Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Junichi Minatodani

Hiroshi Tominaga

Kuniaki Sakakibara

Takahiro Teramoto

Kohji Niiyama

Takuya Kimura

An induction heating cooker is provided that has a plurality of heating coils arranged under a top plate, that has power consumption, heat generation, and unnecessary radiation suppressed at the time of detection of a load, and that requires a short time for detection of a load. In the induction heating cooker of this disclosure, two or more heating coils are at the same time selected depending on a position of an area operated on the operation section. The operation detecting section performs the load detection only for the heating coils selected by an operation on the operation section. By using such a configuration, a user can select heating coils to be used out of a plurality of heating coils in advance. A load detection operation is not performed for heating coils other than the selected heating coils.

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Shiga, Japan

Junichi Minatodani