HEATING COOKER

• Main Authors: INA NORIKO, NISHIJIMA MASAHIRO, KITAYAMA HIROKI, YAMAMOTO YOSHIKAZU, UEKI TOSHIAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.02.2008
• Subjects: BLASTING; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OTHER DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; RANGES; VENTILATING; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably and quickly discharge a heating chamber exhaust prior to the next heating cooking without using a humidity sensor. SOLUTION: During cooking with a vapor cooking menu, an exhaust vapor counter is set at "a maximum value" when superheated vapor is filled up in the heating chamber 20. Thus, when exhausting vapor over a predetermined time before finishing cooking, the exhaust vapor counter counts down from the "the maximum value", whereby vapor remaining in the heating chamber 20 is detected in accordance with a value for the exhaust vapor counter and exhausting operation is performed until the detection result shows "a predetermined vapor amount". As a result, the vapor in the heating chamber is reliably exhausted prior to the next heating cooking without using the humidity sensor. Furthermore, the exhausting operation is stopped in accordance with the detection result for the vapor remaining in the heating chamber 20, and so quick exhausting operation is performed independent of the cooking menu, compared with exhausting operation only for a certain time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT