阅读说明：本技术 烹饪器具和用于烹饪器具的控制方法 (Cooking appliance and control method for cooking appliance ) 是由 樊杜平 陈建化 曹凯 李泽涌 于 2019-04-09 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种烹饪器具和用于烹饪器具的控制方法,烹饪器具包括语音输出装置和控制装置。语音输出装置配置为输出语音信息。控制装置能够计时,并配置为在接通主电源时判断当前时间所处的时间段并控制语音输出装置输出与当前时间所处的时间段相匹配的语音信息。根据本发明的烹饪器具和用于烹饪器具的控制方法,其能够根据时间段的不同有选择地输出与该时间段相匹配的语音信息,做到更加智能化人性化,可以提升用户的使用体验。(The invention discloses a cooking appliance and a control method for the cooking appliance. The voice output device is configured to output voice information. The control device can time and is configured to judge the time period of the current time when the main power supply is switched on and control the voice output device to output the voice information matched with the time period of the current time. According to the cooking appliance and the control method for the cooking appliance, the voice information matched with the time period can be selectively output according to different time periods, more intelligent and humanized effects are achieved, and the use experience of a user can be improved.)

1. A cooking appliance (100), characterized in that the cooking appliance (100) comprises:

a voice output device (140), the voice output device (140) configured to output voice information; and

a control device (130), the control device (130) being capable of timing and configured to determine a time period during which a current time is when the main power supply (180) is turned on,

the control means controls the voice output means (140) to output voice information matching the time period in which the current time is located.

2. The cooking appliance (100) according to claim 1, wherein the time period includes day time and night time, and the voice message includes day time information matched to the day time and night time information matched to the night time.

3. The cooking appliance (100) according to claim 2, wherein the daytime is a time period from 8am to 8pm and the nighttime is a time period from 8pm to 8am on the following day.

4. The cooking appliance (100) according to claim 2, wherein the volume of the daytime information is greater than the volume of the nighttime information.

5. The cooking appliance (100) of claim 1, wherein the control device (130) is clocked with respect to Beijing time.

6. The cooking appliance (100) according to claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance (100) further comprises an input device (150), the input device (150) is electrically connected to the control device (130), the control device (130) is configured to receive input information of the input device (150) and configure a mute time period according to the input information, and is configured to control the voice output device (140) to keep mute when the current time is in the mute time period.

7. The cooking appliance (100) of claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance (100) further comprises a display device (160), the display device (160) being capable of displaying visual information that matches the voice information.

8. A control method for a cooking appliance (100) according to claim 1, characterized in that the method comprises

Switching on a main power supply (180);

the control device (130) reads the timed current time; and

the voice output means (140) outputs voice information matching the time period in which the current time is present, based on the time period in which the current time is present.

9. The control method according to claim 8, characterized in that the method further comprises: when the time period of the current time is a mute time period, the voice output device (140) is kept silent.

10. The control method according to claim 8, characterized in that a display device (160) displays visual information matching the voice information.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of electric heating appliances, in particular to a cooking appliance and a control method for the cooking appliance.

Background

The existing partial cooking appliance has a voice prompt function, and can prompt various attentions of a user in a voice mode. For example, information indicating the start and completion of cooking. However, the existing cooking appliances are not intelligent enough, cannot perform selective prompting according to the change of scenes or time, and cannot bring better use experience to users.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a cooking appliance and a control method for a cooking appliance to at least partially solve the above-mentioned problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In this summary, concepts in a simplified form are introduced that are further described in the detailed description section. This summary of the invention is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.

In order to at least partially solve the above-mentioned problems, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance including:

a voice output device configured to output voice information; and

the control device can time and is configured to judge the time period of the current time when a main power supply is switched on and control the voice output device to output voice information matched with the time period of the current time.

According to the cooking appliance disclosed by the invention, the voice information matched with the time period can be selectively output according to different time periods, more intelligent and humanized effects are achieved, and the use experience of a user can be improved.

Optionally, the time period includes day and night, and the voice message includes day information matched with the day and night information matched with the night. Thus, the matching information can be selected according to the day or night.

Optionally, the daytime is a time period from 8am to 8pm, and the nighttime is a time period from 8pm to 8am on the following day. Thus, the division of the time period is adapted to the work and rest of most people.

Optionally, the volume of the daytime information is greater than the volume of the nighttime information. Therefore, the volume can be adjusted according to different time periods, and the method is more intelligent and humanized.

Optionally, the control device counts time based on Beijing time. Thus, the cooking utensil is suitable for being used in the areas timed by Beijing time.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises an input device electrically connected to the control device, the control device is configured to receive input information from the input device and configure a mute time period according to the input information, and is configured to control the voice output device to keep mute when the time period of the current time is the mute time period. Therefore, the mute time period is set, and the mute is kept in the mute time period, so that disturbance can be avoided.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises a display device capable of displaying visual information matched with the voice information. Thus, diversified information can be provided for the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a control method for a cooking appliance as described above, the method comprising

Switching on a main power supply;

the control device reads the timed current time; and

and the voice output device outputs voice information matched with the time period of the current time based on the time period of the current time.

According to the control method, the voice information matched with the time period can be selectively output according to different time periods, more intelligent and humanized effects are achieved, and therefore the use experience of a user is improved.

Optionally, the method further comprises: and when the time period of the current time is a mute time period, the voice output device keeps mute. Thus, the silent period is set, and disturbance can be avoided.

Optionally, the display device displays visual information matching the voice information. Thus, diversified information can be provided for the user.

Drawings

The following drawings of embodiments of the invention are included as part of the present invention for an understanding of the invention. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

fig. 1 is a schematic view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a control schematic diagram of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control method for a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the embodiments of the invention.

In the following description, a detailed structure will be presented for a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. It is apparent that the implementation of the embodiments of the present invention is not limited to the specific details familiar to those skilled in the art. The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention, however, the invention is capable of other embodiments in addition to those detailed.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a cooking appliance and a control method of cooking using the same.

The cooking utensil shown by the invention can be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker, an electric stewpan and the like.

As shown in fig. 1, the cooking appliance 100 according to the present invention includes a cover 120 and a pot body 110. The pot body 110 is substantially in a rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a cylindrical inner pot receiving portion into or from which the inner pot 111 can be freely put or taken out to facilitate cleaning of the inner pot 111. The upper surface of the inner pot 111 has a circular opening for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., therein. The bottom of the inner pan 111 is typically also provided with heating means 170 for heating the inner pan. It is understood that the cooking appliance 100 according to the present invention may cook other miscellaneous grain rice such as bean rice, in addition to rice. The cooking appliance 100 will be described in detail below, taking rice cooking as an example.

The cover 120 has a substantially rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and substantially corresponds to the shape of the pot body 110. The lid body 120 is pivotally connected to the pot body 110 in an openable and closable manner for covering the pot body 110 and constituting a cooking space between the inner pot 111 and the lid body 120.

As shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 further includes a control device 130. The control device 130 includes a main control chip, which may be electrically connected to functional elements of the cooking appliance 100, such as the heating device 170, and send signals to control the functional elements to perform corresponding operations. According to the present invention, a Real-Time Clock (RTC) module is disposed in the main control chip, so that the control device 130 can implement a Real-Time timing function.

It can be understood that the main control chip needs to consume electric energy when executing the real-time timing function. As shown in fig. 2, the cooking appliance 100 includes a main power supply 180 and a timing power supply 190. The main power 180 may be commercial power used in daily life of a household, and the timer power 190 may be a battery provided on the cooking appliance 100. The timing power supply 190 is used to supply power to the main control chip to provide the power consumption required to maintain the timing function. Therefore, the main control chip can continuously perform real-time timing without being limited by external conditions.

Preferably, the timing of the control device 130 can be kept synchronized with the Beijing time. However, the timing of the control device 130 can also be synchronized with the times of other time zones, if desired.

In addition, the cooking appliance 100 further includes a voice output device 140 electrically connected to the control device 130 and capable of outputting various information fed back by the cooking appliance 100 to the user in a voice manner in response to the control of the control device 130. In a preferred embodiment, the voice output device 140 is a speaker, which can be controlled by a voice chip.

Preferably, the cooking appliance 100 is further provided with an input device 150 and a display device 160. The input device 150 is used for a user to input information and transmit the information to the control device 130. For example, the information input by the user may be time information, recipe information, number of people information, taste information, and the like. In one embodiment, the input device 150 may be configured in the form of a key. The display device 160 is used to display information output from the cooking appliance 100 to a user as visual information. In particular, the display device 160 may be a display screen. Preferably, the input device 150 and the display device 160 may be configured in the form of a display provided with a touch screen device or operation keys. In this embodiment, the user may input cooking information by operating a touch screen or keys on the display. Thus, the two are formed into an integral component, and the number of parts can be reduced.

According to the cooking appliance 100 of the present invention, the control device 130 is configured to control the voice output device 140 to output voice information matching the current time, prompt or greeting the user, etc. when the main power supply 180 is turned on. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the flow chart shown in fig. 3.

First, when the cooking appliance 100 turns on the main power supply 180, the control device 130 first reads the counted current time and determines a time period in which the current time is located. The time period can be divided into day and night according to normal daily work and rest. For example, 8am to 8pm per day may be divided into a time period of day, and 8pm per day to 8am on the following day may be divided into a time period of night. According to the time period of the current time, the control device 130 controls the voice output device 140 to output different voice information.

Specifically, when the control device 130 determines that the current time zone is daytime, it controls the voice output device 140 to output daytime information about daytime, "good morning", "good afternoon", and the like. When the control means 130 determines that the current time period is night (i.e., evening), it controls the voice output means 140 to output night information related to night, such as "good night" or the like.

In addition, since the surrounding environments are different between day and night, the volume required for outputting the corresponding voice information is also different. For example, the noise of the daytime surroundings is relatively large, and therefore the output volume corresponding to the daytime information is large. And the ambient environment at night is relatively quiet, so the output volume corresponding to the night information is low. Preferably, according to the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 may be provided with four volume levels: VL1, VL2, VL3, VL 4. Wherein, the size relation of each volume level is VL1< VL2< VL3< VL 4. For example, the voice output device 140 may output daytime information at a volume level of VL3 or VL4, and nighttime information at a volume level of VL1 or VL 2.

Preferably, a mute time period may also be provided for convenience of use in order to prevent the cooking appliance 100 from undesirably outputting voice information when the main power supply 180 is turned on. Specifically, the user may set a specific range of the silent period through the input device 150. When the control device 130 determines that the current time is in the mute time period, the voice output device 140 is controlled to keep mute, so as to realize the function of avoiding disturbance. For example, 9pm per day to 8pm the following day may be set as the silent period according to daily work and rest.

The control method according to the present invention is exemplified below.

For example, the user uses the cooking appliance 100 at 10 am 8. When the main power supply 180 is turned on, the control apparatus 130 first reads that the current time is 8am, 10 minutes in beijing, which is located in the time period of the day, to determine that the voice output apparatus 140 needs to output the day information at a high volume of VL3 or VL 4. Then, the control device 130 performs exclusion and determines whether or not the user is set with a mute time period. And if the mute time period is not set, controlling the voice output device 140 to work to output corresponding daytime information. And if the user sets the mute time period, judging whether the current time is in the mute time period. For example, a mute period of 9pm per day to 8pm the following day is set as the mute period. Thereby judging that the current time of 10 minutes at 8am is outside the silent period, and controlling the voice output device 140 to operate to output corresponding daytime information. Meanwhile, the control device 130 may also control the display device 160 to display visual information matching the daytime information. The cooking appliance 100 may then perform the next operation.

For example, the user uses cooking appliance 100 at 9pm and 30 minutes. When the main power 180 is turned on, the control device 130 first reads that the current time is 9 o' clock 30 minutes in beijing, which is located in a period of nighttime, at night, thereby determining that the voice output device 140 needs to output nighttime information at a low volume of VL1 or VL 2. Then, the control device 130 performs exclusion and determines whether or not the user is set with a mute time period. And if the mute time period is not set, controlling the voice output device 140 to work to output corresponding night information. And if the user sets the mute time period, judging whether the current time is in the mute time period. For example, a mute period of 9pm per day to 8pm the following day is set as the mute period. Thereby judging that the time of 30 minutes at 9pm is within the mute time period, and controlling the voice output device 140 to keep mute and not output the night information. Meanwhile, the control device 130 may also control the display device 160 to display visual information matching the night information. The cooking appliance 100 may then perform the next operation.

It is understood that the above description is for illustrative purposes only, and the user can flexibly set the time corresponding to the time period and flexibly set the time of the mute time period according to the requirement. Furthermore, the control device 130 may be configured to first make a judgment about the silent period after reading the current time and then judge the corresponding period (day or night).

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Terms such as "disposed" and the like, as used herein, may refer to one element being directly attached to another element or one element being attached to another element through intervening elements. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment, either alone or in combination with other features, unless the feature is otherwise inapplicable or otherwise stated in the other embodiment.

The present invention has been illustrated by the above embodiments, but it should be understood that the above embodiments are for illustrative and descriptive purposes only and are not intended to limit the invention to the scope of the described embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that many variations and modifications may be made to the teachings of the invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.