JP2002080110A - Method for heating and delivering food - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food to an orderer in an optimum heating cooking state when a food is delivered. SOLUTION: In a method for reheating and delivery that when a heated and cooked food is reheated for delivery, reheating is completed right before the food reaches a delivery destination, the time when reheating is started is calculated from the time required for delivery and that required for reheating of the heated and cooked food. To start reheating at the calculated time, the timer of heat insulation chamber to reheat the food is set and reheating is started at the time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a heating and delivering method for performing a heating operation during delivery so as to complete heating in an optimum state immediately before arrival of food to an ordering user in delivery of cooked food.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Delivery of cooked foods is performed for various kinds of foods such as lunches, bowls, noodles, and pizzas. The method has been adopted in which this is provided only for a distance not to be cooled or stored in a container provided with a heat retaining means such as pizza to maintain the heat after cooking.

[0003]

In the above conventional method,
Although it is a relatively short delivery time, it cools down during delivery, or the quality of cooking ingredients deteriorates, and the so-called “freshly made” flavor and texture are impaired. In order to enjoy the quality degradation as unavoidable, or to provide the service within the minimum quality degradation range, it can be used only within a short distance range. Even in a pizza or the like provided with a heat retaining means during delivery, although the temperature is maintained relatively high, the deterioration of the flavor and texture of "freshly made" is inevitable.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to provide a cooked food to be supplied and delivered to a user at a point of time when the food is provided to a user while maintaining the quality almost immediately after cooking. The purpose is to provide.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a heating and delivering method according to the present invention completes reheating immediately before arriving at a delivery destination when reheating and delivering cooked food. Thus, in the method of reheating and delivering, the time required to start reheating is calculated from the time required for delivery and the time required to reheat the cooked food, and reheating is started at the calculated time. The operation of the heater is set so as to perform the heating, and the heating of the food is started at the time when the reheating is started.

Further, according to the present invention, in the above-mentioned method, the required time from the current location to the delivery destination during the delivery is determined from the information from the map, the current location information, the current time information, and the provided traffic information during the delivery. Is calculated as needed, and the time to start reheating of the food to be delivered is changed and corrected.

[0007] The present invention also relates to a method of heating and delivering food so that cooking of the food is completed immediately before arriving at the delivery destination when delivering the cooked food. The time required for delivery is subtracted, the food is cooked for the calculated time, delivery is started, and the cooking of the food is completed during delivery.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The practice of the present invention involves a means for delivering food (generally, but not limited to, a motor vehicle such as a motorcycle or car), a container for storing the food to be delivered, and a means for heating the food. And a heating device provided with the heating means. Further, in the present embodiment, a device that receives and displays map information and position information is used.

As the heating device, a heat insulating box provided with a heating means such as gas combustion heat, heater heating or microwave heating can be used. In addition, a car navigation system or the like generally used in vehicle traffic can be used for receiving and displaying map information and position information, and these are all conventionally used means. The technical description is omitted.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a method for reheating and delivering cooked food according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of its operation.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a cooked food which is stored in a heat storage 2. The heat storage 2 is provided with a microwave heater 4 that operates in connection with the battery 3. A control unit 5 controls the operation of the microwave heater 4. The control unit 5 includes a calculation unit 6 that calculates an estimated time of arrival at the delivery destination, and controls the operation start and end times of the microwave heater 4. A timer unit 7 is provided.

Next, the flow of the operation processing of this embodiment will be described.
This will be described with reference to FIG. First, information on the food order, the desired delivery time, and the delivery destination position is received from the delivery destination (S1).
10). Here, food means immediately before consumption by consumers.
Food products that need or need to be reheated. Each food has its own reheat time.

At the store receiving the order, the approximate time required for delivery is calculated based on the map information (S111). The arrival time at the delivery destination is basically equal to the desired delivery time, but is determined if necessary. Further, the time to start reheating is determined so that the reheating of the food is completed at the arrival time.

On the other hand, after receiving the order, a time at which to start the cooking of the food is determined (S112), and at that time, the cooking of the food is started (S113).

Next, the cooked food is stored in the heat insulation cabinet 2 (S114), and the timer 7 of the control unit 5 is set so as to start reheating at the reheating start time determined above (S115).

The heat storage 5 is mounted on the delivery means to start delivery (S116). In the control unit 5, the timer 7 is operating (S117), and at the set time, the microwave heater 4 starts heating (S118). After the elapse of the reheating time, the control unit 5 performs heating stop control (S11).
9), the microwave heating unit 4 stops heating (S12)
0). At this point, the food 1 is in an optimal state close to “freshly made”.

The reheating end time of the food is the arrival time of the delivery destination, and the food is provided at this time (S12).
0). As described above, the contractor can receive the provision of the food 1 which has been optimally heated immediately before arrival, and can enjoy a cooked food having a quality close to "freshly prepared" even at a certain distance. be able to.

When semi-cooked food such as frozen food is used as the food 1, the steps of setting the cooking start time (S112) and cooking the food (S113) are omitted.
Semi-cooked food is stored in the heat storage 2 (S114).
Then, it is also possible to heat and cook during the delivery.

(Embodiment 2) FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a system configuration showing a different embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. In the present embodiment, the configuration of the device for storing and heating the food 1 is the same as that of the first embodiment, but differs in that a receiving and calculating facility for map information and position information is added. Therefore, the description will focus on this difference.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 8 denotes a car navigation device linked to a satellite communication system, which can display map information and a current position and a target position. At the same time, in conjunction with the traffic information system, traffic congestion information and detour information of a route to a destination and standard required time can be calculated and displayed. Based on the information of the car navigation device 8, it is possible to calculate the required time from the current position to the delivery position specified by the orderer, and calculate the difference from the time set by the timer 7 built in the control unit 5 set at the time of departure from the store. Recalculation is performed in step 6, and if there is an error, the timer 7 can be modified and set so that heating of the microwave heater 4 is completed in accordance with the arrival (expected) time at the delivery position. ing. This part will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The car navigation device 8 recognizes the current position and the current time, receives traffic information at the same time, and determines the required time to the delivery position (S221). When there is a difference from the heating end time set by the control unit 5 (S22
2) The heating start time is corrected according to the current expected arrival time (S223), and the operation of the microwave heater 4 is corrected and controlled according to the correction control signal.

As described above, even if the situation during the delivery changes, heating can be performed at the optimal timing corresponding to the situation, and the food can always be heated with “fresh” quality when the food is provided to the contractor. it can.

Control change in the control unit 5 (S223)
In the case where the arrival time at the delivery position is delayed, it is possible to cope with such a method that the heating start time of the microwave heater 4 is delayed, the heating is temporarily interrupted, or the heating input is reduced. Conversely, when the estimated arrival time is advanced, it can be dealt with by increasing the input of the microwave heater 4, and in any case, the control specifications of the control unit 5 may be modified and changed.

(Embodiment 3) In this embodiment, the basic configuration of the apparatus is the same as that of Embodiment 1 or 2, but the cooking conditions of the food before delivery are different. An operation flow will be described with reference to FIG. 5 focusing on this difference. That is, in the present embodiment, the food cooking in the store may not be in the final state for eating, but may be in a state in which cooking is stopped at an intermediate stage so as to be in an optimal cooking state by additional heating during delivery. It is a feature. Here, cooking in the store before the final state is called pre-cooking, and heating during shipping is called additional heating.

The orderer receives information on the food order, the desired delivery time and the delivery destination position (S310). The store calculates the required delivery time based on the map information (S31
1) Yes.

The pre-cooking start time is calculated so that the optimum cooking state is obtained by additional heating during the delivery (S312), and the pre-cooking is started (S313). The additional heating time is basically the same as the time required for delivery, but may differ depending on the food.

Next, the pre-cooked food is stored in the thermal storage 2 (S315), and the delivery is started (S316), and at the same time, the additional heating is started (S317). During the delivery, the microwave heater 4 continues the additional heating (S319). In the case of the initial expected arrival time, when the vehicle arrives at the delivery destination, the additional heating is stopped according to the stop control (S320) (S321), and is provided to the contractor in a “freshly made” state (S322).

Here, for example, according to the traffic condition on the way, the same correction operation as in the second embodiment can be performed to adjust the heating intensity of the additional heating. By doing so, regardless of the positional relationship between the delivery destination specified by the contractor and the store, it is possible to always provide `` freshly prepared '' cooked food, and the contractor can enjoy food equivalent to eating at the store Is possible.

In the above embodiment, microwave heating is used as the heating means. However, an electric heater or combustion heat of a cylinder gas may be used, and the effect of the present invention is not impaired by the heating means. Further, it is needless to say that the delivery means does not necessarily need to use a delivery means with a motor, but may be delivery by bicycle or on foot.

[0030]

As described above, in the method of heating and delivering cooked food according to the present invention, the cooked food is not affected by the distance between the store and the orderer, and the optimal flavor and texture are not impaired. Can be easily provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of operation of main parts of the system of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory view according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Food 2 Warm storage 3 Battery 4 Microwave heater 5 Control part 6 Operation part 7 Timer 8 Car navigation system

Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Akiko Sugiyama 1006 Kadoma Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 3F022 AA15 BB04 EE05 MM42 PP06 4B035 LC05 LE07 LE11 LP13 LP16 LT01 LT20 4B066 AA05 AB08 BC09

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A method of reheating and delivering a reheated food so that the reheating is completed immediately before arriving at a delivery destination when the cooked food is reheated and delivered. From the required time of reheating of the cooked food, calculate the time to start reheating, so as to start the reheating at the time, set a timer of a heat insulation box for reheating the food, A method for reheating and delivering food, wherein reheating is started at the time. 2. A food to be delivered which is calculated from the current location information, the current time information, and the provided traffic information during the course of delivery from the current location to the destination during delivery. The reheating delivery method according to claim 1, wherein the time at which reheating is started is changed and corrected. 3. An additional heating and delivery system in which, when delivering pre-cooked food that has not been completely cooked, additional cooking is performed during the delivery so as to complete the cooking of the food immediately before arriving at the delivery destination position. A method wherein the time required for delivery is subtracted from the time required for pre-cooking and additional cooking of the food to provide a pre-cooking time, wherein the food is pre-cooked, pre-cooked, and the pre-cooked food is delivered. To start cooking and complete cooking by additional heating during delivery.