CN206880568U - One kind is based on modular intelligent cooking equipment - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses one kind to be based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, including frame, solid food materials feed module, liquid food materials feed module, heating module, top pot module, cleaning module and control module are installed, the top pot module includes in the frame：Swing span, in frame；Rollover stand, installed in the swinging end of the swing span；Pot, on rollover stand；It is of the present utility model to be based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, by the combination for setting swing span and rollover stand, the top pot action of pot is realized respectively and topples over action, can be easy to automatically take out the good vegetable of frying and clean pot automatically while tasty dish is fried out.
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Technical field
Cooking apparatus technical field is the utility model is related to, it is more particularly to a kind of to be based on modular intelligent cooking equipment.
Background technology
It is very fast and be ignorant of these crowds of culinary art for life or work rhythm, they often without time enough or
The conventional kitchen equipment in conventional kitchen can not be used to make a tasty food, there is researcher to design for this various automatic
Dish frying device.
Such as Application No. 201610725809.X patent document discloses a kind of automatic dish cooking machine, including：Controller,
Pot, heater, dish dispensing box, dish dispensing box conveyer, garnishes delivery device, cooking arm, solid seasoning device and liquid are adjusted
Expect device；Garnishes delivery device can capture the dish dispensing box being moved to above it, and overturn the garnishes that dish dispensing box will be contained wherein
It is delivered in pot；Cooking arm, heater, dish dispensing box conveyer, garnishes delivery device, solid seasoning device and liquid
Condiment device is electrically connected with the controller respectively, and controller is used for the motion state for controlling above-mentioned each device.Realize from addition
The automation of garnishes, condiment to the process of stir-frying, it is less to artificial degree of dependence, improve the automatization level of equipment.
The patent document of Application No. 201210588809.1 discloses a kind of rotary-piston type or pendulum piston type machine
Or engine, it is by displacement motor, weighs a spoonful motor, turn drive motor and guide rail in the hand and form, its guide rail one end is affixed
Motor location-plate, the other end it is affixed limiting plate, the side of support frame, which is provided with, weighs a spoonful motor, opposite side in the hand by no less than one
Individual connecting rod is hinged with weighing a spoonful crossbeam in the hand, is weighed spoonful power output shaft of motor in the hand and is consolidated through support frame with one of connecting rod
Fixed connection, described feed screw nut are nested on leading screw；Sliding block engages with guide rail.The invention mechanism structure is simple, control mode
It is simple easy to implement, not only go for automatic cooking machine, and can implement in various cooking machines, such as cooking machine
Device people, electromagnetic oven, frying application etc..This kind of mechanism can be realized in the case where the duration and degree of heating controls subsystem collaboration by electric machine control system
Rocking, weighing the action such as spoon in the hand for vegetable, fully achieves the making of Chinese meal automation apparatus standard.
But it is existing exist motion complexity, function is not perfect enough, bulky, and intelligence degree is low, cooking principle
Tradition, can not automated cleaning the problems such as, it is necessary to by technological innovation with improve, solve problems described above.
The content of the invention
The utility model provides one kind and is based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, and simple in construction, pot has a variety of fortune
Dynamic form, the dish of delicious food can be fried out rapidly.
One kind is based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, including frame, and solid food materials charging mould is provided with the frame
Block, liquid food materials feed module, heating module, top pot module, cleaning module and control module, the top pot module include：
Swing span, in frame；
Rollover stand, installed in the swinging end of the swing span；
Pot, on rollover stand.
Pot of the present utility model, which can be swung, completes frying vegetable, at the same provided with rollover stand upset pot to discharge and
Cleaning.
In order to can effectively be stir-fried to vegetable, it is preferred that the swing span is parallel including spaced apart two
Quadric chain and power source, the rollover stand are arranged between two parallel four-bar linkages.
It is described that frame both sides are symmetrically distributed in parallel―ordinal shift structure, include three work per secondary parallel four-bar linkage
Lever, the first rocking bar and frame are connected through the hinge in front of frame, and the second rocking bar and frame are connected through the hinge installation
At frame rear, oscillating rod and first rocking bar, the second rocking bar are connected through the hinge；The power source is fixedly mounted on frame
On, it is connected with first rocking bar by bearing；Pot is fixedly connected with rollover stand, and control module can control the power source
Control parallel four-bar linkage realizes the top pot motion of elliptical orbit, carries out cooking；Meanwhile turned over described in the control module control
Pivoted frame is rotated pot, and adjustment orientation, which is realized, connects food materials, pours out dish, reaches cleaning positions, connect cleaning fluid and water under high pressure
Stream, pour out the waste liquid after cleaning.
The heating module uses Electromagnetic Heating, is arranged in the lower section of the pot, and institute is controlled by the control module
State electromagnetic heating module and determine whether required temperature is heated and be heated to pan in the different cooking stages.
In order to facilitate manufacturing and install, it is preferred that the rollover stand includes：
Shaft seat, one end are fixed on the swinging end of a parallel four-bar linkage, and the other end and the side of the pot turn
Dynamic installation；
Drive seat, it is fixed on the swinging end of another parallel four-bar linkage；
Power source, on driving axle bed；
Driving member, it is connected with the power source；Driving member can use gear drive, high transmission accuracy, service life length.
Drive shaft, one end are connected with driving member, and the other end is fixedly connected with the opposite side of the pot.
Preferably, the liquid food materials feed module includes：
Multiple liquid food materials the storage box, provided with liquid outlet；
Hydrodynamic source, liquid feeding end are connected with each liquid outlet；
Woven hose, one end are connected with the outlet end in hydrodynamic source, and the other end is communicated in the pot.
It is sent into order to facilitate liquid food materials in pot, it is preferred that described shaft seat passes through hollow stem and described pot
Rotation connection, the described woven hose of hollow stem one end connection, the other end penetrate with described pot nside.
The hydrodynamic source uses peristaltic pump, and the liquid feeding end of the peristaltic pump goes out liquid with the liquid food materials the storage box
Mouth connection, the liquid outlet of the peristaltic pump are connected with the hollow stem that pan extends out, and the control module, which passes through to control, wriggles
Pump is precisely controlled the feeding of liquid food materials；The liquid food materials the storage box can also set Level meter, can detect institute in real time
The surplus of liquid food materials in liquid food materials the storage box is stated, when surplus reaches alert locations, in the intelligent cooking equipment
Display screen can provide food materials surplus inadequate alarm signal.
In order to realize the charging respectively of solid food materials, so that the maturity of all kinds of food materials and taste reach optimal, preferably
, the solid food materials feed module includes：
Solid food materials box, include the side wall and bottom plate of circle, offered on the bottom plate directly over the pot
Opening；
Tripper, in the solid food materials box, including central shaft and fixed prolong on center shaft and radially
The polylith dividing plate of side wall is extended, polylith dividing plate is circumferentially spaced to form multiple solid food materials chambers；
Central shaft drive mechanism, driving tripper are rotated so that the solid food materials chamber passes through the opening successively.
The solid food materials box Open Side Down stretch out, play a part of sending food materials to pot；The solid food materials
There is a concentric tripper on box, central shaft drive mechanism can use motor, the tripper and a driving
Motor is connected by axle sleeve, and the motor drives tripper by food materials according to specific suitable under the control of the control module
Sequence is added in pot；The motor is fixedly connected with solid food materials box, and the solid food materials box is set by spring with weighing
Standby connection, play a part of carrying out intelligent weighing to food materials.
In order to prevent from running pot when food materials spill, it is preferred that the opening of the pot is to contract.
In order to facilitate cleaning, it is preferred that the cleaning module includes：
Base；
Pot docking port, is arranged on base, opening upwards and matches with the opening of described pot, the pot pair
Interface connects with waste collection unit；
Shower nozzle, in pot docking port, opening upwards and it is connected with cleaning solution supplying system.Control shower nozzle make liquid with
Cleaning agent is mixed；Mixed product is ejected to inside pan by the high-pressure nozzle, and cleaning liquid returns by gravity
It flow in pan, realizes the cleaning of pan.
The cleaning module can also be that in the following manner is realized, comprising rack-mounted air pump, the air pump outlet
The atomizer of mouth connection；Another liquid feeding end of the atomizer is connected with cleaning the outlet end of liquid supply apparatus；It is described
Control module control air pump pumps out gases at high pressure makes gas carry out mixed aerosol with cleaning liquid to the atomizer；After atomization
Product be ejected to by the atomizer inside pan, realize the cleaning of pan.
In order to further improve cleaning effect, it is preferred that the cleaning module also includes：
Telescoping mechanism, in pot docking port；
Cleaning brush, it is connected with the output end of the telescoping mechanism and brush is upward.
In order to reduce oil smoke, it is preferred that also include shell including smoking module, the smoking module, installed in described outer
Motor inside shell and the fan in the rotating shaft of the motor.
The control module that the utility model is set includes control panel, and the control panel is connected by wire and other described modules
Connect, realize the intellectuality of other modules；Meanwhile control panel one end connection touch-screen human-computer interaction device, it is described to touch
Touch the operation behavior of screen record operating personnel and be converted to electric signal transmission to the control panel, produce the control panel corresponding
Response, realize the human-computer interaction of the intelligent cooking equipment.
The utility model designs the modules and realizes different refinement contents by the way that cooking process is refined, and uniformly
Intelligent control is carried out to the modules using the control module with human-computer interaction function, realizes the intelligent cooking
The intelligent frying function and self-cleaning function of equipment.
The beneficial effects of the utility model：
It is of the present utility model to be based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, by setting the combination of swing span and rollover stand, point
The top pot action of pot is not realized and topples over action, can be while tasty dish be fried out, it is good to be easy to automatically take out frying
Vegetable and clean pot automatically.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is the structural representation based on modular intelligent cooking equipment of embodiment 1.
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of top pot module in embodiment 1.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of liquid food materials feed module in embodiment 1.
Fig. 4 is the dimensional structure diagram of solid food materials feed module in embodiment 1.
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of solid food materials feed module in embodiment 1.
Fig. 6 is the structural representation of automatic cleaning module in embodiment 1.
Fig. 7 is the structural representation of automatic cleaning module in embodiment 2.
Embodiment
The utility model is further described with implementation process below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Embodiment 1
As shown in figure 1, the present embodiment includes frame 1 based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, it is rack-mounted
Top pot module 9, solid food materials feed module 3, liquid food materials feed module 4, cleaning module 6, electromagnetic heating module 8, smoking mould
Block 7, control module 5.
As shown in Fig. 2 the structural representation for the top pot module in the present embodiment.Top pot power set 97 shake by first
Two groups of parallel four-bar linkages that bar 91, the second rocking bar 94 and oscillating rod 92 form are connected to the shaft seat and drive seat of pot 9
On, drive seat is provided with rotary electric machine 93 and drives pot 9 to overturn, and the opposite side of pot 9 and the connecting rod 95 of shaft seat are rotatablely connected,
To ensure that pot 9 realizes elliptic motion and flip-flop movement.
As shown in figure 3, include liquid food materials Storage Box 44 for the liquid food materials feed module in the present embodiment, provided with 7 lattice,
It is equidistant respectively to place, for storing different liquid food materials.Water tank 43 is arranged on rear side of liquid food materials storage device, for placing
Water source needed for cooking flow.Water tank 43 and the outer side surface of liquid food materials Storage Box 44 post liquid food materials thermal insulation board 42, use
Heat isolation during by cooking, avoids polluting food materials and damaging food materials box.Peristaltic pump 41 is eaten installed in liquid
The lower section of material storage device 44, it is the power set that liquid food materials are delivered to pot 96 according to scheduled volume.
As shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5, it is that solid food materials feed module includes solid food materials magazine 32, tripper in the present embodiment
33 are installed on the centre of hopper 32, are connected with solid food materials feeder motor 36 by axle sleeve, and sub-material motor 35 is arranged on tripper
Food materials are delivered to discharging opening 37 by 33 centers, solid food materials by sub-material opening 34, and discharging opening 37 is used for food materials hopper
Solid food materials in 32 send pot 96 to, to realize the conveying of solid food materials.Food materials sequence of batching products conveys electricity by solid food materials
Machine 36 controls.Solid food materials thermal insulation board 31 is arranged on food materials hopper outward flange, to realize the isolation of heat.
As shown in fig. 6, including pot docking port 63 for automatic cleaning module in the present embodiment, to be located at waste liquid tank 61 central convex
Out position, for docking the opening of pot 96.High-pressure nozzle 62 is installed, high-pressure nozzle is installed on pot docking in waste liquid tank 61
63 centers of mouth, to realize the high-efficiency cleaning to pot 96.
Control of the present embodiment based on modular intelligent cooking equipment can utilize programmable logic controller (PLC) (PLC) real
It is existing, it can specifically be realized by editing corresponding program module, the control signal source of programmable logic controller (PLC) (PLC) is main
Come from the various sensor in equipment.
The specific control method of the present embodiment is as follows：
During actual use, put Auxiliary Liquid Material into liquid food materials storage device 44, put drinking water into water tank 43, will clean
Solid food materials put solid food materials hopper 32 into.Corresponding dish program is selected on control panel 2, program starts to perform：
(1) control module 5 controls the peristaltic pump 41 in liquid feedstock module 4 by the Auxiliary Liquid Material of required species according to predetermined
Amount injection pot 96.
(2) pot 96 is moved to solid by control module 5 by controlling top pot power set 97 to drive Dian Guo mechanisms 9 to move
Solid food materials are added pot 96, liquid by feeding position, solid food materials feeding mechanism 3 in sequence under the control of control module 5
Food materials pan feeding module 4 controls water tank 43 to add little water.
(3) control module 5 opens electromagnetic heating module 8, starts intelligent heating；Smoking module 7 is opened simultaneously, starts to take out
Cigarette.
(4) control module 5 drives Dian Guo mechanisms 9 to carry out elliptic motion, realizes top pot cooking, during pot of running, equipment meeting
Temperature of boiler is detected, when temperature is less than program setting temperature, control module 5 can control top pot module 9 to return to heating location, right
Pot is further continued for pot motion of running after being reheated to setting, and equipment constantly repeats above procedure, realizes the culinary art of dish.
Above-mentioned to be required according to cuisine during this, equipment can also constantly repeat the charging of solid food materials and liquid food materials
Process.After cooking process terminates, control module 5 is by controlling top pot power set 97 to drive pot 96 to be moved to vegetable outlet position
10, then control pot rotary electric machine 93 that pot 96 is turned into designated space angle and realize dish delivery.After dish delivery, mould is controlled
Block 5 coordinates control top pot modular power device 97 and pot rotary electric machine 93, and pot 96 is moved into automatic cleaning module 6, real
Existing pot connector 63 and the open butt joint of pot 96.Control module 5 controls high-pressure nozzle 62 to clean liquid and sprays into pot 96, real
Now clean, the liquid after cleaning directly is back to waste liquid tank 61.Finally, pot 96 is recovered to original position by control module 5
Put.
This equipment is finely divided flow is cooked, and is formed different modules, is then entered these modules by technological innovation
Row intellectualized reconstruction, it is final to realize the intellectuality of culinary art flow, and culinary art is become more directly simple, it is intelligent kitchen neck
Important innovations in domain and breakthrough.
Embodiment 2
For the present embodiment in addition to automated cleaning module, remaining structure is same as Example 1, as shown in fig. 7, being this implementation
In example in automatic cleaning module, pot docking port 63 is located at 61 central salient position of waste liquid tank, for docking pot 96.Waste liquid tank
Scalable sponge cleaning module 64 is installed, scalable sponge cleaning module is installed on the center of pot docking port 63, with reality in 61
Now to the high-efficiency cleaning of pot 96.
Control module 5 controls scalable sponge cleaning module 64 to stretch into pot 96, realizes and cleans, and the liquid after cleaning is straight
Take back and flow to waste liquid tank 61.
In summary, the cooking equipment of the present embodiment is finely divided flow is cooked, and is formed different modules, is then passed through
These modules are carried out intellectualized reconstruction by technological innovation, final to realize the intellectuality of culinary art flow, and culinary art is become more
It is directly simple, it is an important innovations and the breakthrough in intelligent kitchen field.
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1. one kind be based on modular intelligent cooking equipment, including frame, be provided with the frame solid food materials feed module,
Liquid food materials feed module, heating module, top pot module, cleaning module and control module, it is characterised in that the top pot mould
Block includes：
Swing span, in frame；
Rollover stand, installed in the swinging end of the swing span；
Pot, on rollover stand.
2. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that the swing span includes interval
Two parallel four-bar linkages and power source of arrangement, the rollover stand are arranged between two parallel four-bar linkages.
3. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that the rollover stand includes：
Shaft seat, one end are fixed on the swinging end of a parallel four-bar linkage, and the other end and the side of the pot rotate peace
Dress；
Drive seat, it is fixed on the swinging end of another parallel four-bar linkage；
Power source, on driving axle bed；
Driving member, it is connected with the power source；
Drive shaft, one end are connected with driving member, and the other end is fixedly connected with the opposite side of the pot.
4. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 3, it is characterised in that the liquid food materials feed mould
Block includes：
Multiple liquid food materials the storage box, provided with liquid outlet；
Hydrodynamic source, liquid feeding end are connected with each liquid outlet；
Woven hose, one end are connected with the outlet end in hydrodynamic source, and the other end is communicated in the pot.
5. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 4, it is characterised in that described shaft seat passes through sky
Core bar is rotatablely connected with described pot, the described woven hose of hollow stem one end connection, in the other end and described pot
Portion penetrates.
6. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that the solid food materials feed mould
Block includes：
Solid food materials box, include the side wall and bottom plate of circle, the opening directly over the pot is offered on the bottom plate；
Tripper, in the solid food materials box, including central shaft and it is fixed on center shaft and radially extend to
The polylith dividing plate of side wall, polylith dividing plate is circumferentially spaced to form multiple solid food materials chambers；
Central shaft drive mechanism, driving tripper are rotated so that the solid food materials chamber passes through the opening successively.
7. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that the opening of the pot is inside
Shrink.
8. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that the cleaning module includes：
Base；
Pot docking port, is arranged on base, opening upwards and matches with the opening of described pot, the pot docking port
Connected with waste collection unit；
Shower nozzle, in pot docking port, opening upwards and it is connected with cleaning solution supplying system.
9. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 8, it is characterised in that the cleaning module also wraps
Include：
Telescoping mechanism, in pot docking port；
Cleaning brush, it is connected with the output end of the telescoping mechanism and brush is upward.
10. modular intelligent cooking equipment is based on as claimed in claim 1, it is characterised in that also including smoking module, institute
Stating smoking module includes shell, the motor installed in the enclosure and the fan in the rotating shaft of the motor.
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