Oven for baking food products
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ovens for baking food products have complex and expensive tank designs due to multiple components, leading to lengthy assembly cycles and potential assembly mistakes, along with a separate separation chamber that increases complexity.
Innovation Solution
A tank design featuring two U-shaped shells made of injection-molded polymeric material, permanently connected without gaskets, integrated with a steam generator and separation chamber, simplifying assembly and reducing components by using a single-piece sleeve construction and eliminating the need for gaskets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a tank with cup-shaped container, closing lid, and gaskets is used, then fluid-tight sealing is achieved, but device complexity and production cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cup-shaped container, closing lid, and gaskets into a single integrated tank component. The tank is designed as one piece with an integrated closing mechanism that includes built-in sealing elements, eliminating the need for separate gaskets and reducing the total number of components while maintaining fluid-tight sealing functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated tank design performs multiple functions simultaneously: it contains water, provides fluid-tight sealing, and incorporates the closing mechanism all in one component. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate dedicated components for each function, reducing complexity while maintaining reliability.
2Reliability
If multiple components (cup-shaped container, closing lid, gaskets) are assembled, then functional requirements are met, but assembling cycle time increases
Solution Approach 1:
By combining multiple components into a single integrated tank, the assembly process is dramatically simplified. Instead of assembling separate cup-shaped container, closing lid, and gaskets, the pre-integrated tank requires minimal installation steps, directly reducing assembling cycle time while maintaining all necessary functions.
3Reliability
If a separate separation chamber is used, then steam-water separation is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The separation chamber is integrated into the tank structure rather than being a separate component. The tank design incorporates internal geometry that provides steam-water separation functionality within the main tank body, eliminating the need for a distinct separate chamber and reducing overall structural complexity.
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 design reduces production costs, shortens assembly time, and minimizes assembly errors by integrating components and eliminating gaskets, while maintaining effective steam feeding and water level sensing functionality.
Implementation Method 1
a steam generator (8), which communicates with the tank (7), and a feeding circuit (9) for feeding the steam produced by the generator (8) itself into the chamber (3)
Implementation Method 2
a separation chamber (32), which is shaped so as to allow the separation of water from the steam
Data Source
AI summary
The baking chamber (3) of an oven for baking food products is connected to a steam generator (8), which communicates with a water containing tank (7) defined by two shells (10a, 10b), which are permanently connected to each other along a junction line (15).