Patents by Inventor Kouji Kanzaki
Kouji Kanzaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10076004Abstract: A microwave oven includes: heating chamber (11) for accommodating a heating object; magnetron (12) for heating the heating object accommodated in heating chamber (11); blower (13) for cooling magnetron (12); temperature detection device (17) for detecting a temperature of magnetron (12); and a control device for controlling an output power of magnetron (12) on the basis of temperature information output from temperature detection device (17), wherein temperature detection device (17) is disposed inside cooling fin (19) of magnetron (12), and the control device controls magnetron (12) on the basis of the temperature information obtained before cooking is started, thereby reducing a temperature transfer loss of abnormal heat generated from magnetron (12) and efficiently transferring the heat.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Kazuhiro Kawai, Hisahiro Nishitani
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Publication number: 20140190961Abstract: A cooking apparatus 1 includes: a heating chamber which accommodates an object to be heated; an interior lamp illuminates the heating chamber; a control unit which supplies power to the interior lamp; and an operation unit which operates the control unit. The interior lamp is formed with an LED board on which a plurality of LED elements are mounted, and the control unit supplies power to only a part of the plurality of LED elements during cooking.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Hisahiro Nishitani, Shinichi Yamane
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Patent number: 8729441Abstract: There is provided a high-frequency heating apparatus including a heating chamber that houses an object to be heated, a rotating turntable provided on a bottom surface of the heating chamber, on which the object to be heated is rotatably mounted; a high-frequency heating section (21) that heats the object to be heated which is housed in the heating chamber, a convection heater (27) for heating the heating chamber, a circulating fan (28) for supplying the heating chamber with heat of the convection heater (27) as hot air, and a grill heater (33) for heating the object to be heated, wherein the convection heater (27) and the grill heater (33) are separately disposed on an upper surface of the heating chamber, thereby allowing reduction in size of an external shape of the heating apparatus without sacrificing grill cooking performance and oven cooking performance.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Hisahiro Nishitani
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Patent number: 8258436Abstract: The present invention provides a heating device including a heating compartment for holding an object-to-be-heated, an oven heater for heating the heating compartment, a circulation fan for supplying the heat of the oven heater to the heating compartment as hot air, a drive motor for driving the circulation fan, a grill heater in an upper part of the heating compartment, and a turntable on which the object-to-be-heated is mounted, the turntable being in the bottom of the heating compartment, in which the grill heater is disposed obliquely to a side surface of the heating compartment in a part of the upper part of the heating compartment.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hisahiro Nishitani, Kouji Kanzaki
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Publication number: 20120043316Abstract: A high-frequency heating equipment includes temperature sensor (21) that is mounted with mounting bracket (22) such that temperature sensor (21) can be pressed by a lateral face of cooling fins and an end of temperature sensor (21) points to an anode of magnetron (3). This structure allows positively preventing magnetron (3) from falling into a thermal runaway which invites a breakdown of magnetron (3), and allows determining in a reliable manner whether the operation is a no-load running or a light-load running. The high-frequency heating equipment thus achieves stable performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Kawai, Kouji Kanzaki, Hisahiro Nishitani
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Publication number: 20110284528Abstract: A microwave oven includes: heating chamber (11) for accommodating a heating object; magnetron (12) for heating the heating object accommodated in heating chamber (11); blower (13) for cooling magnetron (12); temperature detection device (17) for detecting a temperature of magnetron (12); and a control device for controlling an output power of magnetron (12) on the basis of temperature information output from temperature detection device (17), wherein temperature detection device (17) is disposed inside cooling fin (19) of magnetron (12), and the control device controls magnetron (12) on the basis of the temperature information obtained before cooking is started, thereby reducing a temperature transfer loss of abnormal heat generated from magnetron (12) and efficiently transferring the heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Kazuhiro Kawai, Hisahiro Nishitani
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Publication number: 20110056933Abstract: There is provided a high-frequency heating apparatus including a heating chamber that houses an object to be heated, a rotating turntable provided on a bottom surface of the heating chamber, on which the object to be heated is rotatably mounted; a high-frequency heating section (21) that heats the object to be heated which is housed in the heating chamber, a convection heater (27) for heating the heating chamber, a circulating fan (28) for supplying the heating chamber with heat of the convection heater (27) as hot air, and a grill heater (33) for heating the object to be heated, wherein the convection heater (27) and the grill heater (33) are separately disposed on an upper surface of the heating chamber, thereby allowing reduction in size of an external shape of the heating apparatus without sacrificing grill cooking performance and oven cooking performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Hisahiro Nishitani
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Publication number: 20110036825Abstract: The present invention provides a heating device including a heating compartment for holding an object-to-be-heated, an oven heater for heating the heating compartment, a circulation fan for supplying the heat of the oven heater to the heating compartment as hot air, a drive motor for driving the circulation fan, a grill heater in an upper part of the heating compartment, and a turntable on which the object-to-be-heated is mounted, the turntable being in the bottom of the heating compartment, in which the grill heater is disposed obliquely to a side surface of the heating compartment in a part of the upper part of the heating compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hisahiro Nishitani, Kouji Kanzaki
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Patent number: 7645966Abstract: An attachment structure of a storage unit having: a tank casing body; a tank casing door member, and a lock portion; and an operation member, and a push button, wherein: an outer circumference of a storage unit is surrounded with an opening portion of an exterior panel; the push button is protruded from an outer surface of the exterior panel in a mount position of the exterior panel when the exterior panel is in assembling work; and a space for inserting a circumferential edge of the opening portion of the exterior panel is formed on the back of the push button.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
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Patent number: 7414227Abstract: The object of the present invention is to achieve a high frequency heating apparatus having a steam generating function that can implement simplification and miniaturization of the construction of a steam supply mechanism by omitting dedicated pump means for supplying water of a water tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7326893Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus having a steam generating function including a heater main body 111 embedded with heater 27, a transport tube heating portion 113 for boiling a liquid in a transport tube 112, and a heat conduction control portion 114 comprising a material having a heat conductivity smaller than a heat conductivity of a material forming an evaporating portion 25 and capable of restraining adherence of scale in accordance with local boiling in the transport tube by reducing an amount of heat conducted to the transport tube 112 while ensuring heat energy supplied to an evaporating side by setting heater to a high temperature. Further, a steam supply mechanism for excellently maintaining a balance of supply of the heat energy to a side of a transport portion and a side of an evaporating portion and continuously generating steam at a high temperature near to 100° C. can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yasuhisa Mori, Masato Matsuda, Hiroshi Kawai
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Patent number: 7304278Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a high frequency heating apparatus having a steam generating function in which a time required for evaporation of dropped water can be remarkably increased when water is dropped onto an evaporation tray and the heating efficiency is high. The high frequency heating apparatus has a steam generating function that includes a high frequency generator and a steam generator that includes an evaporation tray provided on the bottom surface of a heating chamber in which a heating target is mounted and a heater device for heating the evaporation tray to generate steam in the heating chamber, wherein the heater device is constructed as a heater device (11) having a sheathed heater (113) embedded in an aluminum die cast (111), and the heater device is directly attached to the back side of the evaporation tray (22).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa, Takahiko Yamasaki, Yasuhisa Mori, Takayuki Akashi, Hiroshi Kawai
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Patent number: 7234478Abstract: Cleaning according to an evaporating dish cleaning mode or heating chamber cleaning mode is implemented based on a signal inputted by the control part. In the heating chamber cleaning mode, condensation is generated on the inner surface of the heating chamber 11 by steam, and the soil adhered to the inner surface of the heating chamber 11 is allowed to float to be in a state of removing it easily. In the evaporating dish cleaning mode, a cleaning liquid made of citric acid solution is pumped into an evaporating dish 35, it is heated to a predetermined temperature, and it is left therein. Therefore, calcium and magnesium deposited on the evaporating dish 35 are allowed in a state of removing them easily.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20070029313Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus having a steam generating function including a heating means main body 111 embedded with heating means 27, a transport tube heating portion 113 for boiling a liquid in a transport tube 112, and a heat conduction control portion 114 comprising a material having a heat conductivity smaller than a heat conductivity of a material forming an evaporating portion 25 and capable of restraining adherence of scale in accordance with local boiling in the transport tube by reducing an amount of heat conducted to the transport tube 112 while ensuring heat energy supplied to an evaporating side by setting heating means to a high temperature. Further, a steam supply mechanism for excellently maintaining a balance of supply of the heat energy to a side of a transport portion and a side of an evaporating portion and continuously generating steam at a high temperature near to 100° C. can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2004Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yasuhisa Yasuhisa, Masato Matsuda, Hiroshi Kawai
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Patent number: 7171923Abstract: The present invention provides a water supply tank unit which can treat water that has leaked when a water supply tank is pulled out so that it does not remain. In the invention, a water supply tank unit which is attached to a high-frequency heating apparatus with a steam generating function and holds a water supply tank detachably, said tank unit comprises: a water supply tank 17 having a water supply port 55 on its side surface; a tank case door member 31 for supporting the water supply tank 17, which has a water inlet 59 connected to the water supply port 55 with an inserting operation of the water supply tank 17, and a scupper 60 formed around an elastic fitting piece by perforating a bottom part near the water inlet 59; and a sponge provided below the scupper 60.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Yasuhiko Inoue, Takashi Sugimoto, Kenichiro Fukumura
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Patent number: 7166824Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-frequency heating apparatus with steam generation function and control method thereof. When high-frequency heating treatment for heat-treating with a high frequency and steam heating treatment for heat-treating with steam generated in a heating chamber are performed in order separately or at the same time for heat-treating the heated material, while air in the heating chamber is agitated, the air is circulated in the heating chamber. An appropriate heating program is automatically selected in response to the type of heated material to perform heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa, Satomi Uchiyama, Kenji Watanabe
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Patent number: 7105785Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a high-frequency heating apparatus which has simple configuration, in which leakage into the apparatus from a water tank is prevented without large-sizing the apparatus, which is not influenced by heat from a heating chamber and which is sanitary and provides ease of use. To achieve the object, the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 provided with a high frequency generator that supplies a high frequency to the heating chamber for housing an object to be heated and a steam generator that generates steam in the heating chamber for supplying at least either a high frequency or steam to the heating chamber and heating the object to be heated is provided and the water tank for supplying water to the steam generator is arranged in any position on the outside face of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 so that the water tank can be detached.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa, Masaharu Tsujimoto, Toshifumi Kamiya
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Patent number: 7105786Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus with steam generation function for supplying at least any one of high frequency and steam to a heating chamber 11 for accommodating an object to be heated and heat-treating the object to be heated, the apparatus has a high frequency generating part 13, a steam generating part 15 for generating steam inside the heating chamber 11, a temperature detecting part 20 for detecting temperature of the steam generating part, and a control part 501 for controlling a heater, wherein the steam generating part is controlled to heat based on temperature information of the temperature detecting part.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20060191915Abstract: The object of the present invention is to achieve a high frequency heating apparatus having a steam generating function that can implement simplification and miniaturization of the construction of a steam supply mechanism by omitting dedicated pump means for supplying water of a water tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2004Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Yuji Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7087873Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus with a steam generating function, which heat-treats a to-be-heated object by supplying at least high-frequency waves or steam to a heating chamber 11 that accommodates the object. This high-frequency heating apparatus has a high frequency wave generating portion 13, a steam generating portion 15 for generating steam in the heating chamber 11, and a circulating fan 17 for agitating air in the heating chamber 11. Moreover, the high-frequency heating apparatus has a chamber air heater 19 for heating air circulating in the heating chamber 11. The steam generating portion 15 generates steam by heating an evaporating dish 35 that has a water storing recess.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki