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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2008
Masamichi Komada, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroshi Tominaga, Hyogo, JP;
Keiko Isoda, Hyogo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a cooking device capable of preventing heating operations from being unintentionally turned on and off and the setting of heating operations from being changed even when water droplets are scattered around touch switches or the vicinity of the touch switches is wiped with a damp cloth or the like. Left and right cancel electrodes () are provided near the key electrodes between the positions of left and right heating coils () and the positions of the key electrodes (). A control unit () changes over between validity and invalidity of inputting through the key electrodes based on whether or not a change of capacitances of the left and right cancel electrodes () is equal to or more than a predetermined amount.