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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Keijirou Kunimoto, Shiga, JP;
Daisuke Hosokawa, Shiga, JP;
Abstract
The heating cooker includes a first heater disposed below a tray to heat the tray, and second heater disposed over the tray to heat the tray. In addition, the heating cooker includes a controller that controls output of the first heater and switches energization of second heater in accordance with a kind of object to be heated and a quantity of object to be heated. Furthermore, second heater includes two plane-shaped insulators and a plurality of planar heat generators that are sandwiched between insulators, and the controller heats regions that are disposed over and below the tray to be opposed to each other by controlling energization of the first heater and second heater. Furthermore, second heater has a distortion suppressor between the plurality of planar heat generators, and the distortion suppressor suppresses internal distortion of insulators caused by heating of the plurality of planar heat generators of second heater.