Detachable Grilling Pan Handle With Spring Hook Fixation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing detachable grill design faces issues with high cost, complex structure, and significant heat loss due to inadequate contact between the grilling pan and the heat source, as well as safety concerns with the current handle mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A handle for the detachable grilling pan featuring a simple structure with a 'L' shaped hook and torsion spring, allowing for secure fixation and easy removal, ensuring tight contact with the grill shell and reducing heat loss.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a horizontal directive mechanism and limit mechanism with springs and hooks are disposed on the handle to fix the grilling pan, then the grilling pan can be securely fixed to the heat conduction plate, but the structure becomes complex and the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The handle integrates both the handling function and the fixation function into a single component. The handle itself is designed with a hook structure that directly engages with the heat conduction plate, eliminating the need for separate horizontal directive mechanisms and limit mechanisms. This merging of functions reduces structural complexity while maintaining secure fixation.
Solution Approach 2:
The handle serves multiple purposes: it provides a gripping surface for user handling, acts as a structural support, and incorporates a hook mechanism for secure fixation to the heat conduction plate. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for additional specialized components, simplifying the overall structure.
2Ease of operation
If the grilling pan is placed on the heat conduction plate without proper contact, then the structure allows easy removal, but heat loss increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The handle incorporates a spring mechanism that provides dynamic adjustment capability. The spring allows the handle to exert variable pressure on the grilling pan, ensuring optimal contact with the heat conduction plate during operation to minimize heat loss, while still allowing easy removal when needed by simply releasing the pressure.
Solution Approach 2:
The spring mechanism enables change in the contact pressure parameter between the grilling pan and heat conduction plate. By adjusting the spring compression, the system optimizes thermal contact for efficient heat transfer during cooking, while maintaining the ability to easily remove the pan when the cooking process is complete.
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
The solution provides a low-cost, easy-to-use handle that maintains secure contact between the grilling pan and the grill shell, reducing heat loss and enhancing safety during use.
Implementation Method 1
a spring presses against the long straight part of the L-shaped hook for making the free end of the short straight part of the L-shaped hook hooks the downward opening
Implementation Method 2
the restoring force of the spring resets the hook
Data Source
AI summary
A handle of a detachable grilling pan has: a main body with a downward opening and a window, both disposed on the top side of the main body, a shaft, a “L” shaped hook and a spring. The main body is connected to the grilling pan by a fixing plate. The “L” shaped hook is hinged to the shaft, and the long straight free end of it extends out the window of the handle, and the short straight free end of it extends out the opening of the handle body and toward the grilling pan. The spring presses against the long straight end to make the free end of the short straight end hook the opening of the shell of the grill. When the long straight part of the hook is pressed, the hook rotates around the shaft and the grilling pan can be removed from the grill shell.