rice cooker

JP7863472B2Active Publication Date: 2026-05-21MIDEA GROUP CO LTD
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Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
MIDEA GROUP CO LTD
Filing Date
2022-08-02
Publication Date
2026-05-21

AI Technical Summary

Technical Problem

Conventional rice cookers fail to account for variations in water quality and rice characteristics, leading to inconsistent cooking results due to factors like water hardness and rice brand differences, resulting in issues such as hard and crumbly rice.

Method used

A rice cooker that includes heating means, storage means for cooking information by brand, and control means to adjust cooking based on brand-specific texture criteria, using a coordinate system to emphasize or suppress rice characteristics.

Benefits of technology

Enables cooking control tailored to each brand of rice, ensuring consistent texture and taste by accounting for water quality and rice characteristics, providing user-preferred cooking patterns.

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Abstract

To provide a rice cooker capable of executing rice cooking control so as to emphasize or suppress features of brand rice for each brand rice.SOLUTION: A rice cooker of the present invention includes: a heating coil 11 for heating rice and water as a material to be cooked: storage means 48 for storing a heating pattern of a rice cooking course for each brand rice; and rice cooking control means 51 for controlling the heating coil 11 on the basis of the heating pattern and controlling rice cooking of the material to be cooked. The heating pattern is set for each rice brand on the basis of a MAP in Fig.10 in which features of brand rice are indexed with the texture of hardness and the texture of stickiness as a predetermined standard, and includes a first heating pattern in which rice cooking is controlled so that features of the brand rice are emphasized, and a second heating pattern in which rich cooking is controlled so that features of the brand rice are suppressed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 17
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