CN211704310U - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking utensil. The cooking utensil comprises a pot body, a cover body, a display assembly, a first joint part and a second joint part; the display assembly comprises a body and a display screen arranged on the body, and the body is arranged on one of the cooker body and the cover body; the first joint part is arranged on the body; the second joint part is arranged on the other one of the cooker body and the cover body, and the second joint part and the first joint part are correspondingly arranged; the display assembly is movably disposed between a locking position and an uncovering position to enable the first engaging portion to engage the second engaging portion to lock the cover body or enable the first engaging portion to disengage the second engaging portion to unlock the cover body. Therefore, the operation that the user moves the display assembly to open the cover body is simple; and the display component has the functions of displaying cooking parameters and opening the cover body, and the cooking appliance is simple in structure and low in cost.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil technical field.

Background

The existing cooking utensil comprises a cover body, a pot body, a cover opening button and a display screen. The cover body is arranged to the cooker body in an openable and closable manner so as to form a cooking space between the cooker body and the cover body. When the user presses the cover opening button, the cover body covering the cooker body can be opened. The display screen is used for displaying cooking parameters (such as a cooking mode, a cooking time, and a cooking state) of the cooking appliance to a user. The size of the uncapping button is small (slightly larger than the diameter of the largest finger of an adult), and the pressing operation is inconvenient. And the cover opening button and the display screen are mutually independent parts, so that the number of parts of the cooking utensil is large, and the cost is high.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a cooking appliance to at least partially solve the above mentioned problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In the summary section a series of concepts in a simplified form is introduced, which will be described in further detail in the detailed description section. The inventive content does not imply any attempt to define the essential features and essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it implied to be intended to define the scope of the claimed solution.

In order to solve the above problem at least partially, the utility model discloses a cooking utensil, cooking utensil includes: a pot body; a cover body openably and closably provided to the pot body to form a cooking space between the pot body and the cover body; the display assembly comprises a body and a display screen arranged on the body, and the body is arranged on one of the cooker body and the cover body; the first joint part is arranged on the body; the second joint part is arranged on the other one of the cooker body and the cover body, and the second joint part and the first joint part are correspondingly arranged; the display assembly is movably arranged between a locking position and an uncovering position so that the first joint part is jointed with the second joint part to lock the cover body, or the first joint part is separated from the second joint part to open the cover body.

According to the cooking utensil of the utility model, the display component can be movably arranged between the locking position and the uncovering position, so that the first joint part is jointed with the second joint part, or the first joint part is separated from the second joint part, and then the cover body is opened or locked, thus the operation that the user moves the display component to open the cover body is simple; and make the display module have the function of demonstration culinary art parameter simultaneously and open the function of lid, cooking utensil need not to set up in addition uncap button again, cooking utensil's simple structure, and is with low costs.

Optionally, the display assembly is disposed at a front end of the pot body, and the second engaging portion is located in the lid body. Therefore, a user can observe the content displayed by the display screen of the display component from the front end of the pot body conveniently during use; the second joint part is not easy to be damaged by the error collision of a user.

Optionally, the first engaging portion is located above the middle plate assembly of the pot body. Therefore, the middle plate assembly does not need to be provided with a space avoiding the first joint part, and the cooker body is simple in structure.

Optionally, the outer side of the pot body is provided with a mounting protrusion extending horizontally outwards, and the body is connected to the mounting protrusion. From this, the annular region that the protruding muscle encloses provides the space for display element's removal, and the bellied setting of installation can reduce the space of a kind of deep pot body.

Optionally, the upper end of the body is pivotally connected to the pot body to move the display assembly between the locked position and the open-lid position. Therefore, the structure of the cooker body is simple.

Optionally, the first engaging portion includes two horizontal portions disposed at an interval, and a vertical portion connected to both the two horizontal portions, a longer one of the two horizontal portions is located below a shorter one of the two horizontal portions and connected to the body, the vertical portion is located at an end of the first engaging portion away from the body, a lower end of the cover body extends horizontally inward to form a second engaging portion, and the second engaging portion extends between the two horizontal portions of the first engaging portion when the display assembly is located at the locking position. Thus, the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are simple in structure.

Optionally, the outer surface of the display screen is inclined from top to bottom in a direction away from the pot body. Therefore, the user can conveniently watch the content displayed by the display screen.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises a return spring coupled to the body to apply a force to the body to bias the display assembly toward the locked position. Thereby, the display assembly is automatically biased toward the locked position.

Optionally, the first engaging portion and the body are integrally formed, and/or the second engaging portion and the cover are integrally formed. Therefore, the first joint part and the body are integrally formed, the number of parts of the display assembly is small, and the display assembly is convenient to mount; the second joint part and the cover body are integrally formed, so that the cover body is small in part number and convenient to mount.

Optionally, the display assembly comprises two first engaging portions. Therefore, the cover body covers the cooker body and is firmly connected.

Drawings

The following drawings of the embodiments of the present invention are provided as a part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings, embodiments and descriptions thereof, which are used to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

fig. 1 is a front view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side view of FIG. 1 (wherein the assembly is shown in a locked position);

FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 1 (with the display assembly in an open lid position); and

fig. 5 is a side view of fig. 1 (with the cover in an open position and the display assembly in an open position).

Description of reference numerals:

110: cover 111: avoidance space

120: the pot body 121: middle plate assembly

122: mounting projection 130: display assembly

131: the body 132: display screen

140: first engaging portion 141: the first horizontal part

142: second horizontal portion 143: vertical part

150: second joint part

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in order to avoid obscuring embodiments of the present invention.

In the following description, a detailed structure will be presented for a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. It is apparent that the implementation of the embodiments of the present invention is not limited to the specific details familiar to those skilled in the art. The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention, however, the invention is capable of other embodiments in addition to those detailed.

Hereinafter, a cooking utensil according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described. It can be understood that the cooking appliance according to the utility model can be an electromagnetic heating electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpan or other electric heating appliances. And the cooking utensil of the utility model can have various functions such as cooking porridge besides the function of cooking rice.

The cooking appliance mainly includes a pot body 120 and a cover body 110. The pot body 120 has a cylindrical inner pot receiving portion into which the inner pot can be freely put or taken out of the inner pot receiving portion to facilitate cleaning of the inner pot. The upper surface of the inner pot has a circular opening for containing materials to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., into the inner pot. The lid body 110 is pivotally connected to the pot body 120 in an openable and closable manner for covering the pot body 120. Thus, the cover 110 has an open position and a closed position for closing the pot body. When the cover body 110 is covered on the pot body 120, a cooking space is formed between the cover body 110 and the inner pot. When the cover 110 is in the open position, food can be added to the inner pot.

A lid return spring is further provided between the lid 110 and the pot body 120. The cover return spring applies a force to the cover 110 to open it.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, a front end (right end in fig. 3) of the housing of the pot body 120 horizontally extends toward the right side in fig. 3 to form a rib. The ribs define an annular region. The rib constitutes a mounting projection 122. The display assembly 130 described later may be mounted on the mounting boss 122. The outer shell of the pot body 120 is provided with a horizontally extending through-hole at the convex rib. The later-mentioned first engaging portion 140 can be inserted into the through hole to extend from the area surrounded by the rib into the upper portion of the middle plate assembly 121 of the pot body 120. Thus, the annular region surrounded by the ribs provides a space for the movement of the display assembly 130, and the space of the pot body 120 can be reduced by the arrangement of the mounting protrusions 122.

In this embodiment, the cooking appliance further includes a display assembly 130. The display assembly 130 includes a body 131 and a display screen 132. The body 131 is disposed in an annular region surrounded by the ribs. A display screen 132 is provided at the front end of the body 131 (the right end of the body 131 in fig. 3). The display 132 may be a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display can be attached to the front end of the body 131. The display screen 132 is used to display parameters of cooking (e.g., cooking mode, cooking time, and cooking status) to the user. The display screen 132 is located outside the annular region enclosed by the ribs. The outer surface of the display screen 132 away from the pot body 120 is a sloped surface. The outer surface thereof (the surface away from the body 131) is inclined from top to bottom in a direction away from the pot body 120. Thus, the user is facilitated to view the content displayed by the display screen 132. The display assembly 130 is provided at the front end of the pot body 120, facilitating the user to observe the contents displayed on the display screen 132 of the display assembly 130 from the front end of the pot body 120 when in use.

The rear end of the body 131 (the left end of the body 131 in fig. 3) is provided with a first engaging portion 140. The first joint portion 140 may have a J-shaped cross section in the direction of fig. 3 (the cross section is substantially parallel to the paper surface of the figure shown in fig. 3). The J-shaped structure may include two horizontal portions and one vertical portion 143. The two horizontal portions include a first horizontal portion 141 and a second horizontal portion 142. The first horizontal portion 141 is located above the second horizontal portion 142 in a height direction of the cooking appliance. In the horizontal direction, the size of the first horizontal portion 141 is smaller than the size of the second horizontal portion 142. The vertical portion 143 connects the first horizontal portion 141 and the second horizontal portion 142. The vertical portion 143 is located at a rear end (left end of the horizontal portion in fig. 3) of the first horizontal portion 141. The right end of the second horizontal portion 142 is disposed through the through hole. The right end of the second horizontal portion 142 is connected to the left end of the body 131. Thus, the first engagement portion 140 is simple in structure due to the provision of the J-shaped structure of the first engagement portion 140.

Preferably, the first engaging portion 140 and the body 131 are integrally formed. Therefore, the display assembly 130 has a small number of parts and is convenient to install. It will be appreciated that in embodiments not shown, the first engagement portion 140 and the body 131 are two distinct pieces. At this time, the first engaging portion 140 and the body 131 are connected.

Preferably, two first engagement portions 140 are provided on each body 131 at an interval in the left-right direction of fig. 1. Thereby, the two first engagement portions 140 hook-engage the rear cover body 110 to lock the cover body 110. The cover body 110 is firmly connected to the pot body 120.

As shown in fig. 2, the first coupling part 140 of the display assembly 130 is positioned above the middle plate assembly 121 of the pot body 120. Accordingly, the middle plate assembly 121 does not need to be provided with a space to avoid the first engaging portion 140, and the structure of the pot body 120 is simple.

In this embodiment, the upper end of the body 131 of the display assembly 130 may be pivotally connected to the rib. Thus, the display assembly 130 can rotate about its pivotal connection with the rib, thereby moving the first engaging portion 140. The annular area defined by the ribs is sized to correspond to the size of the body 131 such that the ribs limit the rotation of the body 131 to allow the display assembly 130 to move between the locked position (the position of the display assembly 130 in fig. 3) and the unlocked position (the position of the display assembly 130 in fig. 4). Thus, when the display assembly 130 is at the locking position, the first engaging portion 140 hooks the second engaging portion 150 to engage the second engaging portion 150, so as to lock the cover 110, and at this time, the cover 110 covers the pot body 120. When the display assembly 130 is located at the open-lid position, the first engaging portion 140 is away from the second engaging portion 150, and the lid 110 is opened by the lid return spring. Therefore, the upper end of the body 131 is pivotally connected to the rib, and the structure of the pot body 120 is simple.

In this embodiment, the cooking appliance further includes a display return spring (not shown). The return spring is shown connecting the body 131 and the pot body 120. The display return spring applies a force to the body 131 that biases the display assembly 130 toward the locked position. Thus, display assembly 130 is automatically biased toward the locked position under the influence of the display return spring.

With continued reference to fig. 3 to 5, the lower end of the cover body 110 is provided with an escape space 111 that escapes the first engagement portion 140. The second joint portion 150 is provided in the escape space 111 of the cover body 110. The second engaging portion 150 is horizontally disposed. A front end of the second engaging portion 150 (a right end of the second engaging portion 150 in fig. 3) is connected to a front end of the cover 110 (a right end of the cover 110 in fig. 3). The second joint portion 150 connects the lower end of the portion of the cover body 110 that encloses the escape space 111. Thus, the second engaging portion 150 has a simple structure and is easy to manufacture. It will be appreciated that the first and second engagement portions may be of other configurations, provided that it is achieved that the first engagement portion engages the second engagement portion when the display assembly is in the locked position; when the display assembly is in the uncovering position, the first joint part is separated from the second joint part.

In the present embodiment, the second joint portion 150 is located in the escape space 111 of the cover body 110, and the second joint portion 150 is less likely to be damaged by a user's accidental collision.

Preferably, in the left-right direction of fig. 1, two escape spaces 111 are provided at intervals on each cover body 110. One second joint 150 is provided in each escape space 111. The two first engaging portions 140 and the two second engaging portions 150 are provided in one-to-one correspondence. Thereby, the two second engagement portions 150 hook the corresponding first engagement portions 140. The cover body 110 is firmly connected to the pot body 120.

Preferably, the second engaging portion 150 and the cover 110 may be an integrally molded structure. This reduces the number of parts of the cover 110, and facilitates installation.

In this embodiment, when the cover 110 is in the open position, the cover 110 is made to cover the pot body 120, the second engaging portion 150 pushes the first engaging portion 140 to move the display assembly 130 from the locking position to the lid-opening position, and at this time, the body 131 is turned over to move the lower end of the body 131 toward the direction close to the pot body 120; in this process, the second engaging portion 150 is moved to a position where the opening of the J-shaped structure of the first engaging portion 140 is located, the display assembly 130 is moved from the open-lid position to the locking position by the display return spring, at this time, the body 131 is turned over to move the lower end of the body 131 in a direction away from the pot body 120, the second engaging portion 150 is inserted between the first horizontal portion 141 and the second horizontal portion 142 of the first engaging portion 140, and the first engaging portion 140 hooks the second engaging portion 150.

When the cover 110 is locked, the display screen 132 of the display assembly 130 is pressed to rotate the body 131, so that the display assembly 130 moves from the locked position to the open position, the first engaging portion 140 is separated from the second engaging portion 150, and the cover 110 is opened under the action of the cover return spring. After the first engaging portion 140 is separated from the second engaging portion 150, the display assembly 130 moves under the effect of the display return spring, so that the display assembly 130 moves from the open-lid position to the locking position. Since the display assembly 130 is large in size (approximately the same size as or larger than the palm of an adult), the operation of pressing the display assembly 130 is convenient and simple.

In an embodiment not shown, the display assembly 130 may also be provided on the cover 110, in which case the second engaging portion 150 is provided on the pot body 120. When the cover 110 rotates, the display assembly 130 rotates together with the cover 110.

In this embodiment, the display assembly 130 is movably disposed to move the first engaging portion 140 between the locking position and the lid opening position to open or lock the lid 110, so that the user can easily press the display assembly 130 to open the lid 110; and make display module 130 have the function of demonstration culinary art parameter and the function of opening lid 110 simultaneously, cooking utensil need not to set up in addition uncap button again, cooking utensil's simple structure, and is with low costs.

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Terms such as "component" and the like, when used herein, can refer to either a single part or a combination of parts. Terms such as "mounted," "disposed," and the like, as used herein, may refer to one component as being directly attached to another component or one component as being attached to another component through intervening components. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment, either alone or in combination with other features, unless the feature is otherwise inapplicable or otherwise stated in the other embodiment.

The present invention has been described in terms of the above embodiments, but it is to be understood that the above embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that many more modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching and are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A cooking appliance, characterized in that it comprises:

a pot body (120);

a lid body (110), the lid body (110) being openably and closably provided to the pot body (120) to form a cooking space between the pot body (120) and the lid body (110);

a display assembly (130), the display assembly (130) comprising a body (131) and a display screen (132) disposed on the body (131), the body (131) disposed on one of the pot body (120) and the lid (110);

a first engaging portion (140), the first engaging portion (140) being provided on the body (131);

a second engaging portion (150), the second engaging portion (150) being provided on the other of the pot body (120) and the lid body (110), the second engaging portion (150) being provided in correspondence with the first engaging portion (140);

wherein the display assembly (130) is movably disposed between a locking position and an uncovering position to enable the first engaging portion (140) to engage the second engaging portion (150) to lock the cover (110) or enable the first engaging portion (140) to disengage the second engaging portion (150) to open the cover (110).

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the display assembly (130) is provided at a front end of the pot body (120), and the second engaging portion (150) is located in the lid body (110).

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the first engaging portion (140) is located above the middle plate assembly (121) of the pot body (120).

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein an outer side of the pot body (120) is provided with a mounting projection (122) extending horizontally outward, the body (131) being connected to the mounting projection (122).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein an upper end of the body (131) is pivotally connected to the pot body (120) to move the display assembly (130) between the locked position and the open-lid position.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the first engaging portion (140) comprises two horizontal portions spaced apart from each other and a vertical portion (143) connected to both of the two horizontal portions, a longer one of the two horizontal portions being located below a shorter one of the two horizontal portions and connected to the body (131), the vertical portion (143) being located at an end of the first engaging portion (140) remote from the body (131), a lower end of the cover (110) extending horizontally inward to constitute the second engaging portion (150), and the second engaging portion (150) extending between the two horizontal portions of the first engaging portion (140) when the display assembly (130) is located at the locking position.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein an outer surface of the display screen (132) is inclined from top to bottom in a direction away from the pot body (120).

8. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising a return spring coupled to the body (131) to apply a force to the body (131) that biases the display assembly (130) toward the locked position.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the first engaging portion (140) and the body (131) are integrally formed and/or

The second engaging portion (150) and the cover body (110) are integrally formed.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the display assembly (130) comprises two of the first joints (140).

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