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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
May. 17, 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-shi, JP;
Abstract
A touch switch which prohibits a child from actuating heating means, while permitting a child to deactivate heating means. A cooking stove including an electrical capacitance operation switchwhich switches the cooking stove between an operation state in which an ignition instruction is enabled and a standby state in which the ignition instruction is disabled; the operation switch is used to instruct the cooking stove to be extinguished. When the cooking stove is inactive, a switch circuitselects a resistance elementoffering a higher resistance to set the cooking stove in a 'lower sensitivity set state' in which the operation switchhas a sensitivity sl. When the cooking stove is active, the switch circuitselects a resistance elementoffering a lower resistance to set the cooking stove in a 'higher sensitivity set state' in which the operation switchhas a sensitivity sh (>sl).