cover 30 is pivotably connected to the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10 by the pivoting end. The first triggering means is constructed as a protrusion 31 provided at the opening and closing end, and the protrusion 31 protrudes from the lower surface of the bin cover 30 and extends from the bin cover 30 toward the direction of the pre-packaged food material mounting bin 10.

Further, the pre-packed food material installation bin 10 is provided with a through hole extending in the height direction thereof. The second triggering device is configured as a plunger 11, the plunger 11 extends into the lid body 40 through the through hole, and the plunger 11 can move up and down along the axial direction of the through hole.

In addition, the ejector rod 11 is also provided with a shifting block 12. The paddle 12 triggers the sensing device 16 when the ram 11 is in the trigger position and is away from the sensing device 16 when the ram 11 is in the initial position.

In order to avoid the situation that the ejector rod 11 triggers the sensing device 16 when the flour cover is not covered on the pre-packaged food material installation bin 10, the ejector rod 11 is also sleeved with an elastic piece 13, and the elastic piece 13 applies a biasing force to the ejector rod 11 to enable the ejector rod 11 to move from a triggering position to an initial position. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the elastic member 13 is a return spring, the return spring is sleeved at the bottom of the top rod 11, and the spring applies an upward acting force to the top rod 11 in the vertical direction to make the shifting block 12 away from the sensing device 16.

Furthermore, as shown in fig. 6, a flange portion 14 is further provided on a portion of the rod 11 located outside the through hole, and the flange portion 14 can restrict the movement of the rod 11 in the through hole to prevent the rod 11 from falling out of the through hole. In the present embodiment, the flange portion 14 is provided on the carrier rod 11 in the circumferential direction of the carrier rod 11, wherein the cross-sectional area of the flange portion 14 in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the carrier rod 11 is larger than the cross-sectional area of the through-hole in the radial direction thereof, thereby functioning as a stopper. The flange portion 14 does not enter the through hole during the movement of the stem 11, and in other embodiments, not shown, the stopper portion may have other arrangements that achieve the same effect. In the present embodiment, the flange portion 14 prevents the tip end of the stem 11 from protruding out of the through hole during movement, that is, the tip end of the stem 11 can only move in the through hole, thereby preventing the safety hazard caused by the stem 11 protruding out of the through hole.

Preferably, the dial 12 is connected to the flange portion 14, and the dial 12 and the flange portion 14 may be integrally formed, so as to reduce the manufacturing cost of the carrier rod 11. More preferably, the dial 12, the flange 14 and the stem 11 may be integrally formed.

In addition, one end of the elastic element 13 can abut against the flange part 14, and the elastic element 13 can drive the push rod 11 to move to the initial position by virtue of the flange part 14 being connected to the push rod 11.

Further, a fixing plate 15 is further provided in the cooking appliance, as shown in fig. 4, the fixing plate 15 is provided in the cover body 40, and the sensing device 16 is fixedly provided on the fixing plate 15. Meanwhile, the fixing plate 15 is further provided with a through hole, the bottom end of the push rod 11 extends through the through hole, and the push rod 11 can move in the through hole in the process of moving along the axial direction of the through hole. Preferably, the other end of the elastic member 13 abuts against the fixing plate 15 to facilitate fixing. Through the arrangement mode, the movement space of the mandril 11 can be accurately limited, and possible errors in use are avoided.

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 (12)

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

at least one drive motor;

a pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10), the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10) being for containing pre-packaged food material;

the bin cover (30), the bin cover (30) is arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10) and used for opening and closing the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10);

the control device can control the start and stop of the driving motor; and

the sensing device (16) is arranged on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10) and is electrically connected with the control device, the sensing device is configured to be capable of detecting the opening and closing state of the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10),

wherein the control device is configured to control the driving motor to stop running when the sensing device (16) detects that the pre-packaged food material installation bin (10) is in an open state.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the pre-packaged food material installation bin (10) is provided with a rotating device (20), and the rotating device (20) can drive the pre-packaged food material to move under the driving of the driving motor.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, further comprising a first trigger provided on the bin cover (30) and a second trigger provided on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10), the first trigger pushing the second trigger from an initial position to a trigger position triggering the sensing means (16) during movement of the bin cover (30) from an open state to a closed state, and the first trigger moving away from the second trigger when the bin cover (30) is in the open state, the second trigger returning to the initial position.

4. Cooking appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the sensing means (16) is a microswitch.

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the cooking appliance comprises a lid (40), the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10) being provided on the lid (40).

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 5, wherein the bin cover (30) comprises a closed end and a pivot end opposite to the closed end, the bin cover (30) being pivotably connected to the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10) at the pivot end.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 6, wherein the first triggering portion is provided at the opening and closing end and is configured as a protrusion (31) protruding from a lower surface of the bin cover (30), a through hole extending in a height direction thereof is provided on the pre-packaged food material mounting bin (10), the second triggering portion is configured as a push rod (11) extending into the cover body (40) through the through hole, and the push rod (11) is capable of moving up and down in an axial direction of the through hole.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 7, wherein the stem (11) is provided with a toggle block (12), the toggle block (12) triggering the sensing means (16) when the stem (11) is in the triggering position and being remote from the sensing means (16) when the stem (11) is in the initial position.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 8, wherein the stem (11) is further sleeved with an elastic member (13), and the elastic member (13) applies a biasing force to the stem (11) to move the stem (11) from the triggering position to the initial position.

10. Cooking appliance according to claim 9, characterized in that the stem (11) is provided with a collar (14), the pusher (12) being connected to the collar (14), the elastic element (13) resting with one end on the collar (14).

11. The cooking appliance according to claim 10, further comprising a fixing plate (15), wherein the fixing plate (15) is provided with a through hole, the stem (11) extends through the through hole, and the other end of the elastic member (13) abuts against the fixing plate (15).

12. Cooking appliance according to claim 11, characterized in that the sensing means (16) are fixed on the fixed plate (15).

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