JPH0763348A - Microwave oven - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To permit cooking from either front side or rear side of an oven by a method wherein door for inserting and taking out a food to be cooked are provided at the front part and rear part of the main body of the oven. CONSTITUTION:A front side operating panel unit 10 is provided at a part opposed to a machine room 4 at the front surface of the main body 1 of an oven and a rear surface operating panel 11 is provided at a part opposed to an air chamber 5 at the rear surface of the main body 1 of the oven while doors 15, 16, which open and/or close a cooking chamber 3 respectively, are attached to the front surface and the rear surface of the main body 1 of the oven. According to this method, when a microwave oven is installed on a counter in a convenience store, for example, so that the front surface is faced to the side of customers, a customer, who wants to utilize the microwave oven, opens the front surface door 15 to insert a food into the cooking chamber 3 to cook it and when an employee in a register space has to cook, he can cook by opening the door 16 of rear surface side whereby the employee is not necessitated to go out of the register space to come to the front surface of the microwave oven.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a microwave oven for heating food and thawing food by irradiating microwaves from a magnetron.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a microwave oven is provided with a cooking cabinet inside a microwave oven, and a microwave generated by a magnetron is applied to a food set on a turntable in the cooking cabinet or a container containing the food. It irradiates the waves to cook, so the front of the range body is
A door for getting food or containers in and out of the kitchen,
An operation panel unit including various kinds of cooking control switches such as a timer switch, a door opening / closing switch, and a start switch is attached.

[0003]

By the way, in a recent house, a table is placed between a kitchen and a dining room as a kitchen type, and a person on the kitchen side and a person on the dining room face each other with the table sandwiched between them. The number of so-called face-to-face counter kitchens is increasing. This type of kitchen is convenient because the kitchen and the table are close to each other and you can stand up in the kitchen immediately when needed, but when the above microwave oven is placed on the table, the microwave door is only on the front side. Therefore, there is a case where the door can be opened and closed only from either the kitchen side or the dining room side, which may hinder the use.

In addition, in recent convenience stores,
A service system has been adopted in which a microwave oven is placed near a cash register, and a customer can use the microwave oven to cook or defrost purchased food by self-service. In that case, even if the microwave oven is originally used for self-service, there are cases where the employee has to cook depending on the customer and the type of food, and the microwave door is placed toward the customer. This makes it inconvenient for employees in the cash register to use.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a microwave oven which can be cooked either before or after the microwave oven.

[0006]

That is, the present invention relates to a microwave oven for cooking by irradiating microwaves generated by a magnetron to an object to be cooked set in a cooking cabinet, the front part of the microwave oven body. And a rear surface portion are each provided with a door for loading and unloading the food to open and close the cooking chamber.

[0007]

According to the above construction, since the doors are provided at the front and rear of the range main body, cooking can be performed from either side of the front and rear.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the microwave oven of the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a turntable 2 is provided in the central portion in the width direction inside the range main body 1, and a cooking cabinet 3 having front and rear openings is formed. On the other hand, chambers 4 and 5 are formed on both sides of the cooking chamber 3, and among these chambers 4 and 5, the chamber on the right side when viewed from the front of the range main body is the machine chamber 4, and the machine chamber 4 has a micro chamber. A magnetron 6 for generating waves, a waveguide 7 for guiding the generated microwaves to the cooking cabinet 3, a cooling fan 8 for cooling the magnetron 6, a motor 9 for driving the fan, and the like are housed. Further, the left chamber is an empty chamber 5 for discharging air.

A front side operation panel section 10 is provided on the front side of the range main body corresponding to the machine room 4, and a rear side operation panel section 11 is provided on the rear side of the range main body corresponding to the empty room 5. , These operation panel section 10,
11, a timer dial 12 for setting the microwave irradiation time by the magnetron 6, a door button 13 for opening and closing the door, and a start button 14 for starting cooking.
Control switches such as the above are provided, and doors 15 and 16 for opening and closing the cooking cabinet 2 are attached to the front surface and the rear surface of the range main body 1, respectively. In that case, the hinge arrangement of the front door 15 and the rear door 16 is reversed, and the door opening and closing directions are reversed, as is apparent from the plan view of FIG.

Further, the rear door 16 has a lattice-shaped air intake port 17 formed at a hinge side portion corresponding to the machine room 4, and a lattice-shaped air intake port 17 is formed at a hinge side portion corresponding to the empty chamber 5 of the front side door 15. Is formed, and the air taken into the machine room 4 from the air intake 17 by the drive of the cooling fan 8 flows from the machine room 4 to the empty room 5 through the cooking chamber 3 and then the air is exhausted. The gas is exhausted to the outside from the outlet 18. It should be noted that the vacant chamber 5 can accommodate other devices necessary for the microwave oven.

According to such a microwave oven structure, for example, in a convenience store, when the microwave oven is placed on the counter of the cash register with the front side facing the customer, the customer who wants to use the microwave oven can use the microwave oven on the front side. Door 1
5 can be opened and food can be put in the cooking cabinet 3, and cooking can be performed by selecting heat cooking or thawing treatment on the operation panel 10 on the front side as well. When required, the employee can open the rear door 16 to put in and receive the food received from the customer, without the employee having to leave the cash register and go to the front of the microwave oven.

FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment of the present invention.
By making the operation panel section an independent type so that it can be rotated between the front surface and the rear surface of the range main body 1, the operation panel section can be used both before and after the range main body 1. That is, while the operation panel section is used as an independent unit 19, an arm 21 that rotates about the shaft 20 is provided on the upper surface of the range main body 1, and the operation panel unit 19 is attached to the arm 21 so that the range main body 1 I am able to turn back and forth. According to this
Only one operation panel is required, which is advantageous in cost.

[0014]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, since the doors are provided at the front and rear of the range main body, it is possible to cook from either side of the front and rear. It is convenient to use when the microwave oven is placed at the cashier of a face-to-face counter type kitchen or convenience store.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a microwave oven according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the microwave oven.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the microwave oven.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a microwave oven according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 range main body 3 cooking cabinet 6 magnetron 10, 11 operation panel section 15, 16 door 19 operation panel section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A microwave oven for cooking by irradiating microwaves generated by a magnetron to an object to be cooked set in a cooking cabinet, wherein the microwave oven is provided on each of a front surface portion and a rear surface portion of the range main body. A microwave oven characterized by being provided with a door for opening and closing a cooking cabinet for loading and unloading an object to be cooked.