专利汇可以提供ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR MAKING FROZEN YOGURT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且An apparatus includes a housing, a heat conductive container for receiving yogurt ingredients, a heating unit installed in the housing and provided with a heating element for heating the container, a cooling unit installed in the housing and provided with a refrigerant pipe for cooling the container by a refrigeration cycle caused by supplying electric power, a stirring unit provided with a stirring blade which is driven by a motor to be rotated in the container, and a control unit configured to selectively control the heating unit, the cooling unit and the stirring unit to make frozen yogurt of the yogurt ingredients. A method includes steps for preparing frozen yogurt using the apparatus, wherein the frozen yogurt is fermented, ripened and frozen under control of the control unit within a single container, for example. In alternative examples, other fermented yogurt and non-fermented ice cream or sherbet products are made using the same apparatus.,下面是ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR MAKING FROZEN YOGURT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING专利的具体信息内容。
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The field relates to an apparatus for making frozen yogurt, and more particularly, an apparatus for making frozen yogurt and a method for controlling the apparatus for fermenting and-preparing frozen fermented yogurt ingredients in the same container.
Yogurt, which is obtained by fermenting milk and the like with lactobacilli, has been prevailingly popularized as a health food since yogurt is superior to milk in ingestibility and contains lactobacilli which may lower the activity in the intestine of harmful bacteria and/or reduce harmful bacteria.
Conventionally, yogurt has been made and sold by the manufacturers of dairy products or drinks in large quantities. Therefore, there are problems in that the yogurt purchased from makers may often include unwanted ingredients (for example, carrots etc.) which a consumer dislikes and the costs for purchasing the yogurt are somewhat large.
An apparatus for making yogurt is disclosed in Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-2470006 which was filed by the present applicant and issued. The disclosed apparatus for making yogurt is configured to make yogurt by performing a heating process for yogurt ingredients received in a reception container under the predetermined fermentation temperature. This apparatus for making yogurt can make no other kind of yogurt except gelled plain yogurt.
Disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,829,344 is an apparatus for making frozen yogurt using a cooling container in which a refrigerant is provided. In the disclosed apparatus, after a container, which is optionally provided in the apparatus and in which a refrigerant is provided, is cooled in a freezing chamber of a freezer in advance, soft frozen yogurt is made by putting yogurt into the container and using a stirring unit provided in the apparatus itself. However, there are problems in that the conventional apparatus necessarily requires a cumbersome process in which the container should be loaded into and unloaded from the freezing chamber to make the frozen yogurt. In addition, there are problems in that the universality of the container can lowers since the container is used only for making soft frozen yogurt.
An apparatus for making frozen yogurt and a method for controlling the apparatus comprises fermenting ingredients in a container and then processing the resulting yogurt using refrigerating and/or freezing of the fermented yogurt ingredients in the same container to make frozen yogurt.
An apparatus for making frozen yogurt comprises a housing; a heat conductive container for receiving yogurt ingredients; a heating unit installed in the housing and provided with a heating element for heating the container; a cooling unit installed in the housing and provided with a refrigerant pipe for cooling the container by a refrigeration cycle caused by supplying electric power; a stirring unit provided with a stirring blade which is driven by a motor to be rotated in the container; and a control unit configured to selectively control the heating unit, the cooling unit and the stirring unit to make frozen yogurt of the yogurt ingredients, for example.
A method for controlling an apparatus for making frozen yogurt comprises providing an, apparatus comprising a housing, a heat conductive container for receiving yogurt ingredients, a heating unit installed in the housing and provided with a heating element for heating the container, a cooling unit installed in the housing and provided with a refrigerant pipe for cooling the container by a refrigeration cycle caused by supplying electric power, a stirring unit provided with a stirring blade which is driven by a motor to be rotated in the container, and a control unit configured to selectively control the heating unit, the cooling unit and the stirring unit; heating the yogurt ingredients in the heat conductive container to obtain fermented yogurt using of the heating unit controlled by the control unit; and freezing the fermented yogurt in the housing using the cooling unit controlled by the control unit, while controlling the stirring blade of the stirring unit.
According to one example a fermenting process, a refrigeration-ripening process and/or a freezing process for the yogurt ingredients is sequentially performed in one container, allowing highly nutritious and beneficial frozen yogurt to be made at home in a one-pot process. For example, ice cream frozen yogurt or sherbet frozen yogurt may be easily made by selectively stirring the yogurt ingredients in fermenting, ripening and freezing processes. In one example, an The apparatus makes it possible not only to make frozen yogurt, but also to make gelled plain or liquidized yogurt, which is fermented and then sufficiently ripened, without using a conventional refrigerator. The method for using the apparatus makes the end product, such as a yogurt drink, gelled yogurt or frozen yogurt, selectable by the user of the apparatus.
In another example, a method makes unfermented ice cream or refrigerates and stores yogurt using at least one of a heating unit, a cooling unit and a stirring unit, which are provided in the apparatus itself.
Referring to
A heat conductive cup 16 and a heat conductive container 60 received within the cup 16 are matingly engaged, and the heat conductive container 60 may be brought into contact with and received in an internal peripheral surface of the heat conductive cup 16. The heat conductive cup 16 serves to transfer heat to the refrigerating coils 32 or from the heating unit 20. Thus, the yogurt ingredients may be heated or cooled by the heat conductive container 60. To this end, an external surface of the heat conductive cup 16 may be in contact with a refrigerant pipe 32 of the cooling unit 30 and heating element 24 of the heating unit 20, such as a hot wire type element.
The refrigerant pipe 32, which is a pipe for allowing Freon, ammonia or other refrigerants to flow there through may comprise a cooling unit 30 together with a compressor 33, a condenser (or radiator) 34, an expansion valve 35, and the like as illustrated in
Referring again to
The heating element 24, which constitutes the heating unit 20 together with an electric power supply 22 and the like, is wound around a lower portion of the external peripheral surface of the heat conductive cup 16 at a distance from the refrigerant pipe 32, for example. The heating function of the heating unit 20 including the heating element 24 allows the yogurt ingredients in the heat conductive container 60 to be heated to a fermentation temperature such as a range of 40 to 42° C., or an optimum temperature range for growing lactobacilli to perform the fermenting process, for example.
A heating temperature of the heating element 24 may be determined to be equal to or higher than the aforementioned fermentation temperature range in consideration of any heat loss. If a temperature of the heating element 24 is too high, it may influence negatively the refrigerant which flows through the refrigerant pipe 32 and may even cause an explosion of the refrigerant pipe 32. A temperature of the heating element 24 may be limited to less than about 60° C., for example.
The difference between the temperature of the heating element 24 and the optimal fermentation temperature range of the yogurt ingredients may depend on a variety of factors, such as a thickness, a shape and a material of the heat conductive container 60 and the heat conductive cup 16, a gap there between, or the like. The heat conductive container 60 and the heat conductive cup 16 may be designed in consideration of these factors such that the aforementioned temperature difference is predetermined to be within an acceptable range, for example. Also, the stirring unit 40 and cooling unit 30 may be used to make non-fermented ice cream.
A stirring unit 40 is used to make frozen yogurt by stirring gelled yogurt in a freezing process using of the cooling unit 30 or to make sherbet frozen yogurt by stirring fermented, liquidized yogurt in a freezing process using the cooling unit 30.
Fermented yogurt may be obtained by the cohesion of the yogurt ingredients during a fermenting process and/or a refrigeration-ripening process after the fermenting process. A gelled yogurt is generally referred to as a plain yogurt if no flavorings are added. A liquid yogurt may be obtained by intermittently stirring the yogurt ingredients during a fermenting process and/or a or the refrigeration-ripening process to prevent the yogurt ingredients from gelling . The stirring unit 40 may be used to prevent the yogurt ingredients from being gelled forming liquid yogurt during the fermenting and/or refrigerating process, as well as used in the freezing process for preparing frozen yogurt or a frozen yogurt sherbet.
The stirring unit 40 includes a motor 42 and a stirring blade 44 which is driven by the motor 42. The motor 42 and the stirring blade 44 are connected through a detachable connection between a driving axle 422 of the motor 42 and a stirring axle 442 of the stirring blade 44. To this end, the driving axle 422 may be formed with a rectangular axle hole 422a. An end of the stirring axle 442 having a rectangular cross section may be detachably inserted into the axle hole 422a, which is shown in
The stirring unit 40 includes a cap 47 which may be integrally connected to a lower portion of the motor 42. The cap 47 is fitted into the open portion in the upside of the housing 10 described above to allow the stirring unit 40 to be detachably installed to the housing 10, for example. When the frozen yogurt or the fermented and/or ripened yogurt is completely made, the stirring unit 40 may be separated from the housing 10, such that a user can obtain the yogurt in the container 60, such as by removing the container 60.
The apparatus 1 for making frozen yogurt shown in
As shown in
The safety switch 80 allows the motor 42 to be driven only if the motor 42 and the cap 47 connected thereto rest accurately onto the operational position in the housing 10, so that the motor 42 can be prevented from being driven while the motor 42 is not in its operation position avoiding accidents which might be caused by such driving of the motor 42, when not properly mounted.
An arrangement and structure of the refrigerant pipe 32 and the heating element 24 is thoroughly considered. The refrigerant pipe 32 and the heating element 24, which are in contact with the heat conductive cup 16 and/or the container 60 transfer heat to the refrigerating unit and from the heating unit to the ingredients in the container.
The heating elements 24 shown in
A first mode processing unit 54a controls process for making frozen yogurt. If the mode determination unit 52 determines to perform the first mode is invoked, the first mode processing unit 54a controls the operational units 20, 30 and 40 according to the following steps, for example. First, the heating unit 20 is operated to ferment yogurt ingredients inserted into the heat conductive container 60 at a temperature in a range of 36 to 42° C., preferably 40 to 42° C., for about 6 to 10 hours, preferably about 8 hours for example. When a gelled, fermented yogurt is obtained, (S110) the operational units 30, 40 and 50 maintain their standby states except for the heating unit 20, which continues until fermentation is complete. Then, the cooling unit 30 turns on to provide refrigeration at a temperature of about 2 to 5° C. for 20 minutes to one hour (S120), while the heating unit 20 is turned off. Although not shown in detail, control of the refrigeration temperature may be achieved using a temperature sensor and a temperature control means for controlling the temperature in the container based on sensing of the output of the temperature sensor as is known in the art of refrigeration. The refrigeration operation of the cooling unit 30 causes the fermented yogurt ingredients in the container 60 to be refrigeration-ripened, for example, Through this ripening process, the yogurt ingredients may undergo additional gelation. When the refrigeration-ripening process is completed, the cooling unit 30 may be operated to reduce the temperature to a freezing temperature of about −20° C. (S130), for example. During such a freezing process, the stirring unit 40 is operated under control of the control unit to stir the gelled, fermented yogurt ingredients (S132), making a frozen yogurt. For example, the yogurt ingredients input at the start of the process may be milk with lactobacilli added or milk with a small quantity of a ready-made yogurt with active cultures mixed into the ready-made yogurt.
A second mode processing unit 54b may perform a process for making a yogurt sherbet based on a determination of the mode determination unit 52. The heating unit 20 may be operated under the same condition as described in the first mode to ferment yogurt ingredients in the container (S210); however, a stirring unit 40 is operated to intermittently stir the yogurt ingredients, in order to prevent the fermented yogurt ingredients from cohesively gelling. A liquidized fermented yogurt (S212) is obtained upon completion of fermentation. Then, the cooling unit 30 is operated under the same condition as described in the first mode to refrigeration-ripen the fermented yogurt (S220), except that the stirring unit 40 may stir the yogurt (S222) during the refrigeration-ripening process or stirring may be omitted if liquefaction of the yogurt has been sufficiently achieved due to the stirring step in the preceding fermenting process. The cooling unit 30 may be chilled under the same condition as described in the first mode (S230). Simultaneously, it is preferable that the stirring unit 40 stir the yogurt during its freezing process (S232), thereby making yogurt sherbet instead of frozen yogurt with the consistency of ice cream, which is made creamier by gelation of the yogurt prior to the freezing process.
The control unit 50 may perform another mode in which the freezing and stirring steps of the yogurt ingredients (S130 and S123; and S230 and S232) are omitted. These modes may be used either to ferment and refrigeration-ripen yogurt ingredients, without stirring or freezing them to obtain a gelled refrigerating plain yogurt or to ferment and refrigeration-ripen yogurt ingredients, while stirring but not freezing them, to obtain liquidized yogurt drink.
The control unit 50 may include a control mode in which the heating unit 20, the cooling unit 30 and the stirring unit 40 are separately used or another control mode in which only the cooling unit 30 and the stirring unit 40 are used with the operation of the heating unit 20 omitted. Specifically, the freezing operation of the cooling unit 30 and the stirring operation of the stirring unit 40 may be used to make an ice cream or sherbet with no step of fermenting. Likewise, a step of “cooking” may be added to create a frozen custard, with or without an intermediate step of ripening at a reduced temperature.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it will be apparent in the art that various modifications, changes, alterations can be made within the spirit of the present invention and the appended claims. Therefore, the aforementioned descriptions and drawings should be interpreted as not the limitation of the present invention but the illustrations thereof.
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