Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yuzi Andoh

Tetsuichi Arita

Masayuki Iwamoto

Shinya Ueda

Norikimi Tatsumu

Takashi Hashimoto

Yoshikazu Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Sakoda

Hiromi Suenaga

Shinji Asami

Fuminori Kaneko

Hiroki Kitayama

Toshiyuki Irie

Ikuyasu Kaminaka

Tadashi Nasu

Masaki Katabe

A combination microwave and impingement heating cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port is provided in one of the right and left inside walls thereof, and a suction port is provided in the bottom inside wall thereof in the form of collected perforations, air in the cooking chamber sucked from the suction port is fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, heated by an upper heater and a lateral heater, respectively, and blown from the upper blowing port and the lateral blowing port, and the distribution of the perforations of the upper blowing port is made such that the distribution of the perforations at a position where the air blows toward air current from the lateral blowing port to a cooked object is made coarser than that at the other positions so that the air current in horizontal direction cannot be obstructed, and a wave feed port for discharging microwaves into the cooking chamber is so arranged as not to directly face the lateral blowing port.

Combination microwave and impingement heating cooking oven

A cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port is provided in one of the right and left inside walls thereof, and a suction port is provided in the bottom inside wall thereof in the form of collected perforations, air in the cooking chamber sucked from the suction port is fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, heated by an upper heater and a lateral heater, respectively, and blown from the upper blowing port and the lateral blowing port, and the distribution of the perforations of the upper blowing port is made such that the distribution of the perforations at a position where the air blows toward air current from the lateral blowing port to a cooked object is made coarser than that at the other positions so that the air current in horizontal direction cannot be obstructed.

Heating cooking device

A cooking oven, wherein air in a cooking chamber is sucked into a blower on the outside of the cooking chamber and fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, air current led into the upper duct is heated by an upper heater and re-circulated from an upper blowing port to the cooking chamber, a catalyst block heated by a catalyst heating heater is disposed in the upper duct to decompose lamp black and smell substances contained in the air current, catalyst paint is applied onto the inner wall surface of the upper duct to reinforce a performance for decomposing the lamp black and smell substances, both the lateral duct and the upper duct are formed in the same structure, the distributions of heating volumes of the upper heater and the lateral heater in the cross sections of the upper duct and the lateral duct are set so that larger heating volumes are generated on larger air volume sides according to the air volume distributions in the cross sections of the ducts, and the catalyst block is also disposed in the cross sections of the ducts eccentrically to the larger heater heating volume side.

A high-frequency heating apparatus comprises a heating chamber, a high-frequency generator, a waveguide, an antenna, a motor for rotating the antenna, and a stage () provided above and near the antenna to partition the heating chamber and made of dielectric. A rotary base on which an object to be heated is mounted is provided on the stage. A first magnet is provided to the antenna. A second magnet is provided on the rotary base at a place corresponding to the first magnet on the rotary base. By utilizing the magnetic coupling between the first and second magnets, the rotary base is rotated in synchronism with the rotation of the antenna. While maintaining the advantages of conventional antenna high-frequency heating apparatuses, the heating efficiency by grill heating or oven heating is enhanced, and minute heating uniformness is achieved.

High-frequency heating apparatus

A broiler oven has a heating chamber 2, first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 formed out of tubular heaters and rotatably supported by the inner walls of the heating chamber 2 in such a way that their heating portions 61b and 62b and their shaft portions 61a and 62a joined together so as to be parallel to each other by their arm portions 61c and 62c are held at an equal level, a driving mechanism 12 for rotating the shaft portions 61a and 62a, and a control circuit 10 for controlling the first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 and the driving mechanism 12. The control circuit 10 controls the driving mechanism 12 to rotate the first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 between a non-heating position and a heating position, and energizes the first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 when they are in the heating positions.

Broiler oven

A microwave fryer includes a magnetron in the machine body; an oil vessel for storing oil to be heated by radiation of microwaves from the magnetron which is detachably disposed in a heating chamber of the machine body; and a detachable frying container, provided over the oil vessel in the heating chamber, having a screen portion which allows microwaves to pass therethrough when the container is immersed in the oil and which prohibits almost all microwaves from passing therethrough when the container is in the air. The frying container has a top opening which is sealed against microwaves. The apparatus further includes a lifting mechanism for moving one of the frying container and the oil vessel relative to the other, and a temperature detecting device for detecting the temperature of the cooking oil. In this arrangement, the oil held in the oil vessel detachably disposed in the heating chamber is heated by radiation of microwaves. The frying container is immersed into the oil in the oil vessel by moving one of the oil vessel and the frying container relative to the other, in order to fry foodstuffs. The microwave fryer further includes a determining device for judging the appropriateness of the amount of oil, a temperature detecting device for detecting a real temperature of oil and a preventing device for preventing the user from forgetting the use of the apparatus.

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Yuzi Andoh