CN211985058U - Electric control device assembly and cooking utensil with same - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an electrically controlled device subassembly and have its cooking utensil, the electrically controlled device subassembly includes fan and fan support, the tip of fan is provided with the mounting hole, fan support is provided with the receiving part, the receiving part has the tip opening in first end department, the fan gets into and spacing in the receiving part via the tip opening, the receiving part is provided with the buckle in the second end department relative with first end, the knot end of buckle extends along the direction of inserting with the fan vertically, the knot end extends and gets into in the mounting hole. The utility model provides an electrically controlled device subassembly can block the fan through the buckle and remove along the direction rather than inserting opposite direction to can avoid the fan to deviate from fan bracket with the fan joint on fan bracket.

Description

Electric control device assembly and cooking utensil with same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, and more specifically relate to an electrically controlled device subassembly and have its cooking utensil.

Background

A pot body of an existing cooking appliance is generally provided therein with a circuit board mounted therein through a circuit board base and a fan for dissipating heat, the fan being generally mounted on the circuit board base by means of fasteners such as screws. The installation mode of the fan is inconvenient and tedious in assembly process, and the screws are easy to lose.

Therefore, there is a need for an electric control device assembly and a cooking appliance having the same to at least partially solve the problems in the prior art.

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, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electric control device assembly including:

the fan is provided with a mounting hole at the end part; and

the fan support is provided with a receiving part, the receiving part is provided with an end opening at a first end, the fan enters and is limited in the receiving part through the end opening, a buckle is arranged at a second end opposite to the first end of the receiving part, the buckle end of the buckle extends along the direction vertical to the inserting direction of the fan, and the buckle end extends into the mounting hole.

According to this scheme, can block the fan through the buckle and remove along the opposite direction rather than the direction of inserting to can avoid the fan to deviate from fan bracket with fan joint on fan bracket, assembly process is simple, need not be with the help of fasteners such as screw.

Optionally, the elastic arm of the buckle is connected with the wall of the receiving part, and the elastic arm extends along the insertion direction of the fan. Therefore, the buckle can be conveniently arranged on the fan bracket.

Optionally, the wall body is provided with a buckle opening, and the buckle is arranged in the buckle opening, so that the structure of the fan bracket can be simplified, and the fan bracket is convenient to process and manufacture; and/or

The elastic arm is arranged lower than the inner surface of the wall body, so that the fan can be conveniently inserted into the buckling position.

Optionally, the receiving portion is provided with the buckle at both corners of the second end portion, and the fan is provided with the mounting hole corresponding to the buckle position. Thereby, the fan can be further blocked from moving in the direction opposite to the insertion direction thereof.

Optionally, the wall body of the receiving part comprises a bottom wall, a side wall connected with the bottom wall and a top wall connected with the side wall, and the buckle is arranged on at least one of the bottom wall, the side wall and the top wall. Thus, the degree of freedom in designing the electric control device assembly can be improved.

Optionally, the buckle is disposed on the top wall, and the buckle end and the mounting hole both extend vertically. Therefore, the buckle can hook the fan from the upper part of the fan.

Optionally, the wall further comprises an end wall at the second end, the end of the fan abutting the end wall. Thereby, the movement of the fan in the insertion direction can be blocked.

Optionally, the shape of the fastening end is matched with that of the mounting hole, so that the fan can be clamped on the fan bracket more firmly; and/or

The size of the buckle end extending into the mounting hole is 3 mm-6 mm, so that the buckle end can conveniently enter the mounting hole.

Optionally, the fan assembly further comprises a circuit board and a circuit board support located above the fan support, the circuit board support is connected with the fan support, and the circuit board is arranged on the circuit board support. Therefore, the fan can radiate heat to the circuit board.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance comprising an electrical control device assembly according to any one of the above aspects.

According to the scheme, the electric control device assembly in the cooking appliance can block the fan to move along the direction opposite to the inserting direction of the fan through the buckle on the fan support of the electric control device assembly, so that the fan can be clamped on the fan support, the fan is prevented from being separated from the fan support, the assembling process is simple, and the electric control device assembly is not required to be used with the help of fasteners such as screws.

Drawings

The following drawings of the present invention are used herein as part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings embodiments of the invention and the description thereof for the purpose of illustrating the devices and principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

fig. 1 is a perspective view of an electrically controlled device assembly in an inverted state according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is another perspective view of the electrical control device assembly shown in FIG. 1 with the fan and circuit board removed;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a portion of the electrically operated device assembly shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 5 is a side view of the electrically controlled device assembly shown in fig. 1.

Description of the reference numerals

100: the electronic control device assembly 110: circuit board

120: the circuit board support 130: fan with cooling device

131: mounting hole 140: fan support

141: first end portion 142: second end portion

150: receiving unit 151: end opening

152: wall 153: bottom wall

154: side wall 155: roof wall

156: top wall opening 157: end wall

158: snap opening 160: buckle

161: buckle end 162: elastic arm

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 the present 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 the present invention.

In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent that the practice of the invention is not limited to the specific details known to those skilled in the art. The present invention is described in detail below with reference to the preferred embodiments, however, the present invention can have other embodiments in addition to the detailed description, and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

It is to be understood that the terms "a," "an," and "the" as used herein are intended to describe specific embodiments only and are not to be taken as limiting the invention, which is intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. When the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right" and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and are not limiting.

Ordinal words such as "first" and "second" are referred to in this application as labels only, and do not have any other meanings, such as a particular order, etc. Also, for example, the term "first component" does not itself imply the presence of "second component", and the term "second component" does not itself imply the presence of "first component".

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate representative embodiments of the present invention and do not limit the present invention.

Generally, a cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker includes a pot body and a lid. The pot body is substantially in a rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a cylindrical inner pot accommodating portion. The inner pot can be fixedly arranged at the inner pot containing part, or can be freely put into the inner pot containing part or taken out from the inner pot containing part, so that the inner pot can be conveniently cleaned. The inner pot is generally made of a metal material and has a circular opening on an upper surface for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc. The cooker body comprises a heating device for heating the inner pot so as to heat the inner pot. It can be understood that according to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil can be electric rice cooker, electric pressure cooker or other cooking utensil, and cooking utensil except having the function of cooking rice, can also have various functions such as cooking congee. An electrically controlled device such as a circuit board 110, a fan 130, etc. (fig. 1) may be provided in the pot body for accomplishing several electrically controlled operations of the cooking appliance.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the present invention provides an electric control device assembly 100, wherein the electric control device assembly 100 can be installed in a cooker body for realizing a plurality of electric control operations of a cooking appliance.

As shown in fig. 1, the electronic control device assembly 100 may include a circuit board 110, a circuit board bracket 120, a fan 130, and a fan bracket 140. The circuit board 110 can be mounted on a circuit board support 120, which is disposed in the pot body through the circuit board support 120. The fan 130 may be disposed under the circuit board 110 by means of a fan bracket 140. In the illustrated embodiment, the electronic control device assembly 100 is shown in an inverted position. Directional terms used herein in describing the electronic control device assembly 100, such as "top," "bottom," "upper," "lower," "above," "below," "up," "down," etc., are relative to the electronic control device assembly 100 in a mounted state with the fan 130 disposed below the circuit board 110.

As shown in fig. 2, the circuit board support 120 has a substantially plate-shaped structure and may be disposed in a first direction. The first direction may be a vertical direction, an oblique direction, or the like. The circuit board support 120 is described herein as extending vertically. The circuit board 110 may be mounted on one side of the circuit board bracket 120 extending in the vertical direction by a fastener such as a screw. The fan bracket 140 may be disposed under the circuit board bracket 120 and coupled to the circuit board bracket 120. The fan bracket 140 may generally extend in a second direction, which may be a horizontal direction, an oblique direction, or the like. The fan bracket 140 is described herein as extending in a horizontal direction as an example. The fan bracket 140 can be configured such that the fan 130 can be received therein without being blocked above and below the location of the fan blades of the fan 130.

Specifically, the fan bracket 140 may be provided with a receiving portion 150, and the receiving portion 150 may be a symmetrical structure having a shape that can be adapted to the shape of the fan 130. The receptacle 150 may have an end opening 151 at the first end 141, and the fan 130 may enter through the end opening 151 and be at least partially retained within the receptacle 150, in this embodiment, the fan 130 is plugged onto the fan support 140.

The receiving part 150 has a wall body 152, and the wall body 152 may include a bottom wall 153, a side wall 154 connected to the bottom wall 153, and a top wall 155 connected to the side wall 154, in the illustrated embodiment, two side walls 154 are respectively disposed at both sides of the top wall 155, and the bottom wall 153 is connected at each side wall 154. The two bottom walls 153 are spaced apart and a top wall opening 156 is provided at the top wall 155 to facilitate venting. The upper surface of the fan 130 can abut against the top wall 155, the lower surface of the fan 130 can abut against the bottom wall 153, and the side surface of the fan 130 can abut against the side wall 154. Wall 152 may also include an end wall 157 at second end 142 opposite first end 141. An end of the fan 130 can abut the end wall 157.

In this embodiment, the fan 130 is mounted in the receiving portion 150 of the fan bracket 140 by snap-fitting. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, an end of the fan 130 can be provided with a mounting hole 131. The receiving portion 150 can be provided with a catch 160 at a second end 142 opposite the first end 141. The catching end 161 of the catch 160 may extend in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction of the fan 130, and the catching end 161 can extend into the mounting hole 131. In this embodiment, the latch 160 can block the fan 130 from moving in the direction opposite to the insertion direction, so that the fan 130 can be latched to the fan bracket 140 to prevent the fan 130 from being separated from the fan bracket 140.

The resilient arms 162 of the catch 160 can be connected with the wall 152 of the receptacle 150, and the catch 160 can be constructed in one piece with the wall 152. The elastic arm 162 may extend in an insertion direction with the fan 130. The length L1 (FIG. 4) of the resilient arm 162 may be any value between 4mm and 6mm, such as 4mm, 4.2mm, 4.6mm, 5.0mm, 5.2mm, 5.4mm, 5.8mm, 6 mm. The elastic arm 162 is elastically deformable in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction. The wall 152 is provided with a catch opening 158, and a catch 160 is provided in the catch opening 158. The resilient arms 162 can be below the inner surface of the wall 152. The catch 160 may be disposed on at least one of the bottom wall 153, the side wall 154, and the top wall 155 of the wall 152. In the illustrated embodiment, the catch 160 can be provided on the top wall 155, in particular, the top wall 155 is provided with a catch opening 158 adjacent to the side wall 154, the catch opening 158 being located above the bottom wall 153. The mounting hole 131 can be covered by the bottom wall 153 in a state where the fan 130 is plugged to the fan bracket 140. A catch 160 is disposed adjacent the side wall 154 and is positioned in the catch opening 158.

The mounting hole 131 may be a through hole or a counter bore extending in the vertical direction, in other words, the mounting hole 131 may be a through hole or a counter bore extending in the thickness direction of the fan 130. The buckle end 161 and the mounting hole 131 may extend in the same direction, for example, vertically. The shape of the buckle end 161 is matched with the shape of the mounting hole 131; the shape of the mounting hole 131 may be a cylindrical hole, a square-cylindrical hole, or another suitably shaped hole. The illustrated embodiment shows the mounting hole 131 as a cylindrical hole and the buckle end 161 may be cylindrical in shape. The dimension L2 (fig. 4) of the buckle end 161 that extends into the mounting hole 131 can be any value between 3mm and 6mm, such as 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, 6 mm.

As shown in fig. 5, the receiving portion 150 may be provided with a snap opening 158 and a snap 160 in the snap opening 158 at both corners of the second end 142. The fan 130 is provided with a mounting hole 131 corresponding to the position of the catch 160. It can be seen from above the snap opening 158 whether the snap end 161 of the snap 160 is located in the mounting hole 131.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a cooking appliance is provided, which comprises the above-mentioned electric control device assembly 100. The electric control device assembly 100 in the cooking appliance can block the fan 130 from moving in the direction opposite to the insertion direction of the fan 130 through the buckle 160 on the fan support 140 of the electric control device assembly 100, so that the fan 130 can be limited on the fan support 140, the fan 130 is prevented from being separated from the fan support 140, the assembly process is simple, and fasteners such as screws are not used.

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 "part," "member," 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. Furthermore, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that many more modifications and variations can be made in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, all of which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims (10)

1. An electrically controlled device assembly, comprising:

the fan (130), the end of the said fan (130) has mounting holes (131); and

the fan support (140), the fan support (140) is provided with a receiving part (150), the receiving part (150) is provided with an end opening (151) at a first end part (141), the fan (130) enters and is limited in the receiving part (150) through the end opening (151), the receiving part (150) is provided with a buckle (160) at a second end part (142) opposite to the first end part (141), a buckle end (161) of the buckle (160) extends along a direction perpendicular to the inserting direction of the fan (130), and the buckle end (161) extends into the mounting hole (131).

2. An electric control device assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the resilient arm (162) of the catch (160) is connected with the wall (152) of the receiving portion (150), the resilient arm (162) extending in the insertion direction with the fan (130).

3. The electrically controlled device assembly of claim 2,

the wall (152) is provided with a snap opening (158), the snap (160) being provided in the snap opening (158); and/or

The resilient arms (162) are disposed below an inner surface of the wall (152).

4. The electric control device assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the receiving portion (150) is provided with the catch (160) at both corners of the second end portion (142), and the fan (130) is provided with the mounting hole (131) corresponding to the position of the catch (160).

5. The electrically controlled device assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall (152) of the receptacle (150) comprises a bottom wall (153), a side wall (154) connected to the bottom wall (153) and a top wall (155) connected to the side wall (154), the catch (160) being provided on at least one of the bottom wall (153), the side wall (154) and the top wall (155).

6. The electrically control device assembly according to claim 5, characterized in that said catch (160) is provided on said top wall (155), said catch (160) and said mounting hole (131) each extending vertically.

7. The electrically control device assembly of claim 5, wherein said wall (152) further comprises an end wall (157) at said second end (142), said end of said fan (130) abutting said end wall (157).

8. The electrically controlled device assembly of claim 1,

the shape of the buckle end (161) is matched with that of the mounting hole (131); and/or

The size of the buckle end (161) extending into the mounting hole (131) is 3-6 mm.

9. The electrically controlled device assembly according to claim 1, further comprising a circuit board (110) and a circuit board support (120) located above the fan support (140), the circuit board support (120) being connected to the fan support (140), the circuit board (110) being disposed on the circuit board support (120).

10. A cooking appliance, characterized in that it comprises an electric control device assembly (100) according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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