Dome Enclosure and Container Layout for Quiet Compact Cooking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cooking appliances with enclosures divided into upper and lower parts occupy more horizontal space and fail to effectively shield noise generated during operation.
Innovation Solution
A cooking appliance design featuring a dome-shaped enclosure with a handle through hole and a container with a rotatable blade and handle protruding from the side wall, allowing the enclosure to cover the container without a divided structure, thus minimizing horizontal space and enhancing noise shielding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If an enclosure is divided into upper and lower parts to allow food introduction, then ease of operation is improved, but the horizontal area occupied increases and noise shielding effectiveness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The container is segmented into a removable container body and a base portion that remains with the main body. This allows the container body to be easily removed for food introduction while the base portion with motor remains enclosed, reducing horizontal area and improving noise shielding.
Solution Approach 2:
The enclosure is designed to extend vertically rather than horizontally. By making the enclosure taller and more compact in horizontal dimensions, the appliance achieves effective noise shielding without occupying excessive horizontal space.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If an enclosure surrounds the entire container, then noise shielding is improved, but the horizontal area occupied increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enclosure is segmented to cover only the noise-generating portions (motor and base portion) rather than the entire container. The container body extends partially outside the enclosure for food introduction, while the enclosed base portion contains the motor, achieving effective noise shielding with minimized horizontal footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The enclosure is strategically positioned to provide noise shielding only where needed - around the motor and processing area - rather than completely enclosing the entire container. This localized approach reduces horizontal area while maintaining noise shielding effectiveness.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the container is completely enclosed, then noise shielding is improved, but ease of operation for food introduction deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into a removable container body and a fixed base portion. The container body can be easily removed for food introduction, while the base portion remains enclosed for noise shielding. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by providing both ease of operation and effective noise shielding.
Solution Approach 2:
The container body is extracted from the enclosed base portion, allowing it to be freely removed and reattached. This extraction enables easy food introduction while the base portion remains enclosed to maintain noise shielding effectiveness.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a cooking appliance including: a main body; a container detachably installed to an upper portion of the main body, and comprising a reservoir for accommodating an object to be processed and a handle portion protruding laterally from the reservoir; and an enclosure detachably installed to the upper portion of the main body to surround the reservoir, wherein the enclosure is formed in a dome shape having an opened lower end and has a handle through hole extending from the opened lower end and formed in a part of a side surface of the enclosure, so that at least a part of the handle penetrates the handle through hole and is exposed to an outside in a state where the enclosure is installed to the main body with the container.