Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masanobu Inoue

Makoto Mihara

Kenzo Ohji

Shigeki Ueda

Shuji Itou

There is disclosed herein an automatic heating appliance for controlling heating of an object in response to operation of instruction keys and on the basis of the weight of an object to be heated. The appliance includes therein a heating chamber for housing the object, a heater provided on or in the heating chamber for heating the object placed therein, and a turntable provided in the heating chamber for keeping thereon the object during heating. Also included in the appliance are a weight detector for obtaining first weight data in response to the object being placed on the turntable and a temperature compensator for obtaining a second weight data in response to the object being placed thereon, the temperature compensator substantially having the same temperature characteristic as the weight detector. A control unit of the appliance is responsive to the first and second weight data in order to remove an error component due to variation of the characteristic of the weight detector by variation of temperature in accordance with the result of comparison between the first and second weight data so as to determine a weight resulting from only the object. The control unit controls the heating of the object in accordance with variation of the determined object weight.

Automatic heating appliance with weight sensor

An automatic weight detecting device is provided with a platform on which an object to be measured is placed, a supporting shaft for supporting the platform is rotatable and smoothly movable in the supporting direction. A driving motor rotates the supporting shaft, and an elastic member supports the supporting shaft. A load detecting device converts the load of the object, transmitted in the supporting direction of the rotatable supporting shaft through the elastic member into a given electrically physical amount and a weight detecting circuit integrates to obtain the average of the electrically physical amount while the shaft rotates, so that the weight of the object is detected.

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Nara, Japan

Masanobu Inoue