CN218044825U

CN218044825U - Cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN218044825U
Application number: CN202222331982.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈合林; 张国滨; 李鹏辉; 祝峰
Original assignee: Hangzhou Aishida Small Appliance Co ltd
Current assignee: Hangzhou Aishida Small Appliance Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-31
Filing date: 2022-08-31
Publication date: 2022-12-16
Anticipated expiration: 2032-08-31

Abstract

The utility model provides a cooking appliance, which comprises a pot body component and a pot cover component, wherein the pot cover component is covered on the pot body component, the pot body component is provided with a cooking cavity, the pot cover component is provided with a hot air component which conveys hot air into the cooking cavity, and the hot air component comprises a heater and a fan which drives the air to circulate; the pot cover assembly comprises: a support cover adapted to support the pot cover assembly on the pot body assembly; and a top cover disposed above the support cover; wherein, the support cover is transparent to be suitable for observing the food state in the cooking chamber. The utility model provides a pair of cooking utensil has great transparent visual area, can promote the observation experience to food culinary art process.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a food processing technology field especially relates to a cooking utensil.

Background

The air fryer is a cooking appliance for cooking food by utilizing hot air circulation, and comprises a cover body and a pot body, wherein a hot air circulation device is arranged on the cover body so as to convey hot air into the pot body and cook the food in the pot body. In order to prevent the hot air from leaking out during cooking and causing poor cooking effect or scalding of the user, the user is not allowed to open the cover body during the cooking process. In this way, the user cannot intuitively observe the cooking process of the food, and cannot know the state of the food at any time. To this end, air fryers have been developed in the prior art which are provided with a transparent window, in one prior art the transparent window is provided at the top of the cover of the air fryer. However, the lid inboard of air fryer still installs usually and is used for forming hot-blast subassembly, is heated sheltering from of wind subassembly, and the position and the size that transparent window set up can often receive the restriction for the regional scope that can observe is less, is unfavorable for the user to the observation of pot body food culinary art condition.

In view of the above, there is a need to provide a new technical solution to overcome the problems in the prior art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides a cooking utensil has great transparent visual area, can promote the observation experience to food culinary art process.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: a cooking appliance comprises a pot body assembly and a pot cover assembly, wherein the pot body assembly is covered on the pot body assembly and is provided with a cooking cavity, the pot cover assembly is provided with a hot air assembly for conveying hot air into the cooking cavity, and the hot air assembly comprises a heater and a fan for driving air to circulate; wherein, the pot cover subassembly includes: a support cover adapted to support the pot cover assembly on the pot body assembly; and a top cover disposed above the support cover; wherein, the support cover is transparent to be suitable for observing the food state in the cooking chamber.

Optionally, the support cover includes a support portion and a connection portion.

Optionally, the connection portion is configured to extend inwardly to connect the hot air assembly.

Optionally, the hot air assembly includes a casing for covering the fan, and the connecting portion is fixedly connected to the casing.

Optionally, the support portion is configured in an arc shape adapted to direct the flow of hot air into the cooking cavity.

Optionally, a sealing member adapted to the rim of the supporting cover is disposed on the top of the pot assembly.

Optionally, an air outlet gap for discharging cooling air is formed between the top cover and the support cover.

Optionally, the top cover has a plurality of feet extending downward and resting on the support cover; the support legs are arranged at intervals to form an air outlet between two adjacent support legs.

Optionally, the pan body assembly comprises a cooking container for placing food, the cooking container comprises a side wall and a bottom wall connected below the side wall, and the side wall is a concave arc surface; wherein the hot air assembly vents air towards the concave arc, the concave arc configured to direct hot air towards a bottom wall.

Optionally, the bottom wall has an air guiding protrusion thereon adapted to guide the upward flow of the hot air.

The utility model provides a cooking utensil, the pot cover component comprises a supporting cover and a top cover, the supporting cover is suitable for supporting the pot cover component on the pot body component, the top cover is arranged above the supporting cover, and the supporting cover is in a transparent arrangement so as to be suitable for observing the state of food in the cooking cavity; set up to transparent through supporting the lid that will support on pot body subassembly for when seeing through this transparent support lid and observing the culinary art intracavity, can not receive sheltering from of hot-air component, transparent visual scope is bigger, can promote the observation experience to food culinary art process.

Drawings

In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention more clearly, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description only relate to some embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

Fig. 1 is a perspective assembly view of an embodiment of the cooking appliance of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective exploded view of an embodiment of the cooking device of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pot body assembly in an embodiment of the cooking device of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of an embodiment of the cooking appliance of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is another perspective exploded view of an embodiment of the cooking device of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a supporting cover according to an embodiment of the cooking apparatus of the present invention.

Reference numerals: 100-a cooking appliance; 10-a pot cover assembly; 11-a heater; 12-a fan; 13-a housing; 131-air outlet holes; 132-return air holes; 133-a wind-proof area; 140-air outlet gap; 141-a top cover; 1411-feet; 1412-air outlet; 142-a support cover; 1421-a strut; 1422-linker; 143-a partition plate; 15-a manipulation device; 16-a motor; 20-a pan body assembly; 21-a cooking container; 210-a cooking cavity; 211-side walls; 212-bottom wall; 213-air guiding convex part; 22-a housing; 221-a mounting ring; 222-a seal; 23-an insulating space; 24-grate.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The components of the embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined or explained in subsequent figures.

Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and in the claims does not indicate any order, quantity, or importance, but rather is used to distinguish one element from another. Also, the use of the terms "a," "an," or "the" and similar referents do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before "comprises" or "comprising" covers the element or item listed after "comprising" or "comprises" and its equivalents, and does not exclude other elements or items. "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like are used only to indicate relative positional relationships that may change when the absolute position of the object being described changes, and are merely 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 therefore should not be construed as limiting the invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should 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.

Some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Features in the embodiments described below may be combined with each other without conflict.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the present invention provides a cooking apparatus 100. In one embodiment, the cooking appliance 100 is an air fryer comprising a body assembly 20 and a lid assembly 10 mounted on the body assembly 20. The pot assembly 20 has a cooking cavity 210, and food materials are placed in the cooking cavity 210. The lid assembly 10 has a hot air assembly for supplying hot air into the cooking cavity 210 to cook the food in the cooking cavity 210.

The hot air assembly includes a fan 12, a heater 11, and a cover 13 covering the fan 12 and the heater 11. The housing 13 is disc-shaped and has a bottom wall and a circumferential side wall, the circumferential side wall is provided with an air outlet 131, and the bottom wall is provided with an air return hole 132. The fan 12 blows hot air obliquely downward through the air outlet 131 toward the cooking chamber 210. The cooking cavity 210 has a side wall 211 and a bottom wall 212, the side wall 211 of the cooking cavity 210 has a circular arc inner surface, the bottom wall 212 of the cooking cavity 210 has an air guide protrusion 213 protruding upward, and the air guide protrusion 213 is opposite to the air return hole 132. The hot air blown into the cooking cavity 210 is guided by the circular arc inner surface to flow from top to bottom in the cooking cavity 210, and the hot air flowing to the air guide convex part 213 is guided by the air guide convex part 213 to flow back to the air return hole 132, so that the hot air flows in the hot air assembly and the cooking cavity 210.

Referring to fig. 2, 4 and 5, in the present embodiment, the cover assembly 10 and the body assembly 20 are detachably mounted, that is, the cover assembly 10 is placed on the body assembly 20 during use, and the cover assembly 10 can be integrally removed from the body assembly 20 after use. So set up, conveniently accomodate and conveniently wash alone pot body subassembly 20. In other embodiments, the lid assembly 10 and the body assembly 20 can be hinged to each other to form a flip-lid structure. In this embodiment, the pot cover assembly 10 includes a top cover 141, a support cover 142, and a partition plate 143. The partition plate 143 and the top cover 141 form an upper space, and the upper space is provided with the motor 16, the control device 15, and a heat dissipation air fan (not numbered) for dissipating heat from the motor 16 and the control device 15. The partition plate 143 and the support cover 142 define a lower space in which the heater 11, the fan 12, and the housing 13 included in the hot air assembly are disposed. The upper and lower spaces formed by the upper and lower partition plates 143 are separated from each other, so that heat transfer from the heater 11 in the lower space to the upper space can be reduced, thereby reducing heat loss and influence of heat on the motor 16 and the controller 15 in the upper space. In this embodiment, the supporting cover 142 is a transparent or translucent member, which is convenient for a user to observe the cooking condition in the cooking cavity 210 through the supporting cover 142. The operating device 15 has 2 operating buttons extending out of the top cover 141, and in this embodiment, the operating buttons are symmetrically arranged and cooperate with the top cover 141 having a hemispherical shape to form a shape similar to a tentacle. The operating device 15 can be used to control the on/off of the air fryer, cooking time, cooking temperature, cooking mode, etc.

In the present embodiment, the heater 11 is a ring-shaped heating pipe, and the fan 12 is disposed inside the heater 11. The fan 12 and the cooling air fan are coaxially driven by a motor 16. The fan 12 is a centrifugal fan, and drives an air flow to flow out through the air outlet 131 of the housing 13 after being heated by the heater 11 in the circumferential tangential direction of the fan.

In this embodiment, the circumferential side wall of the housing 13 and the circular arc transitional connection between the bottom walls, the air outlet 131 is opened at the circular arc transitional connection. The air outlet 131 is a long strip-shaped hole extending in the vertical direction, so that the air flow passing through the air outlet 131 is substantially the same as the air flow passing through the air outlet 131, and the air flow flows obliquely downward toward the sidewall 211 of the cooking cavity 210 and can be smoothly guided by the sidewall 211 of the circular arc-shaped inner surface of the cooking cavity 210.

In this embodiment, the air outlets 131 are arranged to form an annular air outlet area, the air return holes 132 are arranged to form a circular air return area on the bottom wall of the housing 13, and the air return area is located in the air outlet area and has an air separation area 133 between the air outlet areas. The wind isolation area 133 is an annular closed area without holes, and the mutual influence between the air outlet and the air return can be reduced by the wind isolation area 133, so that the smoothness of hot air circulation is further improved.

The lid assembly 10 includes a support cover 142 adapted to support the lid assembly 10 on the body assembly 20, the lid assembly 10 includes a top cover 141 disposed above the support cover 142 for installation of the hot air assembly, and the support cover 142 is transparently disposed to be adapted to observe the state of food in the cooking cavity 210.

Referring to fig. 6, the supporting cover 142 includes a supporting portion 1421 and a connecting portion 1422, and the connecting portion 1422 is configured to extend inward to connect the hot air assembly. Specifically, the hot air assembly includes a housing 13 for covering the fan 12, and the connecting portion 1422 is fixedly connected to the housing 13. In this embodiment, the connecting portion 1422 and the housing 13 are fixed by screw connection. The support 1421 is configured in an arc shape to be suitable for guiding the flow of hot air into the cooking chamber 210.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4, the pot assembly 20 includes a cooking container 21 and a housing 22, the cooking container 21 is integrally assembled with the housing 22, and an insulation space 23 is formed between the cooking container 21 and the housing 22. The cooking container 21 is in a shape of a revolving body, a cavity of the cooking container is the cooking cavity 210, and a grate 24 erected in the cooking container 21 and used for bearing food is arranged in the cooking container 21. The hot air can flow downwards along the side wall 211 of the cooking container 21, penetrate through the grate 24, and flow upwards after meeting the air guide convex part 213 on the bottom wall 212 of the cooking container 21, and penetrate through the grate 24 from bottom to top, so as to heat the food on the grate 24.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, a sealing member 222 is disposed on the top of the pot assembly 20 and is adapted to the rim of the supporting cover 142. In one embodiment, the sealing member 222 is a silicone ring. The support cover 142 abuts on the sealing member 222 to form a sealed cooking space and prevent the leakage of hot air. The pot body assembly 20 further comprises a mounting ring 221 for fixing the sealing member 222 in a pressing mode, and the mounting ring 221 is fixed on the shell 22 through screws.

As shown in fig. 4 and fig. 5, an air outlet gap 140 for discharging cooling air is formed between the top cover 141 and the supporting cover 142. The top cover 141 has a plurality of legs 1411 extending downward and abutting on the supporting cover 142, and the legs 1411 are spaced from each other to form an air outlet 1412 between two adjacent legs 1411. The air outlet and the air outlet gap 140 are arranged for discharging cooling air.

Referring to fig. 4, the cooking container 21 forms a cooking cavity 210 different from a straight cylindrical cooking space of a conventional air fryer, and the side wall 211 of the cooking container 21 forms a circular arc-shaped inner surface to better guide hot air blown obliquely downward, so that the hot air has small resistance and impact force, is not easy to be disturbed, and has a stronger capability of guiding the circulation of the hot air, as shown by the arrows in fig. 4.

In this embodiment, the outer contour of the lid assembly 10 is a hemispherical surface, and the peripheral surface of the outer contour of the lid assembly 10 and the circumferential surface of the outer contour of the lid assembly 20 are located on the same spherical surface. Therefore, the outer contour of the whole air fryer is approximately spherical, and the air fryer is attractive and interesting in appearance. In order to avoid the problem that the space of the spherical bottom is narrow and difficult to use, and the height of the air fryer is increased at the same time, the bottom of the air fryer is arranged to be a plane, so that the outer contour of the air fryer is equivalent to the shape of the spherical bottom with a part of the spherical crown removed, and the plane bottom is provided with supporting legs for supporting the air fryer to be placed.

As can be seen from the above description of the specific embodiments, the present invention provides a cooking appliance 100, in which the lid assembly 10 includes a supporting lid 142 and a top lid 141, the supporting lid 142 is suitable for supporting the lid assembly 10 on the pot body assembly 20, the top lid 141 is disposed above the supporting lid 142, and the supporting lid 142 is transparent and suitable for observing the state of food in the cooking cavity 210; set up to transparent through supporting lid 142 that will support on pot body assembly 10 for when seeing through this transparent support lid 142 and observing in the culinary art chamber 210, can not receive sheltering from of hot-air component, transparent visual range is bigger, can promote the observation experience to food culinary art process.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the protection 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 protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A cooking appliance comprises a pot body assembly and a pot cover assembly, wherein the pot body assembly is covered on the pot body assembly and is provided with a cooking cavity, the pot cover assembly is provided with a hot air assembly for conveying hot air into the cooking cavity, and the hot air assembly comprises a heater and a fan for driving air to circulate; it is characterized in that the pot cover component comprises:

a support cover adapted to support the pot cover assembly on the pot body assembly; and

a top cover disposed above the support cover;

wherein, the support cover is transparent to be suitable for observing the food state in the cooking chamber.

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the support cover includes a support portion and a connection portion.

3. The cooking appliance of claim 2, wherein the connecting portion is configured to extend inwardly to connect the hot air assembly.

4. The cooking appliance of claim 3, wherein the hot air assembly includes a housing for housing the fan, the connection being secured to the housing.

5. The cooking appliance of claim 2, wherein the support is configured in an arc shape adapted to direct the flow of hot air into the cooking cavity.

6. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the top of the pan body assembly is provided with a seal that fits the rim of the support lid.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein an air outlet gap for discharging cooling air is formed between the top cover and the support cover.

8. The cooking appliance of claim 7, wherein the top cover has a plurality of legs extending downwardly and resting on a support cover; the support legs are arranged at intervals to form an air outlet between two adjacent support legs.

9. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the pan body assembly comprises a cooking container for holding food, the cooking container comprising a side wall and a bottom wall connected below the side wall, the side wall being a concave arc surface;

wherein the hot air assembly vents air towards the concave arc, the concave arc configured to direct hot air towards a bottom wall.

10. The cooking appliance of claim 9, wherein said bottom wall has air guide protrusions thereon adapted to guide the upward flow of hot air.