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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2005
Atsuhito Gama, Nagoya, JP;
Shinichiro Hata, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamada, Nagoya, JP;
Kazuya Hirota, Nagoya, JP;
Atsuhito Gama, Nagoya, JP;
Shinichiro Hata, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamada, Nagoya, JP;
Kazuya Hirota, Nagoya, JP;
Rinnai Corporation, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a cooking stove that prevents an instruction from being given using the touch switch owing to a factor different from the user's operation, while hindering the user from having an incongruous or anxious feeling when operating the touch switch. Touch switchestoare provided on a glass top plate covering a top surface of a cooking stove main body accommodating a left burner and a right burner; the touch switchestosense an object that contacts with or approaches the top surface of the glass top plate. When any of the touch switches is turned on and then turned off again, heating controlexecutes a pre-assigned process to the touch switch. When the touch switch is turned on, lighting controlchanges the displays of display sectionstoto ones corresponding to the state of a burner after the process has been executed before executing a pre-assigned process to the touch switch.