Cooking appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11583128-B2
Application number	US-201716625499-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2017
Priority date	Jun 21, 2017
Publication date	Feb 21, 2023
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023

Abstract

A cooking appliance includes a pot lid having a cross section with a long axis and a short axis orthogonal to each other, a pot body including a limiting boss provided at an upper surface of the pot body and configured to abut against an outer peripheral edge of the pot lid when the pot lid is closed, and a pot lid locking assembly configured to lock the pot lid in a closed state. The pot lid locking assembly includes at least one of a lid locking part disposed at the pot lid or a pot locking part disposed at the pot body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cooking appliance comprising:
a pot lid having a cross section with a long axis and a short axis orthogonal to each other;
a pot body including:
an outer housing;
a limiting boss provided at an upper surface of the outer housing, the limiting boss being configured to abut against an outer peripheral edge of the pot lid when the pot lid is closed;
an outer pot configured to be provided in the outer housing; and
an inner pot configured to be provided in the outer pot; and

a pot lid locking assembly configured to lock the pot lid in a closed state, the pot lid locking assembly including at least one of a lid locking part disposed at the pot lid or a pot locking part disposed at the pot body.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein an inner side surface of the limiting boss is inclined upward from inside to outside.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein a height of the limiting boss from the upper surface of the pot body in a vertical direction is 1-25 mm.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein:
the pot body further includes two handles opposite to each other in a circumferential direction of the pot body; and
the limiting boss is one of a plurality of limiting bosses of the pot body that are disposed on the two handles.

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4 , wherein each of the two handles is provided with two limiting bosses of the plurality of limiting bosses, the two limiting bosses being spaced apart from each other along the circumferential direction of the pot body.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 5 , wherein each of the two handles includes a limiting groove at an upper surface of the handle and located between the two limiting bosses of the handle.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 4 , wherein:
the lid locking part of the pot lid locking assembly includes:
a guide rail provided at the pot lid; and
two snaps provided oppositely in a circumferential direction of the pot lid, and disposed on the guide rail and configured to move close to or away from each other; and

each handle is located between the two snaps in the circumferential direction of the pot body when the pot lid is closed.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 7 , wherein:
the guide rail is oriented along a direction of the short axis; and
when the pot lid is closed, the two handles are disposed adjacent to two ends of the long axis, respectively.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the pot lid and the inner pot each have an oval cross section.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein:
the pot lid includes a positioning boss at a lower surface of the pot lid;
the pot body further includes a positioning groove at the upper surface of the pot body; and
the positioning boss is fitted in the positioning groove when the pot lid is closed.

11. The cooking appliance according to claim 10 , wherein the positioning boss has a cross-sectional area increasing gradually from bottom to top.

12. The cooking appliance according to claim 11 , wherein the positioning groove is configured as an arc groove, a V-shaped groove, or a conical groove, and a shape of the positioning boss matches a shape of the positioning groove.

13. The cooking appliance according to claim 10 , wherein:
the pot lid includes:
a pot lid cover plate; and
a pot lid enclosure plate connected to the pot lid cover plate and extending in a circumferential direction of the pot lid cover plate; and

the positioning boss is disposed at a lower edge of the pot lid enclosure plate.

14. The cooking appliance according to claim 10 , wherein the positioning boss is one of two positioning bosses of the pot lid that are arranged oppositely in a circumferential direction of the pot lid.

15. The cooking appliance according to claim 14 , wherein:
each of the two positioning bosses includes a notch at a lower end of the positioning boss, and two ends of the notch form two fulcrums on the positioning boss; and
the four fulcrums on the two positioning bosses are on a same plane.

16. The cooking appliance according to claim 15 , wherein a distance H between the two fulcrums on each of the two positioning bosses is greater than 30 mm.

17. The cooking appliance according to claim 14 , wherein:
the lid locking part of the pot lid locking assembly includes:
a guide rail provided at the pot lid; and
two snaps provided oppositely in a circumferential direction of the pot lid, and disposed on the guide rail and configured to move close to or away from each other; and

each positioning boss is located between the two snaps in the circumferential direction of the pot body when the pot lid is closed.

18. The cooking appliance according to claim 17 , wherein:
the guide rail is oriented along a direction of the short axis; and
when the pot lid is closed, the two positioning bosses are located at two ends of the long axis, respectively.

Assignees

• Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mei Ruoyu
• Mo Rongkang
• Zhou Ya
• Gao Wanbao

Classifications

• A47J36/10

  Lid-locking devices · CPC title

• A47J27/09

  Safety devices · CPC title

• A47J27/0804 Primary

  Locking devices · CPC title

• A47J27/0813

  using a clamping ring or clamping segments · CPC title

• A47J27/0806

  of the bayonet-type · CPC title