US 11,986,131 B2
Automated cooking device
Yuji Shiraki, Tokyo (JP); Eiji Ishiwata, Tokyo (JP); and Shohei Mawatari, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TECHMAGIC INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TECHMAGIC INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/507,105.
Application 18/507,105 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/016247, filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-082484 (JP), filed on May 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0074619 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. A47J 44/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 44/00 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated cooking device comprising:
a container holding unit pivotally provided in a manner of being able to go up and down in a front-rear direction of a cooking table and configured to hold a cooking container with a bottomed cylindrical shape;
a rotation unit provided between the cooking table and the container holding unit and configured to make the container holding unit go up and down with respect to the cooking table; and
a control unit configured to control driving of the container holding unit and the rotation unit,
the automated cooking device being configured to at least stir and cook ingredients contained in the cooking container, wherein
the container holding unit includes a base frame coupled to the rotation unit, a container rotation mechanism provided in the base frame and configured to rotate the cooking container using, as a center, a central axis extending in a depth direction of the cooking container, a rotation support mechanism pivotally provided on the base frame and supporting rotation of the cooking container, and a rotation driving mechanism configured to rotate the rotation support mechanism in a manner of being able to make the rotation support mechanism go up and down in the front-rear direction of the cooking table with respect to the base frame,
a pivot axis of the container holding unit with respect to the cooking table is disposed apart to a front side from a rotation axis of the rotation support mechanism of the container holding unit with respect to the base frame, and
the control unit controls the driving of the rotation driving mechanism of the container holding unit and the rotation unit so as to change the container holding unit to any of an ingredient receiving posture in which the cooking container receives the ingredients from an ingredient supply device that supplies the ingredients to the cooking container, a cooking posture in which the container rotation mechanism rotates the cooking container in a state in which the cooking container is inclined forward with respect to the cooking table so as to stir the ingredients, a serving posture in which the container holding unit is inclined forward more than in the cooking posture with respect to the cooking table so as to make the cooking container face downward to a dish placed on the front side of the container holding unit, and a washing posture in which the rotation support mechanism of the container holding unit is inclined backward with respect to the base frame and the cooking container is washed on a rear side of the container holding unit.