RICE COOKER

• Main Authors: HOKIMOTO AKIO, OKAWA YUSUKE, OYA HIROSHI, OMURA TAKUMASA, OKAMOTO DAISUKE, KITAKI HIROSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.02.2023
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; COFFEE MILLS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FURNITURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL

To provide a rice cooker that can reduce noise generated at the time of delivery of rice.SOLUTION: A rice cooker comprises: a pot; a case having an upper opening part, and for housing the pot through the upper opening part; a rice container for housing rice; a rice supply part for supplying the rice in the rice container into the pot; an outer lid for openably/closably covering the upper opening part of the case by rotating around an outer lid hinge part provided at an upper part of the case; and an inner lid detachably attached to the outer lid, and for openably/closably covering an opening part of the pot in association with the rotation of the outer lid. The rice supply part comprises: a cylindrical rice delivery pipe of which one end part communicates with the inside of the rice container, and of which another end part penetrates the inside of the outer lid and opens toward a rice input port provided at the inner lid; and a rice delivery fan for pushing out the rice in the rice delivery pipe into the pot through the rice input port by generating an air flow toward the rice input port from the side of the rice container in the rice delivery pipe.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】送米時に生じる騒音を抑えることができる炊飯器を提供する。【解決手段】本発明に係る炊飯器は、鍋と、上面開口部を有し、上面開口部を通じて鍋を収容する筐体と、米を収容する米容器と、鍋内に米容器内の米を供給する米供給部と、筐体の上部に設けられた外蓋ヒンジ部を中心として回動することにより、筐体の上面開口部を開閉自在に覆う外蓋と、外蓋に着脱可能に取り付けられ、外蓋の回動に伴って鍋の開口部を開閉自在に覆う内蓋とを備える。米供給部は、一端部が米容器の内部と連通し、他端部が外蓋の内部を貫通して内蓋に設けられた米投入口に向けて開口する筒状の送米管と、送米管内に米容器側から米投入口に向かう空気流を発生させ、送米管内の米を米投入口を通じて鍋内に押し出す送米ファンとを備える。【選択図】図４