Electric heating – Microwave heating – With control system
Patent
1999-03-22
2000-10-24
Walberg, Teresa
Electric heating
Microwave heating
With control system
219678, 219714, 99419, H05B 666
Patent
active
061370959
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cooking appliance for cooking foods. More specifically, this invention relates to a cooking appliance that controls cooking through a communication pathway.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A typical cooking appliance of the prior art has a structure as shown in FIG. 1 through FIG. 3.
The cooking appliance utilizes a medium 2 provided with a cooking menu, a material list, a cooking procedure, a cooking time, control information for cooking utensils, nutrient information, cost, and the like as a food information code 1 in a form of characters, voices and images. And, as shown in FIG. 1, the cooking appliance comprises an input means 4 for inputting the food information code 1 into a food information unit 3, a recognition means 5 for discerning the information from the input means 4, a notification means 6 for notifying the information of the recognition means 5, a group of key switches 7 for operating the recognition means 5, and a memory means 8 for storing the food information code 1.
Cooking information is readily and freely obtainable by adding the food information code 1 into the currently available medium 2. The more often the food information code 1 is used, the more useful information it provides to the user (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. H08-272808).
Another example of a cooking appliance, as shown in FIG. 2, is capable of communicating with an external network.
A microwave oven is shown as an example of the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance 11 consisting of a microwave oven connected with an external management system 10 via a communication pathway 9 comprises: a display means 12 for displaying information in order to discern a cooking recipe such as recipe names, etc.; an operating means 13 to be manipulated for selecting a cooking recipe according to the information displayed on the display means 12; a memory means 14 for storing the information for discerning the cooking recipe such as recipe names, and data relating to the cooking sequence for the recipe; a communication control means 15 for bidirectionally communicating with the external management system 10 via the communication pathway 9; a selection control means 16 operated under a control of the communication control means 15 for reading the information for discerning the cooking recipe stored in the management system 10, displaying it on the display means 12, and transmitting to the management system 10 the cooking recipe selected with a manipulation of the operating means 13; a memory control means 17 operated under control of the selection control means 16 for receiving the information for discerning the selected cooking recipe and the data of cooking sequence for the selected recipe stored in the management system 10, and storing them in the memory means 14; a power supply controller 18; and a cooking unit 19. In order to control the cooking appliance 11, the management system 10 establishes a recipe modification command for the cooking appliance 11, upon recognition of the cooking recipe selected by the cooking appliance 11 through the communication pathway 9. On the other hand, the cooking appliance 11 makes a check of a recipe modification command via the communication pathway 9 upon switching on of power, and it rewrites content of the memory means 14 under control of the memory control means 17, if the command exists. The management system 10 is provided with a cooking recipe management table for storing a file name of character data representing a cooking recipe and the cooking sequence data corresponding to an identification number that is discernible of each cooking recipe among a plurality of the cooking recipes, and an appliance management table for registering identification numbers of the cooking recipes stored in the memory means 14 of each of a plurality of the cooking appliances 11. And the management system 10 transmits to the cooking appliances 11 the character data maintained by the cooking recipe management table, and, at the same time revises a c
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Kashimoto Takashi
Nomura Hiroyoshi
Shibuya Makoto
Yoshida Shigeo
Yoshimura Yasuo
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Pwu Jeffrey
Walberg Teresa
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