High-efficiency heating device in microwave chamber and heating method thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of microwave heating, and more particularly to a high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber and a heating method thereof. A high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber, comprising: a heating chamber; a straight-walled waveguide with microwave asymmetric propagation function; wherein one end of the straight-walled waveguide is communicated with the heating chamber; and at least one group of unidirectional waveguide structures, which are attached to an inner sidewall of the straight-walled waveguide; wherein the unidirectional waveguide structures comprise a first medium section and a second medium section which are provided along the microwave transmission direction; wherein a dielectric constant of the first medium section gradually increases along the microwave transmission direction and has a maximum value of ε.sub.max, a dielectric constant of the second medium section is a constant value of ε.sub.c, and ε.sub.max=ε.sub.c.

Claims

1. A high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber, comprising: a heating chamber (10); a straight-walled waveguide (20) with an asymmetric transmission function; wherein one end of the straight-walled waveguide (20) is communicated with the heating chamber (10); and at least one group of microwave unidirectional propagation structures (30), which are attached to an inner sidewall of the straight-walled waveguide (20); wherein the microwave unidirectional propagation structures (30) comprise a first medium section (31) and a second medium section (32) which are provided along the microwave transmission direction; wherein a dielectric constant of the first medium section (31) gradually increases along the microwave transmission direction and has a maximum value of ε.sub.max, a dielectric constant of the second medium section (32) is a constant value of ε.sub.c, and ε.sub.maxε.sub.c.

2. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a tail end of the second medium section (32) protrudes out of the straight-walled waveguide (20) and partially extends into an interior of the heating chamber (10).

3. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a head end of the second medium section (32) is in closely connected with a tail end of the first medium section (31), or the second medium section (32) and the first medium (31) are a one-piece structure.

4. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a thickness of the second medium section (32) is equal to a maximum thickness of the first medium section (31).

5. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a height of the unidirectional waveguide structure (30) is greater than or equal to ⅔ of a height of the inner sidewall of the straight-walled waveguide (20) where it is attached.

6. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a groove group is provided on one outer surface of the first medium section (31), and the groove group comprises a plurality of longitudinal grooves (51) provided in parallel from a head end to the tail end of the first medium section (31), and a depth of the longitudinal grooves (51) gradually decreases from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section (31).

7. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a thickness of the first medium section (31) gradually increases from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section (31).

8. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a medium hole group is provided inside the first medium section (31), and the medium hole group comprises a plurality of longitudinal medium holes (52) provided in sequence along a direction from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section (31), interiors of the medium holes (52) are provided with filling medium, a cross-sections of the medium holes (52) are all circular, and diameters of the medium holes (52) gradually increase or decreases in the direction from the head end to the tail end along the first medium section (31).

9. The high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber, as recited in claim 1, wherein a tray (40) is further provided in the heating chamber (10) for placing an object (41) to be heated.

10. A high-efficiency heating method in the microwave chamber, comprising: heating the object to be heated (41) by using the high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to claim 1, wherein the object to be heated (41) is placed in the heating chamber (10) in a static or movable manner.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0025] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an overall structure of a high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber according to an Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

[0026] FIG. 2 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional structural diagram of a the high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to the Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

[0027] FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a first configuration mode of a first medium section of a high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to the Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

[0028] FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a second configuration mode of the first medium section of the high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to the Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

[0029] FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a third configuration mode of the first medium section of the high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to the Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

[0030] FIG. 6 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional structural diagram of the high-efficiency heating device in the microwave chamber according to an Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

[0031] FIG. 7 is a simulation test result of the high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber and a heating method thereof provided in an Embodiment 3 of the present invention.

[0032] Reference numerals are: 10—heating chamber, 20—straight-walled waveguide, 30—one-way waveguide structure, 31—first medium section, 32—second medium section, 40—tray, 41—object to be heated, 51—longitudinal grooves, 52—medium holes.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0033] Embodiments of the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following examples are only used to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, and are therefore only used as examples, and cannot be used to limit the protection scope of the present invention.

[0034] Unless otherwise specified, in the present invention, orientation or positional relationship indicated by the terms “length”, “width”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “clockwise”, “counterclockwise”, “axial”, “radial”, “circumferential”, “x-direction”, “y-direction”, “z-direction”, etc. is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the indicated device or element must have a specific orientation, construction and operation in a specific orientation, so the terms describing the orientation or positional relationship in the present invention are only used for exemplary illustration, and should not be construed as a limitation on this patent accompanying drawings, and understand the specific meanings of the above terms according to specific situations.

[0035] It should be noted that the terms “head end” and “tail end” in the present invention are both based on the transmission direction of microwaves. The “head end” refers to the direction close to the direction from which the microwaves are transmitted, and the “tail end” refers to the direction to which the microwaves are transmitted.

Embodiment 1

[0036] As shown in FIGS. 1-2, this embodiment is the first embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment provides a high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber, comprising: a heating chamber 10, a straight-walled waveguide 20 with asymmetric transmission function and one end connected with the heating chamber 10, and two sets of unidirectional waveguide structures 30. Specifically, the straight-walled waveguide 20 is configured to transmit TE waves, and a cross-section of the straight-walled waveguide 20 is a rectangular structure provided on the inner sidewall of the unidirectional waveguide structure 30, and each group of the unidirectional waveguide structures 30 comprises a first medium section 31 and a second medium section 32 arranged in sequence along the microwave transmission direction, and the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 is along the microwave transmission direction. The direction gradually increases and the maximum value is ε.sub.max, the second medium section 32 is a value of 0 whose dielectric constant is stable value of ε.sub.c, and ε.sub.max=ε.sub.c.

[0037] In this embodiment, the unidirectional waveguide structure 30 can be bonded or embedded on the inner sidewall of the straight-walled waveguide 20, so that the unidirectional waveguide structure 30 is attached to the inner sidewall of the straight-walled waveguide 20, the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 are both plate-like or sheet-like structures, and at the same time, the head end of the second medium section 32 is in close contact with the tail end of the first medium section 31, and the second medium section 32 is in close contact with the tail end of the first medium section 31. The thickness of the medium section 32 is equal to the maximum thickness of the first medium section 31. In addition, the end of the second medium section 32 protrudes out of the straight-walled waveguide 20 and extends to the interior of the heating chamber 10, and the end portion of the second medium section 32 extends to the interior of the heating chamber 10 and The length of the second medium section 32 extending into the heating chamber 10 is ⅓ of the length of the heating chamber 10, and the height of the unidirectional waveguide structure 30 is equal to the inner wall of the straight-walled waveguide 20 high.

[0038] In this embodiment, in order to realize the gradient of the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31, the first medium section 31 can be designed and constructed in any of the following ways, specifically including:

[0039] First Mode

[0040] As shown in FIG. 3, a groove group is provided on one outer surface of the first medium section 31, and the groove group includes a plurality of longitudinal grooves 51 arranged in parallel from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, and the longitudinal grooves 51 are arranged at equal distances, and the depth of the longitudinal grooves 51 gradually decreases from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, and the cross-sections of the longitudinal grooves 51 are all rectangular.

[0041] Second Mode

[0042] As shown in FIG. 4, the thickness of the first medium section 31 gradually increases from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, so that the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 is gradually changed, and the first medium section 31 is the dielectric constant of the medium section 31 gradually increases from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31.

[0043] Third Mode

[0044] As shown in FIG. 5, a medium hole group is arranged inside the first medium section 31, and the medium hole group includes a plurality of longitudinal medium holes 52 arranged in sequence along the direction from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, the medium hole 52 runs through the first medium section 31 in the longitudinal direction, and the inside of the medium hole 52 is filled with a filling medium. Specifically, in order to realize that the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 gradually increases along the direction from the head end to the tail end of the first medium plate, the cross sections of the medium holes 52 are all circular, and the medium holes the aperture of 52 gradually increases along the direction from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, and the dielectric constant of the filling medium filled in the medium hole 52 is greater than the dielectric constant of the material of the first medium section 31, so that the dielectric constant of the material of the first medium section 31 is The dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 gradually increases along the direction from the head end to the tail end of the first medium section 31, and in order to make ε.sub.c=ε.sub.max, the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 can be made of different materials. On the contrary, when the dielectric constant of the filling medium filled in the medium hole 52 is smaller than the dielectric constant of the material of the first medium section 31, the diameter of the medium holes 52 constituting the medium hole group is along the first medium section 31. The direction from the end to the end gradually decreases, so that the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 gradually increases along the direction from the beginning to the end of the first medium plate. At this time, the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 can be made of the same or different materials and have ε.sub.c=ε.sub.max°.

[0045] In addition, in the microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in this embodiment, a tray 40 is further provided in the heating chamber 10 for placing the object to be heated 41, and the tray 40 can be movably or fixedly connected with the heating chamber 10. For the purpose of facilitating adjustment of the position of the object to be heated 41, the object to be heated 41 can be heated with high efficiency.

[0046] In this embodiment, by attaching the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 to the two opposite inner walls of the straight-walled waveguide 20, the electromagnetic wave generates a sudden change in phase when it encounters the first medium section 31, and this abrupt phase changes continuously in the direction of the interface, and the electromagnetic wave gradually changes into a surface wave after passing through this meta-interface material for many times, thus realizing the one-way propagation of the electromagnetic wave and effectively solving the reflection problem of the electromagnetic wave. At the same time, in view of the problem that the surface wave is difficult to radiate into the air on the first medium section 31, in the present invention, a second medium section 32 is further designed, and the second medium section 32 is used as a radiation antenna to radiate microwave energy to the air. In the heating chamber 10, high-efficiency heating of the object 41 to be heated by microwaves is realized in the heating chamber 10.

Embodiment 2

[0047] As shown in FIG. 6, this embodiment is the second embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment provides a high-efficiency heating device in a microwave chamber, comprising: a heating chamber 10, a straight-walled waveguide 20 with asymmetric transmission function and one end connected with the heating chamber 10, and two sets of unidirectional waveguide structures 30. The difference between the Embodiment 2 and Embodiment 1 is that, in the Embodiment 2, the second medium section 32 and the first medium section 31 are of a one-piece structure and are made of an identical material, and the dielectric constant of the first medium section 31 gradually increases along the transmission direction of the microwave and has a maximum value of ε.sub.max, the second medium section 32 has a constant dielectric constant of ε.sub.c, and ε.sub.max=ε.sub.c.

Embodiment 3

[0048] This embodiment is the third embodiment of the present invention, and is an application embodiment of the present invention, and the details are as follows:

[0049] In this embodiment, the heating effect of the microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Embodiment 1 is tested by simulation via COMSOL MUTIPHYSICS 5.5. A real part of the dielectric constant of the to-be-heated object 41 is at a range of 20 to 100, and a step interval is 10, a loss angle remains unchanged at 0.2, the object heated is a cylinder with a height of 50 mm, and a radius of 20 mm, 25 mm and 30 mm, and a cuboid with a height of 50 mm, the bottom area of 30 mm*30 mm, 40 mm*40 mm and 50 mm*50 mm respectively.

[0050] The experimental results use S11 to evaluate the microwave heating efficiency, and the simulation test results are shown in Table 1 and FIG. 7.

TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Simulation test results of a microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Example 1 Dielectric coefficients of objects to be heated 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Cylindrical S11 (1) −1.3512 −2.0597 −1.768 −1.3692 −1.2665 −1.2867 −1.2311 −1.1683 −1.1683  base radius 20 mm S11 (2) −0.57484 −0.72666 −0.67142 −0.54806 −0.46497 −0.46143 −0.44676 −0.43296 −0.41541 S11 (3) −20.779 −10.591 −8.9432 −18.053 −12.25 −8.3953 −7.9102 −9.2023 −10.635   Cylindrical S11 (1) −2.866 −2.8263 −2.4548 −2.5675 −2.6564 −2.3533 −2.2084 −2.2455 −2.2799  base radius 25 mm S11 (2) −1.1124 −1.1637 −0.91112 −0.84579 −0.87926 −0.78431 −0.70838 −0.68697 −0.68927 S11 (3) −23.171 −15.139 −19.532 −23.308 −26.341 −20.108 −18.771 −19.084 −20.103   Cylindrical S11 (1) −3.0704 −3.5385 −3.3842 −3.2525 −3.4758 −3.4486 −3.1593 −3.1363 −3.2286  base radius 30 mm S11 (2) −1.4441 −1.4119 −1.3754 −1.1862 −1.1795 −1.1661 −1.0611 −0.99201 −0.98614 S11 (3) −9.7188 −9.9321 −9.5008 −9.7156 −9.6417 −9.329 −9.4325 −9.4762 −9.3023  Square S11 (1) −1.8493 −1.3858 −1.4399 −1.195 −1.1947 −1.1563 −0.99832 −0.89813 −0.88306 base radius 30 mm* 30 mm S11 (2) −1.5701 −1.1347 −1.402 −1.0954 −1.0307 −1.0078 −0.87764 −0.80474 −0.81742 S11 (3) −9.3115 −15.603 −8.5271 −8.3449 −8.3919 −11.329 −11.032 −8.5596 −7.3621  Square S11 (1) −2.4725 −3.5952 −2.7483 −2.5224 −2.8687 −3.027 −2.8465 −2.6331 −2.5468  base radius 40 mm* 40 mm S11 (2) −2.3408 −3.0491 −2.3833 −2.3031 −2.6683 −2.705 −2.5234 −2.3597 −2.3236  S11 (3) −23.964 −18.94 −17.861 −28.047 −24.497 −20.335 −23.785 −26.596 −19.852   Square S11 (1) −3.4441 −3.3249 −3.647 −4.0438 −3.8624 −4.0551 −4.2901 −4.4168 −4.3681  base radius 50 mm* 50 mm S11 (2) −3.0437 −2.9713 −3.2563 −3.4827 −3.3958 −3.6441 −3.8265 −3.9001 −3.9073  S11 (3) −10.737 −9.7566 −10.153 −10.702 −10.172 −10.098 −10.337 −10.607 −10.471  

[0051] In Table 1, S11(1) represents the heating effect when the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 are not provided in the heating device, and S11(2) represents that the heating device is only provided with the first medium section 31, and the heating effect when the second medium section 32 is not provided, S11 (3) represents the heating effect when the first medium section 31 and the second medium section 32 are simultaneously provided in the heating device.

Example 4

[0052] This embodiment is the fourth embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment provides a microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device, which is different from Embodiment 1 in that:

[0053] In this embodiment, only one set of the one-way guided wave structure 30 is provided, and the structure of the one-way guided wave structure 30 is the same as that of the first embodiment (the first dielectric section 31 is set in the third mode). The structure 30 is fixedly mounted on any inner side wall of the straight-walled waveguide 20.

Example 5

[0054] This embodiment is the fifth embodiment of the present invention, and is an application embodiment of the present invention, and the details are as follows:

[0055] In this embodiment, the heating effect of the object 41 to be heated by the microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Embodiment 4 is tested by simulation, and the details are as follows:

[0056] Test 1:

[0057] The volume of the object to be heated 41 is 40*40*25 mm, the loss angle is 0.1 to 1, and the real part of the dielectric constant of the object to be heated 41 is 20 to 100. S11 is used as the evaluation index of its heating effect. The test results are as follows Table 2 shows:

TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Simulation test results of a microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Example 4 Loss angle/dielectric coefficient 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0.1 −10.579 −3.5672 −11.487 −14.986 −11.933 −13.887 −8.1881 −8.4374 −7.5791 −6.2503 0.2 −9.7812 −5.7019 −10.808 −12.243 −12.45 −12.048 −9.7711 −9.0381 −8.3994 −8.0102 0.3 −9.614 −7.2618 −10.912 −12.062 −12.345 −11.649 −10.42 −9.6973 −9.2237 −9.0287 0.4 −9.6281 −8.4448 −11.25 −12.217 −12.319 −11.67 −10.843 −10.252 −9.8752 −9.6987 0.5 −9.6732 −9.3738 −11.658 −12.457 −12.419 −11.847 −11.204 −10.706 −10.364 −10.15 0.6 −9.7443 −10.136 −12.088 −12.738 −12.607 −12.085 −11.528 −11.069 −10.721 −10.45 0.7 −9.8499 −10.789 −12.52 −13.041 −12.842 −12.337 −11.808 −11.35 −10.969 −10.641 0.8 −9.9916 −11.369 −12.947 −13.354 −13.092 −12.576 −12.038 −11.553 −11.129 −10.742 0.9 −10.166 −11.896 −13.362 −13.666 −13.337 −12.783 −12.21 −11.684 −11.21 −10.772 1 −10.367 −12.386 −13.765 −13.967 −13.558 −12.947 −12.324 −11.75 −11.225 −10.744

[0058] Table 3 shows the test results of heating the object 41 to be heated by using a conventional microwave heating mechanism. The difference between the conventional microwave heating mechanism and a microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Example 4 is that the conventional microwave heating mechanism is not provided with for the one-way guided wave structure 30, the simulation test results are shown in Table 3:

TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Simulation test results of heating effect of conventional microwave oven Loss angle/dielectric coefficient 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0.1 −3.8117 −10.898 −4.3871 −12.279 −7.1034 −6.4564 −8.7335 −17.456 −13.807 −9.2008 0.2 −5.9754 −9.6261 −6.5686 −9.3422 −8.1747 −8.4066 −10.732 −13.201 −12.419 −10.89 0.3 −6.8257 −8.9933 −7.6219 −8.9152 −8.9706 −9.6373 −11.251 −12.363 −12.218 −11.71 0.4 −7.0793 −8.6131 −8.1606 −9.0115 −9.6229 −10.449 −11.619 −12.371 −12.508 −12.393 0.5 −7.1189 −8.3925 −8.4858 −9.2682 −10.193 −11.062 −12.032 −12.721 −13.025 −13.083 0.6 −7.0952 −8.2785 −8.7294 −9.5819 −10.71 −11.599 −12.513 −13.242 −13.665 −13.811 0.7 −7.0605 −8.2367 −8.9463 −9.9175 −11.196 −12.119 −13.059 −13.869 −14.388 −14.581 0.8 −7.0317 −8.2444 −9.1592 −10.263 −11.668 −12.649 −13.662 −14.575 −15.177 −15.388 0.9 −7.0126 −8.2868 −9.3764 −10.612 −12.138 −13.201 −14.32 −15.348 −16.023 −16.222 1 −7.0036 −8.3544 −9.6008 −4.5672 −12.616 −13.784 −15.032 −16.186 −16.92 −17.066

[0059] Test 2:

[0060] Keep the dielectric constant of the object to be heated 41 (the dielectric constant is 50) unchanged, change the volume of the object to be heated 41, and use the microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Example 4 to heat the object 41 to be heated by 511 evaluation. The heating effect at the time is advanced, and the simulation test results are shown in Table 4:

TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 Simulation test results of a microwave chamber high-efficiency heating device provided in Example 4 Height/Basal area 40*40 mm 50*50 mm 60*60 mm 70*70 mm 80*80 mm 90*90 mm 100*100 mm 20 mm −5.7446 −8.901 −8.0958 −9.1384 −11.618 −10206 −7.6584 25 mm −15.909 −17.39 −18.58 −32.213 −16.37 −10.087 −6.4438 30 mm −9.9914 −12.262 −18.565 −15.51 −13.491 −9.6889 −7.1264 35 mm −14.569 −17.988 −16.474 −21.191 −13.828 −9.2178 −7.0825 40 mm −11.731 −20.015 −16.097 −26.745 −12.977 −86916 −7.473 45 mm −7.7071 −11.445 −14.557 −20.001 −11.708 −8.4746 −6.8556 50 mm −4.8087 −8.8169 −11.425 −13.834 −10.7 −81985 −6.9612

[0061] Table 5 shows the test results of heating the object 41 to be heated by using a conventional microwave heating mechanism. The test is to keep the dielectric constant of the object to be heated (dielectric constant is 50) unchanged, and to change the volume of the object to be heated 41. The simulation test The results are shown in Table 5:

TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 Simulation test results of heating effect of conventional microwave heating mechanism Height/Basal area 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 40*40 mm.sup.2 20 mm −5.1118 −8.1293 −5.7894 −3.5336 −2.6914 −2.1908 −2.73 25 mm −7.1034 −9.4271 −6.5327 −4.6989 −4.2393 −5.6278 −6.2631 30 mm −7.1457 −10.129 −5.5216 −4.1339 −4.2184 −5.2745 −5.3021 35 mm −7.9338 −5.4797 −3.7443 −3.6204 −3.3576 −3.818 −5.038 40 mm −6.8863 −4.9601 −4.3352 −4.0655 −5.3117 −6.2038 −7.2534 45 mm −5.5535 −5.9048 −4.8562 −5.0022 −6.345 −7.1393 −7.9931 50 mm −7.9124 −5.9288 −3.7321 −4.3967 −6.4249 −8.0512 −12.528

[0062] One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.

[0063] It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. Its embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.