JPH06133859A - Rice cooking device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the rice cooking device which can execute efficiently rice cooking without executing a troublesome opertion. CONSTITUTION:In the rice cooking device provided with a rice washer for washing weighed rice, and plural rice cookers for receiving washed rice from the rice washer and cooking rice this device is provided with a rice cooking discriminating means 38 for discriminating whether each rice cooker is executing rice cooking or not, and a rice cooking control means 39 for discharging the rice from the rice washer to the rice cooker discriminated not to be in the cource of rice cooking by the rice cooking discriminating means 38 to cook a rice.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rice cooker used in kitchens such as restaurants, Chinese restaurants, sushi restaurants and hotels.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some rice cookers are equipped with a rice washer for washing measured rice and a plurality of rice cookers for receiving rice from the rice washer to cook rice. With this type of conventional rice cooker, The user looks at the indicator lamps of each rice cooker to determine whether the rice cooker is cooking rice. If there is a rice cooker that is not cooking rice, move the rice washer to it by manually operating the switch, etc. I washed rice from the bowl and started to cook rice.

[0003]

Therefore, in the conventional case, the user has to check the rice cooker which is not cooking rice by the display lamp or the like and operate the switch, which is troublesome.
There was also a problem in the efficiency of cooking rice. In view of the above problems, the present invention enables efficient rice cooking without troublesome operations.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The technical means of the present invention for solving this technical problem comprises a rice washing machine for washing the weighed rice, and a plurality of rice cookers for receiving the washed rice from the rice washing machine to cook the rice. In a rice cooker, rice cook discrimination means for discriminating whether or not rice is cooked for each rice cooker, and rice cooker for discharging rice from the rice washer to the rice cooker discriminated as not being cooked by the rice cooker discrimination cooker And means is provided.

[0005]

[Operation] The rice cooker determines whether each rice cooker is cooking rice, and the rice cooker controls the rice to remove the rice from the rice washer to the rice cooker that is not cooking rice, and then operate the rice cooker to sequentially cook the rice cookers that are not cooking rice. Let the rice cook automatically.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 2 and 3, the apparatus main body 1 is formed in a box shape having an internal space, and a rice storage tank 2 is formed in a lower portion thereof.
Is provided, and the rice in the rice storage tank 2 can be conveyed to the hopper 5 with the weighing machine 4 provided at the top of the apparatus main body 1 by the conveying apparatus 3 provided on one side of the apparatus main body 1.

On the lower side of the device body 1, a first rice cooker 7a is provided.
And the second rice cooker 7b are arranged on the pedestal 8. The rice cookers 7a and 7b are mounted on a slide guide 9 on a pedestal 8 and can be inserted into and removed from the device body 1. In the rice cookers 7a and 7b, an inner pot 12 is removably fitted in an outer pot 11, and an inner lid 13 thereof is openable and closable with a pin shaft 15 as a fulcrum together with an outer lid 14 and is in a confidential state with a hook or the like outside the drawing. It is a gas rice cooker that can be held at. Hopper 5 with scale 4 and rice cookers 7
A rail 16 is provided between a and 7b, and a rice washing device 17 is movably provided on the rail 16. The rice washer 17 can be freely reciprocated between the rice cookers 7a and 7b on the rail 16 by driving wheels and driven wheels (not shown) and can be stopped at a position corresponding to the rice cookers 7a and 7b. , Limit switch, timer, etc.
It is connected to the motor circuit of the rice washing machine traveling motor 18 shown in FIG.

The inner pot 12 of the rice cookers 7a and 7b is shown in FIG.
And as shown in FIG. 5, the shutter 2 is provided at the center of the inner lid 13.
The shutter 21 is rotatably supported about a vertical axis 23, and is opened and closed by a shutter opening / closing motor 24 by reciprocating rotation about the vertical axis 23. The rice washing machine 17 is a rice washing tank 2 having a funnel section at the bottom.
5, a stirring member 27 that is driven to rotate by a stirring motor 26 is provided in the rice washing tank 25.
The rice discharge opening 28 at the lower end is provided with a conical valve 29 that can be opened and closed. The conical valve 29 is a valve drive motor 30 shown in FIG.
The rice discharge opening 28 is opened and closed by the above.
Since the rice washing machine 17 reciprocates, the water supply hose or the like for it is assumed to have the moving length of the rice washing machine 17, and the weighing machine 4 is composed of a cut-out type rotating body driven by the weighing motor 32. Washing tank 25 through chute 31
Add metered rice to.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a control system. In FIG. 1, a control device 35 is for controlling the rice cookers 7a and 7b, the rice washer 17 and the weighing device 4, and is constituted by a microcomputer or the like. Has been done. The control device 35 outputs signals from a first rice cooker detection sensor 36a that detects that the first rice cooker 7a is cooking rice, a second rice cooker detection sensor 36b that detects that the second rice cooker 7b is cooking rice, and the like. Enter, to drive the rice washing machine motor 18, shutter open / close motor 2
4, it outputs a control signal to the valve drive motor 30, the agitation motor 26, etc., and has a rice cooking determination means 38 and a rice cooking control means 39.

The rice cooking unit 38 determines whether or not the rice cookers 7a and 7b are cooking rice. The rice-cooking control means 39 determines that the rice-cooking determination means 38 has determined that the rice-cooking is not in progress.
The rice 7b is discharged from the rice washer 17 to be cooked. That is, after the rice washer 17 is moved to the rice cooker side which is not cooking rice by driving the rice washer traveling motor 18, the conical valve 29 and the shutter 21 are opened and closed by driving the shutter opening / closing motor 24 and the valve drive motor 30. ,
The rice cookers 7a and 7b are operated.

Next, the operation during the rice discharging process will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. If the rice washer 17 is on the first rice cooker 7a side, in step 1, the first rice cooker 7a
It is judged whether or not a is cooking rice, and if it is not cooking rice, the process proceeds to step 2, and after discharging rice to the first rice cooker 7a in step 2,
In step 3, the first rice cooker 7a is operated to cook rice by gas ignition or the like. On the other hand, if the first rice cooker 7a is cooking rice, the process proceeds to step 4.

At step 4, it is judged whether the second rice cooker 7b is cooking rice. If it is not cooking rice, the process proceeds to step 5,
In step 5, the rice washer 17 is moved to the side of the second rice cooker 7b, the rice is discharged to the second rice cooker 7b in step 2, and then the second rice cooker 7b is cooked by gas ignition or the like in step 3. On the other hand, if the second rice cooker 7b is cooking rice in step 1, it returns to step 1.

When the rice washer 17 is located on the second rice cooker 7b side, the only difference is that the first rice cooker 7a and the second rice cooker 7b are replaced with each other, and otherwise, the rice washer 17 is the first rice cooker 7a. Operates in the same way as on the side. In addition, in the said Example, although two rice cookers 7 were provided with respect to one rice-washing device 17, three or more rice-rice cookers 7 may be provided with respect to one rice-washing device 17 instead. Good. Further, instead of the rice washing machine traveling motor 18, the shutter opening / closing motor 24, the valve driving motor 30 and the stirring motor 26, a solenoid or other driving means may be used, and the valve driving motor 30 may be used.
Alternatively, one motor may be used as the stirring motor 26.

In the above embodiment, one rice washing device 17 is reciprocated with respect to two rice cookers 7, but instead of this, a plurality of rice washing devices 7 are reciprocated with respect to one rice washing device 17. It may be moved or rotated.

[0015]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, rice is discharged from a rice washer to a rice cook discrimination means for discriminating whether or not rice is being cooked for each rice cooker, and a rice cooker discriminated as not being cooked by the rice cook discrimination means. Since it has rice cooking control means to operate it,
You can automatically cook rice cookers that are not cooking rice one by one, without the hassle of checking the rice cookers that are not cooking rice with display lamps and operating switches, so that you can efficiently cook rice with multiple rice cookers. It becomes

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an inner hook portion showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of an inner hook portion showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Rice Cooker 17 Rice Washer 38 Rice Cooking Discrimination Means 39 Rice Cooking Control Means

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Sadao Fukushima 64 Ishizukitamachi, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture Kubota Sakai Factory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A rice washing machine (17) for washing the weighed rice.
And a plurality of rice cookers (7) that receive washed rice from the rice washer (17) and cook the rice, the rice cook discrimination means (38) for discriminating whether or not rice is being cooked for each rice cooker (7). And the rice cooker (7) which is determined by the rice cook discrimination means (38) that rice is not being cooked, is provided with rice cook control means (39) for discharging rice from the rice washer (17) to operate the rice. The characteristic rice cooker.