KR100908665B1 - Cooking device with semi function - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus having a semi-function, a rice barrel portion filled with rice inside the housing, a semi portion provided at the lower portion of the rice barrel portion for washing rice introduced from the rice barrel portion, and a lower portion of the semi portion In the cooking apparatus having a semi-function which is provided in the rice cooker part provided to cook; The semi part is a semi-pass through which the rice is filled in the rice container is filled and the discharge portion is formed in the bottom portion, the agitator is provided inside the semi barrel and mixing and stirring the rice injected from the rice barrel, the semi An upper inlet is provided with an inlet through which water for washing rice is introduced, and a lower outlet is provided with a discharge port for discharging rice water generated in the process of washing the rice, and is provided at the inlet to provide a semi-trough through the inlet. The solenoid valve for opening and closing the water introduced into the inside, the turbidity detection means for detecting the turbidity of the rice water generated in the process of washing the rice, and the rice water inside the semi-cylinder provided in the outlet Characterized in that consisting of a solenoid valve for controlling the discharge of.

According to the present invention, when washing the rice to cook rice, it is possible to properly use the required amount of water required for washing the rice by detecting the washing state of the rice in real time, it is possible to precisely facilitate the input amount of the rice, etc. Automated and cooked reservations can be made, which makes it easy to use.

Semi, Rice, Rice Bucket, Rice Cooker

Description

Cooking device with semi function {cooking device having rice washing function}

1 is a perspective view showing for explaining the structure of a cooking device having a semi-function according to the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional view for explaining a cooking device having a semi-function according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view for explaining the fingering means according to the invention.

4 is a view showing a part of a control circuit for controlling the input of the semi-form according to the present invention.

5 is a view showing a part of a control circuit for controlling the input of the rice cooker according to the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawing ***

10: housing 100: rice barrel portion

200: semi section 210: semi section

220: burnt means 230: agitator

260: turbidity detection means 262: floodlight

264: light receiving sensor 300: rice cooker

310: rice cooker 330: carbon dioxide means

The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus having a semi-function, and more particularly, to a cooking apparatus having a semi-function for automating a series of functions to cook rice by feeding and washing rice after feeding.

In general, rice is a human staple food (主食) put rice in a certain amount of water and wash it, and then put it in a rice cooker of a certain capacity to add a heat source to steam the rice.

To cook rice like this, the rice is removed from the inside of the rice container having a certain storage capacity where the rice is stored, and the rice is put back into the water, and the rice is semi- 洗 (洗米). It was very cumbersome.

Of course, in order to solve such a problem, a fully automatic rice cooker has recently been disclosed, in which a rotary washing wing rotates when rice is input, washes the rice while the rice is automatically added to the rice cooker after a predetermined time, and then heats the rice. .

As an example, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2003-0010172 discloses a washing tub 98 for washing rice transferred through an outlet 10, a rice washing driving unit 85 for washing rice, and washed rice to a rice cooker. The washing tub opening and closing valve portion 86 to open and close the thing, the purified water supply unit 87, the wastewater discharge portion 88 connected to the lower washing tub, and the expansion and contraction of the lower washing tub 50 is fixed Semi-conveying corrugated pipe 56 and its driving unit 89, the lower washing tub 50 is formed on one side of the bottom surface of the hollow tube 59 for discharging the waste water washed is formed, the hollow The wastewater discharge pipe 58 is connected to the pipe 59 by a wastewater discharge opening / closing solenoid valve 57.

According to the above configuration, after the rice introduced through the discharge port 10 is introduced into the washing tub 98, the tap water is introduced through the water supply connection pipe 79 to drive and wash the rice washing driving unit 85 after The separate purified water is input through the purified water supply unit 87, and the rice is poured into the cooker unit 94 together with the washed rice to cook rice.

However, according to such a configuration, after the water is put into the washing tub 98 in the process of washing the rice, the rice washing driving unit 85 is driven by data previously input to the microprocessor, and the washing is completed. It is discharged by operating the solenoid valve 57, irrespective of the state of the rice is washed, the nutrients are all taken out by excessive washing in the case of high-quality rice, washing is not done properly in the case of low-quality rice Have

On the other hand, according to such a structure, the amount of added rice and the amount of water required for the washing due to the user inputs the required amount of rice into the discharge port 10 does not become a constant ratio, so this also does not wash smoothly, its use I have this troublesome problem.

In addition, even if the automatic control of such a series of cooking process is inconsistent, complete automatic automation is not achieved, the structure is also complicated and difficult to use.

 Therefore, to solve these problems, the object of the present invention is to wash the rice to cook rice in accordance with the washing state of the rice in real time to detect whether the washing has a structure that can be cleaned in a proper state It is to provide a cooking device having a function.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a cooking device having a semi-function having a structure that can be cooked by automatically adjusting the amount of rice according to the amount of the rice is automatically added to the input.

The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus having a semi-function;

A semi-function consisting of a rice barrel portion filled with rice in the housing, a semi portion provided at the bottom of the rice barrel portion for washing rice introduced from the rice barrel portion, and a rice cooker portion provided at the lower portion of the semi portion to cook rice. In the cooking apparatus having a; The semi part is a semi-pass through which the rice is filled in the rice container is filled and the discharge portion is formed in the bottom portion, the agitator is provided inside the semi barrel and mixing and stirring the rice injected from the rice barrel, the semi An upper inlet is provided with an inlet through which water for washing rice is introduced, and a lower outlet is provided with a discharge port for discharging rice water generated in the process of washing the rice, and is provided at the inlet to provide a semi-trough through the inlet. The solenoid valve for opening and closing the water introduced into the inside, the turbidity detection means for detecting the turbidity of the rice water generated in the process of washing the rice, and the rice water inside the semi-cylinder provided in the outlet Characterized in that consisting of a solenoid valve for controlling the discharge of.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, the cooking apparatus having a semi-function according to the present invention will be understood by the embodiments described in detail below.

1 is a perspective view illustrating the structure of the cooking apparatus having a semi function according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the cooking apparatus having a semi function according to the present invention. 4 is a cross-sectional view for explaining the gripping means according to the present invention, Figure 4 is a view showing a part of a control circuit for controlling the input of the semi-part according to the present invention, Figure 5 is a rice cooker input according to the present invention A part of a control circuit for controlling the circuit diagram is shown.

1 to 3, the cooking apparatus having a semi-function according to the present invention is provided with a rice barrel portion 100 is filled with rice in the housing 10, the lower portion of the rice barrel portion 100 is provided with the rice barrel The semi part 200 for washing rice introduced from the part 100 and the rice cooker part 300 provided at the lower part of the semi part 200 to cook rice are provided.

Hereinafter, each component will be described in more detail.

First, the front side of the housing 10 has a timer setting for setting the cooking time, the setting of the number of servings required when cooking, the setting of the necessary servings and the timer reset function, etc. The operation panel 20 is provided with a plurality of switches, the upper end of the housing 10 is provided with a lid 12 having a handle (12a) that can be opened and closed to replenish and insert the rice.

Meanwhile, a first door 201 capable of confirming the structure of the semi-permeable part 200 is provided at the center of the front surface of the housing 10, and inside the rice cooker part 300 at the lower front surface of the housing 10. A second door 301 is provided for carrying out a function of taking out or inserting the rice cooker 310 provided in the one side, and one side of the housing is provided with a power connection unit 400 for receiving external power.

The rice barrel portion 100 provided in the housing 10 is secured to a predetermined space portion (100a), the lower portion of the space portion (100a) is a structure to the upper and lower strait (上 鑛 河 峽) as the lower end of the The discharge hole 110 is formed.

On the other hand, below the space portion 100a, which is an inner space of the rice barrel portion 100, there is provided a limit switch LS2 which is a rice sensing means for detecting whether rice is filled in the space 100a. Therefore, when there is no rice inside the rice barrel portion 100, the limit switch LS2 is returned and the driving of the control circuit 30 is cut off as there is no rice.

In addition, the lower end of the discharge hole (100b) of the rice container portion 100 is provided with an solenoid valve (SV1) that is an opening and closing means for opening and closing the discharge hole (100b).

When the solenoid valve V1 is opened, the rice of the rice barrel part 100 is introduced into the semi part 200 through the discharge hole 100b.

Therefore, the solenoid valve SV1 is automatically discharged when a portion of rice, such as one serving, two servings, three servings, etc., which is put into the semi-bubble 200 is introduced into the semi-bubble 200. Blocking the 100b) prevents the rice inside the rice barrel part 100 from being introduced into the semi-bubble 200 anymore.

At this time, the limit switch (LSA, LSB) for detecting the opening and closing of the solenoid valve (V1) is provided to detect the opening and closing of the discharge hole (100b).

On the other hand, the semi-200 is in communication with the discharge hole (100b) of the rice barrel portion 100, a predetermined space portion 210a is formed and formed in a constant funnel shape at the bottom of the space portion 210a and the bottom It is composed of a semi-cylinder 210, the tubular discharge portion 212 is formed, and the support means 220 for elastically supporting the lower portion of the semi-cylinder 210.

The gripping means 220 is a structure in which a plurality of coil springs 221, 222, and 223 are divided and stacked by partition pieces 224 and 225. The upper coil spring 221 senses a fine weight, and the lower coil spring 223 is In order to detect heavy things, we use different elastic forces.

In this case, the gripping means 220 is mounted inside the hollow guide member 226, and the sliding bar 227 sliding along the inside of the guide member 226 on the uppermost coil spring 221. Is provided, the sliding bar 227 is provided integrally at the bottom of the semi-tong (210).

Inside the semi barrel 210 as described above is provided with a stirrer 230 for stirring the rice introduced from the rice barrel portion (100).

At this time, the stirrer 230 has a rotating shaft 234 provided vertically and vertically in the center of the semi-cylinder 210, a plurality of stirring blades 236 integrally provided on the rotating shaft 234, and the rotating shaft ( 234 is provided on the top of the motor 232 to provide a rotational force for rotating the rotating shaft 234.

Therefore, when the motor 232 is driven, the rotating shaft 234 is rotated thereby causing the stirring blade 236 to rotate to wash the rice.

At this time, the semi-container 210 is provided with an inlet port 240 into which water for washing rice is input at the upper side, and a discharge port 250 for discharging the rice water generated in the process of washing the rice at the lower side. The inlet 240 is provided with a solenoid valve V2 which is an opening / closing means for opening and closing water introduced into the semi-cylinder 210 through the inlet 240.

Therefore, in order to perform the washing process of the rice by opening the solenoid valve (V2) to discharge the water is introduced into the semi-bucket (210) to wash the rice or is added as rice water.

In this case, a turbidity detection means 260 for detecting the turbidity of the rice water generated in the process of washing the rice is provided in the outlet 250 of the semi-cylinder 210, the outlet 250 There is a mesh 251 is provided to prevent the rice from exiting through the outlet (250).

Such turbidity detection means is composed of a light transmitting lamp 262 for emitting light and a light receiving sensor 264 for detecting the light generated from the light emitting lamp 262, turbidity when the rice water passes through the outlet 250 In one case, the light receiving sensor 264 does not detect this, and in the case of clear water, the light receiving sensor 264 may detect this.

Therefore, when the light receiving sensor 264 constituting the turbidity detecting means detects the light of the floodlight lamp 262, it functions as a detecting means for stopping the washing function.

On the other hand, the discharge portion 212 of the semi-container 210 is provided with a solenoid valve (V3) to wash the rice or maintain a closed state in a general situation, after washing the rice and put into the cooker unit 300 Only open it. At this time, the discharge port 250 is also provided with a solenoid valve (V6) is low when the concentration of the rice water detected by the turbidity detection means 260 is closed when the cleaning is completed.

In addition, on the inner wall surface of the semi-200 (200) detects when the rice of the rice barrel portion 100 is put into the semi-bucket 210, a plurality of rice input quantity detection means in order to detect how many servings Limit switches LS200 are arranged in sequence.

When the rice is introduced into the semi-container 210 by such a configuration, the rice is lowered by the weight of the semi-container 210 and the plurality of limit switches LS200 are sequentially contacted to reduce the input amount of the rice. It can be detected.

On the other hand, the rice cooker unit 300 is provided with a rice cooker 310, the rice cooker support hole 320 to be moved up and down.

At this time, the rice cooker support hole 320 is provided with a stopper means 330 in the lower portion of the body 312 of the plate shape in which the rice cooker 310 can be placed.

In addition, the upper portion of the rice cooker support 320, the rice cooker support plate sliding in a horizontal state in the direction of the second door 301 to smoothly move the rice cooker 310 when the second door 301 is opened. 314 is provided. Accordingly, the rice cooker support plate 314 may be moved back and forth in the horizontal direction to easily remove the rice cooker 310 to the outside or to be put into the rice cooker unit 300.

In addition, the rice cooker 310 is a known electric rice cooker using the conductive heat generated from the heating element when the electricity is put, the upper portion is provided with a lid 311.

In this case, the lid 311 is hinged to the end of the piston rod 313a while the piston rod 313a is moved back and forth by the operation of the cylinder 313 fixed to the inside of the rice cooker 300, the lid 311 ) Is automatically configured to open and close, which can be configured to switch in a variety of ways according to the intention of the designer, in particular is a configuration that is controlled by the control signal of the control circuit (30). Of course, the opening and closing method of the lid 311 may be adopted by the solenoid method instead of the cylinder method.

 Therefore, when the rice and rice washed in the semi-200 200 is the lid is opened, the lid is kept closed while washing the rice or while cooking rice.

The upper portion of the lid 311 is provided with a seam discharge port 309 for discharging the seaweed generated when cooking rice, which is a structure capable of discharging seaweed to the outside of the housing (10).

On the other hand, the gripping means 330 is a structure in which a plurality of coil springs (331, 332, 333) are divided and laminated by the partition pieces (334, 335), the upper coil spring 331 detects a fine weight, the lower coil spring 333 ) Uses different elastic forces to detect heavy things.

In this case, the gripping means 330 is mounted inside the hollow guide member 336, and the sliding bar 337 sliding along the inside of the guide member 336 on the uppermost coil spring 331. Is provided, the sliding bar 337 is provided integrally at the bottom of the semi-tong (210).

When the rice cooker support 320 is lowered by the weight of the rice and the sum of the weight of the rice cooker required to make rice using the rice washed by the semi-bubble 200 by such a configuration, the rice cooker unit ( The solenoid valve according to the detection signal of the limit switch LS300 due to the weight of water and rice which is in contact with the limit switch LS300 provided at the side of 300 and is introduced from the upper one side inlet 240 of the semi-part 200. V2) is opened and closed.

At this time, the holding means 220 and 330 of the semi-200 and the rice cooker 300 is preferably configured by applying an electronic balance that can adjust a minute amount instead of using a coil spring made of a multilayer.

Hereinafter, an operation process of the cooking apparatus having a semi function according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

The user selects a time zone for cooking by adjusting the timer T, and selects various servings such as 1,2,3 servings by operating the selection switch SW2.

After selecting in this way, when the reservation time by the timer T or the operation of the selection switch SW2 and the operation switch SW1 is operated, electric current is input to the limit switch LS2 and the relay R1, and a contact relay R1-a is carried out. ) Is driven so that the solenoid valve (V1) is driven to open the bottom discharge hole (100b) of the rice container unit 100 to inject rice.

At this time, when the solenoid valve V1 is opened and fully open, the limit switch LSA, which is a contact point b, is short-circuited and the relay R1 is returned so that the contact point relays R1-a are also returned to operate the solenoid valve V1. Will stop.

In this case, when there is rice, the limit switch LS2 of the rice barrel part 100 is turned on by the weight of the rice, and in the state without the rice, the limit switch LS2 is turned off. It will not work.

On the other hand, when the solenoid valve (V1) is opened and the rice is injected into the semi-bucket 210 of the semi-bubble 200, the semi-bucket 210 is gradually lowered by its own weight, which is detected by the limit switch LS200 When the limit switch LS200 corresponding to the set serving is turned on, the DC power is supplied to the relays R2 and R3 to be turned on. When power is supplied to the relay R2, the contact b of the relay R2 is turned on to drive the solenoid valve V1 to close the discharge hole 100b of the rice container part 100.

At this time, when the limit switch LSB detects that the solenoid valve V1 is completely closed, the relay R2 is cut off to stop the operation of the solenoid valve V1 to maintain the closed state.

Then, after the operation of the solenoid valve V1 is stopped, power is supplied to the relay R3, and if the c contact of the relay R3 is turned on, the motor 232, the solenoid valve V2, and the floodlight 262 are turned on. The power supply 70 is turned on.

Therefore, as the motor 232 is driven to rotate the stirring blade 236, the rice is mixed and rubbed with water introduced due to the opening of the solenoid valve V2, thereby washing the rice.

On the other hand, if the turbidity of the rice discharged through the outlet 250 during the washing process of the rice is detected by the light receiving sensor 264 and the rice is determined to be washed, by opening the solenoid valve (V3) to wash the washed rice It is put into the inside of the rice bowl (310). In this case, the solenoid valve V2 of the inlet opening 240 is also opened so that the water is put into the rice cooker and the rice cooker support 320 that supports the rice bowl by the weight of water and rice necessary to cook rice is provided on one side. Press the limit switch LS300. In this case, when the limit switch LS300 corresponding to the corresponding fraction is turned on, the relay R4 is driven so that the power supplied to the relay R3 is cut off, and thus the motor 232, the solenoid valve V2, and the floodlight are turned on. The input of power 70 to the lamp 262 is also cut off.

At this time, when the power supply of the relay (R4) is turned on, power is supplied to the electric rice cooker 310 of the known (public) to start cooking.

On the other hand, the circuit configuration shown in Figures 4 and 5 is only one embodiment and may be configured as a control circuit using a microcomputer as needed, but various modifications are possible, but the technical scope of the present invention It is to be understood that all within the technical scope.

In addition, the control circuit 30 may be operated in conjunction with a home network system (not shown), and by such a configuration, it is possible to make reservations and drive using a remote controller or a telephone in the home, and It is also desirable to configure the phone to perform a scheduled task.

As described above, embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the scope of the present invention extends to the range substantially equivalent to the embodiments of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, when washing rice to cook rice, there is an advantage that can properly use the required amount of water required to wash the rice by detecting the washing state of the rice in real time.

In addition, it is possible to precisely encourage the input amount of rice, etc. Thereby, there is an advantage that it is convenient to use because it is possible to make a complete automation and reservation of rice.

Claims (5)

A rice barrel portion 100 is filled with rice in the housing 10, and a semi-200 for washing the rice introduced from the rice barrel portion 100 is provided in the lower portion of the rice barrel portion 100, and In the cooking device having a semi-function which is provided in the lower portion of the semi-200 to cook rice 300 is provided to cook; The semi part 200 is; The semi-container 210 is formed inside the semi-container 210 and the semi-container 210a is formed with a space portion 210a filled with the rice introduced from the rice container unit 100 and a discharge part 212 formed therein. An agitator 230 for mixing and stirring the rice introduced from the rice container unit 100 and an inlet port 240 into which water for washing rice is introduced is provided on the upper side of the semi-container 210, and the rice is washed on the lower side. The discharge port 250 for discharging the rice water generated in the process is provided, provided in the inlet 240 is provided with an solenoid valve for opening and closing the water introduced into the semi-container 210 through the inlet 240 (V2), turbidity detection means for detecting the turbidity of the rice water generated in the process of washing the rice (260), and provided in the discharge port 250, the rice inside the semi-container (210) A solenoid valve V6 for controlling discharge of the hot water; The rice cooker 300 is; A rice cooker 310 that receives rice introduced from the discharge unit 212 of the semi-container 210 and cooks rice, and a rice cooker support 320 that is provided at a lower portion of the rice cooker to move up and down, and the rice cooker support. It has a semi-function, characterized in that the support means for supporting elastically provided in the lower portion of the sphere 320 and a plurality of limit switches (LS300) for detecting this when the cooker support port 320 is lowered Kitchenware. The method of claim 1, The turbidity detecting means 260 is provided in the discharge port 250, and comprises a light emitting lamp 262 for emitting light, and a light receiving sensor 264 for detecting the light generated by the light emitting lamp 262 Kitchenware with a semi-function to say. The method of claim 1, The semi-cylinder 210 has a predetermined space portion (210a) is formed in a lower portion of the shape of a funnel, the bottom of the tubular shape discharge portion 212 is formed, the lower portion of the semi-cylinder 210 The tungsten means 220 is elastically supported so that the semi-tong is lifted, the rice input amount sensing means for detecting the input amount of rice when the semi-bucket 210 is lowered inside the semi-bubble 200 is further provided. Cooking device having a semi-function, characterized in that. The method of claim 3, wherein The rice input amount detecting means is a cooking device having a semi-function, characterized in that consisting of a plurality of limit switches (LS200) for detecting when the semi-bucket 210 is lowered. delete

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