CN215190874U - Multifunctional electric cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional electric cooker, which includes: a housing; the outer pot is positioned in the shell, and a mesh enclosure is arranged on the side wall of the outer pot; the bottom heating assembly is fixed at the bottom of the outer pot and used for heating objects in the outer pot; the side hot air assembly is fixed in the position, corresponding to the position of the mesh enclosure, in the side cavity of the concave cavity and comprises a fixed support, and a fan, a fan blade and a heating pipe which are fixed in the fixed support, wherein the fan is connected with the fan blade; the inner container is placed in the outer pot; the frying basket assembly is placed in the outer pot and comprises a frying basket and an oil receiving disc positioned below the frying basket, and the frying basket and the oil receiving disc are fixedly connected or detachably connected. This technical scheme can realize two kinds of different culinary art functions through an electric rice cooker product, reduces the kitchen utensils and appliances product that the different products of user culinary art need, reduces the occupation space of kitchen utensils and appliances in the kitchen.

Description

Multifunctional electric cooker

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an intelligence kitchen utensils and appliances technical field especially relates to multi-functional electric rice cooker.

Background

Along with the continuous acceleration of people's life rhythm for people do not have sufficient time to cook, thereby can't satisfy people to the demand of diet, under this kind of background, electric rice cooker is suitable for fortune to come. However, the current electric cooker only has a cooking function, and if a user needs to make fried food, the user prefers to select an air fryer with self-health and less-frying characteristics, so that the user needs to buy different kitchen utensils for cooking different foods, and the kitchen space of the user is more and more crowded by numerous household appliances to be disordered and appears to be insufficient.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to overcome the problems in the related art, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a multifunctional electric cooker. The technical scheme is as follows:

according to a first aspect of the disclosed embodiments, there is provided a multifunctional electric rice cooker, comprising:

a housing;

the outer pot is positioned in the shell, and a mesh enclosure is arranged on the side wall of the outer pot;

the bottom heating assembly is fixed at the bottom of the outer pot and used for heating objects in the outer pot;

the side hot air assembly is fixed in the side cavity of the concave cavity at a position corresponding to the position of the mesh enclosure, and comprises a fixed support, and a fan, a fan blade and a heating pipe which are fixed in the fixed support, wherein the fan is connected with the fan blade, the fan blade is started to drive wind generated when the fan blade rotates to pass through the heating pipe to generate hot air, and the hot air is blown into the outer pot from the mesh enclosure;

the inner container is placed in the outer pot;

the fryer basket assembly is placed in the outer pot and comprises a fryer basket and an oil receiving disc positioned below the fryer basket, and the fryer basket and the oil receiving disc are fixedly connected or detachably connected.

In one embodiment, the multifunctional rice cooker further comprises:

a cooking utensil detection assembly for detecting a cooking utensil disposed within the outer pot, the cooking utensil including an inner bladder or a fry basket.

In one embodiment, the cooking appliance detection assembly comprises:

the microswitch fixing bracket is fixed in the concave cavity;

the microswitch is fixed on the microswitch fixing bracket;

the guide rod is connected with the microswitch and penetrates through a bottom hole of the outer pot, wherein the bottom corner of the inner container is an arc-shaped fillet, the inner container cannot touch the guide rod when placed in the outer pot, and the oil receiving disc presses the guide rod when the frying basket assembly is placed in the outer pot;

and one end of the spring is connected with the guide rod, and the other end of the spring is connected with the microswitch fixing bracket and used for resetting the guide rod when the guide rod is not stressed.

In one embodiment, the part of the side wall of the housing, where the mesh enclosure is disposed, is a through hole, and the mesh enclosure is fixed at the through hole.

In one embodiment, a plurality of meshes are formed on the side wall of the shell to form the mesh enclosure.

In one embodiment, the heating tube comprises: stainless steel tubes, halogen tubes or carbon fiber tubes.

In one embodiment, further comprising:

the bottom temperature controller assembly is positioned in the bottom cavity of the concave cavity and comprises a first temperature sensor, and the first temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature of the inner container or the bottom of the oil receiving disc.

In one embodiment, further comprising:

the upper cover assembly is positioned above the shell and comprises a top heating assembly, and the top heating assembly is used for heating the top of food materials in the electric cooker.

In one embodiment, further comprising:

the side temperature controller assembly is positioned in a side cavity area where the side hot air assembly is positioned and comprises a second temperature sensor, and the second temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature in the side cavity area where the second temperature sensor is positioned.

The multifunctional electric cooker provided by the disclosure is additionally provided with the side hot air assembly, so that when the electric cooker is used as a rice cooker, the inner container can be placed in the outer cooker, and the bottom heating assembly heats the inner container at the bottom of the outer cooker to realize the function of the rice cooker; when the electric cooker is used as a hollow fried product, the frying basket can be placed in the outer pot, and the side hot air assembly heats food materials in the frying basket, so that the hollow frying function is realized. So, can realize two kinds of different culinary art functions through an electric rice cooker product, reduce the kitchen utensils and appliances product that the different products of user culinary art need, reduce the occupation space of kitchen utensils and appliances in the kitchen. It would be very beneficial to the diversified cooking needs of the user and to the rational utilization of the kitchen space.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional rice cooker with a fry basket placed therein according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional electric cooker with an inner container according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a multifunctional rice cooker according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a fry basket assembly shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a bladder in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a cooking appliance detection assembly shown in place of a fry basket assembly according to one exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a cooking appliance detection assembly when an inner container is placed according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional electric rice cooker according to an exemplary embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the exemplary embodiments below are not intended to represent all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the present disclosure, as detailed in the appended claims.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "vertical", "horizontal", "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

With the continuous acceleration of life rhythm and the continuous improvement of living standard, the eating style and eating habit of people are gradually changed. In the traditional life, people cook by burning fire and cooking in a stove, the development of various kitchen equipment such as a microwave oven, an induction cooker, natural gas and the like in the modern electric era is greatly facilitated, but the cooking mode of people still stays in the stage of manual self-frying and self-making.

With the development of technology, nowadays, society is rapidly stepping into the era, in traditional kitchens, new changes need to be made in self-frying and self-making cooking modes, and traditional kitchen equipment has low automation degree and can not meet the requirement of the cooking, and cooking robots such as electric cookers are produced on the background. However, the current electric cooker only has a cooking function, and if a user needs to make fried food, the user prefers to select an air fryer with self-health and less-frying characteristics, so that the user needs to buy different kitchen utensils for cooking different foods, and the kitchen space of the user is more and more crowded by numerous household appliances to be disordered and appears to be insufficient.

In order to solve the above problems, the present disclosure provides a multifunctional electric rice cooker, which can be additionally provided with a side hot air assembly, so that when the electric rice cooker is used as a rice cooker, an inner container can be placed in an outer pot, and a bottom heating assembly heats the inner container at the bottom of the outer pot to realize the function of the rice cooker; when the electric cooker is used as a hollow fried product, the frying basket can be placed in the outer pot, and the side hot air assembly heats food materials in the frying basket, so that the hollow frying function is realized. So, can realize two kinds of different culinary art functions through an electric rice cooker product, reduce the kitchen utensils and appliances product that the different products of user culinary art need, reduce the occupation space of kitchen utensils and appliances in the kitchen.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional rice cooker with a frying basket placed therein according to an exemplary embodiment, and fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional rice cooker with an inner container placed therein according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 or fig. 2, the multifunctional rice cooker includes: a shell 11, an outer pot 12, a bottom heating assembly 13 and a side hot air assembly 14.

Here, as shown in fig. 1 or fig. 2, the outer pot 12 is located inside the outer shell 11, and a mesh cover 121 is disposed on a side wall of the outer pot 12. The bottom heating assembly 13 is fixed at the bottom of the outer pot 12, the top of the bottom heating assembly 13 can be exposed above the bottom of the outer pot 12 for heating objects in the outer pot 12, such as an inner container, for example, the bottom heating assembly 13 can include an electric heating plate.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view showing a partial structure of a multifunctional rice cooker according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the side hot air assembly 14 is fixed in the side cavity of the concave cavity at a position corresponding to the mesh cover 121, the side hot air component 14 can face the mesh enclosure 121, as shown in fig. 3, the side hot air component 14 includes a fixing bracket 141, a fan 142 (the fan can be a motor) fixed in the fixing bracket 141, a fan blade 143, and a heating pipe 144, the fixing bracket 141 may be fixed to the outer pot 12, or may be fixed to the outer casing 11, without limitation, the fan 142 is connected to the fan blades 143, and after the fan 142 is started, the fan blades 143 are driven to rotate by the generated wind to generate hot wind after passing through the heating pipe 144, and the hot wind blows into the outer pot 12 from the mesh enclosure 121.

As shown in fig. 1, the multifunctional rice cooker may further include a fry basket assembly 15, the fry basket assembly 15 may be placed in the outer pot 12, fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of a fry basket assembly according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the fry basket assembly 15 includes a fry basket 151 and an oil receiving tray 152 located below the fry basket 151, the fry basket 151 and the oil receiving tray 152 are fixedly connected, the oil receiving tray 152 is used for receiving oil drops dropping from food materials in the fry basket 151, and preventing the oil drops from polluting the outer pot 12, in this embodiment, the fry basket 151 and the oil receiving tray 152 may be integrally manufactured, so that it is avoided that a user forgets to place the oil receiving tray 152, and the problem that the oil drops pollute the outer pot 12 is caused, of course, the fry basket 151 and the oil receiving tray 152 may also be detachably connected, so as to facilitate the user to clean the fry basket 151 and the oil receiving tray 152.

As shown in FIG. 2, the rice cooker may further include an inner container 16, and the inner container 16 may also be placed inside the outer pot 12. Illustratively, FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a bladder in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

The multifunctional electric cooker provided by the embodiment can have the function of a rice cooker heated by the bottom of the existing electric cooker, and also can have the function of air-frying heated by hot air on the side surface, when the electric cooker is used as a rice cooker, the inner container 16 can be placed in the outer pot 12, the bottom of the outer pot 12 is heated by the bottom heating component 13, and then the inner container 16 in the outer pot 12 is heated, so that the functions of the rice cooker such as cooking rice, cooking meat, cooking porridge and the like are realized. When the electric cooker is used as an air-fried product, the frying basket 151 can be placed in the outer pot 12, and the hot air blown into the outer pot 12 from the side hot air assembly 14 through the mesh cover 121 heats the food materials in the frying basket 151, thereby realizing the air-frying function. So, can realize two kinds of different culinary art functions through an electric rice cooker product, reduce the kitchen utensils and appliances product that the different products of user culinary art need, reduce the occupation space of kitchen utensils and appliances in the kitchen. It would be very beneficial to the diversified cooking needs of the user and to the rational utilization of the kitchen space.

In one possible embodiment, the multifunctional electric rice cooker further comprises: cooking utensil detection component 17.

The cooking utensil detecting assembly 17 is used for detecting a cooking utensil placed in the outer pot 12, and the cooking utensil comprises an inner container 16 or a frying basket 151. The cooking utensil detecting component 17 can detect whether the cooking utensil placed in the outer pot 12 is the inner container 16 or the frying basket 151, the cooking utensil detecting component 17 can be connected with a controller in the multifunctional electric cooker, thus, after the controller receives a detection signal sent by the cooking utensil detecting component 17, the controller can know whether the cooking utensil placed in the outer pot 12 is the inner container 16 or the frying basket, if the inner container 16 does not respond to an instruction which is input by a user and is related to an air-frying function, if the inner container 151 does not respond to the instruction which is input by the user and is related to a rice cooker function, and therefore, the corresponding function and the cooking utensil can be prevented from being used wrongly.

In a possible implementation, fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a cooking appliance detecting assembly when placing a fry basket assembly according to an exemplary embodiment, fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a cooking appliance detecting assembly when placing a liner according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the cooking appliance detecting assembly 17 includes: a microswitch mounting bracket 171, a microswitch 172, a guide 173 and a spring 174.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the microswitch mounting bracket 171 is fixed within the concave cavity; the microswitch 172 is fixed on the microswitch fixing bracket 171; a guide rod 173 is connected with the microswitch 172 and penetrates through a bottom hole of the outer pot 12, wherein, as shown in fig. 7, the bottom corner of the inner container 16 is an arc-shaped round corner, the guide rod 173 cannot be touched when the inner container 16 is placed in the outer pot 12, and as shown in fig. 6, the oil receiving tray 152 presses the guide rod 173 when the frying basket assembly 15 is placed in the outer pot 12; one end of the spring 174 is connected to the guide rod 173, and the other end of the spring 174 is connected to the microswitch fixing bracket 171, for resetting the guide rod 173 when the guide rod 173 is not stressed.

Here, the micro switch 172 is a contact mechanism having a minute contact interval and a snap action, which performs a switching action with a prescribed stroke and a prescribed force, and an external mechanical force may act on an action reed of the micro switch 172 through a transmission member (e.g., a guide rod 173 in this embodiment) to generate a snap action when the action reed is displaced to a critical point, so that a movable contact at a tip of the action reed and a fixed contact are quickly connected or disconnected. If the guide rod 173 in this embodiment is moved downward by the pressing force, so that the movable contact and the fixed contact on the micro switch 172 can be quickly connected, when the user connects the power source of the multifunctional electric cooker and starts to use the rice cooker function of the multifunctional electric cooker, the inner container 16 shown in fig. 5 can be placed in the outer pot 12 as shown in fig. 2, as shown in fig. 7, the bottom corner of the inner container 16 is an arc-shaped rounded corner, so that the guide rod 173 is not touched, at this time, the movable contact and the fixed contact on the micro switch 172 are disconnected, and the off signal of the micro switch 172 is the indication signal that the cooking device in the outer pot 12 is the inner container 16. When a user turns on the power supply of the multifunctional electric cooker and starts to use the air-frying function of the multifunctional electric cooker, the fry basket assembly 15 shown in fig. 4 may be placed in the outer pot 12 as shown in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 6, the oil pan 152 of the fry basket assembly 15 may touch the guide rod 173, the guide rod 173 may be pressed downward by the gravity of the food materials in the fry basket assembly 15 and the fry basket assembly 15, the guide rod 173 may move downward to rapidly turn on the movable contact and the fixed contact on the microswitch 172 connected thereto, and the turn-on signal of the microswitch 172 is the indication signal indicating that the cooking utensil in the outer pot 12 is the fry basket assembly 15. In this way, the detection of the cooking utensil placed in the outer pot 12 can be realized through the microswitch 172 and the guide rod 173.

It should be noted that when the user removes the fry basket assembly 15, the stem 173 may be biased upward by the spring 174 to return the stem 173 as the pressure on the stem 173 is removed.

Of course, the micro switch 172 and the guide rod 173 can be used as the cooking utensil detecting assembly 17 to detect the cooking utensil in the outer pot 12, and other suitable devices such as a camera and the like can also be used as the cooking utensil detecting assembly 17 to detect the cooking utensil in the outer pot 12, which is not illustrated here.

In a possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, a through hole 111 is formed on a side wall of the housing 11, and the mesh cover 121 is fixed at the through hole 111, for example, as shown in fig. 3, screw holes may be formed at corresponding positions of the mesh cover 121 and the outer pot 12, and the mesh cover 121 may be fixed at the through hole 111 by screws, where it should be noted that other screw holes may be formed on the mesh cover 121 to be screwed with the fixing bracket 141.

In a possible embodiment, a plurality of meshes are made on the side wall of the housing 11 to form the mesh cover 121.

In a possible embodiment, the heating tube 144 comprises: stainless steel tubes, halogen tubes or carbon fiber tubes.

The halogen tube is a sealed heating tube, which is filled with halogen element inert gas, and the middle of the halogen tube is white tungsten wire and black tungsten wire (the white tungsten wire is much higher than the black tungsten wire, so the halogen tube is not popularized in the market). The halogen tube has the advantages of high thermal efficiency, no oxidation during heating, long service life and the like. The carbon fiber pipe can be formed by pre-immersing a carbon fiber composite material into styrene-based polyester resin, heating, curing, pulling and extruding (winding).

In a possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the multifunctional rice cooker further comprises: a bottom thermostat assembly 18.

As shown in fig. 3, the bottom temperature controller assembly 18 is located in the bottom cavity of the concave cavity, and includes a first temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the inner container or the bottom of the oil receiving tray, so that the multifunctional electric rice cooker can conveniently obtain the temperature of the inner container or the bottom of the oil receiving tray, and further control the heating power of the bottom heating assembly 13, and realize automatic cooking of food materials.

In a possible embodiment, fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a multifunctional electric cooker according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 8, the multifunctional electric cooker further includes: and an upper cover assembly 19.

This upper cover subassembly 19 is located the top of shell 11, upper cover subassembly 19 includes the heater, the heater is used for to the top heating of outer pot 12, the controller can start this heater work when needs keep warm or cook, realizes this electric rice cooker's the heat preservation or the culinary art function.

In a possible embodiment, the multifunctional electric cooker further comprises: and the side temperature controller component (not shown in the figure) is positioned in the side cavity area where the side hot air component 14 is positioned, and comprises a second temperature sensor, and the second temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature in the side cavity area where the second temperature sensor is positioned, so that the multifunctional electric rice cooker can conveniently acquire the temperature in the side cavity area, further control the heating power of the side hot air component 14, and realize the automatic cooking of food materials.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims (9)

1. A multifunctional electric cooker is characterized by comprising:

a housing;

the outer pot is positioned in the shell, and a mesh enclosure is arranged on the side wall of the outer pot;

the bottom heating assembly is fixed at the bottom of the outer pot and used for heating objects in the outer pot;

the side hot air assembly is fixed in the side cavity of the concave cavity and corresponds to the position of the mesh enclosure, and comprises a fixed support, and a fan, a fan blade and a heating pipe which are fixed in the fixed support, wherein the fan is connected with the fan blade, the fan blade is started to drive wind generated when the fan blade rotates to pass through the heating pipe to generate hot air, and the hot air is blown into the outer pot from the mesh enclosure;

the inner container is placed in the outer pot;

the fryer basket assembly is placed in the outer pot and comprises a fryer basket and an oil receiving disc positioned below the fryer basket, and the fryer basket and the oil receiving disc are fixedly connected or detachably connected.

2. The multifunctional electric cooker as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a cooking utensil detection assembly for detecting a cooking utensil disposed within the outer pot, the cooking utensil including an inner bladder or a fry basket.

3. The multifunctional rice cooker of claim 2, wherein said cooking utensil detecting assembly comprises:

the microswitch fixing bracket is fixed in the concave cavity;

the microswitch is fixed on the microswitch fixing bracket;

the guide rod is connected with the microswitch and penetrates through a bottom hole of the outer pot, wherein the bottom corner of the inner container is an arc-shaped fillet, the inner container cannot touch the guide rod when placed in the outer pot, and the oil receiving disc presses the guide rod when the frying basket assembly is placed in the outer pot;

and one end of the spring is connected with the guide rod, and the other end of the spring is connected with the microswitch fixing bracket and used for resetting the guide rod when the guide rod is not stressed.

4. The multifunctional rice cooker as claimed in claim 1, wherein the portion of the side wall of the housing where the mesh enclosure is provided is a through hole, and the mesh enclosure is fixed at the through hole.

5. The multifunctional electric cooker according to claim 1,

the side wall of the shell is provided with a plurality of meshes to form the mesh enclosure.

6. The multifunctional electric cooker as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heating pipe comprises: stainless steel tubes, halogen tubes or carbon fiber tubes.

7. The multifunctional electric cooker as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

the bottom temperature controller assembly is positioned in the bottom cavity of the concave cavity and comprises a first temperature sensor, and the first temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature of the inner container or the bottom of the oil receiving disc.

8. The multifunctional electric cooker as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

the upper cover assembly is positioned above the shell and comprises a top heating assembly, and the top heating assembly is used for heating the top of food materials in the electric cooker.

9. The multifunctional electric cooker as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

the side temperature controller assembly is positioned in the side cavity area where the side hot air assembly is positioned and comprises a second temperature sensor, and the second temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature in the side cavity area where the second temperature sensor is positioned.

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