Patent ID: 8256409
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
1. A heating cooker for heating a heating object, which is rested in a cooking chamber so as to be spaced from a bottom surface of the cooking chamber and to be heated, by a heating medium, wherein the cooking chamber has: inner surfaces including a ceiling surface, the bottom surface and side surfaces on both sides, a heating medium supply section provided on the ceiling surface and comprising a horizontal part generally parallel to the ceiling surface and slope parts on both sides of the horizontal part, blow-off openings provided in the horizontal part and the slope parts through which the heating medium is blown into the cooking chamber, and heating medium guiding-and-introducing sections provided on the side surfaces of the heating chamber by recessing the side surfaces so as to have a curved surface for smoothly guiding and directionally changing the heating medium, wherein the heating medium is blown off, on one hand, as a first heating medium component from the blow-off opening of the horizontal part directly to a first surface of the heating object confronting the ceiling surface and blown off, on the other hand, as a second heating medium component from the blow-off openings of the slope parts toward the guiding-and-introducing sections of the side surfaces and then reflected on the bottom surface of the heating chamber to reach a second surface of the heating object, which is opposite to the first surface.