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Patent US6969834 - Line type luminous device and induction heating cooker employing same - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsA luminous device includes one or more line-shaped luminous units each including an elongated light guide, one or more light sources, and a reflective layer. The light guide has a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed away from the luminous surface. The light...http://www.google.com/patents/US6969834?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6969834 - Line type luminous device and induction heating cooker employing sameAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS6969834 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 10/179,308Publication dateNov 29, 2005Filing dateJun 26, 2002Priority dateJul 3, 2001Fee statusPaidAlso published asCN1395059A, CN1395059B, CN101982146A, CN101982146B, CN101982147A, CN101982147B, CN101982148A, CN101982148B, CN101982149A, CN101982149B, CN101982150A, CN101982150B, US7109450, US20030006230, US20050242085Publication number10179308, 179308, US 6969834 B2, US 6969834B2, US-B2-6969834, US6969834 B2, US6969834B2InventorsTetsuya Kaji, Katsuyuki Aihara, Yoshio KinoshitaOriginal AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (17), Referenced by (8), Classifications (16), Legal Events (4) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetLine type luminous device and induction heating cooker employing same
US 6969834 B2Abstract
1. An induction heating cooker incorporating therein a luminous device, the luminous device comprising:
one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit including: an elongated light guide having a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, wherein the reflective layer is made of an adhesive and the light guide is joined with another part by the reflective layer, wherein the induction heating cooker comprises: a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; a heating region disposed on the top plate; and an induction heating coil disposed under the to elate corresponding to the position of the heating region, wherein the luminous device is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the induction heating coil and the luminous device emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference. 2. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein the light guide has a rectangular cross-section.
3. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein the light guide is of a ring shape.
4. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein an additional layer is formed on at least one other surface of the light guide than the luminous surface thereof, a refractive index of the additional refractive layer being smaller than that of the light guide.
5. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein a reflectivity of the reflective layer varies along an elongated direction of the light guide.
6. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein at least one of the luminous surface and said another surface of the light guide is substantially a mirror plane.
7. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein at least one of the luminous surface and said another surface of the light guide is of a light scattering plane.
8. The induction heating cooker of claim 1, wherein the luminous surface is substantially parallel to an elongated direction of the light guide.
9. An induction heating cooker incorporating therein a luminous device, the luminous device comprising:
one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit including: an elongated light guide having a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface, wherein the light guide has a rectangular cross-section, and the luminous surface corresponds to a short side of the rectangular cross-section of the light guide; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, wherein the induction heating cooker comprises: a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; a heating region disposed on the top plate; and an induction heating coil disposed under the top plate corresponding to the position of the heating region, wherein the luminous device is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the induction heating coil and the luminous device emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference. 10. The induction heating cooker of claim 9, wherein a heat-resistant light transmitting film is coated on a bottom surface of the top plate.
11. The induction heating cooker of claim 9, wherein the light guide is of a ring shape.
12. The induction heating cooker of claim 9, wherein the reflective layer is made of an adhesive and the light guide is joined with another part by the reflective layer.
13. The induction heating cooker of claim 9, wherein the luminous surface is substantially parallel to an elongated direction of the light guide.
14. An induction heating cooker comprising:
a luminous device including: one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit having: an elongated light guide with a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; a heating region disposed on the top plate; an induction heating coil disposed under the top plate corresponding to the position of the heating region, wherein the luminous device is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the induction heating coil and the luminous device emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference; and a cooling fan for supplying a cooling air, which is introduced into a lower portion of the induction heating coil. 15. The cooker of claim 14, wherein the light guide has a rectangular cross-section.
16. The cooker of claim 15, wherein the luminous surface corresponds to a short side of the rectangular cross-section of the light guide.
17. The cooker of claim 14, wherein the light guide is of a ring shape.
18. The cooker of claim 14, wherein an additional layer is formed on at least one other surface of the light guide than the luminous surface thereof, a refractive index of the additional refractive layer being smaller than that of the light guide.
19. The cooker of claim 14, wherein a reflectivity of the reflective layer vanes along an elongated direction of the light guide.
20. The cooker of claim 14, wherein the reflective layer is formed by coating to provide a thickness equal to or greater than a predetermined thickness.
21. The induction heating cooker of claim 14, wherein the reflective layer is made of an adhesive and the light guide is joined with another part by the reflective layer.
22. The induction heating cooker of claim 14, wherein the luminous surface is substantially parallel to an elongated direction of the light guide.
23. An induction heating cooker comprising:
two luminous devices, each luminous device including: one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit having: an elongated light guide with a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; two heating regions disposed on the top plate; two induction heating coils disposed under the top plate corresponding to the position of the heating regions, wherein one of the luminous devices is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of one of the induction heating coils, and the other of the luminous devices is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the other of the induction heating coils, and the luminous devices emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference; a cooling fan for supplying cooling air, which is introduced into a lower portion of one of the induction heating coils, wherein the cooling air sequentially passes through one of the induction heating coil and the remaining induction heating coil in that order before being exhausted and a light source of a luminous device for the remaining induction heating coil is positioned between the two induction heating coils. 24. An induction heating cooker comprising:
a luminous device including: one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit having: an elongated light guide with a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; a heating region disposed on the top plate; an induction heating coil disposed under the top plate corresponding to the position of the heating region, wherein the luminous device is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the induction heating coil and the luminous device emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference; and a multiplicity of ferrite legs radially arranged under the induction heating coil, wherein each light sources disposed between two adjacent extension lines of the ferrite legs. 25. An induction heating cooker comprising:
a luminous device including: one or more line-shaped luminous units, each luminous unit having: an elongated light guide with a generally flat luminous surface for emitting light and another surface disposed opposite to the luminous surface; one or more light sources for providing light into the light guide; and a reflective layer disposed on said another surface of the light guide, a light transmitting top plate disposed on a case; a heating region disposed on the top plate; and an induction heating coil disposed under the top plate corresponding to the position of the heating region, wherein the luminous device is arranged under the top plate along an outer circumference of the induction heating coil and the luminous device emits light toward the top plate along the whole part or portions of the outer circumference, wherein the luminous device includes more than one luminous units concentrically arranged along the outer circumference of the induction heating coil, the luminous surface facing the top plate. 26. The cooker of claim 25, wherein the luminous device further includes an optical isolation layer between any two adjacent luminous units.
In FIG. 12, a first ring-shaped line type luminous device 80 in accordance with the fourth preferred embodiment includes two light sources 12 and a ring-shaped light guide 30. The ring-shaped light guide 30 has a ring part 31, a first light-entering portion 32 a, and a second light entering-portion 32 b. As shown in FIG. 12, reference numeral 32 refers to the first and second light-entering portions 32 a, 32 b. Rays radiated from the two light sources 12 respectively enter the first and the second light-entering portion 32 a and 32 b, which are extended from an outer circumference of the ring part 31. Inside the ring part 31, first rays entering the first light-entering portion 32 a travel around counterclockwise and second rays entering the second light-entering portion 32 b clockwise. The first and the second light-entering portion 32 a and 32 b preferably meet the ring part 31 near their joint such that exits of the first and the second light-entering portion 32 a and 32 b are very close. Accordingly, the first rays and the second rays cross each other just after entering the ring part 31 and completely go round the ring part 31, so that the complete ring-shaped luminous image can be produced.
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