Bread making device with a clock function

• US 4,884,253 A
• Filed: 05/18/1988
• Issued: 11/28/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Yamada Electric Mfg Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Yamada Electric Mfg Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Fukuda, Tatsuhisa, Koyabu, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Miska, Vit W.
• Application Number:
  US07/195,768
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 368/10, 368/107-113, 99/332, 99/333, 99/348, 99/325-328, 219/10.55 B, 219/492, 219/506
• US Class Current: 368/10
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 1/005 using electronic timing, e.g. counting means pulse time delay arrangements H03K5/13; modifications of electronic switches for introducing a time delay before switching H03K17/28
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 15/006 for operating at a number of different times cigar or cigarette receptacles or boxes with means for limiting the frequency of smoking A24F15/005

Abstract

The time period required for bread making is previously memorized in an internal memory of a bread making device. Time display panel normally displaying a present time displays a bread making finished time which is calculated by adding bread making time to the present time upon the operation of a starter button. When an appointed bread making finished time is set on the time display panel, the bread making process will be automatically started at a time which is calculated by subtracting the bread making time from the set time.

Claims

1. A bread making device provided with a clock function comprising:

a starter means for generating by the operation thereof a starting instruction,

a clock means for counting up present time,

a first memory means for memorizing a bread making time previously set for break making,

means for adding said bread making time to the present time counted by said clock means at the moment of input of said starting instruction so as to thereby obtain a bread making finishing time,

second memory means for memorizing said bread making finishing time,

a display selecting means for generating normally said present time supplied from said clock means and for generating said bread making finishing time supplied from said second memory means instead of present time in response to said starting instruction, and

a time display means for displaying a time generated by said display selecting means.

2. A bread making device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said clock function further comprises a call out means for calling said present time so that said time display means displays said present time from said clock means selected instead of said bread making finishing time by said display selecting means in response to an instruction from said call out means.

3. A bread making device provided with a clock function comprising:

a starter means for generating by the operation thereof a starting instruction,

a clock means for counting up present time,

a first memory means for memorizing bread making time previously set for bread making,

means for adding said bread making time to said present time counted by said clock means at the moment of input of said starting instruction from said starter means so as to thereby obtain a bread making finishing time,

a second memory means for memorizing said bread making finishing time,

a third memory means for memorizing an appointed bread making finishing time,

a time display means normally displaying present time supplied from said clock means and for displaying, after the operation of said starter means, the bread making finishing time supplied from said second memory means or the appointed bread making finishing time supplied from said third memory means,

a comparator means generating output when said starter means is operated as a result of comparing the bread making finishing time supplied from said second memory means with the appointed bread making finishing time supplied from said third memory means so as to display a later time on said time display means, and

means for calculating and memorizing a starting time for bread making corresponding to said later time so as to instruct the starting of bread making when the present time supplied from said clock means coincides with said starting time.

4. A bread making device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said comparator means generates said bread making finishing time for displaying same on said time display means when the bread making finishing time is later than said appointed bread making finishing time.

5. A bread making device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said clock function further comprises a call out means for calling said present time out from said clock means after the operation of said starter means so that said display means displays said present time in response to a signal from said call out means.