CN113133673A - Cooking apparatus and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a cooking apparatus and a control method thereof, the apparatus including: a housing; an inner pot arranged in the shell; a heater arranged at the bottom of the inner pot; the lifting assembly is arranged in the shell and used for driving the inner pot to lift so as to adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater; and the controller acquires the current cooking state and controls the lifting assembly according to the current cooking state. According to the cooking device, when a user needs to add food materials, the inner pot is far away from the heater through the lifting device, the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

Description

Cooking apparatus and control method thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a cooking device and a control method of the cooking device.

Background

At present, at the in-process of user's culinary art, the user uses intelligent recipe to cook, when suggestion user adds the thing, if user operation is slower, can have the waste heat to lead to the burnt pot because of interior pot and heating part, is difficult to reach better culinary art effect, influences user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving, at least to some extent, one of the technical problems in the related art.

Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide a cooking apparatus, which can keep an inner pot away from a heater by a lifting device when a user needs to add food materials, so as to prevent the food materials in the inner pot from being burnt by waste heat, thereby improving the cooking quality of the user.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling a cooking apparatus.

A third object of the invention is to propose a computer-readable storage medium.

To achieve the above object, a first embodiment of the present invention provides a cooking control method, including: a housing; an inner pan disposed within the housing; the heater is arranged at the bottom of the inner pot; the lifting assembly is arranged in the shell and used for driving the inner pot to lift so as to adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater; and the controller acquires the current cooking state and controls the lifting assembly according to the current cooking state.

According to the cooking device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the controller acquires the current cooking state and controls the lifting assembly according to the current cooking state, and the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift so as to adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater. Therefore, the device can keep the inner pot away from the heater through the lifting device when a user needs to add food materials, so that the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

In addition, the cooking device provided according to the above embodiment of the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:

according to an embodiment of the present invention, the cooking apparatus further includes: and the radiator is arranged between the inner pot and the heater, wherein the controller controls the radiator to radiate the inner pot according to the current cooking state.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the controller acquires a corresponding recipe according to a user instruction, wherein the recipe comprises a heating and cooking curve, and the heating and cooking curve comprises a first time node and a cooling state corresponding to the first time node, and a second time point and a continuous heating state corresponding to the second time point.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the controller is further configured to record a cooking time, and when the cooking time reaches the first time node, the controller controls the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to lift, and controls the heater to stop heating.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the controller is further configured to control the heat sink to dissipate heat of the inner pot.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the controller is further configured to control the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to return to the initial position when the cooking time reaches the second time node, and control the heater to start heating and turn off the radiator.

In order to achieve the above object, a second aspect of the present invention provides a method for controlling a cooking apparatus, the cooking apparatus including: the control method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a current cooking state; and controlling a lifting assembly according to the cooking state so that the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift, and adjusting the distance between the inner pot and the heater.

According to the control method of the cooking device, the current cooking state is obtained; the lifting assembly is controlled according to the cooking state so that the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift, and the distance between the inner pot and the heater is adjusted. Therefore, when the user needs to add food materials, the inner pot can be far away from the heater through the lifting device, the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

In addition, the control method of the cooking device according to the above embodiment of the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:

according to an embodiment of the present invention, the cooking apparatus further includes a heat sink disposed between the inner pan and the heater, the method further includes: and controlling the radiator to radiate the inner pot according to the current cooking state.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: the method comprises the steps of obtaining a corresponding menu according to a user instruction, wherein the menu comprises a heating and cooking curve, and the heating and cooking curve comprises a first time node, a cooling state corresponding to the first time node, and a second time point and a continuous heating state corresponding to the second time node.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: recording the cooking time; and when the cooking time reaches the first time node, controlling the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to lift, and simultaneously controlling the heater to stop heating.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: and controlling the radiator to radiate the heat of the inner pot.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: and when the cooking time reaches the second time node, controlling the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to recover to the initial position, controlling the heater to start for heating, and closing the radiator.

To achieve the above object, a third embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, which when executed by a processor, implements a method of manufacturing the cooking apparatus described above.

By executing the control method of the cooking device, the computer-readable storage medium of the embodiment of the invention can enable the inner pot to be far away from the heater through the lifting device when the user needs to add food materials, so that the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

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The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a block schematic diagram of a cooking device according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a block schematic diagram of a cooking device according to one embodiment of the invention; and

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

A cooking apparatus and a control method of the cooking apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a block schematic diagram of a cooking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, acooking apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: the heating device comprises ashell 10, aninner pot 20 arranged in the shell, aheater 30 arranged at the bottom of the inner pot, alifting assembly 40 arranged in the shell and acontroller 50.

Wherein, thelifting assembly 40 is used for driving theinner pot 20 to lift so as to adjust the distance between theinner pot 20 and theheater 30. Thecontroller 50 acquires a current cooking state and controls the elevatingassembly 40 according to the current cooking state.

Specifically, a user can select a required recipe through a mobile phone APP, and the APP background program automatically calls information corresponding to the recipe, for example, a cooking curve, where the cooking curve may include a plurality of reference time points and reference operation actions corresponding to the plurality of reference time points. For example, the plurality of reference time points may be: t1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7, wherein the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T1 is oil putting, the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T2 is onion and ginger putting, the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T3 is staple food putting, the operation corresponding to the time point of T4 is fire power adjusting, the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T5 is ingredient putting, the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T6 is supplementary food putting, and the reference operation corresponding to the time point of T7 is fire power adjusting. When the cooking process of the user reaches the time point of T3, the corresponding operation action is to put in the main food, if the speed of the user is slow (for example, the main food is put at a place far away from the pot or the water is not drained), and the scallion and ginger in the inner pot are already in a stage with good cooking effect, theheater 30 at the bottom of the inner pot still continues to heat, so that the scallion and ginger in the inner pot are easily burnt, at the moment, when the time point of T3 reaches, thecontroller 50 automatically controls thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pot 20 to ascend, the distance between theinner pot 20 and theheater 30 is increased, so that the waste heat of the inner pot can be reduced, and the burnt can be prevented. After the addition of the main food, thecontroller 50 automatically controls thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pot 20 to be lowered to the initial position to heat theinner pot 20 by theheater 30.

In one embodiment of the present invention, thelifting assembly 40 may be disposed between the inner pot and the heater, or disposed at other positions, as long as the lifting of the inner pot can be achieved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, thecooking apparatus 100 further includes: aradiator 60 disposed between theinner pot 20 and theheater 30, wherein thecontroller 50 controls theradiator 60 to radiate heat from theinner pot 20 according to the current cooking state.

Specifically, also in the above embodiment, taking a plurality of reference time points as an example, when the time point T3 is reached, thecontroller 50 controls thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pan 20 to lift up, and also controls theheat sink 60 to dissipate heat from theinner pan 20, so as to reduce the temperature of the inner pan. For example, when thecontroller 50 controls thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pan 20 to rise, the temperature of theinner pan 20 is also obtained, and when the temperature of the inner pan is greater than the preset temperature, theradiator 60 is controlled to radiate the heat of theinner pan 20, otherwise, the heat of the inner pan is not required to be radiated through the radiator, wherein the preset temperature can be calibrated according to actual conditions, for example, the preset temperature can be obtained according to the maximum temperature threshold value of the inner pan at which food materials cannot be burnt.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, thecontroller 50 obtains a corresponding recipe according to a user instruction, wherein the recipe includes a heating and cooking curve, and the heating and cooking curve includes a first time node and a cooling state corresponding to the first time node, and a second time point and a continuous heating state corresponding to the second time node.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, thecontroller 50 is further configured to control thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pot 20 to return to the initial position and control theheater 30 to start heating and turn off theradiator 60 when the cooking time reaches the second time node.

Specifically, when the user selects the corresponding recipe through the terminal APP, the controller obtains the corresponding recipe according to the user instruction, where the recipe includes a heating and cooking curve, the heating and cooking curve includes a time point at which the inner pot is controlled to be in a cooling state and a time point at which the inner pot is controlled to be in a continuous heating state, that is, the user plays an operation video of the cooking recipe through the APP during the cooking process, or reminds the user to perform corresponding operations in different cooking stages through playing a voice prompt, meanwhile, when the time point at which the temperature needs to be cooled is reached, the APP directly sends a control instruction to the controller of the cooking device, when the controller receives the control instruction, thecontroller 30 stops heating theinner pot 20, and controls thelifting assembly 40 to drive the inner pot to rise, or controls theheat sink 60 to dissipate heat the inner pot, or, theradiator 60 is controlled to radiate heat to the inner pan while thelifting assembly 40 is controlled to drive the inner pan to rise. Similarly, when reaching the state that needs continue to heat, APP directly sends control command to cooking device's controller in, and the controller is when receiving control command, and pot landing to initial position in thecontrol lifting unit 40 drive, andcontrol radiator 60 stops to dispel the heat to interior pot, andcontrol heater 30 continues to heatinterior pot 20 simultaneously.

In addition, since the number of times of adding the food material is required to be more than one time during the cooking process, for example, the onion and ginger, the staple food, the complementary food, and the like are added during the cooking process. Therefore, the heating cooking curve can include a plurality of first time nodes and cooling states corresponding to the first time nodes, and a plurality of second time points and continuous heating states corresponding to the second time points.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, thecontroller 50 is further configured to record a cooking time, and when the cooking time reaches a first time node, control thelifting assembly 40 to drive theinner pot 20 to be lifted, and control theheater 30 to stop heating.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, thecontroller 50 is further configured to control theheat sink 60 to dissipate heat of theinner pot 20.

Specifically, in the cooking process, when the cooking time reaches the first time node, not only can the temperature reduction control instruction be directly sent to thecontroller 50 through the terminal APP, but also thecontroller 50 executes a subsequent control strategy after receiving the control instruction. The cooking time may also be recorded by thecontroller 50, and when the cooking time reaches the first time node, a subsequent control strategy may be performed, for example, thelifting assembly 40 is controlled to drive theinner pot 20 to lift, theheater 30 is controlled to stop heating, and theradiator 60 is also controlled to radiate heat from theinner pot 20. Likewise, not only the heating control command can be sent to thecontroller 50 through the terminal APP, but also when the controller records that the time reaches the second time point, a subsequent control strategy is executed, for example, thelifting assembly 40 is controlled to drive the inner pot to fall to the initial position, theheater 30 is controlled to start heating, and theradiator 60 is turned off.

The first time point and the second time point are preset and generate corresponding control commands when the intelligent recipes are made in the kitchen. When a user selects a recipe, a corresponding control instruction can be directly sent through a terminal APP; because terminal APP and cooking device are intercommunicated, consequently, also can be controller record culinary art time to when reaching the time point, send corresponding control command.

In summary, according to the cooking apparatus of the embodiment of the invention, the controller obtains the current cooking state, and controls the lifting assembly according to the current cooking state, and the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift so as to adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater. Therefore, the device can keep the inner pot away from the heater through the lifting device when a user needs to add food materials, so that the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a cooking apparatus includes: the heating device comprises a shell, an inner pot arranged in the shell, a heater arranged at the bottom of the inner pot and a lifting assembly arranged in the shell.

As shown in fig. 3, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the steps of:

and S1, acquiring the current cooking state.

And S2, controlling the lifting assembly according to the cooking state so that the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift and adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the cooking apparatus further comprises a heat sink disposed between the inner pan and the heater, the method further comprising: and controlling the radiator to radiate the inner pot according to the current cooking state.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: and acquiring a corresponding menu according to the user instruction, wherein the menu comprises a heating and cooking curve, and the heating and cooking curve comprises a first time node, a cooling state corresponding to the first time node and a continuous heating state corresponding to a second time point and a second time point.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: recording the cooking time; when the cooking time reaches a first time node, the lifting assembly is controlled to drive the inner pot to rise, and meanwhile the heater is controlled to stop heating.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: the radiator is controlled to radiate the heat of the inner pot.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for controlling a cooking apparatus further includes: and when the cooking time reaches a second time node, controlling the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to recover to the initial position, controlling the heater to start to heat, and closing the radiator.

It should be noted that, for details that are not disclosed in the control method of the cooking apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention, please refer to details that are disclosed in the cooking apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention, and detailed description thereof is omitted here.

According to the control method of the cooking device, the current cooking state is obtained; the lifting assembly is controlled according to the cooking state so that the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift, and the distance between the inner pot and the heater is adjusted. Therefore, when the user needs to add food materials, the inner pot can be far away from the heater through the lifting device, the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention also proposes a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when executed by a processor, implements a method of manufacturing the above-described cooking apparatus.

By executing the control method of the cooking device, the computer-readable storage medium of the embodiment of the invention can enable the inner pot to be far away from the heater through the lifting device when the user needs to add food materials, so that the food materials in the inner pot are prevented from being burnt by waste heat, and the cooking quality of the user is improved.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

Any process or method descriptions in flow charts or otherwise described herein may be understood as representing modules, segments, or portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for implementing steps of a custom logic function or process, and alternate implementations are included within the scope of the preferred embodiment of the present invention in which functions may be executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, as would be understood by those reasonably skilled in the art of the present invention.

The logic and/or steps represented in the flowcharts or otherwise described herein, e.g., an ordered listing of executable instructions that can be considered to implement logical functions, can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions. For the purposes of this description, a "computer-readable medium" can be any means that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium would include the following: an electrical connection (electronic device) having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette (magnetic device), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber device, and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CDROM). Additionally, the computer-readable medium could even be paper or another suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program can be electronically captured, via for instance optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted or otherwise processed in a suitable manner if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory.

It should be understood that portions of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. In the above embodiments, the various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. If implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, any one or combination of the following techniques, which are known in the art, may be used: a discrete logic circuit having a logic gate circuit for implementing a logic function on a data signal, an application specific integrated circuit having an appropriate combinational logic gate circuit, a Programmable Gate Array (PGA), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or the like.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps carried by the method for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware related to instructions of a program, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and when the program is executed, the program includes one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing module, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. The integrated module, if implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium.

The storage medium mentioned above may be a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, etc. Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (13)

1. A cooking device, comprising:

a housing;

an inner pan disposed within the housing;

the heater is arranged at the bottom of the inner pot;

the lifting assembly is arranged in the shell and used for driving the inner pot to lift so as to adjust the distance between the inner pot and the heater; and

and the controller acquires the current cooking state and controls the lifting assembly according to the current cooking state.

2. The cooking device of claim 1, further comprising:

and the radiator is arranged between the inner pot and the heater, wherein the controller controls the radiator to radiate the inner pot according to the current cooking state.

3. The cooking apparatus of claim 2, wherein the controller obtains a corresponding recipe according to a user instruction, wherein the recipe comprises a heating cooking curve comprising a first time node and a cooling state corresponding to the first time node, and a second time point and a continuing heating state corresponding to the second time node.

4. The cooking apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to record a cooking time, and when the cooking time reaches the first time node, control the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to rise and control the heater to stop heating.

5. The cooking device of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to control the heat sink to dissipate heat from the inner pan.

6. The cooking apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to control the lifting assembly to drive the inner pan to return to an initial position and control the heater to start heating and turn off the heat sink when the cooking time reaches the second time node.

7. A method of controlling a cooking apparatus, the cooking apparatus comprising: the control method comprises the following steps of:

acquiring a current cooking state;

and controlling a lifting assembly according to the cooking state so that the lifting assembly drives the inner pot to lift, and adjusting the distance between the inner pot and the heater.

8. The method of controlling a cooking apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the cooking apparatus further includes a radiator provided between the inner pan and the heater, the method further comprising:

and controlling the radiator to radiate the inner pot according to the current cooking state.

9. The control method of a cooking apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

the method comprises the steps of obtaining a corresponding menu according to a user instruction, wherein the menu comprises a heating and cooking curve, and the heating and cooking curve comprises a first time node, a cooling state corresponding to the first time node, and a second time point and a continuous heating state corresponding to the second time node.

10. The control method of a cooking apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

recording the cooking time;

and when the cooking time reaches the first time node, controlling the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to lift, and simultaneously controlling the heater to stop heating.

11. The control method of a cooking apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

and controlling the radiator to radiate the heat of the inner pot.

12. The control method of a cooking apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

and when the cooking time reaches the second time node, controlling the lifting assembly to drive the inner pot to recover to the initial position, controlling the heater to start for heating, and closing the radiator.

13. A computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, the program, when being executed by a processor, implementing a method of controlling a cooking apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 12.

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