Multifunctional soybean milk maker

• US 8,342,079 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joyoung Company Limited (JS Global Lifestyle Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Joyoung Company Limited (JS Global Lifestyle Company Limited)
• Inventors: Wang, Xuning, Zuo, Fenghui
• Primary Examiner(s): ALEXANDER, REGINALD
• Application Number:
  US12/596,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20100139494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• Field of Search: 993/48, 995/10, 992/82, 992/86, 993/31, 993/33, 993/38, 366/197, 366/249, 366/146, 366/251
• US Class Current: 99/286
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/004 with integral electrical heating means drinking cups with integral heating means A47J36/2466
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/00 Apparatus for making beverages household machines or implements for straining foodstuffs A47J19/00; preparation of non-alcoholic beverages, e.g. by adding ingredients to fruit or vegetable juices, A23L2/00; coffee or tea pots A47G19/14; tea infusers A47G19/16; brewing of beer C12C; preparation of wine or other alcoholic beverages C12G
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0711 mixing, whipping or cutting tools

Abstract

A multifunctional soybean milk maker is provided. The soybean milk maker comprises: a head, a motor, a cup body, a cutter shaft, a cutting tool and a control circuit board. The head caps on the cup body. The motor is fastened and arranged in the head. The head includes an upper cover of the head and a lower cover of the head. The cutter shaft extends downwards to the cup body. The cutting tool is fastened at the front end of the cutter shaft. A connector is set on the lower part of the lower cover of the head. The connector extends into the cup body. A flow-disturbing curved body is set at the lower part of the connector. The flow-disturbing curved body is positioned above the cutting tool.

Claims

1. A multifunctional soybean milk maker without a filter cover, comprising:

a head including an upper cover and a head lower cover,

a motor fixedly arranged in the head,

a cup body capped by the head,

a cutter shaft extending downward to the cup body,

a cutting tool fixed at the front end of the cutter shaft, and

a control circuit board,

a connector provided at the lower portion of the head lower cover, wherein the connector extends downwardly to be adjacent to the cutting tool in the cup body, and

a flow-disturbing curved body is provided at the lower end of the connector, wherein the flow-disturbing curved body is configured to disturb a bean flow inside the cup body and is positioned above the cutting tool.

2. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein the lower end of the connector is formed as the flow-disturbing curved body.

3. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1 wherein the connector is manufactured integrally with the head lower cover, and the flow-disturbing curved body is provided at the lower end thereof.

4. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein the connector is manufactured integrally with the head lower cover, and the lower end thereof is formed as the flow-disturbing curved body.

5. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein the flow-disturbing curved body is a transverse flow-disturbing plate.

6. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein the flow-disturbing curved body is a flow-disturbing cover with its opening facing downward.

7. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 6, wherein notches are provided at the side surface of the flow-disturbing cover.

8. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein a motor shaft of the motor acts as the cutter shaft.

9. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein the upper end of the cutter shaft is connected with the motor shaft through a coupling.

10. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein a heating device is further provided, and an upper end of an electrothermal tube of the heating device is fixedly arranged on the lower end surface of the head lower cover.

11. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein a heating device is further provided, and the cup body is placed on an electric heating disc of the heating device.

12. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein a heating device is further provided, and the lower portion of the cup body is surrounded by an electrothermal ring of the heating device.

13. The multifunctional soybean milk maker according to claim 1, wherein an electromagnetic heating device is further provided which is positioned at the lower portion of the cup body.