JPS618527A - Heating cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve utility of a cooker, by easily inputting home menus into it, by providing a liquid crystal indication part of dotted matrix type and a keyboard of sliding type for inputting of alphabetic letters to an operation part. CONSTITUTION:A liquid crystal indication part 8 of dotted maxtrix type and a keyboard 9 of sliding type for inputting of alphabetic letters are provided to the operation part 2 of a main body 1. Heating output and heating time are set by depressing an output setting key 5 and a timer setting key 4, respectively. By the combination of those keys, special procedure of cooking for individual home, that is so-called a home menu, can be realized. When home menus are registered, the sliding keyboard 9 is pulled out and menus are inputted in the keyboard by setting letters on it, and then a register/confirm key 10 is depressed. The menu is indicated in the liquid crystal indication part 8. By depressing the register/confirm key 10 after pushing back the sliding keyboard 9 to its home position, the names of set menus are indicated in order in the liquid crystal indication part 8, so that registered menus can be confirmed. In such a manner, home menues can easily be input into the operation part of a cooker, and they can be used any time when they are needed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a cooking device having a dot matrix type liquid crystal display section.

Conventional configurations and their problems Conventionally, heating cookers that can program cooking using a microcomputer, such as a microwave oven, have several types of so-called home menus in which each household's unique heating cooking procedure is stored. It is provided. And, for registration of this home menu, multiple registration keys are provided,
The method used was to register by entering a number. However, with such conventional means, when the number of home menus increases, it becomes difficult to distinguish which menus are registered where by the order of registration keys or registration numbers, which is inconvenient.

Purpose of the Invention The present invention solves such conventional drawbacks and improves usability by providing an IJ box-type liquid crystal display section in the operating section of the heating cooker, making it possible to easily input the home menu name. The purpose is to

Structure of the Invention In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides an IJ box-type liquid crystal display section and a sliding keyboard for inputting characters in the operating section of a heating cooker so that the home menu name can be easily entered. This is what I did.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the main body of the heating cooker according to the present invention.
, a timer setting key 4, an output setting key 5, a cancel key 6, a cooking start key 7, a dosotomax type liquid crystal display section 8, a sliding keyboard 9J for character input, and a registration/confirmation key 10. ing. The sliding keyboard 9 is normally pushed into the operating section 2I, and when registering, it can be pulled out to input characters.

Heating output and heating time are set using the output setting key 5 and the dimer setting key 4, and by combining these, a cooking procedure unique to each household, a so-called home menu, is realized. To register this home menu, pull out the manual keyboard 9, enter characters, set the menu name, and press the registration/confirmation key 10. This menu name is displayed on the dot matrix type liquid crystal display 8.
To confirm and set, press the sliding keyboard 9 to return to the initial state (i.e. all clear) and press the registration/confirmation key 10 to display the set menu names in sequence on the liquid crystal display 8. .

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a heating cooker equipped with an operating section according to the present invention, in which a magnetron (heating source) 11 is controlled by a duty control circuit 12.
is controlled by a duty signal from the controller 13. The controller 13 causes the data on the heating time and heating output to be stored in the memory 14 by input signals from the timer setting key 4 and the output setting key 5, and by the cancel key 6.
data for heating is read out from the memory 14 using the cooking start key 7, and predetermined output and time control is performed. The controller 13 also outputs display data to the timer display section 3 to display the timer one hour. The controller 13 stores data input from the sliding keyboard 9 for character input in the memory 14, and also controls the liquid crystal drive circuit 1 equipped with a character generator 15.
6, the menu name is displayed on the dot matrix type liquid crystal display section 8.

Effects of the Invention As described above, the heating cooker of the present invention provides the following effects.

(1) By using a dot matrix type liquid crystal, the number of home menus can be increased as desired.

(2) The sliding keyboard allows you to pull it out and use it when you need to input characters, so it does not get in the way of normal operations.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the main body of a cooking device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the cooking device. 1...Main body, 2...Operation unit, 8...
・Dot matrix type liquid crystal display, 9...Sliding keyboard for character input. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person No. 1
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A heating cooker comprising a dot matrix liquid crystal display section for displaying at least a menu name in text, and an operation section having a sliding keyboard for entering text.