Paloma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

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Susumu Ejiri

Nobuyoshi Yokoyama

Makoto Kimura

Hiroshi Nishino

Hajime Hiraoka

Tsuneyasu Hayakawa

Yasuhiko Tabuchi

Tadashi Itakura

An electric control system for a pulse combustion device of the type which includes a combustion chamber mounted within a liquid vessel of a liquid heating apparatus, fuel and air inlet valves arranged to supply a mixture of fuel and air into the combustion chamber, a tailpipe connected at one end thereof to an exhaust port of the combustion chamber to take place therein resonant combustion of the mixture of fuel and air and immersed in an amount of liquid stored in the vessel, and an electrically operated air intake blower arranged to supply fresh air into the combustion chamber through the air inlet valve. The electric control system is designed to activate the air intake blower when a power source switch of the pulse combustion device has been first turn on and maintain activation of the blower for a first predetermined time after ignition of a mixture of fuel and air supplied into the combustion chamber through the inlet valves, to deactivate the blower upon lapse of the first predetermined time, and to activate the blower for a second predetermined time when a fresh mixture of fuel and air is supplied into the combustion chamber and ignited therein to control a temperature of the liquid in the vessel.

Electric control apparatus for pulse combustion device

An improved cooking apparatus or cooker which heats and cooks food items in a cooking liquid medium by effectively controlling the temperature of the liquid medium. The cooker starts forcible combustion irrespective of the temperature of the liquid medium detected by a temperature sensor when the operator presses a forcible combustion switch. This system minimizes a time lag between placing food items into the cooking liquid medium and start of combustion, which is attributable to the uneven temperature distribution and convection of the cooking liquid medium, thus efficiently reducing undesirable temperature drop of the cooking liquid medium due to cold food items. Alternatively, the cooker determines presence of food items in the cooking liquid medium according to the downward slope in temperature instead of a press of the forcible combustion switch and automatically starts forcible combustion.

Cooker

The invention provides an improved valve-less pulse combustor including a plurality of combustion systems and one common air supply system, wherein the air supply system includes an air supply controller which interferes with air supply to a combustion system under non-combustion conditions so as to effectively prevent a cooking medium in a tank of the combustion system from being cooled by the air supplied. The air supply controller may be a solenoid valve or a damper using a solenoid or a motor as a driving source.

Pulse combustor

In order to obtain good efficiency of a pulse combustion apparatus, an ignition plug is protected to extend its life span by way of controlling the rotation of the ground electrode at the wall face of a combustion chamber wherein 100.degree..about.200.degree. C. may be reduced from a conventional temperature of 900.degree. C. at the ground electrode in the ignition plug.

Plug mount structure of a pulse combustion apparatus

The present invention provides an improved alarm device which automatically starts accumulation of a heating amount when food items are placed into a cooking liquid and outputs an end-of-cooking signal when the accumulated heating amount reaches a predetermined value. This system makes an operator free from troublesome manual operation as pressing a start pad simultaneously with placing food items into the cooking liquid. The alarm device controls a cooker to start forcible heating irrespectively of its combustion conditions simultaneously with starting accumulation of the heating amount. The system of the invention prevents an undesirable time lag between substantial drop in temperature of the cooking liquid and start of heating and efficiently reduces the temperature fall due to cold food items, thus allowing food items to be cooked desirably.

Alarm device for telling end-of-cooking timing

In order to obtain good efficiency of a pulse combustion apparatus, an ignition plug is protected to extend the life span by way of discharging high heat from the plug top in good balance to the combustion chamber, in which a structure of the chamber wall is reformed with respect to the partial wall for receiving the plug screwed therein.

Combustion chamber of pulse combustion apparatus

The invention realizes pulse combustion with a great turn down ratio, which is applicable to various controls and regulations in a noodle cooker. The noodle cooker of the invention heats water in a pot using a pulse combustor, which does not have a check valve for preventing back flow of combustion exhaust in its air supply system. A controller of the pulse combustor regulates the opening angle of a proportional electromagnetic valve for fuel supply and the rotating speed of a fan for air supply based on the water temperature detected by a temperature sensor and keeps the water temperature in the pot in a predetermined optimal range.

Noodle cooker

In a pulse combustion device including a housing forming therein a combustion chamber, a cylindrical support member joined to the housing to form a mixing chamber in open communication with the combustion chamber, an annular perforated flange member coupled with an opene end of the support member and having a cylindrical portion provided at its center to form a gas passage in communication with the mixing chamber, an air inlet valve assembly mounted within the flange member to allow inward flow of air passing therethrough into the mixing chamber, and a gas inlet valve assembly disposed within the cylindrical portion to allow inward flow of gaseous fuel passing therethrough into the mixing chamber, an annular heat-blocking plate is arranged to oppose an aperature between the mixing chamber and the combustion chamber and mounted on the cylindrical portion of the flange member between the air inlet valve assembly and the aperture to block radiant heat of combustion products applied thereto from the combustion chamber for protecting the air inlet valve assembly.

Pulse combustion device

In a pulse combustion device including a combustion chamber having a cylindrical wall, a forward end wall secured to one end of the cylindrical wall for attachment with a liquid vessel and being formed with an inlet port to be supplied with a mixture of gaseous fuel and air, and a rearward end wall secured to the other end of the cylindrical wall to close the combustion chamber, the cylindrical wall of the combustion chamber is formed with a plurality of circumferentially equally spaced radial exhaust ports which are located respectively in a position displaced from the center of the combustion chamber in an axial direction toward the inlet port, and a plurality of tailpipes are radially inwardly bent at their one ends and secured to the exhaust ports of the combustion chamber.

In a liquid heating apparatus of the pulse combustion type, a mounting plate is secured to a side wall of a liquid vessel for supporting thereon an air-fuel mixer head outside the vessel and a combustion chamber inside the vessel, and an inlet pipe is secured at its inner end to a front end wall of the combustion chamber and extended outwardly from the vessel through the mounting plate. The air-fuel mixer head is mounted to an outer end of the inlet pipe at a position spaced from the mounting plate, and the combustion chamber is supported by the inlet pipe at a position spaced from the mounting plate. During pulse combustion, the inlet pipe is cooled by the liquid flowing into the space between the front end wall of the combustion chamber and the mounting plate to protect the mixer head from the heat of high temperature transmitted thereto from the combustion chamber.

Liquid heating apparatus of the pulse combustion type

A pulse combustion device adapted for use in a liquid heating apparatus. The combustion device includes a combustion chamber having a forward end wall formed with an inlet port to be supplied with a mixture of gaseous fuel and air, an attachment plate unitedly provided with the forward end wall of the combustion chamber for engagement with a liquid vessel of the heating apparatus, a cylindrical decoupler arranged coaxially with the combustion chamber at its rear side, a plurality of tailpipes connected at their one ends to the combustion chamber and at their other ends to a front end of the decoupler, the tailpipes being arranged at their intermediate portions in parallel along the outer circumference of the decoupler, and an exhaust pipe connected at its one end to a rear portion of the decoupler and being extended forwardly along the circumference of the decoupler, said exhaust pipe being further extended forwardly through the attachment plate.

A pulse combustion unit for a liquid heating apparatus having a liquid vessel arranged to store an amount of liquid to be heated. The combustion unit includes a base plate mounted on the upper portion of an upright support structure, a pulse combustion burner assembly including a pulse combustion chamber secured to one surface of the base plate and a curved tailpipe having an inner end connected to an exhaust port of the combustion chamber and an outer end connected to the base plate, and an air-fuel mixer head secured to the other surface of the base plate and being in open communication with the interior of the combustion chamber through an opening of the base plate. The liquid vessel is coupled at its side wall with the base plate in such manner that the combustion chamber and tailpipe are arranged in the vessel. An air supply part and a fuel supply part for the mixer head are mounted within a lower portion of the support structure, and an exhaust part for the tailpipe is mounted on the support structure at a position located below the combustion chamber.

Pulse combustion unit for liquid heating apparatus

A liquid heating apparatus of the type which includes a liquid vessel assembled within a support frame, a pulse combustion burner mounted to the vessel and having a combustion chamber secured at its inlet end to a side wall of the vessel and immersed in liquid in the vessel, a tailpipe connected at its one end to an exhaust port of the combustion chamber and being extended outwardly through the vessel, and an exhaust muffler assembly connected to an exhaust end of the tailpipe. The exhaust muffler assembly includes a plurality of mufflers connected in series to the exhaust end of the tailpipe, a final one of the mufflers being in the form of a resonance type muffler for reducing low frequency noises caused by pulse combustion in the combustion chamber. The final one of the mufflers is detachably mounted in place at the outside of the support frame for easy replacement with another resonance type muffler and connected to the preceding muffler in a disengageable manner.

A pulse combustion fat fryer of the table type includes a box-type cabinet having a front compartment and an upright rear compartment, an open-top vessel assembled within the front compartment to store an amount of cooking oil, the vessel having a front wall and a bottom wall the front part of which is located adjacent a bottom plate of the cabinet and the rear part of which is spaced upward from the bottom plate, a pulse combustion burner having a combustion chamber secured at its inlet end to the front wall of the vessel and immersed in the liquid in the vessel, a tailpipe connected at one end thereof to an exhaust port of the combustion chamber and being extended outwardly from the vessel, an air intake muffler and an exhaust muffler vertically disposed in parallel within the upright rear compartment of the cabinet, an air chamber casing secured to the front wall of the vessel and being connected to the air intake muffler to be supplied with fresh air, an exhaust decoupler located just below the rear part of the bottom wall of the vessel and having an inlet connected to an exhaust end of the tailpipe and an outlet in communication with the exhaust muffler, and an electric equipment box housed in a space between a side wall of the vessel and a side plate of the cabinet.

Pulse combustion fat fryer of the table type

A pulse combustion heating apparatus includes a open-top vessel assembled within a support frame to store an amount of liquid such as cooking oil to be heated, and a pulse combustion burner mounted to the vessel and having a combustion chamber secured at its inlet end to a side wall of the vessel and immersed in the liquid in the vessel and at least a pair of tailpipes each connected at their inner ends to an exhaust port of the combustion chamber in such a manner that the tailpipes are arranged symmetrically in the vessel and immersed in the liquid and being extended outwardly from the vessel. The vessel has a pair of parallel bottom walls inclined downwardly inwardly toward the center of the vessel, and a pair of cylindrical decouplers are housed in a pair of spaces just below the bottom walls of the vessel within the support frame and located in parallel along the bottom walls of the vessel. The decouplers are connected to each exhaust end of the tailpipes to stabilize pulse combustion in the combustion chamber.

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Toyoake, Japan

Susumu Ejiri