Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Akira Kataoka

Izuo Hirota

Eiji Matsui

Masaki Shibuya

Takehiko Shigeoka

Takaaki Kusaka

Katsuyuki Aihara

Nobuyoshi Makio

Naoaki Ishimaru

Tomoya Fujinami

Toshihiro Keishima

Sunao Okuda

Kazunori Takechi

Yuji Fujii

Takahiro Miyauchi

Atsushi Fujita

Masahiro Ishii

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Takayuki Hara

Yoshikazu Watanabe

Yasuhiro Yuki

Kenji Ogawa

Hiroyuki Inoue

Takeshi Kitaizumi

Rinako Kamei

Tsuneo Shibata

Hidetaka Yabuuchi

Toshiyuki Miyazaki

Hirofumi Nakakura

Toyoshi Kamisako

Koji Niiyama

Yoichi Kurose

Yumiko Nakanishi

Yasushi Morimoto

Masanori Fukata

Kentaro Irie

Kazuya Gotou

Takaaki Miyajima

Yoshiyasu Endo

Kasuhiro Yoshida

A food cooking system (A) of the present invention includes: a single-serving food package () including food (F) and an accommodating body () that accommodates the food (F); a heating chamber (); a steam supplier (); and a microwave supplier (); and heats and cooks the food (F) in the single-serving food package () with steam and microwaves. The accommodating body () has a wall portion that defines an accommodating space for the food (F). The wall portion includes a bottom surface portion () on which the food (F) is placed and a peripheral surface portion (), and vent holes () for steam to pass through are formed in the wall portion. Steam at a temperature of 85 to 130&#xb0; C. is supplied into the heating chamber () by the steam supplier (), and microwaves with an actual output of 500 to 3000 W are supplied for 15 to 180 seconds by the microwave supplier () while the steam is supplied into the accommodating body () via the vent holes ().

Food cooking system

Cooking device includes heating chamber with door for housing object to be heated, vapor generator for supplying vapor into heating chamber, and water storage tank. Cooking device further includes cooling air passage provided between heating chamber and water storage tank and allowing cooling air to pass therethrough, and air inlet provided to the side of door and introducing cooling air into cooling air passage. This enables cooling, using a smaller and more inexpensive cooling fan. As a result, cooking device is made shorter in overall height.

Cooking device

By preheating temperature raising unit of a steam and hot water generating device beforehand to a predetermined temperature, and supplying water in an amount equal to or more than predetermined amount V (per unit time) to the temperature raising unit, a large amount of steam is instantaneously generated. At this time, hot water adhered to the temperature raising unit rises along with the steam, and the steam and hot water flowed through a steam hole, a relay tube, and a steam chamber are caused to eject instantaneously with accumulated steam pressure from a steam and hot water discharging port. The steam and hot water then hit and heat food products accommodated in a cooking chamber. Thus, a heating cooker capable of promptly heating a food product with steam can be provided.

Heating cooker

A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.

Bottle storage

A heating device for a food item in a food container includes the food container that contains the food items, a cooking container that contains the food container, and a steam generation device that supplies steam into the cooking container. The food container has an opening hole that communicates with an internal space and an external space, and at least one of a food surrounding space provided between an inner wall of the food container and the food items, and between the food items. The food surrounding space and the external space are communicated with each other through the opening hole, and steam is supplied into the cooking container to heat the food items by the steam. Thereby, the heating device for a food item in a food container that can subject the food item in the cooking container to steam heating can be provided.

Foods in food container, and heating device for foods in food container

Heating chamber for heating food, a steam generating device for generating steam, steam chamber disposed in heating chamber, and steam introduction channel for introducing steam generated by the steam generating device to steam chamber are included. Steam chamber discharge channel for introducing water accumulated in steam chamber to outside of steam chamber is provided. Therefore, a sanitary heating cooker capable of preventing food from being immersed with condensed water, as well as preventing heating chamber from being flooded with water overflowing from steam chamber can be provided.

The heating cooker includes microwave generation devices that transfer microwaves to a cooking chamber, and a steam generation device that generates steam. The generated steam is guided to a first container, and a second container is provided on the first container. Then, a first foodstuff in the first container is heated by microwaves, and is also directly heated by the steam. A second foodstuff in the second container is heated by the microwaves, and is also indirectly heated by the steam. Accordingly, the heating cooker provided with cooking container capable of quickly heating a plurality of foodstuffs while improving the taste can be realized by using the heat of the microwaves and the steam.

Heating cooker provided with cooking container

An object of the present invention is to provide an induction heating cooker with improved assemblability, and with which a reduction in the temperature sensing precision of an infrared sensor can be suppressed and a reduction in the thickness of the induction heating cooker can be achieved. To this end, the induction heating cooker of the present invention includes a ductthat forms a cooling air path for guiding the cooling air produced by the air blowerto a control circuitand to an infrared sensor. The infrared sensorand the control circuitare disposed at positions lower than the top wall of the duct

Induction heating cooker

There is provided a cooking device which can easily carry out heating setting when performing heating control according to a set temperature. A cooking device includes a heating unit () operable to heat an object to be heated; an operation unit () including temperature setting switch () for setting a heating temperature; a temperature sensor () operable to detect a temperature of the object to be heated; and a control unit () operable to control the heating unit so that the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is equal to the set temperature set by using the temperature setting switch; wherein the control unit automatically sets the cooking mode based on the set temperature.

An induction heating device includes a top plate () on which a cooking container is placed, an infrared ray sensor () configured to detect an infrared ray radiated from the cooking container through the top plate, a heating coil () to which a high-frequency electric current is supplied to generate an induction magnetic field for heating the cooking container, a mounting plate () on which a member for supporting the heating coil is mounted, and a heating control unit () configured to control an electric power for heating the cooking container by controlling the high-frequency electric current supplied to the heating coil based on an amount of an energy of the infrared ray received by the infrared ray sensor. The infrared ray sensor is thermally connected to the mounting plate.

Induction heating device

It is an object of the present invention to provide an induction heating apparatus that can enable a plurality of heating coil to perform heating by sharing a inverter having semiconductor switches in use, thereby adjusting a power without increasing losses of the semiconductor switches so much with respect to the respective heating coils, the present invention being configured such that the inverter alternately outputs drive signals respectively having each of two operating frequencies to the plurality of heating coils in every predetermined operation lapse of time and the plurality of heating coils are respectively connected to capacitance circuits in the inverter to have the different frequency characteristics.

Induction heating apparatus

An inductive heating device is structured such that a coil base and ferrites placed under a heating coil in the vertical direction are flushed with each other at their lower surfaces and are directly placed on a heat dissipation plate. A heat conductive member is charged between the ferrites and an electrical insulating member sandwiched between the heating coil and the ferrites, at least at a portion thereof, so that thickness variations in the ferrites are absorbed thereby, which realizes a state where they are thermally coupled to each other from the heating coil to the heat dissipation plate.

Inductive heating device

To reduce the air exhausted to outside a main body after cooling a heat generating component from being taken in again from an intake port. The flow of cooling wind cooled the heat generating component is discharged from an exhaust port at other than a first peripheral wall with the flow bent inside the main body. When rectified inside the main body and discharged from the exhaust port, the cooling wind grows to a flow speed of a certain extent to become an exhaust air that a flowing direction is clearly defined, so that it is less likely to be taken in again from the intake port, it is less likely to be subjected to the influence of obstacles of the exhaust port, use can be made in a kitchen cabinet of the intake and exhaust air at the back side, and it is satisfactory and is less likely to be damaged without involving sense of unpleasantness by the exhaust air to the user.

Induction cooking appliance

An induction cooking device includes a control unit and a plurality of light-emitting parts. The control unit includes a heating control unit that controls the output of an inverter circuit and a light-emission control unit that controls the light emission. When receiving a command for starting with one heating coil, the control unit turns on only the light-emitting parts provided near the outer circumference of the heating coil for starting heating, and when receiving a command for starting heating with two or more adjacent heating coils, the control unit turns off the light-emitting parts disposed between the heating coils for starting heating among the light-emitting parts provided near the outer circumference of each one of the heating coils for starting heating, and turns on the remaining light-emitting parts.

Induction cooking device

Plural induction heating coils for inductively heating to-be-heated object are provided under a top plate on which to-be-heated object is placed, and plural inverter circuits for supplying high-frequency currents to the plural induction heating coils, respectively, are adapted to be cooled by cooling air flows from cooling portions, and placed in a longitudinal row along the cooling air flows, in air-flow blowing path spaces through which cooling air flows from the cooling portions are blown, so as to facilitate cooling designing for an induction heating device and to improve the cooling performance of the induction heating device.

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Shiga, Japan

Akira Kataoka