EP3160316A1 - Appareil de cuisine - Google Patents

Appareil de cuisine

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Publication number
EP3160316A1
EP3160316A1 EP15730814.9A EP15730814A EP3160316A1 EP 3160316 A1 EP3160316 A1 EP 3160316A1 EP 15730814 A EP15730814 A EP 15730814A EP 3160316 A1 EP3160316 A1 EP 3160316A1
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Prior art keywords
proximity sensor
lid
vessel
kitchen appliance
control device
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Thomas Braun
Frank Starflinger
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Vorwerk and Co Interholding GmbH
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Vorwerk and Co Interholding GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J36/00—Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels
    • A47J36/06—Lids or covers for cooking-vessels
    • A47J36/10—Lid-locking devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J27/00—Cooking-vessels
    • A47J27/08—Pressure-cookers; Lids or locking devices specially adapted therefor
    • A47J27/0804—Locking devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J43/00—Implements for preparing or holding food, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A47J43/04—Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs, e.g. power-driven
    • A47J43/07—Parts or details, e.g. mixing tools, whipping tools
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/34—Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering
    • H02J7/345—Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering using capacitors as storage or buffering devices

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a kitchen appliance with a vessel and a lid for closing an opening of the vessel, wherein a locking mechanism, with which the lid can be locked with the vessel, and a control device are provided, with which the locking state of the locking mechanism is controllable.
  • Such kitchen appliances having a vessel and a lid for closing the vessel are well known in the art.
  • the latter are usually provided with such a vessel, which allows the inclusion of food, so that they can be processed therein.
  • processing of the foods may be e.g. in a crushing, stirring or kneading consist.
  • containers of food processors are known which provide additional functions, such as weighing the food contained therein and / or heating.
  • the lid for closing the vessel by means of a locking mechanism can be locked firmly to the vessel in order to prevent accidental leakage of the food contained in the vessel during their processing.
  • the lid can be locked in various ways, e.g. by pushing a button or by placing the lid in a locking position, e.g. by exposing the lid to the mouth of the vessel and then rotating it by a predetermined angle.
  • the procedure can be similar for unlocking: Thus, it can be unlocked at the push of a button or, for example. also by the fact that the cover by hand from the locking position is rotated back into an unlocked position.
  • a kitchen appliance with a vessel and a lid for closing an opening of the vessel, a locking mechanism, with which the lid can be locked to the vessel, and a control device with which the locking state of the locking mechanism can be controlled being provided characterized in that a proximity sensor is provided, with which a spatial approach of a user's hand below a predetermined distance to the proximity sensor can be detected, and the proximity sensor is connected to the control device such that an approach of the user's hand to the proximity sensor below the predetermined Distance can be detected by the control device and then of this, the locking mechanism is controlled such that it unlocks the lid.
  • the user of the kitchen appliance only has to bring his hand into a predetermined position in order to lock the lid without having to actively operate any device of the kitchen appliance.
  • the user does not have to push a button or touch and move the lid to move from the locked state to the unlocked state.
  • the proximity sensor in or on the kitchen appliance in such a way that by means of a natural movement of the user's hand in advance of the appliance
  • Opening or removing the lid is a locking thereof.
  • the vessel has a handle and the proximity sensor is arranged in the handle.
  • the handle of the vessel which may be a typical handset prior to removal of the lid from the vessel.
  • the procedure is such that the user grasps the handle of the vessel with one hand in order to grasp the lid with the other hand and to remove it from the vessel.
  • the proximity sensor is disposed within the handle at such a distance from the surface of the handle, which distance 5 is smaller than the predetermined distance. In this way, it is always ensured when touching the handle that the lid is unlocked. In order to prevent unintentional unlocking, it may also be provided in this connection that unlocking of the lid from the vessel takes place only if the hand is within the predetermined distance from the proximity sensor continuously for a predetermined period of time.
  • the proximity sensor is arranged in the lid. Accordingly, it is also preferred here that the proximity sensor is disposed within the lid in such Ab-5 stand from the surface of the lid, which distance is smaller than the predetermined distance. In any event, by placing at least one hand on the lid, e.g. to remove the lid soon from the vessel, thus unlocking the lid is effected. Again, it may be provided that it is only after a predetermined period of time actually comes to an unlock to avoid accidental unlocking o o L by simply passing the hand.
  • the proximity sensor and the control device with which the control of the locking mechanism takes place can be connected to one another by wire.
  • a wireless 5 signal transmission between the proximity sensor and the control device is provided.
  • the control device can be provided in a part of the kitchen appliance which is different from the lid or the vessel, without it being necessary to provide such a wired line which, when the lid is removed from the vessel or vessel, is separated from the rest of the kitchen appliance and0 must be closed again when putting on. Elaborate and error-prone plug contacts or similar devices can be avoided in this way.
  • the energy for operation can relate to the proximity sensor, for example, from the remaining part of the kitchen appliance, in particular in an electrical kitchen appliance, which is connected to the household power network, or by a battery.
  • energy harvesting refers to the generation of electrical energy from sources available in the environment, such as ambient temperature, ambient light, or an electromagnetic field, and the amounts of energy that can be recovered are typically relatively small, but often enough for that Purpose of a short-term measurement and / or a wireless signal transmission of a detected signal.
  • the energy gained on the principle of energy harvesting can be fed directly to the proximity sensor for its energy supply.
  • an intermediate energy store is provided with which the energy obtained by means of the principle of energy harvesting can be temporarily stored.
  • a capacitor is provided in this context. This has the advantage that at the moment of detecting the approaching hand of the user on the energy harvesting o not necessarily at the same time energy must be provided. Rather, the time of energy production by the energy harvesting on the one hand and the time at which this energy is required for the proximity sensor, at least in a certain time interval. In principle, it is sufficient if, due to the hand grasped by the proximity sensor, the lid is unlocked by the vessel via the control device, without this also additionally being indicated.
  • a feedback device is provided, with a feedback on the locking state of the lid can be dispensed.
  • this feedback device is a device which provides feedback in optical and / or acoustic form.
  • an unlocking takes place only after a predetermined period of time for which the hand must remain in a predetermined position, such a feedback device Helpful, since it will usually not come to the fact that the user wants to remove the lid already, although no unlocking has been done.
  • a one-time unlocking of the lid may continue unaltered until the user actively decides to lock the lid back to the vessel, e.g. by pressing a button or twisting the lid on the container.
  • the control device is set up such that after a predetermined time after removal of the hand from the proximity sensor over the predetermined distance beyond such a control of the locking mechanism is that this again locks the lid.
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically a kitchen appliance according to a first preferred embodiment of the invention, in which a proximity sensor is provided in the handle, and
  • Fig. 2 shows schematically a kitchen appliance according to a second preferred
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a kitchen appliance 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention can be removed, which has a vessel 2 and a lid 3 for closing an opening 4 of the vessel 2.
  • a locking mechanism 5 is provided in order to be able to lock the lid 3 securely with the vessel 2, so that in particular when processing foodstuffs means within the vessel 2 can escape from the vessel 2, a locking mechanism 5 is provided.
  • the locking device 5 is controlled by a control device 6, so that in this way the lid 3 can be locked or unlocked on the vessel 2.
  • the vessel 2 of the kitchen appliance has a handle 7 with which it can be removed from the remaining part of the kitchen appliance 1.
  • a proximity sensor 8 is now provided, which operates capacitively and is arranged and arranged so that it can detect the presence of a hand of a user who grasps the handle 7.
  • a photovoltaic device is provided as the energy supply 9, which acquires at least so much electrical energy from the ambient light that the proximity sensor 8 can work and in addition to the capacitive detection of a hand of a user, which surrounds the handle 7, also wirelessly the controller 6 can communicate.
  • an energy buffer is interposed between the proximity sensor 8 and the power supply 9, namely a capacitor.
  • the proximity sensor 8 detects that the hand has remained below the predetermined distance to the proximity sensor 8 for a predetermined time and transmits this information by radio to the control device 6. This then generates a control signal, which it passes on to the locking mechanism 5, so that the locking mechanism 5 unlocks the lid 3.
  • the control device 6 controls the locking Lung mechanism 5 so that the locking mechanism 5 passes back into the locked state.
  • a feedback device 11 is provided. This gives the user a feedback about the locking state of the lid 3 on the one hand by an acoustic signal and on the other hand by a visual display by means of different colored LEDs. If, after unlocking the lid 3, the user does not remove the lid within the time period of five seconds available to him, then the locking state of the lid 3 which has then re-entered is acoustically displayed on the one hand by the feedback device 11 and, on the other hand, by the latter being reset indicates a red LED light, that is from a green LED light to indicate the unlocked state has changed back to the red LED light in the locked state.
  • Fig. 2 shows now, also schematically, a kitchen appliance 1 according to a second preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the vessel 2 has no handle, and a proximity sensor 8 is provided in the lid 3, which also serves to close the opening 4 of the vessel 2 here.
  • the procedure is such that the user must touch the lid 3 for a predetermined period of time, in the present case also for one second, before the lid 3 is unlocked.
  • the unlocking takes place in that the proximity sensor 8 detects that the hand below the predetermined distance to the proximity sensor 8 for at least the predetermined time of one second has accumulated on the lid 3, so that on the
  • Control device 6 a corresponding control of the locking mechanism 5 for unlocking the lid 3 takes place.
  • the proximity sensor 8 operates capacitively also in this embodiment, and it is also a power supply 9 is provided, which is based on the principle of energy harvesting. Since an operation of such a kitchen appliance generally always takes place lightly, a photovoltaic device which is connected to the proximity sensor via an energy buffer 10, namely a capacitor, is also used here as the energy supply 9.
  • the wireless signal transmission between the proximity sensor 8 and the control unit direction 6 and the device and function of the feedback device 11 corresponds to the embodiment described with reference to FIG.
  • this kitchen utensils 1 are given, in which the respective lid 3 can be unlocked easily, namely by means of such handles of the user, this regularly in advance of opening or removing the lid 3 from the vessel 2 performs anyway, namely on the one hand the holding of the handle 7 in the kitchen appliance 1 according to the first preferred embodiment of the invention and on the other hand, the gripping of the lid 3 in the kitchen appliance according to the second preferred embodiment of the invention to remove it from the vessel 2.
  • the invention thus avoids additional handles to effect unlocking of the lid 3 before it can be removed from the vessel 2.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Food Science & Technology (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Cookers (AREA)
  • Lock And Its Accessories (AREA)
  • Food-Manufacturing Devices (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un appareil de cuisine, comprenant un récipient (2) et un couvercle (3) servant à fermer une ouverture (4) du récipient (2). Un mécanisme de verrouillage (5), lequel permet de verrouiller le couvercle (3) au récipient (2), et un dispositif de commande (6), qui permet de commander l'état de verrouillage du mécanisme de verrouillage (5), sont prévus. L'appareil de cuisine comprend un capteur de proximité (8), qui permet de détecter un rapprochement dans l'espace d'une main d'un utilisateur à une distance inférieure à la distance prédéterminée du capteur de proximité (8). Le capteur de proximité (8) est relié au dispositif de commande (6) de manière à pouvoir détecter un rapprochement de la main de l'utilisateur vers le capteur de proximité (8) à une distance inférieure à la distance prédéterminée par rapport au dispositif de commande (6). Ledit dispositif de commande peut alors piloter le mécanisme de verrouillage (5) de telle manière que ce dernier déverrouille le couvercle. L'invention propose donc un appareil de cuisine de ce type pourvu d'un récipient et d'un couvercle servant à fermer une ouverture du récipient, ledit appareil de cuisine permettant un déverrouillage en toute simplicité du couvercle.
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AU (1) AU2015279307A1 (fr)
DE (1) DE102014108928A1 (fr)
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