JP2002089852A - Heating cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily perform additional cooking without performing the work of starting cooking action from the first by pressing a cooking start SW again, etc., when the user wants to perform additional cooking due to thin baking color, etc., after finish of cooking. SOLUTION: A heating cooker which can adjust the baking to the user's favorite degree of baking, by enabling it to cook food again while turning on and off the heater with a specified current application percentage, being provided with an additional baking SW 8 (the second external input means) in addition to first external input means 6 and 7 to select and start a cooking menu, and being arranged so that the user may operate the above switch after finish of cooking.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cooking device used in ordinary households.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 6, a conventional heating cooker has a heating chamber 2 in which an object to be heated is housed in a main body 1 for cooking.
And a heater 3 attached to the heating chamber 2 and a grill 4 on which an object to be heated is placed.
And an external input means for starting cooking, an energization control unit 9 for energizing the heater, and a microcomputer 10.

[0003]

However, in the conventional configuration, when it is desired to perform additional cooking, such as when the baking color is light, after the cooking is completed, the cooking operation cannot be started from the beginning by pressing the cooking start SW again, but the user is satisfied. Was difficult to get.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention operates a second external input means after cooking to turn on and off a heater at a predetermined energization rate. When the cooking is to be continuously extended, and when it is desired to perform additional cooking at the end of cooking, for example, when the baking color is light, it is possible to easily and continuously extend the optimal cooking operation by operating the second external input means.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The invention according to a first aspect of the present invention is directed to a heating chamber for storing and heating an object to be heated, a heater mounted in the heating chamber, an energization control unit for controlling energization of the heater, and cooking. And a second external input means capable of performing additional cooking while turning the heater on and off at a predetermined energization rate after the cooking is completed. Therefore, the cooking result can be easily corrected by operating the second external input means after the user checks the cooking result based on the color of the object to be heated.
Alternatively, it is possible to correct a delicate cooking result.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in particular, by accepting the additional cooking only during the first predetermined time after the completion of the cooking, it is possible to prevent a problem of the cooking result due to the additional cooking from occurring.

[0007] The invention according to claim 3 is provided with a notifying means for notifying that the additional cooking can be received during the first predetermined time, so that the timing at which the additional cooking can be performed is clear to the user. To improve the usability.

[0010] The invention according to claim 4 is that the additional cooking operation is automatically terminated after the second predetermined time has elapsed from the start of the additional cooking, whereby the additional cooking is automatically terminated and the cooking operation is simplified. In addition, it is possible to prevent the cooking result from becoming defective.

According to the invention of claim 5, in particular, the additional cooking is performed only while the second external input means is being operated.
The user can correct the cooking result according to the user's preference while watching the workmanship of the object to be heated.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in particular, the heating power at the time of additional cooking is made variable according to the cooking menu by changing the power supply rate of the heater at the time of additional cooking according to the cooking menu before performing additional cooking. For example, large-capacity products such as frozen gratin increase the heater's duty and increase the heat power, while small-capacity products such as warming bread lower the heater's power ratio and reduce the heat. Can be set and additional cooking suitable for the cooking menu can be done.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. A heating chamber 2 is provided in a main body 1, a heater 3 and a grill 4 for placing an object to be heated are arranged in the heating chamber 2, and a power switch 5 for turning on and off a power supply 5 disposed outside the main body 1 is provided. , 6 and 7 are first external input means, and 6 is a normal temperature toast cooking SW for starting cooking of the normal temperature toast;
7 is a frozen toast cooking S to start the cooking of the frozen toast
W. Reference numeral 8 denotes a post-baking SW for restarting cooking while turning on / off the heater at a predetermined energization rate after the completion of cooking by the second external input means. Reference numeral 9 denotes an energization control unit for controlling the energization of the heater 3. Reference numeral 10 denotes a microcomputer which sends a signal to the energization control unit 9 according to a preset cooking program based on a signal from an external input means, and cooks while turning the heater 3 on / off. Is performed.

The operation when frozen toast cooking is performed will be described with reference to FIG. When the frozen toast cooking SW 7 is pressed, a signal from the frozen toast cooking SW 7 is input to the microcomputer 10. The microcomputer 10 performs automatic cooking according to the frozen toast cooking program stored in the ROM. In step 1, in the step of raising the temperature in the heating chamber, the heater is continuously energized for a predetermined time T1. Step 2 is a step of performing thawing, and a first predetermined energization rate (the heater is turned on for 14 seconds and the heater is turned off for 11 seconds at a cycle of 25 seconds) for a predetermined time T2: energization rate 56%
Defrost the frozen bread while turning the heater on and off with. Step 3 is a baking step in which the heater is turned on at a second predetermined energization rate (the heater is turned on for 20 seconds at a cycle of 25 seconds and the heater is turned off for 5 seconds: energization rate of 80%) for a predetermined time T3.・ Grill the surface of the frozen bread while turning it off.

Referring to FIG. 3, the operation when the reprint SW8 is pressed will be described. Immediately after the above-mentioned frozen toast cooking is completed or after a while, when the post-baking SW8 is pressed, the predetermined energization rate (the heater is turned on for 5 seconds in a cycle of 10 seconds and the heater is turned off for 5 seconds. (50%) to extend the cooking while turning the heater on and off (in the present embodiment, the heater power ratio at the time of cooking extension is lower than the heater power ratio immediately before the end of the frozen toast).

[0015] As described above, the frozen toast cooking process 1
After all the steps of ~ 3 are completed, the user
If you feel that it is too thin for the desired one, you can use the tail grill SW
By pressing 8, additional heating can be performed and the baking color can be darkened. Also, since the duty ratio of the heater at the time of additional heating was made smaller than the duty ratio before the end of heating,
Subtle adjustment of the baking color or adjustment of the inside baking condition becomes possible. In this embodiment, the frozen toast cooking has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the same effects as described above can be obtained for other cooking.

With the same configuration as in the first embodiment, additional cooking by the supplementary grill SW8 is received within a predetermined time from the end of cooking, and the reception is not performed after the predetermined time has elapsed. It is possible to prevent the state of the object to be heated from being changed by the residual heat or the temperature from decreasing due to the elapse of time, and the cooking state from being changed, so that the desired cooking result cannot be obtained by the additional cooking.

In the same configuration as in the first embodiment, immediately after the cooking is completed, or when a certain time has elapsed, the cooking is performed while the heater is turned on and off at a predetermined energization rate only while the reheating switch SW8 is pressed. If you try to extend
The user can obtain a baked color according to the user's preference while watching the workmanship of the object to be heated.

Further, in the same configuration as in the first embodiment, by changing the duty ratio of the heater at the time of additional cooking according to the cooking menu before the additional grilling SW8 is pressed, an appropriate value is selected according to the type and state of the object to be heated. It can be burnt.

Also, with the same configuration as in the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, immediately after the cooking is completed or after a while, when the post-burning SW8 is pressed, the heater is turned on at a predetermined energization rate. If additional cooking is performed while the power is turned off, and additional cooking is automatically terminated when a predetermined time T4 elapses after the additional grilling SW8 is pressed, the correction work of the cooking result such as the adjustment of the baking color is automated and simplified. Is what is done.

(Embodiment 2) As shown in FIG. 5, the configuration of Embodiment 2 is obtained by adding an additional burn-in acceptance LED 11 to the configuration of Embodiment 1. As described above, during the predetermined time during which the additional cooking is received, the user can be clearly notified of the possibility of the additional cooking by notifying that the additional cooking can be received by the additional-bake receiving LED 11, thereby improving the usability.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, after cooking is completed, additional cooking is performed according to the result of the object to be heated, the result of the cooking is corrected, and the object to be heated is made more desirable to the user. Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a heating cooker according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the cooking device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory view of a heating cooker according to another embodiment of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of the heating cooker according to another embodiment of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram illustrating a heating cooker according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram showing a conventional heating cooker.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Heating chamber 3 Heater 4 Grill net 5 Power switch 6 Room temperature toast cooking SW (1st external input means) 7 Frozen toast cooking SW (1st external input means) 8 Refining SW (2nd external input means) 11) Post-bake acceptance LED (notification means)

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A heating chamber for storing and heating an object to be heated, a heater mounted in the heating chamber, an energization control unit for controlling energization of the heater, and a first external input means for starting cooking And a heating cooker comprising second external input means for performing additional cooking while turning on and off the heater at a predetermined energization rate after completion of cooking. 2. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein the second external input means accepts additional cooking only during a first predetermined time after the completion of cooking. 3. The heating cooker according to claim 2, further comprising a notification unit that notifies that additional cooking can be received during the first predetermined time. 4. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein the additional cooking is automatically terminated after a lapse of a second predetermined time from the start of the additional cooking. 5. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein additional cooking is performed only while the second external input means is operated. 6. The cooking device according to claim 1, wherein the power supply rate of the heater during the additional cooking is changed according to a cooking menu before the additional cooking is performed.