CN215077630U

CN215077630U - Steam generation assembly and cooking device

Info

Publication number: CN215077630U
Application number: CN202022561825.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李国保
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-09
Filing date: 2020-11-09
Publication date: 2021-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 2030-11-09

Abstract

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cooking equipment, concretely relates to steam generation subassembly and have its cooking device. The utility model discloses a steam generation subassembly includes casing and heating tube, and the inside of casing is equipped with the steam generation chamber, and the inside in steam generation chamber is located to at least partial heating tube to the mode setting that coils with the multilayer along the direction of height of casing. According to the utility model discloses a steam generation subassembly is through locating the inside in steam generation chamber at least part of heating tube to the mode setting that the direction of height along the casing coiled with the multilayer can be to getting into the inside in steam generation chamber and being in the water direct heating of different liquid level, thereby improves steam generation subassembly's heating efficiency, and high temperature steam's emergence speed reduces steam culinary art time with higher speed, thereby improves the customer and is satisfied with.

Description

Steam generation assembly and cooking device

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cooking equipment, concretely relates to steam generation subassembly and have its cooking device.

Background

A heating cooking apparatus such as a microwave oven, an oven, or the like heats food by microwave or heat radiation. However, the food is more dispersed in the microwave or heat radiation heating, and thus the prior art also shows a technique of heating the food by steam. In a heating cooker, the steam heating function may be provided separately or may be provided simultaneously with the microwave or heat radiation function.

At present, a heating cooking device with a steam heating function is configured with a water storage tank with certain water containing capacity, a heating unit is configured to heat water from the water storage tank, and generated steam enters a heating cavity to heat food in the heating cavity. The heating unit is generally connected to the housing of the water storage tank, and heats the housing to raise the temperature of the housing, so as to further heat the water in the water storage tank through the housing and form steam. Therefore, the indirect heating mode reduces the heating efficiency, prolongs the steam cooking time and influences the experience of users.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims at solving the problem that the heating unit can not directly heat water and form vapor. This object is achieved by:

the utility model discloses a first aspect provides a steam generation subassembly, steam generation subassembly includes:

the steam generator comprises a shell, wherein a steam generating cavity is arranged inside the shell;

and at least part of the heating pipe is arranged in the steam generation cavity and is arranged in a multilayer winding mode along the height direction of the shell.

According to the utility model discloses a steam generation subassembly is through locating the inside in steam generation chamber at least part of heating tube to the mode setting that the direction of height along the casing coiled with the multilayer can be to getting into the inside in steam generation chamber and being in the water direct heating of different liquid level, thereby improves steam generation subassembly's heating efficiency, and the emergence speed of high temperature steam reduces steam culinary art time with higher speed, thereby improves customer satisfaction.

In addition, according to the utility model discloses a steam generation subassembly, can also have following additional technical characterstic:

the utility model discloses an in some embodiments, the side of casing is equipped with the mounting hole, the heating tube includes heating end and link, the heating end is located the steam generation intracavity, the link is pegged graft and is worn out the mounting hole.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the steam generating assembly further comprises a water inlet and a steam outlet, the water inlet and the steam outlet are respectively disposed on two sides of the relative arrangement of the housing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, at least a portion of the heat pipe is close to the side where the water inlet is located.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the water inlet and the steam outlet are arranged in a staggered manner along the length direction of the two sides.

In some embodiments of the invention, the diameter of the steam outlet is larger than the diameter of the water inlet.

In some embodiments of the invention, the top end of the steam outlet is close to the top of the housing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the case includes a cover plate portion and a case portion, the cover plate portion covers the upper opening of the case portion, and the heat-generating tube is connected to the case portion.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the cover plate portion and the box body portion are stainless steel plates, and the cover plate portion and the box body portion are connected by welding.

The utility model discloses an on the other hand has still provided a cooking device, cooking device includes:

a cooking cavity;

the steam generating assembly is the steam generating assembly according to any one of the above items, and the steam generating assembly is communicated with the inside of the cooking cavity and used for conveying high-temperature steam to the inside of the cooking cavity.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the drawings. Wherein:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a steam generating module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an exploded view of the steam generating module of fig. 1.

The reference numerals in the drawings denote the following:

100: a steam generating assembly;

10: a housing, 11: cover plate portion, 12: case portion, 121: steam generation chamber, 122: mounting holes;

20: heating tube, 21: heat-generating end, 22: a connecting end;

30: water inlet, 31: a water inlet joint;

40: steam outlet, 41: and a steam outlet joint.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present invention may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.

It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms "comprises," "comprising," "including," and "having" are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The method steps, processes, and operations described herein are not to be construed as necessarily requiring their performance in the particular order described or illustrated, unless specifically identified as an order of performance. It should also be understood that additional or alternative steps may be used.

Although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms may be only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Terms such as "first," "second," and other numerical terms when used herein do not imply a sequence or order unless clearly indicated by the context. Thus, a first element, component, region, layer or section discussed below could be termed a second element, component, region, layer or section without departing from the teachings of the example embodiments.

For convenience of description, spatially relative terms, such as "inner", "outer", "lower", "below", "upper", "above", and the like, may be used herein to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. Such spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" or "over" the other elements or features. Thus, the example term "below … …" can include both an orientation of above and below. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

The utility model provides a cooking device, cooking device include culinary art cavity and steam generation subassembly 100. The steam generating assembly 100 is communicated with the inside of the cooking cavity for delivering high-temperature steam to the inside of the cooking cavity, thereby heating food in the cooking cavity through the high-temperature steam. The cooking device of the present embodiment may be a steam box, an oven with steam function, a microwave oven with steam function, or a microwave oven and oven all-in-one machine with steam function. Generally, the steam generating assembly 100 is disposed on a bottom plate below the cooking cavity, and when the space on the bottom plate is occupied by a magnetron, a transformer, a frequency converter or other components, the steam generating assembly 100 can also be disposed on the side wall of the cooking cavity.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the steam generating module 100 of the present embodiment includes a case 10 and a heat generating pipe 20. The inside of the case 10 is provided with a steam generation chamber 121, and at least part of the heat generating tube 20 is disposed inside the steam generation chamber 121 and is arranged in a multi-layer winding manner in a height direction of the case 10.

According to the utility model discloses a steam generation subassembly 100 is through locating steam generation chamber 121's inside at least part of heating tube 20 to the mode setting that coils with the multilayer along casing 10's direction of height can be to getting into the inside of steam generation chamber 121 and be in the water direct heating of different liquid level, thereby improves steam generation subassembly 100's heating efficiency, accelerates high temperature steam's rate of occurrence, reduces steam culinary art time, thereby improves customer satisfaction.

Specifically, the housing 10 of the steam generating module 100 of the present embodiment includes a cover plate portion 11 and a box portion 12, the inside of the box portion 12 defines a steam generating chamber 121 for storing water, the cover plate portion 11 is covered on an upper opening of the box portion 12, and the heat generating unit 20 is connected to the box portion 12. The casing 10 of the present embodiment is designed to have a split structure of the cover plate 11 and the case 12, and facilitates the assembly of the heat generating tube 20 and the casing 10. Wherein, various connecting methods, such as gluing, riveting or welding, can be adopted between the cover plate part 11 and the box body part 12. In this embodiment, the cover plate 11 and the box 12 are both made of stainless steel, and the cover plate 11 and the box 12 are connected by welding, thereby preventing a gap between the cover plate 11 and the box 12 and ensuring the airtightness of the casing 10. Meanwhile, the shell 10 made of the stainless steel plate has food-grade safety far higher than that of the existing cast aluminum material, so that the safety of cooked food is ensured, and the customer satisfaction is improved.

Meanwhile, the heating tube is arranged along the height direction of the housing 10 in a multilayer winding manner, so that the contact area between the heating tube 20 and the water in the steam generation cavity 121 is effectively increased, and then the water is rapidly heated to form high-temperature steam, thereby improving the cooking efficiency.

Specifically, the side of the box 12 is provided with a mounting hole 122, the heating tube 20 includes a heating end 21 and a connecting end 22, the heating end 21 is disposed in the steam generating cavity 121, and the connecting end 22 is inserted into and penetrates through the mounting hole 122, so that the heating end 21 of the heating tube 20 is fixed in the steam generating cavity 121. The specific connection method between the connection end 22 and the mounting hole 122 in the present embodiment may be any one of riveting, interference connection, and adhesive bonding. During assembly, the connecting end 22 of the heating tube 20 is inserted into the mounting hole 122 from the interior of the box 12, and after the heating tube 20 is fixedly connected to the box 12, the cover plate 11 is connected to the upper opening of the box 12, thereby completing the assembly process of the steam generating assembly 100. Further, the portion of the connection terminal 22 protruding to the outside of the mounting hole 122 is connected to the power supply unit through a conductive line, thereby completing the heat generating process of the heat generating tube 20.

Further, the steam generating module 100 of the present embodiment further includes a water inlet 30 and a steam outlet 40, and the water inlet 30 and the steam outlet 40 are respectively disposed on two oppositely disposed sides of the housing 10. Steam generation subassembly 100 is under operating condition, and normal atmospheric temperature water enters into steam generation chamber 121 by water inlet 30 in, when the liquid level height in steam generation chamber 121 exceeds the top position of heating tube 20, heating tube 20 begins to generate heat and heat normal atmospheric temperature water, and normal atmospheric temperature water is heated the vaporization in steam generation chamber 121, produces high temperature steam and takes place chamber 121 through steam outlet 40 discharge steam to enter into the culinary art intracavity, be used for heating the food in the culinary art chamber. In the continuous working process of steam generation subassembly 100, normal atmospheric temperature water gets into from one side of steam generation chamber 121 through water inlet 30, behind the high temperature steam that heating tube 20 formed, the play steam vent 40 of following steam generation chamber 121 opposite side discharges, because water inlet 30 and play steam vent 40 locate respectively on two sides that steam generation chamber 121 set up relatively, can not be mingled with the normal atmospheric temperature water vapor that just enters into in steam generation chamber 121 unheated in the exhaust high temperature steam, thereby guarantee high temperature steam's the temperature of giving vent to anger, improve cooking device's culinary art effect. Wherein, the corresponding position of the lateral wall of the box body part 12 where the water inlet 30 is located is provided with a water inlet joint 31, the corresponding position of the lateral wall of the box body part 12 where the steam outlet 40 is located is provided with a steam outlet joint 41, the arrangement of the water inlet joint 31 is convenient for the steam generating assembly 100 to be connected with a water pump, and the arrangement of the steam outlet joint 41 is convenient for the steam generating assembly 100 to be communicated with the inside of the cooking cavity.

Further, the heating tube 20 of the present embodiment is disposed on the side of the steam generation cavity 121 near the water inlet 30, so that the normal temperature water entering the steam generation cavity 121 through the water inlet 30 can be directly heated, and the heating efficiency is further improved.

Further, the water inlet 30 and the steam outlet 40 of the steam generating assembly 100 of the present embodiment are staggered along the length direction of the two sides, so as to further increase the distance between the water inlet 30 and the steam outlet 40, and avoid or reduce the introduction of the normal temperature water steam which has not been heated in the steam generating chamber 121 into the cooking chamber along with the high temperature steam.

Among them, the steam outlet 40 of the steam generating module 100 of the present embodiment has a diameter size larger than that of the water inlet 30, thereby facilitating the discharging process of the formed high-temperature steam. Further, the top of the steam outlet 40 of the embodiment is close to the top of the housing 10, so that when water is injected into the steam generation cavity 121, the top of the steam outlet 40 is always higher than the high temperature of the liquid level in the steam generation cavity 121, the steam outlet 40 is prevented from being shielded by water liquid in the steam generation cavity 121, and the normal discharge process of high-temperature steam is ensured.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention should be covered by the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A steam generating assembly, comprising:

at least part of the heating pipe is arranged in the steam generating cavity and is arranged in a multilayer winding mode along the height direction of the shell;

the water inlet and the steam outlet are respectively arranged on two opposite side surfaces of the shell.

2. The steam generating assembly as recited in claim 1, wherein a mounting hole is formed in a side surface of the housing, the heat generating tube includes a heat generating end and a connecting end, the heat generating end is disposed in the steam generating chamber, and the connecting end is inserted into and penetrates through the mounting hole.

3. The steam generating assembly of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the heat generating tube is disposed adjacent a side of the water inlet.

4. The steam generation assembly of claim 1, wherein the water inlets and the steam outlets are staggered along a length of the two sides.

5. The steam generation assembly of claim 1, wherein the steam outlet has a larger diametrical dimension than the water inlet.

6. The steam generation assembly of claim 1, wherein a top end of the steam outlet is disposed proximate a top of the housing.

7. The steam generating assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing includes a cover portion and a box portion, the cover portion covers an upper opening of the box portion, and the heat generating pipe is connected to the box portion.

8. The steam generating assembly of claim 7, wherein the cover plate portion and the box portion are each stainless steel plates and are joined by welding.

9. A cooking device, comprising:

a cooking cavity;

steam generating assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 8, communicating with the interior of the cooking cavity for delivering high temperature steam thereto.