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US 2010/0163556 A1Published application
High-frequency heating apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakayuiki Akashi, Nobuhiro Ogawa
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Abstract
An object of the invention is to detect the temperature of food and offer a good finish of cooking even in case a steam generator is arranged in a heating chamber. The controller avoids using the temperature data of an area overlapping the steam generator out of the temperature data from the infrared sensor in the detection judgment of food temperature in order to prevent detection errors in case steam heating is selected.
Claims5
A high-frequency heating apparatus comprising:
- a heating chamber that accommodates food;
- a surface temperature detector arranged on the outer side wall of the heating chamber, that noncontact detects the temperature of food in the heating chamber;
- a moving part that operates said surface temperature detector so as to detect the temperature of a predetermined range in said heating chamber;
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- a controller that controls operation of said moving part and heating of food;
- wherein the detection range of the surface temperature detector changes in accordance with cooking menus.
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