MICROWAVE HEATING DEVICE
In order to radiate microwaves from a waveguide tube to a whole area from end to end of a radiation area within a heating chamber, and to heat uniformly an object to be heated without using a driving mechanism, a microwave heating device of the present invention includes openings for radiating the microwave from the waveguide tube to the inside of the heating chamber. The heating chamber includes a radiation area which has a length of approximate twice an in-tube wavelength in a propagation direction of the waveguide tube. Also, the openings are arranged to have an interval of approximate the in-tube wavelength in the propagation direction of the waveguide tube, and are symmetrically arranged to a center line which intersects perpendicularly to the propagation direction in the radiation area.
1 . A microwave heating device comprising:
a heating chamber which is adapted to house an object to be heated;
a microwave generating portion which is adapted to generate a microwave;
a waveguide tube which is adapted to propagate the microwave; and
a plurality of microwave radiating portions which are adapted to radiate the microwaves from the waveguide tube to the inside of the heating chamber, wherein
the heating chamber includes a radiation area which is irradiated with the microwaves from the plurality of the microwave radiating portions, and which has a length of approximate twice an in-tube wavelength in a propagation direction of the waveguide tube, and wherein
at least two of the microwave radiating portions are positioned to have an interval of approximate the in-tube wavelength, and are symmetrically arranged to the center line which intersects perpendicularly to the propagation direction in the radiation area.
2 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation area is defined with a placement plate for placing an object to be heated.
3 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation area is defined with a space between facing wall surfaces of the heating chamber.
4 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation area is defined with a bottom space between a position of the microwave radiating portions and a position of a placement plate above the microwave radiating portions.
5 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of the microwave radiating portions are configured to be arranged at positions adjacent to anti-node of a standing wave generated within the waveguide tube.
6 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of the microwave radiating portions are arranged along the propagation direction of the waveguide tube, and at least another microwave radiating portion is formed at a position between the at least two of the microwave radiating portions.
7 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of the microwave radiating portions are arranged to be in juxtaposition every two thereof in a width direction of the waveguide tube.
8 . The microwave heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the microwave radiating portions have shapes of openings adapted to radiate circular polarizations.
9 . The microwave heating device according to claim 8 , wherein the microwave radiating portion for radiating the circular polarization is configured with an opening which has an X-like form shaped by two elongated openings intersected with each other.