Sous vide cooker
AssigneeAnova Applied Electronics, Inc.
InventorsCarl Håkan Messler, Xia Yujie, Vivian Lee Hu
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Abstract
A sous vide cooker having a housing, a bulkhead attached to the housing to form a first cavity, a heat sink attached to the bulkhead to form a second cavity, and a skirt attached to the bulkhead to form a third cavity below the heat sink. A TRIAC is physically attached in conductive thermal communication to the heat sink in the second cavity. The cooker also has a motor, an impeller located in the third cavity, a drive shaft extending through at least the heat sink and into the third cavity and operatively connecting the motor to the impeller, and a heating element located within the third cavity.
Claims20
A sous vide cooker comprising:
- a housing extending along an longitudinal axis from an upper housing end to a lower housing end and comprising at least one display;
- a bulkhead having an upper bulkhead end extending along the longitudinal axis into the lower housing end, and a lower bulkhead end extending along the longitudinal axis below the housing, the bulkhead and housing forming a first cavity therebetween;
- a skirt attached at an upper skirt end to the bulkhead and extending to a lower skirt end located below the lower bulkhead end to form a second cavity between the skirt and the bulkhead, the skirt having one or more one or more inlet openings and one or more outlet openings located below the lower bulkhead end;
- an impeller located in the second cavity;
- a drive shaft extending through the bulkhead and into the second cavity and operatively connected to the impeller;
- a motor operatively connected to the drive shaft;
- a heating element located within the second cavity;
- a ring-shaped metal heat sink located in the first cavity;
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- a TRIAC physically attached in conductive thermal communication to the heat sink in the first cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.