IP Library Granted Patent US 10,368,403
Granted Patent B2
US 10,368,403 · App. 15/109,818 · Granted Jul 30, 2019

Heating cooker

Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi (Shiga, JP); Yuichi Otsuki (Shiga, JP); Seiichi Yamashita (Shiga, JP); Mikio Fukui (Shiga, JP); Toshifumi Kamiya (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
H05B6/6485F24C15/325H05B6/642H05B6/6476
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Patent No.
US 10,368,403
App. No.
15/109,818
Granted
Jul 30, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Heating cooker ( 30 ) of the present disclosure includes convection device ( 35 ) that includes fan ( 14 ), heater ( 13 ), a first air guide, and second air guide, is communicated with heating chamber ( 2 ) through a suction port and a discharge port provided in back wall ( 2 d ) of heating chamber ( 2 ), and supplies hot air to the heating chamber ( 2 ). Fan ( 14 ) sucks air inside heating chamber ( 2 ) from the suction port into convection device ( 35 ), and sends out the air from the discharge port into heating chamber ( 2 ). Heater ( 13 ) is provided in front of fan ( 14 ), and heats the sucked air. The first air guide is provided so as to surround heater ( 13 ), and guides the heated air to the discharge port. The second air guide is provided so as to surround fan ( 14 ) and the first air guide, and guides the heated air to the discharge port. A part of the second air guide is in contact with the first air guide, and another part of the second air guide is isolated from the first air guide. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to more uniformly heat the object to be heated.

Claims (21)

1. A heating cooker comprising:

a heating chamber housing an object to be heated; and

a convection device that is provided behind a back wall of the heating chamber, is communicated with the heating chamber through a suction port and a discharge port provided in the back wall of the heating chamber, and generates hot air to supply the hot air to the heating chamber, the convection device having:

a circulation fan which sucks air in the heating chamber from the suction port into the convection device, and sends out the sucked air from the discharge port into the heating chamber;

a convection heater which is provided in front of the circulation fan, and heats the air sucked in the convection device;

a first air guide having a first lateral surrounding surface, which the first lateral surrounding surface is provided so as to enclose and surround the convection heater, and the first lateral surrounding surface guides, to the convection heater, the air sucked in the convection device; and

a second air guide having a second lateral surrounding surface, which the second lateral surrounding surface is provided so as to enclose and surround both the circulation fan and the first air guide, and the second lateral surrounding surface guides, to the discharge port, the air heated by the convection heater, wherein

a part of the second lateral surrounding surface of the second air guide is in contact with the first lateral surrounding surface of the first air guide, and another part of the second lateral surrounding surface of the second air guide is isolated from the first lateral surrounding surface of the first air guide.

2. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein

the second air guide has a wind direction plate that is provided in a space between the first air guide and the second air guide so as to extend in a front-back direction, and adjusts a direction of the air sent out by the circulation fan.

3. The heating cooker according to claim 2 , wherein

the wind direction plate includes a first wind direction plate, and a second wind direction plate that is disposed upstream in a rotation direction of the circulation fan with respect to the first wind direction plate, and is longer than the first wind direction plate.

4. The heating cooker according to claim 2 , wherein a part of the wind direction plate is in contact with the first air guide.

5. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , further comprising an air permeable placing part for placing the object to be heated in the heating chamber, wherein the second guide guides the air sent out from the circulation fan between the placing part and a bottom surface of the heating chamber.

6. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , further comprising a grill heater provided in a vicinity of a ceiling of the heating chamber.

7. The heating cooker according to claim 6 , wherein the second air guide guides the air sent out from the circulation fan to the vicinity of the ceiling of the heating chamber.

8. The heating cooker according to claim 7 , further comprising a wind direction plate for imparting directivity to a flow of the air supplied to the heating chamber, the wind direction plate being provided in front of the discharge port.

9. The heating cooker according to claim 7 , further comprising a wind direction plate extending in a right-left direction in the vicinity of the ceiling.

10. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a microwave generator that generates a microwave; and

a waveguide that guides the microwave to the heating chamber.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2016
From: HAYASHI, TAKAHIRO; OTSUKI, YUICHI; YAMASHITA, SEIICHI; FUKUI, MIKIO; KAMIYA, TOSHIFUMI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-020427 · Feb 5, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160330801A1 · Nov 10, 2016
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