Electric rice cooker

Abstract

To allow operation by an operation unit even when there is no detection input of a human detection sensor in an electric rice cooker which is provided with the human detection sensor and is configured to control a function of the operation unit in accordance with detection input or no detection input of the human detection sensor. The electric rice cooker comprises: an operation unit performing operation setting of control input to rice cooker control means in a conductive state; and a human detection sensor which detects whether or not there is an operator operating the operation unit, controls the operation unit into a conductive state in which setting of the control input to the rice cooker control means is possible when the operator is present, and controls the operation unit into a non-conductive state in which setting of the control input to the rice cooker control means is impossible when the operator is not present. Even when the operation unit is controlled into the non-conductive state and the human detection sensor does not detect the presence of the operator, the conductive state is recovered in the case where the operator operates or will operate the operation unit.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to a structure of an electric rice cooker, which is equipped with a human body induction sensor that detects the presence of a person by receiving infrared rays from the human body, and controls the electric rice cooker to a desired operating state based on the detection result. More specifically, it relates to a rice cooker configured to reliably control an operation setting unit of the rice cooker to a desired operating state even when the detection function of the human body sensor is insufficient. Background technique [0002] Among the recent rice cookers, there are provided rice cookers that have not only the usual function of cooking rice (white rice), but also functions such as cooking brown rice (brown rice) or multigrain rice (雑谷), mixing (烧込み), cooking Glutinous rice and small bean rice (おこわ), porridge (おかゆ) and other rice cooking functions, quick cooking (早烧き), economical cooking (エコ烧き) and other functions, a...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] Moreover, in the case of a rice cooker that adopts this energy-saving mode, in this energy-saving mode, of course, as long as the energy-saving mode is not canceled by some means, even if the operation of the operation switch is invalid (cannot be input), and Also cannot perform display or illumination of the display panel

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