CN214180054U

CN214180054U - Cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN214180054U
Application number: CN202022161745.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓强; 李泽涌; 谢仙福
Original assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-27
Filing date: 2020-09-27
Publication date: 2021-09-14
Anticipated expiration: 2030-09-27

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking utensil, which comprises a cooker body, a linkage in-place detection mechanism and a control device, wherein the cooker body comprises a cooker body seat, an inner pot positioned in the cooker body seat and a cooker body cover arranged on the cooker body seat, and a cooking space is formed between the cooker body cover and the inner pot; the cooker body is detachably connected with the machine body; the linkage in-place detection mechanism comprises an in-place detection piece arranged on the machine body and a structure to be detected arranged on the cooker body, the in-place detection piece is configured to detect the structure to be detected under the condition that the cooker body is connected to a preset position of the machine body and the cooker body cover is covered to the preset position of the cooker body seat, and a detected in-place signal is transmitted to the control device. According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, controlling means can be through the cooperation of the detection piece that targets in place and the detection mechanism that targets in place that links, receives the signal that targets in place under the preset position of a kind of deep pot body coupling to organism and the state that the lid closed to learn cooking utensil and install to target in place, can begin work.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil technical field especially relates to a cooking utensil.

Background

In the existing cooking appliance, for the convenience of use of a user, a cooker body and a machine body with a heating platform are designed into separable structures. Because the a kind of deep pot body can be dismantled the connection, if can normally work needs a kind of deep pot body to assemble and target in place, this application designs a linkage detection mechanism to the automatic rice cooker of this kind of components of a whole that can function independently and solves whether the a kind of deep pot body assembles and targets in place and whether a kind of deep pot body covers the problem of closing to guarantee cooking utensil's normal work.

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 partially, the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, it includes: the cooker body comprises a cooker body seat, an inner pot positioned in the cooker body seat and a cooker body cover arranged on the cooker body seat, and a cooking space is formed between the cooker body cover and the inner pot; the cooker body is detachably connected with the machine body; a linkage in-place detection mechanism; the linkage in-place detection mechanism comprises an in-place detection piece arranged on the machine body and a to-be-detected structure arranged on the pot body, the in-place detection piece is configured to detect the to-be-detected structure in a state that the pot body is connected to a preset position of the machine body and the pot body cover is covered to the preset position of the pot body seat, and a detected in-place signal is transmitted to the control device.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, controlling means can be through the cooperation of the detection piece that targets in place and the detection mechanism that targets in place that links, receives the signal that targets in place under the preset position of a kind of deep pot body coupling to organism and a kind of deep pot body lid and a kind of deep pot body seat lid closed the state to learn cooking utensil and install to target in place, can begin work.

Preferably, the in-place detection member is an electromagnetic induction element or an infrared induction element.

Therefore, the in-place detection piece can be arranged according to specific requirements.

Preferably, when the in-place detection piece is an electromagnetic induction element, the structure to be detected comprises a magnetic generation element matched with the electromagnetic induction element.

Therefore, under the state that the cooker body is connected to the preset position of the machine body and the cooker body cover is covered with the cooker body seat, the electromagnetic induction element can detect the magnetic field generated by the magnetic generation element and further send a position signal to the control device.

Preferably, the structure to be detected includes the magnetism generating element provided to one of the pot body cover and the pot body seat, and a trigger element provided to the other of the pot body cover and the pot body seat, and in a state where the pot body is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body and the pot body cover is closed to the predetermined position of the pot body seat, the trigger element acts on the magnetism generating element to move it from an initial position to a home position to be detected by the electromagnetic induction element.

Therefore, under the state that the pot body is connected to the preset position of the machine body and the pot body cover is covered to the preset position of the pot body seat, the trigger element can enable the magnetic generation element to move and be detected by the electromagnetic induction element, and then the electromagnetic induction element sends the generated in-place signal to the control device.

Preferably, a fool-proof seat is arranged at the edge of the opening of the pot body seat, the fool-proof seat is internally provided with the magnetic generation element and an elastic element, the magnetic generation element is connected to the fool-proof seat through the elastic element, the magnetic generation element is located at the initial position when the elastic element is in a natural state, and is located at the in-place position when the elastic element is in a compressed state.

Therefore, in the state that the pot body cover is covered to the pot body seat, the magnetic generating element can move to the in-place position through the elastic element to be detected by the electromagnetic induction element.

Preferably, the fool-proof seat protrudes out of the outer edge of the pot body seat.

Preferably, the cooker body cover is provided with an installation part for installing the trigger element, the fool-proof seat is further provided with an avoiding groove, the cooker body is connected to the preset position of the machine body, the cooker body cover covers the preset position of the cooker body seat, and the trigger element penetrates through the avoiding groove to act on the magnetic generating element to enable the magnetic generating element to move to the in-place position and be detected by the electromagnetic induction element.

Therefore, under the state that the cooker body is connected to the preset position of the machine body and the cooker body cover is covered to the cooker body base, the triggering element is aligned with the avoiding groove, so that the magnetic generating element moves to the in-place position and is detected by the electromagnetic induction element.

Preferably, the mounting portion has a receiving cavity, an outer peripheral wall forming the receiving cavity is connected to an outer edge of the pot body cover, the trigger element is a protruding rib connected to the outer peripheral wall in the receiving cavity, and the outer wall surrounds and covers the fool-proof seat in a state that the pot body is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body and the pot body cover is closed to the predetermined position of the pot body seat.

Therefore, when the cooker body is connected to the preset position of the machine body and the cooker body cover covers the cooker body seat, the outer peripheral wall of the mounting part surrounds and covers the fool-proof seat, the cooker body cover and the cooker body seat can be accurately matched, and the magnetic generating element moves in place.

Preferably, the magnetic generating element and the electromagnetic induction element are located at the same horizontal plane in a state that the pot body is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body and the pot body cover is covered to a predetermined position of the pot body seat.

Therefore, the accuracy of detection of the electromagnetic induction element is guaranteed.

Preferably, in a state where the pot body is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body and the pot body cover is closed with the pot body base, a distance between the magnetic generating element and the electromagnetic induction element is less than or equal to 20 mm.

Therefore, the detection accuracy of the electromagnetic induction element is further ensured.

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 an exploded perspective view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in which a pot body is separated from a body;

fig. 2 is a perspective sectional view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in which a pot body is seated on a machine body with a feed arm assembly in an initial position;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of one perspective of the pot cover shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of one perspective of the pot body base shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the pot cover and the pot base of FIG. 1 showing the magnetism-generating element in an initial position; and

fig. 6 is a sectional view of the pot cover and the pot base shown in fig. 1, showing the magnetism generating element in a seated position.

Description of reference numerals:

100: the cooking appliance 110: pot body

111: the pot body seat 112: pot body cover

120: food receiving portion 139: material conveying arm

150: the body 113: inner pot

151: main heating device 153: water tank

128: mounting the cover 170: control panel

130: material conveying device 141: electromagnetic induction element

142: magnetic generating element 143: trigger element

144: the elastic member 115: fool-proof seat

116: the accommodation chamber 117: dodging groove

139: material conveying arm component

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.

Fig. 1 to 6 show a cooking appliance 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The cooking appliance 100 may be an electric rice cooker, an electric pressure cooker, or other cooking appliances, and may have various functions such as cooking rice, cooking porridge, cooking soup, and the like.

As shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 of the present embodiment is a split cooking appliance. Specifically, the cooking appliance 100 includes a body 150 and a pot body 110, and the pot body 110 is detachably connected to the body 150.

The pot body 110 may specifically include a pot body seat 111 and a pot body cover 112. The pot body seat 111 may be provided therein with a cylindrical inner pot accommodating portion, and the inner pot 113 may be freely placed in or taken out of the inner pot accommodating portion to facilitate cleaning of the inner pot 113. The upper surface of the inner pot 113 has a circular opening for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., into the inner pot 113. The pot body cover 112 is openably and closably provided on the pot body base 111, and when the pot body cover 112 is closed on the pot body base 111, a cooking space can be formed between the pot body cover 112 and the inner pot 113.

As shown in fig. 1, the body 150 is substantially L-shaped, and a main heating device 151 may be provided at a horizontal section of the L-shaped body 150. The main heating device 151 may be a heat-generating coil disk. The pot body base 111 and the main heating means 151 may be electrically connected in a state where the pot body 110 is rested to the machine body 150, and the main heating means 151 may heat the inner pot 113 in a state where the cooking appliance 100 is powered on. Signal detection components such as a temperature sensor 171 and a water level sensor (not shown) may be further provided at the horizontal section of the L-shaped body 150. These signal detection components can be electrically connected to the control panel 170 below.

As shown in fig. 2, a food receiving part 120 may be provided at a vertical section of the L-shaped body 150, and the food receiving part 120 is located above the pot body 110 and has a first feeding hole and a first discharging hole. The food container 120 may further be provided with a mounting cover 128, the mounting cover 128 is used for covering the first feeding hole to seal the top of the food container 120, and when the user needs to supplement the food into the food container 120, the user can add the food by opening the mounting cover 128. The material in the food container 120 is not limited to rice, and may be food materials such as beans.

The control panel 170 of the cooking appliance 100 may also be integrated in the mounting cover 128, and the control panel 170 is a control center of the entire cooking appliance 100 and controls all the electric components. The mounting cover 128 may also be provided with an operation panel electrically connected to the control panel 170 for receiving user input (such as water intake, rice intake, etc.), and a display device for displaying the weight of the remaining materials in the food container 120 and the amount of water remaining in the water supply device of the cooking appliance 100.

A material transfer device 130 may be further provided below the food receiving part 120 to transfer the material to the cooking space. Specifically, the material transfer device 130 includes a feed arm assembly 139, and the feed arm assembly 139 is movable between an initial position (shown in FIG. 2) and a feed position.

When the material conveying arm assembly 139 is in the initial position, the material conveying channel is disconnected; in a state where the feeding arm assembly 139 is in the feeding position, the feeding passage is conducted so that the food material from the food accommodating part can be transported to the cooking space.

With continued reference to fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 further includes a linkage-in-position detection mechanism. Specifically, the linkage in-place detection mechanism includes an in-place detection member provided to the machine body 150 and a to-be-detected structure provided to the pot body 110. The in-place detecting member is configured to detect the structure to be detected in a state where the pot body 110 is coupled to a predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is closed to a predetermined position of the pot body seat 111, and transmit a detected in-place signal to the control device. The position detector may be the electromagnetic induction element 141 in the present embodiment, and may be an infrared induction element in other embodiments.

Therefore, the control device can receive the in-place signal in the state that the cooker body is connected to the preset position of the machine body and the cooker body cover and the cooker body seat cover are well closed through the in-place detection piece and the cooperation of the linkage in-place detection mechanism, so that the cooking appliance can be installed in place and can start to work.

The specific structure of the linked-in-position detecting mechanism will be described in detail with reference to fig. 3 to 6.

Specifically, the structure to be detected may include a magnetism generating element 142 provided to one of the pot cover 112 and the pot base 111, and a triggering element 143 provided to the other of the pot cover 112 and the pot base 111. As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the magnetism generating element is provided to the pot body seat 111, and the trigger element 143 is provided to the pot body cover 112. It is understood that in other embodiments, it is also possible that the magnetism generating element is provided to the pot body cover and the triggering element is provided to the pot body seat. In a state where the pot body 110 is coupled to a predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is closed to a predetermined position of the pot body base 111, the trigger element 143 acts on the magnetism generating element 142 to move it from the initial position to the set position and is detected by the electromagnetic induction element 141.

More specifically, as shown in fig. 4, the opening edge (outer edge) of the pot body seat 111 is provided with a fool-proof seat 115, the magnetism generating element 142 and an elastic element 144 are provided in the fool-proof seat 115, the magnetism generating element 142 is connected to the fool-proof seat 115 through the elastic element 144, the magnetism generating element 142 is located at an initial position (as shown in fig. 5) when the elastic element 144 is in a natural state, and is located at a seated position (as shown in fig. 6) when the elastic element 144 is in a fully compressed state. The fool-proof seat 115 is protruded from the outer edge of the pot body seat 111 as shown in fig. 4.

Correspondingly, as shown in fig. 3, the pot body cover 112 is provided with a mounting portion for mounting the trigger element 143, the fool-proof seat 115 is further provided with an avoiding groove 117, and in a state that the pot body 110 is connected to the predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is covered to the predetermined position of the pot body seat 111, the trigger element 143 passes through the avoiding groove 117 and acts on the magnetic generating element 142 to move to the in-place position and is detected by the electromagnetic induction element 141.

More specifically, the mount portion of the pot body cover 112 has an accommodation chamber 116, and an outer peripheral wall forming the accommodation chamber 116 is connected to an outer edge of the pot body cover 112. The trigger element 143 is a protruding rib connected to the outer wall in the accommodating cavity 116, and the outer peripheral wall surrounds and covers the fool-proof seat 115 in a state that the pot body 110 is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is covered to a predetermined position of the pot body seat 111. Thereby, the exact matching of the pot body cover 112 and the pot body base 111 can be ensured, and the magnetism generating element 142 is moved in place.

Referring back to fig. 2, a water inlet channel may be further disposed in the material delivery arm assembly 139, and correspondingly, a water supply device may be further disposed in the body 150 of the cooking appliance 100, the water supply device in this embodiment includes a water tank 153, water in the water tank 153 may be pumped to a water inlet channel (not shown in the figure) in the material delivery arm assembly 139 through a pumping assembly, and in a state where the material delivery arm assembly 139 is in the feeding position, the other end of the water inlet channel is communicated with a water inlet disposed in the pot body cover 112 to inject water into the cooking space.

It can be understood that the magnetism generating element 142 and the electromagnetic induction element 141 are at the same level in a state that the pot body 110 is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is covered with the pot body base 111. The predetermined position described herein can be understood as a position of the pot body 110 on the machine body 150 where the electromagnetic induction element 141 can detect the magnetism generating element 142. Preferably, as shown in fig. 2, in a state that the pot body 110 is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body 150 and the pot body cover 112 is covered with the pot body base 111, a distance between the magnetism generating element 142 and the electromagnetic induction element 141 is less than or equal to 20 mm. Thus, the detection accuracy of the electromagnetic induction element can be ensured.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, controlling means can be through the cooperation of the detection piece that targets in place with the linkage detection mechanism that targets in place, receives the signal that targets in place under the preset position of a kind of deep pot body coupling to the organism and a kind of deep pot body lid close the state to the preset position of a kind of deep pot body to learn cooking utensil and install to target in place, can begin work.

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 "component" and the like, when used herein, can refer to either a single part or a combination of parts. Terms such as "mounted," "disposed," and the like, as used herein, may refer to one component as being directly attached to another component or one component as being attached to another component through intervening components. 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, comprising:

the cooker body (110) comprises a cooker body seat (111), an inner pot positioned in the cooker body seat (111) and a cooker body cover (112) arranged on the cooker body seat (111), and a cooking space is formed between the cooker body cover (112) and the inner pot;

a body (150), the pot body (110) being detachably connected to the body (150);

a linkage in-place detection mechanism; and

a control device for controlling the operation of the motor,

the linkage in-place detection mechanism comprises an in-place detection piece arranged on the machine body (150) and a structure to be detected arranged on the cooker body (110), the in-place detection piece is configured to detect the structure to be detected in a state that the cooker body (110) is connected to a preset position of the machine body (150) and the cooker body cover (112) covers the preset position of the cooker body seat (111), and transmits a detected in-place signal to the control device.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the position detecting member is an electromagnetic induction element (141) or an infrared induction element.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein when the position detecting member is an electromagnetic induction element (141), the structure to be detected comprises a magnetism generating element (142) cooperating with the electromagnetic induction element (141).

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the structure to be detected comprises the magnetism generating element (142) provided to one of the pot body cover (112) and the pot body seat (111), and a trigger element (143) provided to the other of the pot body cover (112) and the pot body seat (111), the trigger element (143) acting on the magnetism generating element (142) to move it from an initial position to a home position to be detected by the electromagnetic induction element (141) in a state in which the pot body (110) is attached to a predetermined position of the machine body (150) and the pot body cover (112) is closed to the predetermined position of the pot body seat (111).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the opening edge of the pot body seat (111) is provided with a fool-proof seat (115), the fool-proof seat (115) being provided with the magnetic generating element (142) and an elastic element (144), the magnetic generating element (142) being connected to the fool-proof seat (115) by the elastic element (144), the magnetic generating element (142) being located in the initial position when the elastic element (144) is in a natural state and in the in-place position when the elastic element (144) is in a compressed state.

6. The cooking appliance of claim 5, wherein the fool-proof seat is provided protruding from an outer edge of the pot body seat.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 5, wherein the pot body cover (112) is provided with a mounting portion for mounting the trigger element, the fool-proof seat (115) is further provided with an avoiding groove (117), and the trigger element (143) passes through the avoiding groove (117) to act on the magnetism generating element (142) to move to the in-position to be detected by the electromagnetic induction element (141) in a state that the pot body (110) is connected to a predetermined position of the machine body (150) and the pot body cover (112) is closed to the predetermined position of the pot body seat (111).

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 7, wherein the mounting portion has a receiving cavity (116), a peripheral wall forming the receiving cavity (116) is connected to an outer edge of the pot body cover (112), the triggering member (143) is a protruding rib connected to the peripheral wall within the receiving cavity (116), and the peripheral wall surrounds and covers the fool-proof seat (115) in a state where the pot body is connected to a predetermined position of the body and the pot body cover is closed to a predetermined position of the pot body seat.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the magnetism generating element (142) and the electromagnetic induction element (141) are at the same level in a state where the pot body (110) is connected to a predetermined position of the body (150) and the pot body cover (112) is covered to a predetermined position of the pot body base (111).

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein a distance between the magnetism generating element (142) and the electromagnetic induction element (141) is less than or equal to 20mm in a state where the pot body (110) is coupled to a predetermined position of the body (150) and the pot body cover (112) is closed to a predetermined position of the pot body base (111).