JP2003269780A - Cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a wasteful operation of an air conditioner and to prevent environmental deterioration due to carbon dioxide emitted from gas use cooking appliances. <P>SOLUTION: A cooking center 1 is provided with: various types of cooking appliances automatically cooking based on control data; a cooking control computer 2 controlling an operation schedule of the various types of cooking appliances and transmitting the control data to the various types of cooking appliances based on the operation schedule; the air conditioner 10 controlled by the cooking control computer 2 an conditioning and exhausting the air in a cooking room; and an exhaust fan 11. The cooking control computer 2 allows the air conditioner 10 to operate, when an output of a temperature sensor provided in the cooking room exceeds a prescribed value and the various types of cooking appliances are operated in the operation schedule. When the cooking appliances using gas out of the various types of cooking appliances are operated, the exhaust fan 11 is made operated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cooking system in a cooking center for supplying food to hospitals, restaurant chains and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, for meals for inpatients in a hospital, it is necessary to prepare a variety of menus according to the medical condition of each patient. Conventionally, however, each hospital has a kitchen where Cooked and served, or
I had to ask an outside food supply company to provide cooking.

However, as described above, it is inefficient and inefficient to perform cooking for each hospital because of facility and human resources. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, for example, as shown in Japanese Patent No. 2644187 (A47B 31/02), the following feeding system has been proposed.

That is, meals for patients at a plurality of hospitals are cooked at a cooking center, subjected to cook chill processing, and then packed together with tableware. The packed dishes are stored in a cool wagon or a serving cart, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

In this case, the cooking center is equipped with various cooking equipment such as a brazing pan, a steam oven, and a kettle, and these are used to cook various menus. Cooking is done after accepting orders for menus and quantities from each hospital in advance. Then, while procuring the necessary ingredients for the received order, a work procedure manual for various cooking appliances of the day is prepared.

[0006] On the day, the worker puts the food in and out of various cooking appliances and turns on and off the various cooking appliances to cook, cools, and packs with the tableware based on the work procedure manual. . The packed dishes are stored in a catering cart or the like, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

The cooking center in such a cooking system is provided with an air conditioner for adjusting the temperature and humidity in the cooking chamber and an exhaust fan for exhausting smoke or the like generated during cooking to the outside. The working environment is kept in good condition.

[0008]

However, the air conditioner in the cooking center in such a conventional cooking system detects the temperature and humidity in the cooking chamber and controls the temperature and humidity to fall within a predetermined range. Therefore, even when there is no one in the room and it is not necessary to lower the temperature and humidity, the air conditioner is driven, and power is wasted. Further, the exhaust fan is operated when smoke is generated, and there is a problem that environmental deterioration due to carbon dioxide generated from the gas-using cooking device is not considered.

In view of such problems, it is an object of the present invention to prevent useless operation of an air conditioner and prevent environmental deterioration due to carbon dioxide generated from a gas-using cooking device. It is a thing.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the cooking system according to claim 1 manages various cooking appliances capable of automatic cooking based on control data and operation schedules of the various cooking appliances. A cooking system of a cooking center comprising a cooking control computer that transmits control data to various cooking appliances based on the operation schedule, and an air conditioner that is controlled by the cooking control computer to air-condition the cooking chamber. The cooking control computer is connected to a temperature sensor provided in the cooking chamber, the output of the temperature sensor exceeds a predetermined value, and the various cooking appliances are operating in the operation schedule. At this time, the air conditioner is operated. In this way, useless operation of the air conditioner can be prevented.

Further, the cooking system according to claim 2 is
In the operation schedule, the exhaust fan is operated when a cooking appliance that uses gas among the various cooking appliances is in operation. By doing so, it is possible to prevent environmental deterioration due to carbon dioxide or the like generated from the gas-using cooking device.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention. The cooking center 1 includes cooking equipment such as a brazing pan 3, a steam oven 4, a kettle 5, a fryer 6, a blast chiller 7, a tumble chiller 8 and a defroster 9 for cooking various dishes. Note that each cooking appliance may be provided with a plurality of appliances of the same type.

Each cooking device is connected to the cooking control computer 2 by a communication line, and the cooking control computer 2 is connected.
The control data is received from and the cooking is controlled. Further, the cooking control computer 2 is also connected to an air conditioner 10 for air conditioning in the work place of the cooking center 1 and an exhaust fan 11 for exhausting air in the work place, and the cooking control computer 2 controls the air conditioner 10 and the exhaust fan 11. It also allows control.

In the hospital 12, employee cafeteria 16 and restaurant chain 17, after receiving cooked food from the cooking center 1 and heating it, the patient, the employee,
Provide to customers, etc. The management computer 15 of the cooking company
Reservation orders from the hospital 12, employee cafeteria 16, restaurant chain 17, etc. are accepted via the communication line 18. Then, the content of the accepted order is transmitted to the cooking control computer 2 of the cooking center 1 via the communication line 18.

The cooking control computer 2 holds cooking control data of all menus to be cooked as a cooking control data table. And the management computer 1
When the contents of the order are received from 5, the cooking control data of all the menus included in the order are taken out from the cooking control data table, and the operating time of each cooking appliance is calculated based on them, and as shown in FIG. 2, for example. , Create an operation schedule for each cooking appliance.

Based on the operation schedule thus created, the cooking control data is transmitted to each cooking appliance together with the respective operating time. Each cooking equipment has
A display device capable of displaying character information is provided, and each cooking appliance displays the next work content and cooking start time on the display according to the control data received from the cooking control computer 2. The worker takes food in and out according to the indication,
Also, the cooking equipment is turned on and off. In this way, the work in the cooking center is simplified, and it becomes possible for temporary workers such as part-time workers to deal with it.

Further, a temperature sensor or a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor are provided in the cooking chamber of the cooking center 1 and the output thereof is input to the cooking control computer 2. Then, the cooking control computer 2 based on the above operation schedule, the brazing pan 3, the steam oven 4, the kettle 5,
Whether or not cooking equipment such as the fryer 6 is operating, the cooking equipment is operating, and the output of the temperature sensor exceeds a predetermined value, or a temperature such as a discomfort index. The air conditioner 10 is operated when the combined condition of the outputs of the sensor and the humidity sensor is equal to or more than a predetermined value. Also, when cooking equipment that uses gas to cook is in operation,
The exhaust fan 11 is operated.

FIG. 3 is a control flowchart of the air conditioner and the exhaust fan. Step 1 ... Referring to the operation schedule, it is determined whether or not the cooking appliance is currently in operation. Step 2 ... If operating, it is determined whether or not a cooking appliance that uses gas to perform cooking is operating. Step 3: The exhaust fan 11 is operated if it is in operation.

Step 4 ... The outputs of the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are checked to determine whether the room temperature or the humidity (or a condition such as a discomfort index, which is a combination thereof) is equal to or more than a set value. . Step 5 ... If it is over the set value, the air conditioner 10
To drive. Step 6 ... If the cooking appliance is not in operation in Step 1 and the indoor temperature and humidity (or the combined condition such as the discomfort index) are not higher than the set values in Step 4, the air conditioner 10 is not operated.

As described above, even if the temperature and humidity in the cooking chamber rise, the air conditioner 10 is operated when the cooking equipment is not in operation.
I try not to drive. The reason is that the cooking appliance is not operating, and cooking is not performed. In such a case, in most cases, there is no person in the cooking chamber, and it is wasteful to operate the air conditioner 10. Because.

After the cooking is performed while the air conditioning is being performed as described above, the cooked chilled food is packed in the hospital 12 at the cooking center 1 and the packed food is served in the serving cart 14
It will be sent to you by a refrigerating vehicle for delivery in the state of being stored in. When the serving cart 14 is sent to the hospital 12, the serving cart is moved to the serving room, the power cable of the serving cart 14 is set, and the serving cart 14 is connected to the serving management computer 13.

The catering management computer 13 receives heating control data used when the dish sent from the cooking center 1 is heated by the catering cart 14 from the cooking control computer 2 or the management computer 15 via the communication line 18. , Write on the serving cart 14. The serving cart 14
Heating is started based on the heating control data, and heating is performed for a required time.

[0023]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects. That is, in the cooking system according to claim 1, the cooking control computer causes the output of the temperature sensor provided in the cooking chamber to exceed a predetermined value, and in the operation schedule,
The air conditioner is operated when the various cooking appliances are in operation. As a result, when the cooking appliance is not in operation, that is, when there is no person in the cooking chamber, the air conditioning facility is not operated even if the room temperature rises, and the useless operation of the air conditioning facility can be prevented.

The cooking system according to claim 2 is
Since the exhaust fan is operated when the cooking appliance that uses gas is in operation, it is possible to prevent environmental degradation due to carbon dioxide or the like generated from the cooking appliance that uses gas.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operation schedule of each cooking appliance.

FIG. 3 is a control flowchart of an air conditioner and an exhaust fan.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Cooking center 2 ... Cooking control computer 13 ... Serving management computer 14 ... Serving cart 15 ... Management computer 18 ... communication line

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Katsuya Kobayashi             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. F term (reference) 3L056 BD07 BE07 BF06                 3L061 BA05

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cooking device capable of automatic cooking based on control data, and a cooking control computer which manages an operation schedule of the cooking device and transmits control data to the various cooking devices based on the operation schedule. A cooking system of a cooking center, comprising: an air conditioner controlled by the cooking control computer to air-condition the cooking chamber, wherein the cooking control computer is connected to a temperature sensor provided in the cooking chamber, A cooking system, wherein the air conditioner is operated when the output of the sensor exceeds a predetermined value and the various cooking appliances are in operation in the operation schedule. 2. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein, in the operation schedule, the exhaust fan is operated when a cooking appliance that uses gas among the various cooking appliances is in operation.