JP2001317740A - System for automatically setting microwave oven - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set the appropriate operating condition geared to the difference in type to a microwave oven, in a system where the microwave oven, an ordering terminal 2 which gives an order, according to the input of menu and the number of persons, and a portal site 3 which instructs the home delivery of food material to a food material home deliverer 4 are connected with one another. SOLUTION: In this microwave oven automatic setting system, a food material home deliverer 4 presents a plurality of menus and a cooker control program of every menu. Based on this, a screen for ordering is made on the home page at a portal site 3. Here, a user accesses the portal site 3, and place an order for menu, using a screen for ordering. As a result, an instruction for home delivery of food material is issued to the food material home deliverer 4 from the portal site 3, and also a control program geared to the model of a microwave oven in downloaded from the portal site 3 to the ordering terminal 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic microwave oven setting system capable of instructing a food delivery company to deliver necessary ingredients according to a desired menu and setting appropriate heating conditions in a microwave oven. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, by ordering a desired food to a food delivery company using a telephone or the Internet,
Ingredient home delivery services in which ingredients required for the dish are delivered in a semi-cooked state have become widespread, and if such a service is used, the orderer cooks the delivered ingredients in a microwave oven. Just by that, cooking will be completed.
Also, there is known an Internet-enabled microwave oven that can download operating conditions necessary for cooking a desired dish, that is, heating power and time from a portal site on the Internet by connecting to the Internet and automatically set the operating conditions. ing.

[0003] Therefore, by combining the above-mentioned food delivery service with an Internet-enabled microwave oven, the user simply inputs a desired dish name, and the ingredients required for the dish are ordered from a food delivery company and the home delivery is performed. It is possible to configure an automatic microwave oven setting system in which the heating power and time required for cooking the prepared food are automatically set in the microwave oven.

By the way, in a microwave oven, generally,
Even if the output value is the same (for example, 500 W), the time required for heating the food differs depending on the type of the microwave oven. This is because uneven heating occurs depending on the position in the refrigerator. This uneven heating depends on the electric field distribution in the chamber determined by the size, shape, position of the electromagnetic wave feed port, etc. in the chamber.Therefore, different models have different heating unevenness, and as a result, the same output value But there is a difference in the required heating time.

[0005]

However, in the conventional microwave ovens for the Internet, differences in operating conditions between models have not been taken into account, and therefore, there has been a problem that the heating of foodstuffs may be excessive or insufficient. . Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic microwave oven setting system in which cooking under appropriate operating conditions is performed according to the type of microwave oven.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A microwave oven automatic setting system according to the present invention comprises a microwave oven for heating and cooking food, an ordering device for ordering according to a menu and the input of the number of people, and an ordering from the ordering device. And a home delivery instructing device that instructs a home delivery company to deliver necessary ingredients in accordance with the system.

Here, the order placement device includes an input means for inputting the menu and the number of people, and the home delivery instruction device together with the input menu, the number of people, and the model data representing the model of the microwave oven together with the identification data of the orderer. And a program transfer unit for transferring the microwave control program downloaded from the home delivery instruction device to the microwave.

In addition, the home delivery instruction device stores the type and amount of required ingredients for each type of menu, as well as a cooking procedure according to the type of menu, the type of microwave oven, and the amount of menu to be cooked. Is stored, data receiving means for receiving data sent from the ordering device, and data received by the data receiving means are input to the database means, and food home delivery instruction data according to the contents of the order. And instructs a food delivery company to deliver necessary ingredients to a food delivery company based on the data delivery instruction data created by the data creation means and the food delivery instruction data created by the data creation means. And a program for downloading the microwave control program created by the data creating means to the ordering device. And it includes a gram download means.

Further, the microwave oven includes operating condition setting means for setting operating conditions including heating power and time according to the microwave control program transferred from the ordering device.

In the automatic microwave oven setting system according to the present invention, the microwave oven and the ordering device are installed at the user's home, and the home delivery instruction device is installed as a portal site on the Internet, for example. Here, when the user inputs a desired menu and the number of people using the ordering device, the input menu, the number of people, and the model data representing the model of the microwave oven are transmitted to the home delivery instruction device together with the identification data of the user. You.

In response to this, the home delivery instruction device receives the data sent from the ordering device, inputs the received data to the database means, creates food home delivery instruction data according to the contents of the order, and prepares the food. Create a microwave control program according to the procedure. The food home delivery instruction data includes, for each order, identification data of the orderer (user), the name of the menu, the name of the food, the required quantity, and the like.
Further, the microwave control program includes a cooking procedure for each menu, and further includes data on heating power and time to be set in the microwave, and these data are included in the cooking procedure. , Is set to an appropriate value according to the type of microwave oven. Then, the home delivery instruction device instructs the home delivery company of the required ingredients based on the created home delivery data, and downloads the created microwave control program to the ordering device.

In response, the food delivery company delivers the required food to the orderer. Also, the ordering device transfers the microwave control program downloaded from the home delivery instruction device to the microwave. As a result, the operating conditions including the heating power and time are automatically set in the microwave according to the microwave control program transferred from the ordering device.

[0013] Then, the user stores the delivered food in a microwave oven and presses a cooking start button of the microwave oven. As a result, the ingredients are heated at an appropriate power for an appropriate time and cooked.

In a specific configuration, the microwave oven further comprises:
A cooking procedure display means for displaying a cooking procedure instructed by the microwave control program is provided. Thus, the user can perform heating cooking using the microwave while checking the cooking procedure.

In a specific configuration, the database means of the home delivery instruction device further stores a unit price for each food, and the home delivery instruction device further stores one unit based on the unit price stored in the database means. A means is provided for calculating the cost associated with one order. The calculated cost is collected at the time of home delivery by a food delivery company or settled by a credit card at the time of ordering by the ordering device.

In a specific configuration, the database means of the home delivery instruction device further includes, for each identification data of the orderer,
The name and address of the orderer are stored, and the home delivery instruction means of the home delivery instruction device extracts the name and address of the orderer from the database means and contacts the food delivery company. Thus, the food delivery company can know the name and address of the orderer.

[0017]

According to the automatic microwave oven setting system according to the present invention, appropriate operating conditions are set according to the type of microwave oven, so that cooking without excess or deficiency is performed.

[0018]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. A microwave oven automatic setting system according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a microwave oven (1) and an order terminal (2) installed at a user's home,
A portal site (3) installed on the Internet,
And a terminal of a food delivery company (4).

The order terminal (2) and the portal site (3) are connected to each other via the Internet (5) as shown in FIG. Similarly, portal site (3) and food delivery company (4)
Are connected to each other via the Internet. The order terminal (2) is, as shown in FIG.
And an input unit (22) such as a keyboard and a mouse, and an order processing unit.
(23) and a communication processing unit (24). The portal site (3) includes a communication processing unit (31), an order processing unit (32),
A display (33) and an input unit (3
4) and a disk device (35), and the disk device (35) has an order table, a menu table, a food table, an order table, a cooking procedure table, a customer table, a food table, and a food home delivery to be described later. A relational database consisting of instruction tables has been constructed.

In the microwave automatic setting system, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, first, a food delivery company (4) sends a plurality of menus and a cooking device control program for each menu to a portal site (3). And present. Based on this presentation, a screen for ordering as shown in FIG. 4 is created on the home page of the portal site (3). Therefore, the user accesses the portal site (3) and orders a menu using the screen shown in FIG. As a result, from the portal site (3),
A food delivery instruction is issued to (4), and a control program corresponding to the orderer's microwave oven model is downloaded from the portal site (3) to the order terminal (2). Thereafter, the food delivery company (4) delivers the food (semi-cooked product) to the orderer. Finally, the orderer pays the price to the food delivery company (4).

[0021] Therefore, if the orderer stores the delivered food in the microwave oven and presses the cooking start button, the cooking is automatically performed.

As shown in FIG. 4, the screen displayed on the ordering terminal (2) by connecting to the portal site (3)
An input field for a menu number representing a menu, an input field for the number of people, an input field for the model of the microwave oven used, and an orderer number
An input field for (identification data) and an input field for a delivery date are provided, and a menu addition button, a menu confirmation button, a food order button, a microwave control program download button, and an end button are provided.

FIG. 5 shows the contents of the database constructed in the disk device (35) of the portal site (3) and the relationship between the tables. As described above, when the user inputs necessary data on the order screen, the order table registers the order number, the order date, the orderer number, and the delivery date. In the order detail table, an order number, a menu number, a microwave code, and the number of people are registered. The order number registered in the order details table is associated with the order number registered in the order table.

An orderer number, name, telephone number, and address are registered in the customer table in advance. The orderer number registered in the customer table is input as the orderer number in the order table. Appropriate cooking procedures are registered in advance in the cooking procedure table for each combination of the menu number, the microwave code, and the amount (serving). The cooking procedure includes, in addition to the cooking procedure to be performed by the user, the heating power and time to be set in the microwave oven. It is set to an appropriate value in consideration of the model (microwave oven code). The cooking procedure of the cooking procedure table is specified by the operation of the composite key for designating the menu number, the microwave code, and the amount (serving) of the order details table, and these composite keys are included in the order details table. It is associated with the registered menu number, microwave code and number of people.

In the menu table, a menu number and a menu name are registered in advance for each of a plurality of menus. In addition, in the food description table, a menu number, a food number, and the number of units of the food required for one menu are registered in advance for all the foods required for each menu. Further, in the food material table, a food material number, a food material name, a quantity of one unit, and a unit price are registered in advance for all the food materials. Note that the menu numbers in the menu table and the food description table are associated with the menu numbers in the order specification table, and the food numbers in the food table are associated with the food numbers in the food description table.

When the user inputs data on the ordering screen shown in FIG. 4, the data is stored in the order table and the order detail table shown in FIG.

Then, the menu table and the ingredient list are referred to based on the menu number in the order list, and the table is further referred to based on the ingredient number in the ingredient list. As a result, a food home delivery instruction table as shown in FIG. 6 is created in the database. The food delivery instruction table stores, for each order number, a delivery date, a customer name, a menu name, a food name, the required number of units, and an amount. Based on the food delivery instruction table, as shown in FIG. The home delivery company (4) is instructed to deliver the ingredients.

The cooking procedure table is referred to based on the menu number, the microwave code, and the number of persons in the order details table shown in FIG. 5, and an appropriate cooking procedure according to the type of the menu, the type of the microwave oven, and the amount of the menu. Is specified, and a microwave control program representing the cooking procedure is created. FIG.
Is XML (eXtensible Markup Language), a general-purpose data description language that allows users to define tags
3 shows an example of a microwave control program created using the above-mentioned method. According to such a microwave oven control program, analysis in the microwave oven (1) described later becomes easy.

The microwave control program thus created is downloaded to the order terminal (2) by pressing a microwave control program download button displayed on the order terminal (2) shown in FIG. Further, it is transferred from the order terminal (2) to the microwave oven (1). The microwave oven (1) analyzes the character information included in the transferred microwave oven control program and determines the cooking procedure in the microwave oven.
In addition to displaying on the display of (1), the heating power and time are automatically set.

FIGS. 8 and 9 show the procedure executed by the portal site (3). First, in step S1,
Enter customer information into the customer table in the database. In step S2, the menu and the cooking appliance (microwave oven) control program provided by the food delivery company are input to the cooking procedure table, menu table, food description table, and food table of the database.

Next, in step S3, it is determined whether or not access has been made by the orderer. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S4, where the order screen is transferred to the order terminal and input is accepted. Subsequently, in step S5, it is determined whether or not any button has been pressed. If the determination is yes, the process proceeds to step S6 in FIG. 9 to determine whether or not the menu addition button has been pressed. Step S
If the result of the determination in step 6 is YES, the process proceeds to step S7, where an additional ordering screen is transferred to the ordering terminal, and after receiving an input, the process returns to step S5. If it is determined NO in step S6, the process proceeds to step S8, and it is determined whether the menu determination button is pressed.

If the answer is affirmative in step S8, the process proceeds to step S9, where the data input to the order screen is input to the order table and order detail table of the database, and then the process returns to step S5. When it is determined NO in step S8, the process proceeds to step S10, and it is determined whether the food order button is pressed. When the determination is YES in step S10, the process proceeds to step S11, and a food delivery instruction table according to the order of the orderer is created, and then the process returns to step S5. When it is determined NO in step S10, the process proceeds to step S12, and it is determined whether the microwave control program download button is pressed. When the determination is YES in step S12, the process proceeds to step S13, and the cooking procedure specified by the composite key including the three fields of the menu number, the microwave code, and the number of persons in the order details table is selected from the cooking procedure table. After transferring (downloading) this to the ordering terminal, the process returns to step S5. When it is determined NO in step S12 and the end button is pressed, the process returns to step S3 and waits for access from the orderer.

FIG. 10 and FIG.
11 shows a specific procedure for creating a food delivery instruction table according to the order of the orderer, and the process ends from step S21 in FIG. 10 to step S32 in FIG. The process shown, that is, the process performed for each order number in the order table is executed. First, step S22
Then, the delivery date is extracted from the order table, and is input in the delivery date column of the ingredients home delivery instruction table. In step S23, the order table and the customer table are linked by the orderer number to extract the name, and the name is input to the customer name column of the food delivery instruction table.

Thereafter, the processing shown in steps S24 to S31, that is, the processing performed for each menu number on the record of the order detail table having the order number matching the order number in the order table, with the switching of the order number as an end condition. Is executed. First, in step S25, the order details table and the menu table are linked by a menu number to extract a menu name, and input into the menu column of the food delivery instruction table.

Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 11, the processing of steps S26 to S30 is performed with the switching of the menu number as an ending condition, that is, the record having the menu number of the food description table that matches the menu number of the order description table is selected. The process performed for each number is executed. That is, in step S27, the ingredient list and the ingredient table are linked by the ingredient number to extract the ingredient name, and input to the ingredient name column of the ingredient delivery instruction table. Next, in step S28, a value obtained by multiplying the number of persons in the order detail table by the number of serving units in the food description table is input to the required unit number column of the food delivery instruction table. Then, step S2
At 9, a value obtained by multiplying the required number of units in the foodstuff delivery instruction table by the unit price of the foodstuff table is entered in the price column of the foodstuff delivery instruction table.

According to the above procedure, an order table, an order details table,
A food delivery instruction table is created based on the customer table, the menu table, the food description table, and the food table.

FIGS. 12 and 13 show procedures executed by the ordering terminal (2). First, in step S41 of FIG. 12, the ordering terminal is connected to the portal site. Subsequently, in step S42, the order screen transmitted from the portal site is displayed, and an input to each item is received.

Next, in step S43, it is determined whether or not the menu addition button has been pressed. If the determination is no, the process proceeds to step S44 to determine whether or not the food order button has been pressed. . If the determination is NO here, it is further determined in step S45 whether or not the microwave control program download button has been pressed. When it is determined NO in step S45, step S46 is performed.
Then, it is determined whether the end button has been pressed.
If the determination is no, the process returns to step S43, and the same determination is repeated.

When the determination is YES in step S43, the process shifts to step S48 in FIG. 13 to transfer that the menu addition button has been pressed to the portal site, and further transmitted from the portal site in step S49. After the order screen is displayed and the input to each item is received, the process returns to step S43 in FIG. When it is determined to be YES in step S44, the process proceeds to step S50 in FIG. 13, and transfers to the portal site that the food order button has been pressed, and then returns to step S43 in FIG.

If the determination in step S45 is YES, the process shifts to step S51 in FIG. 13 to transfer to the portal site that the download button for the microwave oven control program has been pressed. Subsequently, in step S52, it is determined whether or not the microwave control program has been downloaded from the portal site. If the determination is yes, the microwave control program is transferred to the microwave in step S53. Thereafter, it is determined in step S54 whether or not the microwave control program has been transferred to the microwave. If the determination is yes, the process returns to step S43 in FIG. Finally, when the determination is YES in step S46 in FIG. 12, the process proceeds to step S47.
Terminate the connection with the portal site.

FIG. 14 shows a procedure executed by the microwave oven. First, in step S61, it is determined whether or not the microwave oven control program has been transferred from the order terminal. If the determination here is no, the process proceeds to step S64. When the determination is YES in step S61, the process proceeds to step S62 to receive the cooking procedure and store it in the memory. Subsequently, in step S63, the completion of the transfer is notified to the ordering terminal, and the process proceeds to step S64. In step S64, it is determined whether or not the cooking start button has been pressed. If the determination is no, the process returns to step S61. When the determination is YES in step S64, the process proceeds to step S65, where the cooking procedure is taken out from the memory, analyzed, and based on the result, the cooking is executed. Then, the process returns to step S61.

According to the automatic microwave oven setting system, an appropriate heating power and an appropriate heating time are automatically set according to the type of the microwave oven.

The configuration of each part of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the technical scope described in the claims. For example, in the cooking procedure table shown in FIG. 5, a cooking procedure is specified by inputting a model, but if a method of specifying a cooking procedure by inputting a maker and a model is adopted, a plurality of models of a plurality of manufacturers can be used. Automatic setting of a microwave oven can be performed as an object.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a microwave automatic setting system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an order terminal and a portal site.

FIG. 3 is a time chart showing a procedure in the automatic microwave oven setting system according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an order screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a database.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a food delivery instruction table.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a microwave oven control program.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the first half of a procedure executed by the portal site.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the latter half of the procedure executed by the portal site.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating the first half of a procedure for creating a food delivery instruction table.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the second half of the procedure for creating a food delivery instruction table.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a first half of a procedure executed by the ordering terminal.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the latter half of the procedure executed by the ordering terminal.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a procedure executed by the microwave oven.

[Explanation of symbols]

 (1) Microwave oven (2) Order terminal (3) Portal site (4) Food delivery company (5) Internet

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A microwave oven for cooking foodstuffs,
A system in which an order placement device that places an order according to an input of a menu and the number of people, and a home delivery instruction device that instructs a food delivery company to deliver necessary ingredients according to an order from the order placement device are communicably connected to each other. The order placement device includes an input unit for inputting a desired menu and a desired number of people, and a model of the input menu and the number of people, and model data representing a model of a microwave oven, together with identification data of the orderer, and a home delivery instruction device. Data transmission means for transmitting to
A program transfer means for transferring the microwave control program downloaded from the home delivery instruction device to the microwave oven. The home delivery instruction device stores, for each type of menu, the type and amount of the required ingredients and stores the menu. Type, the type of microwave oven, and database means for storing cooking procedures according to the size of the menu to be cooked, and data receiving means for receiving data sent from the ordering device,
Data creation means for inputting the data received by the data reception means into the database means to create food home delivery instruction data according to the order content and creating a microwave control program according to the cooking procedure; and data creation means. Delivery instruction means for instructing a food delivery company to deliver necessary ingredients based on the food delivery instruction data created by the program, and a program download for downloading the microwave control program created by the data creation means to the ordering device. A microwave oven comprising operating condition setting means for setting operating conditions including heating power and time according to a microwave control program transferred from the ordering device. Automatic range setting system. 2. The microwave oven automatic setting system according to claim 1, wherein the microwave oven further comprises cooking procedure display means for displaying a cooking procedure instructed by the microwave control program. 3. The database means of the home delivery instruction device further stores a unit price for each foodstuff, and the home delivery instruction device further includes a cost associated with one order based on the unit price stored in the database means. The microwave oven automatic setting system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising means for calculating (1). 4. The database means of the delivery instruction device further stores, for each orderer's identification data, the name and address of the orderer.
4. The automatic microwave oven setting system according to claim 1, wherein the name and address of the orderer are extracted from the database means and contacted with a food delivery company.