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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/64 (2006.01); H05B 6/68 (2006.01); F24C 7/04 (2021.01); F24C 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/6441 (2013.01); F24C 7/02 (2013.01); F24C 7/04 (2013.01); H05B 6/687 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cooker includes a heating chamber configured to accommodate an object to be heated, a heater configured to heat the object to be heated accommodated in the heating chamber, heating controller () configured to control the heater for heating, an image capturing unit configured to capture an image inside the heating chamber, and mark detector () configured to detect a specific mark from the image captured by the image capturing unit. Heating controller () disallows or allows heating by the heater, based on a result of detection by mark detector ().