Systems and methods of preparing food products
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A47J-037/12
G06Q-050/12
B60P-003/025
G06Q-010/08
B60P-003/00
A23L-001/01
출원번호
US-0920998
(2013-06-18)
등록번호
US-9292889
(2016-03-22)
발명자
/ 주소
Garden, Alexander John
출원인 / 주소
ZUME PIZZA, INC.
대리인 / 주소
Seed IP Law Group PLLC
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초록▼
A food preparation and delivery system can include a plurality of cooking units such as ovens, each containing one or more prepared, but partially or completely uncooked, food items. The food items in the cooking units are for delivery to each of a corresponding plurality of consumer delivery destin
A food preparation and delivery system can include a plurality of cooking units such as ovens, each containing one or more prepared, but partially or completely uncooked, food items. The food items in the cooking units are for delivery to each of a corresponding plurality of consumer delivery destinations. The cooking units are loaded into a cargo compartment of a delivery vehicle for delivery to the plurality of consumer delivery destinations. The cooking conditions within the cooking unit are controlled such the each food item is cooked prior to arrival at the consumer destination location. In at least some embodiments, the estimated delivery time for each consumer destination location can be dynamically updated and the cooking conditions within the cooking unit adjusted.
대표청구항▼
1. A portable cooking and delivery system, comprising: a vehicle having a cargo compartment;an oven rack sized and dimensioned to be received in the cargo compartment of the vehicle, the oven rack securable in the cargo compartment of the vehicle;a plurality of individual ovens held by the rack, eac
1. A portable cooking and delivery system, comprising: a vehicle having a cargo compartment;an oven rack sized and dimensioned to be received in the cargo compartment of the vehicle, the oven rack securable in the cargo compartment of the vehicle;a plurality of individual ovens held by the rack, each of the ovens having a respective heating element and at least one wall that forms an interior which is thermally insulated from an exterior thereof and which is thermally insulated from the respective interior of each other ones of the ovens, the ovens each operable at respective temperatures which are independently settable from one another; andat least one controller that automatically controls cooking conditions including controlling both a temperature and a cooking time of a first one of the ovens for a first item of food of a first delivery order based at least in part on an estimated transit time of the vehicle to a delivery destination for delivery of the first item of food, and that, during cooking of the first item of food of the first delivery order in the first one of the ovens, dynamically controls both of the temperature and the cooking time for the first one of the ovens for the first item of food of the first delivery order in response to a dynamically updated estimated transit time of the vehicle to a delivery destination for the first item of food of the first delivery order. 2. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1, further comprising: a radio communicatively coupled to the at least one controller to provide signals indicative of at least one of a temperature or a cooking time for at least one of the ovens, the signals received from a remote stationary source. 3. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the at least one controller stops the cooking of the contents of the oven when a defined cooking time is reached for a set of two or more temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle. 4. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the at least one controller stops the cooking of the contents of the oven when a defined cooking time is reached for a set of two or more temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle based on the dynamically updated estimated transit time to a delivery destination of the contents of the respective oven. 5. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1, further comprising: a radio communicatively coupled to the at least one controller to provide signals indicative of at least one of a dynamically updated temperature or a dynamically updated cooking time for at least one of the ovens, the signals received from a remote stationary source. 6. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the vehicle includes an electrical power source electrically coupled to supply electric power to a drive system of the vehicle. 7. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 6, further comprising: an auxiliary power unit operable to provide power to the respective heating element of the ovens independent of the electrical power source that supplies electric power to the drive system of the vehicle. 8. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 7, further comprising: a reservoir of a combustible gas, wherein the auxiliary power unit is fluidly communicatively coupled to the reservoir of the combustible gas and burns the combustible gas to produce electrical power, and the auxiliary power unit is electrically coupled to the heating elements of the ovens. 9. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1, further comprising: a packaging rack sized and dimensioned to be received in the cargo compartment of the vehicle, the packaging rack having a number of compartments sized and dimensioned to each hold packaging; andan actuator operable to mechanically transfer contents of the oven to respective packaging held by the packaging rack without the contents being touched by a human. 10. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 9 wherein the at least one controller automatically causes the actuator to mechanically transfer the contents of the oven to the respective packaging held by the packaging rack in response to a defined time being reached for cooking the contents of the oven at a defined temperature as specified by a cooking schedule. 11. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 9 wherein the packaging rack includes a plurality of slots, each slot sized and dimensioned to releasably hold a respective box, the boxes sized and dimensioned to receive the contents of a respective one of the ovens, and the actuator includes at least one mechanical arm selectively moveable between a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration. 12. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the ovens includes a stone or ceramic or earthenware floor. 13. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 12 wherein at least one of the ovens includes a stone or ceramic or earthenware ceiling. 14. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the heating elements of at least one of ovens is an electric heating element. 15. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the ovens includes an actuator moveable between a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein movement of the actuator from the retracted configuration to the expanded configuration moves the contents of the oven out of the oven without the contents being touched by a human. 16. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 15 wherein the at least one controller causes the actuator to move the contents of the oven out of the oven without the contents being touched by a human in response to reaching a defined cooking time for a set of at least two temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle based on a dynamically updated estimated transit time to a delivery destination of the contents of the respective oven. 17. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the ovens includes an actuator moveable between a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein the actuator is selectively positionable based on a dimension of the contents of the oven to bias the contents of the oven against movement during transit of the vehicle. 18. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the oven rack has oven securement structures that removably releasably secure the ovens in the oven rack. 19. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the oven rack wherein at least one of the oven rack or the ovens have visual indicators spatially associated with respective ones of the ovens and which are indicative of a cooking status of the contents of the respective oven. 20. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 1 wherein the vehicle is at least one of an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle, the vehicle has a number of door locks and a starter which are each responsive to a presence of a wireless transponder in a proximity thereof. 21. A portable cooking and delivery system, comprising: a vehicle;a plurality of individual ovens carried by the vehicle, each of the ovens having a respective heating element and at least one wall that forms an interior which is thermally insulated from an exterior thereof and which is thermally insulated from the respective interior of each other ones of the ovens, the ovens each operable at respective temperatures which are independently settable from one another;a packaging array carried by the vehicle and which holds packaging;an actuator operable to mechanically transfer contents of the ovens to respective instances of packaging held by the packaging array without the contents being touched by a human; andat least one controller that automatically controls both a temperature and a cooking time for at least one of the ovens during a cooking of an instance of a food product in response to a plurality of dynamically updated estimated transit times of the vehicle to a delivery destination for delivery of the contents of the respective oven during the cooking of the instance of the food product. 22. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 21 wherein the at least one controller stops the cooking of the contents of the oven when a defined cooking time is reached for a set of two or more temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle. 23. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 21 wherein the at least one controller stops the cooking of the contents of the oven when a defined cooking time is reached for a set of two or more temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle based on the dynamically updated estimated transit time to a delivery destination of the contents of the respective oven. 24. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 21, further comprising: an auxiliary power unit operable to provide power to the respective heating element of the ovens independent of an electrical power source that supplies electric power to a drive system of the vehicle. 25. The portable cooking and delivery system of claim 21 wherein at least one of the ovens includes an actuator moveable between a refracted configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein movement of the actuator from the retracted configuration to the expanded configuration moves the contents of the oven out of the oven without the contents being touched by a human, and the at least one controller causes the actuator to move the contents of the oven out of the oven without the contents being touched by a human in response to reaching a defined cooking time for a set of temperatures at which the respective oven was operated during at least part of a transit of the vehicle based on a dynamically updated estimated transit time to a delivery destination of the contents of the respective oven. 26. A system to cook and deliver consumables, comprising: at least one non-transitory processor-readable medium that stores at least one of processor executable instructions or data;at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one non-transitory processor-readable medium to at least one of read or write at least one of processor executable instructions or data therefrom or thereto, the at least one processor which in use:for each of a plurality of vehicles, determines an estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of a plurality of destinations to be visited during a route that starts and ends at a content loading location, andfor each of at least some of a plurality of ovens carried by each one of the plurality of vehicles, automatically determines both a respective cooking temperature and cooking time to cook a respective content of the oven during a cooking of the respective content of the oven, each of the respective cooking temperature and cooking time determined based at least in part an estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to the respective one of the destinations to which the respective content of the oven is to be delivered and dynamically adjusted a plurality of times during the cooking of the respective content of the respective oven based on a plurality of dynamically updated estimated transit times for the respective vehicle to the respective one of the destinations to which the respective content of the oven is to be delivered, the plurality of dynamically updated estimated transit times determined while the respective vehicle is in transit to the respective one of the destinations to which the respective contents of the respective oven is to be delivered; anda number of communications ports communicatively coupled to at least provide to the plurality of vehicles information indicative of at least one of a respective cooking temperature or cooking time to cook a respective content of at least some of the ovens carried by the respective vehicle. 27. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one processor dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of a plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on updated location information for the respective vehicle. 28. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one processor dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of a plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on updated traffic information for the respective route the vehicle is to transit. 29. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one processor dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to at least one of the plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on an update of the respective route the vehicle is to transit. 30. The system of claim 26 wherein, for at least one vehicle, the at least one processor updates the respective route the vehicle is to transit, and dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of at least some of the plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on the updated respective route the vehicle is to transit. 31. The system of claim 26 wherein, for at least one vehicle, the at least one processor detects a variance in the transit of the respective route the vehicle is transiting, and dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of at least some of the plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on the detected variance in the transit of the respective route that the vehicle is transiting. 32. The system of claim 26 wherein, for at least one vehicle, the at least one processor: identifies an order for content that matches the content of at least one oven carried by the vehicle for which there is no destination assigned, andupdates the respective route the vehicle based at least in part on the order to add a destination for content that matches the content of at least one oven carried by the vehicle for which there was no destination assigned. 33. The system of claim 32 wherein, for the at least one vehicle, the at least one processor dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of at least some of the plurality of destinations to be visited during the route based at least in part on the updated respective route the vehicle is to transit. 34. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one processor analyzes a plurality of actual previous orders based at least in part on day, time, content type; andassigns to at least one of the vehicles at least one oven containing content for which there is no destination assigned based at least in part on the analysis of the plurality of actual previous orders and a predicted demand for a day and time. 35. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one processor determines a respective revised route for at least some of the vehicles, the revised routes moving at least one destination from a route to be transited by a first one of the vehicles to a route to be transited by a second one of the vehicles. 36. The system of claim 35 wherein, for at least the first and the second ones of the vehicles, the at least one processor, dynamically determines the estimated transit time for the respective vehicle to each of at least some of the plurality of destinations to be visited based at least in part on the revised respective route the vehicle is to transit. 37. The system of claim 35 wherein the at least one processor determines the respective revised route for at least some of the vehicles in response to at least one of receipt of a new order or a change in a previously received order which has not yet been delivered. 38. The system of claim 35 wherein the at least one processor determines the respective revised route for at least some of the vehicles in response to detection of an actual delay in the transit of at least one of the vehicles greater than a defined threshold delay. 39. The system of claim 35 wherein the at least one processor determines the respective revised route for at least some of the vehicles in response to detection of a predicated delay in the transit of at least one of the vehicles greater than a defined threshold delay based on traffic information. 40. The system of claim 39 wherein the number of communications ports are communicatively coupled to receive location information indicative of a current location of the plurality of vehicles, and the at least one processor determines the traffic information in at least almost real-time based at least in part on actual transit times of the plurality of vehicles. 41. The system of claim 26 wherein on reaching each destination the at least one processor causes a user interface to present information that indicates, in addition to an individual's name associated with the order or the destination address, at least one piece of personal information associated with at least one individual or the destination address. 42. The system of claim 26 wherein on reaching each destination the at least one processor causes a user interface to present information that indicates, in addition to an individual's name associated with the order or the destination address, at least a portion of an order history for the destination address. 43. The system of claim 26 wherein on reaching each destination the at least one processor causes a user interface to present information that indicates, in addition to an individual's name associated with the order or the destination address, at least a portion of an order history for individual, independent of the destination address. 44. The system of claim 26 wherein the number of communications ports are communicatively coupled to receive: a number of predictions indicative of when one delivery will be made with respect to at least one other delivery, and location information indicative at least of when deliveries are actually made; and the at least one processor causes issuance of rewards for correct predictions. 45. The system of claim 44 wherein the number of predictions are indicative of a prediction by a respective customer of when the respective customer will receive an order relative to at least one other customer; and the at least one processor causes issuance of a discount in response to the prediction by the respective customer being correct. 46. The system of claim 44 wherein the at least one processor causes provision of location information to a customer for at least some of the vehicles only after receipt of a prediction by the customer. 47. The system of claim 44 wherein the at least one processor causes provision of location information to a customer for at least some of the vehicles without providing any indication of order ranking for the respective vehicle. 48. The system of claim 44 wherein the at least one processor causes provision of an estimated time to deliver for an order with a representation of confidence in the estimated time to delivery.
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