Cooking equipment

Abstract

The cooking equipment comprises a machine body, a pot body, a pot covering assembly and a filling assembly, the machine body is provided with a pot containing area used for containing the pot body, the pot covering assembly is connected with the machine body and can do first movement and second movement so as to be close to and away from the pot containing area respectively, and the filling assembly comprises a temporary storage bin arranged on the pot covering assembly and connected with a storage device. The first movement is used for locking the pot body by the pot covering assembly and forming a food material feeding path between the temporary storage bin and the pot body, and the second movement is used for separating the pot covering assembly from the temporary storage bin so that the pot body can be moved away from the pot placing area.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to life electric appliance technical field, especially a kind of cooking equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] The existing integrated cooking equipment integrates automatic food material filling function and basic cooking function, saves a lot of time for users by replacing manual filling and cooking food material. The traditional integrated cooking equipment has complex structure and cramped space, and users need to spend more time in placing the cooking pot in the specified position and closing the cooking pot before cooking, and in unlocking and opening the cooking pot and moving away from the cooking pot after cooking to pour out dishes and clean the cooking pot. The above-mentioned operations are not easy and convenient and consume physical strength. SUMMARY

[0003] Therefore, the utility model provides a cooking equipment which is more easy and convenient to use, to reduce the time and physical strength consumption of pre-cooking preparation and post-cooking finishing work.

[0004] The cooking equipment includes a body, a pot, a pot cover assembly and a filling assembly. The body has a pot placement area for placing the pot. The pot cover assembly is connected to the body and can be moved to approach and move away from the pot placement area respectively. The filling assembly includes a buffer warehouse provided on the pot cover assembly and connected to a preservation device. The first movement is used to lock the pot by the pot cover assembly and form a food material dropping path between the buffer warehouse and the pot. The second movement is used to separate the pot cover assembly from the pot by the buffer warehouse so that the pot can be moved away from the pot placement area.

[0005] The cooking equipment integrates automatic food material filling, automatic opening and locking of the pot and basic cooking function, and can replace manual opening and locking of the pot. At the moment when the pot cover assembly completes the first movement, the pot in the pot placement area is locked by the pot cover assembly while the food material dropping path is established. The contradiction between the pot obtaining food material and the pot being closed is solved in the existing similar products, and the user does not need to manually close the pot after the pot obtains food material. At the moment when the pot cover assembly completes the second movement, the pot cover assembly is unlocked and the pot is opened, which drives the buffer warehouse to move away from the pot. The user does not need to manually open the pot, and the pot can be directly moved away from the pot placement area, thereby reducing the time and physical strength consumption of pre-cooking preparation and post-cooking finishing work.

[0006] In some embodiments, the pot cover assembly includes a pot cover driving member and a pot cover piece. The pot cover driving member is installed on the body and connected to the pot cover piece. The buffer warehouse is provided on the pot cover piece. The pot cover piece is driven by the pot cover driving member to perform the first movement and the second movement to lock and unlock the pot.

[0007] In some embodiments, the cache bin is arranged at a side of the cover pot member away from the pot placement area, the cover pot member is provided with a first drain opening, and the other side of the cover pot member is used to abut and lock the pot body, the inner cavity of the cache bin and the first drain opening are in communication with the cavity of the pot body to form a food material feeding path.

[0008] In some embodiments, the filling assembly further comprises a passageway blocking switch member movably arranged in the cover pot member, the passageway blocking switch member is used to open and close the first drain opening to switch the food material feeding path between the unblocked state and the blocked state.

[0009] In some embodiments, the cache bin comprises a cache funnel plugged in the first drain opening, the passageway blocking switch member comprises a passageway blocking piston extending into the cache funnel, the food material feeding path is blocked when the passageway blocking piston is in a material draining passage of the cache funnel, and the food material feeding path is unblocked when the passageway blocking piston extends out of the material draining passage.

[0010] In some embodiments, the passageway blocking piston comprises a material draining slope, the material draining passage opening and the material draining slope are oppositely arranged when the passageway blocking piston extends out of the material draining passage, and the distance between the material draining passage opening and the material draining slope increases along the radial direction of the material draining passage.

[0011] In some embodiments, the cooking device further comprises a detachable cover detachably mounted on the opening of the pot body, the food material feeding path further comprises a food material inlet formed in the detachable cover, and when the cover pot member performs the first movement until abutting against the detachable cover, the cover pot member locks the pot body and the food material inlet is in communication with the first drain opening.

[0012] In some embodiments, the cover pot member is provided with a steam discharge opening, the detachable cover is further provided with a steam outlet, and the cooking device further comprises a steam pipe connected to the cover pot member, the cavity of the pot body, the steam outlet, the steam discharge opening and the steam pipe are in communication, and the steam pipe is in deformable communication with the outside of the machine body.

[0013] In some embodiments, the machine body comprises a top plate and a bottom plate arranged at intervals along the vertical direction, a pot placement area and a taking and placing passage in communication with the pot placement area are formed between the top plate and the bottom plate, the taking and placing passage is used for the pot body to pass through so that the pot body reaches and leaves the pot placement area, and the cover pot member is driven by the cover pot driving member to perform the first movement and the second movement along the vertical direction.

[0014] In some embodiments, the machine body further comprises a cooking table used for carrying the pot body, and the cooking table is horizontally and slidably arranged on the bottom plate, and the pot body reaches and leaves the pot placement area by following the cooking table.

[0015] In some embodiments, one of the top plate and the cover pot member is provided with a guide column, and the other is provided with a guide sleeve sleeved with the guide column, and the guide column and the guide sleeve form a connection relatively slidable along the vertical direction.

[0016] In some embodiments, the filling assembly further comprises a conveying member connecting the buffer bin and the preservation device, the conveying member being configured to provide a conveying force to convey the food material from the preservation device to the buffer bin.

[0017] In some embodiments, the conveying member comprises a suction member disposed on the cover pot assembly, and further comprises a deformable food material suction pipe and an exhaust pipe, the food material suction pipe connecting the preservation device and the buffer bin, the suction member connecting the buffer bin and the exhaust pipe, and the exhaust pipe connecting the machine body and being in communication with the outside of the machine body.

[0018] In some embodiments, the cooking device further comprises a rice tank and a water tank, and the filling assembly further comprises a deformable first suction pipe and a second suction pipe, the first suction pipe connecting the rice tank and the buffer bin, the cover pot member being provided with a second leakage opening, and the second suction pipe connecting the water tank and the second leakage opening. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0019] Figure 1 FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0020] Figure 2 FIG. 2 is a partial structure view of the cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0021] Figure 3 FIG. 3 is a structure view of a cover pot member and a detachable cover of the cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0022] Figure 4 FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0023] Figure 5 FIG. 5 is a partial structure view of the cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application. Figure 4 FIG. 6 is a partial structure view of the cooking device according to an embodiment of the present application.

[0024] Reference signs: 10, machine body; 11, top plate; 12, bottom plate; 13, cooktop; 131, electromagnetic heating portion; 14, guide rail; 15, guide sleeve; 20, pot body; 21, cavity; 22, open end; 23, detachable cover; 2311, first inlet; 2312, second inlet; 232, steam outlet; 30, cover pot assembly; 31, cover pot driving member; 32, cover pot member; 321, first leakage opening; 322, second leakage opening; 323, steam discharge opening; 33, guide column; 41, buffer bin; 411, buffer hopper; 412, material leakage channel; 42, suction member; 43, food material suction pipe; 431, first suction pipe; 432, second suction pipe; 44, exhaust pipe; 451, material leakage piston; 4511, material leakage inclined surface; 452, blockage driving push rod; 51, rice tank; 52, water tank; 61, steam pipe. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments of the present application. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all the other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work fall within the scope of the present application.

[0026] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present application belongs. The terminology used in the description of the application herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application. As used herein, the term "and / or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

[0027] The present application provides a cooking equipment, in particular, an integrated cooking equipment with automatic food material adding function, automatic unlocking and opening and closing and locking pot body 20 function and basic cooking function, which can replace manual cooking operation, pre-cooking preparation work and post-cooking finishing work, thereby saving a lot of time for users. The cooking operation includes heating food materials to make the food materials mature, the pre-cooking preparation work includes quantitatively obtaining and temporarily storing the food materials to be cooked, adding the food materials to be cooked into the pot body 20, and further including closing and locking the pot body 20 after the food materials are added, and the post-cooking finishing work includes unlocking and opening the pot body 20.

[0028] Referring to Figures 1-2 The cooking equipment of the present application comprises a machine body 10, a pot body 20, a pot closing assembly 30 and an adding assembly. The machine body 10 is a hollow box or cabinet, comprising a top plate 11 and a bottom plate 12 arranged at intervals in the vertical direction. A pot placing area and a taking and placing passage are formed between the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 and are connected. The pot placing area is a designated area where the pot body 20 is heated and cooks food materials. The taking and placing passage penetrates the machine body 10 to facilitate the user to move the pot body 20 from outside the machine body 10 into the pot placing area, or to take the pot body 20 out of the pot placing area. The pot closing assembly 30 is connected to the machine body 10 and can be moved in a first motion and a second motion. When the pot closing assembly 30 is moved in the first motion, it gradually approaches the pot placing area. When the pot closing assembly 30 is moved in the second motion, it gradually moves away from the pot placing area. The adding assembly comprises a conveying member and a buffer warehouse 41. The conveying member is connected to a preservation device and the buffer warehouse 41. The buffer warehouse 41 is arranged on the pot closing assembly 30. The preservation device is used for long-term storage of food materials and has a food material preservation function. The conveying member is used for conveying food materials from the preservation device to the buffer warehouse 41. The buffer warehouse 41 can quantitatively obtain food materials to be cooked according to the user's food amount and temporarily store these food materials.

[0029] Further, referring to Figure 1 and Figure 4The machine body 10 further comprises a cooking table 13 for carrying the pot body 20 and a guide rail 14 arranged inside the machine body 10, the cooking table 13 comprises an electromagnetic heating part 131 for heating the pot body 20, in other embodiments, the electromagnetic heating part 131 can also be replaced by other types of heating parts. The guide rail 14 is in sliding fit with the cooking table 13, the extension direction of the guide rail 14 is the same as the extension direction of the taking and placing passage, both of which extend along the horizontal direction. Thus, the cooking table 13, the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 12 of the machine body 10 form an approximate drawer arrangement, the cooking table 13 can be taken out of the taking and placing passage along the guide rail 14 so as to place the pot body 20 on the cooking table 13 outside the machine body 10, and then the cooking table 13 is pushed to carry the pot body 20 into the taking and placing passage along the guide rail 14 until the pot body 20 is transported to the pot placing area by the cooking table 13. In this way, the convenience of the user to take out and put into the pot body 20 from the pot placing area is greatly improved, only pulling force and pushing force need to be applied to the cooking table 13, and the cooking table 13 is easier to push in and pull out.

[0030] The cache bin 41 can follow the first movement and the second movement of the cover and pot assembly 30. At the moment when the cover and pot assembly 30 completes the first movement, the pot body 20 in the pot placing area is covered and locked by the cover and pot assembly 30, and at the same time, the food material placing path is established between the cache bin 41 and the pot body 20, and the food material temporarily stored in the cache bin 41 can be precisely and wastelessly added to the cavity 21 of the pot body 20 through the food material placing path; the cover and pot assembly 30 is unlocked and leaves the pot body 20 in the pot placing area through the second movement, and at the same time, the cache bin 41 is also driven to separate and move away from the pot body 20 in the pot placing area, and after the pot body 20 is unlocked, it can be taken out by the user along the taking and placing passage, and when the user takes out the pot body 20 after cooking, the pot body 20 will not be interfered by the cover and pot assembly 30 and / or the cache bin 41 to hinder the movement of the pot body 20.

[0031] Referring to Figure 2 and Figure 4The conveying member includes a suction member 42, a food material suction pipe 43 and an exhaust pipe 44. The food material suction pipe 43 is a deformable structure and is connected to the preservation device and the buffer bin 41. The suction member 42 is used to provide the power required for conveying the food material from the preservation device to the buffer bin 41. The suction member 42 can be a vacuum pump in particular. The vacuum pump sucks the food material by sucking air and reducing the air pressure inside the preservation device, so that the food material enters the buffer bin 41 from the preservation device through the food material suction pipe 43. The exhaust pipe 44 is responsible for discharging the air sucked by the suction member 42 from the preservation device to the outside of the machine body 10. The food material suction pipe 43 deforms to adapt to the buffer bin 41 to follow the cover pot assembly 30 to approach or move away from the pot placing area synchronously. In the case where the suction member 42 is arranged on the cover pot assembly 30 and can follow the cover pot assembly 30 to perform the first movement and the second movement synchronously, the end of the exhaust pipe 44 away from the suction member 42 is connected to the machine body 10 and communicates with the outside of the machine body 10. The exhaust pipe 44 is a deformable structure to adapt to the suction member 42 to approach or move away from the pot placing area synchronously following the cover pot assembly 30. It can be understood that in other embodiments, the suction member 42 can also be fixedly arranged in the machine body 10. At this time, the exhaust pipe 44 can also be a non-deformable structure. The suction member 42 and the buffer bin 41 are connected by another deformable hose at this time.

[0032] In some embodiments, the cooking device is an embedded cooking device and includes the above-mentioned preservation device, so that the user does not need to additionally purchase the preservation device. Referring to Figures 1-2 The preservation device includes a rice box 51 and a water tank 52 for storing grain food material and drinking water respectively. The food material suction pipe 43 includes a first suction pipe 431 and a second suction pipe 432. The first suction pipe 431 is a deformable structure and is connected to the rice box 51 and the buffer bin 41. The second suction pipe 432 is connected to the water tank 52 and can be connected to the cavity 21 of the pot body 20. After the suction member 42 is started, the food material in the rice box 51 is sucked into the first suction pipe 431 and then enters the buffer bin 41. After the food material in the buffer bin 41 is added to the cavity 21 of the pot body 20 along the food material feeding path, the second suction pipe 432 adds water in the water tank 52 to the cavity 21 of the pot body 20 to realize the automatic rice steaming function. In other embodiments, the rice box 51 can be retained and the water tank 52 can be omitted. The cooking device can also not include the above-mentioned preservation device. The user can additionally purchase the preservation device according to personal needs and use it in combination with the cooking device.

[0033] The pot placing area is formed in the machine body 10. The pot body 20 is heated and cooks food material in the machine body 10, so that the cooking process is more quiet, and the risk of the user being scalded by the pot body 20 can be avoided. As Figures 1-2As shown, the pot covering assembly 30, the filling assembly and the preservation device are arranged in the machine body 10, and the outside of the machine body 10 is more flat, simple and beautiful. The pot covering assembly 30 performs the first movement and the second movement in the machine body 10, that is, the pot body 20 is covered and locked by the pot covering assembly 30 and the pot body 20 is unlocked and opened by the pot covering assembly 30 in the pot placing area in the machine body 10. By contrast, the existing similar products have obvious convenience defects in use. The filling of the pot body 20 with food materials and the covering and locking of the pot body 20 are contradictory. For example, after the pot body 20 placed in the machine body 10 is filled with food materials, the user needs to manually cover the pot cover on the pot body 20 and lock the pot cover and the pot body 20 by stretching the hand into the machine body 10 or needs to take out the pot body 20 from the machine body 10 first, cover the pot cover and lock the pot body 20, and then put the pot body 20 into the machine body 10 again. After cooking, the user still needs to stretch the hand into the machine body 10 to unlock and separate the pot cover and the pot body 20, and then take out the pot body 20.

[0034] Specifically, the pot covering assembly 30 includes a pot covering driving member 31 and a pot covering member 32. The pot covering driving member 31 is installed on the machine body 10 and is drivingly connected to the pot covering member 32. The buffer bin 41 is fixedly arranged on the pot covering member 32. The first movement and the second movement of the pot covering assembly 30 refer to the movement of the pot covering member 32 in the machine body 10. The pot covering member 32 is relatively close to the pot placing area under the driving of the pot covering driving member 31 to perform the first movement, until the pot covering member 32 is connected to the pot body 20 in the pot placing area and covers and locks the pot body 20. The food material placing path is established and formed at the moment when the pot covering member 32 is connected to and locked with the pot body 20. After cooking, the pot covering driving member 31 drives the pot covering member 32 to be relatively far away from the pot placing area to perform the second movement. Thus, the pot body 20 in the pot placing area is unlocked and opened by the pot covering member 32, and the buffer bin 41 is separated from and far away from the pot body 20 along with the pot covering member 32. Figure 2 、 Figures 4-5 The pot covering driving member 31 is a pot covering driving push rod installed on the top plate 11 close to the bottom plate 12. The pot covering member 32 is a plate-shaped member connected to the rod end of the pot covering driving push rod and moves along the vertical direction close to and far away from the bottom plate 12 under the driving of the pot covering driving member 31. The buffer bin 41 and the suction member 42 are both installed on the side of the pot covering member 32 close to the top plate 11. When the first movement of the pot covering member 32 ends, the distance between the pot placing area and the bottom plate 12 reaches the minimum. At this time, the pot placing area is on the side of the pot covering member 32 away from the top plate 11. The pot body 20 includes an open end 22 provided with an opening. The open end 22 is vertically arranged opposite to the top plate 11 when the pot body 20 is in the pot placing area. The opening of the pot body 20 is directed to the top plate 11 and the pot covering member 32 at this time.

[0035] In other embodiments, the lid driving member 31 can also be a driving member installed at other positions of the machine body 10, and the type of the lid driving member 31 is not limited to the driving push rod, and the first movement and the second movement are not necessarily linear movements in the vertical direction. For example, the lid driving member 31 can be a rotary motor installed in the machine body 10, the lid member 32 can be driven to rotate by the lid driving member 31 in the machine body 10, and the rotation center of the lid member 32 can be a straight line extending horizontally, i.e., the output shaft of the rotary motor extends in the horizontal direction, and the lid member 32 is fixedly connected to the output shaft of the rotary motor and moves in the first movement and the second movement in a rotating manner.

[0036] Further, referring to Figures 2-3 、 Figure 5 In some embodiments, the cooking device further comprises a detachable cover 23 detachably installed at the open end 22 of the pot body 20 and a steam pipe 61 connected to the lid member 32, the detachable cover 23 is provided with a food material inlet and a steam outlet 232 communicating with the cavity 21 of the pot body 20, the food material inlet comprises a first opening and a second opening, the detachable cover 23 is vertically arranged opposite to the lid member 32 and the bottom plate 12 when the pot body 20 is in the pot placing area, and the steam pipe 61 is a deformable structure; the buffer bin 41 and the suction member 42 are arranged on the side of the lid member 32 opposite to the pot placing area and the bottom plate 12, the lid member 32 is provided with a first leakage opening 321, a second leakage opening 322 and a steam discharge opening 323, and the lid member 32 is driven by the lid driving member 31 to move in the first movement and gradually approach the detachable cover 23 and the pot body 20, until the side of the lid member 32 facing the pot placing area and the bottom plate 12 abuts against the detachable cover 23, and the first movement ends when the lid member 32 abuts against the detachable cover 23, at this time, the inner cavity of the buffer bin 41, the first leakage opening 321, the first opening and the cavity 21 are sequentially arranged and communicated in the vertical direction to form a food material dropping path, and food materials can be efficiently and sufficiently filled into the cavity 21 in the vertical downward direction, and the cavity 21, the steam outlet 232, the steam discharge opening 323 and the steam pipe 61 are communicated to form a steam discharge path leading to the outside of the machine body 10, and then the lid driving member 31 controls the lid member 32 to maintain the abutting pressure against the detachable cover 23, and the detachable cover 23 closes the cavity 21 of the pot body 20 under the pressure of the lid member 32, and the pot body 20 is locked in the pot placing area under the pressure of the lid member 32.

[0037] The steam discharge path can discharge the steam in the pot body 20 to the outside of the machine body 10 during cooking, avoiding the steam generated during cooking from gathering in the machine body 10 to damage the cooking equipment. Before formal cooking, the user first connects the detachable cover 23 to the open end 22 of the pot body 20, and then sends the detachable cover 23 and the pot body 20 into the pot placing area through the taking and placing channel, and then the detachable cover 23 is pressed and compressed by the pot covering piece 32 on the open end 22. At the moment when the pot covering piece 32 is connected with the detachable cover 23, the food material placing path and the steam discharge path are established and formed. The detachable cover 23 arranged on the open end 22 does not affect the addition of food materials into the container cavity 21, nor does it affect the discharge of steam in the container cavity 21 to the outside.

[0038] Optionally, as shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4 , the shapes of the detachable cover 23 and the pot covering piece 32 are similar. When the pot body 20 is in the pot placing area, the open end 22 is horizontally arranged with the detachable cover 23. The detachable cover 23 closes the opening of the pot body 20 to a certain extent. The container cavity 21 is only connected with the outside of the pot body 20 through the first inlet 2311, the second inlet 2312 and the steam outlet 232. The pot covering piece 32 is driven by the pot covering driving piece 31 to perform the first movement and the second movement in the vertical linear direction. The pot covering piece 32 always maintains a horizontal state in the machine body 10. At the moment when the first movement of the pot covering piece 32 ends, the second suction pipe 432, the second inlet 2312, the second leakage opening 322 and the container cavity 21 are connected and form a water adding path at this time. The water in the water tank 52 can be added into the pot body 20 along the water adding path. At the moment when the first movement of the pot covering piece 32 ends, the pot covering piece 32 and the detachable cover 23 are arranged in a stacked manner. The pot covering piece 32 further closes the opening of the pot body 20. The edge of the detachable cover 23 is sealed and matched with the edge of the opening of the pot body 20 under the pressing force of the pot covering piece 32. The horizontal arrangement of the pot covering piece 32 and the detachable cover 23 helps to improve the sealing performance of the opening of the pot body 20.

[0039] Optionally, in order to better adapt to the movement of the pot covering piece 32 relative to the machine body 10, the second suction pipe 432 is a deformable structure.

[0040] Optionally, in order to facilitate the water to be smoothly added from the water tank 52 to the container cavity 21 along the water adding path, referring to Figures 1-2 , the water tank 52 is placed on the side of the rice tank 51 far away from the bottom plate 12 and the ground. The height of the bottom of the water tank 52 in the vertical direction is not lower than the pot placing area. When the pot body 20 is in the pot placing area, the open end 22 of the pot body 20 is not higher than the bottom of the water tank 52 in the vertical direction. In this way, the water can enter the water adding path through the water pressure.

[0041] The detachable cover 23 is arranged to facilitate the user to use and maintain the cooking device. After the cooking is completed, the cover pot element 32 is subjected to the second movement to be separated from and away from the detachable cover 23, the pressure applied by the cover pot element 32 to the detachable cover 23 is released, the cover pot element 32 is separated from the detachable cover 23 and no longer applies the locking pressure to the pot body 20 opposite the pot area, the user can take out the detachable cover 23 and the pot body 20 through the taking and placing passage, since the detachable cover 23 is located between the cover pot element 32 and the container cavity 21 during the cooking, the food residue only adheres to the detachable cover 23, the detachable cover 23 can prevent the food residue from adhering to the cover pot element 32 and can avoid the oil and soup from splashing in the machine body 10, the user only needs to detach and clean the detachable cover 23 and does not need to detach the cover pot element 32 from the cover pot driving element 31 and clean the cover pot element 32. The cover pot element 32 applies the pressure to the detachable cover 23 in the abutting manner to firmly combine the detachable cover 23 and the pot body 20 as a whole during the cooking, avoid the internal gas pressure of the container cavity 21 from opening the detachable cover 23, and can also ensure that the pot body 20 and the cooking table 13 are relatively fixed to avoid the pot body 20 from being shaken by the boiling bubbles in the container cavity 21. In other embodiments, the detachable cover 23 can be omitted or replaced by a ring-shaped sealing element installed at the opening end 22, and the ring-shaped sealing element is sealed and connected between the cover pot element 32 and the opening end 22 after the first movement of the cover pot element 32 is completed.

[0042] Optionally, referring to Figures 1-2 Since the buffer bin 41 and the suction element 42 are installed on the cover pot element 32, the posture of the cover pot element 32 can be changed, in order to ensure that the cover pot element 32 can accurately perform the first movement and the second movement under the driving of the cover pot driving element 31, so that the cover pot element 32 can accurately abut against the detachable cover 23 to cover and lock the pot body 20, and the cover pot element 32 can effectively release the abutting and locking of the detachable cover 23 and the pot body 20, one of the top plate 11 and the cover pot element 32 is fixedly provided with a guide column 33, and the other is fixedly provided with a guide sleeve 15 sleeved with the guide column 33, the guide column 33 and the guide sleeve 15 both extend along the vertical direction and are relatively slidably connected. In this way, the sliding cooperation between the guide column 33 and the guide sleeve 15 can guide the cover pot element 32 to accurately perform the first movement and the second movement along the vertical direction, so as to avoid the movement track of the cover pot element 32 from being deviated to effectively lock and unlock the pot body 20.

[0043] Further, the filling assembly further comprises a through-plug switching element movably arranged on the cover pot element 32, the through-plug switching element is moved relative to the cover pot element 32 to open and close the first leakage hole 321, so that the food material feeding path is switched to the unblocked state when the first leakage hole 321 is opened and is switched to the blocked state when the first leakage hole 321 is closed. Referring to Figure 2 , Figures 4-5The cache bin 41 comprises a cache funnel 411 arranged on the cover pot element 32, the cache funnel 411 comprises a material leakage section inserted into the first leakage opening 321, the material leakage section forms a material leakage passage 412 inside, the opening of the material leakage passage 412 faces away from the top plate 11 and towards the bottom of the cavity 21 of the pot body 20, the blockage switching element comprises a switching driving element and a blockage piston 451 extending into the cache funnel 411, the switching driving element can be arranged on the cache bin 41 and / or the cover pot element 32, the switching driving element drives the blockage piston 451 to move relative to the cache funnel 411, when the blockage piston 451 is in the material leakage passage 412, the blockage piston 451 cooperates with the inner wall of the material leakage passage 412 to block the material leakage passage 412, the first leakage opening 321 is in a closed state, when the blockage piston 451 extends out of the material leakage passage 412, a gap is formed between the blockage piston 451 and the inner wall of the material leakage passage 412 to unblock the material leakage passage 412, the first leakage opening 321 is in an open state. The suction element 42 is connected to the cache funnel 411, when the cover pot element 32 is driven by the cover pot driving element 31 to abut against the detachable cover 23, the inner cavity of the cache funnel 411, the material leakage passage 412, the first leakage opening 321, the first inlet 2311 and the cavity 21 of the pot body 20 form a food material feeding path.

[0044] Optionally, the switching driving element can be a blockage driving push rod 452 arranged on the cache bin 41 close to the top plate 11, the blockage piston 451 is connected to the rod end of the blockage driving push rod 452, the material leakage section and the material leakage passage 412 extend along the vertical direction, the blockage driving push rod 452 drives the blockage piston 451 to move along the vertical direction, so that the blockage piston 451 reciprocates linearly relative to the material leakage passage 412 away from the end of the blockage driving push rod 452. The inner cavity of the cache funnel 411 is conical, and the distance from the inner wall surface of the cache funnel 411 to the center of the cache funnel 411 gradually decreases away from the top plate 11 and close to the bottom plate 12, the bottom of the inner cavity of the cache funnel 411 communicates with the material leakage passage 412. When the blockage piston 451 moves vertically downward and extends out of the material leakage passage 412, the end of the blockage piston 451 away from the blockage driving push rod 452 penetrates through the first inlet 2311 and the first leakage opening 321 and enters the cavity 21, while the part of the blockage piston 451 located in the material leakage passage 412 forms a material leakage gap with the inner wall of the material leakage passage 412, the food material in the cache funnel 411 can flow out of the material leakage passage 412 through the material leakage gap and fall into the cavity 21. The inner wall surface of the cache funnel 411 can guide the food material to flow faster and concentrate to the material leakage gap.

[0045] The volume of the buffer funnel 411 can be adaptively designed according to the user's appetite, for example, the volume of the buffer funnel 411 can be 90 milliliters, in this way, when the buffer funnel 411 is filled with food materials, the food materials can meet the needs of a normal adult for one meal, when the number of diners is more than one person, the delivery member can be controlled to suck food materials into the buffer funnel 411 multiple times, and every time the food materials in the buffer funnel 411 fall into the container cavity 21, the food materials are sucked into the buffer funnel 411 again until the food materials in the container cavity 21 meet the needs of multiple people for eating.

[0046] When the food materials in the buffer funnel 411 all fall into the container cavity 21, and the user no longer controls the filling assembly to obtain food materials from the preservation device, and is about to prepare the formal heating pot body 20 to start the cooking process, the user can control the blockage driving push rod 452 to drive the blockage piston 451 to vertically rise to move the blockage piston 451 close to the top plate 11 until the blockage piston 451 is adaptively connected to the inner wall surface of the material leakage passage 412 away from the one end of the blockage driving push rod 452, thereby completely blocking the material leakage passage 412. During the subsequent formal cooking process, the one end of the blockage piston 451 away from the blockage driving push rod 452 continues to maintain the state of adaptively connecting to the inner wall surface of the material leakage passage 412, in this way, the high-temperature and high-humidity gas in the container cavity 21 can be prevented from flowing into the inner cavity of the buffer funnel 411 through the material leakage passage 412, and the high-temperature and high-humidity gas can be prevented from entering the rice box 51, and the food materials in the rice box 51 are not easy to be affected by the gas during cooking and thus are not easy to deteriorate and mildew, which is helpful for long-term preservation of the food materials.

[0047] Optionally, referring to Figure 5 , the one end of the blockage piston 451 away from the blockage driving push rod 452 has a material leakage inclined surface 4511, when the one end of the blockage piston 451 away from the blockage driving push rod 452 protrudes out of the material leakage passage 412, the material leakage passage 412 opening and the material leakage inclined surface 4511 are oppositely and spaced apart, the spacing between the two is just connected to the material leakage gap, and at this time, the material leakage inclined surface 4511 and the material leakage passage 412 opening have an increasing spacing, which increases along the radial direction of the material leakage passage 412 away from the center line of the material leakage passage 412. As a preferred, when the one end of the blockage piston 451 away from the blockage driving push rod 452 protrudes out of the material leakage passage 412, the material leakage inclined surface 4511 enters the container cavity 21. In this way, the food materials in the buffer funnel 411 flow to the material leakage inclined surface 4511 through the material leakage gap, and the material leakage inclined surface 4511 can guide the food materials to fall into the container cavity 21 fully and quickly, prevent food materials from remaining on the blockage piston 451, and avoid the adverse effects of the remaining food materials on the sealing and adaptive connection between the blockage piston 451 and the inner wall surface of the material leakage passage 412.

[0048] It should be noted that the through-blockage driving push rod 452 and the through-blockage piston 451 are not the only form of the through-blockage switching piece. In other embodiments, a rotatable baffle can be used instead of the through-blockage piston 451, and a rotary motor can be used instead of the through-blockage driving push rod 452. The rotary motor is connected to the baffle and drives the baffle to rotate relative to the pot covering piece 32. The baffle can be rotated to open the first drain hole 321, so as to unblock the food material feeding path. The baffle can also be rotated to close the first drain hole 321, so as to block the food material feeding path. During the subsequent formal cooking process, the baffle continues to maintain the state of closing the first drain hole 321, so as to maintain the state of blocking the food material feeding path, and avoid the backflow of high-temperature and high-humidity gas in the cavity to the buffer bin 41 and the preservation device.

[0049] The cooking equipment greatly improves the use convenience. Before cooking starts, the user does not need to manually cover and lock the pot body 20 by putting the hand into the pot placing area, nor need to remove the pot body 20 in the pot placing area after the food material is obtained, then cover and lock the pot body 20, and then send the pot body 20 back to the pot placing area. The covering and locking of the pot body 20 are automatically completed by the pot covering assembly 30. After the pot body 20 is covered and locked, the pot body 20 can be automatically filled with food material by the filling assembly. After cooking ends, the user does not need to manually unlock and open the pot body 20 by putting the hand into the pot placing area. The unlocking and opening of the pot body 20 are automatically completed by the pot covering assembly 30. With the end of the second movement of the pot covering assembly 30, the buffer bin 41 and the pot covering piece 32 are away from the pot body 20. When the user pulls the cooktop 13 and the pot body 20 along the taking and placing channel out of the machine body 10, the pot body 20 will not be interfered by the buffer bin 41 and the pot covering piece 32.

[0050] The technical features of the above-described embodiments can be combined in any manner. To make the description concise, all possible combinations of the technical features in the above-described embodiments are not described, but as long as the combinations of the technical features do not exist contradictions, they should be considered as the scope of the present disclosure.

[0051] Those skilled in the art should understand that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the present disclosure, but not as a limitation on the present disclosure. Any appropriate changes and modifications made to the above embodiments within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure shall fall within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A cooking apparatus, characterized by, The cooking device comprises a body (10), a pot (20), a cover-pot assembly (30) and a filling assembly. The body (10) has a pot placing area for placing the pot (20). The cover-pot assembly (30) is connected to the body (10) and can be moved to approach and move away from the pot placing area respectively. The filling assembly comprises a buffer bin (41) arranged on the cover-pot assembly (30) and connected to a storage device. The first movement is used for the cover-pot assembly (30) to lock the pot (20) and form a food material feeding path between the buffer bin (41) and the pot (20). The second movement is used for the cover-pot assembly (30) to move away from the buffer bin (41) and the pot (20) so that the pot (20) is moved away from the pot placing area.

2. The cooking apparatus of claim 1, wherein, The cover-pot assembly (30) comprises a cover-pot driving member (31) and a cover-pot member (32). The cover-pot driving member (31) is arranged on the body (10) and connected to the cover-pot member (32). The buffer bin (41) is arranged on the cover-pot member (32). The cover-pot driving member (31) drives the cover-pot member (32) to perform the first movement and the second movement to lock and unlock the pot (20).

3. The cooking apparatus of claim 2, wherein, The buffer bin (41) is arranged on a side of the cover-pot member (32) away from the pot placing area. The cover-pot member (32) is provided with a first leakage opening (321). The other side of the cover-pot member (32) is used for abutting and locking the pot (20). The inner cavity of the buffer bin (41), the first leakage opening (321) and the cavity (21) of the pot (20) are connected to form the food material feeding path.

4. The cooking apparatus of claim 3, wherein The filling assembly further comprises a blockage switching member movably arranged on the cover-pot member (32). The blockage switching member is used for opening and closing the first leakage opening (321) to switch the food material feeding path between an unblocked state and a blocked state.

5. The cooking apparatus of claim 4, wherein, The buffer bin (41) comprises a buffer funnel (411) inserted into the first leakage opening (321). The blockage switching member comprises a blockage piston (451) extending into the buffer funnel (411). The food material feeding path is blocked when the blockage piston (451) is in a material leakage channel (412) of the buffer funnel (411), and is unblocked when the blockage piston (451) extends out of the material leakage channel (412).

6. The cooking apparatus of claim 5, wherein, The blockage piston (451) comprises a material leakage slope (4511). When the blockage piston (451) extends out of the material leakage channel (412), the opening of the material leakage channel (412) and the material leakage slope (4511) are arranged opposite to each other and have an increasing distance therebetween. The increasing distance increases in a direction away from the center line of the material leakage channel (412).

7. The cooking apparatus of claim 3, wherein, The cooking device further comprises a detachable cover (23) detachably mounted on the opening of the pot body (20), and the food material feeding path further comprises a food material inlet formed in the detachable cover (23), when the cover-pot component (32) performs the first movement until abutting against the detachable cover (23), the cover-pot component (32) locks the pot body (20) and the food material inlet communicates with the first leakage opening (321).

8. The cooking apparatus of claim 7, wherein, The cover-pot component (32) is provided with a steam discharge opening (323), and the detachable cover (23) is further provided with a steam outlet (232), and the cooking device further comprises a steam pipe (61) connected to the cover-pot component (32), the cavity (21) of the pot body (20), the steam outlet (232), the steam discharge opening (323) and the steam pipe (61) are in communication, and the steam pipe (61) is deformable to communicate with the outside of the machine body (10).

9. The cooking apparatus of claim 2, wherein, The machine body (10) comprises a top plate (11) and a bottom plate (12) arranged at intervals in the vertical direction, and the top plate (11) and the bottom plate (12) form the pot placing area and a taking and placing channel communicating with the pot placing area, the taking and placing channel is used for the pot body (20) to pass through so that the pot body (20) reaches and leaves the pot placing area, and the cover-pot component (32) is driven by the cover-pot driving component (31) to perform the first movement and the second movement in the vertical direction.

10. The cooking apparatus of claim 9, wherein, The machine body (10) further comprises a cooking table (13) for carrying the pot body (20), and the cooking table (13) is horizontally and slidably arranged on the bottom plate (12), and the pot body (20) reaches and leaves the pot placing area together with the cooking table (13).

11. The cooking apparatus of claim 9, wherein, One of the top plate (11) and the cover-pot component (32) is provided with a guide column (33), and the other is provided with a guide sleeve (15) sleeved on the guide column (33), and the guide column (33) and the guide sleeve (15) form a connection relatively slidable in the vertical direction.

12. The cooking apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein The filling assembly further comprises a conveying component connected between the buffer bin (41) and the preservation device, and the conveying component is used to provide conveying power to convey food materials from the preservation device to the buffer bin (41).

13. The cooking apparatus of claim 12, wherein, The conveying component comprises a suction component (42) arranged on the cover-pot assembly (30), and further comprises a deformable food material suction pipe (43) and an exhaust pipe (44), the food material suction pipe (43) is connected between the preservation device and the buffer bin (41), the suction component (42) is connected between the buffer bin (41) and the exhaust pipe (44), and the exhaust pipe (44) is connected to the machine body (10) and communicates with the outside of the machine body (10).

14. The cooking apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein The cooking device further comprises a rice box (51) and a water tank (52), the filling assembly further comprises a first deformable suction pipe (431) and a second suction pipe (432), the first suction pipe (431) communicates between the rice box (51) and the buffer bin (41), the cover-pot assembly (30) comprises a cover-pot component (32), the cover-pot component (32) is provided with a second leakage opening (322), and the second suction pipe (432) communicates between the water tank (52) and the second leakage opening (322).

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