Patent Application
20250180223
The present disclosure relates to the field of range hoods and in particular to a fume extracting device and an induction cooker integrated stove.
At present, the range hoods on the markets are mounted above countertop to suck fume into the range hoods from bottom up. Such range hoods have a large volume and also need a large ventilation pipe cooperating with an exhaust fan. For this reason, the entire structure occupies a large space, and cannot be applied to the environments with relatively small mounting spaces. Further, these range hoods have large noise. Therefore, it is necessary to make improvements.
The present disclosure aims to solve, at least to some degree, one of the above technical problems in the related arts. For this purpose, the present disclosure provides a fume extracting device and an induction cooker integrated stove.
According to a first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a fume extracting device, which includes:
The fume extracting device in the embodiments of the present disclosure at least has the following technical effects: the fume extracting device is mounted under countertop, occupying small space. Further, the air inlet end of the volute fan faces downward, leading to noise reduction.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the filtering assembly includes a filtering cup, a strainer and an air inlet cover. A part of structure of the filtering cup is inserted through the mounting hole into the fume extracting pipe, and a part of structure of the filtering cup is abutted against the support base to enable the support base to support the filtering cup. An opening of an upper end of the filtering cup matches an opening of an upper end of the support base. The strainer is laid on the opening of the upper end of the filtering cup, and the air inlet cover is covered on the strainer.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the filtering cup includes a support cradle and a filtering cartridge, and a side of the support cradle is in communication with an upper end of the filtering cartridge. A lower end of the support cradle is abutted against the support base and the filtering cartridge is inserted into the fume extracting pipe.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, lift handles are disposed at the bottom of the support cradle.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the fume extracting pipe further includes a first pipe and a second pipe. The first pipe extends vertically. An upper end of the first pipe is connected to the support base and a lower end of the first pipe is connected to one end of the second pipe and another end of the second pipe is connected with the air inlet end of the volute fan.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a water outlet hole is disposed at the bottom of an inner chamber of the second pipe, and an air outlet hole is disposed on the top of the inner chamber of the second pipe; the water outlet hole and the air outlet hole are coaxially disposed.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bottom of the inner chamber of the second pipe is gradually recessed downwardly in a direction of being close to the water outlet hole. The fume extracting device further includes a rotary plug detachably connected with the second pipe to close the water outlet hole.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a sidewall of the filtering cartridge is provided with an air vent to enable gases to enter the first pipe from the filtering cartridge.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the volute fan includes a volute, a wind wheel and a motor. The volute is mounted above the second pipe and abutted against a sidewall of the second pipe. The wind wheel is located inside the volute and the motor is located above the volute. A motor shaft of the motor faces downward to connect with the wind wheel.
According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an induction cooker integrated stove, which includes the fume extracting device in the above first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure.
The induction cooker integrated stove in the embodiments of the present disclosure at least has the following technical effects: the induction cooker integrated stove uses the fume extracting device, which occupies small space. Further, the air inlet end of the volute fan faces downward, leading to noise reduction.
Additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will be partially given in the following descriptions and partially become obvious from the following descriptions or understood by practice of the present disclosure.
The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will become obvious and intelligible from the descriptions made to the embodiments by referring to the drawings.
The embodiments of the present disclosure will be detailed below with examples illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Same or similar numerals represent same or similar elements or elements having same or similar functions throughout the specification. The embodiments described below by referring to the drawings are only illustrative, and used to explain the present disclosure and shall not be understood as limiting of the present disclosure.
In the descriptions of the present disclosure, it should be understood that in the orientation descriptions, the orientation or position relationship indicated by the terms such as upper, lower, front, rear, left and right and the like is based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the drawings and is used only to help the description of the present disclosure and simplify the descriptions rather than to indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a specific orientation or be constructed or operated at a specific orientation and thus shall not be understood as limiting of the present disclosure.
In the descriptions of the present disclosure, the term “plural” means two or more, the terms “greater than”, “less than” “more than” and the like shall not be understood as including the present number, and the terms “above”, “below” and “within” and the like shall be understood as including the present number. The descriptions of the first and the second are used only to distinguish technical features and shall not be understood as indicating or implying any relative importance, or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features or implicitly indicating precedence of the indicated technical features.
In the descriptions of the present disclosure, unless otherwise clearly stated, the terms “dispose”, “mount” and “connect” and the like shall be understood in broad sense, and those skilled in the arts can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above technical terms in the present disclosure based on the specific contents of the technical solutions.
The present disclosure will be further described below in combination with the drawings.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
The conventional side suction type range hoods have the disadvantages of high noise, high energy consumption and frequent cleaning. The reason why the working noise of the side suction type range hoods is much higher includes many factors such as internal design, external shape, and motor working mode of the side suction type range hoods, which is highlighted especially at the high-speed level of the side suction type range hoods. Since the side suction type range hoods are mounted close to a cooking stove, the working heat of the cooking stove can be lost obviously, leading to increased gas consumption. Furthermore, since the side suction type range hoods are close to a cooking stove or a wok, vegetable soups or oils may be splashed more easily to the side suction type range hoods during home cooking process. Therefore, once dish cooking is finished, it is required to immediately clean the surfaces of the side suction type range hoods in order to keep kitchen clean. The cleaning work of the side suction type range hoods should be carried out more thoroughly and more frequently. Because the side suction type range hoods occupy a large wall surface space, the cooking space can be significantly occupied. This disadvantage is especially obvious for those early models of side suction type range hoods.
In this embodiment, the fume extracting device is mounted under countertop, occupying small space. Further, the air inlet end of the volute fan 200 faces downward, leading to noise reduction. In addition, a partial structure of the box body 100 serves as an end of the fume extracting pipe 300. Compared with the conventional side suction type range hoods, a filtering assembly 400 is mounted on a plane of the box body 300, and an area to be cleaned is small and thus vegetable soups and oils will not be easily splashed to an air inlet opening of the fume extracting pipe 300. Further, the filtering assembly 400 can be easily dismounted for cleaning. Furthermore, the fume extracting device in this embodiment doe not tend to suck the working heat generated by the cooking stove, reducing the gas consumption.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
It should be noted that the fume extracting pipe 300 in this embodiment has a smaller fume-extracting opening and can generate a larger suction force under same power compared with conventional range hoods.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
Preferably, as shown in
When the volute fan 200 works, external gas enters the strainer 420 through the air inlet cover 430 to filter out impurities such as oils and then enters the filtering cup 410 and then enters the fume extracting pipe 300 from the filtering cup 410, and then enters the fume exhaust pipe 500 through the volute fan 200 for discharge.
Preferably, as shown in
Preferably, as shown in
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
Preferably, as shown in
It should be noted that, based on the fluid energy conservation equation
(constant), where P is a static pressure, ½ρv2 is a dynamic pressure, and ρgh is a weight, it can be known that when a gas flow rate increases with a decreasing pressure to enable the gas flow rate at a minimum section of the filtering cartridge 412 to reach maximum and the high-speed gas flow enters the volute fan 200 through the second pipe 330, a negative pressure area is formed at the bottom of the filtering cartridge 412. Due to the suction effect formed in the negative pressure area, the fume carried by the gas flowing through the filtering cartridge 412 is sucked to the bottom of the filtering cartridge 412 to prevent the fume from entering the volute fan 200 to affect the performance of the volute fan 200. The fume extracting device has the advantages of low energy consumption, good fume extracting effect and protection of the volute fan 200 from fume contamination. The fume extracting pipe 300 of the fume extracting device in this embodiment has the efficiencies shown in
It should be further noted that the efficiencies of the fume extracting pipe 300 of the fume extracting device under different powers in this embodiment are shown in
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a purifying device including an ozone generator and a UV disinfection assembly is disposed between the fume exhaust pipe 500 and the air outlet end of the volute fan 200. When external gas enters the purifying device through the air outlet end of the volute fan 200, the gas reacts with ozone generated by the ozone generator so as to perform sterilization and deodorization. Next, the UV disinfection assembly sends ultraviolet rays to perform further sterilization on the gas and decompose redundant ozone. After the above purification process, the gas is discharged through the fume exhaust pipe 500.
It can be understood that after the gas runs through the filtering assembly 400 and then enters the volute fan 200 through the fume extracting pipe 300, the existing range hoods will discharge the gas directly together with impurities and bacteria not filtered out by the filtering assembly 400. Therefore, the purifying device is needed to perform further purification on the gas before discharging the gas, avoiding atmospheric pollution.
The ozone can carry out oxidative decomposition on enzymes desired for glucose decomposition in bacteria to disable tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and hence disable the supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) desired by cell life activity, leading to bacteria inactivation and death. Ozone is an efficient broad-spectrum sterilizing agent which can have extremely strong killing effect on bacteria, viruses, molds, spores, fungi, and microbes. The ozone has a sterilization ability 20% higher than that of ultraviolet rays, and can spontaneously diffuse in the air to achieve full sterilization. Further, the ozone has a fast sterilizing speed in water, 600 times faster than chlorine. It completes its mechanism for virus inactivation by directly destroying the RNA or DNA substance of the viruses, and when killing bacteria and mold microbes, the ozone firstly acts on cell nucleus and then destroys intra-membranous tissues until killing them. The oxidation ability of the ozone is double that of chlorine, and the sterilization speed of the ozone is 600 to 3000 times that of chlorine and thus it can kill bacteria even in several seconds. Further, the ozone is a green and environment-friendly element and can spontaneously reduce to oxygen and water during sterilization and disinfection process, without leaving any residues and generating secondary pollution. The ozone can kill vegetative bacteria, spores and fungi, destroy botulinum fungi and the like, remove and kill toxic substances and bacteria in the air, water and foods, and remove odors. Those common bacillus coli, streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, toadstool and the like can be killed at the rate of above 99% in ozone environment in 15 minutes. The ozone generates non-toxic and odorless substances by destroying molecular structures generating odorous substances. Since the phased oxygen (nascent oxygen) generated during ozone decomposition has strong oxidizing property, the odors, toxic gases and the like in the organic pollutants during the decomposition process can be decomposed in short time to generate air and become stable and odorless. The chemical reaction of ozone and formaldehyde is: 2O3+HCHO→2O2+H2O2+CO2, and the chemical reaction of ozone and benzene is: C6H6+5O3→6CO2+3H2O.
The ultraviolet rays can be divided into four bands based on wavelength: long wave UVA, medium wave UVB, short wave UVC and vacuum wave UVD.
The long wave UVA has a wavelength of 320 to 400 nm and a strong penetration power and can penetrate through glass and even 9 feet of water. It is always present four seasons a year regardless of the fact that it is cloudy or sunny and dusk or dawn. The harm to human body: more than 95% of ultraviolet rays contacted by skin during daily life are UVA and hence it has the most severe harm to the skins. The UVA can penetrate through epidermis to attack dermis, severely harming ossein and elastin in the skins. Since the dermal cells have poor self protection ability, a small number of UVA can cause extremely large harm to them. Over time, the problems such as skin laxity, winkles and high microvascular visibility can occur. Further, it can also activate tyrosinase to bring instant melanosis and new melanin formation, causing the skin to become black and lack luster. The UVA can cause long-time, chronic and permanent harm, making the skin age earlier. Therefore, the UVA is also called aging rays.
UVA application field: the UVA of 360 nm wavelength complies with the phototactic reaction curve of insects and therefore can be used for light traps. The UVA of 300 to 420 nm wavelength can fully penetrate through special tinted glass tubes completely cutting off visible light and only irradiate out near ultraviolet light with 365 nm as center and thus can be used for ore identification, stage decoration and counterfeit currency detection and the like. The medium wave UVB has a wavelength of 275 to 320 nm and a medium penetration power. The short parts of its wavelength can be absorbed by transparent glass, and the medium-wavelength ultraviolet rays in the day light are mostly absorbed by the ozone layer, with only less than 2% reaching the surface of the earth, which will become much stronger in summer and in afternoon. The harm to human body: it can oxidize the protective lipid layer of the epidermis, drying the skin; further, nucleic acid and proteins in the epidermic cells are modified, generating acute dermatitis (sunburn) and the like, and making the skin red and painful. In severe cases, for example, long-time insolation can also cause skin canceration. Furthermore, the long-time harm of the UVB can also cause variation of the melanophores, leading to incurable solar lentigo.
UVB application field: the ultraviolet health lamps and plant growth lamps are made of special ultraviolet-transmission glass (light below 254 nm does not transmit through it) and a fluorescent powder with peak value near 300 nm.
The short wave UVC has a wavelength of 200 to 275 nm and is also called short-wave sterilizing ultraviolet ray. It has the weakest penetration power and cannot penetrate through most transparent glasses and materials. The short-wave ultraviolet rays in the day light are almost fully absorbed by the ozone layer before reaching the ground. The harm to human body: since the UVC in the nature is absorbed by the ozone layer before reaching the ground, its influence on the skin is negligible. But, because the short-wave ultraviolet rays have large harm to human body, it is not allowed to directly irradiate on human body. In case of direct irradiation, short-time irradiation can burn the skin and long-time or high-intensity irradiation can cause skin cancer.
UVC application field: the ultraviolet ray sterilization lamp emits such UVC short-wave ultraviolet rays. The short-wave ultraviolet rays are widely applied to the fields such as hospitals, air-conditioning systems, disinfection cabinets, water treatment equipment, water dispensers, wastewater treatment plants, swimming pools, foods and beverage processing and packaging equipment, foods factories, cosmetics factories, milk product factories, breweries, beverage factories, bakeries and cold storage rooms and the like.
The bond energy of the ozone is 101.2 kJ/mol, and the ozone has a maximal energy absorption at the wavelength of 254 nm. After the ozone absorbs the ultraviolet light, the dissociation reaction occurs: O3+hv→O·+O2. Under the synergic effect of the ultraviolet light, due to formation of alkyl radicals, the ozone effectively destroys the molecular structures of the organic matters and finally decomposes them: O3+H2O+hv→O2+H2O2, H2O2+hv→2·OH.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
It can be understood that a water reservoir 415 is disposed at the bottom of the inner chamber of the filtering cup 410; when a liquid overflows out of the water reservoir 415, the liquid flows into the second pipe 330, and the liquid in the second pipe 330 can be discharged through the water outlet hole 331.
It can be further understood that, when a gas enters the second pipe 330 through the filtering cup 410, the gas may carry the liquid in the water reservoir 415; when the gas runs upward into the air inlet end of the volute fan 200 through the air outlet hole 333, the liquid carried by the gas falls to the bottom of the second pipe 330 under the action of gravity, preventing the liquid from entering the volute fan 200 to affect the performance of the volute fan 200.
Preferably, with reference to
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, with reference to
Preferably, the motor is a synchronous motor in which permanent magnet performs excitation to generate synchronous rotating magnetic field. Compared with the conventional motors, the motor has the characteristics of high control accuracy, good adjustment linearity and stable performance. The permanent magnet synchronous motor has no electric brush and no excitation coil and uses permanent magnet material magnetic pole and especially uses rare earth metal permanent magnet (e.g. neodymium iron boron and the like) and can have high air-gap flux density due to high magnetic energy product. Therefore, under same capacity and same power, the permanent magnet synchronous motor, compared with the conventional motors, has the characteristics of small volume, light weight, small heat generation, and low noise, and is more energy-saving and efficient with the energy saving effect far higher than the requirement of the IE standard in force. In this way, the entire volume of the centrifugal circulating fan is reduced while the efficiency is increased. The entire length of the permanent synchronous motor is at least ¼ shorter than the length of the conventional motor. Thus, the entirety of the fume extracting device is more compact, reducing the occupation space and lowering its basic noise.
Preferably, the wind wheel is a main working component for generating wind pressure and conveying energy. The wind wheel is disposed inside the volute and connected with an output shaft of the permanent magnet synchronous motor. In this embodiment, the transmission mode of the wind wheel and the permanent magnet synchronous motor is type A in which an impeller is fixedly connected with the output shaft of the permanent magnet synchronous motor by impeller locking sheets, impeller locking bolts and radial locking bolts. This transmission mode has the characteristics of compact structure and small volume.
Preferably, the volute has a facing-down air inlet opening and an air outlet opening and is used to direct gases leaving the impellers to the air outlet opening and convert partial dynamic pressure to static pressure to form wind pressure.
Preferably, a flow collector also known as horn mouth is disposed on an upper end of the first pipe 320, and used to suck and collect air flow with smaller resistance and direct the air flow to be uniformly conveyed into the first pipe 320.
When the volute fan 200 operates, the motor brings through the output shaft the wind wheel to rotate at a higher speed than the conventional motor, and a negative pressure area is formed at an air inlet of the flow collector. The gas is conveyed into the filtering assembly 400 under the action of a negative pressure, and filtered by the strainer and then flows into the filtering cup 410, and then sequentially flows through the first pipe 320 and the second pipe 330 and then is sucked into the wind wheel, and rotated along with the wind wheel, and pressurized and then discharged through the air outlet opening of the volute. In this process, when the gas sequentially runs through the first pipe 320 and the second pipe 330, the noise generated by the gas is reduced, and the pneumatic noise, electromagnetic noise and mechanical noise of the fume extracting device are weakened, thereby achieving noise reduction. Further, the air flow scours a housing of the permanent magnet synchronous motor so as to cool the permanent magnet synchronous motor.
In the descriptions of the specification, the descriptions made by referring to “some specific embodiments” and the like mean that the specific features, structures, materials or characteristics described by referring to the embodiments or examples are included in any one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In the specification, the illustrative expressions of the above terms do not necessarily refer to a same embodiment or example. Further, the described specific features, structures, materials or characteristics may be combined in any proper way in any one or more of the embodiments or examples.
Although the embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and described, persons of ordinary skill in the prior arts may understand that various changes, modifications, replacements and variations can be made to these embodiments without departing from the principle and tenet of the present disclosure, and the scope of protection of the present disclosure shall be defined by claims and its equivalents.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202211622062.7 | Dec 2022 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/CN2023/128146 | 10/31/2023 | WO |
