Compact Micro Puree Machine with Rotating Platform Bowl Lift
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing home-use machines for making frozen foods and desserts are impractical due to time and effort requirements, and commercial-grade micro-puree machines are too large, expensive, and cumbersome for home use.
Innovation Solution
A compact device with a gearbox assembly, drive motor, and position motor for vertical movement, featuring a rotating blade assembly with alternating grooves for efficient processing, and a disposable bowl assembly for easy use, allowing for efficient processing of frozen ingredients into desserts and non-dessert purees.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If commercial-grade micro-puree machines are used to process frozen ingredients, then processing efficiency and capability are improved, but device size, weight, and cost increase making them impractical for home use
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into modular components including a base unit with motor and gearbox, a removable bowl assembly, and a separate blade assembly. This segmentation allows the heavy processing components to be concentrated in a compact base while the bowl can be easily removed and replaced, achieving high processing capability in a lightweight portable form.
Solution Approach 2:
The blade assembly is nested within the bowl assembly, with blades stored in a compartment inside the bowl when not in use. The bowl itself nests within the base unit during operation. This nested structure maximizes space utilization and reduces the overall device footprint while maintaining full processing functionality.
2Productivity
If commercial-grade micro-puree machines are used to process frozen ingredients, then processing efficiency and capability are improved, but device size, weight, and cost increase making them impractical for home use
Solution Approach 1:
The complex motor and gearbox assembly is extracted and contained within the base unit, separated from the bowl and blade components. This allows the complex processing mechanism to be housed in a compact, stationary base while the removable bowl and blade assembly remain simple and easy to handle, reducing overall system complexity for the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The blade assembly is designed with universal compatibility to work with different bowl types and configurations. The standardized interface between the blade assembly, bowl, and base unit allows for versatile operation with multiple blade options and bowl sizes, simplifying the system while maintaining processing efficiency across different food types.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional ice cream making machines are used, then frozen desserts can be made, but time and effort required by the user increase making them impractical
Solution Approach 1:
Ingredients are pre-frozen in the bowl before the processing operation. This preliminary freezing action eliminates the need for long churning and freezing times required by traditional ice cream machines. The pre-frozen ingredients can be quickly pureed and processed into frozen desserts in minutes rather than hours.
Solution Approach 2:
The device replicates the functionality of commercial micro-puree machines in a simplified home version. By copying the essential plunging and pureeing action of commercial machines but using a smaller scale with a removable bowl and compact motor, it achieves similar frozen dessert capabilities with significantly reduced time and effort requirements.
4Adaptability or versatility
If commercial-grade micro-puree machines are used, then various frozen foods and drinks can be prepared, but device size and portability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The device employs dynamic components including a movable blade assembly that can be lowered into the bowl and a removable bowl that can be easily detached from the base. This dynamic design allows the processing components to be compact when stored but fully functional during operation, maintaining versatility while minimizing device volume for home use.
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 device provides efficient and practical processing of frozen ingredients into various frozen foods and drinks, reducing user effort and cost while being compact and user-friendly for home use.
Implementation Method 1
a drive motor assembly, as well as a position motor. The position motor enables vertical movement of the gearbox assembly and drive motor assembly. The drive motor assembly provides power to a power shaft and coupling connected to a rotating blade assembly
Implementation Method 2
a rotating blade assembly that engages with ingredients for processing. The blade assembly comprises one or more cutting blades having alternating grooves with distinct dimensions to create a cutting profile that provides for improved power management and processing efficiencies
Data Source
AI summary
A micro puree machine including a housing, a power shaft, a bowl assembly and a platform. The power shaft extends from the housing. The bowl assembly including at least one locking bowl element. The platform includes at least one complementary locking platform element that is configured to engage the at least one locking bowl element such that rotation of the bowl assembly relative to the platform is prevented at times the bowl assembly is positioned thereon. The platform is rotatable from a first position to a second position relative to the housing such that the platform raises the bowl assembly towards the power shaft during the rotation of the bowl assembly and platform. The raising of the bowl assembly facilitates connection between the power shaft and a blade assembly that is positioned in a lid assembly on the bowl assembly.