EP3728955B1 - Gargerät mit einer spezifisch ausgebildeten katalysatoreinrichtung sowie verfahren zur herstellung eines gargeräts - Google Patents

Gargerät mit einer spezifisch ausgebildeten katalysatoreinrichtung sowie verfahren zur herstellung eines gargeräts Download PDF

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EP3728955B1
EP3728955B1 EP18807978.4A EP18807978A EP3728955B1 EP 3728955 B1 EP3728955 B1 EP 3728955B1 EP 18807978 A EP18807978 A EP 18807978A EP 3728955 B1 EP3728955 B1 EP 3728955B1
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Belen DIAZ BENITO
Gerhard Schmidmayer
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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    • F24C15/20—Removing cooking fumes
    • F24C15/2007—Removing cooking fumes from oven cavities
    • F24C15/2014—Removing cooking fumes from oven cavities with means for oxidation of cooking fumes

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  • the invention relates to a cooking appliance with a catalyst device which has a base unit made of an electrically conductive material. A large number of catalytically active elements or a catalytically active surface coating is arranged on this material.
  • the cooking appliance also has an electrical energy unit with which the base unit can be supplied with electrical energy for self-heating of the catalyst device.
  • the base unit has electrical connection areas for connecting the electrical energy unit.
  • the invention also relates to a method for producing a cooking appliance.
  • vapors or smells occur during operation and thus when food is being prepared. These occur during the preparation process of the food in the cooking space and are removed from the cooking space.
  • the same can also be provided for a cooking appliance which has a pyrolysis operation, and corresponding smells can also occur in such a pyrolysis operation. Since these exhaust gases, referred to as vapor streams, are also passed out of the cooking appliance, they also get into the vicinity of the cooking appliance and thus into kitchen areas or living areas.
  • catalyst devices are used in a cooking appliance.
  • this is from the EP 1790910 A2 as well as the EP 2093490 A1 known.
  • the EP 2 093 490 A1 describes an oven with an exhaust gas cleaning arrangement, which has a filter element made of a gas-permeable, electrically conductive Comprises silicon carbide material and a power supply structure for self-heating of the filter element.
  • a filter element made of a gas-permeable, electrically conductive Comprises silicon carbide material and a power supply structure for self-heating of the filter element.
  • the document discloses the features of the preamble.
  • the self-heating is limited because the connection options for the electrical energy unit are limited, so that the electrical energy transmission is possibly only possible to a limited extent.
  • the object of the present invention is to create a cooking device and a method in which the electrical energy supply to a catalytic converter of the cooking device is improved.
  • the catalyst device has a base unit made of an electrically conductive material. A large number of catalytically active elements or a catalytically active surface coating is applied to this electrically conductive material, the catalytically active elements or the surface coating also being part of the catalyst device.
  • the cooking appliance also has an electrical energy unit with which the base unit can be supplied with electrical energy for self-heating of the catalyst device, in which the catalyst device is heated directly by the supply of electrical energy by the electrical energy unit to the base unit of the catalyst device.
  • the base unit of the catalytic converter device has electrical connection areas for connecting the electrical energy unit.
  • These electrical connection areas are at least partially formed by a pressed material area of the base unit and / or at least partially formed by a sub-area of the base unit, in the material of which an electrically conductive adhesive is additionally formed.
  • specific zones of this base unit namely precisely those areas to which the electrical energy unit is physically connected, improved.
  • these are designed to be mechanically more stable, on the other hand, the general connectivity is improved.
  • these configurations with a pressed material area and / or an area impregnated with electrically conductive adhesive in addition to the material area of the base unit makes it possible to transfer the electrical energy from the electrical energy unit to the base unit. This then also enables energy-efficient operation of the catalytic converter device and the losses of electrical energy are reduced.
  • the portion of the generated electrical energy can then also be transmitted more extensively and more directly to the base unit, so that the electrical energy unit can also be dimensioned smaller if necessary.
  • the electrical energy transfer to the base unit is improved through these specifically designed connection areas, self-heating is also made more efficient.
  • the base unit can thus advantageously be formed from a uniform, electrically conductive material, which then has locally individually different densities and a higher material density is produced in a defined manner precisely at the points that form the connection areas.
  • the alternative embodiment also has the advantages as mentioned above, because here the base unit can also be made from an advantageous electrically conductive material, which then no longer has to be processed with regard to an individual, dense production of this material, but this Material can then be supplemented with a completely defined other material, namely the electrically conductive adhesive, at specific local points. This also creates the higher material density compared to the rest of the area of the base unit and thus greater solidity in these areas, so that here too the higher mechanical stability and, in particular, the significantly improved transmission of electrical energy is then made possible in a very defined manner.
  • the base unit is formed from a foam body.
  • the electrically conductive material is thus advantageously a porous foam body.
  • Such a configuration significantly reduces the weight and the catalytic effect is significantly improved by the foam body, which then also has a significantly larger surface area than a solid body.
  • the individual processing of areas can then be achieved particularly advantageously, so that the pressed material areas can then also be produced in a particularly defined and compact manner.
  • This porous foam body is then so to speak impregnated with the adhesive or this adhesive also penetrates circumferentially into the porous structure of the foam body.
  • the foam body is pressed in the electrical connection areas and has a greater density than in the remaining area of the base unit.
  • the foam body is impregnated with the adhesive in the electrical connection areas and the adhesive is also applied to the surfaces of the foam body. This also enables the electrical contact to be made particularly advantageously and enables a very extensive transmission of the electrical energy with particularly low loss.
  • the electrical connection areas each have a solid contact plate made of an electrically conductive material.
  • This contact plate is thus embodied in particular without porosity and thus without porosity.
  • This design with the solid contact plate can be present in addition to the exemplary embodiments mentioned at the beginning. However, it can also be provided that only these solid contact plates are present in a further exemplary embodiment.
  • such a contact plate is non-detachable, in particular welded or soldered, to the base unit, in particular to a foam body of the base unit, in a non-destructive manner.
  • the base unit is made of metal.
  • this metal is an alloy.
  • the respective conditions can be dealt with in a particularly advantageous manner, in particular a comprehensive absorption of the transmitted electrical energy and a very fast heating up to relatively high temperatures are made possible.
  • alloys are relatively robust and wear-resistant, so that the functionality of the catalytic converter device is also permanently high.
  • the metal has nickel. Nickel is particularly advantageous in terms of the above advantages.
  • the material can preferably be NiCr and / or NiCrFe and / or NiFeCrAI and / or NiCrAI etc.
  • materials can be used which can be heated up to a temperature of at least 250 ° C.
  • the catalytic reaction is an exothermic reaction in which temperatures above 250 ° C and sometimes up to temperatures above 500 ° C can be reached. Such high temperatures are reached precisely during pyrolysis operation, so that the material of the base unit must also withstand these temperatures without problems and over the long term.
  • the materials from which the base unit is formed should also have a high electrical resistance.
  • the materials should have a correspondingly high heat capacity in order to be able to be heated on the basis of the Joule effect.
  • the materials should preferably also have a high thermal conductivity in order to be able to be heated very quickly.
  • the material of the base unit is designed with a correspondingly high porosity.
  • this material has different pore dimensions.
  • the contact between the catalytically active elements or the surface coating and the vapor flow from the cooking space is particularly effective, so that the catalytic effect can occur particularly advantageously.
  • such an open cell structure, which is given by the porosity also generates a turbulent air flow or vapor flow in the catalyst device, whereby the contact between the catalytically active elements or the corresponding surface coating and the vapor flow, in particular the molecules that cause the pollution or generate odor, is made possible.
  • the catalyst device is preferably designed as a flat cylinder. As a result, it can be used particularly advantageously in a channel of an exhaust air-conducting system of the cooking appliance and preferably also completely fill this flow cross-section. This achieves a particularly advantageous catalytic effect.
  • the cooking appliance preferably has an exhaust air duct with which an exhaust air flow generated in the cooking space during operation of the cooking appliance or a vapor flow can be discharged from the cooking appliance, the catalyst device being arranged in the exhaust air duct.
  • this catalytic converter unit can be heated directly via electrical energy.
  • the mode of operation of the catalytic converter device is significantly improved and, with regard to the catalytic effect, can be set very individually and in a defined manner. This has significant advantages compared to catalyst devices that are not heated directly via an electrical energy unit and are therefore not heated via an electrical energy supply, but rather, for example, via a hot exhaust air flow that is generated in the cooking appliance itself.
  • an improved temperature distribution in the catalytic converter device can also be achieved, so that, in particular, a more homogeneous temperature distribution also prevails.
  • heat is generated by the catalyst device itself, in particular due to the external reaction.
  • the electrical energy supply can then be reduced or even completely interrupted. This procedure is based on the Joule effect.
  • the base unit is thinner at the connection areas, especially when the material area is pressed there, compared to those material areas in which the base unit is otherwise formed and which do not represent connection areas for the electrical energy unit.
  • a pressed material area is formed on the edge side, so that a related thinning is formed on the edge side in a cross-sectional view of the base unit.
  • the base unit is formed with a base material, in particular a porous foam body, made of a metallic material and in which the electrically conductive adhesive is then optionally introduced, such an edge-side thinning can also be formed, but it can also be In such a configuration, the thickness of the base unit at these electrical connection areas can then be equal to the thickness of the base unit outside the electrical connection areas.
  • Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for producing a cooking device, in which the cooking device is designed with a catalyst device which has a base unit made of an electrically conductive material on which a plurality of catalytically active elements or a catalytically active surface coating of the catalyst device is arranged .
  • the cooking appliance is also designed with an electrical energy unit with which the base unit can be supplied with electrical energy for self-heating of the catalytic converter device, the base unit being designed with electrical connection areas for connecting the electrical energy unit.
  • the electric Connection areas are formed at least partially by pressing material areas of the base unit and / or at least partially an electrically conductive adhesive is applied to the base unit in order to produce the connection areas in a defined manner.
  • the base unit is formed from a porous foam body, wherein the foam body is pressed in the electrical connection areas and a greater density is thereby generated at the points that form the connection areas than in the remaining area of the base unit.
  • Advantageous embodiments of the cooking device are to be regarded as advantageous embodiments of the method, the respective components of the cooking device then be installed accordingly during manufacture in order to then also produce the corresponding effect in the cooking appliance.
  • top, bottom, front, bottom, horizontal, vertical, depth direction, “ width direction”, “ height direction” mean the positions and positions given when the device is used and arranged as intended Orientations indicated.
  • a cooking device 1 is shown in a vertical sectional view (the sectional plane is the height direction and the depth direction), which can be, for example, an oven or a microwave oven or a steam oven.
  • the cooking appliance 1 can also have some of these mentioned functionalities in common and / or can have a pyrolysis function.
  • the cooking appliance 1, which is thus designed for preparing food has a housing 2 in which a cooking space 3 is formed. Food can be introduced and prepared in the cooking space 3.
  • the cooking space 3 is delimited by walls of a muffle 4, which is received in the housing 2.
  • the muffle 4 has a loading opening 5, via which access to the receiving space or the cooking space 3 is made possible.
  • the cooking appliance 1 also has a door 6 which is arranged pivotably on the housing 2 and which is provided for closing the cooking space 3. In Fig. 1 the closed state is shown in this regard.
  • the cooking device 1 also has an exhaust air duct 7, via which vapor flows that are generated during operation of the cooking device 1 and occur in the cooking space 3 can be drained or diverted from the cooking space 3 and also from the cooking device 1.
  • a fan 8 is arranged in the exhaust air duct 7, which can be part of an air duct system, which in this regard can suck off the steam flow from the receiving space or the cooking space 3 and convey it further.
  • the exhaust air duct 7 has a discharge opening 9 on the front, in particular on a side facing the door 6, so that an air flow can be blown out via this discharge opening 9 towards the front, in particular through a gap 10.
  • the gap 10 is preferably formed between the door 6 and the housing 2, in particular an operating panel 11.
  • the cooking appliance 1 also has a catalytic converter device 12 with which the vapor flow can be catalyzed. In particular, this also ensures that undesired odors can escape from the cooking device 1 and thus the catalyst device 12 also quasi cleans this vapor flow, so that the air flow that flows after the catalyst device 12 and then flows out of the drain opening 9 out of the cooking device 1 , is odor-reduced or odorless in this regard.
  • the cooking appliance 1 also has an electrical energy unit 13 that is separate from the catalyst device 12.
  • the electrical energy unit 13 is electrically connected to the catalytic converter device 12, in particular via lines 14. By supplying electrical energy through the electrical energy unit 13 to the catalytic converter device 12, the catalytic converter device 12 can be heated directly.
  • the catalytic converter device 12 is formed in particular over the entire cross section of the exhaust air duct 7.
  • a catalytic converter device 12 in a schematic plan view.
  • the catalyst device 12 has a base unit 15, which here is advantageously formed by a porous foam body made of a metal foam.
  • a large number of catalytically active elements 16 or a catalytically active surface coating is applied to this base unit 15.
  • the base unit 15 which is cylindrical here, has electrical connection areas 17 and 18 formed on the edge.
  • the electrical energy unit 13 is electrically connected to these electrical connection areas 17 and 18, in particular via the lines 14. Both the position and the dimensions of the electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are only to be understood as examples.
  • the electrical connection areas 17 and 18 in the exemplary embodiment shown here are made of the same material as the rest of the configuration of the base unit 15.
  • the electrical Connection areas 17 and 18 are also formed here from a porous foam body made of metal.
  • these electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are pressed, so that a pressed material area of the porous foam body is present here, which thus has a greater density here than in the areas of the base unit 15 outside these electrical connection areas 17 and 18.
  • Fig. 3 is the catalyst device 12 along the section line III-III in Fig. 2 shown.
  • the dimensions of the electrical connection areas 17 and 18, viewed in the direction of the longitudinal axis A of the catalytic converter device 12, which are formed by the pressed material areas, are here thinner than the remaining area of the base unit 15.
  • a further exemplary embodiment of a catalytic converter device 12 is shown in a schematic sectional illustration.
  • This configuration is different from Fig. 3 it is provided that electrical connection areas 17 and 18 have an axial thickness which corresponds to the thickness of the remaining area of the base unit 15.
  • the electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are basically also formed by the porous foam body made of metal, which is also formed outside the electrical connection areas 17 and 18 in the base unit 15, these material areas then not being pressed or such are pressed that they nevertheless have a lower density than in the exemplary embodiment according to FIG Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 .
  • an electrically conductive adhesive 19 is introduced in order to define the zonal delimitation of the electrical connection areas 17 and 18, so that the porous foam body here is so to speak impregnated with this electrically conductive adhesive 19. As a result, electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are then formed. It can also be provided in this exemplary embodiment with the electrically conductive adhesive 19 that the defined electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are thinner in the axial direction than the remaining area of the base unit 15, that is to say are at least slightly pressed.
  • FIG. 5 A further exemplary embodiment of a catalytic converter device 12 is shown in a further schematic illustration.
  • the electrical connection areas 17 and 18 are formed by solid and thus quasi-pore-free contact plates 20 and 21.
  • they can be used in In addition to the embodiments three and four, it may also be provided in addition.
  • These contact plates 20, 21 are in particular welded to the foam body.

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