JP4196044B2 - Rice sharpener - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to a rice sharpener mainly used at home.
[0002]
[Prior art]
An example of a rice-shearing machine that performs rice-shearing without using water is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-042535. This type of rice sharpener is composed of a rice hopper, a rice-cutting portion, a straw suction portion, a rice receiver, an operation portion, and a control device. The rice hopper has a weighing function at its lower part, and the weighed rice is further discharged to the lower part of the rice edge and is removed by rotating the blade member of the rotating body arranged in the rice edge. The rice that has been subjected to dredging and removed is discharged to the rice tray through a rice discharge opening provided in the rice splinter. Further, the soot removed at that time is sucked by the soot sucking portion and stored in a container such as a paper pack of a vacuum cleaner.
[0003]
The operation unit is provided with a display unit in addition to a switch such as a power switch and a rice milling amount setting switch, and the control device controls various loads according to the contents set by the operation unit. For example, a series of rice cutting operations such as weighing, demolding, and rice discharge are repeated so as to reach the total number set by the rice milling amount setting switch. This rice cutting operation is to measure, remove, and discharge rice in units of a certain amount of rice, for example, every 0.5 go.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the above configuration, there is a problem that it is not possible to know the progress of the rice cutting operation, and it is not possible to know how much rice will be cut.
[0005]
Furthermore, if the situation is not known, it is not known whether the rice stored in the rice hopper will be enough. If the rice in the rice hopper runs out during the rice-cutting operation, accurate rice-cutting cannot be performed due to lack of measurement. There is a trouble of constantly checking.
[0006]
This is also true for those who receive the discharged rice. The amount of rice stored in the rice receiver is limited, so if the remaining amount of rice is not known, does this rice receiver overflow during operation? I can't judge.
[0007]
The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem, and adds the amount of rice-cutting work completed, automatically calculates the difference from the set rice amount, and displays it, so that the progress of rice-cutting work The purpose is to prevent the shortage of rice in the rice hopper and the overflow of the rice tray.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-described object, the rice sharpener of the present invention comprises an adding means for calculating the added rice amount by adding the amount of rice to be cut and a display means for displaying the amount of rice, and is set in this display means. It is configured to display the amount of remaining rice that is the difference between the amount of rice and the amount of added rice.
[0009]
As a result, an effect is obtained in which the user can grasp the progress of the rice cutting work.
[0010]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The invention described in claim 1 of the present invention includes a rice hopper for storing rice before cutting, a weighing unit for weighing a certain amount of rice from the rice hopper, and storing rice measured by the weighing unit. A rice cutting portion for rotating and removing the rotating body disposed therein, an openable / closable opening for discharging rice from the inside of the rice cutting portion, and a driving device for driving the rotating body of the rice cutting portion. The amount of rice that you want to cut can be set as the set rice cutting amount, and the load including the drive unit is set so that weighing, removal, and rice discharging are performed in order until the set rice cutting amount is reached, and then returning to weighing after discharging. A control means for controlling and operating; an adding means for calculating the amount of rice added by adding the amount of rice to be cut at the rice edge; and a display means for displaying the amount of rice; The display means shows the amount of remaining rice that is the difference between the amount of rice and the amount of added rice It is as hereinbefore, is intended to show the configuration rice sharpening amount and the remaining rice sharpeners amount simultaneously.
[0011]
In the invention according to claim 2, the display means displays either the set rice margin amount or the remaining rice margin amount, and displays the set rice margin amount during the setting and the remaining rice margin amount during the operation. In this way, either the set rice margin amount or the remaining rice margin amount can be switched and displayed during setting and operation.
[0012]
The invention described in claim 3 is provided with a switching means, and the display means switches and displays the display contents during operation by input from the switching means, and the display contents during operation are arbitrarily changed. It can be done.
[0013]
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, a notification means is provided so that a notification is made when the amount of remaining rice is 0, and it is possible to notify that the amount of remaining rice has been exhausted.
[0014]
In the invention according to claim 5, the display means displays the set rice amount after a predetermined time when the remaining rice stitching amount becomes 0, and the set rice stitching amount is displayed again from the display of the remaining rice stitching amount. Automatically changes to the display.
[0015]
【Example】
Next, specific examples of the present invention will be described.
[0016]
(Example 1)
Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0017]
FIGS. 1 and 2 show a specific configuration of the rice sharpener of the present invention. The main body 1 includes a rice hopper 2, a weighing unit 3, a rice cutting unit 4, a driving device 50, a rice bran suction unit 5, an opening 40, and a rice receiver. 6 and a display operation unit 7.
[0018]
The rice hopper 2 stores rice before rice cutting, and the bottom portion thereof is inclined so that the rice is collected in the weighing unit 3 arranged in the lower part.
[0019]
As shown in FIG. 3, the weighing unit 3 is arranged so that the weighing basket 9 is sandwiched between the upper weighing lid 8 and the lower weighing lid 10, and is configured to rotate the weighing basket 9 through the gear 11 when the weighing motor 12 is driven. ing. The upper weighing lid 8 is provided with two rice supply ports 8a as shown in FIG. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the weighing rod 9 is provided with four hook portions 9a and four non-hook portions 9e, and the lower weighing portion 10 is provided with two slits 10a as shown in FIG. It has been. Since the upper weighing lid 8 and the lower weighing lid 10 are arranged so that the rice supply port 8a and the slit 10a are perpendicular to each other, when the weighing rod 9 sandwiched between them rotates, the rice bran is placed under the rice supply port 8a. When the portion 9a comes, rice from the rice hopper 2 is supplied therein, and conversely, when the non-ridge portion 9e comes, the supply of rice is cut off. And when the ridge part 9a comes on the slit 10a, the rice in the ridge part 9a falls to the lower part through the slit 10a. For example, if the volume of the hook 9a is set to 1/8 of 0.5, here, the hook 9a rotates twice on the rice supply port 8a and the slit 10a each time when the measuring hook 9 rotates once. Since it passes, weighing 0.5 can be performed.
[0020]
As shown in FIG. 3, the rice edge portion 4 is constituted by a removal inner container 13, a removal outer container 14, a blade member 15, and a rotating shaft 16 having small holes. The container 13 inside the removal is a part for receiving the rice weighed by the weighing unit 3, and a blade member 15 that is a rotating body and a rotating shaft 16 are disposed in the inside. The blade member 15 is attached to the rotating shaft 16, and the blade member 15 also rotates when the rotating shaft 16 rotates. Since the inner container 13 has a small hole, when the blade member 15 rotates, the rice stored inside is agitated, and the rice adhering to the surface is removed to remove the inner container 13. It is discharged outside. Since the outer container 14 is outside the inner container 13, the soot inside the inner container 13 is discharged to the outer container 14.
[0021]
The driving device 50 is a motor, and rotates the rotary shaft 16 through a belt or a pulley.
[0022]
The rice bran suction part 5 plays a role of sucking and storing the rice cake discharged in the outer container 14. Specifically, the removal outer container 14 is provided with a discharge port, vacuum suction is performed from the discharge port, and the soot is discharged from the inside of the removal removal container 14 and passed through a paper pack used in a vacuum cleaner. , I will save the bag.
[0023]
The opening 40 is attached to the inner container 13 for removal, and is composed of the opening valve 17 of FIG. 3 and the solenoidoid 18 that opens and closes the opening valve 17. When the blade member 15 is rotating and the opening valve 17 is closed, the rice is removed as described above. However, when it is open, the inside rice is gathered outside by centrifugal force, so the container inside the removal 13 is discharged outside.
[0024]
The rice tray 6 is a container for storing rice discharged from the opening 40.
[0025]
As shown in FIG. 6, the operation unit 7 has a display unit such as an LED and an operation switch, and is configured with a control device for controlling those signals. The user operates this operation switch to give a signal to the control device, and the microcomputer installed in the control device controls the load of the drive device 50 and the like by a preset process program. . Thus, the microcomputer has the function of the control means.
[0026]
Further, the operation of the microcomputer will be described with reference to the operation unit in FIG. 6 and the flowchart in FIG. In S1 of FIG. 7, the user sets the set rice stitch amount Sg in units of 0.5 using the total number setting switch 27 and displays the value on the total number display LED 20. When the setting is completed, the process proceeds to S2, and the user operates the start switch 28 to start operation. In S3, the completed rice stitch amount Ng, which is the added rice amount, is set to zero. In S4, the remaining rice margin amount No, which is the difference between the set rice margin amount Sg and the completed rice margin amount Ng, is obtained. When S4 is reached after S3, the completed rice stitching amount Ng is 0, so the remaining rice stitching amount No becomes the same as the set rice stitching amount Sg. In S5, this remaining rice cutting amount No is displayed on the total number display LED 31. In this way, the display means is realized by the combined number display LEDs 20 and 31.
[0027]
In S6, the metering unit 3 is operated to perform 0.5 metering. The weighed rice is sent to the rice fork 4. In S7, the blade member 15 is rotated to remove the hair. At this time, the soot suction unit 5 is also operated to suck and remove the soot, and the sucked soot is stored in the paper pack. When the blade member 15 is rotated for a predetermined time, the process proceeds to S <b> 8, the opening 40 is opened while the blade member 15 is rotated, and the rice in the rice binding portion 4 is discharged to the rice receiver 6. In S9, 0.5 is added to the completed rice stitch amount Ng which is the added rice amount. In this way, the adding means is realized by the microcomputer. In S10, this Ng is determined, and it is determined whether or not it is equal to the set rice stitch amount Sg. If they are not the same, the process returns to S4, and if they are the same, the process proceeds to the next S11. In this way, the operation of S4 to S9 is repeated Sg × 2 times. Therefore, for example, if the set amount of rice is 2.5 go, weighing, removing, and discharging rice for 2.5 go is 2.5. Will be repeated 5 times twice. In S11, the remaining rice cutting amount No is calculated as in S4. Here, since S11 passes after S10, the completed rice stitching amount Ng is the same as the set rice stitching amount Sg, so No is eventually 0. In subsequent S12, the remaining rice cutting amount No is displayed, and in S13, the load operation is stopped and the operation is completed.
[0028]
As described above, the set rice amount is displayed on the total number display LED 20, and when the operation is started, the remaining rice margin amount can be displayed on the total number display LED 31. For example, when the set rice cutting amount is 2.5, when the operation is started, “2.5” is displayed as the remaining rice cutting amount on the total number display LED 31, and when weighing, removal, and rice discharge are performed. “0.5” The value decreases, and “2” is displayed next. Similarly, every time rice is discharged, the content displayed on the total number display LED 31 decreases, and when the same amount of rice as the set amount of rice is discharged, the display becomes “0” and the operation is completed. Is.
[0029]
(Example 2)
In the second embodiment, in the rice sharpener according to the first embodiment, either the set rice margin amount or the remaining rice margin amount is displayed, and the set rice margin amount remains during operation during the setting. It is intended to display the amount of rice. The operation of the microcomputer according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0030]
In FIG. 8, the total number display LED 31 is deleted and a “setting” LED 32 and a “remaining” LED 33 are added in the operation unit of FIG. The display of the set rice amount and the display of the remaining rice amount is integrated into the total number display LED 20.
[0031]
In FIG. 7, differences from the first embodiment will be described. First, the “setting” LED 32 is turned on in S 1, and the set rice stitch amount Sg is displayed on the total number display LED 20. In subsequent S5, the “setting” LED 32 is turned off and the “remaining” LED 33 is turned on, and the display of each rice stitch amount is integrated. Therefore, the display is changed for the remaining rice stitch amount No. for the set rice stitch amount Sg.
[0032]
Thus, the set rice amount can be displayed during the setting, and the remaining rice amount can be switched during the operation.
[0033]
(Example 3)
In the third embodiment, switching means is provided in the rice sharpener according to the second embodiment so that the display contents can be switched. The third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
[0034]
9 is provided with a display changeover switch 34 as a specific example of the switching means in the operation unit of FIG. In the above embodiment, the set rice amount is displayed during setting and the remaining rice amount is displayed during operation, but when the remaining rice amount during operation is displayed here, When the display changeover switch 34 is pressed, the microcomputer of the control device detects this and switches to the display of the set rice amount.
[0035]
In this way, the set rice amount can be displayed even during operation.
[0036]
Example 4
In the fourth embodiment, in the rice sharpener according to the second embodiment, a notification means is provided so that a notification is made when the display of the amount of remaining rice is 0. As a specific example of the notification means, a buzzer is provided on the control device. The operation of the microcomputer of the fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
[0037]
FIG. 10 is obtained by adding the process of S14 to the flowchart of FIG. 7 used for explaining the operation of the microcomputer in the second embodiment. S14 is inserted after the remaining rice cutting amount No is displayed in S12, and a buzzer is notified here, and the operation proceeds to S13 to complete the operation.
[0038]
Thus, in S12, since the remaining rice stitching amount No is 0, that 0 is displayed and a buzzer is notified to complete the operation. The buzzer notification means that the amount of remaining rice is lost, and at the same time, it also serves to notify the user of the completion of driving.
[0039]
(Example 5)
The fifth embodiment is such that the display means displays the amount of set rice after a predetermined time when the remaining rice edge display becomes 0 in the rice edger according to the second embodiment. . The operation of the microcomputer of the fifth embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
[0040]
FIG. 11 is obtained by adding the processes of S15 and S16 to the flowchart of FIG. 7 used for explaining the operation of the microcomputer in the second embodiment. S15 is inserted after completion of the operation of S13, and delays for a predetermined time. Here, a delay of 5 seconds is specifically performed. After S15, the process proceeds to S16, in which the display of the remaining rice margin amount displayed on the total number display LED 20 is changed to the display of the set rice margin amount.
[0041]
As described above, the remaining rice margin amount is displayed (that is, 0) for 5 seconds after the operation is completed, and thereafter, the display can be changed to the set rice margin amount display.
[0042]
Here, the delay time in S15 is set to 5 seconds, but it may be 0 seconds. In that case, the display is immediately switched when the operation is completed.
[0043]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, the set rice amount can be displayed and the remaining rice amount which is the difference between the set rice amount and the added rice amount can be displayed. Since it is subtracted every time it is removed, it is easy to see how much rice is left.
[0044]
In addition, according to the invention of claim 2, the set rice amount and the remaining rice amount are displayed on the same display means, and the display means is switched according to the operating state of the rice sharpener, so the area of the display means is reduced. And easy-to-understand display can be performed.
[0045]
According to the invention of claim 3, since the display contents can be switched by the switching means, it is possible to select and display information desired to know.
[0046]
According to the invention of claim 4, when the remaining rice stitching amount becomes 0, a buzzer is notified to notify that the remaining rice stitching amount has been lost and simultaneously notify the user of the completion of driving. .
[0047]
According to the invention of claim 5, since the remaining rice stitching amount display is automatically changed to the set rice stitching amount display after a while after the operation is completed, the user again sets the rice stitching amount set by himself / herself when the operation is completed. I can confirm.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a rice sharpener showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view of a rice sharpener showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a plan view of the upper measuring lid of the rice sharpener showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the measuring rod and lower measuring lid of the rice sharpener showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a plan view of the operation unit of the rice stirrer according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 9 is a plan view of the operation unit of the rice stirrer according to the third embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the rice stirrer according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. ] Flowchart of rice stirrer according to fifth embodiment of the present invention [Explanation of symbols]
2 Rice hopper 3 Weighing unit 4 Rice binding unit 50 Driving device 5 Grain suction unit 6 Rice receiver 7 Operation unit 40 Opening portion 8 Upper weighing lid 9 Weighing rod 10 Lower weighing lid 13 Inner container 14 Outside outer container 15 Blade member 20 Combined display LED
27 Number setting switch 28 Start switch 31 Number display LED
32 “Setting” LED
33 “Remaining” LED

Claims (5)

A rice hopper that stores the rice before the rice break, a weighing unit that measures a certain amount of rice from inside the rice hopper, and a rotating body that stores rice measured by the weighing unit and is disposed inside the rice hopper. A rice-cutting section for removing and removing rice, an openable / closable opening for discharging rice from the inside of the rice-cutting section, a driving device for driving a rotating body of the rice-cutting section, and a rice amount to be cut. Control means for controlling and controlling the load including the driving device so as to return to the weighing after discharging, in order, until the set amount of rice is reached, Addition means for calculating the amount of added rice by adding the amount of rice that is torn at the toe part, and display means for displaying the amount of rice, the difference between the set rice amount, the set rice amount, and the added amount of rice A rice cutter that displays the amount of remaining rice on the display means. 2. The rice according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays either the set rice margin or the remaining rice margin, and displays the set rice margin during setting and the remaining rice margin during operation. Sharpener. 3. A rice sharpener according to claim 2, wherein a switching means is provided, and the display means switches and displays display contents during operation by an input from the switching means. The rice stirrer according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein notification means is provided to notify when the amount of remaining rice is 0. The rice cutter according to claim 2, wherein the display means displays the set rice amount after a predetermined time when the remaining amount of rice becomes zero.

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