Apparatus for changing cooking control data of automatic cookers

Apparatus for changing cooking data of an automatic cooker comprising:

• a controller controlling said cooker in accordance with a cooking control program in order to carry out automatic cooking operation of said cooker;
• a keyboard operatively connected to said controller for outputting key signals to said controller, said keyboard including a plurality of automatic cooking control keys and a pair of data up/down keys for changing cooking data;
• a cooking data storage unit operatively connected to said controller for storing experimentally determined cooking data for several kinds of foods to be cooked by said cooker;
• a cooking state sensing circuit operatively connected to said controller for sensing a cooking state and outputting a cooking state signal corresponding to the cooking state to said controller;
• a display unit operatively connected to said controller for displaying, under the control of said controller, the cooking state as well as the selected cooking data;
• an output driving circuit operatively connected to said controller for driving a heating device of said cooker under the control of said controller;
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• a cooking data changing section operatively connected to said controller for changing the cooking data, which is selected by said controller, in response to data up/down key signal of said keyboard, including
• a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the cooking data selected by said controller and causing said controller to control the cooking operation of said cooker in accordance with the temporarily stored cooking data;
• a data control unit for incrementing or decrementing the selected cooking data, being selected by said controller and stored in said temporary storage unit, in response to a data up/down key signal;
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• a display control unit causing the incremented or decremented cooking data of said temporary storage to be displayed on said display unit.