Cooking equipment having smoking function
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking appliances that incorporate smoking functions require users to manually prepare and remove smoking chips, leading to cumbersome processes and inconsistent flavor due to variable chip amounts.
Innovation Solution
A cooking appliance with a smoking module that includes a capsule placement unit, smoke generation unit, and smoke transfer unit, allowing for easy insertion and removal of smoking chips, with a combustion heater to heat the chips and a blower to control smoke direction, ensuring consistent smoke distribution within the cooking chamber.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually prepare and remove smoking chips, then the smoking function can be achieved, but the operation process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs disposable smoking capsules that are pre-filled with smoking chips. Users simply insert the entire capsule into the cooking appliance, and after use, the entire capsule is removed and discarded. This eliminates the need for users to manually prepare, measure, and clean up smoking chips, significantly reducing operational complexity and time consumption while ensuring consistent smoking results.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the amount of smoking chips varies, then different flavors can be achieved, but flavor consistency becomes inconsistent
Solution Approach 1:
The smoking capsules are pre-filled with a precise, predetermined amount of smoking chips during manufacturing. This preliminary action ensures that each capsule contains exactly the right quantity needed for consistent smoking results. Users do not need to measure or adjust the chip amount, eliminating variability and ensuring flavor consistency across different cooking sessions while still offering variety through different capsule types.
3Ease of operation
If smoking chips are contained in a capsule, then insertion and removal becomes simple, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The capsule design serves multiple functions simultaneously: it contains the smoking chips, provides a insertion/removal interface for the user, and includes structural features (such as positioning elements and heat transfer surfaces) that ensure proper positioning and effective smoking. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, minimizing overall device complexity while maintaining ease of operation.
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
Enables efficient and consistent smoking of food by encapsulating smoking chips, simplifying the cooking process and maintaining flavor consistency without the need for manual chip adjustment or removal.
Implementation Method 1
a combustion heater that is movable between a protrusion position in which the combustion heater protrudes toward the seating groove to penetrate an end of the capsule placed in the capsule placement unit
Implementation Method 2
a blower arranged in the smoke passage to control a movement direction of the smoke
Data Source
AI summary
A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber having a cooking space in which an object to be cooked is placeable, a heating member configured to heat the object based on the object being placed in the cooking chamber, and a smoking module configured to smoke the object placed in the cooking chamber, wherein the smoking module includes: a capsule placement unit in which a capsule containing smoking chips is insertable and placeable therein; a smoke generation unit configured to penetrate one end of the capsule based on the capsule being paced in the capsule placement unit and heat the smoking chips inside the capsule such that smoke is generated from the smoking chips; and a smoke transfer unit configured to transfer the smoke generated from the smoking chips to the cooking chamber.