CN115429118A - Kitchen appliance control method and device and kitchen appliance - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a kitchen appliance control method and device and a kitchen appliance. The method is applied to a controller of a kitchen appliance, the kitchen appliance comprises the controller, a heating device and various types of cookers, each cooker is provided with a communication module, and the heating device and the communication modules of the cookers are in communication connection with the controller; the method comprises the following steps: receiving communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on a heating device; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot; determining a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data; and sending a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the cooking mode. In the mode, the cooking mode can be determined quickly and accurately, so that multiple cooking requirements of a user can be met by one kitchen appliance, the experience degree of the user is improved, and the use value of the product and the competitiveness of the product are improved.

Description

Kitchen appliance control method and device and kitchen appliance

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of kitchen appliances, in particular to a kitchen appliance control method and device and a kitchen appliance.

Background

At present, kitchen small electric products on the market have single cooking function and limited due scenes, and are difficult to meet the requirements of users on different cooking modes. When a user makes different foods, different electric appliances are often needed. The idle storage space that needs of electrical apparatus is big. An intelligent cooking appliance which can freely adjust a cooker and accessories and can be automatically adjusted into different cooking appliances is lacked in the market.

Therefore, if a user has the requirements of a plurality of different cooking modes, different electric appliances need to be used, and the experience degree is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the invention aims to provide a kitchen appliance control method, a kitchen appliance control device and a kitchen appliance, which can quickly and accurately determine a cooking mode, so that one kitchen appliance meets various cooking requirements of a user, the experience of the user is improved, and the use value and the competitiveness of a product are improved.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a kitchen appliance control method, which is applied to a controller of a kitchen appliance, wherein the kitchen appliance includes the controller, a heating device and multiple types of cookware, each cookware is configured with a communication module, and the communication modules of the heating device and the cookware are in communication connection with the controller; the method comprises the following steps: receiving communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on a heating device; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot; determining a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data; and sending a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device performs heating operation in the cooking mode.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the communication module of the pot is connected to the controller in a wireless communication and serial communication manner; the step of determining the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data comprises the following steps: checking a data type included in the communication data; if the data type of the communication data does not include the wireless communication data, determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is an induction cooker mode; if the data type of the communication data comprises wireless communication data and serial communication data, determining the type of the first cooker based on the serial communication data, and determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is the cooking mode corresponding to the type of the cooker; wherein, serial port communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after the step of determining the type of the pot of the first pot based on the serial port communication data, the method further includes: if the cookware type is an unknown cookware type, prompting the user to update the software version of the controller.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after the step of determining the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the communication data, the method further includes: and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the kitchen appliance includes a display device; responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps: in response to an adjustment operation for the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting a user on the display device to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation; responding to the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker; and sending a cooking instruction carrying the adjusted cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes heating operation in the adjusted cooking mode.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes: determining the operation state of the kitchen appliance; the running state comprises a working state, a shutdown state and a standby state; responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps: and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the running state of the kitchen appliance.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step of adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the operation state of the kitchen appliance in response to the operation of adjusting the cooking mode includes: if the running state is the working state, executing the adjustment operation aiming at the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting the user to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation step on the display device; and if the running state is the standby state, responding to the adjustment operation aiming at the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the kitchen appliance includes a voice device; after the step of controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, the method further includes: and sending out prompt tone through a voice device to remind a user that the kitchen appliance is in a state of adjusting the cooking mode.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after the step of controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, the method further includes: and if the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation is not detected within the preset time threshold, adjusting the running state of the kitchen appliance to be a shutdown state, and controlling the heating device to stop heating operation.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the controller is further wirelessly connected to a terminal device; after the step of determining the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the communication data, the method further comprises: and sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step of sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal device includes: sending a cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal equipment based on a preset time interval; and/or when the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is detected to be adjusted, sending the adjusted cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after the step of sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal device, the method includes: receiving an appointed cooking instruction which is sent by terminal equipment and carries an appointed cooking mode; and if the specified cooking mode is the same as the current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance, sending a specified cooking instruction to the heating device so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the specified cooking mode.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a kitchen appliance control device, which is applied to a controller of a kitchen appliance, where the kitchen appliance includes the controller, a heating device and multiple types of pans, each pan is configured with a communication module, and the communication modules of the heating device and the pans are in communication connection with the controller; the device comprises: the communication data receiving module is used for receiving communication data sent by the communication module of the first cooker placed on the heating device; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot; the cooking mode determining module is used for determining a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data; and the cooking instruction sending module is used for sending a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes heating operation in the cooking mode.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a kitchen appliance, including a controller, a heating device, and multiple types of cookware, where the controller executes the above kitchen appliance control method.

In a fourth aspect, the embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer-readable storage medium, which stores computer-executable instructions, and when the computer-executable instructions are called and executed by a processor, the computer-executable instructions cause the processor to implement the steps of the kitchen appliance control method described above.

The embodiment of the invention brings the following beneficial effects:

according to the kitchen appliance control method and device and the kitchen appliance, the cooking mode is determined according to the communication data sent by the communication module of the first cooker, and the heating operation is executed in the cooking mode. In the mode, the cooking mode can be determined quickly and accurately, so that multiple cooking requirements of a user can be met by one kitchen appliance, the experience degree of the user is improved, and the use value of the product and the competitiveness of the product are improved.

The features and advantages of the present disclosure will be set forth in the description which follows, or in part may be learned by the practice of the above-described techniques of the present disclosure, or may be learned by the practice of the present disclosure.

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, preferred embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a kitchen appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a kitchen appliance control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of another kitchen appliance control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic communication diagram of a kitchen appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cooking mode determining process according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating logic control for adjusting cooking modes of a kitchen appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a synchronization control logic according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a kitchen appliance control device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another kitchen appliance control device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a controller of a kitchen appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

At present, kitchen small electric products on the market have single cooking function and limited due scenes, and are difficult to meet the requirements of users on different cooking modes. When the user makes different food, often need use different electrical apparatus, experience degree is relatively poor, and the idle memory space who needs of electrical apparatus is big. The intelligent cooking appliance which can freely adjust a cooker and accessories and automatically adjust different cooking appliances is lacking in the market. Based on the above, the kitchen appliance control method and device and the kitchen appliance provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to various devices such as kitchen appliances, servers, mobile phones, tablet computers and the like. The technology particularly relates to a mode switching control method of a multifunctional combined cooking appliance. The technology can be implemented by adopting corresponding software and hardware, and the embodiment of the invention is described in detail below.

For the convenience of understanding the present embodiment, a method for controlling a kitchen appliance disclosed in the present embodiment will be described in detail.

The first embodiment is as follows:

the embodiment provides a kitchen appliance control method, which is applied to a controller of a kitchen appliance, wherein the kitchen appliance comprises the controller, a heating device and various cookers, each cooker is provided with a communication module, and the heating device and the communication modules of the cookers are in communication connection with the controller.

Referring to fig. 1, a kitchen appliance includes a controller, a heating device and a pot, wherein the controller may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Micro Controller Unit (MCU) or other modules having control functions. The heating device can be a module with a heating function such as a cooking bench, an induction cooker and the like, a plurality of heating pipes can be contained in the heating module, and the heating device heats a pot through the heating pipes. The pot can comprise a pot body and a pot cover, and can also comprise only the pot body or only the pot cover, which is not limited herein.

The kitchen appliance of the embodiment can be a combined cooking appliance, and can be an extensible multifunctional kitchen small electric appliance which respectively realizes the functions of an induction cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an air fryer and a cooking stirrer through the combination of different accessories, pans and a heating platform. Through the design, rich cooking modes such as frying, quick frying, stewing, pressure cooking, low-temperature vacuum cooking, baking, air frying, automatic stirring and frying and the like can be integrated on the same product. The user can independently select the required cooking function, can flexibly switch between the modes, and can finish the making process of complex dishes by using one product, thereby restoring the perfect taste of food.

In this embodiment, there may be different types of cookware to implement different functions, for example: pressure cooker type pots, air fryer type pots, cooking machine type pots, etc. The kitchen appliance of the embodiment in the market can cook according to different types of air fryer type pots with different requirements, for example: with the air fryer type pot, the kitchen appliance can perform air fryer type cooking.

Every pan all disposes communication module, and the communication module of heating device and pan all is connected with controller communication. The heating device of this embodiment may be an induction cooker, and when the pot is correctly installed at a designated location (generally, on the base) of the kitchen appliance, the communication module of the pot may send communication data to the controller, and the controller may determine the type of the currently configured pot according to the received communication data.

In summary, the kitchen appliance of the present embodiment is structurally based on a heating device, and other accessories are combined on the heating device, so as to realize an appliance with multiple functions. From the perspective of software, the accessory (i.e., the cooker) also contains a communication module (e.g., a circuit board) which is equivalent to a slave, and the accessory cannot independently perform a function and can be matched with the body (i.e., the heating device and the controller) to realize the corresponding function. The control program for all functions is integrated on the controller of the kitchen appliance (for example, the controller of the induction cooker).

Based on the above description, referring to the flowchart of a kitchen appliance control method shown in fig. 2, the kitchen appliance control method includes the following steps:

step S202, receiving communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on a heating device; wherein, the communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

The first cookware bag contains a communication module, which can be a circuit board. When the first pot is correctly placed on the heating device, the communication module can send communication data to the controller. Wherein, carry the pan type of first pan among the communication data, the controller can resolve the pan type that communication data obtained first pan to know which type of pan has been placed on the heating device.

Step S204, a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is determined based on the communication data.

Because the communication data carries the pan type of the first pan, the controller obtains the pan type of the first pan by analyzing the communication data, generally speaking, the pan type and the cooking mode are in one-to-one correspondence, that is, one pan type can correspond to one cooking mode, and one cooking mode can correspond to multiple pan types. For example: the pot cover of pressure cooker has pan A and pan B two kinds, and then pan A and pan B can be two kinds of pan types, and the culinary art mode that the two corresponds is the pressure cooker mode.

The corresponding relation between the type of the cookware and the cooking mode can be stored in the controller or other modules (such as a memory) of the kitchen appliance, after the controller determines the type of the cookware of the first cookware, the corresponding relation between the type of the cookware and the cooking mode can be read, the cooking mode corresponding to the type of the cookware of the first cookware is searched according to the corresponding relation, and the cooking mode corresponding to the first cookware is obtained.

Step S206, sending a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating device, so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the cooking mode.

After the controller determines the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, the controller can determine a corresponding cooking instruction according to the cooking mode, and send the cooking instruction to the heating device, and the heating device can execute heating operation according to the cooking instruction. For example: the user places the pot of the air fryer on the heating device, the communication module of the pot of the air fryer can send communication data to the controller, the controller determines that the type of the pot is the air fryer according to the communication data, so that the cooking mode of the air fryer is determined, and the heating device performs heating operation in the cooking mode of the air fryer.

According to the kitchen appliance control method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the cooking mode is determined according to the communication data sent by the communication module of the first cooker, and the heating operation is executed in the cooking mode. In the mode, the cooking mode can be determined quickly and accurately, so that one kitchen appliance meets various cooking requirements of users, the experience degree of the users is improved, and the use value of products and the competitiveness of the products are improved.

Example two:

the embodiment provides another kitchen appliance control method, which is realized on the basis of the embodiment. Referring to another flowchart of the kitchen appliance control method shown in fig. 3, the kitchen appliance control method in this embodiment includes the following steps:

step S302, receiving communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on a heating device; wherein, the communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

The communication module and the controller of pan in this embodiment are connected through wireless communication and serial ports communication's mode. Referring to fig. 4, a communication diagram of a kitchen appliance is shown, as shown in fig. 4, the left arrow indicates that the heating device is in wireless communication with the pot body of the first pot, and the right arrow indicates that the heating device is in serial communication with the pot body of the first pot through the coupler.

In this embodiment, there may be two communication modes, one is wireless communication based on a fixed protocol; the other is UART (Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter), the whole communication circuit can be an optical coupling isolation circuit to prevent the interference of the voltage fluctuation to the weak current part circuit. In the serial port communication protocol, the type of the cover of the current first cooker is included, and the product end is switched to a cooking mode corresponding to the cover. The reed switch of the kitchen appliance is used for detecting whether the pressure cooker cover is in a safe position and is installed in place; and for determining whether other lids are placed in the correct position.

In step S304, the data type included in the communication data is checked.

Referring to fig. 5, a schematic diagram of a cooking mode determination process and a list of four cooking mode determinations shown in table 1, the present embodiment may output a cooking mode corresponding to a current product (i.e., a first pot) after passing through the complete determination process shown in fig. 5 and table 1.

Judgment of conditions	Induction cooker cooking	Pressure cooker cooking	Air fryer cooking	Cooking machine
					Wireless communication is normal	×	√	√	√
Reed switch open circuit	※	√	×	×
					Reed pipe closure	※	×	√	√
Normal communication with the pot	※	×	√	√
					The type of the pot is a frying cover	※	×	√	×
The type of the pot is a stirring cover	※	×	×	√

TABLE 1

Step S306, if the data type of the communication data does not include the wireless communication data, determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is an induction cooker mode.

Table 1 shows judgment bases of four modes, where a symbol "√" indicates that the condition is true, a symbol "x" indicates that the condition is false, and a symbol "+" indicates that the condition is arbitrary. If no pot body is placed on the heating device, the wireless communication is abnormal, the data type of the communication data does not include the wireless communication data, the function of the induction cooker can be realized, and the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot body is determined to be the induction cooker mode.

The pot body of the first pot is placed on the heating device, the wireless part is connected, the pot body of the first pot is connected with the base of the heating device, and at the moment, the pressure cooker or other cooking modes can be used. When the pan body of the first pan is not available, the base can only realize the function of the induction cooker. Even if the air-frying cover or the stirring cover is connected with the heating device, the air-frying cover or the stirring cover is not matched with the pot body of the first pot, and the corresponding function can not be realized. Therefore, when no wireless communication data exists, the kitchen appliance is in an induction cooker mode; when wireless communication exists, the kitchen appliance is connected with the first cooker and is no longer in an induction cooker mode.

The reed switch is used for detecting the opening and closing cover, so that mode switching is not affected, and only whether the pot cover of the first pot is placed correctly or not under the current mode is judged. Take the example of a pressure cooker: the program runs the pressure cooker mode part as long as the wireless communication is normal whether the reed switch is open or closed. Only when the reed switch is opened, the pressure cooker cover is screwed in place, the pressure cooker can start and run a cooking program, otherwise, a user is prompted to correctly close the cover.

Similarly, when the reed switch is closed, the air-fry cover is placed in the correct position to start and run the air-fry cooking program.

Step S308, if the data type of the communication data comprises wireless communication data and serial communication data, determining the type of a first cooker based on the serial communication data, and determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is the cooking mode corresponding to the type of the cooker; wherein, serial port communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

If the data type of the communication data comprises wireless communication data and serial communication data, it is indicated that the first pot is correctly prevented from being on the heating device, and the cooking mode is not the induction cooker mode, as shown in fig. 5, the cooking mode can be determined according to the pot type of the first pot.

Wherein, the pot cover has expandability. When the product used by the user is not the latest version firmware and cannot use the latest lid (i.e. lid x in fig. 5), the product recognizes that the lid is an unknown lid type and prompts the user to network upgrade the latest program to use the latest functions, such as: if the type of the cookware is unknown, prompting the user to update the software version of the controller.

For example, the pot cover x in fig. 5 is for future new accessories of kitchen appliances, such as adding a high-speed cutter head, which can be used as a meat grinder; a cover with a high-precision temperature rod is added to serve as a high-precision constant-temperature cooking machine; when a new accessory is added to a product, a prompt of corresponding content is reserved in the program: and prompting the user to self-network and upgrade the new version software so as to use the new accessory. The part of The content is mainly combined with OTA (Over The air technology, over-The-air technology) upgrading function of The product, thereby bringing expandability to The product and facilitating The updating of accessories after The product is on The market.

The manner of cooking mode determination is exemplified: the user switches on the electromagnetism stove base (being heating device's base) and selects pan and pot cover collocation combination on the electromagnetism stove base, under the standby state, judges behind the current pan classification of product, direct switch to the culinary art mode that corresponds:

the wireless pan and the pan cover are not placed, and the common induction cooker is placed to be matched with the pan: the product can not receive wireless and serial data, the operation mode is an induction cooker mode, the function of the induction cooker is executed, and the induction cooker is displayed according to an induction cooker interface.

Placing a wireless pot: and the product receives a wireless communication signal, switches to a pressure cooking mode after 100-300ms, executes the function of the pressure cooker and displays according to the interface of the pressure cooker. A pressure cooker cover is placed to realize the pressure cooking function; the glass pot cover is placed to realize the function of the stewing pot.

On the basis of placing wireless pan, place the air-fried lid: the product receives the wireless communication signal and simultaneously receives the UART serial port communication signal of the coupler, the communication data comprises that the type of the pan is an air fryer cover, the air fryer mode is switched to an air fryer mode after 100-300ms, the air fryer function is executed, and an air fryer interface is displayed.

On the basis of placing wireless pan, place the stirring lid: the product receives a UART serial port communication signal of the coupler when receiving the wireless communication signal, communication data comprise that the type of the cooker is a stirring cover, the cooker mode is switched to a cooker mode after 100ms-300ms, the function of the cooker is executed, and the interface of the cooker is displayed.

On the basis of placing the wireless pan, the communication data pan is placed to be a pan cover of other types, the pan does not belong to any one contained in the program, and the program is promoted to be upgraded so as to use a new pan cover.

In the process of user's in-service use kitchen appliance, probably change first pan often, carry out different type culinary art, at this moment, kitchen appliance also needs the adjustment culinary art mode, for example: and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

The cooking mode can be adjusted by a user to replace the first cooker, and the national drama type of the replaced first cooker is changed, so that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is also changed. Specifically, the controller may adjust the cooking mode by: in response to an adjustment operation for the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting a user on the display device to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation; responding to the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker; and sending a cooking instruction carrying the adjusted cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes heating operation in the adjusted cooking mode.

After the user performs the adjustment operation of the cooking mode (for example, replacing the first pot), the controller first controls the heating device to suspend the heating operation, so as to ensure the safety of the user, and the user can continue the heating operation after confirming the operation. The kitchen appliance comprises a display device; the Display device may be an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) screen, etc., and the Display device prompts the user to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation, and may Display text information or Display virtual keys for the user to operate. In addition, the kitchen appliance may further include a voice device that may emit a sound to prompt the user to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation, for example: and sending a prompt tone through a voice device to remind a user that the kitchen appliance is in a cooking mode adjustment state.

The confirmation operation of the adjustment operation may be understood as that the user confirms the adjustment operation without error, and specifically, the user may click on a physical key or a virtual key to perform the confirmation operation of the adjustment operation. The controller responds to the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation, can adjust the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, and then generates and sends a cooking instruction to the heating module according to the adjusted cooking mode so as to enable the heating device to execute the heating operation in the adjusted cooking mode.

If the user does not perform the confirmation operation of the adjustment operation for a long time, the kitchen appliance may be turned off, and danger may occur when the kitchen appliance is placed, so as to protect the safety of the user, for example: and if the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation is not detected within the preset time threshold, adjusting the running state of the kitchen appliance to be a shutdown state, and controlling the heating device to stop heating operation.

The preset time threshold may be set to 10 minutes within which the user does not perform the confirmation operation of the adjustment operation, and the kitchen appliance may control the heating apparatus to stop the heating operation and turn off the kitchen appliance.

In addition, different operating states of the kitchen appliances may cause different ways of adjusting the cooking modes, such as: determining the operation state of the kitchen appliance; the running state comprises a working state, a shutdown state and a standby state; responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps: and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the running state of the kitchen appliance.

In this embodiment, the operation state of the kitchen appliance includes a working state, a power-off state and a standby state, and the power-off state indicates that the kitchen appliance is not operated; the working state indicates that the kitchen appliance is running and the heating device is executing heating operation; the standby state means that the heating device is not performing the heating operation although the kitchen appliance is in operation.

Specifically, the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot can be adjusted based on the operation state of the kitchen appliance by the following method: if the running state is the working state, executing the adjustment operation corresponding to the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting the user to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation step on the display device; and if the running state is the standby state, responding to the adjustment operation aiming at the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

If the running state is the working state, the heating operation of the heating device needs to be suspended, and then the cooking mode is adjusted; if the operation state is the standby state, the heating device does not execute the heating operation, and the cooking mode can be directly adjusted; if the operation state is the off state, the cooking mode cannot be adjusted.

Referring to fig. 6, a logic control diagram of cooking mode adjustment of a kitchen appliance includes logic control after a cooking mode is changed in different states, which describes control logic when a cooker is switched in a shutdown state, a standby state and a working state.

When detecting that the pan state changes, when culinary art mode changes: and in a standby state, directly switching to a corresponding cooking mode after judging the current type of the cookware of the product. In the power-off state, the interface has no change, and only after the program is started, the corresponding cooking mode is switched to.

In the working state, when a user removes the cover and removes the wireless cooker in the cooking process to complete some steps required in the middle of cooking, the type of the cooker on the base of the induction cooker is also changed. At this time, the product does not directly force termination of the current cooking program, switching the cooking mode, but pops up "cancel cooking? "the secondary cooking interface, where the product suspends the cooking process, waits for the user to make a selection, or puts back the pot to automatically resume the original cooking process. Meanwhile, the product can periodically sound a prompt tone every 2s to prompt a user to put back the pot in time to continue cooking. User selection "-cancel cook? And if yes, the product is switched to the cooking mode corresponding to the current pot. User selection "-cancel cook? And if not, the product continuously rings a prompt tone to prompt the user to put back the pot body and continue cooking. The pan is not put back for ten minutes, and the product automatically finishes cooking and switches modes.

After determining the cooking mode, the kitchen appliance may send the cooking mode to a terminal device with overdue connection, where the terminal device may be a mobile phone, a computer, a tablet computer, or other device with a communication function, for example: and sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment.

The controller can have terminal equipment by wireless connection, and the mode of connection can be bluetooth connection, WIFI connection etc. and does not limit here. After receiving the cooking mode, the terminal device can display the cooking mode for the user to view and adjust.

Wherein, the controller can send the culinary art mode that first pan corresponds at interval fixed time, also can send the culinary art mode after the adjustment immediately after the culinary art mode that first pan corresponds takes place to adjust, for example: sending a cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal equipment based on a preset time interval; and/or when the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is detected to be adjusted, sending the adjusted cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment. Wherein the preset time interval may be set to 1 minute or 2 minutes.

After the user adjusts the cooking mode to be the specified cooking instruction, the terminal device can send the specified cooking instruction carrying the specified cooking mode to the controller, and the controller adjusts the cooking mode in the following way: receiving an appointed cooking instruction which is sent by terminal equipment and carries an appointed cooking mode; and if the specified cooking mode is the same as the current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance, sending a specified cooking instruction to the heating device so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the specified cooking mode.

The cooking mode is adjusted to the designated cooking mode only when the designated cooking mode is the same as a current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance. If the specified cooking mode is different from the current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance, the user is reminded to confirm, and the reason for doing so is that certain network delay exists between the terminal equipment and the kitchen appliance, and the terminal equipment is likely to need the user to confirm because the cooking mode is not modified by the network delay.

Referring to fig. 7, a schematic diagram of a synchronous control logic is shown, where a product end is a kitchen appliance end, an APP (APPlication) end is a terminal device end, and the APP end and the product end only execute a function corresponding to a current cooking mode. When a user operates a product, the cookware type displayed by the APP and the corresponding cooking mode are synchronously updated in real time. When the user operates the APP, the APP opens the corresponding functions to the user according to the mode reported by the product.

The product side can report the current cooking mode to the APP period every 1 minute. And if the cooking mode of the product side is changed, immediately reporting and updating the current cooking mode. The user can perform the inherent functions of the product end using the APP, as well as the cooking recipes stored in the server. And the APP opens the corresponding cooking function to the user according to the currently reported cooking mode of the product. If the cooking function that the user wants to use does not conform to the pan of collocation on the magnetism stove base at present, APP end reminds the user to change this function of reselection after the correct pan. When the product end receives the APP instruction, if the cooking mode controlled by the instruction does not accord with the cooking mode of the current product, the product does not receive the APP instruction at this time. This is due to network delays in data transmission between the product and the server. Before and after the mode is switched, the APP end and the product end have short-time inconsistent hysteresis. And the product end can execute the corresponding instruction only when judging the function in the current cooking mode.

Step S310, sending a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating device, so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the cooking mode.

The embodiment of the invention provides the method, which can firstly judge the current cookware type of the product; then according to the current running state of the product, finishing the prompt to the user and the product mode switching; and finally, synchronizing the cooking mode with the APP terminal.

In the mode, the current used cooking appliances (a magnetic oven, a pressure cooker, an air fryer and a stirrer) are identified by utilizing a wireless transmission protocol and a serial port communication protocol and combining the current working state of a product, and the full-automatic cooking mode switching control is completed. The automatic switching and the execution of the corresponding cooking functions are realized, and the prompt interaction with the user is completed. The cooking mode switching of the multifunctional small household appliance can be realized quickly, accurately, flexibly and easily, so that multiple cooking requirements of a user can be met by one machine. The use value of the product is improved, and the competitiveness of the product is improved.

In the mode, the currently used cookware types are distinguished through the difference of communication modes and communication contents between different cookware and the induction cooker base. And combining the running state of the product, guiding a user and completing the switching of the cooking modes of the product, and finally completing the synchronization of the switched state and the APP end. Through the scheme, free switching from any cooking mode to any cooking mode of the combined cooking product is realized, multiple functions of an induction cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an air fryer, a stirring cooking machine and the like are integrated on the same product, more comprehensive selection is provided for a user, and the complex cooking process can be easily realized through a single product. The application scenes of the product are widened, the use requirements of more users are met, and the application value of the product is improved.

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corresponding to the method embodiment, the embodiment of the invention provides a kitchen appliance control device which is applied to a controller of a kitchen appliance, wherein the kitchen appliance comprises the controller, a heating device and various types of cookers, each cooker is provided with a communication module, and the heating device and the communication modules of the cookers are in communication connection with the controller; referring to fig. 8, a schematic structural diagram of a kitchen appliance control device is shown, which includes:

a communication data receiving module 81, configured to receive communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on the heating apparatus; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot;

a cooking mode determining module 82, configured to determine a cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the communication data;

and a cooking instruction sending module 83, configured to send a cooking instruction carrying a cooking mode to the heating apparatus, so that the heating apparatus performs a heating operation in the cooking mode.

According to the kitchen appliance control device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the cooking mode is determined according to the communication data sent by the communication module of the first cooker, and the heating operation is executed in the cooking mode. In the mode, the cooking mode can be determined quickly and accurately, so that multiple cooking requirements of a user can be met by one kitchen appliance, the experience degree of the user is improved, and the use value of the product and the competitiveness of the product are improved.

The communication module of the cookware is connected with the controller in a wireless communication and serial port communication mode; the cooking mode determining module is used for checking the data type included in the communication data; if the data type of the communication data does not include the wireless communication data, determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is an induction cooker mode; if the data type of the communication data comprises wireless communication data and serial communication data, determining the type of a first cooker based on the serial communication data, and determining that a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is a cooking mode corresponding to the type of the cooker; wherein, serial port communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

The cooking mode determining module is further used for prompting a user to update the software version of the controller if the type of the cookware is unknown.

Referring to fig. 9, another kitchen appliance control device is shown, and the kitchen appliance control device further includes: and a cooking mode adjusting module 84 connected to the cooking mode determining module 82, wherein the cooking mode adjusting module 84 is configured to adjust a cooking mode corresponding to the first pot in response to an adjusting operation for the cooking mode.

The kitchen appliance comprises a display device; the cooking mode adjusting module is used for responding to the adjusting operation of the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting the user to confirm the cooking mode adjusting operation on the display device; responding to the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker; and sending a cooking instruction carrying the adjusted cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes heating operation in the adjusted cooking mode.

The cooking mode adjusting module is also used for determining the running state of the kitchen appliance; the running state comprises a working state, a shutdown state and a standby state; responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps: and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the running state of the kitchen appliance.

The cooking mode adjusting module is further configured to, if the operating state is the operating state, execute an adjusting operation in response to the cooking mode, control the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompt the user to confirm the cooking mode adjusting operation step on the display device; and if the running state is the standby state, responding to the adjustment operation aiming at the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

The kitchen appliance comprises a voice device; the cooking mode adjusting module is further used for sending out prompt tones through the voice device to remind a user that the kitchen appliance is in a cooking mode adjusting state.

The cooking mode adjusting module is further configured to adjust the operating state of the kitchen appliance to be a shutdown state and control the heating device to stop heating operation if no confirmation operation for the adjusting operation is detected within a preset time threshold.

The controller is also connected with terminal equipment in a wireless manner; as shown in fig. 9, the kitchen appliance control device further includes: and a cooking mode transmission module 85 connected with the cooking mode determination module 82, wherein the cooking mode transmission module 85 is used for sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal device.

The cooking mode transmission module is used for sending a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment based on a preset time interval; and/or when the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is detected to be adjusted, the adjusted cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is sent to the terminal equipment.

The cooking mode transmission module is also used for receiving a specified cooking instruction which is sent by the terminal equipment and carries a specified cooking mode; and if the specified cooking mode is the same as the current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance, sending a specified cooking instruction to the heating device so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the specified cooking mode.

The kitchen appliance control device provided by the embodiment of the invention has the same implementation principle and technical effect as the kitchen appliance control method embodiment, and for brief description, corresponding contents in the kitchen appliance control method embodiment can be referred to where the kitchen appliance control device embodiment is not mentioned.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a kitchen appliance, which is used for operating the kitchen appliance control method; the controller of the kitchen appliance comprises a memory 100 and a processor 101, wherein the memory 100 is used for storing one or more computer instructions, and the one or more computer instructions are executed by the processor 101 to realize the kitchen appliance control method.

Further, the controller of the kitchen appliance shown in fig. 10 further includes a bus 102 and a communication interface 103, and the processor 101, the communication interface 103 and the memory 100 are connected through the bus 102.

The Memory 100 may include a Random Access Memory (RAM) and a non-volatile Memory (non-volatile Memory), such as at least one disk Memory. The communication connection between the network element of the system and at least one other network element is realized through at least one communication interface 103 (which may be wired or wireless), and the internet, a wide area network, a local network, a metropolitan area network, and the like can be used. The bus 102 may be an ISA bus, PCI bus, EISA bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, only one double-headed arrow is shown in FIG. 10, but this does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus.

The processor 101 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 101. The Processor 101 may be a general-purpose Processor, and includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), and the like; the device can also be a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other Programmable logic device, a discrete Gate or transistor logic device, or a discrete hardware component. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present invention may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in the memory 100, and the processor 101 reads the information in the memory 100, and completes the steps of the method of the foregoing embodiment in combination with the hardware thereof.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores computer-executable instructions, and when the computer-executable instructions are called and executed by a processor, the computer-executable instructions cause the processor to implement the kitchen appliance control method.

The kitchen appliance control method and device and the computer program product of the kitchen appliance provided by the embodiment of the invention comprise a computer readable storage medium storing program codes, instructions included in the program codes can be used for executing the method in the previous method embodiment, and specific implementation can refer to the method embodiment, and is not described herein again.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the system and/or the apparatus described above may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In addition, in the description of the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the term "connected" is to be interpreted broadly, e.g., as being fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in a specific case to those of ordinary skill in the art.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention or a part thereof, which essentially contributes to the prior art, can be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a kitchen appliance, or a network device) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "first", "second", and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above-mentioned embodiments are only specific embodiments of the present invention, which are used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and not for limiting the same, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, although the present invention is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that: any person skilled in the art can modify or easily conceive the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or equivalent substitutes for some technical features within the technical scope of the present disclosure; such modifications, changes or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present invention, and they should be construed as being included therein. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (15)

1. A kitchen appliance control method is characterized in that the kitchen appliance control method is applied to a controller of the kitchen appliance, the kitchen appliance comprises the controller, a heating device and multiple types of cookers, each cooker is provided with a communication module, and the heating device and the communication modules of the cookers are in communication connection with the controller; the method comprises the following steps:

receiving communication data sent by a communication module of a first pot placed on the heating device; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot;

determining a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data;

sending a cooking instruction carrying the cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes heating operation in the cooking mode.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a communication module of the cooker is connected with the controller through wireless communication and serial port communication; the step of determining the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker based on the communication data comprises the following steps:

checking a data type included in the communication data;

if the data type of the communication data does not comprise wireless communication data, determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is an induction cooker mode;

if the data type of the communication data comprises wireless communication data and serial communication data, determining the type of a pot of the first pot based on the serial communication data, and determining that the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot is the cooking mode corresponding to the type of the pot; wherein, serial port communication data carries the pan type of first pan.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein after the step of determining the pot type of the first pot based on the serial communication data, the method further comprises:

if the type of the cookware is an unknown cookware type, prompting a user to update the software version of the controller.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein after the step of determining the corresponding cooking mode of the first pot based on the communication data, the method further comprises:

and responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the kitchen appliance includes a display device; responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps:

in response to an adjustment operation for the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation and prompting a user on the display device to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation;

responding to the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker;

sending a cooking instruction carrying the adjusted cooking mode to the heating device, so that the heating device executes heating operation in the adjusted cooking mode.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising: determining an operational status of the kitchen appliance; the running state comprises a working state, a shutdown state and a standby state;

responding to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker, wherein the step comprises the following steps: in response to the adjustment operation of the cooking mode, adjusting the corresponding cooking mode of the first cooker based on the running state of the kitchen appliance.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the operation status of the kitchen appliance in response to the adjustment operation for the cooking mode comprises:

if the running state is the working state, executing the adjustment operation responding to the cooking mode, controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, and prompting a user to confirm the cooking mode adjustment operation step on the display device;

and if the running state is the standby state, responding to the adjustment operation aiming at the cooking mode, and adjusting the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the kitchen appliance comprises a voice device; after the step of controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, the method further includes:

and sending out prompt tone through the voice device to remind the user that the kitchen appliance is in a state of adjusting a cooking mode.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein after the step of controlling the heating device to suspend the heating operation, the method further comprises:

and if the confirmation operation aiming at the adjustment operation is not detected within a preset time threshold, adjusting the running state of the kitchen appliance to be the shutdown state, and controlling the heating device to stop the heating operation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller is further wirelessly connected with a terminal device;

after the step of determining the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot based on the communication data, the method further comprises:

and sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal device comprises:

sending a cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment based on a preset time interval; and/or when the cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker is detected to be adjusted, sending the adjusted cooking mode corresponding to the first cooker to the terminal equipment.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein after the step of sending the cooking mode corresponding to the first pot to the terminal device, the method comprises:

receiving an appointed cooking instruction which is sent by the terminal equipment and carries an appointed cooking mode;

if the specified cooking mode is the same as the current cooking mode of the kitchen appliance, sending the specified cooking instruction to the heating device so that the heating device performs a heating operation in the specified cooking mode.

13. The kitchen appliance control device is characterized by being applied to a controller of the kitchen appliance, wherein the kitchen appliance comprises the controller, a heating device and multiple types of cookers, each cooker is provided with a communication module, and the heating device and the communication modules of the cookers are in communication connection with the controller; the device comprises:

the communication data receiving module is used for receiving communication data sent by the communication module of the first pot placed on the heating device; wherein the communication data carries a pot type of the first pot;

a cooking mode determining module, configured to determine, based on the communication data, a cooking mode corresponding to the first pot;

and the cooking instruction sending module is used for sending the cooking instruction carrying the cooking mode to the heating device so that the heating device executes the heating operation in the cooking mode.

14. A kitchen appliance comprising a controller, a heating device and a plurality of types of cookware, the controller performing the kitchen appliance control method of any one of claims 1-12.

15. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that it stores computer-executable instructions which, when invoked and executed by a processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of the kitchen appliance control method of any one of claims 1 to 13.

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