JP2017167020A - Measuring cup - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measuring cup which can measure various quantities of rice easily.SOLUTION: The measuring cup according to the present invention includes a bottomed cylindrical measuring unit. The measuring unit includes: a bottomed cylindrical part; a cylindrical part having one end serving as an open part of the measuring unit and having the other end connected to the bottomed cylindrical part; and a connection part, connecting the cylindrical part and an opening part of the bottomed cylindrical part at an open side of the bottomed cylindrical part. The opening part of the bottomed cylindrical part is located on the inner side of the cylindrical part when viewed from the opening part side. The connection part forms a stage surface between the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical part and the inner peripheral surface of the bottomed cylindrical surface.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a structure of a measuring cup for measuring the amount of rice cooking raw material such as rice cooked with a rice cooker.

  Conventionally, there are measuring cups for measuring rice to be cooked with a rice cooker. In this measuring cup, place the measuring cup in the rice bottle and scoop up the rice, and the rice protruding from the upper end of the measuring cup is almost flat (horizontally) aligned with the upper end without shaking the measuring cup. It is used to measure the amount of rice that you want to cook. At the time of cooking, if the ratio of the amount of rice and the amount of water changes, the quality of rice at the time of cooking will change greatly. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately measure the amount of rice during cooking. In Patent Document 1, one rice is weighed by scraping the rice at the upper end of the measuring cup.

  Recently, an increasing number of users cook rice by adjusting the amount of rice in 0.5 go units (for example, 0.5 go, 1.5 go, 2.5 go ...). If you want to adjust the amount of rice by 0.5 unit using the above measuring cup, measure the amount of rice by the scale, or measure or cup with the 0.5 unit scale printed or engraved on it. Is used to measure the amount of rice.

JP 2011-106865 A

  In the measuring cup as described above, when measuring rice cooking ingredients such as rice, it cannot be scraped off according to the upper end of the measuring cup, so there was no choice but to match the scale or the scale provided on the measuring cup. . Therefore, in order to match | combine a scale line and rice cooking raw materials, such as rice, correctly, it is necessary to visually recognize from the horizontal direction of a measuring cup. Alternatively, when viewing the measuring cup from above, the user has to check whether the scale line and the rice cooking material such as rice are aligned over the entire circumference of the cup by turning the measuring cup.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and provides a measuring cup capable of easily measuring rice cooking ingredients such as rice even when the measuring cup is not fully cut. With the goal.

  The measuring cup of the rice cooker according to the present invention includes a bottomed cylindrical measuring part, the measuring part is a bottomed cylindrical part, and one end is an opening of the measuring part, and the other end is the above A cylinder portion connected to the bottomed cylinder portion; and a connection portion connecting the opening of the bottomed cylinder portion on the open side of the bottomed cylinder portion and the cylinder portion, and the bottomed cylinder portion. The opening is located inside the cylindrical portion when viewed from the opening side, and the connecting portion has a step surface between the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion and the inner peripheral surface of the bottomed cylindrical portion. Form.

  According to the present invention, when measuring a rice cooking raw material such as rice, the weighing unit has a stepped surface, so that the weighing can be performed with the stepped surface as a mark. Rice cooking ingredients such as rice can be easily weighed.

It is a perspective view which shows the measuring cup 100 which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of the measuring cup shown in FIG. It is a schematic diagram when measuring rice of 0.5 go with the measuring cup of FIG. It is a perspective view of the measuring cup which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is BB sectional drawing of the measuring cup of FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In each of the drawings, the parts denoted by the same reference numerals represent the same or corresponding parts, which are common throughout the entire specification. Moreover, the form of the component which appears in the whole specification is an illustration to the last, and this invention is not limited only to description in a specification. In particular, the combination of the components is not limited to the combination in each embodiment, and the components described in the other embodiments can be applied to another embodiment. Further, when there is no need to particularly distinguish or specify a plurality of parts that are distinguished by subscripts, the subscripts may be omitted and described. In the drawings, the size relationship of each component may be different from the actual one.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a measuring cup 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of the measuring cup 100 shown in FIG.
The measuring cup 100 according to the first embodiment includes a measuring unit 10 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The measuring unit 10 includes two parts, a cylinder part 11 and a bottomed cylinder part 12. The cylindrical portion 11 has one end serving as the opening 15 of the measuring unit 10, and the other end coupled to the bottomed cylindrical portion opening 13 that is the open end of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12. ing. Further, the bottomed tube portion opening 13 of the bottomed tube portion 12 is smaller in diameter than the tube portion 11. In addition, although the cylinder part 11 and the bottomed cylinder part 12 of the measuring cup 100 of Embodiment 1 are circular when viewed from the opening side, the shape is not limited thereto, and may be rectangular or other shapes. The bottomed tubular portion opening 13 is located inside the tubular portion 11 when viewed from the opening 15 side of the measuring cup 100.

  The connecting portion 16 between the cylindrical portion 11 and the bottomed cylindrical portion 12 continuously extends from the edge of the bottomed cylindrical portion opening 13 of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12 to the cylindrical portion 11 having a larger diameter than the bottomed cylindrical portion 12. Are connected. Further, the connecting part 16 has a step surface 17 facing the opening 15 side of the measuring part 10. The step surface 17 is between the bottom portion 14 of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12 and the opening 15 of the measuring portion 10, and the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 11 and the inner peripheral surface of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12 that form the measuring portion 10. A step surface between the two is formed. The step surface 17 may be parallel to the bottom portion 14. In this case, when the measuring cup 100 is placed on a flat surface with the bottom 14 of the measuring cup 100 facing down, the step surface 17 is substantially horizontal.

  When measuring rice with the measuring cup 100 configured as described above, if the rice is filled between the bottom 14 and the opening 15 of the measuring unit 10, and the rice is scraped off by opening the opening 15, for example, Can measure a single rice.

  FIG. 3 is a schematic view when measuring 0.5 rice with the measuring cup 100 of FIG. 2. In FIG. 3, rice is contained in the measuring cup 100 from the bottom 14 to the position of the stepped surface 17, and only the rice grains 21 near the surface are displayed, and the description of the rice grains 21 on the bottom 14 side is omitted. .

  When the rice is filled between the bottom 14 of the measuring cup 100 and the stepped surface 17 of the connecting portion 16, 0.5 rice can be measured. At this time, the amount of rice is adjusted so that the surface 20 of the rice accumulated in the weighing unit 10 is aligned with the stepped surface 17. In the case where 0.5 or more rice is accumulated in the measuring unit 10, the surface 20 of the rice is above the step surface 17. If the rice is above the stepped surface 17, the rice grains will be placed on the stepped surface 17, and it can be easily determined that there is a lot of rice when viewed from the top of the measuring cup 100 or from the side. Although the step surface 17 is formed substantially horizontally in the first embodiment, it may be inclined as long as it can be confirmed whether rice grains are placed on the step surface 17 when there is a lot of rice during weighing. .

Embodiment 2. FIG.
In the first embodiment, there is one measuring unit 10, but in the second embodiment, a measuring cup 200 in the case of including two measuring units 10a and 10b will be described. As for each part of the measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment, components having the same function in each drawing are denoted by the same reference numerals as those used in the description of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a measuring cup 200 according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the measuring cup 200 of FIG. 4 taken along the line BB.
In the measuring cup 200 in the second embodiment, the openings 15a and 15b of the two measuring portions 10a and 10b are opened in opposite directions. The measuring part 10a is formed of a cylindrical part 11a and a bottomed cylindrical part 12a. Moreover, the opening part 15b is opened in the reverse direction with respect to the measurement part 10a. The measuring part 10b is also formed of a cylindrical part 11b and a bottomed cylindrical part 12b. And opening part 15a, 15b and bottom part 14a, 14b are arrange | positioned along with one direction. Further, the bottom portions 14a and 14b are located between the opening 15a and the opening 15b.

  In the weighing units 10a and 10b according to the second embodiment, as in the first embodiment, one end portion of the cylindrical portion 11a becomes the opening portion 15a of the weighing portion 10a, and the other end portion of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12a. It is connected to the bottomed cylinder part opening part 13a which is an edge part of the open side. Moreover, the bottomed cylinder part opening part 13a of the bottomed cylinder part 12a is smaller in diameter than the cylinder part 11a. The measuring part 10b has a bottomed cylindrical part opening part in which one end part of the cylindrical part 11b becomes an opening part 15b of the measuring part 10b and the other end part is an end part on the open side of the bottomed cylindrical part 12b. 13b. Moreover, the bottomed cylinder part opening part 13b of the bottomed cylinder part 12b has a diameter smaller than the cylinder part 11b. The cylindrical portion 11 and the bottomed cylindrical portion 12 of the measuring cup 200 of the second embodiment are rectangular when viewed from the opening side, but are not limited to this, and may be circular or other shapes. The bottomed cylindrical portion openings 13a and 13b are located inside the cylindrical portions 11a and 11b when viewed from the respective openings 15a and 15b side of the measuring cup 200.

  The measuring unit 10a and the measuring unit 10b are arranged adjacent to each other. The bottomed tube portion 12 a and the bottomed tube portion 12 b are arranged in the horizontal direction in FIG. 5 and are separated by a partition wall portion 42.

  The cylinder part 11a of the measuring part 10a is located above the bottomed cylinder part 12a of the measuring part 10a and the bottomed cylinder part 12b of the measuring part 10b in FIG. The cylinder part 11a is connected to the bottomed cylinder part 12a, and is separated by the bottomed cylinder part 12b and the bottom part 14b of the measuring part 10b.

  Moreover, the cylinder part 11b of the measurement part 10b is located under the bottomed cylinder part 12b of the measurement part 10b and the bottomed cylinder part 12a of the measurement part 10a in FIG. The cylinder part 11b is connected with the bottomed cylinder part 12b, and is separated by the bottomed cylinder part 12a and the bottom part 14a of the measuring part 10a.

  Although the bottom part 14b has separated the cylinder part 11a and the bottomed cylinder part 12b, it is the connection part 16a which connects the cylinder part 11a and the bottomed cylinder part 12a simultaneously. The connection part 16a has the level | step difference surface 17a which faces the opening part 15a side of the measurement part 10a.

  The bottom portion 14a separates the cylindrical portion 11b and the bottomed cylindrical portion 12a, but at the same time serves as a connecting portion 16b that connects the cylindrical portion 11b and the bottomed cylindrical portion 12b. The connection part 16b has the level | step difference surface 17b which faces the opening part 15b side of the measurement part 10b.

  The bottom portion 14a of the weighing unit 10a has a surface facing the opening 15a side of one weighing unit 10a as the bottom surface 18a of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12a and a surface facing the opening 15b side of the other weighing unit 10b. Is the step surface 17b of the measuring portion 10b.

  Further, the bottom portion 14b of the weighing unit 10b is such that the surface facing the opening 15b side of the other weighing unit 10b is the bottom surface 18b of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12b and faces the opening 15a side of one weighing unit 10a. The surface that is present is the stepped surface 17a of the measuring portion 10a.

  The step surface 17 of one measuring unit 10 according to the second embodiment is formed in parallel with the end surface of the opening 15 of the other measuring unit 10, and when the measuring cup 200 is placed on a plane, it is substantially It is configured to be horizontal.

  The weighing unit 10a and the weighing unit 10b have different volumes. For example, the weighing unit 10a has a volume capable of weighing 1 go of rice and is set to 180 ml. For example, the weighing unit 10b has a volume capable of weighing 0.5 go of rice, It is set to 90 ml. Therefore, when rice is scooped into each weighing unit 10 and the rice is rubbed through the opening 15, 1 or 0.5 rice can be accurately weighed.

  Similarly to the first embodiment, in each weighing unit 10, when rice is filled and weighed from the bottom 14 to the stepped surface 17 of the connecting portion 16, an amount of rice different from that measured by the above-mentioned scraping is obtained. Can be weighed. For example, when cooking unwashed rice, if the rice is cooked with the same amount of water as normal rice, the unwashed rice will not have enough water. Therefore, when cooking with the same amount of water as normal rice, it is necessary to reduce the amount of rice to be weighed by scraping the measuring cup 200 and measure it.

  In the second embodiment, in the measuring cup 200, the volume of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12a is set to 170 ml, for example. Therefore, when measuring unwashed rice, the rice is weighed using the stepped surface 17a as a mark. Thereby, it is possible to measure an appropriate amount of non-washed rice with respect to the amount of water required for normal rice. In the measuring cup 200, the volume of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12b is set to 85 ml, for example. Therefore, when measuring unwashed rice, the rice is weighed using the stepped surface 17b as a mark. Thereby, it is possible to measure an appropriate amount of non-washed rice with respect to the amount of water required for normal rice. Specifically, the rice is scooped into each weighing unit 10, and it is determined whether or not the amount of rice is larger than the target amount depending on whether the rice is placed on the stepped surface 17 of the connecting portion 16. . By measuring in this way, it can be easily determined that there is a lot of rice when viewed from above or from the side of the measuring cup 100.

  Since the measuring cup 200 has the above-described structure, not only can the two different types of rice be measured by weighing the two measuring portions 10a and 10b, but the rice can be prevented from being placed on the step surfaces 17a and 17b. By measuring the amount of rice, two different types of rice can be measured. In the measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment, the amount of four different types of rice, that is, 1 go of normal rice, 0.5 go, 1 go of washed rice, and 0.5 go is measured by one measuring cup 200. Can do. Therefore, there is an advantage that the user does not need to prepare different measuring cups according to the amount of rice to be weighed and the type of rice.

(Effect of embodiment)
(1) According to the measuring cups 100 and 200 according to Embodiments 1 and 2, the bottomed cylindrical measuring unit 10 is provided. The weighing unit 10 includes a bottomed cylindrical part 12, a cylindrical part 11 whose one end is an opening 15 of the weighing part 10 and the other end is connected to the bottomed cylindrical part 12, and a bottomed cylindrical part 12 A connecting portion 16 that connects the open bottomed cylindrical portion opening 13 and the cylindrical portion 11 to each other. The bottomed tubular portion opening 13 is located inside the tubular portion 11 when viewed from the opening 15 side. The connecting portion 16 forms a step surface 17 between the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 11 and the inner peripheral surface of the bottomed cylindrical portion 12.
By being configured in this way, the measuring cups 100 and 200 can measure in two ways: when the rice is scraped and measured at the end face of the opening 15, and when measuring according to the stepped surface 17. Therefore, different amounts of rice can be accurately and easily measured with one measuring cup 100, 200.

(2) According to the measuring cups 100 and 200 according to the first and second embodiments, the step surfaces 17a and 17b and the bottom portions 14a and 14b of the measuring units 10a and 10b are arranged in parallel.
By being configured in this way, the measuring cups 100 and 200 can easily confirm the state in which the rice grains 21 are placed on the stepped surface 17 when measuring rice in accordance with the stepped surface 17 of the measuring unit 10. The accuracy of weighing can be improved.

(3) The measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment has the two measuring units 10a and 10b arranged adjacent to each other. The openings 15a and 15b of the two weighing units 10a and 10b are opened in directions opposite to each other. The connecting portion 16 of one weighing unit 10 forms the bottom portion 14 of the bottomed tube portion 12 of the other weighing unit 10.
By being configured in this way, the measuring cup 200 is integrally provided with different measuring units 10a and 10b, realizing accurate and simple weighing of different amounts of rice, and further, the steps of the measuring units 10a and 10b. Rice can be weighed according to the surfaces 17a, 17b.

(4) According to the measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment, the stepped surface 17 of one measuring unit 10 and the end surface of the opening 15 of the other measuring unit 10 are arranged in parallel.
By being configured in this way, the measuring cup 200 can easily confirm the state in which the rice grains 21 are placed on the stepped surface 17 when measuring the rice along the stepped surface 17 of the measuring unit 10. Accuracy can be improved.

(5) According to the measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment, the two measuring units 10a and 10b have different volumes.
(6) According to the measuring cup 200 according to the second embodiment, one of the two measuring units 10a and 10b has a half volume of the other.
By being configured in this way, the measuring cup 200 is integrally provided with different measuring units 10a and 10b, realizing accurate and simple weighing of different amounts of rice, and further, the steps of the measuring units 10a and 10b. Rice can be weighed according to the surfaces 17a, 17b. In particular, in cooking rice, it is measured in units of 1 go, but depending on the user, there are many cases where it is cooked in units of 0.5 go, so in such cases, the measuring cups 100 and 200 that are easy to use are provided. be able to.

  In the first and second embodiments, the object to be weighed by the measuring cups 100 and 200 is described as rice, but it can be used for weighing not only rice but also cereals such as wheat.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Measurement part, 10a Measurement part, 10b Measurement part, 11 cylinder part, 11a cylinder part, 11b cylinder part, 12 bottomed cylinder part, 12a bottomed cylinder part, 12b bottomed cylinder part, 13 bottomed cylinder part opening part, 13a Bottomed cylinder part opening, 13b Bottomed cylinder part opening, 14 Bottom part, 14a Bottom part, 14b Bottom part, 15 opening part, 15a Opening part, 15b Opening part, 16 connection part, 16a Connection part, 16b Connection part, 17 Step surface, 17a Step surface, 17b Step surface, 18a Bottom surface, 18b Bottom surface, 20 Surface, 21 Rice grain, 42 Partition wall, 100 Measuring cup, 200 Measuring cup.

Claims (6)

It has a bottomed cylindrical measuring part,
The weighing unit is
A bottomed tube portion;
One end portion becomes an opening portion of the measuring portion, and the other end portion is connected to the bottomed cylindrical portion,
A connecting portion that connects the bottomed tube portion opening on the open side of the bottomed tube portion and the tube portion;
The bottomed cylindrical opening is
Located inside the cylinder when viewed from the opening side,
The connecting portion is
A measuring cup that forms a step surface between an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion and an inner peripheral surface of the bottomed cylindrical portion. The step surface of the measuring part and the bottom part of the bottomed cylindrical part are:
2. Measuring cup according to claim 1, arranged in parallel. Two measuring parts arranged adjacent to each other;
The openings of the two measuring parts are
Open in opposite directions,
The connecting part of one of the measuring parts is
The measuring cup according to claim 1 or 2, which forms a bottom portion of the bottomed cylindrical portion of the other measuring portion. The step surface of one of the weighing units and the end surface of the opening of the other weighing unit are
4. Measuring cup according to claim 3, arranged in parallel. The two measuring units are
The measuring cup according to claim 3 or 4, wherein each of the volumes is different. The two measuring units are
6. A measuring cup according to claim 5, wherein one has a volume half of the other.

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