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US 2012/0266757 A1Published application
Automatic bread maker
OwnerTakashi Watanabe, Masayuki Shimozawainventors
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Abstract
An automatic bread maker of the present invention comprises: a container into which bread ingredients are put; a body for receiving the container; and a control unit for executing bread-making steps in a state in which the container has been received in the body. The bread-making steps include a grinding step for grinding cereal grains inside the container, and a post-grinding liquid-absorption step for causing ground flour from cereal grains ground in the grinding step to absorb liquid.
Claims8
An automatic bread maker, comprising:
- a container into which bread ingredients are put;
- a body for receiving the container;
- a control unit for executing bread-making steps in a state in which the container has been received in the body, wherein
- the bread-making steps include a grinding step for grinding cereal grains inside the container, and a post-grinding liquid-absorption step for causing ground flour from cereal grains ground in the grinding step to absorb liquid.
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The automatic bread maker of claim 3 or 11, wherein
- the control unit
- controls the post-grinding liquid-absorption step so that the time of the post-grinding liquid-absorption step is a first time or greater and a second time or less;
- does not end the post-grinding liquid-absorption step in the case that the first time has not been reached, even in the case of a determination having been made that the post-grinding liquid-absorption step can be ended on the basis of information from the temperature detector;
- and
- ends the post-grinding liquid-absorption step in the case that the second time is exceeded, even in the case of a determination having been made that the post-grinding liquid-absorption step cannot be ended on the basis of information from the temperature detector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.