JP2740066B2 - Automatic rice cooker - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic rice cooker.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various proposals regarding an automatic rice cooker have been made, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-206411,
There is a technique disclosed in JP-A-62-26031.

[0003]

In any of the publications disclosed in the above-mentioned publications, a rice storing section for storing rice, a measuring section for measuring and discharging the rice in the rice storing section, and a rice discharging section for discharging the rice from the measuring section. The rice washing section for washing the rice and the rice cooking section for cooking the rice discharged from the rice washing section are arranged in the vertical direction of the box main body, so that it becomes bulky in the height direction and it is difficult to incorporate it as a system kitchen. there were.

[0004] On the other hand, in the current rice distribution, although rice that has been polished is cooked by merely adding or subtracting water without washing the rice, an automatic rice cooker for the polished rice has not been developed. It is. Therefore, the present invention is intended for polishing rice, and by removing the rice washing section, it can be reduced in volume and can be incorporated into a system kitchen. In addition, by removing the rice washing section, the water in the kitchen is improved. At the same time, the purpose is to reduce unevenness of the cooked rice by leveling the polished rice weighed and put into the rice cooker with the adjusted water.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a box body 1 is provided with:
In an automatic rice cooker having a rice cooker 4 which can be freely inserted and removed, the following technical measures are taken to achieve the above-mentioned object. That is, according to the present invention, the inspection unit 2 is provided at the upper front of the box main body 1, and the metering and discharging unit 6A is provided at the back part behind the inspection unit 2.
The rice-measuring and discharging unit 6A has a ridge 7A on the front side with respect to the rice cooker 4 which is close to the inspection unit 2 and is provided to be able to enter and exit downward. Water is supplied to the mountain 7A of the polished rice from one side to the other side with water adjusted to break this mountain. It is characterized by being provided close to the inspection unit 2.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the polished rice stored in the polished rice storage unit 6 at the back of the inspection unit 2 has no bran or the like. Rice cooker 4
To At the time of this charging, the metering and discharging unit 6A is close to the inspection unit 2, so that the mountain 7 is located in front of the rice cooker 4.
Charged to form A. Since the introduced rice has a so-called peak 7A on the front side, the peak 7A is supplied with water adjusted according to the measurement in one side from the water supply means 13 provided near the inspection unit 2. , Water is supplied to the other side, so that the ridges 7A are broken and evenly distributed, and then the lid is closed and the process proceeds to the rice cooking process. Since the water supply from the water supply means 13 breaks the mountain portion 7A, the required minimum amount of water is sufficient, and since the metering and discharging unit 6A and the water supply means 13 are close to the inspection unit 2, maintenance is good. It becomes.

[0007] In the present invention, the rice to be used is a polished rice, so that a rice washing section is not required.
Can be built into a system kitchen, and can be filled with water well.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the overall structure of a first embodiment of the present invention and FIG.
1 is a top plate 1A, a bottom plate 1B, a front plate 1C, and a back plate 1
D and a right and left side plate portion 1E.
C has an operation panel, etc., and on the lower side,
An entrance 3 having an inspection section 2 is provided at an upper portion, and a rice cooker 4 is freely accessible through the entrance 3. In this embodiment, the rice cooker 4 is mounted on a carriage 5 running on a rail 5A. It is possible to enter and exit.

The rice cooker 4 is of an electric or gas type, and has an outer pot 4A.
Equipped with an inner pot 4B that can be removed freely,
A lid 4D is provided that can be opened and closed with the pin 4C as a fulcrum. The lid 4D is engaged with a notch 4E so as to be freely detachable.
Is released, the lid 4D is forcibly opened about the pin 4C as a fulcrum by a helical spring or the like (not shown) provided on the pin 4C or the like. An inspection unit 2 is provided above the rice cooker 4 and at the upper front of the box main body 1, and a rice storage unit 6 having a funnel part is provided at the back of the rice cooker 4. In the lower part, a rotary type rice discharging unit 6A is provided in proximity to the inspection unit 2, and the polishing rice 7 can be put into the inner pot 4B by rotation of the rice discharging unit 6A. Is formed on the front side of the ridge 7A.

The rice storage unit 6 is open at the top, and the opening is openable and closable by a detachable or slidable top plate 8. Since the rice cooker is a polished rice from which bran has been removed, The rice washing section is omitted, and the rice cooker 4 is disposed immediately below the rice storage section 6, whereby the box body 1 has a reduced height and a height that can be incorporated into the system kitchen.

An electromagnetic valve is provided in the front plate 1C of the box body 1.
9, a water supply means 13 with a water level, in which a water amount sensor 10, a sprinkling nozzle 11 and the like are connected by a pipe 12, is provided.
Is connected to a pressure water source, for example, a water tap, via a flexible hose, a connector, or the like. In the first embodiment, the water supply means 13 is provided near the inspection section 2 so that
Maintenance of the water supply means 13 through the inspection unit 2 is facilitated, and the polished rice dropped from the metering and discharging unit 6A becomes a mountain 7A on one side of the inner pot 4B. The watering nozzles 11 are opposed to each other so that the water is disintegrated and evenly distributed in the inner pot 4B.

A cover closing means 14 is provided in the inner part of the box body 1, and the cover closing means 14 is configured as shown in FIGS. That is, the lid closing means 14 is provided over a pair of left and right arms 16 and 17 whose bases are supported by the pins 15 on the back plate side of the box main body 1 so as to be vertically movable, and spans the upper sides of the arms 16 and 17. Two support rods 18 and 19, a lifting motor 20 mounted on the box body back plate at a position slightly higher than the rice cooker 4, and an arm 22 mounted on a shaft 21 of the motor 20. A support rod 23 having a play-absorbing function and connected to the first support rod 18;
An open / close arm 26 swingably supported by the first support rod 18 and having a guide portion 25 indicated by a guide roller for guiding the lid 4D in a half-open state at the rear end to fully open the lid 4D. And a retracting motor supported by the first and second support rods 18,19.
27 and a disk mounted on a shaft 28 of this motor 27
The lifting motor 20 includes a rotation sensor 32 on the disk 31 and a rotation sensor 33 on the disk 29. ing.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described. When the rice cooker 4 is set on the cart 5 in the box body 1, the lid 4D is in a closed state. Box body
The lid 4D needs to be opened and closed in the box body 1 for receiving rice discharge and cooking rice. The opening and closing of the lid 4D is performed by the operations shown in FIGS.

When the rice cooker 4 is set on the trolley 5 and housed in the box main body 1, it is located on the front side of the box main body 1, so that the rice cooker 4 is moved to the back of the box main body 1. And wait in the space. In this standby position, when the elevating motor 20 is started, the arms 16, 17 descend in the direction indicated by the arrow F in FIG. Descends and notches by holding claw 24
When the notch 4E is pushed in the direction of arrow G shown in FIG. 6, the notch 4E is disengaged, the lid 4D is opened by the helical spring provided on the pin 4C, and the opening / closing arm 26 is raised and the direction of arrow H in FIG. Opened to
The opening position of the lid 4D is regulated by the guide portion 25.

After confirming the opening of the lid 4D by the sensor, the rice cooker 4 is moved to the arrow L by the advance of the trolley 5, and the lid 4D receives the elastic force of the vine-wound spring. Then, it stands up as shown in FIG. 5 and enters below the metering and discharging unit 6A with the lid open. On the other hand, the opening / closing arm 26 waits by the operation of the motor 27 and the action of the retracting arm 30 to guarantee that the lid 4D stands up as shown in FIG.

In the state shown in FIG. 5, the metering and discharging unit 6A is driven to put the polishing rice 7 into the inner pot 4B by a predetermined amount, and to supply the adjusted water from the nozzle 11 of the water supply means 13. In, the mountain 7A is evened out. Rice cooker 4 with rice
When the carriage 4D is moved by the movement of the carriage 5 indicated by the arrow L1, the cover 4D is tilted to a closed state due to a collision with the guide portion 25, and the cover 4D is fully closed by the operation of the retracting arm 30,
The notch 4E is maintained in the fully closed state, and enters the lower part of the rice washing apparatus by the movement of the arrow L shown in FIG. 7, and shifts to the rice cooking process.

FIGS. 8 and 9 show a first comparative example of the present invention. The lid 4D of the rice cooker 4 is pivotally supported by a pin 36 in the middle of an opening / closing arm 35 that moves up and down about a fulcrum 34. The lid 4D is formed so as to be freely openable and closable at a height indicated by H in FIG. 8, and an opening 37 is formed at the center of the lid 4D. After the shutter 39 is opened with the charging port 37 facing directly below the metering and discharging unit 6A, the polishing rice is charged into the inner pot 4B, and the peaks are leveled by the watering nozzle 11, and then the shutter is released. Close 39 and cook rice.

After cooking the rice, the open / close arm 35 is lifted and the lid 3
D allows the rice cooker 4 to be moved in and out of the box body 1 by leaving it in the box body 1. In addition, 40 is a slide sensor, 41 is a vertical movement sensor. FIG. 10 shows a second comparative example of the present invention. In the first embodiment described above, the metering and discharging unit 6A is provided at the center of the rice storage unit 6, and the mountain 7A is formed substantially at the center of the inner pot 4B. The other components are the same as those of the first embodiment. In each of the first and second comparative examples, a metering and discharging unit 6A is provided at the center of the rice storage unit 6, and the rice is supplied to form a mountain at the center of the rice cooker 4. Therefore, as compared with the embodiment of the present invention, the amount of water for breaking down the mountain increases, and the maintenance of the metering and discharging unit 6A and the supply unit 13 becomes difficult.

[0019]

The present invention is as described above. By using polished rice as an object to cook rice, a rice washing section is not required, the kitchen can be well filled with water, and can be incorporated as a system kitchen. . In addition, since the mountain of polished rice put into the rice cooker can be leveled with the adjusted water, it is possible to improve the cooking while adjusting the amount of water. Furthermore, a metering and discharging unit is provided near the inspection unit to form a mountain on the front side of the rice cooker, and the mountain is broken by supplying water from one side to the other side. Since the water supply means is provided close to the inspection unit, the amount of water supply can be minimized, and the maintenance of the metering rice discharging unit and the water supply means, which require frequent maintenance, can be easily and quickly performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration elevational view showing a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a lid closing unit.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a first operation of the lid closing means.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a second operation of the lid closing means.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing a third operation of the lid closing means.

FIG. 6 is a detailed view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a fourth operation of the lid closing means.

FIG. 8 is an elevation view of the first comparative example.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a main part of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is an elevation view of a second comparative example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Box main body 4 Rice cooker 6 Rice storage part 6A Metering rice discharging part 13 Water supply means

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Minoru Nakajima 90, Mizuhashi, Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka Daiwa Seiko Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-62-176423 (JP, A) JP-A-57 −55110 (JP, A) Actually open 1981-136717 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An automatic rice cooker in which a rice cooker (4) is freely inserted into and taken out of a box body (1), wherein an inspection section (2) is provided on an upper front surface of the box body (1). In the back part of (2), there is provided a rice polishing and storage unit (6) having a metering and discharging unit (6A), and the metering and discharging unit (6A) is close to the inspection unit (2) and protrudes downward. The rice cooker (4), which can be freely inserted, is configured such that the polished rice can be put into the rice cooker (4) so as to form a mountain (7A) on the front side, and the rice cooker (4) has a mountain (7).
A) A water supply means (13) for supplying water whose water has been adjusted so as to break this mountain from one side to the other side is provided in proximity to the inspection part (2). Automatic rice cooker characterized.