Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Kazunori Takechi

Akira Kataoka

Takaaki Kusaka

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.

Cooking device

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

An induction heating cooking apparatus includes a magnetic flux-shielding plateto restrain magnetic flux leakage from a heating coiland define a cooling air trunk, through which cooling air from a fanpasses. An infrared sensorfor detecting infrared rays emitted from a cooking containerand a control circuitfor controlling an output of a heating coildepending on an output from the infrared sensorare accommodated within the same space with respect to the magnetic flux-shielding plateto thereby enhance assemblage. Also, the infrared sensoris mainly cooled by cooling air passing through a cooling air trunkto thereby enhance the cooling efficiency of the infrared sensorand conduct correct temperature detection.

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Hyogo, Japan

Kazunori Takechi