JP2759027B2 - Rice cooker - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rice cooker used in kitchens such as restaurants, Chinese restaurants, sushi restaurants, hotels and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A rice cooker has a rice washer for washing measured rice and a plurality of rice cookers for receiving and washing rice from the rice washer, and the rice washer can be set at a position corresponding to each rice cooker. as a are those in which the rice washing unit to be relatively movable with respect to each cooker, the conventional cooking apparatus of this type, so as to retrieve the information of all the rice cooker always control apparatus, this The rice cooker was controlled by the information.

[0003]

[0005] Thus, the information of the conventional case all the cooker will not be able to determine which cooker of information to be entered simultaneously control apparatus side, in this order malfunctioning example rice There was a risk that rice was discharged from the rice washer into the rice cooker. Further, there is a problem that the circuit configuration of the control system becomes complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, the present invention is free from the possibility of malfunction and has a simple control circuit configuration.

[0005]

The technical means of the present invention for solving this technical problem is a rice washing machine 1 for washing weighed rice.
7 and a plurality of rice cookers 7 for receiving and washing rice from the rice washer 17, and setting the rice washers 17 to the respective rice cookers 7 so that the rice washers 17 can be set at positions corresponding to the respective rice cookers 7. In the rice cooker made relatively movable with respect to the rice cooker 17, only when the rice washer 17 has moved to a position corresponding to the rice cooker 7,
The point is that the information of the rice cooker 7 is taken out to the control device 35 side.

[0006]

Only when the rice washer 17 has moved to the position corresponding to the rice cooker 7, the information of the rice cooker 7 is taken out to the control device 35 side, and the information of the plurality of rice cookers 7 is simultaneously inputted to the control device 35 side. It is not possible to determine which rice cooker 7 the information belongs to.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2, the apparatus main body 1 is formed in a box shape having an internal space, and a rice storage tank 2 is provided below the main body.
The rice in the rice storage tank 2 can be conveyed to a hopper 5 with a measuring device 4 provided on the upper part of the apparatus main body 1 by a conveying device 3 provided on one side of the apparatus main body 1.

[0008] The first rice cooker 7a
And the second rice cooker 7b are arranged on the gantry 8. Each of the rice cookers 7a and 7b is mounted on a slide guide 9 on a gantry 8, and is orthogonal to the rice washing machine moving direction as shown in FIG.
It can be inserted and removed from the apparatus main body 1 in the forward direction . The rice cookers 7a and 7b have an inner pot 12 removably fitted to an outer pot 11, and an inner lid 13 is openable and closable about a pin shaft 15 as a fulcrum together with an outer lid 14, and is airtight with a hook or the like (not shown). Is a gas cooker that can be held in Hopper 5 with scale 4 and each rice cooker 7
A rail 16 is provided between a and 7b, and a rice washing machine 17 is movably provided on the rail 16. The rice washer 17 can reciprocate between the rice cookers 7a and 7b on the rail 16 by driving wheels and driven wheels (not shown), and can be stopped at positions corresponding to the rice cookers 7a and 7b. , Limit switch, timer, etc.
Is connected to the motor circuit of the rice washing machine traveling motor 18 shown in FIG. The inner pot 12 of the rice cookers 7a, 7b
Has an input port 22 with a shutter 21 at the center of the inner lid 13, and the shutter 21 is opened and closed.

The rice washing machine 17 includes a rice washing tank 25 having a funnel at the lower part thereof. In the rice washing tank 25, a stirring member 27 driven by a stirring motor 26 is provided. The opening 28 has a conical valve 29 that can be freely opened and closed.
It has. The conical valve 29 opens and closes the rice discharge opening 28 by a valve drive motor 30 shown in FIG. Since the rice washing machine 17 reciprocates, a water supply hose or the like for the rice washing machine 17 has a moving length of the rice washing machine 17,
The weighing device 4 is formed of a cut-out rotator driven by a weighing motor 32, and is provided with a rice washing tank 2 via a chute 31.
5 Put rice to be weighed.

Each of the rice cookers 7a, 7b has a signal line 41a, 41b for extracting an output signal of an inner pot detection sensor 37a, 37b described later, and a rice cooker detection sensor 3 described later.
Signal lines 42a, 4 for extracting output signals of 6a, 36b
2b, and these signal lines 41a, 41b, 42
a and 42b are connectors 33 attached to the rail 16 or the like.
a, 33b. In addition, rice washer 17
Is provided with a connector 34 detachably connected to the connectors 33a and 33b. The connector 34 moves along the rail 16 on the lower surface of the rail 16 with the movement of the rice washer 17, and the rice washer 17
a or the rice cooker 7b, the connector 34 is connected to the connector 3 of the rice cooker 7a or the rice cooker 7b.
Only when the rice washer 17 is moved to a position corresponding to the rice cookers 7a and 7b, the information of the rice cookers 7a and 7b is taken out to the control device 35 shown in FIG. When connector 17 comes off from rice cooker 7a or rice cooker 7b, connector 34
a, 33b, the information of the rice cooker 7a or the rice cooker 7b is not inputted to the control device 35 side.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a control system. In FIG. 3, a control device 35 is for controlling the rice cookers 7a and 7b, the rice washing machine 17 and the measuring device 4, and is constituted by a microcomputer or the like. Have been. The control device 35 includes a first rice cooker detection sensor 36a that detects that the first rice cooker 7a is cooking rice, a second rice cooker detection sensor 36b that detects that the second rice cooker 7b is cooking rice, Rice cooker 7a
First inner pot detection sensor 37 for detecting the presence or absence of the inner pot 12
a, A signal is input from a second inner pot detection sensor 37b for detecting the presence or absence of the inner pot 12 of the second rice cooker 7b, and the like, a rice washing machine traveling motor 18, a shutter opening / closing motor 24, a valve driving motor 30, and a stirring motor 26. And the like, and has a rice cooker discriminating means 38 and a rice cooker controller 39.

The rice cooker discriminating means 38 is provided for each of the rice cookers 7a and 7b.
It is determined whether the rice is being cooked. Rice cooking control means 39
Rice cooker 7 that rice cooking determination means 38 has determined that rice is not being cooked
The rice is discharged from the rice washer 17 to a and 7b to make it cooked. That is, after the rice washer 17 is moved to the rice cooker side where rice is not being cooked by the drive of the rice washer travel motor 18, the conical valve 29 is opened and closed and the shutter 21 is opened and closed by the drive of the shutter open / close motor 24 and the valve drive motor 30. Then, the rice cookers 7a and 7b are operated.

Next, the operation in the rice discharging step will be described. When the rice washer 17 is on the first rice cooker 7a side, the control device 35 inputs the signals of the first rice cooker detection sensor 36a and the first inner pot detection sensor 37a on the first rice cooker 7a side, and the first rice cooker 7a If the rice cooker is not cooking rice, the rice is discharged to the first rice cooker 7a, the first rice cooker 7a is operated to cook rice by gas ignition or the like, and then the rice washer 17 is moved to the second rice cooker 7b.

When the rice washer 17 is located on the second rice cooker 7b side, the control device 35 inputs signals of the second rice cooker detection sensor 36b and the second inner pot detection sensor 37b on the second rice cooker 7b side, If the second rice cooker 7b is not cooking rice, the rice is discharged to the second rice cooker 7b, and after the second rice cooker 7b performs the rice cooking operation by gas ignition or the like, the rice washer 17 is moved to the first rice cooker 7a side. .

In the above embodiment, two rice cookers 7 are provided for one rice washing machine 17, but three or more rice cookers 7 are provided for one rice washing machine 17 instead. It may be. Further, the rice washing machine traveling motor 18, the shutter opening / closing motor 24, the valve driving motor 30, and the stirring motor 2
Instead of 6, a solenoid or other driving means may be used, and one motor may be used for the valve driving motor 30 and the stirring motor 26.

[0016] In the above embodiment, although by reciprocating the one of rice washing unit 17 with respect to two of the cooker 7, instead of this, a plurality of rice cooker 7 against one of the rice washing 17 You may make it reciprocate or rotate.

[0017]

According to the present invention, the rice washer 17 is used for the rice cooker 7.
The information of the rice cooker 7 is taken out to the control device 35 side only when the rice cooker 7 is moved to the position corresponding to the above, so that the information of a plurality of rice cookers 7 is simultaneously input to the control device 35 side. Is eliminated, and it is possible to reliably determine which rice cooker 7 is the information, and therefore, there is no malfunction such as discharging rice from the rice washer 17 to the rice cooker 7 during rice cooking. In addition, the circuit configuration of the control system becomes very simple.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 rice cooker 17 rice washer 35 controller

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-5-15435 (JP, A) JP-A-5-15444 (JP, A) JP-A-4-208114 (JP, A) JP-A-4-15 218113 (JP, A) JP-A-4-75561 (JP, A) JP-A-3-159621 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A47J 27/00-27 / 64

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A rice washing machine (17) for washing the weighed rice.
And a plurality of rice cookers (7) for receiving and washing rice from the rice washer (17) so that the rice washer (17) can be set at a position corresponding to each of the rice cookers (7). In a rice cooker in which the rice cooker (17) is relatively movable with respect to each rice cooker (7), the rice cooker (7) only moves when the rice washer (17) moves to a position corresponding to the rice cooker (7). Control information (35)
A rice cooker characterized by being configured to be taken out to the side.