Wireless Pressure Detection for Easy Cooker Assembly and Disassembly

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing pressure sensors in pressure cookers have complex wire connections, making it difficult to detach the cooker lid and pot body, leading to assembly challenges and potential measurement errors due to indirect pressure detection methods.

Innovation Solution

A pressure detection device with a simple and compact structure using wireless power and data transmission, featuring a pressure sensing assembly with a movable part that changes displacement in response to pressure, allowing for accurate pressure measurement without wires between the lid and body.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional pressure sensors with wire connections are used, then pressure detection function is achieved, but wire connection complexity increases and assembly difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepressure detection functionVSAvoidwire connection complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the wire connection from the pressure detection system by using a wireless pressure sensor. The pressure sensor communicates pressure data to the control unit wirelessly, eliminating the need for physical wire connections between the pressure sensor, cooker lid, and pot body, thus reducing assembly complexity while maintaining pressure detection functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical wire connection system with a wireless communication system. The pressure sensor uses wireless transmission (such as radio frequency communication) to send pressure data to the control unit, substituting the mechanical connection with an electromagnetic field-based communication mechanism

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If wire connections are used for pressure sensors, then pressure detection is enabled, but assembly and disassembly convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepressure detectionVSAvoidassembly and disassembly convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the wire connection requirement from the pressure detection system, allowing the cooker lid and pot body to be freely assembled and disassembled without worrying about wire management. The wireless pressure sensor maintains pressure detection capability while eliminating the mechanical constraint of wire connections

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables dynamic assembly and disassembly of the cooker components by eliminating fixed wire connections. The wireless communication system allows the pressure sensor to maintain connectivity regardless of the physical position or assembly state of the cooker lid and pot body

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Reliability

If indirect pressure detection methods are used, then pressure measurement is achieved, but measurement precision deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepressure measurement capabilityVSAvoidpressure measurement accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces indirect pressure detection methods with direct pressure sensing. The wireless pressure sensor directly measures the pressure inside the pressure cooker using a pressure-sensitive element, converting pressure changes into electrical signals for accurate measurement, eliminating the need for indirect inference methods

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

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 easy assembly and disassembly of the cooker lid and body, provides direct and accurate pressure measurement, enhancing user experience and safety while reducing production complexity and costs.

Implementation Method 1

a pressure sensing assembly I and a detection unit II, wherein the pressure sensing assembly I includes a fixed part 14 and a movable part 13, the movable part 13 moves relative to the fixed part 14 when it is sensed that a pressure in the sealed cavity varies, so as to change a sensing parameter of the pressure sensing assembly I

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure-induced displacement: Deformation

Data Source

PatentEP3505020B1Pressure detection device and cooking appliance having same
Publication Date: 2021.06.02 MIDEA GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a pressure detection device (10), wherein the pressure detection device (10) is configured to detect the pressure in a sealed cavity. The pressure detection device (10) further comprises: a pressure sensing assembly (I), wherein the pressure sensing assembly (I) comprises a fixed part (14) and a movable part (13), the movable part (13) moves relative to the fixed part (14) when a change of the pressure in the sealed cavity is sensed, so as to change a sensing parameter of the pressure sensing assembly (I); and a detection unit (II), wherein the detection unit (II) is connected to the pressure sensing assembly (I), and the detection unit (II) is used for obtaining the pressure in the sealed cavity according to a current sensing parameter of the pressure sensing assembly (I).