KR101224307B1 - Cooking system and how to use it - Google Patents

Abstract

The cooking system according to the present invention includes a case, a heater which is replaceably mounted inside the case, and a substrate on which an IC chip containing control information of the heater is detachably mounted, wherein the heater is replaced. At the time, IC chip containing control information of heater to be replaced is replaced together.

According to the present invention, it is possible to conveniently replace and use the components of the cooking system according to the user's taste according to the user's taste, the information on the cooking method of the cooking system, etc. can be upgraded, information of the new cooking system Since it can always be obtained, the user's convenience is increased.

Cooker, Replacement

Description

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1 is a perspective view of a cooking system according to the present invention;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the heater is separated from the inner case.

Figure 3 is a partial perspective view of the connection box portion provided on the back of the inner case.

4 is a perspective view of a control board.

5 is a block diagram illustrating a method of using a cooking system according to a second embodiment.

6 is a flowchart of a method of using a cooking system according to the present invention;

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Oven 31 Connection box 35 Body part connection part

61: expansion fastening part 63: heater side connection part 92: IC chip

The present invention relates to a cooking system, and more particularly, to a cooking system and a method of using the cooking system, in which a component such as a heater, etc. in the cooking system can be replaced, and the replaced parts can be conveniently used.

A cooking system is an article used for cooking food, and a heater is mainly installed and the food is cooked by heat generated by the heater.

However, in the case of a general cooking system, the heater cannot be replaced while it is fixedly mounted. That is, the user should always use the heater installed at the time of factory shipment as it is, and the user's convenience such as the user increasing the output of the heater according to his or her own needs is impossible. This is not only mechanically mounted in a replaceable form of the heater in the cooking system, but also has a memory installed in the cooking system itself, which allows the memory to be cooked according to the specific cooking indicated by the user. This is because only the operation information of the cooking system is stored in advance.

Therefore, when the heater is replaced, the cooking system cannot be operated by the information currently stored in the memory. For example, when the heater is replaced with a high output heater while the memory in which the operation information of the cooking system is stored remains unchanged. This is because food may be overcooked, causing food to burn, and conversely, replacing the heater with a low output heater may cause food to unripe.

On the other hand, in recent years, the taste of the individual is diversified, and according to the diversified personal taste, the user often wants to use the cooking system as he or she wants. As described above, in the conventional cooking system, it is possible to satisfy individual needs. Since it was not possible, the user was inconvenient to purchase another cooking system separately.

The present invention is proposed to improve the above-described problems, and proposes a cooking system and a method of using the cooking system which can replace and use some components of the cooking system according to the user's preference.

In addition, it is possible to change the output state of the cooking system, and to propose a cooking system and a method of using the cooking system, which can make food in more various ways.

In addition, since information on the cooking method of the cooking system and the like can be upgraded, information on a new cooking system can be obtained at all times, and a method of using the cooking system and cooking system in which user convenience is increased is proposed.

Cooking system of the present invention, the cat TV; A heater placed inside the cavity to generate heat for cooking food; An IC chip containing at least control information for controlling the heater; A substrate on which the memory is supported; And a socket to which the IC chip is fixedly mounted and to which the IC chip is mounted, in order to detachably mount the IC chip to the substrate.

Cooking system according to the invention, the case; A heater that is replaceably mounted inside the case; And at the time of replacing the heater, newly receiving control information for controlling the replaced heater to smoothly control the heater.

The method of using the cooking system of the present invention comprises the steps of: replacing parts of the cooking system; And receiving control information of the replaced part, storing the control information, and using the control information of the cooking system.

According to the present invention, some components of the cooking system can be conveniently replaced and used as desired by the user according to the taste of the user, thereby increasing user convenience.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Meanwhile, in describing the embodiment of the present invention, the shape of the oven is described as an example, but it is not limited to the oven, and any cooking system including a memory and a controller may be applied to the spirit of the present invention.

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1 is a perspective view of a cooking system according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the oven 1 of the present invention includes an outer case 4 forming an outer appearance of a product, and a cavity 2 placed inside the outer case 4 and containing food therein. An inner case 3 to be provided, a door 10 for selectively opening and closing the opened front part of the inner case 3, and provided on an upper side of the door 10 to operate an operation of the oven or to operate an oven. Included is a control panel 5 in which is displayed. The control panel 5 is provided with an operation unit 7 for controlling the operation of the oven by the user's operation, and a display unit 8 for displaying the operation state of the oven. At the rear of the control panel 5, a plurality of electronic components are placed so that a control board 9 for controlling the operating states of the operation unit 7 and the display unit 8 substantially.

Since the general operation of the oven 1 will be fully understood by the existing oven 1, detailed description thereof will be omitted. However, the cavity 2 is provided with a detachably mounted heater (see 6 in FIG. 2), and the internal space of the cavity 2 is heated by the heater 6, and food is cooked. Thus, the structure and operation of the heater detachably mounted can be understood by a perspective view in which the heater is separated from the inner case shown in FIG. 2 and a partial perspective view of the connection box portion shown in FIG. 3.

2 and 3, in the state where the heater is provided inside the cavity, the heater is freely provided to be detached or mounted with respect to the cavity. In FIG. 2, the heater is shown separated.

The heater 6 is a wire 64 that is bent heat generated by the power applied to, the expansion fastening portion 61 formed on both sides of the wire 64, and the power to the wire 64 A heater side connection 63 provided at the end of the wire 64 is included for this to be applied. There is at least a heating element inside the wire 64 so that heat is generated by an external power source. In addition, the expansion fastening part 61 is a part which is fastened with the wire 64 as a part irrelevant to heat generation so that the heater 6 is fixed.

In addition, in order to receive external power in a state in which the heater-side connecting portion 63 is placed in the inner case 3 in a fixed position, a connection box 31 is placed outside the rear surface of the inner case 3. The heater side connecting portion 63 is connected to the inside of the connection box 31 to receive external power, and the body side connecting portion 35 for allowing the heater side connecting portion 63 to be able to be supported against external impact is provided. To lie The main body side connecting portion 35 has a form in which two plate-like support plates are provided with respect to the terminal of any one heater side connecting portion 63. In order to guide the heater side connecting portion 63 to the main body side connecting portion 35, a guide groove 33 and an introduction groove 34 are formed on the wall surface of the inner case 3.

Referring to such a configuration, the mounting and dismounting action of the heater will be described.

When the user first attaches the heater 6 to the inner case 3, the heater side connecting portion 63 is inserted into the guide groove 33. Then, when the heater 6 is pushed in the direction in which the guide groove 33 is formed-on the basis of the drawing, the heater side connecting portion 63 and the main body side connecting portion 35 are aligned. At this time, the heater 6 is pushed upward along the introduction groove 34. Here, since the heater side connecting portion 63 is larger than the diameter of the wire 64, once the heater 6 is guided into the introduction groove 34, the heater 6 is the inner case 3. Does not fall off

When the heater side connecting portion 63 and the main body side connecting portion 35 are connected to each other to reach a state where power is applied, the expansion fastening portion 61 and the heater fastening portion 32 are aligned with each other. Therefore, the fastening member 62 is inserted into the expansion fastening portion 61 and the heater fastening portion 32 by inserting a fastening member 62 such as a screw, so that the heater 6 is firmly fixed to the inner case. You can do that.

On the contrary, when the heater 6 is to be separated from the inner case 3, an operation opposite to the operation of inserting the heater may be performed.

As will be described, when the heater 6 is mounted, the food should be cooked by the operation of the newly mounted heater 6, and for this purpose, a cooking method suitable for the specification information of the newly mounted heater 6 may be oven. Should be set to

Therefore, the user must replace the IC chip (see 92 in FIG. 4) together with at least the information storage device with the heater 6 mounted with a new one. Of course, the IC chip may be sold together when the heater 6 is sold. For example, a heater 6 that was used in the past was a heater having a power of 1000W, and if it was replaced with a heater of 2000W and operated for 10 minutes in the same manner as in the existing cooking system for 10 minutes, too many heaters were used. It will be readily understood that burning and cooking food may be generated, or an overload of the cooking system may occur, causing the cooking system to break. Therefore, when a part that directly affects the operation of the cooking appliance, such as a heater, is replaced, not only the part needs to be replaced, but also the control information of the operation of the part needs to be replaced together. IC chip 92 is provided together.

4 is a perspective view of the control board.

Referring to FIG. 4, a socket 91 is disposed on the control board 9 together with a plurality of electronic components, and the IC chip 92 is mounted on the socket 91. The IC chip 92 may be provided in any form that is convenient to be detached or mounted in the socket 91, and the specific shape of the socket 91 is not limited. As a result, the IC chip 92 in which the operation information of the cooking system according to the present invention is stored may be fixed to the control board 9 in a non-separable manner such as soldering or the like.

In the case where the IC chip 92 is a microprocessor that performs a main operation for the control of the cooking system of the present invention, the microprocessor not only provides information for the operation of the heater 6 but also a plurality of the microprocessors for overall control of the cooking system. Of course, a variety of information can be stored. For example, the display state set of the display unit 8 may be newly changed, or a cooking method for new food which is not in the guide menu of the original cooking system may be further included.

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In the second embodiment of the present invention, the other parts are the same as the first embodiment, and the information for controlling the heater 6, which should be provided with the heater 6 when it is replaced, is transmitted through the network. There is only a difference. Therefore, the description of the first embodiment is used for the parts without detailed description, and the detailed description is omitted.

5 is a block diagram illustrating a method of using a cooking system according to a second embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 5, the oven 1 includes a cooker controller 21 for controlling the entire system of the oven, a display unit 8 for displaying various information such as status information of the cooker controller 21, and the like. An operation unit 7 used by the user to operate the oven, an IC chip 92 in which various information necessary for the operation of the oven is stored, and an operation unit 22 which is each part of the operation of the oven are included. In addition, a communication unit 25 used for connection between the oven 1 and other external devices is further included, and the communication unit 25 is connected to the server 24 placed outside and by a network 23. Therefore, various information necessary for the operation of the oven 1 is transmitted and received.

The IC chip 92 may store information necessary for the operation of the oven and may be provided in the cooker controller 21. However, in the present embodiment, the IC chip 92 is provided separately from the cooker controller 21.

A method of using the cooking system provided in such a configuration will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 6.

Referring to FIG. 6, in the method of using the cooking system according to the present invention, after the user replaces the heater, the user selects a part replacement mode by operating the oven (S1). When the user selects the parts replacement mode by operating the oven, the cooker control unit 21 asks the user which parts to replace, and grasps the information of the corresponding replacement parts from the user (S2). The identified replacement part information is transmitted to the server through the network (S3), and the server, which has received the correct replacement part information, acquires the specification information of the replacement part and additional information of the replacement part, and then transmits it to the oven. (S4).

At this time, the information transmitted to the oven, as well as the specific specifications of the replacement parts, the operation information of the oven that can be operated using the replacement parts, the use of the replacement parts, the control program of the replacement parts and the like Information.

After that, the information transmitted from the server is stored in the IC chip 92 of the oven and used as a new control method for controlling the oven (S5).

The present invention may further have the following embodiments.

The present invention describes that the IC chip is additionally changed when the heating source of the cooking system such as the heater is replaced. However, not only this embodiment but also the IC chip can be changed in a state where there is no replacement for a heating source such as a heater or the like. In such a case, the configuration of the physical appliance such as the heater may differ only in the manner in which additional parts such as the heater operate in the same state. For example, in order to express the fact that the same function is performed, the figure or text displayed on the display unit may be changed, or the guide menu of a cooking method for a new food not included in the guide menu of the original cooking system may be changed. have.

In addition, the control panel 9 is described as being formed on the rear surface of the control panel 5, but is not limited thereto, and may be placed in the place where the electrical components are placed, such as the upper side of the cavity. In addition, in the case of the article that can be easily removable by the user in this way, in order to facilitate the user to remove the IC chip, it may be placed in a state having a predetermined cover on the outer surface of the control panel.

In addition, in the description of the present invention, reference is made solely to replacing the microprocessor of the cooking system as a whole when the heater or the like is replaced. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and control information such as a heater and operation information of the heater may be stored in a separate IC chip. In this case, the specification information of the heater corresponding to the corresponding IC chip is stored, and the information is transmitted to a microprocessor which performs control of the cooking system, and is operated. In such a case, it is possible to reduce the cost for replacing the heater because only a specific memory corresponding to the memory is replaced without having to replace the expensive microprocessor as a whole.

The spirit of the present invention is not limited to the accompanying embodiments, and those skilled in the art who understand the spirit of the present invention can easily suggest other embodiments falling within the scope of the same idea by adding, changing, deleting, and adding components. It may be said that this is also included in the spirit of the present invention. In addition, the components included in any one of the above-described embodiments may be included in other embodiments to suggest other embodiments, but this will also be included in the spirit of the present invention.

According to the present invention, it is possible to conveniently replace and use the components of the cooking system according to the user's taste according to the user's taste, the information on the cooking method of the cooking system, etc. can be upgraded, information of the new cooking system Since it can always be obtained, the user's convenience is increased.

Claims (8)

delete delete case; A heater that is replaceably mounted inside the case; And a substrate on which the IC chip, which contains the control information of the heater, is detachably mounted. When replacing the heater, Cooking system, characterized in that the IC chip is embedded with the control information of the heater to be replaced together. The method of claim 3, wherein When the replacement of the heater is made, the cooker control unit to set the cooking method according to the control information of the replaced heater, The cooking system further comprises a communication unit connected to the server provided with the cooking information through the network to transmit the control information information of the replaced heater, and to receive the cooking method according to the transmitted control information of the heater. The method of claim 3, wherein The substrate further includes a socket on which the IC chip is mounted, wherein the IC chip includes control information of the replaced heater, display state set information of the display unit according to the replaced heater, and a guide menu. Replacing parts of the cooking system; and Receiving and storing control information of the replaced part; And And using the stored control information as control information of the cooking system. The method of claim 6, The control information of the cooking system is input via a network in accordance with the control information of the changed parts. The method of claim 6, Control information of the cooking system is a method of using a cooking system that is input by replacing the IC chip of the cooking system.

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