Metal Mesh Checkered Aluminum Plate for Heat-Stable Cookware
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Solution Overview
Problem
Aluminum pots are prone to deformation under heat, lack hardness, and non-stick coatings are easily damaged when using utensils, leading to reduced service life and health concerns due to aluminum leaching.
Innovation Solution
A checkered composite plate is created by embedding a metal mesh, such as stainless steel or titanium, onto an aluminum basal plate, forming raised checkers that enhance hardness and stability, allowing for rapid heat conduction and preventing direct contact with the aluminum when using utensils, thus extending the pot's service life and health safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If aluminum plates are used to manufacture pots, then the pots have light weight and rapid heat conduction, but the pots lack hardness and are easy to be worn and striated
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses a composite structure combining aluminum basal plate with metal mesh (stainless steel, titanium, or iron). The aluminum plate provides rapid heat conduction and light weight, while the embedded metal mesh enhances surface hardness and wear resistance. This composite approach resolves the contradiction by integrating materials with complementary properties.
2Weight of stationary object
If the thickness of the bottom of the pot is insufficient, then the pot is lighter, but the bottom is deformed by high temperature heating
Solution Approach 1:
The metal mesh embedded in the aluminum basal plate creates a composite structure with enhanced thermal stability. The mesh provides structural reinforcement that prevents deformation under high temperature heating, allowing the pot to maintain light weight while achieving sufficient thermal stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The metal mesh is specifically embedded at the upper end of the basal plate where heating occurs, providing localized reinforcement exactly where thermal stability is needed, rather than uniformly increasing the thickness of the entire pot bottom.
3Ease of operation
If non-stick coating is applied on the inner surface of the pot, then the pot becomes non-stick, but the coating is easy to fall off when used with shovel
Solution Approach 1:
The metal mesh embedded in the aluminum plate creates a composite surface that inherently provides non-stick properties through its textured structure. This eliminates or reduces the need for separate non-stick coatings, thereby improving coating durability while maintaining non-stick ease of operation.
4Strength
If different metal materials are compounded through extrusion, then the pot has magnetic conductivity and hard texture, but the pot is easy to cause hot deformation due to different stress of different materials
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses a composite structure with metal mesh embedded in aluminum basal plate through compression or casting connection. This composite design provides magnetic conductivity and hard texture from the metal mesh, while the aluminum base maintains thermal stability. The embedded structure distributes stress more evenly, reducing hot deformation compared to extrusion compounding of different metals.
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 enhanced hardness and stability, prevents deformation, and allows for healthier cooking by reducing aluminum leaching, while maintaining rapid heat conduction and simplifying production efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the rapid heat conduction of the aluminum basal plate
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AI summary
A checkered composite plate comprises a basal plate and a metal mesh; the material of the basal plate is aluminum; the metal mesh is embedded at the upper end of the basal plate and fixedly connected with the basal plate; the upper end of the metal mesh extends to the upper part of the basal plate; and the metal mesh forms raised checkers above the basal plate. In the checker composite plate of the present invention, the metal mesh is compounded on the upper end of the basal plate made of aluminum, so that the surface hardness of the aluminum basal plate is enhanced, thereby solving the defect that the aluminum basal plate is soft and not wear-resistant, solving the defect that the common composite plate is easy to deform when heated due to different stress of different materials, achieving good stability and prolonging the service life of the pot. Meanwhile, the present invention has the advantage of rapid heat conduction of the aluminum basal plate, can be used in the field of non-stick pans for eliminating the limitation that the non-stick pans may not use a shovel so that the pans are healthier, and is simple in technology to increase production efficiency.