Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kengo Hirata

Yutaka Takashige

Katsumi Ishifuro

Hideaki Otani

Tadahito Ikeda

Kathumi Ishifuro

Shyuzi Kawaguchi

Kyoko Ito

Kimie Morimoto

A cooking apparatus has a display and a selector for selecting an item displayed on the display. The display displays one screen after another so as to correspond to one item after another selected thereon. The cooking apparatus further has a bookmark attachment requester for requesting attachment of a bookmark to a specific screen displayed on the display unit, a storage for storing data related to the bookmarked screen, a bookmarked screen display requesting member for requesting display of the bookmarked screens and a display controller for displaying the bookmarked screen in accordance with the data stored in the storage in response to a request from the bookmarked screen display requester.

Cooking apparatus having display unit and item selection unit

In a circuit for detecting the heating chamber temperature in a microwave oven, a switching transistor is connected in series or parallel with a heating chamber temperature detecting thermistor. If and when the heating chamber temperature need not be detected, the switching transistor is turned on when the switching transistor and thermistor are connected in parallel and off when the switching transistor and thermistor are connected in series to consequently prevent corrosion of the terminals of such thermistor.

Microwave oven with heating chamber temperature detecting circuit

A microwave oven having a heater cooking device, a damper operated by the heat in the cooking chamber to control ventilation to the cooking chamber, a blower for cooling the cooking chamber exterior and electric components such as a magnetron, and temperature sensor for detecting the cooking chamber internal temperature. The microwave oven is characterized by a control circuit which actuates the blower immediately when the cooking chamber internal temperature at the time of starting the heater cooking operation is the same as or higher than a specified value considered high enough to actuate the damper and which actuates the ventilator with a delay of a specified time when the cooking chamber internal temperature is lower than the specified value.

Microwave oven/convection oven having means for controlling ventilation

A microwave oven comprising a power supply, a heating chamber having a door, a detector for detecting the opening and closing of the door, a high-frequency heater for heating the article to be heated, a plurality of setting keys for setting heating time, a timer for driving the heater for a specified period of time, a starter for initiating the timer into operation after a predetermined period of time beginning after the depression of the setting key, a stopper for temporarily preventing the operation of the timer when the cooking is interrupted by opening of the door, and a control unit for driving the timer again when the cooking operation is resumed on closing the door. The setting key functions also as a start key, and when the door is opened and closed during cooking, the article can be heated only for the rest of the heating time by depressing the original setting key. The heating time can also be adjustable to a new heating time.

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Kengo Hirata