CN215838345U

CN215838345U - Cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN215838345U
Application number: CN202023056418.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢仙福; 李泽涌; 邓强
Original assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-17
Filing date: 2020-12-17
Publication date: 2022-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-17

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking appliance, which comprises a cooker body, a food accommodating part, a weighing device, a rice blocking mechanism and a control device, wherein the food accommodating part is positioned above the cooker body and is provided with a first feeding hole and a first discharging hole; the weighing device is arranged at the bottom of the food accommodating part, the rice blocking mechanism can move between a first position and a second position, the first discharge port and the cooking space can be communicated when the rice blocking mechanism is in the first position, and the rice blocking mechanism blocks the first discharge port when the rice blocking mechanism is in the second position; the control device is configured to control the rice blocking mechanism to move back and forth between a first position and a second position according to the measurement result of the weighing device. According to the utility model, the movement of the rice baffle plate can be controlled according to the measurement result of the weighing device, so that the amount of food materials falling into the cooking space can be accurately controlled.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of cookers, in particular to a cooking appliance.

Background

The current cooking appliances such as automatic electric cookers are generally provided with rice bins and are provided with rice feeding pipelines to realize automatic rice feeding, but the rice amount of the current rice bins is generally controlled by controlling the size of a rice outlet and the feeding time, the rice amount falling into an inner pot is possibly inaccurate by the method, the subsequent calculation of the water-rice ratio is influenced, and the cooking effect is possibly influenced finally.

The present application therefore proposes an improved cooking appliance to at least partially solve the above technical problem.

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 of the present invention is not intended to define key features or essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed solution.

In order to at least partially solve the above problems, the present invention discloses a cooking appliance, including: a pot body having a cooking space; the cooker body is detachably connected with the machine body; the food accommodating part is arranged to the machine body and is positioned above the cooker body, and the food accommodating part is provided with a first feeding hole and a first discharging hole; a weighing device disposed at the bottom of the food containing part for measuring a real-time rice amount in the food containing part; the rice blocking mechanism can move between a first position for opening the first discharging port and a second position for closing the first discharging port, the first discharging port can be communicated with the cooking space when the rice blocking mechanism is in the first position, and the rice blocking mechanism blocks the first discharging port when the rice blocking mechanism is in the second position; and a control device configured to control the rice blocking mechanism to move back and forth between the first position and the second position according to the measurement result of the weighing device.

According to the cooking appliance disclosed by the utility model, the movement of the rice baffle plate can be controlled according to the measurement result of the weighing device, so that the amount of food materials falling into the cooking space can be accurately controlled.

Preferably, the rice blocking mechanism comprises a rice blocking plate and a driving structure for driving the rice blocking plate to move, and the driving structure drives the rice blocking plate to horizontally move to block the first discharge hole when receiving a control signal of the control device.

From this, drive through drive structure and keep off rice board and remove, can block up first discharge gate fast.

Preferably, the rice baffle is located below the first discharge hole at the second position, and the rice baffle is attached to the opening edge of the first discharge hole.

From this, can seal first discharge gate effectively, guarantee that the rice volume that falls into in the culinary art space is accurate.

Preferably, the rice blocking mechanism further comprises a fixing frame, and the driving structure is supported in the machine body through the fixing frame.

Therefore, the driving structure can more stably drive the rice baffle to move back and forth between the first position and the second position.

Preferably, the fixing frame comprises a groove, the driving structure is arranged in the groove, and the fixing frame is mounted to the machine body through ear buckles positioned on two sides of the groove wall of the groove.

Therefore, the driving structure is fixedly arranged in the groove, so that the rice baffle can be driven to accurately reach the second position.

Preferably, the driving structure is a push-pull electromagnet.

Preferably, the rice baffle plate comprises an installation part which is far away from the first discharge hole and protrudes out of the plate surface, the installation part is provided with a concave cavity, and the driving part of the driving structure is accommodated in the concave cavity and connected with the installation part so as to drive the rice baffle plate to move.

Therefore, the driving part of the driving structure can be stably connected with the mounting part of the rice baffle.

Preferably, the mounting part further comprises a clamping part which is continuously sunken from the sunken cavity to two sides, and the driving part is clamped in the clamping part and connected with the mounting part.

Therefore, the driving part is clamped on the clamping part to realize the stable connection of the rice baffle plate and the driving structure.

Preferably, the cooking appliance further comprises: and the material conveying arm assembly is arranged below the food containing part and is provided with a second discharge hole, and the second discharge hole is communicated with the cooking space when the material conveying arm assembly is in a feeding position.

Therefore, when the rice baffle is located at the first position, and the material conveying arm assembly is located at the feeding position, food materials in the food containing part can enter the material conveying channel of the material conveying arm assembly through the first discharge hole and then enter the cooking space through the second discharge hole.

Preferably, be provided with water supply installation in the organism, still be provided with water supply channel in the defeated material arm subassembly, water supply channel's apopore with the second discharge gate aligns defeated material arm subassembly is in under the state of pay-off position, the apopore with set up in the water inlet intercommunication of the a kind of deep pot body.

From this, water supply channel's apopore and second discharge gate align, can realize supplying rice through defeated material arm subassembly, also can realize automatic water supply.

Drawings

The following drawings of embodiments of the utility model are included as part of the present invention for an understanding of the utility model. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the utility model and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the utility model. 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;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a cooking appliance in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein the delivery arm assembly is in its own feed position and the rice baffle is in its own first position;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a cooking appliance in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein the wicking arm assembly is in its first position and the rice baffle is in its second position;

fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view from another perspective of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the rice baffle of FIG. 1; and

fig. 6 is a bottom schematic view of the food accommodating part in the machine body of fig. 1.

Description of reference numerals:

100: the cooking appliance 110: weighing device

120: food receiving portion 121: first feed inlet

122: first discharge port 131: rice baffle

132: the driving structure 133: fixing frame

134: groove 135: ear clip

136: mounting portion 137: concave cavity

138: the driving portion 139: clamping part

140: delivery arm assembly 141: second discharge hole

150: the body 160: water supply device

161: water outlet

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 utility model may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the embodiments of the utility model.

In the following description, a detailed structure will be presented for a thorough understanding of embodiments of the utility model. 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 following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the utility model, however, the utility model is capable of other embodiments in addition to those detailed.

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 of the present embodiment is a split cooking appliance. Specifically, the cooking appliance includes a body 150 and a pot body 170, and the pot body 170 is detachably coupled to the body 150.

The pot body 170 may specifically include a pot body seat and a pot body cover. The pot body seat can be internally provided with a cylindrical inner pot containing part, and the inner pot can be freely placed into the inner pot containing part or taken out of the inner pot containing part so as to be convenient for cleaning the inner pot. The upper surface of the inner pot has a circular opening for containing materials to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., into the inner pot. The cooker body cover can be arranged on the cooker body seat in an openable and closable manner, and when the cooker body cover is covered on the cooker body seat, a cooking space can be formed between the cooker body cover and the inner pot.

As shown in fig. 1, the body 150 is substantially L-shaped, and a main heating device may be disposed at a horizontal section of the L-shaped body 150. The main heating means may be a heating coil disc. When the cooker body 170 is placed on the body 150, the cooker body seat may be electrically connected to the main heating device, and when the cooking appliance is powered on, the main heating device may heat the inner pot.

As shown in fig. 1 and 4, a food accommodating part 120 is provided at a vertical section of the L-shaped body 150, the food accommodating part 120 is located above the pot body 170, and has a first feed opening 121, a mounting cover sealing the first feed opening 121 and opening and closing the first feed opening 121, and a first discharge opening 122. When the user needs to supplement the food container 120 with the material, the material can be added by opening the mounting cover. The material in the food container 120 is not limited to rice, and may be food materials such as beans.

A control panel (which may be understood as a control device) of the cooking appliance may also be integrated in the mounting cover, the control panel being a control center of the entire cooking appliance, controlling all electrical components. The mounting cover may also be provided with an operation panel electrically connected to the control panel for receiving user input (such as water inflow, rice inflow, etc.), and a display device for displaying the weight of the remaining materials in the food receptacle 120 and the amount of water remaining in the water supply device of the cooking appliance itself.

A weighing device 110 is further provided at the bottom of the food container 120 for measuring the real-time amount of rice in the food container 120. Preferably, in order to accurately measure the real-time rice amount, in the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, a pair of weighing devices 110 are symmetrically provided at the bottom of the food receiving part 120.

The cooking appliance 100 of the present invention further includes a rice blocking mechanism, which is movable between a first position (shown in fig. 2) for opening the first discharge hole 122 and a second position (shown in fig. 3) for closing the first discharge hole 122, wherein the first discharge hole 122 is communicable with the cooking space of the pot body 170 in a state where the rice blocking mechanism is at the first position, and the first discharge hole 122 is blocked by the rice blocking mechanism in a state where the rice blocking mechanism is at the second position.

Therefore, generally, after the user inputs the required cooking rice amount, the control device of the cooking appliance controls the rice blocking mechanism to move back and forth between the first position and the second position according to the measurement result of the weighing device. It can be understood that, for example, the food material currently contained in the food containing part 120 is M1 in weight and the amount of rice to be cooked input by the user is M2, so the control device can control the rice blocking mechanism to be in the first position, so that the food material in the food containing part falls into the cooking space until the weighing device detects M3 (M3-M1-M2) in weight, and then control the rice blocking mechanism to be in the second position. Thus, through the matching of the control device and the rice blocking mechanism, the movement of the rice blocking plate 131 can be controlled quickly and efficiently, and the amount of the food materials falling into the cooking space can be controlled accurately.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1 and 5, the rice blocking mechanism includes a rice blocking plate 131 and a driving structure 132 for driving the rice blocking plate 131 to move. When receiving a control signal from the control device, the driving structure 132 drives the rice baffle 131 to move horizontally (refer to fig. 2 and 3) to block the first discharging hole 122. In the present embodiment, the driving mechanism 132 is a push-pull electromagnet.

With continued reference to fig. 3, the rice baffle 131 is located below the first discharging hole 122 at the second position, and the rice baffle 131 fits the opening edge of the first discharging hole 122. From this, can seal first discharge gate 122 effectively, guarantee that the rice volume that falls into in the culinary art space is accurate.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, the rice blocking mechanism further includes a fixing frame 133, and the driving structure 132 can be supported in the machine body through the fixing frame 133. More specifically, as shown in fig. 1 and 6, the fixing frame 133 is further provided with a groove 134, the driving structure 132 is disposed in the groove 134, for example, the driving structure 132 can be fixed by tightly fitting the groove wall of the groove 134, and the fixing frame 133 can be mounted to the machine body 150 by the ear buckles 135 located at two sides of the groove wall of the groove 134.

Referring back to fig. 1 and 5, the rice-blocking plate 131 includes a mounting portion 136 protruding from the plate surface away from the first outlet 122, the mounting portion 136 has a recessed cavity 137, and a driving portion 138 (which may be understood as a push rod of a push-pull electromagnet) of the driving structure 132 is received in the recessed cavity 137 and connected to the mounting portion 136 to drive the rice-blocking plate 131 to move.

More specifically, the mounting portion 136 further includes a holding portion 139 that is recessed from the recessed cavity 137 to both sides, and the driving portion 138 is engaged with the mounting portion 136 in the holding portion 139. Thus, the overdrive part 138 is engaged with the catch 139 to stably connect the rice-blocking plate 131 with the driving structure 132.

Referring back to fig. 1, a feed arm assembly 140 is further provided below the first discharge hole 122 of the food receiving part 120 to feed materials to the cooking space. Specifically, the conveying arm assembly has a feeding channel inside, and the feeding channel is further provided with a second discharging hole 141 (as shown in fig. 2). In the state that the feeding arm assembly 140 is in the feeding position, the second discharging hole 141 may be communicated with the cooking space through an opening on the pot body cover. Therefore, when the first outlet 122 is not blocked by the rice baffle 131, the food in the food containing part 120 can enter the feeding channel through the first outlet 122, and then enter the cooking space through the second outlet 141.

The feed arm assembly 140 will now be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 and 6. The delivery arm assembly 140 can oscillate back and forth about its axis of rotation between an initial position, as shown in fig. 3, and a feed position, as shown in fig. 2. One end of the rotating shaft is connected with an output shaft of a motor 142, and the motor 142 drives the material conveying arm assembly 140 to swing back and forth.

With continued reference to fig. 1, a water supply device 160 (e.g., a water pump) may be further provided in the body 150 to achieve automatic water supply to the cooking space. A water supply channel is further provided in the material delivery arm assembly 140, the water supply channel is connected with the water supply device 160 through the other end of the rotating shaft of the material delivery arm assembly 140, a water outlet hole 161 of the water supply channel is aligned with the second discharge hole 141, and the water outlet hole is communicated with a water inlet arranged in the cooker body in a state that the material delivery arm assembly 140 is at the feeding position.

Therefore, after obtaining the required cooking rice amount M2, the control device can control the water supply device 160 to automatically add water, and the water inlet amount M4 can be matched (automatically calculated by the controller) according to the required rice amount, typically M4 is 1.4 × M2. After the water rice is added, a preset cooking program can be entered to start cooking.

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 utility model. 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 should be understood that the above embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the utility model to the scope of the described embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that many variations and modifications may be made to the teachings of the utility model, which fall within the scope of the utility model as claimed.

Claims

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

a pot body (170), the pot body (170) having a cooking space;

a body (150), the pot body (170) being detachably connected to the body (150);

a food accommodating part (120), the food accommodating part (120) being provided to the body (150) and located above the pot body (170), the food accommodating part (120) being provided with a first feed opening (121) and a first discharge opening (122);

a weighing device (110), the weighing device (110) being disposed at the bottom of the food containing part (120) for measuring the real-time amount of rice in the food containing part (120);

the rice blocking mechanism can move between a first position for opening the first discharge port (122) and a second position for closing the first discharge port (122), the first discharge port (122) can be communicated with the cooking space under the condition that the rice blocking mechanism is at the first position, and the rice blocking mechanism blocks the first discharge port (122) under the condition that the rice blocking mechanism is at the second position; and

a control device configured to control the rice blocking mechanism to reciprocate between the first position and the second position according to the measurement result of the weighing device.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the rice blocking mechanism comprises a rice blocking plate (131) and a driving structure (132) for driving the rice blocking plate (131) to move, and the driving structure (132) can drive the rice blocking plate (131) to move horizontally to block the first discharge hole (122) when receiving a control signal of the control device.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the rice baffle (131) is located below the first discharge opening (122) in the second position, and the rice baffle (131) fits an opening edge of the first discharge opening (122).

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the rice blocking mechanism further comprises a fixing frame (133), and the driving structure is supported in the body (150) by the fixing frame (133).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the holder (133) comprises a slot (134), the driving structure being disposed in the slot (134), the holder (133) being mounted to the body (150) by means of ear clips (135) disposed on both sides of a wall of the slot.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 5, wherein the drive structure (132) is a push-pull electromagnet.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the rice baffle plate (131) comprises a mounting portion (136) protruding from the plate surface away from the first outlet (122), the mounting portion (136) has a recessed cavity (137), and the driving portion (138) of the driving structure (132) is accommodated in the recessed cavity (137) and connected with the mounting portion (136) to drive the rice baffle plate (131) to move.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 7, wherein the mounting portion (136) further comprises a retaining portion (139) which is recessed from the recessed cavity (137) to both sides, and the driving portion (138) is engaged with the mounting portion (136) in the retaining portion (139).

9. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising: and the material conveying arm assembly (140) is arranged below the food containing part (120), the material conveying arm assembly (140) is provided with a second material outlet (141), and the second material outlet (141) is communicated with the cooking space when the material conveying arm assembly (140) is in a feeding position.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein a water supply device (160) is disposed in the body (150), a water supply channel is further disposed in the delivery arm assembly (140), a water outlet (161) of the water supply channel is aligned with the second discharge port (141), and the water outlet is communicated with a water inlet disposed in the pot body (170) in a state that the delivery arm assembly (140) is in the feeding position.