JP4796908B2 - Induction heating cooker - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an induction heating cooker used by being incorporated in a kitchen system kitchen or the like.

  The present invention relates to an induction heating cooker that heats a cooking utensil such as a cooking pot placed on a top plate using a heating coil or the like as a heating source in a kitchen of a general household.

  Conventionally, this type of induction heating cooker has heating coils on the front side left and right inside the main body, and heating sources such as a heating coil and a radiant heater in the center on the rear side, and controls these heating sources in the internal space. A control unit is arranged, the top surface of the main body is covered with a top plate made of heat-resistant glass, the end surface around the top plate is covered with a plate frame, and an intake port and an exhaust port are provided on the rear frame portion which is a rear plate frame. It was arranged.

  In addition, as shown in Patent Documents 1 and 2, a display unit and an operation unit for displaying an operation state and a setting state of a heating coil and the like are arranged on the front surface of the main body and the front frame part of the top plate frame. The section is composed of an on / off switch for turning on / off the heating coil, a thermal power switch for setting thermal power, an operation switch such as a timer setting switch, and the like.

  This induction heating cooker is dropped from above into the opening provided on the top plate of the system kitchen of the kitchen, the plate frame is placed on the top plate of the system kitchen, and the main body is mounted on the top plate of the system kitchen. Installed in a suspended state. Further, the front surface of the main body faces the front (user side) opening of the system kitchen, and an operation unit provided on the front surface of the main body is installed so that the user can operate. And a user operates the above-mentioned operation part on the top plate of a system kitchen, or the operation part provided in the front surface of the main body, and cooks while looking at a display part.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-2412 JP 2005-259540 A

  In a conventional induction heating cooker, in recent years, an operation part is provided on the front frame part (user side) of the plate frame covering the periphery of the top plate from the front surface of the main body or on the user side of the top plate from the surface that places importance on operability. Is becoming mainstream. For this reason, it is necessary to increase the number of operation switches in consideration of ease of use and visibility of the operation unit.

  However, the operation part of the induction heating cooker is installed so as to be within the width of the main body so that the structure can be easily designed even when it is provided in the front frame part of the plate frame. For this reason, the operation switches cannot be enlarged and the number of operation switches cannot be increased, and the ease of use and visibility may be sacrificed.

  As described above, in the induction heating cooker, the plate frame is placed on the top plate of the system kitchen, and the main body is installed in a suspended state. A reinforcing plate with the same length as the plate frame is provided so as not to be deformed by the weight of the main body.

  For this reason, since the front end of the reinforcing plate overlaps with the front frame portion of the plate frame, the operation switch provided on the front frame portion of the plate frame is extended to the left and right width direction outside of the main body. It could not be provided, and it was not possible to make the operation unit easy to see or increase the number.

In order to solve the above-described problems, in claim 1 of the present invention, a heating source provided inside the main body, a control unit for controlling the heating source, a top plate covering the upper surface of the main body, and the top An induction heating cooker comprising: a plate frame covering an end surface portion around the plate; and an operation unit for operating the heating source provided on the front frame portion of the plate frame and provided on the outer side in the width direction of the main body . A reinforcing plate provided on the back surface of the horizontal frame portion of the plate frame covering the side of the top plate and having a notch on the front frame portion side of the top plate, and corresponding to the notch A part of the switch of the operation unit is provided in the front frame part of the plate frame.

  According to the induction heating cooker of the present invention, since the operation switch of the operation unit provided on the upper surface side of the main body can be enlarged or increased in number, the ease of use and visibility can be improved. The operability is improved.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the top plate 2 installed on the main body 1 of the induction heating cooker is made of crystallized glass having high heat resistance, and has an outward flange portion provided in the upper surface opening of the main body 1. (Not shown).

  The plate frame 3 is composed of front and rear, left and right frame parts that cover the end surface part around the top plate 2. The plate frame 3 may be a member in which the front, rear, left and right are integrated without being divided.

  The plate frame 3 is fixed to the main body 1. When the main body 1 is attached to the system kitchen 20, the main body 1 is suspended from the plate frame 3 together with the flange portion (not shown) of the main body 1. To do. Therefore, the top plate 2 and the plate frame 3 appear on the surface of the system kitchen 20 (on the top plate).

  As shown in FIG. 4, at least the left and right frame portions of the back surface of the plate frame 3 are provided with at least the plate frame 3 so as not to be deformed by the weight of the main body 1 when the main body 1 is suspended from the system kitchen 20. A reinforcing plate 4 is provided over the entire length of the right horizontal frame and the left horizontal frame.

  The heating coil 5 and the radiant heater 6 are installed on the left and right sides and the rear center of the main body 1 below the top plate 2 and heat a cooking pan (not shown) placed on the top plate 2. It is a heating source. The central heater in the rear part may be an induction heating type heating coil.

  The grill portion 7 where the food to be cooked such as fish and pizza is baked is arranged at the lower left side in the main body 1, and the food to be cooked can be taken in and out from the front surface of the main body 1.

  The display unit 8 is disposed on the front frame portion of the top plate 2, that is, on the front side of the position where the cooking pan is placed, and the operating state and operation of the left and right induction heating coils 5 and the rear side heater 6. The setting state for performing the operation, that is, the setting state of the heating power and the timer, the oil temperature of the deep-fried food cooking, and the like are displayed with numerical values, characters, figures, and the like.

  The operation unit 9 is arranged side by side on the front frame part of the plate frame 3 in correspondence with the left and right heating coils 5 and the radiant heater 6 which is one of the heating units. It explains using.

  An off / on switch 10 for energizing / stopping the heating coil 5 or the radial heater 6, a thermal power switch 11 for adjusting the thermal power of the heating coil 5 and the radial heater 6, and a thermal power fine adjustment switch 12 are provided side by side. ing.

  The thermal power switch 11 is composed of thermal power control switches 11a, 11b, 11c, and 11d consisting of hot, low, medium, and high fires, and the thermal power fine control switch 12 is composed of an up key 12a and a down key 12b. ing. In the embodiment, a timer 13 for controlling the heating means with time is provided. Each switch is connected to a control unit (not shown) in the main body 1 and used for controlling the heating unit.

  For example, the lamp 14 constituted by the LED corresponds to the off / on switch 10, the thermal power control switches 11 a, 11 b, 11 c, 11 d, and the thermal power fine control switch 12, which are composed of torch, low fire, medium fire, and high fire, and the rear side thereof Is arranged.

  The operation switch 15 is a switch for automatic cooking such as fried food, boiling water, and warming, and is disposed on the front frame portion of the plate frame 3 protruding outward from the main body 1 to the left and right.

  As shown in the rear view of the top plate 2 part of FIG. 5, the left and right back sides of the plate frame 3 are provided with the reinforcing plate 4 with the front end 4a cut out, and the cutout part 4a is connected to the front frame of the plate frame 3. It arranged corresponding to the part side.

  The operation switch 15 is secured by arranging the front end 4a of the reinforcing plate 4 in a notch. Depending on the total number of operation switches to be arranged, the left and right sides of the reinforcing plate 4 and the front end portions 4a on both sides are cut out and provided on both ends of the front frame portion of the plate frame 3 corresponding to the cutout portions 4a.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the vertical width a of the front frame portion of the plate frame 3 is set to about 30 mm in this embodiment (the vertical width b of the left and right horizontal frame portions is about 20 mm). In the present embodiment, by arranging the operation switches over almost the entire width of the plate frame 3 in this vertical width, the installation space for the operation switches is widened, and the number of operation switches can be increased. In addition, each can be enlarged so that it can be easily operated, and can be laid out with large characters that are easy to see.

  The reinforcing plate 4 does not cause a problem in the strength of the reinforcing plate 4 itself even if the front end 4a is cut away.

  An intake port 16 for sucking cooling air into the main body 1 is provided on the right side of the rear frame portion of the top plate 2. An exhaust port 17 provided on the left side of the rear frame portion of the top plate 2 discharges waste heat after cooling the grill portion 7 and a control portion (not shown) inside the main body 1.

  A main switch 18 disposed at the upper right side of the front surface of the main body 1 is a switch for switching on / off the power supply of the entire induction heating cooker.

  The kangaroo pocket type operation panel 19 disposed at the lower right side of the front surface of the main body 1 includes an operation switch for the grill portion 7 and is opened and used when used.

  Next, operation and control in the above configuration will be described. As an example, the case where a user heats a cooking pan using the left or right heating coil 5 of the top plate 2 will be described.

  The user places the cooking pan on the upper side of the top plate 2 and then turns on the main switch 18 on the front surface of the main body 1. Next, when the off / on switch 10 for controlling the heating coil 5 is operated, the lamp 14 of the off / on switch 10 is turned on, and a part of the display unit 8 of the main body 1 and the thermal power switch 11 displayed in large letters are displayed. The lamp 14 corresponding to each of them blinks.

  Next, when the middle fire switch 11c is pressed as an example of the thermal power switch 11, the lamp 14 of the middle fire switch 11c is turned on, and an operation state such as a thermal power display is displayed on the display unit 8.

  Here, when it is desired to further finely adjust the medium fire, by pressing the up key 12a and the down key 12b of the thermal power fine adjustment switch 12, the control unit (not shown) connected to each switch inputs each key switch. Accordingly, the power supplied to the heating coil 5 which is a corresponding heating means is controlled, and the control state is displayed on the display unit 8.

  Moreover, what is necessary is just to operate the other operation switch 15 of the operation part 9, when performing deep-fried foods such as tempura with a cooking pan, heat-retaining, boiling water with a kettle, or the like. This state is also displayed on the display unit 8.

  According to the induction heating cooker of this embodiment, when the user operates the operation switch 15 while standing, the operation switch 15 has a high degree of freedom in arrangement and is easy to operate. It can be.

  As described above, according to the induction heating cooker of the present embodiment, the operation unit 9 is disposed on the front side on the upper surface side of the main body 1, and the operation unit 9 is configured to turn on / off the heating source. A thermal power switch 11 that can set the thermal power and a thermal power fine adjustment switch 12 that adjusts the thermal power, etc. are arranged on the front side of the plate frame 3. Since it can be arranged on the plate frame 3 extending in the horizontal direction from 1, the space for arranging the operation unit 9 can be widened, and the operation switch of the operation unit 9 can be enlarged on the upper surface side of the main body 1 and the number can be increased. It becomes. In addition, the letters on the operation switch can be enlarged. Therefore, ease of use and visibility can be improved, and the operability of the induction heating cooker is improved.

  In the above embodiment, the other operation switches 15 are provided with functions such as deep-fried food, boiling water, and heat retention. However, the present invention is not particularly limited thereto, and may be a turn-on / off switch, for example.

It is a perspective view of the system kitchen incorporating the induction heating cooker of this invention. It is a detailed perspective view of the operation part of the induction heating cooking appliance. It is explanatory drawing which shows the driving | running state and heating power setting state of the induction heating cooking appliance. It is a back surface perspective view of the top plate part of the conventional induction heating cooking appliance. It is a back surface perspective view of the top plate part of the induction heating cooking appliance of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Main body, 2 ... Top plate, 3 ... Plate frame, 4 ... Reinforcement plate, 5 ... Heating coil, 8 ... Display part, 9 ... Operation part, 10 ... Switch off / on, 11 ... Thermal power switch, 12 ... Thermal power fine Adjustment switch, 14 ... lamp, 15 ... other operation switches, 18 ... main switch, 20 ... system kitchen.

Claims (1)

A heating source provided inside the main body, a control unit that controls the heating source, a top plate that covers the upper surface of the main body, a plate frame that covers an end surface around the top plate, and a front of the plate frame In an induction heating cooker having an operation part for operating the heating source provided in the frame part and provided in the width direction outer side of the main body ,
The plate frame provided on the back surface of the horizontal frame portion of the plate frame covering the side of the top plate and having a notch portion on the front frame portion side of the top plate, the plate frame corresponding to the notch portion An induction heating cooker characterized in that a part of the switch of the operation unit is provided in the front frame portion of the.

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