Built-in kitchen appliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Built-in kitchen appliances, particularly those with fixed cooking chambers, face challenges in providing easy access to the cooking chamber, monitoring food during cooking, and ensuring easy cleaning, due to limited vertical space and obstructed access openings.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a locking element that moves both translationally and pivotally, allowing sequential or combined movements to enhance access to the interior, featuring translational and pivoting mechanisms, telescopic rails, and a push-to-open mechanism for easy operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a closing element is designed to move only translationally or only pivotally, then the structure is simpler, but the sealing effectiveness and adaptability to different opening positions are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines translational and pivotal movements into a single closing element mechanism. The closing element is designed to perform both types of movement simultaneously or sequentially, merging two movement modes into one integrated system that achieves better sealing while maintaining reasonable structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The closing element is designed with dynamic capabilities to adapt its movement pattern. It can transition between translational and pivotal movements depending on the required sealing position, allowing the mechanism to optimize sealing effectiveness for different opening positions without requiring multiple separate components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the closing element is fixed in position, then the structure is simpler, but the ability to accommodate different opening positions and maintain sealing is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The closing element incorporates dynamic adjustment capabilities through combined translational and pivotal movements. This allows the element to adapt to different opening positions by changing its position and orientation, providing versatility without requiring multiple separate adjustable components.
Solution Approach 2:
The closing element is designed to perform multiple functions: it can seal at different positions, accommodate various opening angles, and maintain effective sealing across different operational conditions. This multi-functionality is achieved through the integrated translational and pivotal movement capability.
3Reliability
If the closing element moves only in one direction, then the mechanism is simpler, but the sealing effectiveness across different positions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges translational and pivotal movements into a unified closing element operation. This combination allows the element to achieve effective sealing at multiple positions while maintaining a relatively simple operational interface, as the combined movement is integrated into a single actuation system.
Solution Approach 2:
The closing element employs dynamic movement patterns that adapt to sealing requirements. The element can transition between translational and pivotal movements as needed, providing effective sealing across different positions while maintaining ease of operation through integrated control.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a built-in kitchen appliance (1) with an interior (11) designed to hold at least one cooking vessel and/or at least one food item, and with a closing element (2) designed to close the interior (11). The built-in kitchen appliance (1) is characterized in that the closing element (2) is designed to be moved both translationally and pivotally.