Cooking device including buffer chamber
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Nishijima, Takashi Utsumi, Takahiro Fukunaga
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Abstract
A steam generating container A heated by a heat source includes: a water evaporation chamber into which water is supplied by a water supply device; a leading opening to lead steam from the water evaporation chamber, and ejection openings ejecting steam led through the leading opening into a heating chamber containing food. A buffer chamber connecting through the leading opening and with the ejection openings is provided between the water evaporation chamber and the heating chamber. Even when bumping water enters the buffer chamber through the leading opening, the bumping water having entered flows inside the buffer chamber. Thus, the bumping water is hardly ejected into the heating chamber through the ejection openings.
Claims6
A cooking device comprising:
- a heating chamber in which food is put and heated;
- a steam generator which supplies steam to the heating chamber;
- a water supply device supplying water to the steam generator;
- wherein the steam generator comprises:
- a water evaporation chamber which evaporates water supplied from the water supply device;
- a buffer chamber adjoining the water evaporation chamber which accumulates steam generated in the water evaporation chamber;
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- a steam passage formed in the buffer chamber through which the steam flows,
- the buffer chamber is sandwiched between and in direct contact with both the heating chamber and the water evaporation chamber such that the buffer chamber is heated by conduction from the water evaporation chamber and the heating chamber,
- a single leading opening for leading steam generated in the water evaporation chamber to the steam passage is provided in an upper part of the water evaporation chamber,
- the steam passage being formed by a guide wall provided in the buffer chamber and protruding from an inner wall of the buffer chamber, the guide wall structured and arranged to guide the steam from the single leading opening toward the heating chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.