Automatic egg frying mechanism with flipping function

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing egg frying machines lack visibility into the frying process, requiring precise timing and result in complex mechanisms for flipping and ejecting eggs, leading to inefficiencies and potential for burnt or unevenly cooked eggs.

Innovation Solution

An automatic egg frying mechanism with a flipping function, featuring a fixing plate with upper and lower pans, where eggs are flipped using spatulas without blocking walls, and heating pipes for controlled cooking, simplifying the process and reducing apparatus complexity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If a closed frying environment is used, then cooking time is reduced, but the frying condition cannot be observed and eggs may be burnt or aged

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecooking timeVSAvoidfrying condition observability

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a transparent or translucent protective cover (thin film/shell) that allows visual observation of the frying process while maintaining a closed cooking environment. This resolves the contradiction by enabling both time efficiency and observability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

2Extent of automation

If complex flipping and ejection mechanisms are used, then egg processing is automated, but the apparatus complexity increases and time is wasted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveegg flipping automationVSAvoidapparatus complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Extent of automationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a spatula mechanism that automatically flips eggs and a simple ejection system that uses the egg's own weight and pan rotation to eject eggs. This self-service approach achieves automation without complex mechanical structures, resolving the contradiction between automation extent and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of complex mechanisms to flip and eject eggs, the patent inverts the approach by using simple pan rotation and gravity-driven ejection. The pan itself becomes the flipping and ejection mechanism through rotational movement, simplifying the overall system while maintaining automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

3Manufacturing precision

If multiple apparatus parts are used for flipping and ejection, then egg processing is more precise, but assembly complexity increases and production efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveegg processing precisionVSAvoidassembly simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates multiple functions (frying, flipping, and ejection) into a unified pan structure that performs all operations through a single rotational mechanism. This multi-functionality maintains processing precision while significantly simplifying assembly and manufacturing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the flipping spatula and ejection mechanisms into the pan structure itself, combining multiple separate apparatus parts into a single integrated unit. This merging reduces assembly complexity and improves production efficiency while maintaining the precision needed for proper egg processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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

This solution allows for efficient, visually monitored egg frying with improved cooking quality and reduced labor costs, ensuring consistent taste and appearance while saving time and space.

Implementation Method 1

heating pipes are inserted into the heating pipe holes to directly heat egg frying surfaces for egg frying

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHeating: Heating

Implementation Method 2

when the upper spatula is pushed to push fried eggs from the egg outlet of the upper pan to the lower pan, the fried eggs naturally fall down to achieve flipping

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectGravity: Gravitation

Data Source

PatentUS20240197117A1Automatic egg frying mechanism with flipping function

Publication Date: 2024.06.20 DONGGUAN YUWEI FOOD MASCH TECH CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is an automatic egg frying mechanism with a flipping function. The automatic egg frying mechanism with a flipping function includes a fixing plate, where an upper pan and a lower pan are fixedly arranged on the fixing plate, egg outlets are formed in the upper pan and the low pan, and the egg outlet of the upper pan is positioned above the lower pan. Moreover, an upper spatula is arranged in the upper pan, and a lower spatula is arranged in the lower pan. Compared with the prior art, in the present disclosure, the egg frying condition can be observed, eggs are flipped and taken out of the pan without manual operation or complex apparatuses, and used parts are simple and convenient to assemble, such that an egg frying speed is improved, and egg frying time is saved.