JPH03146015A - Water quantity display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit the weighing of the rice quantity and the memory set procedure and to improve the operability by setting a desired rice cooking quantity, setting a correct water quantity, based on this set value, and displaying the quantity degree of a weighed value against this correct water quantity. CONSTITUTION:By turning a rice cooking quantity setting dial switch 28, a numeral 29 of a desired number of cups is set. A display control means displays means displays the number of cups set to a rice cooking quantity display means 16. On the other hand, a user weighs the rice quantity corresponding to a desired rice cooking quantity set by the setting dial switch 28 by a weighing cup, contains it in a containing after washing rice and set it to a cooker body 1 and feeds water. Since a rod 7 descends in accordance with this weight, its weight is detected by a weight sensor 4 and the result is supplied to a control means. A deciding means sets a correct water quantity against the set rice cooking quantity as weight of rice + water, and decides the quantity degree of a weighed value against a correct value. As the result of such decision, the display control means puts on and displays stepwise a display part 20 of a water quantity display means 17.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a mizuya display device that displays the appropriate amount of water for the amount of rice to be cooked.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, the following steps are generally taken before starting rice cooking. First, use a measuring cup to measure the rice as desired.
, wash the weighed rice, store the rice in a container, and store the appropriate amount of water for the amount of rice so that it reaches the water level line provided on the inner surface of the container according to the amount of rice, and then Start cooking rice after placing the container in the main body.

However, in the above-mentioned measuring procedure, water is stored in accordance with the water level line set on the inside surface of the container, but this water level line is unclear and difficult to see, and there are some errors in the dimensions, so the water volume cannot be measured. As a result, the amount of rice and the amount of water may not correspond properly, resulting in a problem that the rice is not cooked properly.

In order to solve such problems, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-962
A rice cooking water temperature display device is proposed in Japanese Patent No. 16. This is based on the determination result of the measuring means for measuring the seriousness of the container containing rice, the rice layer determining means for determining the amount of rice based on the output of the measuring means, and the overcooked rice determining means. 11. The appropriate water amount determination means determines the amount of water suitable for cooking rice with fixed rice mist, and the determination means determines the appropriateness of the water based on the output of the measuring means that supplies water into the container containing the rice and measures the weight change of the container containing the rice and water. Comparison to determine excess or deficiency of supply water temperature relative to water quantity: F
- stage, and a water absorption means for displaying the suitability of the supplied water temperature based on the determination result of the comparison means.First, the amount of rice is measured by the measuring means, and this Hl skewer value is stored as the amount of cooked rice. , determines the appropriate amount of water for the amount of rice to be cooked using the appropriate water amount determining means, determines whether the amount of water supplied is excessive or insufficient with respect to this appropriate amount of water, and displays the result on the display means, without using the water level line of the container. The appropriate amount of water can be 1q. However, in order to determine the appropriate amount of water, it is first necessary to measure and memorize the amount of rice using a method.

(I,!i! Problem to be solved by the invention) In the above-mentioned conventional technology, rice before washing is placed in a container, weighed and hung by a breaking means, and the weighing result is stored in a memory by operating a switch. It is necessary to memorize and then transfer the weighed rice from the container to a container for washing rice, and then put it back into the container after washing the rice.
Water can be supplied after this procedure has been completed.

For this reason, although it is possible to adjust the amount of water appropriately without using a water level line, there is a problem in that it takes a lot of time to measure the amount of rice and to store the measured values in memory, making it inconvenient to handle.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a water amount display device that can omit the separate measurement of rice amount using a hanging means and the memory hit procedure.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving Problem Vj1) The water amount display device '11 of the present invention has a rice cooking amount setting -7=stage 28 for setting the amount of rice to be cooked, and a container 5 containing rice and water. A meter for measuring is a means 31, an I'11 determining means 43 for determining the degree of the measured value of the measuring means 37 for appropriate rice and water mold based on the setting value of the rice cooking amount setting means 28, and this determination means 43. It is equipped with water amount display means 17 for displaying the results.

(Function) According to the present invention, with the above-mentioned configuration, the water amount display means 17 displays the degree of planting of fi11 of the amount means 37 with respect to the appropriate amount of rice and water for cooking rice based on the set value of the setter g128. Ru.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figures 9 and 10 show an example in which a rice cooker is equipped with a water quantity display means. The applicant disclosed the publicly known Ifil? A sensor 4 is provided.

5 is a container housed in the inner case 2;
is placed on the support member 6, and its weight is transferred to 11mff1 via the lug 7 connected to the hot water flow sensor v4.
The weight sensor 4 outputs an energy detection signal 8. 8 is the inner case 2
The rice cooking heater 9 is installed at the inner bottom of the
It is a cup-shaped heat-sensitive part that is provided in pressure contact with the outer part of the body, and a humidity sensor 10 is provided inside. 11
12 is a lid that opens and closes the top opening of the adder main body 1; and 12 is an operation panel.

13 is rice and 13A is water.

FIG. 4 shows the operation panel 12, which includes an operation means 14 consisting of a plurality of switches and a display means 1 consisting of LEDs, etc.
5. The display means 15 has a cooked rice amount display means 16 for displaying the amount of rice and a water amount display means 17 for displaying ink.

The rice cooking amount display means 1G includes a display section 18 consisting of a 4-digit 7T7 segment type LED and "rice cooking amount."

Display section 19 in the shape of the letters ``Cup J, rqJ''.
19A, 19B, and this display section 18 has 148.
It is now displayed as 5Q + 1 cup. In addition, the rice cooking amount display means 16 displays the rice cooking amount set when measuring the rice by converting it into a mold tank per cup on the "F cup" display section 19A. The amount of rice to be cooked is also displayed when the amount of rice to be cooked is set by the amount of rice to be cooked by a rice-cooked amount setting means which will be described later.Furthermore, when used as a scale, the amount of rice to be cooked is displayed on the display section 1913 of the rQJ. The water amount display means 17 has 10 display sections 20 in the shape of "mouth" arranged in a column, and the character 21 "soft" is written on the side of the display section 20 in the second row from the top. On the side of the display section 20 of the row is the sentence "Suspicious"') i! 22 is written, 6
The character 23 "hard" is written on the side of the display section 20 in the row. Further, at the bottom of the display section 20 at the bottom, characters 24 that read 1 "water fear" are written. This water amount display means 1
7, when the measured value is the appropriate amount of water for the amount of rice to be cooked, the LED on the display section 20 corresponding to the character 22 "鐋" lights up, and when the amount of water is more than the appropriate range, the character 21 "soft" lights up.
The lighting shifts stepwise in the direction of , that is, toward the upper row, and if there is less, the lighting shifts stepwise in the direction of the character 23 for "hard", that is, toward the lower row. This stage classification is set to be done for the amount of cooked rice, for example, every 50 g when the rice is cooked for 10 cups, and the range from the character 21 for "soft" to the character 23 for "hard" indicates that it is within the edible range. ing. The operating means 14 has a start switch 25, a cancel switch 26, a rice amount switch 27 as a rice M setting means, and a setting dial switch 2B as a rice cooking amount setting means. Around one side of the setting dial switch 28 are numbers 29 from “1” to “10”.
The characters 30, ``cup'' and 31, ``cooked rice A'' are written, and the characters 32, ``cooked rice B'' and 33, ``measure'' are written around the other side, and the number of units is 729, and the character 3 is written.
At 0.31.32.33, there are indicated points 34 for adjusting the dial.

This setting dial switch 28 is the character 3 "cooking rice A"
Cooking ff1A mode to set to 1, rice cooking B mode to set to character 32 which is "cooking B", and character 3 which is "measure"
It has a function to switch to the measuring mode set to 3, and when setting to rice cooking mode A,
By setting the number 29 of "0", the amount of cooked rice can be arbitrarily set in 10 steps. By turning this setting dial switch 28, the mode is selected, and in the cooking fIIA mode, the amount of rice to be cooked is set in 10 steps, and when this is not operated, the amount of water is displayed in the set mode. In addition, the rice amount switch 27 is set to “
This is for converting the amount of rice displayed in units of ``9'' to units of ``cups''.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram, and 35 is a tlIliI1 means consisting of a microcomputer, which, as is well known, includes a CPU (not shown), a clock means, a ROM and a RAM as storage means, and an input circuit.

It has an output circuit, a backup circuit with a backup lll1 source, etc., and the ROM contains a rice cooking program,
It stores the filJfi program, total l1I11, comparative constant values, etc. Further, the control means 35 has a control function 11 for rice cooking, a function for performing a weight detection signal from the mold sensor 4, and a display means 15. It has functions such as 1 and If m functions for the notification means 36. This control means 35 and the heavy ffi hinger 4 constitute a measuring means 37. Further, the control means 35 has a function of performing ill mode selection operation as shown in the block diagram of FIG. This has mode determining means 41 which determines the set mode according to a signal from a setting dial switch 28 serving as a mode selecting means and sets 11 remote 38, rice cooking A mode 39 or rice cooking B mode 40. are doing.

Further, the ill m means 35 has a configuration shown in the block diagram of FIG. 1 in order to control the rice cooking A mode. This is a display control means 42 that displays the amount of rice cooked based on a setting signal from a setting dial switch 28 which is a rice amount setting means.
, a determination means 43 for determining whether the measured value is more or less than the appropriate value obtained based on the rice cooking M1 setting value, and a display on the water amount display means 11 based on this determination result! II il
It has a display aI11 section means 44 for displaying information. In addition, the control means 35 is set to 11 in the rice cooking B mode. In order to execute the IJ control, it has the configuration shown in the block diagram of FIG. Although this is shown in FIG. 1, a rice cooking amount determining means 45 is added which determines the cooking level based on the signals from the measuring means 37 and the rice amount switch 27 which is the rice ffi setting means.

First, the mode selection operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

When a mode is arbitrarily set by turning the start switch 25 to 1 and turning the setting dial switch 28, the mode determining means 41 determines the set mode based on No. 15 of the setting dial switch 28 and sets it. In this case, when rice cooking mode A is set, rice cooking amount display means 1
The character 19.19A indicating "cooked rice amount (cup)" is displayed on 6, and when the cooking IB mode is selected, the character 19A indicating r cup J is displayed, and when the mode is set to measuring mode, the character 19.19A "cooking amount (cup)" is displayed.
" character 193 is displayed. In rice cooking A mode, the settings are already set according to the rice cooking amount display, so the rice cooking amount display means 1
The display at 6 may be omitted.

Next, the operation of rice cooking A[-do] will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3. First, the setting die V is a means for finely setting rice cooking.
Turn switch 28 to set number 29 for the desired number of cups. The display i, lI tit means 42 displays the number of cups set on the rice cooking amount display means 1G. On the other hand, before or after this setting, the user uses a measuring cup to measure rice equivalent to the desired rice cooking rate set with the full switch 28 of the setting die 1, and after washing the rice, stores it in the container 5.
Set it to water supply. As the rod 7 descends in accordance with this weight, the weight is detected by the weight sensor 4 and provided to the control means 35. The determining means 43 sets the appropriate amount of water for the set amount of rice to be cooked as 10 ml of rice water,
It is compared with the C1 hanging injection from the measuring means 37 to determine the extent to which the JI value is relative to the appropriate value. Based on this determination result, the display unit 44 displays $1151 on the display section 2 of the water amount display unit 17.
0 is lit and displayed in stages. In this case, the appropriate value for the amount of rice to water compared to the amount of cooked rice is the @amount ratio of cooked rice, which is 2.
Set within a range of around 3 times. This is 5 (cups) x 148.5 (Q
) -1-743 (G) is the weight of rice, so 743
(g) X2.3-! -1709 (Q) is 2.3
It is twice the weight, and the appropriate value is the amount of evaporation during cooking, which is about ±109. Set as an enclosure.

When it is within this reference range, the display section 20 corresponding to the character "Zeng" 22 lights up as appropriate, and the lighting of the display section 20 moves up or down depending on the amount of water based on this.

The operation of the rice cooking BT needle will be explained with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8.

first! 11 is opened, a desired amount of rice is placed in the container, and the rice amount switch 27 is pressed, a signal from the weight sensor 9°4 is given to the rice cooking area determination means 45, and this JE amount value is converted into the amount of rice to be cooked. This is a rice cooker! When it is within the Ii range, it is stored and displayed on the cooked rice amount display means 16. After this, the rice was transferred to a rice washing container and washed, and the washed rice was stored in container 5 and water was supplied. The amount of water display means 1 is determined by determining the degree of δ1 hanging value for the foil of appropriate rice water based on the amount taken.
7.

It should be noted that when the determination result of the 71 constant means 43 is out of the range where rice can be cooked in terms of the amount of rice to be cooked, the notification means 36 notifies.

The correction remote measures the weight of the object to be weighed, such as rice or water, and displays this measured value in rqJ'Ji.

In this way, in the above actual tlIi example, the setting dial switch 2, which is the rice cooking a setting means, in the cooking #IA mode.
Set the desired amount of rice to be cooked by the operation in step 8, set the appropriate water output for this set value, that is, essentially the appropriate value for rice 10 water, and compare this with rice + water fft far (A) to determine the appropriate amount of rice. Since this is to display the degree of total lfi hani in relation to the value, as in the past, first, unwashed rice is placed in the container 5 and crushed by the capacity means 37, and this J1 result is displayed by switch operation. It is possible to omit the complicated procedure of storing the rice in the memory, transferring the gl'm rice from the container 5 to a container for washing rice, and storing it again in the container 5 after washing the rice.
Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the problem of having to redo the memory operation every time the unheard name is changed, and in this embodiment, the user puts the desired number of cups of rice into a rice washing container and then washes the rice. The operation is simplified by simply storing it in the liS.

In addition, since the rice cooking amount setting means is formed by the setting dial 1 and the switch 28, you can enjoy the operability of the settings and use this set the next time you cook.
In this case, there is no need to reset the settings.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention. For example, although a rice cooker equipped with a water amount display device has been described as an example, the water amount display device may be equipped on a scale having a meter body 46 and a weighing table 47 as shown in FIG. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiments, the mode selection function was used as an example, but it may also be used as a water amount display V4 having only the rice cooking mode A shown in FIGS. 1 to 3. Further, although the rice cooking amount setting means is formed of a dial switch, it can be applied to various switches. For example, as shown in FIG.
Each time you press the rice cooking fn setting switch 28A in preparation for 2.
” to “10” cups may be set in order and displayed on the rice cooking quality display means IG.

[Effects of the Invention tA] The present invention sets a desired rice cooking amount using a rice cooking amount setting means, sets an appropriate water heat based on this setting value, and displays the degree of the measured value for this appropriate water loss. Therefore, it is possible to omit the procedure of setting the rice amount by 31 m and the memory setting using the needle m means, and it is possible to provide a water amount display device that can improve operability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 10 show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a dimensional block diagram showing the configuration for controlling the rice cooker mode.
Fig. 2 is a block diagram, Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing rice cooking A mode control, Fig. 14 is a front view of the operation panel, Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration for mode setting, Fig. 6 is a flow chart showing mode selection. ! FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the configuration for rice cooking B mode IIIIIIl, FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing rice cooking 8 mode control, and FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the rice cooker equipped with a water amount display device. 10 is a sectional view, FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a scale equipped with a water amount display Vi, and FIG. 12 is a front view showing another embodiment of the rice cooking amount setting means. 5...Container 17...Water amount display device 28...Setting dial switch (cooking tIfth1m determining means) 28A...Rice cooking amount setting switch (cooking amount setting means) 37...Handle m means 43... Judgment means patent applicant Toshiba Thermal Appliances Co., Ltd. Agent

Claims (1)

[Claims] A rice cooking amount setting means for setting the amount of rice to be cooked, a measuring means for storing and measuring rice and water in a container, and an appropriate amount of rice and water based on the set values of the rice cooking amount setting means. 1. A water amount display device comprising: a determining means for determining whether the measured value of the measuring means is higher or lower than the measured value of the measuring means; and a water amount display means for displaying the determination result.