Robotic Cooking Chamber Rotation and Self-Cleaning Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automatic cooking devices lack self-cleaning capabilities and the ability to transfer cooked items or liquids between cooking chambers, leading to contamination and inefficiencies in food preparation, such as over or undercooking and the need for external straining processes.
Innovation Solution
A fully automated robotic system with integrated food feeding, placing, and cleaning capabilities, where a user inputs cooking instructions, and the system automatically selects the correct cooking chamber, applies heat, rotates and flips the chamber for cooking, transfers cooked food to a bowl, and then pivots it for self-cleaning using a high-pressure cleaning solution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual cleaning is performed after each cooking cycle, then food contamination is prevented, but operational efficiency decreases and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking device automatically cleans its own cooking chamber and components after each cooking cycle without requiring manual intervention. The system includes a water reservoir, spray nozzles, and drainage system that automatically rinse and clean the cooking chamber, preventing food contamination while maintaining continuous operational capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary cleaning actions by maintaining a ready supply of clean water in a dedicated reservoir and pre-positioning spray nozzles in optimal locations within the cooking chamber. This ensures that cleaning can begin immediately after cooking without requiring setup or preparation time.
2Ease of manufacture
If external straining equipment is used for fried food preparation, then oil separation is achieved, but device complexity increases and operation becomes more cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking chamber is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both the cooking environment and the straining mechanism. The chamber includes a removable basket that allows cooked food to be separated from cooking oil, and the chamber itself can be rinsed to remove residual food particles, eliminating the need for separate straining equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooking basket is designed as a separate, removable component that can be easily extracted from the cooking chamber. This allows the basket to be removed with cooked food while the oil remains in the chamber for draining, separating the food retrieval function from the oil management function without requiring additional external equipment.
3Extent of automation
If the cooking chamber is fixed in position, then structural simplicity is maintained, but automated food transfer and cleaning capabilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking chamber is designed with movable components including a removable basket that can be lifted out for food transfer, and a pivoting mechanism that allows the entire chamber to tilt for efficient draining and cleaning. These dynamic elements enable automated operations while maintaining relatively simple mechanical structures using basic hinges and guides.
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
Enables continuous operation with self-cleaning and transferability between cooking chambers, ensuring fresh, contamination-free food preparation 24/7, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
Implementation Method 1
The computer apply the appropriate amount of heat and duration to the heating elements
Implementation Method 2
The Washer device move upward. The Cooking Chamber rotate/spin while the Washer spray high pressurized cleaning solution in and outside the Cooking Chamber
Data Source
AI summary
A system when coupled with a material inputting, material holding, and washing device is a fully automated robotized cooking system. Computer control what material is inputted in the Cooking Chambers, the correct time and degree of heat, required amount of rotation, placing the cooked item in the bowl, and washing the Cooking Chamber. The device have horizontal rotation, like a ferris wheel, that keep each Cooking Chambers horizontally until rotation is required. The Pivoter pivot the Cooking Chambers up or down at any position in the rotation. There can be up to 6 Cooking Chambers independently operating at the same time. This invention can cook up to six different food items at the same time twenty four hours a day.