CN215341276U - Intelligent meal taking cabinet - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to an intelligent meal taking cabinet, which comprises a cabinet body, wherein the cabinet body comprises a plurality of cabinet lattices arranged in an array manner, and the intelligent meal taking cabinet is characterized by further comprising: a plurality of liners, one liner removably assigned to each of the cabinet compartments, the liners conforming to the cabinet compartments; a plurality of first heating mechanisms disposed on the inner container facing one side of the cabinet, the inner container having a first inner container surface for containing food, the first inner container surface including a heating zone and a non-heating zone, each of the first heating mechanisms being disposed in the corresponding heating zone and radiating generated heat to the entire heating zone; a plurality of control mechanisms, each of the control mechanisms being configured to control a heating operation of the heating mechanism, the control mechanism being disposed between the cabinet body and the inner container and being electrically connected to the heating mechanism in correspondence with each of the lattices.

Description

Intelligent meal taking cabinet

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of catering distribution, in particular to an intelligent meal taking cabinet.

Background

In the prior art, the meal taking cabinet usually adopts an integral heating mode to keep the temperature of the meal stored in the meal taking cabinet, namely all cabinet lattices in the meal taking cabinet are heated uniformly. However, there are new problems with serving cabinets that use this type of heating. For example, when a meal required by a consumer includes cold meal, normal-temperature meal and hot meal, the meal in the same order cannot be placed in the same cabinet grid, because the cold meal and the normal-temperature meal have no heating requirement on one hand, and the heating may affect the quality of the meal on the other hand, so that the demand of the consumer on the meal cannot be met. Meanwhile, the meal of one order is separately placed in the meal taking cabinet, so that cabinet lattices are wasted on one hand, and the meal taking by a courier/consumer is inconvenient on the other hand.

Based on this, provide a meal cabinet is got to intelligence, it can overcome the defect that prior art exists.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an intelligent cabinet, whereby the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art are overcome.

In order to accomplish the above task, the present invention provides an intelligent meal taking cabinet, comprising a cabinet body, wherein the cabinet body comprises a plurality of cabinet lattices arranged in an array manner, and the intelligent meal taking cabinet further comprises: a plurality of liners, one liner removably assigned to each of the cabinet compartments, the liners conforming to the cabinet compartments; a plurality of first heating mechanisms disposed on the inner container facing one side of the cabinet, the inner container having a first inner container surface for containing food, the first inner container surface including a heating zone and a non-heating zone, each of the first heating mechanisms being disposed in the corresponding heating zone and radiating generated heat to the entire heating zone; a plurality of control mechanisms, each of the control mechanisms being configured to control a heating operation of the heating mechanism, the control mechanism being disposed between the cabinet body and the inner container and being electrically connected to the heating mechanism in correspondence with each of the lattices.

In a preferred embodiment, the control mechanism is removably secured to the cabinet.

In a preferred embodiment, the inner container forms a square frame-shaped chamber, and the open sides of the chamber respectively correspond to the meal taking side and the meal taking side of the cabinet body.

In a preferred embodiment, the inner container has a second inner container surface arranged perpendicular to the first inner container surface, and the second heating mechanism is arranged on the second inner container surface close to one side of the first heating mechanism and between the inner container and the cabinet body.

In a preferred embodiment, the first heating mechanism and the second heating mechanism are configured as heating sheets, which are attached to the respective inner container faces of the inner container by means of an adhesive, the heat-resistant temperature of which is higher than the heating temperature of the heating sheets.

In a preferred embodiment, the first heating mechanism and the second heating mechanism are configured as heating plates, the first heating mechanism occupies half the area of the heating zone, and the second heating mechanism occupies half the area of the second inner container surface.

In a preferred embodiment, the intelligent cabinet further comprises a sterilization and disinfection component on the opposite surface of the first inner container, the control mechanism is in control connection with the sterilization and disinfection component to control the sterilization and disinfection component to perform sterilization and disinfection operation, and the sterilization and disinfection component is arranged to radiate energy to the whole chamber of the inner container for sterilization and disinfection when being started.

In a preferred embodiment, the cabinet grid is further provided with illuminating lamps, the illuminating lamps are arranged on the opposite surfaces of the first inner container surface of the inner container, and the control mechanism is in control connection with the illuminating lamps so as to control the illuminating lamps to perform illumination operation.

In a preferred embodiment, the cabinet body is provided with cabinet doors respectively arranged on the meal taking side and the meal delivery side so as to seal the cavity formed by the inner container, a scanner identification two-dimensional code is arranged on the cabinet body and used for opening the cabinet doors, and the cabinet doors are transparent.

In a preferred embodiment, one of the cabinet cells in the cabinet body is used as a network cabinet, the network cabinet is configured to store a power supply for supplying power to the intelligent meal taking cabinet, a scanner for identifying meal taking two-dimensional codes and a host computer for processing the identified two-dimensional code data, the heating data of each cabinet cell and the food storage time data, and the network cabinet is provided with electronic operation screens electrically connected with the host computer at the meal taking side and the meal taking side respectively for meal taking personnel and meal taking personnel to operate.

Additional features and advantages of the utility model will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be readily apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from the practice of the utility model.

Drawings

Embodiments of the utility model are described in detail below with reference to the attached drawing figures, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an intelligent meal cabinet according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top perspective view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another intelligent meal cabinet according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a side cut-away perspective view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the inner container of the intelligent cabinet according to the present invention;

figure 6 is a perspective view of the liner shown in figure 5 from another perspective.

Description of the reference numerals

1-intelligent food taking cabinet; 10-a cabinet body; 100-cabinet grid; 102-a cabinet door; 12-inner container; 120-a first liner surface; 120 a-heating zone; 120 b-non-heated zone; 122-second liner surface; 14-a first heating mechanism; 16-a second heating mechanism; 18-control mechanism.

Detailed Description

An exemplary scheme of an intelligent cabinet according to the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings are provided to present embodiments of the utility model, but the drawings are not necessarily to scale of the particular embodiments, and certain features may be exaggerated, removed, or partially sectioned to better illustrate and explain the present disclosure. The position of some components in the drawings can be adjusted according to actual requirements on the premise of not influencing the technical effect. The appearances of the phrase "in the drawings" or similar language in the specification are not necessarily referring to all of the drawings or the examples.

Certain directional terms used hereinafter to describe the drawings, such as "inner", "outer", "upper", "lower", and other directional terms, will be understood to have their normal meaning and refer to those directions as they relate to when the drawings are normally viewed. Unless otherwise indicated, the directional terms described herein are generally in accordance with conventional directions as understood by those skilled in the art.

The terms "first," "second," and the like, as used herein, do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, the intelligent meal taking cabinet 1 provided by the utility model comprises a cabinet body 10, an inner container 12, a heating mechanism, a control mechanism 18 and the like.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, the cabinet 10 includes a plurality of cabinets 100, and the plurality of cabinets 100 may be arranged in an array of 1 column × 4 row, 2 column × 4 row or 3 column × 4 row. In addition, the intelligent meal taking cabinet 1 can also be provided with a layer of storage cabinet at the bottom of the cabinet body 10 for storing other articles.

As shown in fig. 2, the liner 12 is disposed in a cabinet 100. The inner containers 12 are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the cabinet compartments 100. Inner bladder 12 is optionally made of food grade stainless steel. Liner 12 is removably disposed with respect to cabinet 100. The inner container 12 can be stably held in the cabinet 100 after being mounted in the cabinet 100. The liner 12 is configured to conform to the cabinet 100. The cabinet 10 is generally rectangular in configuration, with the cabinet 10 being open on a meal-taking side and a meal-serving side, which are generally opposite sides of the cabinet 10. Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, inner bladder 12 is also configured in an open-sided configuration and defines a substantially square frame-shaped chamber. The open side of the inner container 12 corresponds to the open side of the cabinet 10, i.e., the meal-taking side and the meal-serving side.

As shown in fig. 2 and 6, the heating means includes a first heating means 14 and a second heating means 16, which are disposed at slightly different positions on the inner container 12. The first and second heating mechanisms 14, 16 may be attached to respective liner faces of the liner 12 by an adhesive. It should be noted that the heat resistant temperature of the adhesive needs to be higher than the heating temperature of the heating sheet to ensure that the adhesive does not fail. Alternatively, the heating mechanism may be a heating plate, although other heating mechanisms, such as a heating plate formed of a resistive wire, are contemplated by those skilled in the art. The first heating mechanism 14 and the second heating mechanism 16 are both arranged between the cabinet 10 and the inner container 12, so as to provide heat for the inner container 12 better. The inner container 12 has a first inner container surface 120 for containing food, and the first inner container surface 120 includes a heating area 120a and a non-heating area 120 b. Alternatively, the zones of the heated zone 120a and the non-heated zone 120b may be shown on the inner container 12 with a symbol mark or the like, thereby instructing the staff member to select the appropriate placement zone depending on the meal temperature.

Specifically, the first heating mechanism 14 is disposed on the above-mentioned first inner bag face 120. The first heating element 14 is preferably arranged centrally with respect to the heating area 120a of the first inner container surface 120, although other possible arrangements are also possible, as long as the first heating element 14 is arranged such that it can radiate the heat generated by it to the entire heating area 120 a. Centrally arranged in the heating area 120a is understood to mean that the heating means is arranged in the middle region of the heating area 120a of the first inner container surface 120. By arranging the heating mechanism on the inner container 12 in this way, different placing areas can be provided for the same cabinet grid 100 to simultaneously store hot meals, cold meals, normal-temperature meals and the like, so that the applicability of the meal cabinet is improved, the order storage rate of meals is improved (each single meal basically can be in a coherent form, and the meals cannot be separately placed in different cabinet grids 100 due to different cold and hot needs of the meals), and the meal taking efficiency of meal taking personnel is also improved. Of course, the shelf life of the cold meal, particularly cold drinks, popsicles, ice cream, may be limited because the cabinet 100 has already been heated.

Referring to fig. 4, the area occupied by the first heating mechanism 14 may alternatively be half of the area of the first bladder surface 120 of the bladder 12, and the second heating mechanism 16 occupies half or at least half of the area of the second bladder surface 122 to radiate heat throughout the second bladder surface 122 as much as possible. Other possible footprints may be adapted by those skilled in the art according to the actual requirements without such adaptations and modifications departing from the scope of the utility model. The heating mechanism is disposed at a position on the inner container 12, that is, the heating area 120a on the first inner container surface 120, and the first inner container surface 120 may show the subareas of the heating area 120a and the non-heating area 120b on the inner container 12 by symbols and the like as described above, so that the diner can place the food to be heated and kept warm at the correct position.

In order to better keep the corresponding food in the cabinet lattices 100 warm and heat, each cabinet lattice 100 of the intelligent meal taking cabinet 1 is also provided with a second heating mechanism 16. The second heating mechanism 16 is disposed on the left side or the right side of the inner container 12, and particularly, disposed on the left side or the right side of the inner container 12 depends on whether the heating area 120a on the first inner container surface 120 of the inner container 12 is located on the left side or the right side. The terms "left" and "right" referred to herein are determined based on the top view shown in fig. 2. If the heating means arranged on the first inner container surface 120 of the inner container 12 are arranged on the left, the second heating means 16 are arranged on the left side of the inner container 12 and vice versa. The inner container surface on which the second heating means 16 is located is a second inner container surface 122 arranged perpendicularly to the first inner container surface 120. As previously mentioned, the second heating mechanism 16 is also disposed outside the inner container 12 and between the inner container 12 and the cabinet 10.

The intelligent cabinet 1 is also provided with a plurality of control mechanisms 18, as shown in figure 4. The control mechanism 18 is in the present invention configured as a printed circuit board having connectors for connection to other electronics or leads. Alternatively, a control box configured to accommodate the control circuit board may be configured. The control mechanism 18 may be electrically connected to and control a heating mechanism, a lamp to be mentioned later, a sterilization and disinfection unit, and the like. Each control mechanism 18 is disposed between the cabinet 10 and the inner container 12 corresponding to each cabinet 100. Specifically, the control mechanism 18 is detachably disposed on the cabinet 10, and is fixed to the cabinet 10 by means of a screw connection, for example. Of course, other ways of detachable connection will occur to those skilled in the art and modifications or improvements may be made to this way without departing from the disclosure. The intelligent meal taking cabinet 1 is electrically connected with the heating mechanism through the control mechanism 18 so as to enable the heating mechanism to execute heating operation. Compared with the traditional centralized arrangement of the control mechanism 18 at the top of the meal taking cabinet, the arrangement of the control mechanism 18 corresponding to each cabinet grid 100 makes the wiring in the cabinet body 10 easier and more convenient, and the arrangement is beneficial to later maintenance and repair. Thermal insulation cotton is arranged between the control mechanism 18 and the heating mechanism to provide a good thermal insulation effect for the inner container 12.

The sterilization and disinfection components are arranged on the opposite surface of the first inner container surface 120 of the inner container 12, namely the sterilization and disinfection components are arranged on the top surface of the inner container 12. The sterilization assembly may optionally be an ultraviolet lamp. The conducting wire of the ultraviolet lamp passes through the inner container 12 and is connected to the control mechanism 18, and the conducting wire is connected with the control mechanism 18 in a plugging mode. Specifically, the control mechanism 18 is provided with a connector, a corresponding connector is provided at one end of the wire, and the wire and the control mechanism 18 are joined together by joining the respective connectors together. Alternatively, it is also conceivable to embed the ultraviolet lamp on the top surface of the inner container 12, and only a corresponding placement groove is required to place the ultraviolet lamp on the inner container 12.

The sterilization and disinfection component is arranged on the top surface of the inner container 12, so that the sterilization and disinfection component can better radiate the cavity of the whole inner container 12, and the maximum sterilization and disinfection can be realized.

Referring to fig. 2, the cabinet 10 is provided with a cabinet door 102 at both the meal taking side and the meal delivery side, and the cabinet door 102 is used for closing the chamber formed by the inner container 12. Optionally, a sealing strip may be disposed between the cabinet door 102 and the cabinet body 10 to better protect the food from the external temperature, especially in the winter with low temperature, and the provision of the sealing structure may provide better heat insulation effect for the cabinet lattice 100. The door 102 is transparent to facilitate real-time observation of the use of the cabinet grid 100.

One of the compartments 100 in the cabinet 10 may be used as a network cabinet in which a power supply, a scanner, a host computer, etc. are stored. The power supply is used for supplying power to the intelligent food taking cabinet 1. The scanner is used for acquiring meal taking evidence such as two-dimensional code information of the meal taking personnel. The host computer is used for processing the identified two-dimensional code data, the heating data of the cabinet grid 100 and the food storage time data, so as to provide commands aiming at the meal taking action, the heating action and the time management to instruct relevant mechanisms to execute corresponding commands, and taking the heating mechanism as an example, when heating is needed, the host computer receiving heating information instructs the control mechanism 18 to control the heating sheet to heat through being connected with the control mechanism 18. The network cabinet is equipped with the electronic operation screen at the side of getting the meal and the side of having a meal, and the electronic operation screen is connected with the host computer electricity. The person getting the meal and the person who has the meal can operate the electronic operation screen as required to realize corresponding purposes. For example, for meal taking actions, the opening of the cabinet door 102 in the cabinet 10 can be realized by the identification of a certificate, such as a two-dimensional code, provided by the meal taking personnel. For the heating action, the operator inputs a command through the electronic operation screen, so that the required cabinet lattices 100 of a corresponding number are heated, and the rest cabinet lattices 100 are not heated. Aiming at time management, the host computer monitors the time of the cabinet lattices 100 for storing the food to judge whether the time exceeds the time limit phenomenon, and if the time exceeds the time limit phenomenon, related personnel are reminded to process the food or perform other corresponding operations in time.

The illumination lamp is disposed on the top surface of the inner container 12, i.e., the side opposite to the first inner container surface 120. The illumination lamp is controlled by the control mechanism 18 to perform an illumination operation. Of course, other arrangements of locations are also conceivable. The lighting lamp can be selected by those skilled in the art according to the requirement, for example, the lighting lamp can be an incandescent lamp, a fluorescent lamp, etc.

The cabinet 10 may also be provided with a display screen and a microphone, for example, in the area between the cabinet 10 and the top cabinet grid 100, so that the meal taker can find the corresponding meal cabinet for storing the meal in time through vision and sound.

In addition, in order to facilitate the communication between the meal taker and the meal taker when a problem occurs, a communication window is additionally reserved in the cabinet 10. The communication window may be disposed, for example, between the top panels 100 of the cabinet 10. The communication opening may also serve as a cabinet compartment 100 for holding food in the event that the cabinet is taken to alert the operator that the cabinet compartment 100 is full.

The intelligent meal taking cabinet provided by the utility model is basically used according to the following operation flow.

When using an intelligent meal cabinet, a clerk is typically required to preheat a predetermined number of cabinet compartments as needed.

After a salesman (meal delivery person) receives the order, the meal starts to be prepared, after the meal preparation is completed, the salesman operates the electronic operation screen at the meal delivery side, if the meal needs to be heated and insulated, the preheated cabinet lattice is selected, and the meal is placed at the position of the heating mechanism in the inner container.

When the order taker receives the order, he goes to the restaurant that provided the meal, during which time he obtains the cabinet information where the prepared meal is located. After the meal taking staff arrive at the restaurant, the meal taking information is input through the electronic operation screen or is obtained through scanning of the scanner, then the cabinet doors of the corresponding cabinet lattices are opened, and the meal taking staff take the meal corresponding to the order form. And if the meal of an order is too many and can't put into same cabinet check, the personnel of putting out a meal can choose to put into a plurality of cabinet check with it, and get meal personnel and provide and get meal information after, a plurality of cabinet check that same order is relevant can be opened simultaneously to save and get meal time.

The intelligent meal taking cabinet provided by the utility model realizes the cold and hot meal integration of the intelligent meal taking cabinet through the reasonable design and favorable structural arrangement of the heating mechanism, the control mechanism and the like, is convenient to produce, maintain and repair, and overcomes the defects of the meal taking cabinet in the prior art, thereby improving the applicability of the meal taking cabinet, increasing the order storage rate of meals and simultaneously improving the meal taking efficiency of meal taking personnel.

While the utility model has been described in detail in connection with only a limited number of embodiments, it should be readily understood that the utility model is not limited to such disclosed embodiments. Rather, the utility model can be modified by incorporating any number of variations, alterations, substitutions or equivalent arrangements not heretofore described, but which are commensurate with the spirit and scope of the utility model. Additionally, while various embodiments of the utility model have been described, it is to be understood that aspects of the utility model may include only some of the embodiments. Accordingly, the utility model is not to be seen as limited by the foregoing description, but is only limited by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. An intelligent meal cabinet (1) comprising a cabinet body (10), the cabinet body (10) comprising a plurality of cabinet lattices (100) arranged in an array manner, characterized in that the intelligent meal cabinet (1) further comprises:

a plurality of liners (12), one liner (12) removably assigned to each cabinet compartment (100), the liners (12) conforming to the cabinet compartments (100);

a plurality of first heating mechanisms (14), wherein the first heating mechanisms (14) are arranged on the inner container (12) facing one side of the cabinet body (10), the inner container (12) is provided with a first inner container surface (120) for containing food, the first inner container surface (120) comprises a heating area (120a) and a non-heating area (120b), and each first heating mechanism (14) is arranged in the corresponding heating area (120a) and radiates the generated heat to the whole heating area (120 a);

a plurality of control mechanisms (18), each of the control mechanisms (18) being configured to control a heating operation of the heating mechanism, the control mechanism (18) being disposed between the cabinet body (10) and the inner container (12) corresponding to each of the cabinet compartments (100) and being electrically connected to the heating mechanism.

2. The intelligent catering cabinet (1) according to claim 1, wherein the control mechanism (18) is detachably fastened to the cabinet (10).

3. The intelligent meal fetching cabinet (1) according to claim 1, wherein the inner container (12) forms a square frame shaped chamber, the open sides of which correspond to the meal fetching side and the meal delivery side of the cabinet body (10), respectively.

4. The intelligent meal fetching cabinet (1) according to claim 1, wherein the inner container (12) has a second inner container surface (122) arranged perpendicular to the first inner container surface (120), and a second heating mechanism (16) is arranged on the second inner container surface (122) on a side close to the first heating mechanism (14) and between the inner container (12) and the cabinet body (10).

5. The intelligent meal fetching cabinet (1) according to claim 4, wherein the first heating mechanism (14) and the second heating mechanism (16) are configured as heating sheets attached to the respective inner container (12) faces of the inner container (12) by an adhesive having a higher heat resistant temperature than the heating temperature of the heating sheets.

6. The intelligent meal cabinet (1) according to claim 4, wherein the first heating mechanism (14) and the second heating mechanism (16) are configured as heating plates, the area occupied by the first heating mechanism (14) in the heating area (120a) is half of the area of the heating area (120a), and the second heating mechanism (16) occupies half of the area of the second inner container surface (122).

7. An intelligent pick cabinet (1) as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a sterilizing and disinfecting assembly on the opposite side of the first liner face (120), the control mechanism (18) being in control connection with the sterilizing and disinfecting assembly to control it to perform a sterilizing and disinfecting operation, the sterilizing and disinfecting assembly being arranged to, when activated, radiate energy to the chamber throughout the liner (12) for sterilization and disinfection.

8. The intelligent meal taking cabinet (1) as claimed in claim 1, wherein an illuminating lamp is further arranged in the cabinet grid (100), the illuminating lamp is arranged on the opposite surface of the first liner surface (120) of the liner (12), and the control mechanism (18) is in control connection with the illuminating lamp to control the illuminating lamp to perform the illuminating operation.

9. The intelligent meal taking cabinet (1) as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cabinet body (10) is provided with cabinet doors (102) respectively arranged on the meal taking side and the meal taking side so as to seal the chamber formed by the liner (12), a scanner identification two-dimensional code is arranged on the cabinet body (10) for opening the cabinet doors (102), and the cabinet doors (102) are transparent.

10. The intelligent meal fetching cabinet (1) as claimed in claim 1, wherein one cabinet cell (100) in the cabinet body (10) is used as a network cabinet configured to store a power supply for powering the intelligent meal fetching cabinet (1), a scanner for identifying meal fetching two-dimensional codes and a host computer for processing the identified two-dimensional code data, heating data of each cabinet cell (100) and food storage time data, and the network cabinet is provided with electronic operation screens electrically connected with the host computer at the meal fetching side and the meal outgoing side respectively for meal fetching personnel and meal outgoing personnel to operate.

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