Cooking system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking systems lack convenience, hygiene, and space efficiency due to the need for dedicated recesses for hob units and manual vapor extraction, which limits design flexibility and increases costs.
Innovation Solution
A cooking system with a pivotable hob unit and integrated extractor unit that includes a grease filter and ventilation element, allowing for automatic vapor extraction and storage, eliminating the need for a recess and enabling flexible positioning and easy cleaning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a dedicated recess is provided for mounting the hob unit, then the hob unit can be securely mounted, but the worktop surface area is reduced and installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hob unit is made dynamically positionable through a pivotable mounting system that allows it to rotate between a horizontal cooking position and a vertical storage position. This dynamic capability eliminates the need for a fixed recess, maximizing worktop surface area while maintaining secure mounting during operation through the pivotable connection to the support structure.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the hob unit is fixed in position, then it provides stable cooking surface, but it reduces design flexibility and increases manufacturing costs
Solution Approach 1:
The pivotable mounting system provides dynamic positioning capability, allowing the hob unit to be oriented horizontally for stable cooking operations and vertically for storage or cleaning. This dynamic design enhances adaptability without compromising stability during actual cooking, as the unit can be securely positioned in the horizontal orientation when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooking system is segmented into separable components: the hob unit can be independently pivoted and positioned relative to the support structure and worktop. This segmentation allows the hob unit to be detached, cleaned, or repositioned independently, enhancing design flexibility and ease of maintenance while maintaining stable operation when assembled.
3Device complexity
If manual vapor extraction is used, then the system is simpler, but hygiene and user convenience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The extractor unit is automatically activated when the hob unit is in the horizontal cooking position, eliminating the need for manual intervention. The system self-regulates vapor extraction based on the hob unit's position, improving hygiene by continuously removing cooking vapors and enhancing user convenience by operating automatically without requiring user action.
4Reliability
If the hob unit requires recess installation, then mounting is secure, but installation time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The pivotable mounting system eliminates the need for complex recess installation by using a standardized pivot connection that can be mounted to the side of the support structure. This dynamic mounting approach reduces installation time and complexity while maintaining secure mounting during operation, as the pivot connection provides stable support for the hob unit in its cooking position.
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 system provides enhanced convenience, hygiene, and space efficiency by automatically extracting vapors, reducing manual effort, and allowing for optimal vapor extraction and design flexibility while minimizing costs and exposure to contaminants.
Implementation Method 1
designed in particular as an induction heating element and is preferably intended to generate an electromagnetic alternating field, in particular with a frequency between 20 kHz and 100 kHz, which is intended in particular to heat up in an upright, in particular metallic, preferably ferromagnetic, cooking utensil base by eddy current induction
Implementation Method 2
the extractor unit has in particular at least one grease filter, which is provided to at least essentially absorb grease particles dissolved in the vapors produced in at least one operating state of the hob unit
Implementation Method 3
the extractor unit has at least one ventilation element which is intended to provide at least one suction flow for vapors produced in the operating state in at least one operating state of the hob unit and in particular to discharge the extracted vapors from the cooking chamber
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AI summary
In order to provide a generic cooking system with improved properties in terms of a high level of convenience, a cooking system (10a-b) with a hob unit (14a-b) which has a hob plate (16a-b) for setting up cookware, with an extractor unit (12a -b) which is intended to extract vapors produced in at least one operating state of the hob unit (14a-b) and to feed them to an exhaust air line (32a-b), and with a bearing unit (18a-b) which is intended to support the hob unit (14a-b) to store pivotally proposed.