JP2008027730A - Induction heating cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to prevent overheating of a cooking container without starting heating when the cooking container is not placed on a temperature detecting means.
A heating control unit (temperature detecting means) for converting the temperature of a cooking container from the energy received by an infrared sensor, and a light emitting means for emitting light toward the cooking container through a top plate. When the infrared sensor 4 receives the light emitted from the light emitting means 15, the cooking container detection means 16 that determines the presence or absence of the cooking container 2, and the cooking container 2 is not detected by the cooking container detection means 16, cooking is performed. Control is performed so that heating of the container 2 is stopped or the amount of heating power is suppressed.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an induction heating cooker capable of preventing overheating of a cooking container.

  Conventionally, this kind of induction heating cooker includes a cooking container, a top plate on which the cooking container is placed, a heating coil that is disposed below the top plate and heats the cooking container, and cooking through the top plate. Temperature detection means for detecting the temperature of the container, heating amount setting means for setting a heating amount for heating the cooking container, and output of the temperature detection means and the heating amount setting means prevent overheating temperature of the cooking container. There is a configuration in which the temperature of the overheating temperature prevention means is varied according to the amount of heating to prevent the overheating temperature of the cooking container (for example, see Patent Document 1).

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a conventional induction heating cooker described in Patent Document 1. As shown in FIG. It comprises a top plate 22 on which the cooking vessel 21 is placed, heating control means 24 for driving and controlling the high-frequency current of the heating coil 23, and an infrared sensor for detecting the radiation temperature radiated from the cooking vessel 21 through the top plate 22. Radiation temperature detection means 25, heating amount setting means 26 for setting the heating amount for heating the cooking container 21, and output of the temperature detection means 27 and the heating amount setting means 26 prevent excessive heating of the cooking container 21. The overheating temperature prevention means 28 includes an overheating temperature prevention means 28, which changes the comparison temperature of the overheating temperature prevention means 28 according to the heating amount set by the heating amount setting means 26 and overheats the cooking vessel 21. It is configured to prevent temperature. At this time, since the temperature of the cooking container 21 cannot be detected unless the cooking container 21 is on the radiation temperature detection means 25, the cooking container presence / absence detection means 29 determines whether the cooking container 21 has the current value of the heating coil 23 or the voltage of the power element. The presence / absence is detected and the information is transmitted to the overheated temperature prevention means 28. When there is no cooking container 21, the electric current of the heating coil 23 is small, and the mounting state of the cooking container 21 can be determined by detecting these. Even when heating is started by the heating control means 24, the mounting state of the cooking container 21 is determined, and the temperature of the cooking container 21 can be detected more reliably.
JP 2005-11618 A

  However, in the conventional configuration described in Patent Document 1, the cooking container presence / absence detecting means 29 detects the presence / absence of the cooking container 21 based on the current value of the heating coil 23 and the voltage of the power element. Even if the container presence / absence detection means 29 determines that the cooking container 21 is placed, the cooking container 21 is not necessarily on the radiation temperature detection means 25. That is, as shown in FIG. 9, when the cooking container 21 is placed on the heating coil 23 but is off the radiation temperature detecting means 25, the cooking container presence / absence detecting means 29 has the cooking container placed thereon. The radiation temperature detecting means 25 cannot detect the temperature of the cooking container 21 but cannot prevent the cooking container 21 from rising excessively.

  The present invention solves the above-described conventional problems, and provides an induction heating cooker that can prevent overheating of the cooking container without starting heating when the cooking container is not placed on the temperature detecting means. The purpose is to do.

  A cooking container for heating food, a top plate on which the cooking container is placed, a heating coil for generating an induction magnetic field to heat the cooking container, and emitted from the cooking container through the top plate An infrared sensor for detecting infrared rays, temperature detecting means for converting the temperature of the cooking container from energy received by the infrared sensor, light emitting means for emitting light toward the cooking container via the top plate, The infrared sensor receives the light emitted from the light emitting means, the cooking container detection means for determining the presence or absence of the cooking container, the detection result of the cooking container detection means and the temperature information of the temperature detection means, Heating control means for controlling the heating power amount of the cooking container by controlling high-frequency current, and the adjustment by the cooking container detection means. If the container is not detected, the heating control means performs control so as to suppress the stop or heating power amount of heating of the cooking container.

  As a result, if the cooking container is placed immediately above the infrared sensor, the light emitted from the light emitting means is reflected by the bottom surface of the cooking container so that the infrared sensor can receive the light. If the cooking container is not placed, the light emitting means emits light. The reflected light is not reflected and the infrared sensor cannot receive light. Therefore, whether or not the cooking container is placed immediately above the infrared sensor can be reliably detected depending on whether or not the infrared sensor can receive the light emitted from the light emitting means.

  The induction heating cooker according to the present invention can reliably prevent overheating of the cooking container because heating is not started when the cooking container is not placed on the temperature detecting means.

  The first invention includes a cooking container for heating a cooked food, a top plate on which the cooking container is placed, a heating coil for generating an induction magnetic field to heat the cooking container, and the top plate through the top plate. Infrared sensor for detecting infrared radiation emitted from the cooking container, temperature detecting means for converting the temperature of the cooking container from energy received by the infrared sensor, and radiating light toward the cooking container through the top plate A light emitting means, a cooking container detection means for determining the presence or absence of the cooking container when the infrared sensor receives light emitted from the light emitting means, a detection result of the cooking container detection means, and a temperature of the temperature detection means Heating control means for controlling the amount of heating power of the cooking container by controlling the high-frequency current of the heating coil according to information, and the cooking container detection means Therefore, when the cooking container is not detected, the heating control means controls the cooking container to stop heating or suppress the amount of heating power, so that the cooking container is placed on the temperature detection means. When it is not placed, heating is not started, so overheating of the cooking container can be reliably prevented.

  In the second invention, in particular, the infrared sensor of the first invention is shielded from the light emitting means, so that only the reflected light from the pan bottom can be detected by the infrared sensor, and the presence or absence of the pan can be accurately detected.

  In the third invention, in particular, by configuring the light emission wavelength range of the light emitting means of the first invention so as not to include the visible light range, the sensitivity of the visible light range of the infrared sensor becomes unnecessary, and the influence of sunlight, etc. It can be made into the structure which is hard to receive.

  In the fourth aspect of the invention, in particular, the light emitting wavelength range of the light emitting means of the first aspect of the invention is configured only as a visible light range, so that the user can be notified of the position of the cooking container detection means.

  In the fifth aspect of the invention, in particular, by configuring the sensitivity wavelength range of the infrared sensor of the first aspect of the invention so as not to include the visible light range, it is possible to make the configuration less susceptible to the influence of sunlight or illumination. .

  In the sixth invention, in particular, in the first invention, when the difference between the output of the infrared sensor when the light emitting means is turned on and the output of the infrared sensor when the light emitting means is turned off is larger than a predetermined value, the cooking container By configuring the detection means to determine that there is a cooking container, it is possible to detect the presence or absence of the cooking container without being affected by sunlight or lighting.

  In a seventh aspect of the invention, in particular, in the first aspect of the invention, when the notification means is provided and the cooking container detection means determines that there is no cooking container, the notification means notifies the user to that effect. Thus, the user can recognize the reason for the malfunction and can immediately perform actions such as placing the cooking container on the temperature detection means.

  In an eighth aspect of the invention, in particular, in the first aspect of the invention, the second cooking container detection means and the second cooking container detection means include second notification means for notifying that there is no cooking container, and the first cooking container detection means. When both the (cooking container detection means) and the second cooking container detection means determine that there is no cooking container, the second notification means notifies the user of the induction heating cooker to that effect. It is composed.

  Therefore, it is possible to notify the user that the original induction heating cannot be performed.

  According to a ninth aspect of the invention, in particular, the cooking container detection means according to any one of the first to eighth aspects of the invention is configured to detect the cooking container at least once before the heating control means starts heating. It is composed.

  Therefore, it can be detected before the temperature of the cooking container rises.

  In the tenth invention, in particular, when the cooking container is heated by the heating control means of the first invention, when the cooking container detection means determines that there is no cooking container, the heating control means stops or heats the heating. By configuring so that there is a time difference until the amount of power is suppressed, when the user performs an operation such as shaking the cooking container, the heating control means stops heating or does not suppress the amount of heating power, so cooking is interrupted. You can avoid it.

  In the eleventh aspect of the invention, in particular, the cooking container detection means of the tenth aspect of the invention is configured to detect the cooking container at least once within the time difference, so that the user can perform operations such as shaking the cooking container. When this is done, the heating control means does not stop heating or suppress the amount of heating power, so that cooking is not interrupted.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an induction heating cooker according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a cooking container 2 is placed on a top plate 1, and a heating coil 3 that generates a high frequency magnetic field is provided below the top plate 1. The heating coil 3 is divided into two concentric circles, and a gap is provided between the inner and outer coils. In the gap between the inner coil and the outer coil of the heating coil 3, an infrared sensor 4 is provided to obtain an output corresponding to the temperature in the radial direction of the cooking container 2. The commercial power supply 5 is input to the rectifying / smoothing unit 6. The rectifying / smoothing unit 6 is connected between a full-wave rectifier constituted by a bridge diode and a low-pass filter constituted by a choke coil and a smoothing capacitor between its DC output terminals. An inverter circuit 7 is connected to the output of the rectifying / smoothing unit 6, and the heating coil 3 is connected to the inverter circuit 7. The inverter circuit 7 and the induction heating coil 3 constitute a high frequency inverter. The inverter circuit 7 is provided with a switching element 8 (IGBT in the present embodiment). A diode 9 is connected to the switching element 8 in antiparallel. A resonance capacitor 10 is connected in parallel to the induction heating coil 3. The heating control unit (heating control means) 11 receives a signal from the operation unit 12, outputs a drive signal to the switching element 8, generates a high frequency magnetic field in the heating coil 3, and heats the cooking vessel 2. A light emitting means 15 is provided in the vicinity of the infrared sensor 4 and is connected to the cooking container detecting means 16. If the difference between the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 emits light and the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 does not emit light is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the cooking container detection means 16 has the cooking container 2 Determine and transmit to the heating control unit 11. FIG. 2 shows a principle circuit diagram of the infrared sensor 4. In FIG. 2, a photodiode 13 made of silicon or the like through which current flows when irradiated with infrared light having a wavelength of about 3 microns or less that passes through the top plate 1 is provided at a position where the infrared light emitted from the cooking container can be received. . The current generated by the irradiated infrared rays is subjected to signal processing so that the microcomputer can perform an A / D conversion circuit by a current conversion circuit and an amplification circuit constituted by the operational amplifier 17. FIG. 3 shows an example of the characteristics of the infrared sensor. The horizontal axis is the temperature at the bottom of the cooking container, and the vertical axis is the voltage output of the infrared sensor. Since the infrared sensor of this Embodiment is a use which prevents the overheating of the cooking vessel 2, it is comprised so that an output may be obtained at the temperature of 250 degreeC or more. A filter is provided in the photodiode 13, and the wavelength to be detected can be selected from the light that arrives depending on the characteristics of the filter. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a main part showing the configuration of the infrared sensor. In FIG. 4, the infrared sensor 4 is provided at the lower part of the plate, and is provided at a position shifted in the outer circumferential direction from the center of the heating coil 3. Since the temperature of the cooking vessel 2 is likely to rise at the highest magnetic field generated by the heating coil 3, it is desirable to provide the infrared sensor 4 at a position shifted from the center in the outer peripheral direction. The light emitting means 15 is provided in the vicinity of the infrared sensor 4. The light emitting means 15 and the infrared sensor 4 are shielded by the light shielding wall 19, and only the light reflected from the cooking container 2 reaches the infrared sensor 4. It is configured as follows. By setting the light emitting means 15 to a wavelength that does not include visible light, the infrared sensor 4 does not require sensitivity in the visible light band, and can be configured to be hardly affected by sunlight. Or the light emission means 15 is made only visible light, the light radiated | emitted from the light emission means 15 is displayed on the plate 1, and the user can utilize the cooking container 2 for the guideline of 100 million years old.

  About the induction heating cooking appliance comprised as mentioned above, the operation | movement and an effect | action are demonstrated below. In FIG. 1, when an empty cooking container 2 is placed on the top plate 1 and the heating start key 14 disposed on the operation unit 12 is pressed, the heating control unit 11 operates the cooking container detection means 16. FIG. 5 illustrates the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 is turned on / off. In FIG. 5, if the difference between the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 emits light and the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 does not emit light is equal to or greater than ΔV, the cooking container detecting means 16 Determines that there is a cooking container 1 and transmits it to the heating controller 11. The heating control unit 11 drives the inverter circuit 7 to generate a high-frequency magnetic field in the heating coil 3 and starts heating the cooking vessel 2. When the difference ΔV between the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 emits light and the output of the infrared sensor 4 when the light emitting means 15 does not emit light is below a predetermined value, the cooking container detection means 16 It is determined that there is no 2 and the no container display 18 provided on the operation unit 12 is turned on to notify the user. When cooking container 2 is being heated, when cooking container detection means 16 determines that there is no cooking container, heating controller 11 provides a time difference until heating is stopped or the amount of heating power is suppressed. The cooking container detection means is operated again within this time difference to prevent the container-free display 18 from being lit by a temporary movement of the pot such as a user shaking the pot.

  With such a configuration, if the cooking container is placed immediately above the infrared sensor, the light emitted from the light emitting means is reflected by the bottom surface of the cooking container so that the infrared sensor can receive the light, and if the cooking container is not placed, the light is emitted. The light emitted from the means is not reflected and the infrared sensor cannot receive the light. Therefore, whether or not the cooking container is placed immediately above the infrared sensor can be reliably detected depending on whether or not the infrared sensor can receive the light emitted from the light emitting means.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an induction heating cooker according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 6, the 2nd cooking container detection means 20 which detects the presence or absence of the cooking container 2 from the electric current value which flows into the heating coil 3, and the voltage value added to the switching element 8 is provided. When there is no cooking container 2 or when the cooking container 2 is shifted from the heating coil 3, the current of the heating coil 3 is small, and by detecting these, the mounting state of the cooking container 2 can be determined. . As shown in FIG. 7, when the cooking container 2 is shifted to the left with respect to the heating coil 3 and there is no cooking container 2 directly above the infrared sensor 4, the first cooking container detection means 16 and the second cooking container Although detection is possible with both of the detection means 20, the second container absence 21 display is turned on to notify that the original induction heating cannot be performed. Thereby, it can notify a user to put the cooking container 2 on the heating coil.

  As described above, since the induction heating cooker according to the present invention only heats when the cooking container is placed directly above the temperature detection means, it can be used safely and safely even for elderly people. It can also be applied to.

The block diagram of the induction heating cooking appliance in Embodiment 1 of this invention Circuit diagram of infrared sensor according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention The figure which shows the relationship between the cooking container bottom face temperature of the infrared sensor in Embodiment 1 of this invention, and the output of an infrared sensor. The principal part enlarged view of the induction heating cooking appliance in Embodiment 1 of this invention The figure which shows the output of the sensor of the induction heating cooking appliance in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The block diagram of the induction heating cooking appliance in Embodiment 2 of this invention Top view of induction heating cooker in Embodiment 2 of the present invention Block diagram of a conventional induction heating cooker Top view of a conventional induction heating cooker

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Top plate 2 Cooking container 3 Heating coil 4 Infrared sensor 11 Heating control part (temperature detection means, heating control means)
15 Light emitting means 16 First cooking container detection means (cooking container detection means)
18 No container display (informing means)
19 light shielding wall 20 second cooking container detection means 21 no second container (second notification means)

Claims (11)

A cooking container for heating food, a top plate on which the cooking container is placed, a heating coil for generating an induction magnetic field to heat the cooking container, and emitted from the cooking container through the top plate An infrared sensor for detecting infrared rays, temperature detecting means for converting the temperature of the cooking container from energy received by the infrared sensor, light emitting means for emitting light toward the cooking container via the top plate, The infrared sensor receives the light emitted from the light emitting means, the cooking container detection means for determining the presence or absence of the cooking container, the detection result of the cooking container detection means and the temperature information of the temperature detection means, Heating control means for controlling the heating power amount of the cooking container by controlling high-frequency current, and the adjustment by the cooking container detection means. If the container is not detected, the induction heating cooker wherein heating control means for controlling so as to suppress the stop or heating power amount of heating of the cooking container. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein the infrared sensor is configured to shield light from the light emitting means. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein the light emission wavelength range of the light emitting means does not include a visible light range. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein a light emission wavelength range of the light emitting means is only a visible light range. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein the sensitivity wavelength range of the infrared sensor does not include a visible light range. The cooking container detection means determines that the cooking container is present when the difference between the output of the infrared sensor when the light emitting means is turned on and the output of the infrared sensor when the light emitting means is turned off is greater than a predetermined value. The induction heating cooker according to 1. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit, wherein when the cooking container detection unit determines that there is no cooking container, the notification unit notifies the user of the induction heating cooker to that effect. The second cooking container detection means and the second cooking container detection means comprise second notification means for notifying that there is no cooking container, and the first cooking container detection means (cooking container detection means) and the second cooking container detection. The induction heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein when it is determined that the cooking container is not present in both of the means, the second notifying means notifies the user to that effect. The induction cooking device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the cooking container detection means detects the cooking container at least once before the heating control means starts heating. When the heating control means is heating the cooking container, if the cooking container detection means determines that there is no cooking container, the heating control means provides a time difference until the heating is stopped or the heating power amount is suppressed. The induction heating cooker according to 1. The induction heating cooker according to claim 10, wherein the cooking container detection means detects the cooking container at least once within a time difference.

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