Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takeyuki Ozaki

Masahiro Nishijima

Fuminori Kaneko

Taisuke Morino

Hiroki Kitayama

Mami Tanaka

Shuichi Akiyama

An open/close adjustment device is connected to the door of a heating chamber of a cooking device, and the open/close adjustment device pulls the door back to its totally closed position. The open/close adjustment device adjusts an operation force when the door is passing a predetermined open angle. The operation force indicates a maximum value when the door is passing the predetermined open angle, and the maximum value is given by two protrusions disposed at front-side and rear-side with distance between them. Each of the protrusions each produces a load when they go over a support member, and a following one of the two protrusions produces a load larger than a load firstly produced by a preceding one of the two protrusions when the door is opened.

Cooking device

A high-frequency heating apparatus includes a heating vessel for accommodating an article to be heated, which is detachably loaded in a heating chamber, a stirring mechanism provided in the heating vessel, a guide mechanism for guiding the heating vessel so as to horizontally displace the heating vessel into a heating chamber from an opening formed on a side face of the heating chamber, a rotational drive mechanism for driving the stirring mechanism so as to rotate the stirring mechanism and a coupling mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the rotational drive mechanism to the stirring mechanism. The stirring mechanism includes a transmission gear mounted on a lower end of a stirring shaft extending through a bottom wall of the heating vessel, and the coupling mechanism includes a gear mounted on an upper end of a central shaft in the heating chamber and engageable with the transmission gear.

High-frequency heating apparatus for automatically processing and

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Nara, Japan

Takeyuki Ozaki