Patent ID: 6439878
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: F23N

Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling a combustion device, said combustion device having a microcomputer for detecting various abnormal conditions which occur in said combustion device and for performing a predetermined processing wherein said predetermined processing is optionally stopping an operation of said combustion device when such abnormal conditions have been detected, said apparatus comprising:a reset switch for resetting said microcomputer; a nonvolatile memory, wherein, when a particular abnormal condition among the various abnormal conditions has occurred, a number of occurrence of the particular abnormal condition is stored in said nonvolatile memory, and wherein, when said microcomputer is reset without resort to said reset switch, the operation of said combustion device is held in a suspended state until said reset switch is operated if the number of occurrence, stored in said nonvolatile memory, of the particular abnormal condition amounts to a predetermined number.