Patent ID: 7793650

Claim:
An open/close door drive controller in a drawer-type heating cooker, the drawer-type heating cooker including a cooker body with a heating chamber formed therein, a drawer that can be drawn out from and housed in the heating chamber and integrally has an open/close door capable of closing an aperture of the heating chamber when the drawer is housed, and a drive unit for driving the drawer, the open/close door drive controller comprising: determination means for determining whether the open/close door is being manually opened/closed before the drive unit begins driving the drawer; and drive unit control means for controlling the drive unit, wherein in response to determination by the determination means that the open/close door is manually operated, the drive unit control means causes the drive unit to open/close the open/close door in accordance with manual opening/closing direction, wherein the drive unit is an electric motor, the open/close door drive controller further comprising: pulse generation means for generating pulses for counting the number of revolutions of the electric motor, the pulse generation means being attached to the electric motor, wherein in response to detection of the pulses generated by the pulse generation means, the determination means determines whether the open/close door is manually opened/closed.