Burner with multiple sections and control for adaptable use
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking burners with complex overlapped structures face limitations in performance and usability due to overlapping flames and inefficient fuel distribution, particularly when heating elongated items.
Innovation Solution
A cooking burner design featuring a spreader with semi-circular end segments and parallel straight segments, arced sections, and concentric fuel outlets, along with a bidirectional valve for controlled fuel flow to optimize flame distribution and separate control of central and extension sections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If a complex overlapped burner structure is used to heat elongated items, then heating coverage is improved, but flame stability deteriorates due to overlapping flames
Solution Approach 1:
The burner is divided into a central circular burner and multiple elongated extension burners that are spatially separated. The extension burners have curved profiles that position their flames away from the central burner, preventing flame overlap while maintaining heating coverage for elongated items.
Solution Approach 2:
The extension burners utilize a curved, arc-shaped configuration that extends radially outward from the central burner. This dimensional arrangement positions the extension flames in a different spatial zone, eliminating overlap with the central flame while expanding the heating area.
2Area of stationary object
If a complex overlapped burner structure is used, then heating coverage is improved, but fuel distribution efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The fuel distribution system is segmented into a central fuel supply line for the circular burner and separate fuel supply lines for each extension burner. This segmentation enables independent fuel flow control to each burner section, optimizing fuel distribution efficiency while maintaining expanded heating coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The burner system incorporates controllable fuel flow to each section, allowing dynamic adjustment of fuel distribution based on cooking requirements. This enables efficient fuel utilization by activating only the necessary burner sections.
3Measurement precision
If separate control of burner sections is implemented, then operational precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system allows dynamic selection and independent operation of different burner sections through controllable fuel supply lines. Users can precisely control which sections are active based on cooking needs, achieving operational precision without requiring complex automated control mechanisms.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design enhances flame stability and efficiency by preventing overlapping flames and allowing for precise control of fuel distribution, improving the burner's performance when heating elongated items and maintaining a consistent flame profile.
Implementation Method 1
a bidirectional valve for controlled fuel flow to optimize flame distribution and separate control of central and extension sections
Implementation Method 2
concentric fuel outlets, along with a bidirectional valve for controlled fuel flow to optimize flame distribution
Implementation Method 3
preventing overlapping flames and allowing for precise control of fuel distribution, improving the burner's performance when heating elongated items and maintaining a consistent flame profile
Data Source
AI summary
A cooking burner includes a spreader defining a first side wall defining an outer profile having first and second extension sections opposed about a first axis. The spreader further defines first and second arced sections, each extending outwardly along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis from and between parallel straight segments of the first and second extension sections, respectively. The spreader further defines a second side wall disposed inwardly of and concentric with the first and second arced sections and a plurality of fuel outlets extending through both the first side wall and the second side wall. A circular inner cap is assembled with an upper portion of the circular inner profile, an annular outer cap is assembled with respective upper portions of the first and second arced sections, and first and second extension caps assembled with respective upper portions of the first and second extension sections.