Abstract: A microwave heating device of the present invention comprises a heating chamber housing an object to be heated, a microwave generation portion generating a microwave, a waveguide portion propagating the microwave, and a plurality of microwave radiating portions radiating the microwave in the heating chamber, wherein the microwave radiating portions are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction of electric field and to a direction of propagation within the waveguide portion, and centers of the microwave radiating portions are arranged at positions corresponding to approximate node positions of the electric field within the waveguide portion. The microwave heating device is enabled to make uniform heat distribution in the object to be heated, without using a driving mechanism.

Abstract: In order to radiate microwaves from a waveguide tube to a whole area from end to end of a radiation area within a heating chamber, and to heat uniformly an object to be heated without using a driving mechanism, a microwave heating device of the present invention includes openings for radiating the microwave from the waveguide tube to the inside of the heating chamber. The heating chamber includes a radiation area which has a length of approximate twice an in-tube wavelength in a propagation direction of the waveguide tube. Also, the openings are arranged to have an interval of approximate the in-tube wavelength in the propagation direction of the waveguide tube, and are symmetrically arranged to a center line which intersects perpendicularly to the propagation direction in the radiation area.

Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus of the present invention includes a heating chamber to which a heating plate for loading a subject to be heated thereon is detachably attached, a microwave generating unit, a waveguide for transmitting a microwave from the microwave generating unit, a rotation antenna for radiating the microwave into the heating chamber from the waveguide, a driving unit for turning/driving the rotation antenna, an operating portion capable of choosing the grill menu by which the subject to be heated put on the heating plate is heated and a hot-up menu by which the subject to be heated is heated without the heating plate, and a controlling unit for controlling the driving unit based on an output signal form the operating portion, wherein the controlling unit controls to vary a direction of a sharp portion of a radiation directivity of the rotation antenna in response to the output signal from the operating portion.

Abstract: In a microwave heating device of the present invention, a heating-chamber input portion is adapted to direct, to a heating chamber, microwaves having propagated through a waveguide tube and having passed through the positions where microwave radiating portions are formed, thereby realizing a state where progressive waves are dominant among the microwaves propagating through the waveguide tube, so that the microwave radiating portions are caused to radiate, to the inside of the heating chamber, microwaves based on the progressive waves propagating through the waveguide tube. This enables uniformly heating an object to be heated, without using a rotational mechanism.

Abstract: A microwave heating appliance, capable of achieving a locally concentrated heating in answer to the purpose while achieving a uniform heating in the overall heating chamber in a normal mode, is provided. The microwave heating appliance includes a microwave generating unit, a waveguide for transmitting a microwave from the microwave generating unit, a heating chamber for housing a heated subject heated by the microwave, a rotating antenna for radiating the microwave to the heating chamber, a driving unit for rotating and driving the rotating antenna, a temperature distribution detecting unit for detecting a temperature distribution in the heating chamber, and a controlling unit for controlling a direction of the rotating antenna based on a detected result of the temperature distribution detecting unit so that a sharp part of radiation directivity of the rotating antenna in a direction decided based on the detected result.

Abstract: In a microwave heating apparatus, an electricity feeding port constituting a port of radiating a microwave is set to a ceiling wall of a heating chamber, a magnetron is arranged on a side of an outer side face of the heating chamber by directing an antenna for oscillating the microwave to a side of the heating chamber, and a wave guide for guiding the microwave oscillated from the magnetron to the electricity feeding port is formed in an L-like shape including a side wave guide extended upwardly from a surrounding of the antenna along the outer side face of the heating chamber and an upper wave guide extended from an upper end of the side wave guide to the electricity feeding port along an outer face of the ceiling wall.

Abstract: An optical display device, including a light guiding plate, a light detecting sensor and at least two illuminants. The light detecting sensor and the illuminants are commonly mounted on a wiring board with the at least two or more illuminants disposed to face a light incidence surface of the light guiding plate. The light detecting sensor is disposed on the same side of the wiring board as the illuminants with respect to the light guiding plate.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a microwave heating appliance capable of achieving a locally concentrated heating in answer to the purpose while achieving a uniform heating in the overall heating chamber in a normal mode.

Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus of the present invention includes a heating chamber to which a heating plate for loading a subject to be heated thereon is detachably attached, a microwave generating unit, a waveguide for transmitting a microwave from the microwave generating unit, a rotation antenna for radiating the microwave into the heating chamber from the waveguide, a driving unit for turning/driving the rotation antenna, an operating portion capable of choosing the grill menu by which the subject to be heated put on the heating plate is heated and a hot-up menu by which the subject to be heated is heated without the heating plate, and a controlling unit for controlling the driving unit based on an output signal form the operating portion, wherein the controlling unit controls to vary a direction of a sharp portion of a radiation directivity of the rotation antenna in response to the output signal from the operating portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical display device, including a light emitting portion, a light guiding plate, and a light detecting sensor. The light detecting sensor is mounted on a wiring board having the at least two or more illuminants mounted thereon so as to be disposed to face the light incidence portion of the light guiding plate, so that the light detecting sensor is disposed on the same side as that of the at least two or more illuminants with respect to the light guiding plate.

Abstract: A heating cooker (100) for heating to process an object placed on a mounting base of a heating chamber (51) including at least a single piece of a rod-like heater arranged along a face member forming the heating chamber (51) and a heat shielding member provided along a longitudinal direction of the rod-like heater between the rod-like heater and the face member (53a) on an outer side of the heating chamber (51).

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the invention is to restrain local heating peculiar to microwave heating to thereby realize the uniform heating of an object to be heated and thus enhance the condition of the object to be heated after heated. In a microwave heating method for supplying microwaves into a heating chamber 11 storing therein an object to be heated to heat the object to be heated, microwaves are supplied into the heating chamber 11 to heat the object to be heated; the temperature of the object to be heated is measured to check whether a given temperature difference has been generated in the temperature distribution of the object to be heated; and, when the given temperature difference has been generated, the minute particles of water are supplied into the heating chamber 11 to change the permittivity distribution state within the heating chamber 11, thereby changing the distribution of electric fields caused by the microwaves supplied into the heating chamber 11.

Abstract: An object detecting device can prevent a seizure of an object between an opening and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the opening. The object detecting device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed at one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, and judging means for judging the contact of the object with the pressure-sensitive sensor on the basis of an output signal of the pressure-sensitive sensor. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes pressure-sensitive means for generating an output signal depending on deformation, and support means for supporting the pressure-sensitive means at the one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, the support means including a vibration damping portion for damping vibration propagated to the pressure-sensitive means.

Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide a vibration detecting apparatus for accurately detecting vibration transmitted to a rigid body, particularly provide a toilet seat apparatus for accurately detecting body movement of a user transmitted to a toilet seat. There are provided pressing means (amplifying means) (27) for amplifying vibration by body movement of a user transmitted to an upper lid (rigid body) (6) of a toilet seat apparatus (5), and a piezoelectric sensor (vibration detecting sensor) (9) for detecting the amplified vibration and therefore, even when the toilet seat is hardly deformed by the body movement of the user transmitted to the toilet seat, the body movement of the user transmitted to the toilet seat is detected by the piezoelectric sensor (vibration detecting sensor) (9) by amplifying the body movement by the pressing means (amplifying means) (27) and therefore, the body movement of the user transmitted to the toilet seat can accurately be detected.

Abstract: It is a problem of the invention to provide a microwave heating apparatus capable of realizing small-sized formation of the apparatus while preventing occurrence of a nonuniformity in heating caused by a deviation of a position of mounting an electricity feeding port.

Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide a heating cooker capable of producing a uniform baking mark at a total of an object at inexpensive cost by a single piece of a rod-like heater in a heating cooker interposing a face member between the object and the rod-like heater. A heating cooker (100) for heating to process an object placed on a mounting base of a heating chamber (51) including at least a single piece of a rod-like heater arranged along a face member forming the heating chamber (51) and a heat shielding member provided along a longitudinal direction of the rod-like heater between the rod-like heater and the face member (53a) on an outer side of the heating chamber (51).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a video processing apparatus which makes it possible to print a picture having an arbitrary size without forging an original picture. A video processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a print size selecting means 51 for selecting a print size of a printer 3 by selecting a size of a picture frame, a CPU 43 for determining the number of pixels of a video data corresponding to the selected print size, and a memory controller 33 for processing the video data in accordance with the number of pixels so that pixels of a video data output from a camera 1 should be in one-to-one correspondence with pixels of a video data to be printed by the printer 3. It is not necessary to subject the original picture to video processings such as a decimating processing, an interpolation processing or the like.

Abstract: An object detecting device can prevent a seizure of an object between an opening and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the opening. The object detecting device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed at one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, and judging means for judging the contact of the object with the pressure-sensitive sensor on the basis of an output signal of the pressure-sensitive sensor. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes pressure-sensitive means for generating an output signal depending on deformation, and support means for supporting the pressure-sensitive means at the one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, the support means including a vibration damping portion for damping vibration propagated to the pressure-sensitive means.

Abstract: An object detecting device can prevent a seizure of an object between an opening and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the opening. The object detecting device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed at one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, and judging means for judging the contact of the object with the pressure-sensitive sensor on the basis of an output signal of the pressure-sensitive sensor. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes pressure-sensitive means for generating an output signal depending on deformation, and support means for supporting the pressure-sensitive means at the one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, the support means including a vibration damping portion for damping vibration propagated to the pressure-sensitive means.

Abstract: An object detecting device can prevent a seizure of an object between an opening and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the opening. The object detecting device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed at one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, and judging means for judging the contact of the object with the pressure-sensitive sensor on the basis of an output signal of the pressure-sensitive sensor. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes pressure-sensitive means for generating an output signal depending on deformation, and support means for supporting the pressure-sensitive means at the one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, the support means including a vibration damping portion for damping vibration propagated to the pressure-sensitive means.