JP5878027B2 - Installing the operation panel of the built-in cooking device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a built-in heating cooker used in a general household.

  Conventionally, the cooking appliance body is inserted through the opening on the top surface of the kitchen cabinet, and the operation panel on which the operation section provided on the front surface of the heating cooker body is installed is looked into the front opening of the cabinet. A built-in cooker is known (for example, Patent Document 1).

  In such a heating cooker, a plated steel plate is often used as the material constituting the main body of the heating cooker, and a printed aluminum plate or a color coated steel plate is used as the material constituting the operation panel. May be.

  In such a case, in order to improve the assembling property when manufacturing the cooking device, or to reduce the number of screws to be used and to configure the cooking device with resource saving, the cooking panel is heated by caulking. It may be fixed to the front of the main body.

JP 2009-181868 A

  On the other hand, in order to promote recycling, when the cooking device is discarded, it is necessary to disassemble the cooking device by separating it for each material constituting the cooking device.

  However, when the operation panel is fixed to the front surface of the main body of the cooking device by caulking, it is difficult to remove the caulking location depending on the caulking position and the caulking direction, and it is difficult to remove the operation panel from the main body of the cooking device. In order to facilitate decomposition, improvement has been desired.

  The present invention solves the above-described problem, and is capable of fixing the operation panel to the front surface of the main body of the heating cooker by caulking to save resources, and it is easy to remove the operation panel from the main body of the heating cooker. There is an object to provide an environment-friendly cooking device that can be easily separated for recycling.

In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the method of attaching the operation panel of the built-in heating cooker of the present invention is
The main body of the cooking device having an operation panel on which the operation unit is disposed is inserted from the upper surface opening formed on the upper surface of the kitchen cabinet, and the operation panel faces the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet. A method of attaching the operation panel of the built-in heating cooker to be installed, and extending from the left and right ends of the operation panel to provide a locking piece, the left and right direction of the front surface of the heating cooker body On the side surface of the heating cooker main body that is continuous with the edge of the heating cooker, a locked portion for locking the locking piece by plastic deformation is provided, and the locking piece has an outer edge of the locked portion. The outer portion of the operation panel is squeezed so that the locking piece bends and plastically deforms inside the heating cooker body outside the outer edge of the locked portion. The back surface of the locking piece that is a surface continuous with the Together with the locking piece in terms abutting engagement state after the engaging portion is in a state of locked to the locked portion as the locking piece, and the outer of the outer edges of the engaged portion A locking piece provided with an insertion hole through which the tip of a flat-blade screwdriver can be inserted in the locked state at the opposite position , and the locked portion is opposed to the insertion hole at its outer edge a position, characterized in that the abutment is provided with accommodating recesses configurable for accommodating the tip of the screwdriver in the locking state to the back surface of the locking piece of the tip of the screwdriver This is a method of attaching the operation panel .

  With the above configuration, the operation piece is locked by a so-called caulking by plastically deforming the locking piece extending from the side end portion of the operation panel so as to be locked to the locked portion provided on the side surface of the heating cooker body. Insert the tip of a flathead screwdriver through the insertion hole through which the tip of the flathead screwdriver can be inserted, even after attaching to the front of the cooker body. After the tip of the screwdriver is inserted and brought into contact with the back surface of the locking piece at the tip of the screwdriver, the locking piece bent and plastically deformed by the tip of the screwdriver is returned to the shape before bending, Since the engagement with the locked portion can be easily released, it is easy to remove the operation panel from the front surface of the cooking device body, and it is possible to remove the cooking device when the cooking device is discarded. Separation can be easily performed for the cycle.

  Further, it is preferable that the minus driver is configured to be a minus driver for a slotted M4 pan head screw.

  When configured in this way, in addition to the above effects, the engagement between the locking piece and the locked portion is released using a generally used minus driver for the M4 pan head screw with a slot. Is easy and convenient.

According to the method for attaching the operation panel of the built-in heating cooker of the present invention, in the built-in heating cooker, the operation panel can be fixed to the front surface of the main body of the heating cooker by caulking, which is resource-saving and operation. It is easy to remove the panel from the main body of the heating cooker, and separation for recycling can be easily performed.

The perspective view of the built-in type heating cooker in embodiment of this invention The front view which shows the front of the heating cooker main body to which an operation panel is attached with a built-in heating cooker same as the above Side view showing only the periphery of the front surface of the heating cooker body Front view showing the operation panel of the built-in cooking device Side view showing the operation panel Side view showing the state before the operation panel is mounted on the front surface of the heating cooker body and the locking piece is bent Side view showing a state after the operation panel is mounted on the front surface of the heating cooker body and the locking piece is bent

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 shows a drop-in stove A as a first embodiment of the built-in heating cooker of the present invention.

The main body 1 of the drop-in stove A is dropped from the upper surface opening of a kitchen cabinet (not shown) and installed. Moreover, the top plate 2 (FIG. 1) for covering the upper opening of the main body 1, which is larger than the opening on the upper surface of the kitchen cabinet, and the opening provided in the top plate 2 by the three stove burners 3 pass through the top plate 2. It is exposed upward.
Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a retractable operation unit S is provided on the front surface of the main body 1 so as to face the operation panel P, and the operation panel P is provided on the front surface of the main body 1 as will be described later. Are fixed by caulking to the main body front plate 5 which is a component that constitutes the component, and the location fixed by caulking is when the operation panel P faces the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet. The side molding 20 is attached so as to be covered with the side molding 20 that fills the gap formed between the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet and the operation panel P.

  As shown in FIG. 1, on the operation panel P, three manual operation portions SS for performing point extinguishing and heating power adjustment of the cono burner 3 are provided corresponding to each of the three cono burners 3. .

  As shown in FIG. 1, the drop-in stove A is provided with a grill G having a grill burner (not shown).

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a grill exhaust port 4 for exhausting combustion exhaust gas from the grill G is formed, and the upper surface of the gas stove is covered with a glass top plate 2. The five virtues 3a for receiving and supporting an object to be heated (such as a pan) for the three stove burners 3 are placed and supported.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the operation panel P on the front side of the gas stove is provided with an operation unit S for instructing ignition and extinguishing of three stove burners 3 and a grill burner (not shown), heating power adjustment, and various settings. A combustion control unit (not shown) configured to execute various controls is configured to control the three stove burners 3 and the grill burner based on the operating state commanded by the operation unit S. ing.

The operation panel P is fixed to the front surface of the main body 1 by caulking, and this point will be described below.
2 is a front view of the main body front plate 5 which is a component constituting the front surface of the main body 1 to which the operation panel P is attached. FIG. 3 is a front view of the main body front plate 5 in the direction of arrow L in FIG. It is a side view of the main body front board 5 at the time.
In the present embodiment, the main body front plate 5 is configured by using a plated steel plate, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the left and right sides of the main body front plate 5 are components constituting the front surface of the main body 1. A part of the side piece 5b extending rearward from the left and right sides of the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5 is cut out, and the left and right end surfaces of the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5 and the main body front plate 5 connected to this end surface are cut. The to-be-latched part 6 comprised by the rear surface part 5c of the front surface 5a is provided. Further, the left and right end faces of the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5, that is, a part of the outer end edge of the locked portion 6 is cut out to form the housing recess 6a.
The locked portion 6 and the accommodating recess 6a will be described in detail later.

Next, the operation panel P attached to the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5 will be described.
FIG. 4 is a front view showing the operation panel P attached to the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5. FIG. 5 is a side view of the operation panel P viewed from the left.
In the present embodiment, the operation panel P is made of a pre-coated color steel plate, and as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a locking piece 7 is extended from the left and right ends of the operation panel P toward the rear. The locking piece 7 is provided with an insertion hole 8, which will be described in detail later.

In addition, an upper surface piece 10 for performing vertical positioning with respect to the main body front plate 5 is extended rearward from the upper end of the operation panel P. In addition, a manual operation portion insertion hole 11 through which three manual operation portions SS (FIG. 1) are inserted is formed in the front surface of the operation panel P.

Next, the point that the operation panel P is fixed to the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5 which is a component constituting the front surface of the main body 1 by caulking will be described.
The rear end of the side piece of the operation panel P extending rearward from the left and right ends of the front surface of the operation panel P is set along the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5, and the lower surface of the upper surface piece 10 is set to the main body front plate. 5, the operation panel P is positioned with respect to the main body front plate 5, and before the operation panel P is mounted on the front surface of the main body 1 and the locking piece 7 is bent as shown in FIG. 6. It becomes a state. In the state of FIG. 6, the locking piece 7 is located outside the outer edge of the locked portion 6.

  When the locking piece 7 is bent and plastically deformed from the state shown in FIG. 6 in the direction of the center side in the left-right direction of the main body front plate 5, which is the direction corresponding to the inside of the main body 1, as shown in FIG. The back surface of the locking piece 7, which is a surface continuous with the rear surface of the operation panel P of the locking piece 7, is brought into a locked state in contact with the rear surface of the locked portion 6, and the locking piece 7 is caulked to the locked portion 6. The locked state is reached. Thus, the operation panel P is fixed to the front surface 5a of the main body front plate 5 by caulking without using other components such as screws, which saves resources.

  The place fixed by caulking is located between the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet and the operation panel P when the operation panel P faces the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet. Since the side molding 20 is attached so as to be covered with the side molding 20 that fills the generated gap, a portion fixed by caulking is visually recognized by the user and the appearance is not impaired.

  In the locked state where the back surface of the locking piece 7 is in contact with the rear surface of the locked portion 6 shown in FIG. 7, that is, in the state where the locking piece 7 is locked to the locked portion 6 by caulking, the insertion hole 8 Is located at a position facing the outside of the outer edge of the locked portion 6, and the housing recess 6 a provided at the outer edge of the locked portion 6 is positioned facing the inside of the insertion hole 8. Yes.

  In the state shown in FIG. 7, the tip of a flat-blade screwdriver for a M4 pan head screw with a slide, which is a general-purpose tool, is inserted into the insertion hole 8, and the tip of the flat-blade screwdriver can be inserted into the receiving recess 6a. The tip of the flathead screwdriver can be brought into contact with the back surface of the locking piece 7.

  Then, after bringing the tip of the flathead screwdriver into contact with the back surface of the locking piece 7, the locking piece 7 bent and plastically deformed by the tip of the flathead screwdriver is returned to its original shape before being bent. The engagement with the locking portion 6 can be easily released. Therefore, it is easy to remove the operation panel P from the main body front plate 5 constituting the front surface of the main body 1, and separation for recycling when the drop-in stove A is discarded can be easily performed.

[Another Example]
(1) In the above embodiment, the left and right ends of the operation panel P are configured to engage the locking piece 7 with the locked portion 6 by caulking. You may comprise so that it may engage by the crimping of the locking piece 7 provided only in one side.
(2) In the above embodiment, the tip of a slotted flat head screwdriver for the M4 pan head screw can be inserted into the insertion hole 8, and the tip of the slotted screwdriver can be inserted into the receiving recess 6a. However, it is also possible to use a minus driver having a size different from that described above.

The operation panel mounting method according to the present invention is not limited to the gas drop-in stove, which is resource-saving by fixing two or more parts by caulking, and is easy to remove using a standard tool. The present invention can be widely applied to uses such as a built-in heating cooker in which an operation unit is disposed in a front opening of a kitchen cabinet used in a general household.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Top plate 3 Combustor 3a Gotoku 4 Grill exhaust port 5 Main body front plate 5a Front surface 5b Side piece 5c of main body front plate 5 Rear surface part 6 Locked part 6a Receiving recessed part 7 Locking piece 8 Insertion hole 10 Upper surface piece 11 Hole 20 for manual operation part insertion Side molding A Drop-in stove G Grill L Side view direction P of operation panel S Operation part SS Manual operation part

Claims (2)

The main body of the cooking device having an operation panel on which the operation unit is disposed is inserted from the upper surface opening formed on the upper surface of the kitchen cabinet, and the operation panel faces the front opening formed on the front surface of the kitchen cabinet. It is a method of attaching the operation panel of the built-in heating cooker to be installed,
Extending from the left and right ends of the operation panel to provide a locking piece,
On the side surface of the heating cooker body that is connected to the left and right edges of the front surface of the heating cooker body, there is provided a locked portion that locks the locking piece by plastic deformation,
Caulking processing is performed on an outer portion of the outer end edge of the locked portion of the locking piece, and the locking piece is bent inside the heating cooker body outside the outer edge of the locked portion. The latching piece is engaged with the latched piece in a latched state in which the back surface of the latching piece, which is a surface that is continuous with the rear surface of the operation panel, contacts the rear surface of the latched portion. While being locked to the stop ,
As the locking piece , a locking piece provided with an insertion hole through which the tip of a minus driver can be inserted in the locked state at a position facing the outside of the outer edge of the locked portion , and
At the outer end edge of the locked portion , the tip of the minus driver is accommodated in the locked state at a position facing the insertion hole, to the back surface of the locking piece at the tip of the minus driver. A method of attaching the operation panel of the built-in heating cooker, characterized in that the housing is provided with an accommodating recess capable of abutting. The method of attaching an operation panel of the built-in heating cooker according to claim 1, wherein the flathead screwdriver is a flathead screwdriver for a slotted M4 pan head screw.