JP6453149B2 - Cooker - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cooking device having a touch input unit.

  Patent Document 1 includes a display unit with a touch panel. On the initial screen, an auto display indicating auto cooking is arranged on the left end, and a manual display character indicating manual heating is arranged below the auto display and manual display. Each input key was arranged so that inputs other than cooking ranging from automatic cooking to care and setting could be made.

JP 2012-225553 A

  In the above-mentioned heating cooker, the initial screen displays the automatic cooking setting entrance, the manual cooking setting entrance, the infrequently used maintenance / setting entrance, and various inputs. It was easy to see as a guide to various settings, but as I got used to it, there was usually a problem that unnecessary information was on the initial screen, and it seemed complicated when I saw the initial screen.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and includes a main body, a heating chamber that is provided in the main body and into which an object to be heated is placed, an openable / closable door that covers a front surface of the heating chamber, and the cover. A heating unit that heats a heated object, and an operation display unit that is provided in the main body or the door and sets a heating condition of the heating unit, and the operation display unit sets a desired heating condition from a plurality of conditions. In the cooking device provided with a display unit with a touch panel that can be set from a plurality of levels, the initial screen of the display unit with a touch panel displays an index tab key for each of a plurality of operation type tab key groups on one end side. The contents are arranged in a horizontal row so that the contents can be read, and the index tab key for each of the plurality of operation types is also displayed on the setting screen after migration for each selected operation type. It is and can migrate to the operation by type of setting screen, as initial display, and displays at least warm and thaw the operation key is the heating condition of the lower layer, and displays it on so that it can be discriminated that the index tab key corresponding said A display window portion is provided that includes manual as an index tab key arranged in a horizontal row and displays the operation of the device alongside the index tab key.

  According to the present invention, an easy-to-use cooking device can be provided even after getting used to it from the beginning.

It is a front view of the heating cooker in one Example. It is a front perspective view of the state which removed the cover of the heating cooker, and the door opened. It is a front perspective view of the state where the door using the bread-making container of the heating cooker opened. It is sectional drawing seen from the side of the heating cooker. It is the perspective view seen from the front of the operation display part of the heating cooker in one Example. It is decomposition | disassembly explanatory drawing of the operation display part of the heating cooker. It is explanatory drawing of the initial screen of the display part with a touchscreen of the same heating cooker. It is explanatory drawing of the manual cooking screen of the display part with a touchscreen of the same heating cooker. It is explanatory drawing of the care screen of the display part with a touchscreen of the same heating cooker. It is explanatory drawing of the setting screen of the display part with a touchscreen of the same heating cooker. It is a control block diagram explaining control of the heating cooker in one Example.

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

  As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, the cooking device of the present embodiment includes a heating chamber 2 for storing a cooking object such as food to be cooked in the main body 1, and a cooking object provided in front of the heating chamber 2. A door 3 that can be freely opened and closed, and a non-rotating table 4 on which a food to be cooked provided on the bottom surface of the heating chamber 2 is placed. The door 3 has a handle 26 at the top.

  Under the table 4, weight sensors 5a, 5b and 5c for supporting the table 4 are provided, and the cooking time can be determined according to the weight of the food to be cooked detected by the weight sensors 5a, 5b and 5c. it can.

  In addition, a temperature sensor A40 composed of a thermistor is provided in the upper left part in the heating chamber 2, and cooking output, cooking time, etc. can be determined according to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor A40.

  Reference numeral 110 denotes an infrared sensor, which detects the infrared rays of the object to be cooked placed on the table 4 and measures the temperature. The infrared sensor 110 is provided at a position near the center of the left and right sides of the upper wall surface of the heating chamber 2. The temperature information measured by the infrared sensor 110 is sent to the control means 9.

  In addition, a large window portion 23 and a glass 23 a covering the window portion 23 are provided in the central portion of the door 3, so that the inside of the heating chamber 2 can be viewed from the window portion 23. Further, an operation display unit 6 is provided below the window portion 23 of the door 3.

  Reference numeral 25 denotes a cover that covers both side surfaces and the upper surface of the cooking device.

  And the heating cooker of a present Example has four types of heating means, the range heating means which performs microwave cooking, the oven heating means which performs oven cooking, the grill heating means which performs grill cooking, and the steam heating means which performs steam cooking Various cooking can be performed by performing alone or in combination.

  First, the heating means will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4 and 11.

  Microwave cooking is a process in which microwaves are applied to the food to be cooked placed on the table 4 and the food to be cooked is actively heated by frictional heat generated by vibrating molecules such as moisture in the food to be cooked. Is the method. A feature of this microwave cooking is that the surface and internal temperature of the object to be cooked are simultaneously heated in a short time and raised.

  The range heating means for performing microwave cooking includes a magnetron 7 that oscillates a microwave that is a heating source for microwave cooking, and an inverter board 8 that controls the output of the microwave oscillated from the magnetron 7. The inverter board 8 is controlled by the control means 9 and can apply a desired microwave to the object to be cooked to perform microwave heating.

  Further, a waveguide 10 that guides the microwave oscillated from the magnetron 7 to the heating chamber 2, a rotating antenna 11 that irradiates the heating chamber 2 while stirring the microwave, and an antenna motor 12 that rotates the rotating antenna 11 are provided. In order to prevent the microwave from concentrating on a part, the control means 9 controls the antenna motor 12 to rotate the rotating antenna 11 to perform a desired stirring operation.

  The magnetron 7, the waveguide 10, the rotating antenna 11, and the antenna motor 12 are disposed in the machine chamber 13 between the heating chamber bottom 2 a and the bottom plate 30.

  Next, grill cooking will be described. An electric heater 14 is provided outside the upper wall surface of the heating chamber 2. This electric heater 14 is controlled by the control means 9, and by applying an appropriate temperature to the upper wall surface of the heating chamber 2, desired radiant heat (far infrared rays) is given to the food to be cooked placed on the table 4 to be cooked. Grill cooking is done by heating the food from the surface.

  Next, oven cooking will be described. Oven cooking is a heating method in which the food to be cooked is heated by applying hot air to the food to be cooked placed on the table 4 by the hot air unit 15 provided outside the heating chamber back 2b.

  The oven heating means for performing the oven cooking is constituted by a hot air unit 15, and the hot air unit 15 is provided with a blower means 16 such as a fan that is rotatably provided substantially in the center of the heating chamber back 2 b, and the air of the blower means 16. An electric heater 17 provided on the outflow side of the flow and a motor 18 connected to the blowing means 16 are configured.

  And the hot air which came out of the hole 21 near the electric heater 17 heats a to-be-cooked object, and the wind after heating a to-be-cooked object is again hot air through the hole 22 provided in the approximate center part of the heating chamber back 2b. It is taken into the unit 15.

  Next, steam cooking will be described. Steam cooking is a cooking method in which steam is given to the food to be cooked placed on the table 4 and the food to be cooked is heated. As shown in FIG. 1, the steam heating means for performing steam cooking includes a detachable tank 50 under the heating chamber 2, and the water in the tank 50 is sucked up by the water supply means 19 through the pipe 51 and supplied through the pipe 52. Steam generation means 20 is provided for heating the generated water with a heater to generate steam. The steam generating means 20 is provided outside the heating chamber side surface 2 c and ejects a jet port 7 a to the heating chamber 2. The water supply means 19 and the steam generation means 20 are controlled by the control means 9 to supply a desired amount of steam to the heating chamber 2.

  And bakery cooking is demonstrated in FIG. Bakery cooking is bread making performed by removing the table 4 of the heating chamber 2 and setting a baking container 90 in the heating chamber 2.

  The bread-making container 90 is a container for making bread dough by adding a quantity of ingredients for making bread according to a menu, and is provided with a rotatable stirring blade (not shown) on the inner bottom surface. The handle 92 is provided on the front side of the bread-making container 90 and is attached and detached from the front of the heating chamber 2 where the door 3 is opened. A lock lever 93 that rotates back and forth is provided at the lower left portion of the bread-making container 90 and is fixed to a claw (not shown) provided in the heating chamber 2.

  A stirring blade (not shown) on the bottom surface of the bread-making container 90 is coupled to a stirring drive shaft (not shown) provided from the machine chamber 13 into the heating chamber 2. The stirring drive shaft (not shown) is rotated by a stirring motor 56 provided in the machine room 13 through a speed reduction means (not shown). The stirring motor 56 is controlled by the control means 9.

  A feeder 91 is placed on the top of the bread-making container 90, and yeast and ingredients are introduced.

  In the baking process, the cooking object is heated and baked by applying hot air from the hot air unit 15 to the heating chamber 2 in which the bread-making container 90 as the cooking object is set as in the above-described oven cooking.

  Next, the operation display part 6 provided in the lower part of the window part 23 of the door 3 is demonstrated using FIG. 1, FIG. 5, FIG. 6 FIG.

  The operation display unit 6 inputs various settings of the heating means and contents of instructions. A glass panel cover 31 provided with a display unit 70 with a touch panel for displaying various settings and instruction contents of the heating means is provided above the operation display unit 6. A lower part of the operation display unit 6 is provided with a resinous panel support member 39 in which a button 34 of a mechanical switch for operating the start and stop of heating by the heating means is disposed facing the hole 33.

  The panel cover 31 provided over the entire width of the door 3 is made of air-cooled tempered glass. A display unit 70 with a touch panel (details will be described later) is provided from substantially the right side of the panel cover 31 in the horizontal width direction. The panel cover 31 includes a liquid crystal window 31a, and a touch panel substrate (not shown) is attached to the inside of the liquid crystal window 31a with an optical transparent adhesive. When pressed by the user's finger from the outside of the liquid crystal window 31a, the touch panel 38 is configured to change the capacitance at the pressed position.

  A panel 36 that supports the panel substrate 43 is provided inside the panel cover 31. The panel substrate 43 includes a liquid crystal display 37 on the right side in the horizontal width direction. The panel 36 includes a window 36 a that penetrates the liquid crystal display 37.

  The control means 9 outputs the content to be displayed on the liquid crystal display 37, and detects the switch input at the position where the capacitance of the touch panel 38 has changed in the portion where the key is displayed.

  The panel substrate 43 is provided with switches 43d, 43a, 43b, 43e arranged in a horizontal row in order from right to left below the liquid crystal display 37, and LED displays 43g are provided on the left and right of the switch 43a. The panel substrate 43 is connected to a touch panel substrate (not shown) attached to the panel cover 31.

  Since the panel cover 31 has high durability even after wiping and cleaning, it is difficult to be scratched by friction, so that the liquid crystal window 31a is not scratched and is difficult to see.

  The configuration of the button 34 and the panel support member 39 provided below the panel cover 31 under the operation display unit 6 will be described.

  Four operation keys arranged in a horizontal row are arranged on the lower part of the panel cover 31 which is the lower part of the operation display unit 6, and in order from right to left, the return key 54, the warm / start key 58, the tear key 53, Each key is input to the control means 9 by the bakery key 55.

  The button 34 includes a return key 54, a warm / start key 58, a tear key 53, and a bakery key 55 for operating the switches 43d, 43a, 43b, and 43e, which are mechanical switches. The return key 54, the warm / start key 58, the tear key 53, and the bakery key 55 of the button 34 are arranged facing the substantially rectangular holes 33 d, 33 a, 33 b, and 33 e of the panel support member 39.

  The return key 54 is used to return to the previous layer when an erroneous setting is corrected during operation of the display unit 70 with a touch panel.

  The warm / start key 58 is operated by an automatic key that measures the weight of the object to be cooked by the weight sensor 5, automatically determines the heating time according to the weight, and warms it by the range heating means, and a display unit 70 with a touch panel described later. Also serves as a start key to be pressed when cooking is started. In consideration of usability, the key area is set larger than the key 53, and the color of the LED display 43g built in the panel 36 provided for notifying operation is transmitted.

  The tear key 53 is operated to stop the heating in progress, shift to a standby state, and take out the object to be cooked.

  The bakery key 55 is a key operated when calling a bakery cooking menu on the display unit 70 with a touch panel when setting bakery cooking.

  The screen of the display unit 70 with a touch panel will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 is an initial screen, FIG. 8 is a manual cooking screen, FIG. 9 is a care screen, and FIG. 10 is a setting screen.

  In FIG. 7, the display unit 70 with a touch panel is configured by a horizontally long rectangle having a width W and a height H.

  A tab key group 73 for arranging the index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d for each operation type in an elongated and horizontal row is arranged at the upper end of the display unit 70 with a touch panel. Reference numeral 73a denotes a home index tab key, which is a home operation for each operation type. Reference numeral 73b denotes an index tab key for manual cooking, which is a manual cooking operation for each operation type. Reference numeral 73c denotes a maintenance index tab key, which is a maintenance operation for each operation type. Reference numeral 73d denotes a setting index tab key, which is a setting operation for each operation type.

  In the tab key group 73, index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, and 73d are arranged from left to right. The index tab key 73a is the foremost side, the left side of the index tab key 73b is superimposed on the right side of the index tab key 73a, the left side of the index tab key 73c is superimposed on the rear side, and the left side of the index tab key 73d is superimposed on the right side. indicate.

  By operating each index tab key 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d in the tab key group 73, the operation key groups 74, 75, 76, 77 provided for the respective operation types are displayed, and the respective states are displayed. Are displayed in FIG. 7, FIG. 8, FIG. 9, and FIG.

  On the right side of the tab key group 73, a display window 78 is arranged to display the operation of the device when the main body 1 is displaying an initial screen such as a standby time other than during cooking. The display window 78 is a small window that is displayed side by side in the same row as the index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d. The display window 78 displays “cooling” when a cooling fan (not shown) of the main body 1 continues cooling air.

  The name displayed on each index tab key is a name that is simple enough to reach each setting content displayed when the index tab key is selected.

  The home index tab key 73a is at the uppermost position, that is, at the beginning of the setting screen. This initial screen shows a group of operation keys 74. The operation keys 74a, the boiled vegetable boiled operation key 74b, the speed healthy operation key 74c, the simple range operation key 74d, the cooking operation key 74e, and the menu operation key 74f used are displayed. A selection operation is performed once from the inside. It is easy to set auto cooking. Since it is frequently used in the operation of the cooking device, the screen including the operation keys 74a is displayed on the initial screen.

  Next, by selecting the manual index tab key 73b, a setting screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed, and an operation key group 75 for selecting a heating method is displayed. “Range” is set when the object to be heated is heated using a range heating means. In addition, “oven” uses oven heating means, “grill” uses electric heater 14, “fermentation” uses oven heating means, “steam” uses steam heating means, “superheated steam” means steam heating means And oven heating means. When the index tab key 73c for maintenance is selected, a setting screen shown in FIG. 9 and an operation key group 76 set for performing maintenance after use are displayed. When the setting index tab key 73d is further selected, a setting screen shown in FIG. 10 and an operation key group 77 necessary for various settings are displayed. Further, since the tab key group 73 (index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d) is displayed even after the transition to each setting screen, each necessary index tab key 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d can be entered by inputting You can move to the setting screen.

  For example, in the case where heating is performed by manually setting a heating time with a range, when an object to be heated is placed in the heating chamber 2, the door 3 is closed, and the manual index tab key 73b is selected, the state shown in FIG. 8 is obtained. . By operating the range operation key 75a of the range heating from the operation key group 75 for selecting the heating method, the process proceeds to the next level, sets the time, operates the warm / start key 58, and cooks the heat. It is what is started.

  According to the above-described embodiment, as described above, the tab key group 73 and the index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, and 73d according to the operation types arranged in the horizontal row in the display unit 70 with the touch panel are as described above. It is easy to see what settings are possible for each operation type.

  Therefore, it is easy to understand what can be set on the manual setting screen, the care setting screen, and the setting setting screen by looking at the initial setting screen of the home where the tab key group 73 for each operation type is displayed. In addition, it is easy to understand the transition to each setting screen, so by looking at the initial setting screen, you can think of the contents of various setting screens that are not displayed, so the amount of information that the user feels more than the displayed contents It comes to the various setting screens. Even after shifting to the manual setting screen, the tab key group 73 and the index tab keys 73a, 73b, 73c, 73d for each operation type are always displayed, so that even after an incorrect index tab key is entered, other settings are made. Easy to move to the screen. Therefore, a sense of security can be given to the user.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, since the initial screen and the operation system of the display unit 70 with a touch panel are easy to understand, it can be operated intuitively, and cooking selection and setting of the cooking device can be easily realized. .

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Heating chamber 3 Door 6 Operation display part 9 Control means 23 Window part 23a Glass 31 Panel cover 70 Display part with a touch panel 73 Tab key group 73a Index tab key 73b Index tab key 73c Index tab key 73d Index tab key 74 Operation key group 75 Operation key group 75 76 Operation key group 77 Operation key group 78 Display window

Claims (1)

The body,
A heating chamber provided in the main body for containing an object to be heated;
An openable / closable door covering the front of the heating chamber;
Heating means for heating the object to be heated;
An operation display unit that is provided on the main body or the door and sets a heating condition of the heating means,
The operation display unit is a heating cooker provided with a display unit with a touch panel that can be set from a plurality of layers when setting desired heating conditions from a plurality of conditions,
The initial screen of the display unit with a touch panel is arranged in a horizontal row so that the display contents of each index tab key of a plurality of tab keys for each operation type can be read on one end side, and is displayed for each selected operation type. You can display the index tab key for each of the operation types on the setting screen after transfer, and repeatedly move to the setting screen for each operation type that is displayed.
As an initial display, it displays at least warming and thawing as an operation key that is the heating condition of the lower layer, and displays it so that the corresponding index tab key can be identified,
A heating cooker characterized by including a manual as the index tab key arranged in the horizontal row, and provided with a display window portion that displays the operation of the device alongside the index tab key .

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