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(11) EP 0 498 670 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.08.1993 Bulletin 1993/32

(43) Date of publication A2:
12.08.1992 Bulletin 1992/33

(21) Application number: 92301060.7

(22) Date of filing: 07.02.1992
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: F24C 7/08, H05B 6/68
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 08.02.1991 JP 39338/91

(71) Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Takei, Tamotsu, Nagoya Works, K.K. Toshiba
    Nishi-ku, Nagoya (JP)

(74) Representative: Freed, Arthur Woolf 
MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS
London WC2A 3LS (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Heating apparatus


    (57) A heating apparatus such as microwave ovens includes a heater (15) for heating food and a control device (4) for controlling the heater (15). The control device (4) includes a calendar section (6b) storing at least data of the name of a present month sequentially renewed with lapse of time, a heating information storing section (7a) storing a number of pieces of heating information about heating degrees of foods to be cooked, the pieces of heating information taking values different from one another with respect to a plurality of months, and a heating control section (7b) selecting one of the pieces of heating information in accordance with the name of the present month whose data is stored in the calendar section (6b) and controlling the heater (15) so that the heating degree indicated by the selected heating information is established.






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