Patent ID: 7428901

Claim:
A cooking stove comprising: a plurality of touch switches provided on a top plate so that a user can operate the touch switches, the top plate covering a top surface of a cooking stove main body accommodating heating means, the touch switches sensing an object which contacts or approaches the top surface of the top plate; and control means for determining whether each of the touch switches is in a sensing state or a non-sensing state, and executing a predetermined process which is set for each of the touch switches according to the determined results, wherein when a first touch switch in the plurality of touch switches changes from the non-sensing state to the sensing state, the control means inhibits a predetermined process set for the first touch switch from being executed until a predetermined time passes after the first touch switch changes to the sensing state, wherein when a second touch switch in the plurality of touch switches which is different from the first touch switch changes from the non-sensing state to the sensing state before the predetermined time passes, the control means inhibits execution of the predetermined process set for the first touch switch and a predetermined process set for the second touch switch, and wherein when all the touch switches except the first touch switch are kept in the non-sensing state until the predetermined time passes, the control means executes the predetermined process set for the first touch switch.