Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takashi Utsumi

Shinya Ueda

Takahiro Fukunaga

Masahiro Nishijima

Hiroyuki Kato

Yasuhiro Sakoda

Shinji Asami

Masayuki Uno

Yuko Nakajima

Youhei Seguchi

Hideo Shimoda

Keiko Fukuoka

A steam generating container A heated by a heat source includes: a water evaporation chamber into which water is supplied by a water supply device; a leading opening to lead steam from the water evaporation chamber, and ejection openings ejecting steam led through the leading opening into a heating chamber containing food. A buffer chamber connecting through the leading opening and with the ejection openings is provided between the water evaporation chamber and the heating chamber. Even when bumping water enters the buffer chamber through the leading opening, the bumping water having entered flows inside the buffer chamber. Thus, the bumping water is hardly ejected into the heating chamber through the ejection openings.

Cooking device

A steam generating apparatus includes: a steam generator including a housing capable of storing water therein, and a heating unit for heating the housing so as to generate steam; a water level measurement unit for measuring a water level in the housing; and a water supply unit for supplying water into the housing. A controller controls, when a time during which the measured water level does not exceed the threshold value continues for a first time, the water supply unit to start water supply into the housing, and controls, when the time during which the measured water level does not exceed the threshold value continues for a second time longer than the first time, the heating unit to stop heating of the housing.

Steam generating apparatus and heating cooker

Cooking device including buffer chamber

A cooking device has a casing, a heating chamberprovided in the casing, an exhaust tubefor guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamberthrough an electric component chamberin the casingto front face side, and a dew receiving containerthat is provided on front face side of the casingand that receives and diffuses the exhaust from the exhaust tubeto outside of the casing

A steam generation device is placed at a lower portion of a side wall of a heating chamber. A steam jet-out part is placed upper than the steam generation device of the side wall of the heating chamber with a distance from the steam generation device. Thus, even if bumping has occurred within a water storage part of the steam generation device, causing boiling water to rush out from a steam supply port into a steam supply pipe, the boiling water is prevented from intruding into a steam jet-out part.

Steam generation unit and steam cooking device using same

A steam generating device () is provided with a metal housing (), a water supply opening () for supplying water into the housing (), a steam generating heater () embedded in the lower part of the housing () and evaporating the water supplied from the water supply opening (), a steam temperature raising heater () provided above the steam generating heater () with a predetermined distance from an inner wall of the housing () and raising the temperature of the steam generated by the steam generating heater (), and a discharge opening () for discharging the superheated steam generated by the steam temperature raising heater ().

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Osaka, Japan

Takashi Utsumi