Shared Weighing Sensor for Multi-Box Seasoning Discharge Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Providing a separate sensor for each material bottle in a cooking device's feeding apparatus increases costs due to the large number of sensors required, affecting the taste of dishes if seasoning levels are insufficient.
Innovation Solution
A feeding apparatus with a weighing sensor for multiple material boxes calculates the actual discharge amount of a target material box using discharge indication information, eliminating the need for individual sensors on each bottle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a separate sensor is provided for each material bottle to detect discharge amount, then measurement precision of seasoning levels is improved, but device complexity and cost increase due to large number of sensors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual sensor functions into a single weighing sensor that detects the total weight of all material bottles simultaneously. The controller calculates individual discharge amounts by comparing weight changes of specific bottles against the total weight change, thereby achieving accurate monitoring of each bottle's seasoning level without requiring separate sensors for each bottle.
Solution Approach 2:
The single weighing sensor performs multiple functions: it detects the total weight of all material bottles, tracks weight changes during discharge operations, and enables calculation of individual discharge amounts for each material bottle. This multi-functional approach replaces what would traditionally require multiple dedicated sensors.
2Reliability
If a separate sensor is provided for each material bottle, then reliability of discharge amount detection is improved, but manufacturing cost increases due to large number of sensors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple detection functions into a single weighing sensor system, reducing the component count and associated manufacturing costs while maintaining reliable discharge amount detection through computational methods that compare total weight changes with individual bottle weight changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces multiple mechanical/electronic sensor components with a single weighing sensor combined with computational processing. The controller uses algorithms to calculate individual discharge amounts based on weight data, substituting a complex multi-sensor mechanical system with a simpler sensor-plus-computation approach.
3Device complexity
If weighing sensor detects total weight of multiple material boxes, then device complexity is reduced by eliminating individual sensors, but measurement precision of individual discharge amount must be maintained
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the total weight of all material bottles and comparing it with the sum of individual bottle weights. The controller uses this feedback information to calculate and verify individual discharge amounts, ensuring measurement precision is maintained even though only one weighing sensor is used instead of multiple sensors.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This approach reduces sensor costs and ensures accurate detection of seasoning levels, maintaining dish quality by preventing seasoning shortages.
Implementation Method 1
a weighing sensor for detecting a total weight of the plurality of material boxes
Data Source
AI summary
Provided in the present application are a seasoning addition control method and apparatus, and a cooking device and a storage medium. A weighing sensor for measuring the total weight of a plurality of seasoning boxes is provided, and during the discharge process of a target seasoning box among the plurality of seasoning boxes, the discharge situation of the target seasoning box can be calculated according to a measurement result of the weighing sensor, i.e., the weighing sensor being capable of performing calculation regarding the discharge situation of the target seasoning box. Therefore, there is no need to separately provide sensors for a plurality of seasoning boxes, so as to carry out measurement, thereby reducing the number of sensors required for detecting the discharge situation of any one seasoning box, and thus reducing the cost.