Recipe generation system for cooking device, and cooking device

• US 10,667,638 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hao Sun
• Original Assignee: Hao Sun
• Inventors: Sun, Hao, Zhuang, Yuanyuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Laflame, Jr., Michael A
• Application Number:
  US15/544,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20180000274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,631 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/00 Cooking-vessels A47J29/00 - A47J33/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/00 Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels A47J27/00 - A47J33/00 take precedence insofar as these parts, details or accessories are restricted to a particular kind of cooking-vessel provided for in a single one of these groups
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/321 the electronic control being performed over a network, e.g. by means of a handheld device

Abstract

The present invention discovers a recipe generation system for a cooking appliance and the cooking appliance. The recipe generation system comprises an operation unit; a weight detection unit configured to measure initial weights of various cooking materials sequentially added into the cooking appliance and measure the overall weight of the cooking materials during cooking and finishing cooking; a timing unit; a parameter calculation unit configured to obtain proportions of the cooking materials based on the initial weights of the cooking materials and calculate weight losses of different cooking materials at different time points; and a parameter determination unit. The present invention can determine dish compositions, key cooking elements for forming the dish and cooking procedures by detection and information processing of a series of operations during cooking for use in subsequent cooking procedures.

Claims

1. A recipe generation system for a cooking appliance, wherein the recipe generation system comprises:

an operation panel or an intelligent terminal configured to turn on and off the cooking appliance, set a name for each cooking material added into the cooking appliance, adjust heating power during cooking, input heating power changes during cooking and corresponding power change conditions, and input an addition occasion of each cooking material;

a weight sensor configured to measure initial weights of the cooking materials sequentially added into the cooking appliance and measure the overall weight of the cooking materials during cooking and finishing cooking;

a time calculator configured to calculate the cooking time;

a parameter calculator connected to the weight sensor and the time calculator, and configured to obtain proportions of the cooking materials based on the initial weights of the cooking materials and calculate weight losses of different cooking materials at different time points;

wherein the weight loss at any cooking time point is equal to a difference value between the initial overall weight of the cooking materials and the overall weight of the cooking materials at the cooking time point;

a parameter determinator connected to the parameter calculator and the time calculator, and configured to determine a liquid-boiling time point according to changes of the weight losses of the cooking materials over the cooking time and to determine heating time after boiling according to the liquid-boiling time point and cooking finishing time;

a storage connected to the operation panel, the weight sensor, the parameter calculator and the parameter determinator, and configured to store the heating power while starting cooking, the heating power changes during cooking and the corresponding power change conditions, the initial weight and addition order of each cooking material, the addition occasion of each cooking material, the overall weight of the cooking materials while finishing cooking, the proportion of each cooking material, the heating time after boiling, and a change relationship of the weight losses of the cooking materials over the cooking time; and

a recipe generator connected to the storage, and configured to form a recipe having each cooking procedure according to the data above and store the recipe into the storage.

2. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the cooking materials comprise food materials, liquid ingredients and spices;

the parameter calculator is further configured to calculate a liquid margin indicating parameter R1 at different cooking time points using a formula

3. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein the recipe generation system further comprises a curve generator connected to the parameter calculation calculator and the parameter determinator;

the curve generator is configured to generate a relationship curve between the weight losses of the cooking materials and the cooking time;

the parameter determinator is further configured to determines the cooking time corresponding to a first raised inflection point in the relationship curve as the liquid-boiling time point according to the relationship curve between the weight losses of the cooking materials and the cooking time generated by the curve generator;

the parameter determinator is further configured to determine the heating time before boiling according to the liquid-boiling time point and the cooking starting time; and

the storage is further configured to store the relationship curve between the weight losses of the cooking materials and the cooking time.

4. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the cooking procedures at least comprise:

the initial weight, addition order and addition occasion of each cooking material; and

a cooking finishing condition;

wherein the heating time after boiling and/or the liquid margin indicating parameter R1 while finishing cooking is used as the cooking finishing condition.

5. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the parameter calculator is further configured to calculate a nutrient content, a purine content, a carbohydrate content, calories and a salinity of the dish per unit weight according to the initial weight of each cooking material and the overall weight of the cooking materials while finishing cooking;

and the storage is further configured to store the nutrient content, the purine content, the carbohydrate content, the calories and the salinity of the dish per unit weight.

6. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the operation panel is disposed on the cooking appliance, or the intelligent terminal is connected to the cooking appliance.

7. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein

the operation panel or intelligent terminal is further configured to input an operational occasion for taking down or covering a lid of the cooking appliance;

and the cooking procedures further comprise;

an operational occasion for taking down or covering the lid during cooking;

the cooking procedures further comprise each cooking action, a cooking action execution occasion, and cooking action duration; and

the operation panel or intelligent terminal is further configured to set a cooking action execution occasion, and input a cooking action name and a cooking action finishing operation, and the storage stores the cooking action, the corresponding cooking action execution occasion and the duration.

8. The recipe generation system for a cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the operation panel or intelligent terminal is further configured to receive an operation of setting edible oil types;

the storage is stored with oil temperature limits corresponding to different edible oil types;

the cooking appliance is also provided with a temperature sensor; and

the heating power of the cooking appliance is controlled to make the highest temperature of the edible oil used currently be lower than the oil temperature limit.

9. A cooking appliance, comprising:

the recipe generation system according to claim 3, wherein the operation panel or intelligent terminal is further configured to receive recipe setting information;

a promptor;

a processor connected to the operation panel or intelligent terminal, the storage, the weight sensor and the promptor;

wherein the processor is configured to take a corresponding recipe according to the recipe setting information, determines the weights of remaining cooking materials according to the initial weight of one of the food materials added into the cooking appliance with reference to the proportion of each cooking material stored in the storage, replace the initial weights of corresponding cooking materials in the recipe stored with the weights of the remaining cooking materials determined, and controls the promptor to prompt each cooking procedure in the recipe in sequence.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to controls the cooking appliance to correspondingly adjust the heating power according to the heating power while starting cooking and when the current cooking process meets the power change conditions.

11. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the processor is also connected to the parameter calculator and the parameter determinator, when a liquid margin indicating parameter R1′

in the current cooking process is equal to the stored liquid margin indicating parameter R1, the heating time after boiling in the current cooking process is judged whether to be larger than or equal to the stored heating time after boiling;

if yes, the cooking appliance is controlled to finish cooking;

otherwise, the promptor is controlled to prompt whether to finish cooking;

after the prompt unit prompts whether to finish cooking, if the operation panel or intelligent terminal does not receive operation information of finishing cooking, then the cooking appliance is controlled to reduce the heating power, and when the liquid margin indicating parameter R1′

is lower than a preset limit, the promptor is controlled to prompt to stir fry and give burnt warning;

wherein, the liquid margin indicating parameter during cooking

12. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the processor is also connected to the curve generator, wherein a slope of the relationship curve in the current cooking process is compared with a slope of the relationship curve stored according to the relationship curve generated between the weight losses of the cooking materials in the current cooking process and the cooking time, when the slope of the relationship curve in the current cooking process is larger than the slope of the relationship curve stored, the cooking appliance is controlled to reduce the heating power according to the proportion of slope, and when the slope of the relationship curve in the current cooking process is smaller than the slope of the relationship curve stored, the cooking appliance is controlled to increase the heating power according to the proportion of slope.

13. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the processor is also connected to the parameter calculator and the parameter determinator, when the heating time after boiling in the current cooking process is equal to the stored heating time after boiling, the liquid margin indicating parameter R1′

in the current cooking process is judged whether to be smaller than or equal to the stored liquid margin indicating parameter R1;

if yes, the cooking appliance is controlled to finish cooking;

otherwise, the promptor is controlled to prompt whether to finish cooking;

after the promptor prompts whether to finish cooking, if the operation panel or intelligent terminal does not receive operation information of finishing cooking, then the cooking appliance is controlled to increase the heating power, and when the liquid margin indicating parameter R1′

is equal to the stored liquid margin indicating parameter R1, the cooking appliance is controlled to finish cooking;

wherein, the liquid margin indicating parameter in the current cooking process

14. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the parameter calculator is further configured to calculate a nutrient content, a purine content, a carbohydrate content, calories and a salinity of the dish per unit weight according to the initial weight of each cooking material and the overall weight of the cooking materials while finishing cooking;

and the promptor is further configured to prompt the nutrient content, the purine content, the carbohydrate content, the calories and the salinity of the dish per unit weight.

15. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein:

the processor is further configured to control the promptor to give overload warning when the sum of the weights of the cooking materials added into the cooking appliance exceeds the maximum containable weight of the cooking appliance;

the storage is also stored with the weight of a lid of the cooking appliance; and

the processor is further configured to automatically judge a covering or taking down status of the lid when the weight sensor detects that the cooking appliance is increased or reduced by the weight equal to the weight of the lid stored.

16. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to control the promptor to prompt that the cooking material is excessively more or less when any cooking material added into the cooking appliance is not within the weight scope of the cooking material determined.

17. The cooking appliance according to claim 14, wherein the weight sensor is further configured to measure the reduced weight of the dish in the cooking appliance after the dish is cooked;

the parameter calculator is further configured to obtain the nutrient content, the purine content, the carbohydrate content, the calories and the salinity obtains the nutrient content, the purine content, the carbohydrate content, the calories and the salinity in the dish reduced according to the reduced weight of the dish with reference to the nutrient content, the purine content, the carbohydrate content, the calories and the salinity of the dish per unit weight, and prompts through the promptor.