Working principle of Induction cooker and its structure

An induction cooker transfers electrical energy by induction from a coil of wire into a metal vessel that must be ferromagnetic. The coil is mounted under the cooking surface, and a large alternating current is passed through it. The current creates a dynamic magnetic field. When an electrically conductive pot is brought close to the cooking surface, the magnetic field induces eddy currents in the pot. The eddy currents flow through theelectrical resistance of the pot to produce heat; the pot then in turn heats its contents by heat conduction.

The cooking vessel is made of stainless steel or iron. The increased magnetic permeability of the material decreases the skin depth, concentrating the current near the surface of the metal, and so the electrical resistance will be further increased. Some energy will be dissipated wastefully by the current flowing through the resistance of the coil. To reduce the skin effect and consequent heat generation in the coil, it is made from litz wire, which is a bundle of many smaller insulated wires in parallel. The coil has many turns, while the bottom of the pot effectively forms a single shorted turn. This forms a transformer that steps down the voltage and steps up the current. The resistance of the pot, as viewed from the primary coil, appears larger. In turn, most of the energy becomes heat in the high-resistance steel, while the driving coil stays cool.

The cooking surface is made of a glass-ceramic material which is a poor heat conductor, so only a little heat is lost through the bottom of the pot. In normal operation the cooking surface stays cool enough to touch without injury after the cooking vessel is removed.

Units may have one, two, three, four or five induction zones, but four (normally in a 30-inch-wide unit) is the most common in the US and Europe. Two coils are most common in Hong Kong and three are most common in Japan. Some have touch-sensitive controls. Some induction stoves have a memory setting, one per element, to control the time that heat is applied. At least one manufacturer makes a "zoneless" induction cooking surface with multiple induction coils. This allows up to five utensils to be used at once anywhere on the cooking surface, not just on pre-defined zones.

Small stand-alone portable induction cookers are relatively inexpensive, priced from around US$20 in some markets.

We are supplying fully induction cooker coil line (wire strand twisting machine, coil rack winding machine, coil shaping machine, terminal clamping machine, coil welding machine, magnet stick inserting machine, coil testing machine)

The coil winding machine by its installation mode, it is categorized into table inuction cooker coil winding machine and floor induction coil winding machine; by its automation, it is categorized into semi-automatic induction cooker coil winding machine and fully automatic induction cooker winding machine.