Temperature measuring and overflow preventing probe for pot
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Solution Overview
Problem
Household pots often experience overflowing due to uncontrolled heating power and frothing during cooking, making it difficult for users to monitor cooking temperatures remotely, leading to inconvenience and increased cleaning efforts.
Innovation Solution
A temperature measuring and overflow preventing probe with a vertically downward cylindrical structure, featuring a temperature detecting part at the lower end and an overflow detecting part at the upper end, connected by an insulation material, integrated with a micro control unit, Bluetooth module, and rechargeable battery, allowing for wireless temperature monitoring and overflow detection via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, and wired connection for control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional pots without temperature monitoring are used, then the device structure remains simple, but users cannot remotely check cooking temperature and must frequently visit the cooking site
Solution Approach 1:
The probe is divided into distinct functional segments: a temperature detecting part at the lower end, an overflow detecting part at the upper end, and an insulating connection part in between. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently while maintaining overall system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The probe integrates multiple functions into a single device: temperature detection, overflow detection, and wireless communication. The conductive probe needle serves both as the structural element and as part of the detection circuit, eliminating the need for separate sensing components.
2Reliability
If heating power is not controlled, then the heating system remains simple, but soup in the pot overflows due to uncontrolled heating
Solution Approach 1:
The probe provides real-time feedback on soup level through overflow detection. When the soup reaches the overflow detecting part, the conductive material detects this level, triggering a signal to the control system to adjust or stop heating, preventing overflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The conductive probe needle automatically detects both temperature and overflow conditions without requiring external sensors or complex processing. The system uses the probe's own electrical conductivity to sense soup level, enabling self-monitoring capability.
3Ease of manufacture
If the probe uses conductive materials for both temperature and overflow detection, then component integration is improved, but insulation requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The insulating connection part acts as an intermediary between the conductive temperature detecting part and the conductive overflow detecting part. This intermediate insulating layer electrically isolates the two conductive sections while maintaining mechanical connection, enabling simple assembly with clear functional separation.
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 timely temperature monitoring and overflow detection, allowing for remote control of heating power, reducing user inconvenience and cleaning efforts, while integrating components to reduce product costs and enhance user experience.
Implementation Method 1
the lower part of the probe needle is a temperature detecting part
Implementation Method 2
the upper part is an overflow detecting part; the temperature detecting part and the overflow detecting part use conductive materials
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AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a temperature measuring and overflow preventing probe for a potto solve the technical problem to facilitate a user to use pots. The temperature measuring and overflow preventing probe for a pot of the present disclosure is provided with a head part and a probe needle connected below the head part. The probe needle is a vertically downward cylindrical structure; the lower part of the probe needle is a temperature detecting part, and the upper part is an overflow detecting part; a cylindrical connection part is connected between the temperature detecting part and the overflow detecting part; the connection part fixedly connects the temperature detecting part to the overflow detecting part to form a whole; the temperature detecting part and the overflow detecting part use conductive materials; and the connection part uses an insulation material. Compared with the existing technology, the present disclosure has the advantages that a pot or a health pot is provided with one wireless temperature detecting and overflow preventing probe, so that the temperature of food in the pot can be detected, whether soup in the pot is to overflow can be detected in time, and the heating power can be timely controlled. Meanwhile, the detected temperature of the food and the possibility of overflow can be output by means of WIFI or Bluetooth wireless transmission; and a data wire can also be used to directly connect a control base for temperature and overflow detection.