Automatic refrigerator system, refrigerator, automatic cooking system, and microwave oven
AssigneeDai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiharu Ishikawa, Shigeru Nakano
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An automatic cold-storage system includes a food package (22) provided with a noncontact IC tag (11), and a refrigerator (31) for storing the food package (22). Information is read from the noncontact IC tag (11) by a noncontact IC tag reader (12) and is compiled to a database (31c). A managing means (31b) controls the refrigerator (31) on the basis of information contained in the database (31c). The managing means (31b) makes a display device (14) display a warning on the basis of information read by the noncontact IC tag reader (12).
Claims26
An automatic cold-storage system comprising:
- a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, and
- a refrigerator for storing the food package;
- wherein the refrigerator is provided with a noncontact IC tag reader for reading the information from the noncontact IC tag, and the refrigerator has a managing means for cold-storing the food package under optimum cold-storing conditions on the basis of information read from the noncontact IC tag by the noncontact IC tag reader.
An automatic cold-storage system comprising:
- a food package provided with a noncontact RF-ID tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, and
- a refrigerator for cold-storing the food package;
- wherein the refrigerator is provided with a noncontact RF-ID tag reader for reading the information from the RF-ID tag, and a database containing information read by the noncontact RF-ID tag reader, and
- the information contained in the database can be read by an external personal digital assistant.
A refrigerator for containing and cold-storing a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag, comprising:
- a noncontact IC tag reader for reading information from the noncontact IC tag, and
- a managing means for cold-storing the food on the basis of information read from the noncontact IC tab by the noncontact IC tag reader under optimum conditions.
A refrigerator for containing and cold-storing a food package provided with a noncontact RF-ID tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, comprising:
- a refrigerating unit,
- a reader attached to the refrigerating unit and capable of reading information from the noncontact RF-ID tag, and
- a database containing information read by the reader.
An automatic cooking system comprising:
- a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, and
- a microwave oven capable of containing the food package and of cooking the food of the food package;
- wherein the microwave oven is provided with a reader for reading the information from the noncontact IC tag, and has a cooking means to cook the food of the food package under optimum cooking conditions on the basis of the information read from the noncontact IC tag by the reader.
A microwave oven for containing a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, and cooking the food of the food package, said microwave oven comprising:
- a reader for reading information recorded on the noncontact IC tag, and
- a cooking means for cooking the food of the food package under optimum cooking conditions determined on the basis of the information read from the noncontact IC tag by the reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.