JPH06217864A - Rice washing rice cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatize opening and closing of a cover of a rice cooker in the rice washing/rice cooking device. CONSTITUTION:The rice washing/rice cooking device is constituted so that a rice washer for executing rice washing is relatively moved with respect to a rice cooker for receiving washed rice supplied from the rice washer and cooking rice, washed rice is supplied and cooked rice is take out, and also, a robot hand 4 for opening/closing and attaching/detaching a cover 3 of this rice cooker in a prescribed timing corresponding to washed rice supply, etc., is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rice cooker having a rice washer and a rice cooker for automatically washing rice and cooking rice, by mechanically supplying washed rice washed by the rice washer to the rice cooker. , Automatic rice washing and rice cooking are done smoothly.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a rice washing / cooking device for automatically washing rice and cooking rice, the lid of the rice cooker is opened by hand at the time of supplying the rice, and the work efficiency is poor.

[0003]

According to the present invention, rice is washed by relatively moving between a rice washing machine 1 for washing rice and a rice cooker 2 for receiving and washing rice supplied from the rice washing machine 1. A rice washing and rice cooking apparatus is provided with a robot hand 4 for supplying and removing rice, and for opening and closing the lid 3 of the rice cooker 1 at a fixed timing with the rice washing and the like.

[0004]

[Operation and effect of the invention] The rice washed in the rice washer 1
The rice is supplied to the rice cooker 2 with the lid 3 directly below, and the rice is cooked with the lid 3 of the rice cooker 2 closed. When the rice cooking is completed, the lid 3 is opened to take out the rice. When supplying washing rice to such a rice cooker 2 or taking out rice,
The lid 3 is opened, and the lid 3 is tightened when cooking rice, but the lid 3 is opened and closed by the robot hand 4.

The relation between the rice cooker 2 and the rice washer 1 is that when the rice washer 2 is supplied to the rice cooker 2, the rice cooker 2 is located directly below the rice washer 1 and the robot hand 4 opens the lid 3. You can receive washing rice supply at Ma'a position. When the rice is cooked, the lid 3 is opened by the robot hand 4 to move the rice cooker 2 from a position directly below the rice washer 1.
It is possible to easily take out cooked rice from.

The opening / closing / removal of the lid 3 of the rice cooker 2 is
This is done by the robot hand 4, but this lid 3
Since it can be opened and closed while being detached from the rice cooker 2 independently, there is little mutual restriction even if the relative relationship position between the rice washer 1 and the rice cooker 2 moves, and the lid 3 and rice cooker 2 The rice cooker and the like of the vessel 2 can be handled easily, the control operation mode of the robot hand 4 itself can be simplified, and rice washing and rice cooking control can be smoothly performed.

When the lid 3 is provided with the inner lid 5, the rice washing supply from the rice washing device 1 to the rice cooker 2 can be performed only by opening and closing the inner lid 5 instead of the lid 3. The lid 5 is small and easier to handle, and since the lid 3 can be washed and supplied while the lid 3 is closed, the amount of dust and the like can be reduced.

[0008]

1 to 5, a gas table 8 which can be pulled out in the front-rear direction is provided on a rice cooker 7 at the lower part of a machine body 6 and can be taken in and out by a handle 9. The rice cooker 2 includes an outer pot 10 mounted on the gas table 8, an inner pot 11 that can be fitted inside the outer pot 10, and a lid 3 that can open and close the upper pot 11. Rice can be cooked by igniting and burning in the gas stand 8 while washing rice is stored in the inner pot 11 and adjusted with water. A handle 12 is provided on the central upper surface of the lid 3 and can be gripped by the robot hand 4.

A rice tank 13, an operation panel 14, a rice washing machine 1, a robot hand 4, etc. are provided on the rice washing table 15 above the machine body 6. A rice washing shutter 17 is provided at the lower end of the rice washing machine 1 to feed down the rice. The rice previously supplied to the rice-washing tank 13 is supplied to the rice-washing machine 1 after the set amount is measured by the weighing machine. The rice in the rice washing machine 1 is washed with washing water. After washing the rice, the shutter 17 is opened so that the rice is supplied from the supply port 16 into the rice cooker 2 below.

The robot hand 4 is attached to and supported by a shutter case 18 which supports the supply port 16 and the shutter 17 of the rice washing machine 1, and the tip of a hand arm 20 which is pivotally supported 19 so as to be rotatable up and down. A fixing piece 21 is provided on the upper side, and a rotating piece 23 pivotally supported 22 so as to be vertically rotatable is provided on the lower side, and the rotating piece 23 is rotated by the operation of an electromagnetic solenoid 24. The handle 12 of the lid 3 can be grasped or opened between the turn piece 21 and the turning piece 23.

A motor M1 for rotating the hand arm 20 in the vertical direction is attached to the rice washing table 15, and is linked with the motor M1 via a crank rod 25, and a handle by the rotating piece 23. The lid 3 can be opened and closed by rotating the lid 3 up and down when it is gripped. The hand arm 20 can be rotated upward to the left to open the lid 3 when viewed from the front.

Rice can be stored in the rice washing tank 13 and the operation panel 14 can be started by setting the amount of rice washed and the amount of rice cooked. Each process of washing rice and cooking rice is automatically performed by the control output of a controller having a microcomputer. The rice in the rice washing tank 13 is weighed and fed down to the rice washing machine 1 below. As a result, washing water is supplied into the rice washing machine 1 to start washing rice. After washing the rice for a certain period of time, the robot hand 4 is moved downward by driving the motor M1, and the handle 12 of the lid 3 is fixed to the fixing piece 2.
It is sandwiched between 1 and the rotating piece 23 (FIGS. 1 and 2), and further rotated upward to open the lid 3 (FIG. 3). The robot hand 4 has a lid 3
While the door is open, the rotating piece 23 is in a state of gripping the handle 12 with the fixed piece 21.

In this way, when the rice cooker 2 is positioned directly below the rice washer 1 and the lid 3 is opened by the robot hand 4, when the rice washing by the rice washer 1 is completed, the shutter 17 is opened. After washing, the washed rice in the rice washing machine 1 is flowed down and supplied into the inner pot 11. Then robot hand 4
When the lid 3 is closed by the downward movement, rice is cooked. During this rice cooking operation, the grip of the handle 12 of the lid 3 by the robot hand 4 may be released.

When the rice cooker is completed and the inner pot 11 is taken out from the outer pot 10, the handle 9 is manually operated in front of the gas pot 8
At the same time, the rice cooker 2 is pulled out, but when the lid 3 is left open in advance at this time, it may be performed by the robot hand 4. When the lid 3 is washed after cooking rice, the lid 3 may be removed from the robot hand 4. 6 and 7
In the above, the point different from the above example is that the gas stand 8 and the rice cooker 2 are arranged side by side in parallel, and the rice washer 1 and the rice wash stand 15 having the rice tank 13 and the like are moved to the left and right over this upper part. It is a form. For this reason, the machine 6 has the washing table 15
A rail 26 for guiding and moving the vehicle, a guide roller 27, a drive roller 28 driven by a motor M2, and the like,
The rice washed in the rice washer 1 is alternately supplied to the left and right rice cookers 2.

8 to 11, a point different from the above example is that an openable / closable inner lid 5 is provided in the central portion of the lid 3 and the inner lid 5 can be opened / closed by a robot hand 4. Further, this opening / closing mode has a motor M3 for vertically moving the robot hand 4, a motor M4 for rotating the robot hand 4 back and forth, and the like.
The inner lid 5 is opened and closed with respect to the lid 3 by the drive control of M4.

The central portion of the lid 3 is recessed to have a middle opening 29,
The inner lid 5 having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the lid 3 is configured to be openable and closable in the inner opening 29. The handle 12 is attached to the inner lid 5.
In the robot hand 4, the base of the hand arm 20 is rotated around the vertical axis 30 in the vertical direction so that the hook 31 at the tip is located between the middle opening of the rice cooker 2 and the one side on the back side. The vertical shaft 30 has the upper end of the vertical shaft 30 and the motor M
4 and the crank mechanism 32.

Further, the raising and lowering of the robot hand 4 is configured to be driven by the motor M3 and the bell crank mechanism 33 so as to move in the axial direction of the vertical shaft 30. Further, the hook 31 is formed with a fitting hole of a size that allows the handle 12 to be fitted and removed, and a narrow engaging hole that can be engaged by moving the hook 31 relative to the handle 12. The handle 12 can be engaged and disengaged by the vertical movement of the vertical shaft 30 of the hook 31 and the forward and backward rotation thereof.

In such a form of the inner lid 5, rice can be supplied from the supply port 16 of the rice washing device 1 by opening the inner lid 5, and the outer lid 3 may be closed.
When removing rice from the inner pot 11, the lid 3 may be opened. 12 to 16 show operation control of the test switch 34 in the operation panel 14, and by turning on the test switch 34 of the operation panel 14, control in the controller CPU is switched to the test mode, and various sensors are operated. You can check.

The controller CPU having a microcomputer has inputs and outputs of various sensors and switches for washing and cooking rice.
For rice cooking control, one of them is test switch 34, output side buzzer 35, LCD display unit 36, etc.
Then, the control mode is changed to the test mode by this, and the various sensors 37 that are in contact with the input side of the controller CPU are turned on at each location,
The buzzer 35 is output and the sensor number that matches the corresponding connector number is displayed on the display unit 36.

The various sensors 37 are connected to the respective sensor harnesses 38.
Connector 40 of the controller CPU is connected to the corresponding portion of the connector base 39 of the controller CPU, and connector numbers NO1 to NO19 are attached to these connecting portions of the connector 40 and the connector base 39, respectively. ~ NO19 is displayed on the display unit 36. Also, a checklist showing the correct sensor display corresponding to each connector NO1 to NO19 is prepared on the worker side.

For example, in the case of the water level sensor in the illustrated example, the connector 40 of the sensor harness 38 is connected to NO1 of the connector base 39, and the water level sensor 41 connected to the tip of the sensor harness 38. When the switch is manually pressed to turn it on, the display unit 36 displays the screen shown in FIG.
As in (1), "01" is displayed. If this is mistakenly connected to the rice metering pulse NO8, when the water level sensor 41 is turned on, the display unit 36 displays "08" as shown in FIG. 16- (2). Therefore, the connection of the connector 40 is incorrectly
It turns out that it is performed at the position of the rice weighing pulse of O8.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a rice cooker unit.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing the operation.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing the operation.

FIG. 4 is an overall front view.

FIG. 5 is a side view thereof.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing another embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an overall front view.

FIG. 8 is a front view showing another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a side view thereof.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of a part thereof.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing the operation.

FIG. 12 is an enlarged front view of the operation panel.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a part of the controller.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart of test mode control.

FIG. 15 is a plan view of a harness and a connector base.

FIG. 16 is a front view showing a display form of a display unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Rice washer 2 Rice cooker 3 Lid 4 Robot hand 5 Inner lid

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Nobumasa Yoshida No. 1 Yakura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Technical Department, Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Hideaki Onishi No. 1 Yakura, Tobe-machi, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture Inside (72) Inventor Koichi Tsuga 1 Yakura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefectural Engineering Department, Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yuji Kanto 1 No. 8 Yakura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture Technical Department (72) Inventor Motoyuki Kikuchi No. 1 Hachikura, Tobe Town, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A rice washing device 1 for washing rice and a rice cooker 2 for cooking rice by receiving the rice washing supplied from the rice washing device 1 are relatively moved to supply and wash rice and take out rice. A rice washing rice cooker provided with a robot hand 4 for opening and closing the lid 3 of the rice cooker 1 at a fixed timing with the rice washing supply and the like. 2. A rice washing rice cooker in which a lid 3 of a rice cooker 2 which receives rice washed from the rice washer 1 to cook rice is provided with an inner lid 5 which can be opened and closed and which can be supplied with rice from the rice washer 1. .