Digital display for cooking time and power of electric cooking device

Claim 1

A digital display apparatus for indicating a cooking time and power level of an electric cooking device comprising a first shift circulating register means having a plurality of digit stages for storing a cooking time data; a second shift register means having only four bit elements for storing a data for setting a power level of the electric cooking device; data entry means including digit keys, a timer key and a power level key for entering a cooking time data into the first shift register means in response to the depression of the timer key and subsequently selected digit keys and for entering a power level setting data into the second shift register means in response to the depression of the power level key and a subsequently selected digit key; a four-bit latch circuit; a time-division digital display means coupled to four bit outputs of the latch circuit; a first group of four gates coupled between four bit outputs of a predetermined digit stage of the first shift register means and four bit inputs of the latch circuit; a second group of four gates coupled between four bit outputs of the second shift register means and the four bit inputs of the latch circuit; and means for enabling the first group of gates and disabling the second group of gates in response to the depression of the timer key to cause the time-division digital display means to indicate the cooking time data stored in the first shift register means and for enabling the second group of gates and disabling the first group of gates in response to the depression of the power level key to cause the time-division digital display means to indicate the power level setting data stored in the second shift register means.