Flexible Food Temperature Sensor Mounting for Stable Contact
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sensor devices for measuring food temperature in cooking appliances face challenges in maintaining accurate contact with the food due to varying cooking apparatus shapes and environments, leading to measurement inaccuracies and difficulties in fixing the sensor unit.
Innovation Solution
The sensor device incorporates a main body part with a mounting part that can be fixed to one end and extends along one direction, allowing for bending and includes a sensor unit fixed to one end, with a holder featuring through-holes for support and position adjustment, ensuring stable contact with the food despite varying cooking apparatus shapes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the sensor unit is fixed rigidly to maintain contact with food, then contact stability is improved, but adaptability to varying cooking apparatus shapes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting part is designed with flexible material properties allowing it to bend and deform dynamically. This enables the sensor unit to maintain stable contact with food while adapting to different cooking apparatus shapes and cooking environments, resolving the contradiction between contact stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting part's physical parameters (flexibility, bendability) are specifically engineered to allow deformation within certain ranges. This parameter optimization enables the mounting part to conform to various shapes while maintaining sufficient contact pressure for accurate temperature sensing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the mounting part is made flexible to adapt to different shapes, then adaptability is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to contact instability
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible mounting part dynamically adjusts its shape to match the cooking apparatus and food surface, ensuring consistent contact. This dynamic adaptation maintains measurement precision while providing versatility across different cooking scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting part is constructed as a flexible component that can bend and conform to surfaces. This flexible structure ensures reliable contact with food for accurate temperature measurement while adapting to various cooking apparatus geometries.
3Ease of manufacture
If the sensor device structure is simplified for easy manufacturing, then ease of manufacture is improved, but device functionality deteriorates due to inability to maintain contact
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor device is divided into distinct functional segments: the sensor unit for temperature detection, the flexible mounting part for contact maintenance, and the holder for structural support. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured independently with appropriate properties while maintaining overall functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting part is designed as a flexible component that can be manufactured using standard flexible material processing techniques. This approach maintains manufacturing simplicity while providing the necessary contact maintenance capability through its inherent flexibility and bendability.
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AI summary
A sensor device mountable on cooking apparatuses having various shapes. The sensor device including a main body part, a mounting part arrangeable to be fixed to one end of the main body part and while the mounting part is fixed to one end of the main body part, the mounting part is configured to extend along one direction and be bendable one or more times including being bent along the one direction subsequent to being bent along a predetermined direction different from the one direction, and a sensor unit arrangeable to be fixed to one end of the mounting part.