Electric Heating Pot Using Electrolyzed Water for Safer Liquid Heating
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electric heating pots face challenges in improving efficiency and user convenience while ensuring electrical stability and safety.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a body unit and a heating unit with an electrolyzed water housing and electrodes, featuring an insulating material layer and a heat transfer portion, allowing for efficient heating of liquid through electrolyzed water, enhancing user convenience and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If direct heating elements are used to heat liquid, then heating efficiency is improved, but electrical stability and user safety deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces electrolyzed water as an intermediary heating medium. The electrolyzed water housing contains electrodes that generate heat through electrolysis, and this heat is transferred to the liquid in the body unit through thermal conduction. This intermediary system avoids direct contact between heating elements and the liquid, improving electrical stability while maintaining heating efficiency.
2Productivity
If heating elements are in direct contact with liquid, then heating efficiency is improved, but user safety deteriorates due to direct heating hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The electrolyzed water housing serves as a physical barrier and intermediary between the heating electrodes and the liquid. The housing contains the electrolyzed water and prevents direct contact between the electrodes and the liquid being heated, thereby eliminating direct heating hazards while maintaining efficient heat transfer through the electrolyzed water medium.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional direct-contact heating elements with an electrolysis-based heating system. Instead of using resistive heating elements that directly contact the liquid, the system uses electrodes immersed in electrolyzed water to generate heat through electrochemical reactions, which is then transferred thermally to the liquid, reducing safety hazards.
3Device complexity
If conventional heating systems are used, then device complexity is reduced, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the heating mechanism from conventional resistive heating to electrolysis-based heating. By changing the physical-chemical parameters of the heating process (using electrolyzed water with specific ionic composition), the system achieves more efficient energy conversion and lower power consumption while maintaining relatively simple device structure.
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
This configuration improves heating efficiency, reduces power consumption, and increases user safety by stabilizing electrical operations and reducing the risk of direct liquid heating hazards.
Implementation Method 1
an insulating material layer is formed on an inner surface of the housing, which faces the electrode portion, to be in contact with the electrolyzed water and when the liquid is accommodated in the accommodation space of the body unit, the electrolyzed water is configured to overlap the accommodated liquid
Implementation Method 2
the heating unit includes a housing formed such that electrolyzed water is disposed therein, and an electrode portion that is disposed in the housing, formed such that at least one region thereof is in contact with the electrolyzed water in the housing
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AI summary
An embodiment of the present invention discloses an electric heating pot including a body unit and a heating unit configured to provide heat to the body unit, wherein the body unit includes an accommodation space configured to accommodate liquid, the heating unit includes a housing formed such that electrolyzed water is disposed therein, and an electrode portion that is disposed in the housing, formed such that at least one region thereof is in contact with the electrolyzed water in the housing, and includes a plurality of electrodes.