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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:
Sep. 20, 1994
Filed:
May. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nobuaki Ohta, Aichi, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219506 ; 219715 ; 219720 ; 219719 ; 99325 ;
Abstract
An automatic cooking appliance has a magnetron to cook the food. The cooking appliance has a dial, which is rotatable and capable of being pressed, on an operation panel thereof. A cooking mode in the menu is selected due to the rotation of the dial. The cooking mode is determined by pressing of the dial. The cooking appliance controls the magnetron in accordance with the determined cooking mode. This enables the dial to be used for multiple purposes to thereby save space on a control panel.