Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sachiko Endo

Koji Murakami

Teruya Tanaka

Norisuke Fukuda

Tatsuya Nakagawa

Yukinobu Takahashi

Kaoru Maekawa

Kyoko Kuwata

A cooking apparatus for heating food to be served and capable of being operated with utmost simplicity without using and choosing various cooking-mode selection keys so as to achieve superb ease-of-operation. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber for placing and storing food to be heated by the apparatus and a detector for detecting a state of a door attached to the cooking chamber, the door being freely openable and closable against an opening portion of the cooking chamber. An optical sensor, having a plurality of light emitting portions is disposed in a side of the cooking chamber and a plurality of light receiving portions are disposed counter to the light emitting portions. A drive unit is provided for driving the optical sensor and a judgement unit verifies and determines a cooking mode suitable for the food placed in the cooking chamber responsive to a signal from the optical sensor, where the drive unit is activated when the detector detects that the door is closed.

Cooking apparatus operated by a single operational key that

A heating cooker includes a cooking chamber having a heater for heating food, a gas sensor for detecting the quantity of vapor evaporating from the food heated in the cooking chamber, a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature in the cooking chamber, and a controller for determined the kind of the food according to the quantity of vapor detected by the gas sensor, and for controlling the heating temperature and heating time of the heater according to the kind of food which has been determined.

Heating cooker

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