Automatic bread maker, ingredient box and bread making method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bread makers require users to manually mix and measure ingredients and learn different compositions and baking processes for various bread types, leading to inefficiency and a high fault rate in home bread making.
Innovation Solution
An automatic bread maker with a supporting ingredient box and a sawtooth blade mechanism that pierces a film to unload ingredients into a stock bin, allowing for standardized ingredient preparation and automatic water control, simplifying the bread making process and reducing errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually mix and measure ingredients for bread making, then flexibility in ingredient selection is maintained, but time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-packages ingredients in sealed boxes with predetermined compositions and proportions. Users simply place the pre-packaged boxes into the bread maker, eliminating the need for manual measuring and mixing. The system automatically opens the boxes and dispenses ingredients during the baking process, significantly reducing preparation time while maintaining ingredient quality and consistency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users learn different compositions and baking processes for various bread types, then bread variety can be achieved, but skill requirement and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bread maker is designed with a universal control system that can handle multiple bread types and recipes through a single interface. The system includes pre-programmed baking processes for different bread varieties, and users can select desired bread types via display panel without needing to learn complex manual procedures. The system automatically adjusts parameters such as temperature, time, and ingredient dispensing based on the selected recipe.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates sensors and control mechanisms that monitor the baking process in real-time and automatically adjust parameters to ensure consistent results across different bread types. The microprocessor-based control system receives feedback from temperature sensors, humidity sensors, and other detectors to maintain optimal baking conditions, eliminating the need for user expertise in process control.
3Reliability
If manual ingredient preparation is used, then ingredient flexibility is maintained, but error rate in composition increases
Solution Approach 1:
Ingredients are pre-packaged in sealed boxes with predetermined compositions and exact proportions required for each recipe. This eliminates human error in measuring and mixing, ensuring consistent ingredient quantities. The system automatically opens these pre-packaged boxes and dispenses the correct amounts of each ingredient during the baking process, maintaining high reliability while keeping the operation simple for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical measuring and mixing operations with an automated electronic control system. Sensors, actuators, and a microprocessor work together to precisely control ingredient dispensing, mixing speed, temperature, and timing. This substitution of manual operations with automated control systems eliminates human error and ensures consistent, reliable results.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution saves time, standardizes ingredient preparation, reduces the risk of errors, and allows for mass production of bread with consistent taste, while expanding the variety of bread types that can be made.
Implementation Method 1
a sawtooth blade to pierce the ingredient box... when the ingredient box is pierced, the bread ingredient of the ingredient box is dropped down to the stock bin
Implementation Method 2
a baking pan is disposed inside the housing to mix or heat the bread ingredient
Implementation Method 3
the dough in the baking pan is fermented, make the fermentation air degassing out of the dough
Data Source
AI summary
A bread making method includes providing an automatic bread maker; providing a bread ingredient box and putting bread ingredients into a first accommodating room and packaging; placing an outer wall of the bread ingredient box face down on a hanging rack provided with a sawtooth blade above a baking pan inside the automatic break maker, causing the sawtooth blade to pierce the outer wall of the bread ingredient box and allowing the bread ingredients to drop into a stock bin for temporary storage, controlling covers of the stock bin to open as required, causing at least some of the bread ingredients to drop into the baking pan and adding water; processing the bread ingredients and the water into a working dough by mixing, stirring and kneading, to provide a first dough; resting, fermenting and degassing the first dough; heating and baking the first dough in the baking pan.