CN107174143B

CN107174143B - Food processor

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Publication number: CN107174143B
Application number: CN201710468742.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王跃; 高弘錫; 李忠华; 魏喜明; 马新强
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-06-20
Filing date: 2017-06-20
Publication date: 2023-08-29
Anticipated expiration: 2037-06-20
Also published as: CN107174143A

Abstract

The application provides a cooking machine, comprising: the bottom of the cup body is provided with a stirring cutter assembly; the base is of a hollow structure and is matched with the cup body; the motor component is arranged in the base and connected with the stirring blade component, and comprises a motor and a fan, and the fan is connected with the motor; the air duct assembly is arranged at the bottom of the base and comprises an air duct, an air inlet and an air outlet, the air outlet is positioned at one end of the air duct, and the fan is positioned in the air duct; the fan rotates after the motor is started, and air enters the base through the air inlet and then flows out through the air duct and the air outlet. The food processor provided by the application realizes the cooling of the motor assembly and related parts in the base, and simultaneously blocks a part of noise generated when the motor runs and the fan rotates, so that the noise of the whole machine in use is reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

Description

Food processor

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a food processor.

Background

Along with the improvement of social progress and the improvement of the daily living standard of people, the food mixer and the food processor are increasingly widely applied and popularized to thousands of households. Such food processor products generally consist of a lower base and an upper stirring cup. The base and stirring cup are in contact with each other and are connected by some kind of connection means to transmit torque.

In order to achieve better stirring and crushing effects on food, the rotating speed of a general stirring food processor is very high, and a motor arranged in a base is required to be provided with a corresponding fan to forcedly perform convection heat dissipation, otherwise, serious safety problems can be caused. Because the fan is installed on the motor shaft, the fan can produce very big noise when the motor is operated at a high speed, and the air outlet of the fan transmits out of the machine body, so that bad product experience is brought to users.

The existing problems mainly lie in that the general stirring cooking machine and the broken wall cooking machine are provided with a cooling fan and an air duct, but the outside of the air duct is not provided with a sound insulation structure, so that the sound generated by the fan is directly transmitted out from an air outlet, and no noise measures are provided.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, an embodiment of a first aspect of the present application provides a food processor.

In view of this, according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the present application, the present application provides a food processor, including: the bottom of the cup body is provided with a stirring cutter assembly; the base is of a hollow structure and is matched with the cup body; the motor component is arranged in the base and connected with the stirring blade component, and comprises a motor and a fan, and the fan is connected with the motor; the air duct assembly is arranged at the bottom of the base and comprises an air duct, an air inlet and an air outlet, the air outlet is positioned at one end of the air duct, and the fan is positioned in the air duct; the fan rotates after the motor is started, and air enters the base through the air inlet and then flows out through the air duct and the air outlet.

According to the cooking machine provided by the application, the air duct component is arranged, the fan is arranged in the air duct, so that air flow can flow into the hollow base through the air inlet to cool the motor component and related components after the fan rotates, and then the air flow flows out through the air duct and the air outlet, thereby realizing cooling of the motor component and related components in the base, avoiding potential safety hazards caused by serious internal heating caused by high-speed operation of the motor and affecting the use experience of a user, and simultaneously, the fan is arranged in the air duct to enable the air duct to block a part of noise generated when the motor operates and the fan rotates, so that the noise generated when the whole cooking machine is used is reduced, and the use experience of the user is improved.

In addition, the food processor in the above embodiment provided by the application may further have the following additional technical features:

in the above technical solution, preferably, the air duct assembly further includes: the air channel is connected with the air channel, and the air inlet is positioned on the air channel.

In this technical scheme, through setting up the vent disc to be connected the wind channel with the vent disc, perhaps also can directly make integrated structure with wind channel and vent disc, the device structure that the setting of integrating like this makes the complete machine is inseparabler, and wherein the vent disc can set up in the bottom of base, and gaseous can get into by the lower part of complete machine like this, and the lower part flows out for the air-out can not directly blow to the user, has avoided the jam of air intake and air outlet simultaneously.

In any of the foregoing solutions, preferably, the air duct assembly further includes: the baffle is arranged on the ventilation disk and is positioned between the air outlet and the air inlet.

In this technical scheme, through set up the baffle between air intake and air outlet, separate air intake and air outlet, avoid the higher air-out edge air intake backward flow of air outlet department temperature to the base in, reduce cooling effect, make more lower new trend of temperature can follow the air intake simultaneously and get into in the base, promoted the cooling effect to each part in the casing, effectively guaranteed the normal use of device.

In any of the foregoing solutions, preferably, the air duct assembly further includes: the air guide structure is arranged on the ventilation disk, and air flowing out from the air outlet flows out of the ventilation disk through the air guide structure.

In this technical scheme, be provided with the wind-guiding structure on the vent disc, the gas that flows out through the air outlet can pass through the wind-guiding structure again, later flow out the vent disc again, carry out the water conservancy diversion to the high-speed air current that flows out by fan and air outlet through setting up the wind-guiding structure, the air current can reflect in a large amount and then consume the energy of noise when flowing through the wind-guiding structure simultaneously to further reduce the noise that air current of air outlet department produced, promote user's use experience.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the air guiding structure is an S-shaped air guiding structure or a Z-shaped air guiding structure.

In the technical scheme, the air guide structure can be selected to be S-shaped or Z-shaped, the number of the air guide structures is multiple, and thus, the space between every two adjacent air guide structures and the space between the food processor and the plane where the food processor is placed are equivalent to the space between the two adjacent air guide structures, and the air flow flowing out from the air outlet can flow out through the space, so that the air can be continuously reflected between the structures when flowing through the space of the space, the noise energy of the air outlet is further dissipated, the noise of the air outlet is reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the number of the air inlets is multiple, and the multiple air inlets are uniformly disposed on two opposite sides of the vent disc.

In this technical scheme, through set up a plurality of air intakes in the both sides of vent disc, guarantee that air intake department can more evenly intake, avoid influencing air intake and cooling because of partial air intake jam.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the number of the air guiding structures is plural, and the plurality of air guiding structures are respectively and uniformly disposed at two opposite sides of the ventilation disk.

In the technical scheme, the plurality of air guide structures are arranged on the two sides of the ventilation disk, so that the air guide structure can further improve the effects of guiding the exhaust of the air outlet, absorbing sound and reducing noise. The air guide structures can be arranged in a staggered mode, so that space can be saved, and meanwhile, good diversion and noise reduction effects of the air guide structures can be guaranteed.

In any of the above solutions, preferably, the air outlet includes: the air outlet direction of the first air outlet sub-opening is a vertical direction; the second air outlet sub-opening is provided with an air outlet direction which is a horizontal direction.

In the technical scheme, the number of the air outlets is multiple and can be divided into two types, namely a first air outlet and a second air outlet, wherein the air outlet of the first air outlet directly blows downwards and flows out through an air guide structure after contacting with a plane where the food processor is arranged; the air outlet of the second air outlet is directly blown out in the horizontal direction and flows out again through the air guide structure, and through the arrangement of the two types of air outlets, the air outlet efficiency is improved, and meanwhile, the air outlet difficulty caused by blockage of part of air outlets is avoided.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the second air outlet is directed toward the air guiding structure.

In the technical scheme, the second air outlet is towards the air guiding structure, so that the air outlet of the second air outlet directly flows into the air guiding structure and then flows out, and the air outlet efficiency and the flow guiding noise reduction effect of the air guiding structure are improved.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the motor is located within the air duct.

In this technical scheme, the motor also is located the wind channel, makes the wind channel like this also can block the produced noise of motor operation to further reduce the noise of complete machine when using, promote user's use and experience, the air current also can dispel the heat the cooling to the motor better when flowing through the wind channel simultaneously, guarantees the normal operating of motor, hoisting device's reliability.

In any of the above embodiments, preferably, the method further includes: foot pad, set up in the bottom of base.

In this technical scheme, the bottom of base is provided with the callus on the sole, absorbs the vibration of cooking machine lower part base when the work through setting up soft callus on the sole, reduces the collision and the impact between base and the contact surface, and then further reduces the noise of complete machine during operation, and the callus on the sole can make whole horizontal calibration simultaneously, avoids producing great friction and leads to too fast loss and the noise of part because of organism slope and relevant axle or part when leading to motor assembly motion. In addition, can adjust the distance between the plane that air outlet and cooking machine placed through the height adjustment callus on the sole, and then promote the air-out effect.

In any of the above technical solutions, preferably, the food processor is a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.

In this technical scheme, broken wall machine or mixer are in general all have the part of high-speed motion, and moving parts and air current all can produce great noise at the during operation, through adopting foretell relevant structure and setting, can reduce whole noise at the during operation effectively, promote user's use experience.

Additional aspects and advantages of the application will be set forth in part in the description which follows, or may be learned by practice of the application.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the application will become apparent and may be better understood from the following description of embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of A-A of the structure shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of the structure of the airway assembly and vent disc of the structure of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the structure shown in FIG. 5;

fig. 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view of B-B in the structure shown in fig. 7.

The correspondence between the reference numerals and the component names in fig. 1 to 8 is:

the novel kitchen knife comprises a kitchen machine, a 102 cup cover assembly, a 104 cutter head assembly, a 106 switch assembly, a 108 upper coupler, a 110 lower coupler, a 12 cup body, a 122 stirring knife assembly, a 14 base, a 16 motor assembly, a 162 motor, a 164 fan, an 18 air duct assembly, a 182 air duct, a 184 air inlet, a 186 air outlet, a 1862 first air outlet, a 1864 second air outlet, a 20 ventilation disk, a 202 baffle plate, a 204 air guiding structure and a 22 foot pad.

Detailed Description

In order that the above-recited objects, features and advantages of the present application will be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the application will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings and appended detailed description. It should be noted that, without conflict, the embodiments of the present application and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present application, however, the present application may be practiced in other ways than those described herein, and therefore the scope of the present application is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A food processor according to some embodiments of the present application is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 8.

As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the present application provides a food processor 1 including: the cup body, the bottom of the cup body is provided with a stirring blade assembly 122; the base 14, the base 14 is a hollow structure, the base 14 is matched with the cup body; the motor assembly 16 is arranged in the base 14, the motor assembly 16 is connected with the stirring blade assembly 122, the motor assembly 16 comprises a motor 162 and a fan 164, and the fan 164 is connected with the motor 162; the air duct assembly 18 is arranged at the bottom of the base 14, the air duct assembly 18 comprises an air duct 182, an air inlet 184 and an air outlet 186, the air outlet 186 is positioned at one end of the air duct 182, and the fan 164 is positioned in the air duct 182; after the motor 162 is started, the fan 164 rotates, and the air enters the base 14 through the air inlet 184 and then flows out through the air duct 182 and the air outlet 186.

According to the cooking machine 1 provided by the application, the air duct assembly 18 is arranged, the fan 164 is arranged in the air duct 182, so that air flow can flow into the hollow base 14 through the air inlet 184 after the fan 164 rotates to cool the motor assembly 16 and related components, and then the air flow flows out through the air duct 182 and the air outlet 186, thereby realizing cooling of the motor assembly 16 and related components in the base 14, avoiding potential safety hazards and affecting the use experience of a user due to serious internal heating caused by high-speed running of the motor 162, and simultaneously, the fan 164 is arranged in the air duct 182 to enable the air duct 182 to block a part of noise generated when the motor 162 runs and the fan 164 rotates, so that the noise of the whole machine in use is reduced, and the use experience of the user is improved.

In one embodiment of the present application, the air chute assembly 18, as shown in fig. 4-8, preferably further comprises: the vent plate 20, the wind channel 182 is connected with the vent plate 20, and the air intake 184 is located on the vent plate 20.

In this embodiment, by setting the vent disc 20 and connecting the air duct 182 with the vent disc 20, or alternatively, directly making the air duct 182 and the vent disc 20 into an integral structure, the integrated arrangement makes the device structure of the whole machine more compact, wherein the vent disc 20 can be disposed at the bottom of the base 14, so that the air can enter from the lower part of the whole machine and flow out from the lower part, so that the air outlet cannot directly blow to the user, and meanwhile, the blockage of the air inlet 184 and the air outlet 186 is avoided.

In one embodiment of the present application, the air chute assembly 18, as shown in fig. 5-8, preferably further comprises: the baffle 202 is disposed on the vent disc 20 and located between the air outlet 186 and the air inlet 184.

In this embodiment, through setting up baffle 202 between air intake 184 and air outlet 186, separate air intake 184 and air outlet 186, avoid the higher air-out of air outlet 186 department temperature to flow back to in the base 14 along air intake 184, reduce cooling effect, make more lower new trend of temperature can get into in the base 14 along air intake 184 simultaneously, promoted the cooling effect to each part in the casing, effectively guaranteed the normal use of device.

In one embodiment of the present application, the air chute assembly 18, as shown in fig. 5-8, preferably further comprises: the air guiding structure 204 is disposed on the air guiding plate 20, and the air flowing out from the air outlet 186 flows out of the air guiding plate 20 through the air guiding structure 204.

In this embodiment, the air guiding structure 204 is disposed on the air guiding disc 20, the air flowing out from the air outlet 186 passes through the air guiding structure 204, and then flows out of the air guiding disc 20, the air guiding structure 204 is used for guiding the high-speed air flowing out from the fan 164 and the air outlet 186, and meanwhile, the air is largely reflected when flowing through the air guiding structure 204, so that noise energy is consumed, and accordingly noise generated by the air flowing out from the air outlet 186 is further reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

In one embodiment of the present application, the air guiding structure 204 is preferably an S-shaped air guiding structure 204 or a Z-shaped air guiding structure 204, as shown in fig. 5 and 7.

In this embodiment, the air guiding structures 204 may be S-shaped or Z-shaped, and the number of the air guiding structures 204 is plural, so that each of the adjacent air guiding structures 204 and the planes on which the food processor 1 and the food processor 1 are placed are equivalent to forming a labyrinth-shaped cavity, and the air flowing out through the air outlet 186 must pass through the labyrinth-shaped cavities to flow out, so that the air is continuously reflected between the structures when flowing through the labyrinth-shaped cavities, thereby dissipating noise energy, reducing noise of the air outlet 186, and improving user experience.

In one embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5 and 7, the number of the air inlets 184 is preferably plural, and the plurality of air inlets 184 are uniformly disposed on opposite sides of the vent panel 20, respectively.

In this embodiment, by providing a plurality of air inlets 184 on both sides of the vent plate 20, it is ensured that air can be more uniformly introduced at the air inlets 184, and air inlet and cooling are not affected by blockage of a portion of the air inlets 184.

In one embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5 and 7, the number of the air guiding structures 204 is preferably plural, and the plurality of air guiding structures 204 are uniformly disposed on opposite sides of the ventilation disk 20.

In this embodiment, by providing a plurality of air guiding structures 204 on both sides of the vent disc 20, the effects of the air guiding structures 204 on guiding and absorbing sound and reducing noise of the exhaust air from the air outlet are further improved. The air guiding structures 204 may be staggered, so that space can be saved, and good air guiding and noise reduction effects of the air guiding structures 204 can be ensured.

In one embodiment of the present application, the air outlet 186, as shown in fig. 5 and 7, preferably includes: the first air outlet sub-opening 1862, and the air outlet direction of the first air outlet sub-opening 1862 is a vertical direction; second air outlet sub-opening 1864, the air outlet direction of second air outlet sub-opening 1864 is the horizontal direction.

In this embodiment, the number of the air outlets 186 is plural and can be divided into two types, namely, a first air outlet 1862 and a second air outlet 1864, wherein the air outlet of the first air outlet 1862 directly blows out downwards, and flows out through the air guiding structure 204 after contacting with the plane where the food processor 1 is placed; the air outlet of the second air outlet sub-opening 1864 directly blows out in the horizontal direction and flows out again through the air guide structure 204, and by arranging the two types of air outlets 186, the air outlet efficiency is improved, and meanwhile, the air outlet difficulty caused by the blockage of part of the air outlets 186 is avoided.

In one embodiment of the present application, second air outlet 1864 is preferably oriented toward air guiding structure 204 as shown in fig. 5 and 7.

In this embodiment, the second air outlet 1864 faces the air guiding structure 204, so that the air flowing out of the second air outlet 1864 directly flows into the air guiding structure 204 and then flows out, which is beneficial to improving the air outlet efficiency and the flow guiding and noise reducing effects of the air guiding structure 204.

In one embodiment of the application, the motor 162 is preferably located within the air tunnel 182 as shown in FIG. 4.

In this embodiment, the motor 162 is also located in the air duct 182, so that the air duct 182 can also block noise generated by operation of the motor 162, thereby further reducing noise of the whole machine in use, improving use experience of a user, and meanwhile, air flow can better cool and dissipate heat of the motor 162 when flowing through the air duct 182, so that normal operation of the motor 162 is ensured, and reliability of the device is improved.

In one embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, preferably, the method further includes: foot pads 22 are provided at the bottom of the base 14.

In this embodiment, the bottom of base 14 is provided with callus on the sole 22, absorbs the vibration of cooking machine 1 lower part base 14 when the work through setting up soft callus on the sole 22, reduces the collision and the impact between base 14 and the contact surface, and then further reduces the noise of complete machine during operation, and callus on the sole 22 can make whole horizontal alignment simultaneously, avoids producing great friction and the too fast loss and the noise that lead to the part of relevant axle or part when leading to motor assembly 16 motion because of the organism slope. In addition, the distance between the air outlet 186 and the plane where the food processor 1 is placed can be adjusted by adjusting the height of the foot pad 22, so that the air outlet effect is improved.

In one embodiment of the present application, the food processor 1 is preferably a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.

In this embodiment, broken wall machine or mixer are in general all have the part of high-speed motion, and moving part and air current all can produce great noise at the during operation, through adopting foretell relevant structure and setting, can reduce whole noise at the during operation effectively, promote user's use experience.

In one embodiment of the present application, preferably, as shown in fig. 1 and 4, the food processor 1 further includes: a cap assembly 102 for opening and closing the cup 12; cutter head assembly 104, connected to stirring blade assembly 122; a switch assembly 106 for starting or closing the food processor 1; an upper coupling 108 and a lower coupling 110 for connecting the motor assembly 16 and the blending blade assembly 122.

According to the food processor 1 provided by the application, the stirring blade assembly 122 is driven to rotate at a high speed through the motor assembly 16, so that food in the cup body is crushed and stirred. The motor is high in rotating speed, the load in the stirring cup is unbalanced, and the like, so that vibration noise caused by the motor is large, noise possibly irradiates out of the motor through the shell to affect the use experience of a user, meanwhile, the motor assembly 16 has serious heating phenomenon in operation, heat must be dissipated through the heat dissipation fan 164, the fan 164 is positioned at the lower part of the motor assembly 16, in order to improve heat dissipation efficiency, an air duct 182 is designed in the cooking machine 1 provided by the application to cover the motor assembly 16, low-temperature air outside the base enters the base 14 through the air inlet 184 driven by the fan 164, flows through the whole motor assembly 16 after reaching the top of the motor assembly 16, flows out of the air outlet 186 along the air duct 182 to reach the bottom of the cooking machine 1, and finally reaches the outside of the whole machine body through an air guide structure 204 at one side of the air outlet 186. When the fan 164 drives the airflow to flow at a high speed, larger noise can be generated to reach the bottom of the food processor, and if the air guiding structure 204 at the air outlet is not provided, the noise can be directly transmitted from the bottom, so that bad experience is brought to the user.

Wherein, the wind guiding structure 204 is formed by a series of S-shaped (or straight, inclined, etc.) vertical baffles which are staggered with each other, and the preferred structure is the S-shaped vertical baffles. It can be seen from fig. 1 that the distance between the air guiding structure 204 and the placement surface of the food processor is very close, the air guiding structure 204, in combination with the air duct 182 and the placement surface of the food processor 1, forms a small labyrinth-type cavity through which noise must pass from the air outlet 186 to the outside of the food processor, and the cavities formed by the air guiding structures 204 greatly reflect and dissipate noise energy during passing through due to the labyrinth-type structure, so that noise, especially high-frequency noise, is reduced, and user experience is improved.

In the present application, the term "plurality" means two or more, unless explicitly defined otherwise. The terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; "coupled" may be directly coupled or indirectly coupled through intermediaries. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In the description of the present specification, the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "particular embodiments," and the like, mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present application. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, but various modifications and variations can be made to the present application by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A cooking machine, characterized by comprising:

the stirring device comprises a cup body, wherein a stirring knife assembly is arranged at the bottom of the cup body;

the base is of a hollow structure and is matched with the cup body;

the motor component is arranged in the base and connected with the stirring blade component, the motor component comprises a motor and a fan, and the fan is connected with the motor;

the air duct assembly is arranged at the bottom of the base and comprises an air duct, an air inlet and an air outlet, the air outlet is positioned at one end of the air duct, and the fan is positioned in the air duct;

the fan rotates after the motor is started, and air enters the base through the air inlet and flows out through the air duct and the air outlet;

the air duct assembly further includes:

the air channel is connected with the air vent disc, the air channel and the air vent disc are of an integrated structure, and the air inlet is positioned on the air vent disc;

the air guide structure is arranged on the ventilation disc, and the air flowing out from the air outlet flows out of the ventilation disc through the air guide structure.

2. The food processor of claim 1, wherein the air duct assembly further comprises:

the baffle is arranged on the ventilation disc and is positioned between the air outlet and the air inlet.

3. The food processor according to claim 1, wherein,

the air guide structure is an S-shaped air guide structure or a Z-shaped air guide structure.

4. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the number of the air inlets is multiple, and the air inlets are uniformly arranged on two opposite sides of the ventilation disc respectively.

5. The food processor according to claim 1 or 3, wherein,

the number of the air guide structures is multiple, and the air guide structures are uniformly arranged on two opposite sides of the vent disc respectively.

6. The food processor of claim 5, wherein the air outlet comprises:

the air outlet direction of the first air outlet sub-opening is a vertical direction;

the second air outlet sub-opening, the air outlet direction of second air outlet sub-opening is the horizontal direction.

7. The food processor according to claim 6, wherein,

the second air outlet is towards the air guide structure.

8. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the motor is located in the air duct.

9. The food processor according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:

and the foot pad is arranged at the bottom of the base.

10. The food processor according to any one of claim 1 to 3, wherein,

the food processor is a wall breaking machine or a stirrer.