US 12,440,056 B2
Electric pressure cooker
Yude Han, Zhejiang (CN); Jiwei Wang, Kanata (CA); and Yi Qin, Kanata (CA)
Assigned to IB APPLIANCES US HOLDINGS, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by IB APPLIANCES US HOLDINGS LLC, Downers Grove, IL (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/988,543.
Application 17/988,543 is a continuation of application No. 15/930,843, filed on May 13, 2020, granted, now 11,529,012.
Claims priority of application No. 201910393997.4 (CN), filed on May 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0070803 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47J 27/09 (2006.01); A47J 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 27/09 (2013.01) [A47J 27/004 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pressure cooker comprising:
a cooker body comprising an outer pot;
an inner pot removably receivable within the outer pot; and,
a lid for covering the cooker body;
wherein the outer pot comprises a plurality of cooker teeth, the lid comprises a plurality of lid teeth corresponding with the cooker teeth, and the cooker teeth and the lid teeth are constructed and arranged to lockingly engage with each other upon a rotation of the lid into a closed position relative to the cooker body;
wherein the cooker body comprises a pair of cooker handles extending outwardly from a sidewall of the cooker body, the cooker handles comprising a handgrip portion for lifting or moving the cooker body, and a pair of sidewalls extending upwardly from opposing sides of the handgrip portion, the handgrip portion and the pair of sidewalls forming a receiving groove open at an outer end thereof, opposite the sidewall of the cooker body;
wherein the inner pot comprises an inner pot body and a pair of inner pot handles connected to the inner pot body, the inner pot handles being constructed and arranged to be received between the sidewalls and within the receiving grooves of the cooker handles, and wherein the inner pot handles are spaced apart from the handgrip portion in a vertical direction so as to define a gap between the inner pot handle and the handgrip portion for allowing fingers of a user to be received therein through the open outer end of the receiving groove, opposite the sidewall of the cooker body,
wherein the handgrip portion comprises a slope portion for ease of handling by hand,
wherein the inner pot handle comprises a connecting member fastened to the inner pot body, and a heat insulation member coupled to the connecting member,
wherein the heat insulation member comprises an upwardly concaved recess portion disposed on a bottom wall of the heat insulation member, the recess portion having a tapering shape such that a center portion of the recess portion has a larger depth relative to the bottom wall of the heat insulation member than a peripheral portion of the recess portion, wherein the tapering shape is formed to be substantially similar to a shape of a fingertip, and
wherein the slope portion decreases the gap so as to guide the user's fingers toward the recess portion.