WO2006092084A1

WO2006092084A1 - A food container with doll’s expressions enable for displaying temperature

Info

Publication number: WO2006092084A1
Application number: PCT/CN2005/000328
Authority: WO
Inventors: Shaolin Cheu
Original assignee: Shaolin Cheu
Priority date: 2005-03-01
Filing date: 2005-03-17
Publication date: 2006-09-08
Also published as: CN1827012A

Abstract

A food container with doll's expressions enable for displaying temperature, it comprises: a food container body (10), which could contain food; a temperature sensing device (11), which measures the temperature of the food inside the food container or the food container body; and a temperature display device (12), which has different doll's expressions, for displaying the temperature of the food inside the food container or the food container body transmitted by the temperature sensing device. The present invention displays the temperature by the doll's expressions, so as to make the user know the temperature of the food container body or the food inside the food container, and thus the user can take the suitable actions, or adaptively adjust the temperature of the food.

Description

Food utensils showing temperature with doll expressions

The present invention relates to an edible vessel displaying the temperature in a doll's expression so that the user can clearly perceive the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the edible vessel body, and thereby take appropriate action, or appropriately adjust the temperature of the contents. Background technique

In daily applications, it is often necessary to know the temperature of the contents of the container. Traditionally, some electric heating utensils have to let the user know the temperature of the contents of the container during the heating process, so some have temperature display. The function. However, for non-electric heating utensils, there is no temperature display function. In a well-known case, a customer had been injured in a cup of high-temperature beverages, causing injuries to the organs in the mouth, and thus went to court, the drinker also paid a huge amount of compensation. Therefore, there are many drinks on the cup body. Please refer to the temperature of the beverage to avoid accidental drinking. Another situation is when feeding the baby, the temperature of the contents of the bottle is more needed to avoid unpredictable damage due to overheating or too cold. The problem is that none of these items can tell the temperature value of the drink.

Although there are temperature displays on some electric cooking utensils, the display method is often a simple digital display, which is quite rigid. Modern living requires a sense of design so that users can feel the joy of life, and it is obvious that the way the temperature is displayed on traditional food utensils needs to be improved. Summary of the invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide an edible vessel that displays the temperature in a doll's expression for the user The temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the edible vessel body can be clearly perceived, and accordingly appropriate actions can be taken, or the temperature of the contents can be appropriately adjusted.

The above object of the present invention is achieved by an edible utensil displayed by a doll expression display temperature, including

a food container body, the food container body contains contents,

a temperature sensing device sensing the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the body of the edible vessel;

A temperature display device having different doll expressions for displaying temperature for displaying the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the temperature of the edible vessel body conducted by the temperature sensing device.

The technical effect of the present invention is that by displaying the temperature of the doll's expression, the user can clearly perceive the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the edible vessel body, and thereby take appropriate actions, or appropriately adjust the temperature of the contents, and pass The vivid expressions presented by the dolls can give the user a full of fun.

The "food utensils showing the temperature of the doll's expression" of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, for the sake of convenience, some circuits belonging to the prior art are omitted in the drawings, such as displaying necessary circuits, and those circuits belonging to the prior art and capable of implementing the functions of the present invention are all within the scope of the present invention. . DRAWINGS

Figure 1 shows an edible vessel of the present invention showing the temperature in a doll's expression;

2A to 2D show 1⁄2曰L/ΐ and ^ measured by the temperature sensing device in various doll expressions;

Figure 3 shows the doll's expression plus a digital display of the temperature value. Fig. 4 is a view showing the circuit block structure of the edible vessel showing the temperature in the doll expression in the present invention; Fig. 5 shows an application example of the present invention in which a teapot heated on an induction cooker is shown. Fig. 6 shows a design of a flower-shaped doll having a ring-like petal according to the present invention to show temperature; Fig. 7 shows another embodiment of the present invention. detailed description

Referring to Fig. 1, in the present embodiment, a cup is described, but the edible vessel in the present invention is not limited to a cup, and may be other similar articles.

1 shows an edible vessel 1 for displaying temperature in a doll expression according to the present invention, comprising a food container body 10, which can contain contents 2; a temperature sensing device 11 for sensing edible utensils. a temperature of the contents of the body or the body of the edible vessel; a temperature display device 12 having a pattern for displaying the temperature for displaying the contents 2 of the edible vessel body 10 or the food service body 10 conducted by the temperature sensing device 11 Temperature; and a power source 13.

In the present invention, the edible vessel body 10 can be a cup body, a bowl body, a bottle body, a pot body or a basin.

In the present invention, the edible vessel body 10 can be an electrothermal food vessel body or a non-electrical food vessel body 10.

The temperature sensing device 11 in the present invention may be a chemical temperature sensing device, a mechanical temperature sensing device, a physical temperature sensing device, and an electronic temperature sensing device. The temperature sensing device can be mounted inside the food container 10 to sense the temperature of the contents 2 in the cup, or can be mounted outside the food container body 10 to sense the temperature of the food container body 10.

In the present invention, the power source can be a battery 13, such as a solar cell, or an external power source connected by a wire. As shown in FIG. 2, the display device 12 of the first embodiment of the present invention includes a doll 50. In this embodiment, the temperature measured by the temperature sensing device 11 is represented by the expression of the doll 50, as shown in FIGS. 2A-2D. It is shown that the expression of the doll 50 will vary from temperature to temperature. When the temperature exceeds the acceptable range, a very scared expression is displayed, as shown in Fig. 2A. When it is hot, there will be a sweaty expression, as shown in Figure 2B. When the temperature is appropriate, a very satisfactory expression is displayed, as shown in Fig. 2C. When the temperature is too cold, a frozen expression is displayed, as shown in Fig. 2D.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of dolls may be provided, respectively displaying different doll expressions in a bright manner, or electronically displaying different expressions on a single display screen in a single display manner. Indicates different temperatures.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the expression of the doll 50 can be supplemented by the display of temperature and degree. As in the embodiment of the figure, the doll 50 exhibits a hot expression and the temperature is also shown as 70 °C. At this time, the color of the play 50 can be expressed in warm colors (not shown in the figure). In this embodiment, the selection of the color may be a display temperature in a monochromatic gradation manner, for example, when displayed in a gray series, the low temperature may be displayed in white, and then the color gradually deepens to display different temperatures, when it is black. , it is high temperature. Or when the temperature is displayed in a different color, the low temperature is displayed in a cool color (such as white or blue), and the high temperature is displayed in a red color (such as red). In the present invention, when the temperature is displayed by light, the temperature can be displayed in different light colors, and the manner includes the above-described manner of displaying the color. However, in the present invention, the light color can also be displayed by the intensity of the light, such as displaying the high temperature with strong light, Low light shows low temperatures. It is also possible to display the temperature by applying the combination of the intensity of light and the difference in color.

Although the first embodiment of Figs. 2 and 3 illustrates an example of the present invention with a human doll. However, the dolls in the present invention may also be other non-human dolls, such as various cartoon shapes, such as dogs, cats, and the like. It can even be displayed as a physical image of the photo.

As shown in FIG. 7, when the temperature is explicitly displayed by sound, that is, when the user presses a button 15, The sound of the temperature value is emitted by a voice integrated circuit 16 so that the user can know the temperature of the contents or the body of the food container. This method can also be used in combination with other methods. In an embodiment of the invention, the edible vessel body includes a cover 16 on which the temperature display device 12 is mounted to facilitate viewing of the temperature by the user.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the display device may include an alert function. When the temperature is outside the set range, the display device sends an alert signal to alert the user that the temperature is abnormal, and the alert signal may be glare or The way the sound is expressed.

4 is a circuit block diagram showing the structure of an edible vessel displaying temperature in a doll expression in the present invention, wherein the temperature sensing device 11 senses the temperature, and transmits the sensing result to a conversion circuit 31 to convert it into a desired light. , sound, color, or digital signal. An expression determining unit 22 includes an expression temperature comparison table, and determines the expression of the doll according to the input temperature value (that is, the doll expression value is obtained by mapping). A display device 12, a corresponding doll image for the temperature that is explicitly indicated. If it is displayed for sound, the circuit also includes a speaker 41 to emit a sound. When the warning function is included, the circuit further includes a warning circuit 51 to determine whether the temperature value is in the warning range, so as to provide an alarm signal to the user.

An application example of the present invention is shown in Fig. 5, in which a teapot 81 heated on an induction cooker 80 is shown, and an electronic circuit can be used to assist a simple display interface to control the movement of the eyes and mouth of the teapot, supplemented by temperature display. Therefore, the price constitutes a vivid pattern.

Fig. 6 shows another embodiment of the present invention, wherein the method of displaying the temperature in the temperature display device 12 of the present invention may also be a non-animal doll, as in the present example, a flower-shaped doll having a ring-shaped petal.

By the user of the device of the present invention, the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel body or the food container body can be clearly perceived, so that appropriate actions can be taken or the temperature of the contents can be appropriately adjusted. And the doll can present a vivid expression, and the user is thus full of interest.

Claims

Claim

1. An edible utensil displayed by a doll expression temperature display, comprising:

a food container body, the contents of the food container body;

2. An edible vessel displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein the display means comprises a doll, the expression of which is indicative of the temperature measured by the temperature sensing means.

3. The edible utensil for displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein the food container body is one of an electrothermal food container body and a non-electrothermal food container body.

4. The edible vessel displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of dolls are provided, and different doll expressions are respectively displayed in a bright manner.

5. An edible vessel displaying temperature in a doll expression as claimed in claim 1, wherein for a single display screen, different expressions are displayed on a single display screen to indicate different temperatures.

6. The edible vessel displaying the temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein the doll is presented in a physical image.

7. The edible utensil for displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein the doll's appearance is supplemented by numbers, different colors, light, hands, and sounds.

8. The edible utensil according to claim 1, wherein the edible vessel body is a cup body, a bowl body, a bottle body, a pot body or a basin body.

9. The edible vessel displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, wherein the temperature sensing The device is a measuring device mounted inside the edible vessel to sense the temperature of the contents of the edible vessel, or a measuring device mounted on the outside of the edible vessel body to sense the temperature of the edible vessel body.

10. The edible utensil for displaying temperature in a doll expression according to claim 1, further comprising a power source.

11. The food utensil according to claim 1, wherein the display device comprises an alert function, and when the temperature is outside the set range, the display device sends a warning signal to alert the user that the temperature is abnormal. .