Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takahiro Hayashi

Minoru Yoshida

Takeshi Nakata

Taijiro Kasahara

Terumi Furuya

A bake stuff cooker 10 includes: a main body case 1; a mount plate 2 attached on an upper surface of the main body case 1 for mounting a cook stuff; a heating plate 3 pivotally switchable between a facing position facing the mount plate 2 to form a gap corresponding to the thickness of the cook stuff above the mount plate 2 and a separating position separating from the facing position; the heating plate 3 forming a heating face on an upper surface and/or a lower surface thereof; a lid 5 for forming another gap corresponding to the thickness of another cook stuff above the heating plate 3 and for covering the heating face 31a on the upper surface of the heating plate 3; an induction heating coil 11 for heating the heating face; a control unit 9 for controlling to drive and stop the induction heating coil 11; and a thermistor 92 for detecting a temperature of the heating face, wherein the control unit 9 is provided with a drive time setting circuit 93 for setting a drive time of the induction heating coil 11 in accordance with the temperature of the heating plate 3 detected by the thermistor 92 in starting to drive the induction heating coil 11.

Bake stuff cooker

A soap concentration control apparatus comprising: a pump for supplying a cleaning solvent to a washing tub; a liquid quantity sensor for measuring a quantity of the solvent supplied to the washing tub by the pump; a soap supplying pump for supplying a soap to the washing tub; a sampling container for sampling the solvent; a soap concentration measuring sensor for measuring a soap concentration in the sampled solvent; a setting device for setting a desired soap concentration; an arithmetic device for calculating an operating time of the soap supplying pump required for making a soap concentration of the solvent in the washing tub approach to the set desired soap concentration on the basis of the measured quantity of solvent, the measured soap concentration and the soap supplying capacity per unit time of the soap supplying pump; and a controller for operating the soap supplying pump on the basis of the calculation result of the arithmetic device, which is useful to maintain a desired soap concentration in the dry cleaning machine thereby providing a constant finish of the laundry.

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Otsu, Japan

Takahiro Hayashi