Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Yoshiharu Oomori

Koji Yoshino

Tomotaka Nobue

Kenji Yasui

Fumitaka Ogasawara

Atsushi Shinkai

Hiroyuki Uejima

Daisuke Hosokawa

Makoto Mihara

Takashi Uno

Mikio Fukui

Osamu Hashimoto

Takanori Hirobe

Kazuki Maeda

Masafumi Sadahira

Hiroyuki Uno

Kenichi Matsushima

Masayuki Kubo

Toshiyuki Okajima

Kenji Ueno

Takeshi Ichihara

Masakatsu Nawate

Takuji Kawashima

Ryohei Harada

Hideki Nakamura

Ryosuke Suga

Keijirou Kunimoto

Yoichi Nagaso

Chikako Hosokawa

A microwave treatment device comprises: a heating chamber that accommodates an object to be heated; a microwave generator that generates a microwave in a specified frequency band; an amplifier that amplifies the microwave; a feeding unit that supplies the amplified microwave to the heating chamber; a detector that detects a reflected microwave power; and a controller. The controller selects one of plural frequencies in the specified frequency band and causes the microwave generator to generate the microwave with the selected frequency. The controller causes the amplifier to change an output power of the microwave so that the microwave supplied to the heating chamber has one of plural output powers. The controller measures a reflected microwave frequency characteristic based on reflected microwave powers detected under each of a condition that the microwave has a first output power and a condition that the microwave has a second output power.

Microwave treatment device

A microwave treatment device includes a heating chamber for accommodating a heating target, a microwave generator, a feeder, a detector, and a controller. The microwave generator generates a microwave having a frequency in a specified frequency band. The feeder radiates the microwave inside the heating chamber. The detector detects a reflected microwave power reflected from the heating chamber. The controller causes the microwave generator to execute a frequency sweeping in the specified frequency band, and controls the microwave generator according to a temporal change in a frequency characteristic of the reflected microwave power. The temporal change in the frequency characteristic of the reflected microwave power is based on the frequency of the microwave, a level of the reflected microwave power, and a time passed from a start of heating. Thus, it is possible to accurately recognize the progress of cooking while heating the object.

A microwave treatment device of the present disclosure includes heating chamber () for accommodating object () to be heated, microwave generator (), heater (), power feeder (), detector (), and controller (). Microwave generator () generates microwaves. Heater () includes a heat source other than the microwaves and heats an inside of heating chamber (). Power feeder () supplies the heating chamber with the microwaves. Detector () detects reflected power from power feeder (). Controller () controls heater () and microwave generator (). When heater () carries out heating, Controller () causes microwave generator () to generate the microwaves in heating by heater (). The microwaves have output power such that the reflected power at a level detectable by detector () returns. By present disclosure, by understanding progress of cooking, a heating target can be appropriately cooked.

A high-frequency heating apparatus includes heating chamber (), generator (), radiator (), and controller (). Heating chamber () has a wall surface including metal, and accommodates object () to be heated. Generator () generates high-frequency power at any frequency in a band of 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Radiator () includes loop antenna () including a plurality of loop portions (A,B), and radiates the high-frequency power generated by generator () to heating chamber (). Controller () controls a frequency of the high-frequency power generated by generator (). According to this aspect, a heating target can be uniformly heated or partially heated without a waveguide for transmitting high-frequency power.

High-frequency heating apparatus

A high frequency heating apparatus (A) includes the following components: a first electrode () that is flat; a plurality of flat second electrodes () that are flat; a high-frequency power supply (); a matching unit (); a controller (); and an electric field regulator (). The second electrodes () are placed opposite to the first electrode (). The high-frequency power supply () applies a high-frequency voltage to the first electrode (). The matching unit () is placed between the first electrode () and the high-frequency power supply (), and is impedance-matched with the high-frequency power supply (). The controller () controls the high-frequency power supply (). The electric field regulator () individually adjusts the electric field strengths in a plurality of regions located between first electrode () and the second electrodes (). This aspect can reduce uneven heating.

High frequency heating apparatus

A microwave treatment device includes a plurality of radiation parts, a transmission line, and a plurality of feeding parts. The plurality of radiation parts includes first, second, and third radiation parts, and radiates a microwave. The transmission line has a loop line structure provided with a plurality of branch parts including first, second, and third branch parts, and transmits the microwave to the first, second, and third radiation parts respectively connected to the first, second, and third branch parts. The plurality of feeding parts includes the first feeding part and the second feeding part arranged in the transmission line at an interval of ¼ or less of the wavelength of the microwave, and transmits the microwave to the transmission line. According to this aspect, a radiation part that radiates the microwave can be selectively switched. This enables the intended heating distribution to be achieved.

A common mode noise filter includes a non-magnetic body and first to third coil conductors provided inside the non-magnetic body. The second coil conductor is provided in a downward direction from the first coil conductor. The third coil conductor is provided in the downward direction from the second coil conductor. The first and third coil conductors deviate in a direction perpendicular to the downward direction with respect to the second coil conductor. At least one of the first and third coil conductors overlaps the second coil conductor viewing from the direction perpendicular to the downward direction. This common mode noise filter allows these coil conductors to be magnetically coupled to each other with a preferable balance, thereby preventing degradation of differential signals.

Common mode noise filter

There are provided heating chamber, and reflection angle control device provided on upper wall configuring at least part of walls of heating chamber and configured to control a reflection angle of a microwave to control standing wave distribution in heating chamber. Reflection angle control device controls the reflection angle of the microwave when the microwave radiated from microwave radiation device is not directly absorbed into heating target but is reflected by the wall. Standing wave distribution in heating chamber can thus be controlled to be different from ordinary distribution for improvement in local heating performance.

Microwave heating device

A common mode noise filter includes a laminated body including first to fourth insulating layers stacked on one another, first to fourth coil conductors spirally extending and disposed on upper surfaces of the first to fourth insulating layers, respectively, a first via-electrode connecting the first coil conductor to the second coil conductor, a second via-electrode connecting the third coil conductor to the fourth coil conductor, first and second connection parts connecting the first via-electrode to first and second inner ends of the first and second coil conductors, respectively, and third and fourth connection parts connecting the second via-electrode to third and fourth inner ends of the third and fourth coil conductors, respectively. The first connection part overlaps the second connection part when viewed from above. The third connection part overlaps the fourth connection part when viewed from above. The common mode noise filter is operable in high frequencies.

A common mode noise filter includes plural non-magnetic layers stacked in a laminating direction, and first, second, and third coil conductors constituting first, second, and third coils which are formed on the non-magnetic layers and are independent from one another. The first and third coil conductors deviate from the second coil conductor in a direction perpendicular to the laminating direction.

High frequency heating device is provided with heater disposed adjacent to mount base on which object to be heated is mounted and having a plurality of surface wave transmission lines electrically isolated from each other, and first and second high frequency power generators, each of which generates high frequency power having different frequency. Surface wave transmission lines receive at least one of the high frequency power generated by first high frequency power generator and the high frequency power generated by second high frequency power generator. According to this aspect, interference between the high frequency powers is not occurred and electromagnetic field coupling is not occurred. As a result, in the high frequency heating device provided with the surface wave transmission line using a periodic structure, uneven baking caused by the electromagnetic field coupling can be suppressed, and a heating state of an object to be heated can be easily controlled.

High frequency heating device

A common mode noise filter includes a laminated body having insulator layers therein and first and second spiral conductors provided on layer planes different from each other. The first spiral conductor includes a first spiral conductor line, a first pad provided at an outer end of the first spiral conductor line, and a second pad provided at an inner end of the first spiral conductor line. The second spiral conductor includes a second spiral conductor line, a third pad provided at an outer end of the second spiral conductor line, and a fourth pad provided at an inner end of the second spiral conductor line. The first spiral conductor line faces the second spiral conductor line. Each of the second pad and the sixth pad overlaps none of the fourth pad and the eighth pad viewing from above.

A microwave heating device according to the present invention includes a microwave oscillation portion including a reference-signal oscillator formed from a quarts oscillator, phase variable portions and phase-locked loops and, further, includes a control portion for controlling the microwave oscillation portion, and plural radiation portions placed on a wall surface of a heating chamber for housing a to-be-heated object, wherein microwaves supplied to plural microwave feeding points provided in the radiation portions are controlled in phase and electric power, thereby controlling the aspect of radiations of microwaves radiated from the radiation portions.

In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feeding portions; a control portion controls to supply microwave electric power from plural feeding portions to a heating chamber by operating a microwave generating portion at a heating frequency for heating a to-be-heated object, estimates a heating state for the to-be-heated object on the basis of per-unit-time increase/decrease change states of detected levels of detection signals detected by electric-power detection portions, and controls the heating frequency and the microwave electric power supplied from the feeding portions to the heating chamber.

Microwave heating device and microwave heating control method

A microwave heating apparatus includes, within a heating room, a placement table having a horizontal placement surface for placing an object to be heated, and a plurality of feeding portions which are placed on a wall surface of the heating room for supplying microwave electric power to the heating room. The microwave heating apparatus is adapted to relatively move the position of the straight line connecting two feeding portions to each other, with respect to the object to be heated, through a movement mechanism portion, and to detect a phase difference between the microwave electric powers which minimizes reflected electric power returning from the heating room to the two feeding portions, for detecting the state of placement of the object to be heated on the placement table.

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Shiga, Japan

Yoshiharu Oomori