JP2010161086A - Induction heating cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an induction heating cooker which is slimmed down, even if an induction heating output is increased, and is compact. <P>SOLUTION: The cooker includes: a high heat conductor 7 of which one end is thermally joined to a heat generation portion 10 of an inverter substrate 5 and the other end is provided with a heat exchanger 9; and a ventilator 8 which sends air to the heat exchanger 9 and an induction heating coil 4. The ventilator 8 is placed in a lower part of the heat exchanger 9; the induction heating coil 4 is placed in an upper part of the heat exchanger 9; the inverter substrate 5 is placed on a side of the ventilator 8, so that the flow of air generated from the ventilator 8 is avoided; and air sent upward from the ventilator 8 is blown to the heat exchanger 9 and thereafter blown to the induction heating coil 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to an induction heating cooker used in general households and restaurants.

  In a conventional induction heating cooker, heat generated from a heating coil is collected by a high thermal conductor (heat exchanger), and a radiator is connected to the inverter circuit component to cool the heating coil or inverter circuit component. (For example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-77635 (page 2-3, FIG. 1)

In the conventional induction heating cooker, it was sufficient to use a heat exchanger with a small capacity or air-cooling the radiator because there was little heat generation from the heating coil and inverter circuit. As the heating output increases, the amount of heat generated from the heating coil and inverter circuit components increases, so a heat exchanger with a larger volume than before is required for air cooling, and the space where this heat exchanger is installed However, since it is necessary on the upper side of the inverter board, the height of the main body becomes high, and it is impossible to reduce the thickness and to make it compact.
This invention was made in order to solve the above-mentioned subject, and even if induction heating output increases, thickness reduction can be attained and a compact induction heating cooking appliance will be obtained.

An induction heating cooker according to the present invention includes an inverter board for supplying a high-frequency current to an induction heating coil, a high thermal conductor having one end thermally joined to a heat generating part of the inverter board and a heat exchanging part at the other end. A fan that blows air to the heat exchange unit and the induction heating coil, the blower is disposed below the heat exchange unit, the induction heating coil is disposed above the heat exchange unit, and the blower The inverter board is arranged on the side of the blower while avoiding the course of the generated wind, and the wind blown upward from the blower is blown to the heat exchange unit and then blown to the induction heating coil.

As described above, the induction heating cooker according to the present invention blows air to the heat exchanger and the induction heating coil by the blower and cools both, thereby eliminating the need to dispose the heat exchanger on the upper side of the inverter board. The device and the inverter board can be arranged side by side, and there is an effect that the height of the main body can be kept low.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an induction heating cooker showing Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and shows the configuration of the entire main parts excluding the glass top. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a main cooling structure inside the induction heating cooker.

1 and 2, 1 is a kitchen in which an induction heating cooker is inserted, 2 is a main body casing of the induction heating cooker inserted in the kitchen 1, and 3 is fitted on the upper surface of the main body casing 2 The frame frame 4 is an induction heating coil for induction heating an iron cooking pan (not shown), for example, 5 is an inverter board for passing a high-frequency current through the induction heating coil 4, and 6 is provided on the lower surface of the inverter board 5. A substrate cover that insulates the substrate 5 from the main body housing 2, 7 is a high heat conductor made of, for example, a heat sink, 8 is a blower, 9 is a heat exchange part located near the blower 8 in the high heat conductor 7, and 11 is Fins 10 provided on the upper surface of the heat exchanging portion 9 are switching elements that are mounted on the upper surface of the inverter substrate 5 and energize the induction heating coil 4 with a high-frequency current. Made with, the loss also increases in proportion to the high-frequency current flowing in the induction heating coil 4, the heat generation amount increases.

Next, the operation will be described.
For example, an iron cooking pan is placed on the top surface of the glass top facing the induction heating coil 4, the switching element 10 is turned on and off by the inverter substrate 5 to generate a high frequency current, and the induction heating coil 4 is energized to induce induction. The cooking pan is induction-heated by the high-frequency magnetic field from the heating coil 4 to perform cooking.

Here, since the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 generate heat when the switching element 10 generates a high-frequency current, these cooling means will be described.
The switching element 10 is detachably pressed with the high thermal conductor 7 applied with, for example, silicon grease or the like, and the heat generated from the switching element 10 is conducted to the high thermal conductor 7. On the fan 8 side of the high heat conductor 7, a heat exchanging portion 9 is formed to which fins 11 having heat radiation surfaces arranged so as to be parallel to the flow of air from the fan 8 are attached.
An air inlet (not shown) is provided on the front side of the main body housing 2, and air is taken in from the air inlet through the operation of the blower 8, and the air is heated by the high heat conductor 7 provided on the air path of the blower 8. Spray on the exchange 9. As a result, the heat exchange unit 9 heated by the heat conduction from the switching element 10 is cooled, and part of the air from the blower 8 passes through the gap provided between the induction heating coil 4 and the heat exchange unit 9. By passing, the induction heating coil 4 is also cooled.

As described above, in the first embodiment, since the induction heating coil 4 and the heat exchanging portion 9 are provided at positions close to each other, it is not necessary to provide the blower 9 for each portion, and the induction heating is performed by one blower 8. Since the air can be blown to both the coil 4 and the heat exchanging section 9, it can be efficiently cooled and the cost for installing the blower 9 can be reduced.
Further, in the inverter board 5, since many electric circuit components such as capacitors and resistors are arranged around the switching element 10 which is a heat generation source, conventionally, the heat exchanging part 9 such as a heat sink is directly connected to the switching element 10 directly. Although it was necessary to consider the interference with these electric circuit components to be disposed on the upper side, the installation location of the heat exchanging portion 9 is not limited by moving the heat through the high thermal conductor 7. Therefore, even if the volume of the heat exchange unit 9 increases with respect to the increase in the amount of heat generated, it is not necessary to consider interference with the electric circuit components, and the heat exchange unit 9 can be installed freely.
Furthermore, since the heat exchanging part 9 can be arranged horizontally with respect to the inverter board 5, the heat exchanging part 9 can be arranged inside the main body case 2 without increasing the thickness of the main body case 2. Can do.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 3 is a side view of an induction heating cooker showing a second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, the same or corresponding parts as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.
In the first embodiment, a part of the induction heating coil 4 is located above the fin 11, but in the second embodiment of the present invention, the induction heating coil 4 is not disposed above the fin 11, but behind the fin 11. The heat exchanger 9 and the induction heating coil 4 are disposed on the horizontal air path of the blower 8 to reduce the overall height of the main body housing 2 and reduce the thickness of the main body housing 2. It is intended.

Next, the operation will be described.
Since the induction heating to the cooking pot is the same as in the first embodiment, the description is omitted, and the cooling means for the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 will be described.
The induction heating coil 4 is provided on a substantially extension of the air path of the blower 8.
An air inlet (not shown) is provided on the front side of the main body housing 2, and air is taken in from the air inlet through operation of the blower 8, and the high heat conductor 7 is arranged upstream of the air path of the blower 8. The heat exchange part 9 is sprayed. Thereby, the heat exchange part 9 heated by the heat conduction from the switching element 10 is cooled. Furthermore, the air that has passed through the heat exchanging section 9 is blown to the induction heating coil 4 disposed downstream of the air path, thereby cooling the induction heating coil 4.

Here, normally, the heat resistance temperature of the wire itself of the induction heating coil 4 is about 150 ° C., and the temperature during the induction heating operation also shows a value close to 100 ° C. On the other hand, the heat-resistant temperature of the switching element 10 is 100 ° C. or less, and the temperature of the heat exchanging unit 9 is further lowered when the temperature gradient is taken into consideration. Therefore, even the cooling air after passing through the heat exchanging section 9 is low with respect to the temperature of the induction heating coil 4, and a temperature difference sufficient to cool the induction heating coil 4 can be obtained.

As described above, in the first embodiment, the induction heating coil 4 is not disposed above the fins 11 but is disposed on the substantial extension of the air path of the blower 8 above the high heat conductor 7 behind the fins 11. The switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 can be cooled, and the body housing 2 can be thinned.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
4 is an exploded perspective view of an induction heating cooker showing Embodiment 3 of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a side view of the induction heating cooker, and FIG. 6 is another induction heating cooking showing Embodiment 3 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the container, in which the same or corresponding parts as those in the first and second embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.

As in the first and second embodiments, the high thermal conductor 7 is thermally bonded to the switching element 10 of the inverter board 5 at one end and has a plurality of air passages 19 penetrating in the vertical direction at the other end. Part 9 is formed. In addition, the blower 8 is disposed below the heat exchange unit 9 so as to blow air upward, and the induction heating coil 4 is disposed above the heat exchange unit 9 with a gap.

Next, the operation will be described.
Since the induction heating to the cooking pot is the same as in the first embodiment, the description is omitted, and the cooling means for the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 will be described.
The main body housing 2 is provided with an air inlet (not shown), and the air blown from the blower 8 by the operation of the blower 8 passes through the plurality of air passages 19 of the heat exchanging unit 9, and heat from the switching element 10. The heat exchange part 9 heated by conduction is cooled. Further, the air that has passed through the plurality of air passages 19 is blown to the lower side of the induction heating coil 4 to cool the induction heating coil 4. The exhaust gas after cooling the induction heating coil 4 is discharged outside the gap between the heat exchange unit 9 and the induction heating coil 4.

  As described above, as the heat generation amount of the switching element 10 increases, the volume of the heat exchanger needs to be increased, and in order to obtain a sufficient cooling performance, it is also necessary to increase the amount of air flow. 2, when the flow of the air inside the main body by the blower 8 is horizontal, it is necessary to increase the fan diameter in order to increase the amount of air blown by the axial blower. Although this leads to an increase in the height direction of the body 2 and cannot be reduced in thickness, in the third embodiment, by configuring the configuration of the blower 8 so that the radial direction is horizontal, the height of the main body housing 2 is increased. The air volume can be increased without changing the vertical dimension, and the main body housing 2 can be thinned.

FIG. 6 shows another induction heating cooker according to the third embodiment, and instead of using the high heat conductor 7 as described above, the heat receiving portion 12 thermally joined to the switching element 10 as a heat transfer component. And the heat exchanger 13 are provided, and the heat receiving unit 12 and the heat exchanger 13 are thermally joined using the heat pipe 14. The air blown from the blower 8 cools the heat exchanger 13, and then induces the heat exchanger 13. The heating coil 4 is cooled.
In this configuration, the heat pipe 14 has a high degree of freedom in shape, and the arrangement and size of the heat exchanger 13 can be freely set as compared with the high heat conductor 7, and the heat transport amount is larger than that of the high heat conductor 7, and the transport time is also longer. Since it is short, the heat exchanger 13 can be provided at a location far from the heat source of the inverter board 5.
Moreover, since the refrigerant | coolant enclosed in the heat pipe 14 is liquids, such as water, for example, the refrigerant | coolant with which the high temperature part (evaporation part in a heat pipe) is located in a low position compared with a low temperature part is a high temperature part. It is a well-known fact that the amount of heat transport increases because it is easy to return to FIG. 6, and therefore, in FIG. 6, the heat pipe 14 is inclined and arranged so that the heat exchanger 13 is positioned higher than the heat receiving unit 12. By adopting the arrangement, it is possible to increase the amount of heat transport.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an induction heating cooker showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those of the first, second and third embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
15 is a pump, 17 is a heat receiving part suction port that communicates the heat receiving part 12 that is thermally joined to the pump 15 and the switching element 10, 18 is a heat receiving part discharge port that communicates the heat receiving part 12 and the heat exchanger 13, and 16 It is a water-cooled pipe that communicates the heat exchanger 13 and the pump 15. Cooling liquid is enclosed in the water cooling pipe 16, the heat receiving part suction port 17, and the heat receiving part discharge port 18, and each part is circulated by the pump 15.

Next, the operation will be described.
Since the induction heating to the cooking pot is the same as in the first embodiment, the description is omitted, and the cooling means for the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 will be described.
The coolant discharged from the pump 15 flows into the heat receiving portion from the heat receiving portion suction port 17, absorbs heat generated from the switching element 10, and is discharged from the heat receiving portion discharge port 18. The coolant discharged from the heat receiving portion discharge port 18 passes through the heat exchanger 13. Here, the air sent from the blower 8 by the operation of the blower 8 cools the heat exchanger 13 and the induction heating coil 4. Thereby, the coolant in the heat exchanger 13 is cooled and then sent back to the pump 15.
By repeating the circulation of the cooling liquid as described above, the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 can be cooled, and the body housing 2 can be thinned.

Further, in another embodiment of the third embodiment, the case where the heat receiving unit 12 is located below the heat exchanger 13 has been described. However, in the fourth embodiment, the heat receiving unit 12 is heated due to restrictions on component arrangement. Even if it cannot be disposed below the exchanger 13 and cannot be disposed on the upper side, the cooling liquid is circulated by the pump 15 to cool the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4. Cooling can be performed.

Embodiment 5 FIG.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view in which a part of an induction heating cooker showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention is cut out. In the figure, the same parts as those of the first, second, third, and fourth embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals. The description is omitted. The fin 11 and the heat receiving portion 12 are thermally bonded using a heat pipe 14, and the heat pipe 14 has an inclined portion 14 a, and the position of the heat pipe 14 in the fin 11 is the heat pipe 14 in the heat receiving portion 12. It is comprised so that it may become higher than the position of. 20 is a blower fan which shows the air blower which inhales air from a lower surface and discharges it from a side surface, and is arrange | positioned in the side direction of the induction heating coil 4. FIG. 21 is an induction heating coil attachment part, and has an inclined part 21a.

Next, the operation will be described.
Since the induction heating to the cooking pot is the same as in the first embodiment, the description is omitted, and the cooling means for the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 will be described.
The heat generated from the switching element 10 evaporates a coolant such as water in the heat pipe 14 of the heat receiving unit 12 to become vapor, and reaches the fin 11 at a higher position than the heat receiving unit 12 through the inclined portion 14a. The main body housing 2 is provided with an air inlet (not shown), and when the blower fan 20 is operated, air is sucked from the air inlet, and a fin 11 having a heat radiating surface arranged parallel to the air flow is attached. The steam in the heat pipe 14 of the fin 11 is cooled and condensed by passing through the heat exchanging part 9, and returns to the heat receiving part 12 at a position lower than the fin 11 via the inclined part 14 a. The switching element 10 is cooled by the latent heat of condensation generated by repeated evaporation and condensation.
Further, the air that has passed through the fins 11 from the intake port passes below the induction heating coil mounting portion 21, is sucked in from the lower surface of the blower fan 20, and is blown out from the side surface above the induction heating coil mounting portion 21. The discharged air is directed toward the induction heating coil 4 by the inclined portion 21a, hits the induction heating coil 4, and the induction heating coil 4 is cooled.

  As described above, in the fifth embodiment, the switching element 10 and the induction heating coil 4 can be cooled by the operation of the blower fan 20. Furthermore, since the blower fan 20 is arranged in the side direction of the induction heating coil 4, the main body housing 2 can be thinned.

It is a perspective view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the cooling structure of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a side view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a side view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of another induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a perspective view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a perspective view of the induction heating cooking appliance which shows Embodiment 5 of this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Kitchen, 2 Main body case, 3 Frame frame, 4 Induction heating coil, 5 Inverter board, 6 Board cover, 7 High heat conductor, 8 Blower, 9 Heat exchange part, 10 Switching element, 11 Fin, 12 Heat receiving part, 13 Heat exchanger, 14 heat pipe, 15 pump, 16 water cooling pipe, 17 heat receiving part suction port, 18 heat receiving part discharge port, 19 air path, 20 blower fan, 21 induction heating coil mounting part

Claims (1)

Inverter board for supplying high frequency current to induction heating coil, high thermal conductor having one end thermally joined to the heat generating part of the inverter board and having the heat exchanging part at the other end, the heat exchanging part and the induction heating coil A fan for blowing air to the inverter board, disposing the blower below the heat exchanging portion, disposing the induction heating coil above the heat exchanging portion, and avoiding a course of wind generated by the blower Is arranged on the side of the blower, and after the wind blown upward from the blower is blown onto the heat exchange unit, the induction heating cooker is blown onto the induction heating coil.

Images