KR20180100806A - Automatic Smart Rice Cooker System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic smart rice cooker for automatically washing and cooking rice and, more specifically, relates to an automatic smart rice cooker system capable of cooking rice by automatically moving rice or cereal from a rice container to a washing container and washing the rice or cereal and then moving the washed rice or cereal into a rice cooker. Through the system, a user is able to optionally set an amount, state, and time for cooking rice to be needed and the entire rice cooking process is automatic to improve personnel efficiency. Also, since every state of the process is outputted through a display, the user is able to efficiently use time by predicting a cooking completion time. Since purified water used for the present invention is compatible with a conventional water purifier, redundant purchase is unnecessary, and moreover, the entire process is simplified to minimize errors of the whole system.

Description

Automatic Smart Rice Cooker System {Automatic Smart Rice Cooker System}

More particularly, the present invention relates to a fully automatic smart rice cooker which automatically feeds, rinses, and cooks rice, and more specifically, rice or rice grains are put into a rinse barrel in a rice barrel and automatically cleaned. And finally, the rice is completed.

Rice is an important agricultural product worldwide with barley and wheat. About 92% of the world's total production is produced in many Asian countries, most of which are consumed by Asian people. Korea is one of the major producers of rice, and rice is a stock of Koreans.

Archeologists are studying the origins of rice cultivation. In the world, it is said that rice was cultivated in India from 7,000 to 5,000 BC, and China in about 5,000 BC. It is known to have come from China around 2,000 BC. This fact can be inferred from carbon isotopic dating and other archaeological evidence of carbonized rice or rice discovered in prehistoric sites.

Before rice was introduced to Korea, rice (rice, millet, millet, barley, wheat, etc.) was used as a stock, but rice became a big part of our dietary life as rice production increased from the North and South Korea , And began to lower their roots. After that, rice was introduced into the center of the meal and the diet of rice. Since then, the political, economic and agricultural technological position of rice in Korea has been very clear.

Rice was recognized as a noble food only until the fifth and sixth centuries. According to the type of stocks of Unification Silla, the North was Joe, the South was Barley, and the Noble was rice. In the Goryeo period, rice became a standard of price and became a valuable asset for salaries. Although the production of rice did not reach the peak, it gradually became more popular than the rice paddies and became known as the representative of the grains since it entered the Joseon Dynasty. As a method of using rice, rice was used as everyday food from grain from old days, and rice cake was made by making powder as a meal and used as a farewell ceremony for a holiday or a ceremony.

In general, people who use rice as a stock have to cook rice every time they eat because the preservation time of the rice is not long and there is a fear that the taste may change or become over time as time goes by. So at home, the rice was taken out of the rice cask where the rice or the grains were kept, washed by hand, cooked in the rice cooker, and cooked.

In the act of making such rice, there is a problem that it is troublesome to wash the rice or the grain of necessary amount by hand beforehand, to put it in the rice cooker and heat it, or to put it into the electric rice cooker and wait for the rice to be completed.

As a prior art related to a system for automatically cleaning rice and cooking rice as described above, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0581205 discloses a system for controlling the amount of rice, the state of rice, and the cooking time, , A small automatic rice cooker system configured to automatically perform all the processes from the input of rice to the washing and the cooking of rice is disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1152273, A rice cooker for washing rice with a rice cooker, and a washing function for automatically washing rice cooked rice after the rice is cooked, and also discloses a fully automatic electric pressure cooker disclosed in Korean Registered Utility Model Registration No. 20-0442156, Water purifier, electric pressure rice cooker This automatic device is integrated, and when the button on function control part is selected, rice and water are pressed In the cooker it is automatically disclosed to the automatic cooking apparatus for automatically cooking connection.

However, the above-mentioned prior arts are intended to make the rice making process easier by not mechanically washing the rice or the cereal by hand, but these prior arts have a burden on the structure complexity and high manufacturing costs In addition, the quality of rice in terms of perfection was low.

The present invention solves and solves the problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a water purifier and rice cooker for storing rice or grains, The purpose of this system is to provide a smart automatic rice cooker system that automatically receives rice cooked when a command is issued and automatically rinses rice or grains to be fed into a rice cooker, and automatically supplies rice with water purified according to the amount of rice cooked.

As a solution to the problem of the automatic smart rice cooker system of the present invention, it is possible to measure the amount of rice or rice grains separated by the partition 24 in the inside thereof, A rice supply valve 21 located at the innermost lowermost end of the sensor unit 23 and capable of being opened and closed by a signal and a rice feed port 21 for moving rice or grains through a free fall at the lower end of the rice feed valve 21 And a rice water supply valve 32 is formed at the upper left side of the rice water supply valve 32 so as to supply washing water And a motor 33 is provided at the center upper end to rotate the cleaning rod 34 inside and a drain valve 38 and a drain port 39 for discharging water washed with rice are formed at the lower end, To be opened / closed by a signal A washing tub 30 including a washing rice feed valve 36 having a washing rice feed valve 36 and a washing rice feed port 37 through which the rice washed through the washing rice feed valve 36 freely falls and moves, The cleaning water is supplied to the valve 32 through the purified water supply port 53 and the purified water supply valve 54 which can be opened and closed at the side of the cleaning rice supply port 37 is formed, An inner pot (12) in which water supplied from the water purifier (50) is placed and rice pots or rice grains introduced through the washing rice feed port (37) And a diaphragm 13 disposed at the lower end of the inner pot 12 to generate vibration in the inner pot 12 to uniformly spread the rice or the grains and the purified water. And controls the rice cooker 10, the rice cylinder 20, the cleaning cylinder 30, and the water purifier 50 A main body 1 including a controller 60 and a display 61 for outputting a current state and a state of bobbing so that the user can visually recognize the state.

The present invention allows the user to arbitrarily set the amount of rice required by the user, the state of the rice, and the time at which the rice is completed, and the entire process of building the rice is automatically performed, Since all the states of the process are outputted, the time of completion of the rice can be predicted and the user's time can be efficiently used. The integer inputted to the present invention can be compatible with the existing water purifier, The error of the entire system can be minimized.

1 is a front view of a fully automatic smart rice cooker system according to the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a fully automatic smart rice cooker system according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of known functions or configurations related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention A detailed description thereof has been omitted.

The following terms are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, and these may be changed according to the intention of the user, the operator, or the like. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

1 is a front view of a fully automatic smart rice cooker system, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a fully automatic smart rice cooker system.

1 and 2,

A sensor part 23 separated by a partition 24 to store rice or grains therein, a sensor part 23 capable of detecting the amount of rice or grains moving to the lower part at the lower end of the inner part, And a rice feed port 22 for feeding rice or rice grains through a free fall to the lower end of the rice feed valve 21 and a rice feed pipe And a washing water supply valve 32 is provided at the upper left corner to supply washing water. A motor 33 is provided at the upper center of the washing water supply valve 32, A drainage valve 38 and a drainage port 39 for discharging water washed with rice are formed at the lower end of the washing tub 34 and a washing rice supply valve 36 which can be opened and closed by a signal is formed at the lower end , And is washed through the washing rice feed valve (36) The washing water is supplied to the washing tub 30 including the washing rice feed port 37 and the washing water feed valve 32 through the purified water feed port 53 and the washing rice feed port A water purifier 50 for forming a purified water supply valve 54 capable of opening and closing on the side of the washing rice supply port 37 and supplying purified water through the purified water supply port 53, A rice cooker lid 11 positioned at the upper end of the inner pot 12 to cover the inner pot 12 and an inner pot supplied from the water purifier 50; And a diaphragm 13 for generating the rice or the juice and the water to spread evenly in the rice cooker 10 and the rice cooker 10, the rice bowl 20, the washing bowl 30, and the water purifier The control unit 60 for controlling the current state and the state of bobbing can be visually recognized by the user It consists of a body (1) including a display (61) for locking the output.

Rice or grains are filled in the rice bins 20 whose inside is separated by the partition 24 and the shape of the rice bins 20 becomes narrower toward the lower end so that rice or grains filled in the rice bins 20 So that it can move downward naturally.

Also, the rice bins 20 can be filled with rice without the partition 24 or with one or more partitions 24 to fill the rice and more than one grain.

The user operates the fully automatic smart rice cooker system of the present invention through wired or wireless communication by directly touching the display 61 or using a portable device such as a smart phone from the outside. At this time, it is possible to make a reservation by controlling the completion time of the rice, and to operate the rice immediately.

You can choose whether you want to cook a few pieces of rice, and you can choose whether to cook rice or mix rice grains.

When the user completes all the settings and finally issues a cook command, the rice supply valve 21 is opened to allow the rice or grain filled in the rice bins 20 to freely fall through the rice feed port 22 and be introduced into the wash basin 30 .

At this time, the sensor unit 23 inside the rice bins 20 catches the flow of rice or grains and falls downward to sense the amount of rice or grains to be introduced into the wash basin 30. Thus, when rice or grains are fed into the washing tub 30 as much as the amount of rice that the user has input for the first time, the rice feeding valve 21 is closed so that the rice is no longer fed into the washing tub 30.

When the rice or grain is put into the washing tub 30 and the rice supply valve 21 is closed as described above, the purified water in the water purifier 50 moves along the purified water supply port 53 and the washing water supply valve 32 is opened And then is introduced into the washing tub 30.

The amount of water purified in the water purifier 50 differs depending on the amount of rice or grains introduced into the washing tub 30. When the washing tub 30 is filled with rice or water and purified water, So that no more purified water is injected.

The motor 33 located at the outer upper end of the cleaning tub 30 operates to rotate the cleaning rod 34 inside the cleaning tub 30 and the cleaning rod 34 rotates while rotating inside the cleaning tub 30 And rinses while rubbing with rice or grains.

The washing rod 34 is rotated to wash the rice or the grain for 2 to 4 minutes and the drain valve 38 is opened to drain the rice or the washed water through the drain 39. At this time, it is possible to additionally provide a mesh network to the drain valve 38 so that very small rice or grain can not be drained with the water through the drain hole 39.

When the rice or the washed water is drained, the drain valve 38 is locked, and the purified water in the water purifier 50 moves along the purified water supply port 53 to open the wash water supply valve 32, And is introduced into the cylinder 30. Then, the motor 33 is operated to rotate the cleaning rod 34 inside the cleaning tub 30, and the cleaning is performed while striking the rice or the grain inside the cleaning tub 30.

This washing process is carried out two to four times depending on the amount of rice.

When the washing process is completed, the drain valve 38 is locked, and the purified water in the water purifier 50 is introduced into the washing tub 30 through the purified water supply port 53. At this time, The amount of rice or the amount of water that has been poured into the washing tub 30 from the first rice barrel 20 and the amount of water that has been thus purified is determined, do.

The washed rice or grains and purified water are introduced into the inner pot (12) of the rice cooker (10) through the washing rice feed port (37) while the washing rice feed valve (36) is opened. When the washed rice or the granulated water and the purified water are all introduced into the inner pot 12, the washing rice supply valve 36 is closed.

When the rice or the like and the purified water as described above are all put into the inner pot 12 of the rice cooker 10, the diaphragm 13 at the lower outer end of the inner pot 12 vibrates for 10 seconds to 30 seconds, (12) itself. This is to uniformly spread the washed rice or the granules put into the inner pot 12 so that the rice is well built.

After the diaphragm 13 operates to transmit the vibration to the inner pot 12 as described above, the controller 60 confirms whether the lid 11 is completely closed and closed. The rice cooker 10 is operated.

All of the above operations are controlled by the control unit 60. When it is confirmed that the preceding process is completed and finished, the next process starts. At this time, if one process is proceeding beyond the average operation time, the control unit 60 causes the current process to be restarted for 2 to 3 times in order to detect the error, and if the process does not proceed to the next process, And outputs an error indication to the display 61 or an error indication to the user's portable device.

When the rice is completed, the cooked rice can be taken out from the inner pot 12, and the inner pot 12 is cleaned and placed inside the rice cooker 10, so that the fully automatic smart rice cooker system of the present invention can be restarted.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. Anything having substantially the same constitution as the technical idea described in the claims of the present invention and achieving the same operational effect is included in the technical scope of the present invention.

1. Body
10. Rice cooker
11. Rice cooker lid
12. Inner pot
13. Diaphragm
20. Rice
21. Rice supply valve
22. Rice feeder
23. Sensor unit
24. Partition
30. Wash tub
32. Wash water supply valve
33. Motor
34. Cleaning Rod
36. Wash rice supply valve
37. Washing rice supply port
38. Drain valve
39. Sewer
50. Water Purifier
53. Water supply port
60. The control unit
61. Display

Claims (5)

A sensor part 23 separated by a partition 24 to store rice or grains therein, a sensor part 23 capable of detecting the amount of rice or grains moving to the lower part at the lower end of the inner part, And a rice feed port (22) for moving rice or rice grains through a free fall to the lower end of the rice feed valve (21);
And a washing water supply valve 32 for opening and closing the washing water supply valve 32 is provided at the left upper end to supply washing water and a motor 33 A drain valve 38 and a drain port 39 for discharging water washed with rice are formed at the lower end of the cleaning rod 34 and a washing rice supply / A washing tub 30 including a valve 36 and a washing rice feed port 37 through which the washed rice is freely dropped and moved through the washing rice feed valve 36;
A water purifier 50 for supplying wash water to the wash tub 30 through a wash water supply valve 32 and a purified water supply port 53;
A rice cooker lid 11 positioned at the upper end of the rice cooker lid 11 to cover the inner pot 12; A rice cooker 10 positioned at the lower end of the inner pot 12 to generate vibration in the inner pot 12 and to divert the rice or grain and water evenly;
A controller 60 for controlling the rice cooker 10, the rice cylinder 20, the cleaning cylinder 30, and the water purifier 50,
And a main body (1) including a display (61) for outputting a current state and a state of the rice so that the user can visually recognize the state. The method according to claim 1,
The rice cooker 10 senses the presence of rice or grains and water in the control unit 60 to operate the diaphragm 13 to flatten the rice or the rice put in the inner pot 12 and start cooking rice Features a fully automatic smart rice cooker system. The method according to claim 1,
The sensor unit 23 may be further configured to check the amount of rice or grains inside the rice bins 20 moving through the rice feed port 22 and the amount of rice or grain within the rice bins 20, The amount of rice or grain in the display 61 is controlled and the one or more partitions 24 are provided in the inside of the rice bins 20 by controlling the opening and closing of the rice supply valve 21 on the basis of the data And further storing different types of rice or grains at the same time. The method according to claim 1,
The rice or grain moved through the rice feed port 22 and the wash water feed valve 32 are opened in the wash tub 30 to collect the wash water supplied through the purified water supply port 53 to be supplied to the cleaning rod 34 , The washing process is performed for 2 to 4 minutes, the drain valve 38 is opened, and the washing process for discharging all the washing water is started, and the washing process is performed 2 to 4 times Automatic smart rice cooker system. The method according to claim 1,
The water purifier 50 may further include a connection member formed on the inside of or outside the main body 1 and further connected to the purified water supply port 53 so as to connect another water purifier not included in the main body 1 Features a fully automatic smart rice cooker system.

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