Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yasuaki Sakane

Shinya Ueda

Yasuhiro Sakoda

Toshiaki Ueki

Kazushi Furukawa

Tatsuya Mineoka

Hiroyoshi Inoue

Tatsumi Tomibayashi

PCI (Plasmacluster Ion) ions are released for approximately five minutes to a food such as vegetables, at a temperature of around 40&#xb0; C. in a no-air flowing state and with no steam present.

Method for cooking foods, and heating cooker

Disclosed is a cooking appliance provided with: a water tank () disposed inside a main case (); a steam-generation device () that generates steam by heating water supplied from the water tank (); a heating chamber () to which steam from the steam-generation device () is supplied; an exhaust duct (), provided inside the main case (), for expelling exhaust from inside the heating chamber () to outside the main case (); an exhaust temperature sensor () that measures the temperature of the exhaust air inside the exhaust duct (); and a steam-generation decision unit that, upon cooking in which steam is supplied from the steam-generation unit () into the heating chamber (), uses information on a physical quantity (the exhaust temperature measured by the exhaust temperature sensor ()), which indirectly indicates whether there is water in the steam-generation device (), to decide whether or not to halt steam generation, including the case in which the water tank () is out of water.

Cooking appliance

A dishwasher and dryer has a washing vessel () accommodating a basket carrying tableware, a water feed path feeding water or hot water for washing and rinsing into the washing vessel () through an operation of a water feed valve, a circulating path for spraying feed water in the washing vessel from a nozzle to a dish, and a control circuit () controlling a washing step and a rinsing step. In such a dishwasher and dryer, a hard water generating vessel () is arranged to carry out a washing step using hard water as feed water in a washing step.

Dish washing and drying device

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Osaka, Japan

Yasuaki Sakane