Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shojiro Inoue

Keiichi Mori

Katsuhiko Ishikawa

Katsuhiko Uno

Eiichi Tanaka

Manabu Takata

Manabu Takada

Noboru Ishibasi

The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an outer control cylinder inwards of a vaporizing portion, and accordingly, radical deterioration of the CO/CO.sub.2 characteristic can be prevented. Furthermore, the air control cylinder is divided into plural stages one above the other and has a through aperture in the lowermost stage connecting said lowermost stage with an inner air path, and at the same time, the outer control cylinder is formed with through holes. Therefore, the combustion equipment of the present invention has a large range of adjustment the combustion volume, and is safe and comfortable in use.

Combustion equipment

The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an outer control cylinder inwards of a vaporizing portion, and accordingly, radical deterioration of the CO/CO.sub.2 characteristic can be prevented. Furthermore, the air control cylinder is divided into plural stages one above the other and has a through aperture in the lowermost stage connecting said lowermost stage with an inner air path, and at the same time, the outer control cylinder is formed with through holes. Therefore, the combustion equuipment of the present invention has a large range of adjustment of the combustion volume, and is safe and comfortable in use.

Vaporizing fuel burner

A high performance automatic temperature control system enables fries and Japanese tempura to be prepared in optimum condition. The temperature of the outer bottom surface of a container being heated is measured by a temperature sensor a given time later. A temperature rise gradient of the temperature sensor established at a given time in the initial stage of heating is used as a temperature correction value peculiar to the container, while a temperature rise gradient of the temperature sensor established after a certain temperature has been reached is used as a temperature correction value for the amount of food being cooked. The former and latter temperature correction values are converted into preset temperature values and serve as operating temperatures for the temperature sensor. When the temperature sensor reaches the operating temperature, the heating rate is controlled to hold the operating temperature. Thus, the system performs automatic temperature control irrespective of the kind of the material, wall thickness and size of the container, by means of the temperature rise gradients of the temperature sensor so as to ensure that the preset temperature and the temperature of the food are equal.

Cooker with heating control system

A highly automationed cooking apparatus especially suitable for stew cooking or the like liable to boiling over. Temperature of outer bottom face of a pan is measured by a sensor and temperature gradients are sampling-measured at a sampling time pitch. Boiling point of food material is detected by finding a decrease of the temperature gradient, and thereafter the heating is lowered to avoid boiling over to a suitable value which is given by processing the temperature gradients.

In a combustion appliance with a safety device therein, an inner flame cylinder, a red-heat cylinder and an outer cylinder disposed concentrically on the outer side of the red-heat cylinder are provided to constitute a combustor and an oxygen sensor is disposed in the rear flow of the combustion flames of the combustor and in a position where the air excess ratio of the flames can be detected. During the incomplete combustion through air feed shortage or the like caused due to dust clogging or the like as well as during the oxygen depression, the oxygen sensor can detect changes in the flames or changes in the red-heat condition of the red-heat cylinder to stop the burning operation thereby to secure the safety.

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Nara, Japan

Shojiro Inoue