JPH01285714A - Cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To set a cooking program in a simple, certain manner in cooking by inputting the merchandise identification information described on an article of food to be cooked and reading out an appropriate one from a plurality of cooking programs for food articles to be cooked from a memory. CONSTITUTION:An electronic oven has in its main body 1 a first built-in memory 9 which freely permits additions and alterations to the contents and a second built-in memory 11 whose contents are fixed as means of storing merchandise identification information, that is, bar code, trade names, and a plurality of cooking programs corresponding to a variety of instant food articles. When an article of instant food for electronic cooking is cooked, the merchandise identification information described on the article, that is, the bar code, is inputted by means of a bar code reader 8; when the bar code inputted is identified with the code in the memories 9, 11, cooking programs corresponding to the bar code is read out therefrom; a control then actuates a magnetron 12, starting the microwave cooking. If the bar code inputted does not exist in the memories 9, 11, an ordinary procedure applies to the cooking. With this cooker, an instant food article can be cooked by setting an appropriate cooking program in a simple, certain manner.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (b) Industrial application fields The present invention relates to a cooking device such as a microwave oven.

(cl) The conventional technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 61-35441 discloses that a cooking program written in a barcode written in a cookbook is read by an input means such as a barcode league, and cooking is performed based on the cooking program. A microwave oven is disclosed. However, in this case, the tedious task of turning the pages of the cookbook to find the desired barcode-inscribed cooking program is required, or the cookbook contains many barcode-indicated cooking programs. It is easy to make a mistake when searching for the ninth desired #14 riguagukum, which is listed.

By the way, food manufacturers have recently released a variety of instant products that are specifically designed for microwave ovens. I can do coral. However, in such instant products, g
It is troublesome to set the i-waiting time vR control output, and it is easy to make mistakes in such setting.

Therefore, for instant products such as those mentioned above, food manufacturers have to write the optimal cooking program for each product in barcodes, and when cooking the above instant products, they write the cooking program on this product. A microwave oven can be considered that executes cooking of the product (by scanning the barcode of the product with an input means such as a barcode league to read the cooking program).

In this case, there is no need to go through the troublesome work of flipping through the pages of a cookbook to find the desired cooking program), or the troublesome work of reading and setting the cooking time and cooking output from the instructions included in the instant product. This makes it possible to easily and reliably set a cooking program.

However, in the case of such a configuration, the output performance of the microwave oven varies depending on each microwave manufacturer and each model.
00W... Therefore, food manufacturers have to be able to write many 1JI4 program barcodes for each company and model in one instant product, which is actually unnecessary. It is possible.

e→ Problems to be Solved by the Invention The present invention relates to instant products and the like, even if food manufacturers are unable to label many barcodes corresponding to different cooking devices such as microwave ovens with different output performance. To provide a cooking device that can easily and reliably set a cooking program for instant products.

B) Means to solve the problem Product identification information such as barcode format is recorded in computer management at the distribution stage.

The cooking device of the present invention utilizes such product identification information, and includes an input means for inputting product identification information written on a product to be cooked such as an instant product, and a cooking program corresponding to a plurality of products to be cooked. It consists of a storage means for storing, and a reading means for reading out a cooking program corresponding to the product identification information from the storage means for executing cooking when all the product identification information is input using the input means.

(e) Operation When product identification information is input from the product to be cooked, a cooking program corresponding to the information is read out and cooking is executed.

(F) Embodiment FIG. 1 shows a microwave oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the microwave oven body 11) has a heating chamber 12) to which microwaves are supplied.
is built-in, and a door (3) and #side panel 14) for opening and closing the #side opening of the heating chamber (2) are provided.

The front panel (4) includes a numeric display section (5), a character display section (6), a keyboard 1711, a light-ven type barcode reader (8) as a manual means, and a removable memory means. 1 memory body (9) is provided.

The barcode reader (8) inputs the product identification information, ie, the barcode, written on the microwaveable instant product, which is the product to be cooked. Such codes are usually used for computer management during the product distribution stage.Also,
The first storage body (9) stores a plurality of barcodes, product names, and cooking programs corresponding to various instant products.

, @2 shows the circuit of the microwave oven, in which a microcomputer αO that controls the microwave oven is installed, and the microcomputer is connected to the microwave board (71
And based on the input information from the barcode reader (8), the numerical display fAt51, the character display section (61), the first memory body (9), the second memory body aD which is another built-in memory means, It also controls the magnetron d3 that supplies microwaves to the heating chamber 12).

The second memory aB, like the first memory (9), stores a plurality of product identification information, that is, barcodes, product names, and cooking programs corresponding to various instant products.

In this case, the barcode, product name and cooking program stored in the second storage unit [υ] are fixed and cannot be changed, but the barcode, product name and cooking program stored in the first storage unit (91) are fixed and cannot be changed. and cooking programs can be added and changed sequentially.In other words, regarding the first memory unit (9), if a new instant product is released and a new barcode is used,
Such new barcodes, new product names, and corresponding new market programs can be additionally stored. In addition, if a new instant product is released but the barcode for this product is that of an old product stored in the second memory +111, the barcode of the old product and its corresponding barcode will be used. It is possible to additionally store new product names and LIR-style glograms. In the case of this additional storage, different cooking programs related to the same barcode exist in both the first storage unit (9) and the second storage unit i'111. However, in such a situation, the first memory body (9
) new cooking programs for new instant products are continuously released and cooking is performed according to these programs. This is because the contents of the first storage body (91) are examined first, as will be understood from the explanation below.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the control program of the microcomputer (tl), and the operation of the microwave oven will be explained below with reference to the same chart.

Normally, the Sl and S2 steps are executed cyclically. In step S1, it is determined whether or not a barcode has been input from the barcode reader (81), and in step S2, it is determined whether or not the start key has been operated on the keyboard (7).

For example, if you want to perform normal microwave cooking with 0% cuff output and 5 minutes of cooking time, first press the keyboard [7] above.
At 1, press the key with 5 swords [Zl (2) Iokatsudan. Then, the cuff output is 0% and the time is 3 minutes.
This is set during the cyclic execution of steps 1 and S2, and during this period, the numerical display section (5) displays "r70J r500" in sequence. Next, when the start key is operated on the keyboard +71, step 83 is executed, the drive control of the magnetron α2 is performed, and microwave cooking is started for 5 minutes with an output of 0%. Further, the remaining time is displayed on the numerical display section (5). When such cooking is completed, the cycle returns to the Sl and S2 steps.

Next, when you purchase and cook an instant microwave oven product from a food manufacturer, read the product identification information, i.e. the barcode, written on the product using the barcode reader (8).
Read in 1. Then, the cycle of steps 81 and S2 is exited, step 84 is executed, and the first storage body (9) is
is attached, and it is determined whether or not there is a barcode in the first memory that matches the barcode read as described above.

In this case, assuming that the upper placement M is done and a matching barcode exists, then step S5 is executed,
The cooking program corresponding to this matched barcode is read from the ts1 memory (9). Such step S5 corresponds to the reading means of the present invention. In the continuation <86 step, the product name corresponding to the above matching barcode is
The product name is successively outputted from the memory unit i91 and displayed on the character display section (6), and it can be confirmed whether or not the displayed product name is that of the instant product that is about to be prepared.

Next, the start key tm is created using the keyboard (7;). When such an operation is performed, step S8 is executed through step S7, and the drive control of the magnetron riz is performed according to the cooking program successively issued in step S5. is completed and desired microwave cooking is started.At this time, the remaining time is displayed on the numerical display section (5).When such cooking is completed, the cycle returns to steps 81 and S2.

Next, I purchased all microwaveable instant products from eight food manufacturers and installed a barcode reader (
If there is no barcode in the first memory i9i that matches the barcode read in step 81, step S9 of step S4 is executed, and this time the barcode matches the barcode read as described above. It is determined whether the barcode exists in the second storage body t11I. in this case,
Assuming a matching barcode exists, then 8
10 steps are executed, and the cooking program corresponding to the matched barcode is read from the second memory ALL.

Like the 85:A step, the 810 step also corresponds to the reading means of the present invention. In the subsequent step S11, the product name corresponding to the matching nine barcodes is successively outputted from the second storage unit U and displayed on the character display section (6), and this displayed product name is the name of the product that is about to be cooked. You can check whether it is an instant product or not. subsequent 8
The operations related to step 7 and S8 are the same as described above.

Next, when you purchase and cook a microwaveable instant product from food manufacturer 0, a barcode that matches the barcode read by the barcode reader (8) is found in the first storage body (91 and second memory). If it does not exist in any of the memory units OIJ, step S12 is executed after step S9, and "None" is displayed on the character display section (6), indicating that the cooking program related to the product is not stored. I can recognize that.

Thereafter, a cycle of S1 and S2 steps occurs. In this case, although it is troublesome, all you have to do is follow the normal cooking procedure, read the cooking time and cooking output from the instructions written on the product package, set them on the keyboard ear 1, and press the start key. Then, in step S5, the product is cooked.

Alternatively, it is assumed that the above-mentioned product is newly released, and the barcode of the product is additionally stored in the first storage unit (9) via the keyboard (71), as well as the product name and all the cooking programs, and then the above-mentioned Cooking may be performed by reading a barcode with a barcode reader (8) as shown in FIG.

(卜) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, with respect to instant products, etc., a desired cooking program is read out by inputting this information using product identification information written on the product, and m-filling is executed. Therefore, food manufacturers can easily and reliably set cooking programs for instant products and execute cooking, even if they are unable to write many barcodes to accommodate each cooker with different output performance. ζ, can be done.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show a child microwave oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is an external perspective view, FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram, and FIG. 6 is a control program.
0-Chart. (8)...Barcode reader, (9)...First memory, αa...Microcomputer, uD...Second memory.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) an input means for inputting product identification information written on a product to be cooked; a storage means for storing cooking programs corresponding to a plurality of products to be cooked; when the product identification information is input by the input means; A cooking appliance characterized by comprising: reading means for reading out a cooking program corresponding to the product identification information from the storage means for executing cooking.