Heating Regulator

The cooking appliance addresses uneven cooking and scorching issues by using vacuum degassing and pressure control to promote water absorption and extend warming time for wheat-based foods, ensuring even cooking and preventing browning.

JP7894736B2Active Publication Date: 2026-07-24MIDEA GROUP CO LTD
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Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
MIDEA GROUP CO LTD
Filing Date
2022-05-31
Publication Date
2026-07-24

AI Technical Summary

Technical Problem

Existing rice cookers face issues such as food scorching, uneven cooking, and limited warming time for foods with high polyphenol content, particularly when cooking wheat-based foods like barley and mixed grain rice.

Method used

A cooking appliance with a vacuum degassing control mechanism that adjusts pressure inside the container, combined with heating controls, to promote water absorption and prevent scorching, ensuring even cooking and long-term warming without burning.

Benefits of technology

The appliance achieves even cooking and prevents scorching of wheat-based foods while extending the warming time beyond conventional limits, maintaining food quality and preventing browning due to polyphenol oxidation.

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Abstract

To provide a heating cooker capable of cooking not only polished rice and brown rice but also a wheat-containing cooked object without heating unevenness while suppressing burnt deposits, and corresponding to heat insulation of a cooked object for a long time.SOLUTION: A heating cooker includes: reservation setting means 54 for acquiring a reservation time, and calculating a standby time from the reservation time to time to start cooking; and decompressing and degassing control means 53 for decompressing and degassing the inside of a container body in which a cooked object is put, until the start of cooking when the standby time is within a predetermine time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
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