Automatic cooking machine capable of preventing ingredients from sticking to the bottom or burning while cooking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Restaurants and beverage stores face challenges with labor-intensive cooking processes, including ingredient preparation, fatigue, accidents, and food waste due to the need for continuous cooking and reheating, which is exacerbated by high turnover rates and the limitations of manual preparation methods.
Innovation Solution
An automatic cooking machine with a cooking pot, strainer, and blender system that includes a driving element with bended arms to rotate the blender, allowing for controlled cooking and blending, and a blocking mechanism to manage ingredient timing and quantity, preventing sticking and burning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If ingredients are cooked in advance to fulfill orders after business hours, then productivity is improved, but ingredients may stick or burn during cooking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a rotating blender assembly with multiple blending arms that dynamically moves during the cooking process. The rotation mechanism allows the blending arms to continuously agitate the ingredients, preventing them from sticking to the bottom of the cooking pot while maintaining consistent cooking conditions. This dynamic action resolves the contradiction by enabling advance cooking without sticking or burning.
2Manufacturing precision
If manual cooking preparation is performed to ensure ingredient quality, then manufacturing precision is improved, but loss of time increases due to extensive preparation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an automatic cooking machine that performs ingredient preparation, cooking, and blending operations autonomously. The system includes automated components such as a rotating blender assembly, heating elements, and control mechanisms that operate without continuous manual intervention. This self-service capability maintains ingredient preparation quality while significantly reducing the time and labor required compared to manual cooking methods.
3Productivity
If continuous cooking and reheating is performed to meet demand, then productivity is improved, but loss of substance increases due to food waste
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a continuous cooking and blending system where the blender assembly rotates continuously or intermittently throughout the cooking process. This continuous action ensures uniform cooking and prevents ingredients from sticking or burning, which would otherwise require disposal. The system can cook large batches of ingredients in advance without waste, and the consistent blending action maintains ingredient quality throughout the cooking duration, enabling productive operations without excessive food waste.
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AI summary
An automatic cooking machine includes: a cooking pot; a strainer, arranged to be capable of being placed in the cooking pot to receive ingredients, wherein a bottom and sidewalls of the strainer are provided with multiple filter pores; a driving element having two bended driving arms, respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the driving element, wherein free ends of the two driving arms substantially extend downwards; and a blender having two cantilever arms, respectively arranged at two opposite sides of a top portion of the blender; and multiple blending arms, respectively extending outwards from a main body of the blender; wherein the two driving arms of the driving element are arranged to operably touch and push the two cantilever arms of the blender to drive the blender to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.