Cooking equipment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cooking equipment controllers are prone to damage during assembly or disassembly, especially when operators cannot visually guide tools due to their placement above a cooking space, leading to potential damage from tool contact.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a guide rib on the controller's guide panel that is inclined downward to support and guide tools, ensuring they enter through a specific opening and avoid direct contact with the case, thereby preventing damage during assembly and disassembly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the controller is positioned above the cooking space to save installation space and provide ventilation function, then the cooking equipment can cook food more conveniently and efficiently, but the operator cannot visually guide tools during assembly or disassembly, leading to potential damage to the controller

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinstallation space utilizationVSAvoidcontroller assembly/disassembly safety

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The guide panel acts as an intermediary component between the controller and the tool. It provides a dedicated interface that guides the tool into the correct position, preventing direct contact with the controller body. This mediator structure enables safe assembly and disassembly operations even when visual guidance is not possible.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide rib is pre-formed on the guide panel to create a predetermined tool entry path. This preliminary structural arrangement ensures that when a tool is inserted, it automatically follows the correct trajectory to engage with the mounting holes, eliminating the need for visual alignment during operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of repair

If the controller is made detachable for maintenance and repair, then the controller can be assembled or disassembled, but the operator may press the controller with a tool without visual guidance, damaging the controller appearance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontroller maintenance accessibilityVSAvoidcontroller appearance damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of repairVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The guide panel serves as a protective intermediary that absorbs the mechanical interaction between the tool and the controller assembly. The guide rib on the guide panel is designed to contact the tool first, directing it toward the mounting holes while preventing the tool from contacting the controller case, thereby protecting the appearance during maintenance operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide panel structure provides beforehand protection by creating a controlled entry path for the tool. The guide rib acts as a cushioning element that guides and restrains the tool, preventing it from striking the controller case with excessive force or at incorrect angles, thus protecting the appearance before damage can occur.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Data Source

PatentUS20240060652A1Cooking equipment

Publication Date: 2024.02.22 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A cooking equipment including a main body, and a controller mounted to the front of the main body. The controller includes a case, a bracket panel inside the case and accommodating a circuit board, and a guide panel detachably coupled, inside the case, to the bracket panel and the front surface of the main body. The guide panel includes a guide rib to guide a tool to enter the case to couple the guide panel to the bracket panel and the front surface of the main body or to detach the guide panel from the bracket panel and the front surface of the main body.