To provide an object-serving device that is capable of serving a predetermined amount of object with reduced damage to the object. An embodiment of the present invention provides an object-serving device, comprising: object-holding members configured to move at least between an object-holding position and an object release position; a base body to which the object-holding members are attached such that the object-holding members can be moved; and a drive mechanism for driving the object-holding members, wherein each of the object-holding members has a shape following its path of movement at the object-holding position.
Provided are an ingredient temperature retention and supply device and an ingredient supply unit that: prevent spilling of ingredient from an ingredient delivery means onto an ingredient measuring means when the weight of the ingredient being fractionated to the ingredient measuring means reaches a prescribed supply weight; and automatically supply the ingredient to a cooking container in an accurate amount. The ingredient delivery means 213 delivers an ingredient I from an ingredient stocker 211 to the ingredient measuring means 212 until the weight of the ingredient I fractionated to the ingredient measuring means 212 reaches the prescribed supply weight. The ingredient measuring means 212 supplies the ingredient I to a container C when the weight of the ingredient I fractionated to the ingredient measuring means 212 reaches the prescribed supply weight. An upper shutter 213d, which adjusts the amount of ingredient I delivered to the ingredient measuring means 212 on the basis of a measurement result of the ingredient I by the ingredient measuring means 212, is disposed between the downstream end of the ingredient delivery means 213 and the ingredient measuring means 212, and opens and closes a bottom surface opening 213a1 formed at a distal end of the ingredient delivery means 213.
G01G 13/08 - Means for automatically loading weigh-pans or other receptacles, e.g. disposable containers, under control of the weighing mechanism involving dribble-feed means controlled by the weighing mechanism to top up the receptacle to the target weight wherein the main feed is effected by mechanical conveying means, e.g. by belt conveyors or by vibratory conveyors
G01G 17/00 - Apparatus for, or methods of, weighing material of special form or property
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MOUNTING ORIENTATION ADJUSTMENT STAND FOR COOKING CONTAINER AND AUTOMATED COOKING EQUIPMENT PROVIDED WITH SAME
The present invention provides a mounting orientation adjustment stand for a cooking container with which a cooking container is easily mounted in a certain mounting orientation with respect to a cooking device. Provided is an adjustment stand 100 to be used in automated cooking equipment 10 comprising a cooking container holding unit 11 that removably holds and displaces a cooking container P according to a cooking procedure, a cooking container transfer unit 12 that transfers the cooking container holding unit 11 to various conveying positions, and a cooking device 13 that removably holds the cooking container P to cook while causing the cooking container P to rotate, the adjustment stand 100 comprising: an adjustment stand body 110 that positions and adjusts the mounting orientation of the cooking container P with respect to the cooking device 13, and is configured to receive the cooking container P; an annular container-bearing plate 120 on which the cooking container P is rotatably placed; a bearing plate raising and lowering mechanism 130 that raises and lowers the container-bearing plate 120; and a positioning member 140 which is placed on a top surface 111a of the adjustment stand body 110 to position the mounting orientation of the cooking container P about a rotation axis C1 with respect to the cooking device 13.
Provided are a cooking-container-holding unit and a cooking container automatic transport device incorporating the same, which eliminate cooking container rattling that tends to occur when the vertical orientation of a cantilevered cooking container is reversed and cooking container rattling that tends to occur when the cooking container is turned within the horizontal plane, thus achieving stable handling of a cooking container in in a cooking process line. This cooking-container-holding unit 100 comprises: a pair of upper and lower container-holding parts 110, 120 that hold therebetween an annular peripheral wall portion C3 of a cooking container C having a container body C1 and the annular peripheral wall portion C3, which extends upward and/or downward from a flange part provided around the outer peripheral surface of the container and has a circular shape concentric with the container body C1; a holding drive part 130 that holds the cooking container C in cantilever fashion via the pair of upper and lower container-holding parts 110, 120; and a container displacement drive part 160 that causes the cooking container C to be displaced. A part of at least one of the pair of upper and lower container-holding parts 110, 120 freely comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the cooking container.
A47J 27/14 - Cooking-vessels for use in hotels, restaurants, or canteens
A47J 27/64 - Preventing boiling over, e.g. of milk by devices for automatically controlling the heat supply by switching off heaters or for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels
Provided are an automatic sauce supply device that automatically supplies sauce to a cooking container with the sauce stirred well, and a sauce storage facility provided with the same. An automatic sauce supply device 100 is provided with a container retention unit 110 that retains a bottomed cylindrical storage container SC for storing sauce S, an ejection nozzle 120 that ejects the sauce S to a bottomed cooking container CC, a pump 130 that pumps up the sauce S from the storage container SC and feeds the same to the ejection nozzle 120 by pressure, and a control unit 150 that drivingly controls the container retention unit 110 and the pump 130, wherein the sauce S stored in the storage container SC is supplied to the cooking container CC. The container retention unit 110 has a base 111 to which the ejection nozzle 120 and the pump 130 are attached, a container fixation table 112 to which the storage container SC is detachably fixed, and a container shaking means that causes the container fixation table 112 to execute a turning motion in a horizontal plane with respect to the base 111 to shake the storage container SC.
B67D 1/08 - Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught Details
A23L 5/00 - Preparation or treatment of foods or foodstuffs, in generalFood or foodstuffs obtained therebyMaterials therefor
B01F 31/23 - Mixing the contents of independent containers, e.g. test tubes by pivoting the containers about an axis
B65B 3/12 - Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by application of pressure to material mechanically, e.g. by pistons or pumps
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INGREDIENT SUPPLY DEVICE, AND INGREDIENT SAFEKEEPING EQUIPMENT COMPRISING SAME
Provided are an ingredient supply device for reliably and easily separating only an ingredient from an ingredient container and automatically supplying the ingredient to a cooking container, and ingredient safekeeping equipment comprising the ingredient supply device. In the present invention, an ingredient container transport mechanism 120 has an ingredient container flipping means 121 provided to the container-transport-end side of the ingredient container transport mechanism 120, the ingredient container flipping means 121 vertically flipping an ingredient container 111 so that an upper opening 111a in the ingredient container 111 faces downward. An ingredient isolation mechanism 130 has: an ingredient supply sleeve 131 provided vertically to an area outside of an ingredient container rack 110, the ingredient supply sleeve 131 being such that a small ingredient extraction hole 131c is opened therein closer to a sleeve end than is the upper opening 111a in the ingredient container 111; and a container recovery chute 131b linked to the sleeve end of the ingredient supply sleeve 131, the container recovery chute 131b separately recovering the ingredient container 111.
The present invention provides a conveyance robot device capable of conveying at a high speed a conveyance target which is contained in a container, without spilling the conveyance target. A robot device according to the present invention comprises a robot which conveys a conveyance target that is contained in a container along with the container, and a control device which controls the robot, said robot device being characterized in that: the robot controls the orientation of the container so as to correspond with the direction of a composite acceleration vector of robot acceleration, which is applied to the conveyance target or the container by the robot, and gravitational acceleration which acts on the conveyance target; and the robot is control such that the upper limit of robot jerk, which is the amount of change in the robot acceleration, is limited to a prescribed value.
Provided is a food supply device that enables easy removal and replenishment of a food mass. A food supply device 100 that has a plurality of food masses M placed on a tray 124 and drives a food delivery member 122 by means of a drive mechanism 121 to sequentially deliver and supply the food masses M from the tray 124 inside a heat retention body 110, wherein the tray 124 is provided so as to be pulled out freely from the heat retention body 110 in a tray drawing direction (Y direction) intersecting a food delivery direction (X direction) in which the food masses are delivered by the food delivery member 122.
Provided is a container supply device capable of enhancing container accommodation efficiency and facilitating accommodation work. The present invention comprises: a transfer mechanism 120 that transfers containers C to a delivery position P1 facing a delivery port 111f of the containers C in a container storage 110; and a delivery mechanism 130 that sequentially delivers the containers C transferred to the delivery position P1 by the transfer mechanism 120 toward a supply position P2 through the delivery port 111f. The transfer mechanism 120 has: a plurality of container placement lane units 121 in which the containers C are aligned so as to be movable in the column direction and also aligned in the row direction intersecting the column direction; and a lane transfer unit 123 that moves the plurality of container placement lane units 121 in the row direction and transfers the containers C on the delivery port 111f side placed on the container placement lane units 121 to the delivery position P1.
B65G 1/08 - Storage devices mechanical with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level the articles being fed by gravity
B65G 47/88 - Separating or stopping elements, e.g. fingers
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic cooking device that cleans a cooking container without dirtying foods and dishes in which the foods are distributed. A control unit 160 controls driving of a pivoting driving mechanism of a container holding unit 130 and a pivoting unit 150 to switch the container holding unit 130 to one of an ingredient receiving orientation in which a cooking container 110 is caused to receive an ingredient I from an ingredient feeding device feeding the ingredient I to the cooking container 110, a cooking orientation in which with the cooking container 110 tilted forward with respect to a cooking table 120, the cooking container 110 is autorotated by a container autorotation mechanism 133 to stir the ingredient I, a dish-out orientation in which the container holding unit 130 is tilted further forward with respect to the cooking table 120 than in the cooking orientation to lower the cooking container 110 toward a dish D located in front of the container holding unit 130, and a washing orientation in which an autorotation support mechanism 134 of the container holding unit 130 is tilted rearward with respect to a base frame 131 and the cooking container 110 is washed behind the container holding unit 130.
An automatic food provision system according to an embodiment of the present invention is an automatic food production system which is capable of producing a plurality of types of foods in accordance with an order from a customer, the automatic food production system being characterized by comprising: an order reception device which receives an order from a customer; a food base preparation device which prepares a food base corresponding to the order; a seasoning addition device; a topping device; a heated-cooking device; a distribution device; a transfer device which transfers the food base; and a control device which is connected with the devices, wherein the transfer device is capable of transferring the food base to at least the position of the food base preparation device, the position at which a feeder of the seasoning addition device adds a seasoning material, the position at which the topping device provides ingredient toppings, the introduction position or the outlet position of the heating device, and the introduction position or the outlet position of the distribution device.
Provided is an article separating device that makes it possible to separate a predetermined quantity of articles while minimizing damage to the articles. An article separating device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of article holding members capable of moving between at least an article holding position and an article release position; a base to which the plurality of article holding members are movably attached; and a drive mechanism for driving the plurality of article holding members. The article separating device is characterized in that the shape of the article holding members in the article holding position is a shape following the path of movement of the article holding members.
Provided is a learning control system that, on the basis of information that can be reliably detected from a work site such as a cooking environment, can respond to changes in the environment as well, and is highly versatile. A learning control system according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized by comprising one or more of: (a) a demand prediction module that predicts sales; (b) an image recognition module that recognizes an object; (c) an audio recognition module that recognizes the state of the object using audio; (d) a recommendation module that recommends a product to a customer; and (e) a fault detection module that detects a fault state of an device, the learning control system further comprising (f) a learning module that performs machine learning on the basis of information from the one or more modules, and the modules being controlled by a system trained by the learning module.
Provided is an automatic dishwashing system which may determine a type and a state of each dish, allow a robot to safely pick the dish up, and store the dish at a prescribed storage position, in a state where dishes are conveyed on a conveyor at three-dimensionally different angles. An automatic dishwashing system according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized by being provided with: a dish insertion part; a dish washing part; a dish conveying part; a dish information acquisition part which identifies a dish and acquires information about the dish; a dish placing part; and a dish pickup unit, wherein the acquisition information acquired by the dish information acquisition part includes at least one among the type, size, shape, color, position, orientation, direction, marker, or the code of the dish. When the dish information acquisition part identifies a dish which is being conveyed in the dish conveying part, the dish pickup part picks the dish up in correspondence to the state of the dish on the basis of the information acquired by the dish information acquisition part.
The present invention provides an automatic food presentation system which can be automated, can conserve space, and can be employed with various types of prepared dishes. An automatic food presentation system according to an embodiment of the present invention is capable of preparing a plurality of types of prepared dishes in accordance with an order from a customer, and is characterized in that: the automatic food presentation system is provided with a boiling apparatus that boils noodles in accordance with the aforementioned order, a heating device that is provided adjacent to the boiling apparatus and is for heating cookware, a supplying apparatus that supplies, to the cookware, ingredients to be added to the noodles, and a movement device that is capable of moving the cookware; the movement device is capable of moving the cookware to at least a position where the cookware receives the supply of ingredients from the supplying apparatus, a position where the cookware is heated by the heating device, and a position where the cookware receives noodles that have been boiled by the boiling apparatus; and the heating device is at least capable of cooking the ingredients supplied to the cookware from the supplying apparatus in accordance with the aforementioned order.
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