JPS63103921A - Scale for cooking - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a scale for cooking by which the amount of vegetative components of various materials are easily found and their control is easily carried on by providing an operation part with various operation keys such as a ten-key and vegetative component selection keys. CONSTITUTION:This scale consists of a weighing part 5 which weighs foods, etc., the operation part 6 equipped with various operation keys 3 such as the ten-key and vegetative component selection keys, a display part 8, an arithmetic control part 7 which computes the amount of vegetative components and calories, and a storage part 9. Then the amount of vegetative components of the materials of the food are computed automatically only by weighing the food, etc., and the amounts of vegetative components are checked. At this time, the computed amounts of vegetative components are stored in the storage part 9 and totalized to facilitate the confirmation of the total amount of vegetative components. Further, the intake of the vegetative components is registered in the storage part 9 and then the weighed vegetative component amount is compared to easily know whether the vegetative component amount is compared to easily know whether the vegetative components are excessive or deficient.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (a) Industrial Application Field This invention relates to a cooking scale, in particular a scale for weighing 1ffi of food materials and automatically calculating the amounts of various nutritional components such as calories contained therein. Regarding cooking scales.

(b) Conventional technology The modern diet is said to be one of abundance and satiety, and divine food ingredients and cooking methods have been introduced. However, on the other hand, obesity, diabetes, etc. are increasing and becoming a social problem. For this reason, in order to manage the amounts of various nutritional components in the diet, the following methods have been used in the past. That is, (1) Hang up the weight of each ingredient to be cooked, check the nutritional content per unit of each ingredient, determine and record the amount of nutritional content contained in each ingredient, and! After 11 days, the total amount of these nutritional components is determined.

(2) Determine nutritional components using a menu prepared in advance.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention However, in the case of (1) above, it is time-consuming to investigate the nutritional components per unit of various materials and find the amount of nutritional components contained in the weighed materials. , requires patience and time, making it difficult to continue managing the amount of nutritional components over a long period of time. In addition, in the case of (2) above, it is necessary to carefully match the weight of the ingredients to the weight according to the menu, but since this adjustment takes time,
It is difficult to maintain long-term management of nutritional components,
There was an inconvenience that material was lost during mr matching.

This invention was made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a cooking pillar that allows the nutritional content of various ingredients to be easily determined and that can be easily and continuously managed. be.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems This invention comprises a weighing section for weighing foods, etc., an operation section equipped with various persimmon operation keys such as a numeric keypad and a nutrient selection key, and results of weighing foods, etc. a display unit that displays data input from the control unit and the operation unit; a control unit that performs necessary adjustments such as nutritional content and calories based on the measurement results and input data; and a control unit that displays the measurement results. The cooking column is constituted by a storage section that stores input data or calculation results obtained by processing these data according to commands from the operation section.

In other words, the present invention is a cooking pillar equipped with means for calculating the nutritional composition of various materials.

(E) Function In this invention, the cooking column has a measuring section for measuring food, etc.
Equipped with an operation section with a nutritional component selection key, a control section, and a memory section, simply by weighing food, etc., the amount of nutritional components of the weighed ingredients can be automatically calculated and converted into nutritional components. to enable checking. Moreover, if the calculated nutritional component amounts are stored in the storage section and summed up at any time, it becomes easy to confirm the total nutritional component amounts.

Also, if you register each nutritional ingredient intake in the memory section and run J3,
By comparing with the measured amount of nutritional components, it is possible to easily know whether the amount of nutritional components is excessive or insufficient.

(F) EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below based on examples shown in the figures. Note that this invention is not limited by this.

In the cooking column S shown in Fig. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes the main body of the cooking column having a box shape.A horizontal weighing platform 2 is provided at the front upper part of the main body 1, and a horizontal weighing platform 2 is provided on the entire sloped part. has multiple operation keys 3 on the front side, and a display 4 between the counter and the stand 2.
is installed.

FIG. 2 shows the arrangement n of the operating keys 3 provided on the entire inclined surface of the main body 1 and the display contents displayed on the display 4.

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of the functional configuration of this cooking column S.

The operation keys 3 include 10 numeric keys 38 for inputting numbers from 0 to 9, 6 nutritional component selection keys 3b for selecting nutritional water such as calories and protein, and a RESET key 3C for putting the device into operation. , a SET key 3d for preparing input registration, a memory key 3e for memorizing nutritional ingredient amounts and confirming stored memories, a clear key 3r for clearing memories, and a weight key for weighing three food items. 3
g, and the other key group 3h.

As for the amount to be measured, the position of the table 2 in the height direction changes when a cooking material is placed on it. This amount of change is detected by a measuring section 5 provided within the device and transmitted to the arithmetic control section 7. Measuring part 5
The arithmetic and control unit 7 which has received the signal from the cooker controls the signal to cause the display unit 8 to display the weight of the cooking material on the display 4.

The operation unit 6 can issue calculation commands to the calculation control unit 7 using the operation keys 3, store data displayed on the display 4 in the storage unit 9, and can also store data stored in the storage unit 9. There is a mouth to call. 10 is a power supply unit that supplies electricity to the device.

In the storage unit 9, the amount of nutritional components such as calories per unit of food and the intake m of nutritional components such as calories can be registered in advance. In addition, the arithmetic control unit 7 also includes nutritional component intake 1a such as calories registered in advance in the storage unit 9 and the measuring unit 5.
Means is provided to compare the amount of nutritional components measured and calculated and issue an alarm if there is an abnormality in excess or deficiency.

Next, specific operations of the embodiment will be explained based on flowcharts not shown in FIGS. 4 to 7.

(1) When registering the intake amount (see FIG. 4), press the ON key among the operation keys 3 to supply power.

Next, press the RESET key 3C to enter the operating state, press the SET key 3d, enter the personal registration code on the 10 numeric keys 3a to prepare for registration, select nutrients using the nutritional component selection key 3b, Input the required intake h1 according to your health condition using the numeric keypad 3a. The display 4 displays the selected nutritional component amount and intake amount. When the user confirms this display and presses the USET key 3d, the memory Z is registered in the memory section 9. The registration is completed by selecting the necessary nutritional components, inputting the intake m, and repeating the operation of pressing the SET key 3d.

If you do not select nutrients after entering your personal registration code, press the RESET key 3C when re-registering.
You can repeat the steps without pressing , but if you do not want to re-register, press the OFF key to finish the operation.

(2) When weighing (see Figure 5) press the ON key to supply power. Press RESE'r t--30 to bring it into operation, initialize the measuring section 5 shown in FIG. 3, and prepare for measurement. Next, the measured amount changes depending on how quickly the cooking material is placed on the table 2, and the position of the table 2 in the height direction changes, and the δ1 hanging part 5 generates a signal based on this position change Φ. 0 control unit 7. After receiving the signal, the 1Ilti calculation control section 7 controls the signal to display the small amount of cooking material on the display 4. When reweighing, enter the weighing amount [
Remove the cooking ingredients placed on table 2 and
It is sufficient to repeat the operation of pressing the ET key 3c, and if the amount is not to be re-corrected, the operation is completed by pressing the OFF key.

(3) - When displaying the nutritional content of a product (see Figure 6) After pressing the ON key and RESET key 3C in this order,
Measure the weight of each item according to the weighing procedure ♀ shown in Figure 5. Next, the user inputs the food name using the code number 8 using the numeric keypad 3a. The nutritional component amount per unit, which is stored in advance, is retrieved from the input code number, and is stored as ffN full of the cooking material and the input code in A. After that, select the nutrient component you want to check using the nutrient component selection key 3b.
If you select , the nutritional content of the item will be displayed on the display 4.

When the nutritional component selection key 3b is not selected, the weighing amount can be revised 41 by removing the cooking material on the table 2 and repeating the operation of pressing the RESET key 3c. Re-revised f
If not, press the OFF key to end the operation.

(4) To display the nutritional content continuously (see Figure 7) Press the ON key and RESFT key 3C in that order.

When checking the memory C that was calculated previously (τ) and memorized,
When the user presses the memory key 3e, then inputs the personal registration code using the numeric keypad 3a, and selects and presses the nutritional ingredient selection key 3b, memory C is displayed on the display 4. memory C
To clear the information, press the clear key 3 and input the personal registration code using the numeric keypad 3a, and all nutrients' component needles will be cleared.

Next, the cooking ingredients are weighed and weighed on the table 2, and the total amount ω is calculated according to the nutritional component display procedure shown in FIG. If you want to remember this nutritional content, press Memory Key 3e.
When the user presses and inputs the personal registration code using the numeric keypad 3a, the value added to the previous memory C is stored as memory C.

Since the calculation control unit 7 is provided with a means for comparing two values and issuing an alarm when an excess or deficiency occurs, it is possible to compare the plus-form record lc with the intake amount registered in advance. If excess or deficiency is detected, an alarm will be issued. if,
If the added memory C is excessive, it means that the amount of material is large, so the value of the previously calculated result is added to the memory C
It is necessary to subtract more. At this time, clear key 3r
If you press , the original note before being added [returns to C]. When re-revising the amount, the nutritional components t1) can be displayed continuously by pressing the RESET key 3C and repeating the same operation. If you do not want to re-weigh, press the OFF key to end the operation.

(g) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, it is possible to not only measure food, etc., but also register nutritional intake information, display the amount of nutritional components of a product, and display the sum of nutritional components continuously. Therefore, the effect of making it possible to continuously and easily manage the amounts of various nutritional components necessary for maintaining healthy dust is obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view of main parts showing details of the arrangement of operation keys and display contents of this embodiment, and Fig. 3 is an embodiment of the invention. A schematic block diagram showing the functions of this embodiment, and FIGS. 4 to 7 are different flowcharts showing specific operations of this embodiment. S...Cooking pillar, 2...Measuring table (total ω part), 3...
Operation keys, 3a...Numeric keypad, nutritional ingredient selection key, 5...Planning section, 6...Operation section,
7... Arithmetic control unit, 8... Display unit, 9
...Memory department.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A measuring section for weighing food, etc., an operating section equipped with various operation keys such as a numeric keypad and a nutrient selection key, and data such as the results of weighing the food, etc., and data input from the operating section. a display unit that displays the measurement results, input data, etc., a calculation control unit that performs necessary calculations such as nutritional content and calories based on the measurement results and input data, and a calculation control unit that performs necessary calculations such as the amount of nutritional components and calories based on the measurement results and input data, and 1. A cooking scale comprising: a storage section that stores calculation results according to instructions from an operation section. 2. The cooking scale according to claim 1, wherein the amount of nutritional components such as calories per unit of food and the intake amount of nutritional components such as calories per unit of food are registered in advance in the storage section. 3. The cooking scale according to claim 1, wherein the arithmetic and control unit compares the nutritional component intake such as calories registered in advance with the nutritional component amount obtained by weighing, and notifies the user when an abnormality occurs.