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Food vessel using heating element for microwave oven
Assignee: Suntory Ltd
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Filing: 1988-10-26
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Granted: 1989-11-21
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Expires: 2008-10-26
Abstract
Abstract A food vessel comprising a heating element for use in a household microwave oven is provided. The heating element is made of paper and a dielectric material such as aluminum foil. When bread dough or so forth is put into the vessel to be heated in the microwave oven, temperature of the heating element rapidly increases to a desired value and the bread dough rises while remaining in contact with the heating element. A uniformly browned loaf of bread of any desired configuration can thus be produced.
Inventors
- 👤 Nobuo Kyougoku
- 👤 Hitoshi Harada
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 03:02
CPC Classifications
B; B65; B65D; B65D81/00; B65D81/34; B65D81/3446; B65D81/3453; B65D2205/00; B65D2581/00; B65D2581/34; B65D2581/3401; B65D2581/3402; B65D2581/3405; B65D2581/3437; B65D2581/3439; B65D2581/3452; B65D2581/3463; B65D2581/3466; B65D2581/3471; B65D2581/3472; B65D2581/3486; B65D2581/3494; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S99/00; Y10S99/14
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 34
Claim 1
Independent Claim
112 words
A food vessel for baking an expandable food in a microwave oven comprising: providing an expandable food product; a heat resistant vessel body having an opening and a lid for covering said opening containing said expandable food, said body allowing said expandable food to expand therein; and a heating means including heating element which is arranged on the inner surfaces of said vessel body and said lid, operative to maintain contact with the outer surface of said expandable food during expansion thereof to obtain a uniform browned surface, said heating means being responsive to irradiation of microwaves by said oven to generate heat for baking said expandable food in said vessel body.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
112 words
A food vessel for baking an expandable food in a microwave oven comprising: providing an expandable food product; a heat resistant vessel body having an opening and a lid for covering said opening containing said expandable food, said body allowing said expandable food to expand therein; and a heating means including heating element which is arranged on the inner surfaces of said vessel body and said lid, operative to maintain contact with the outer surface of said expandable food during expansion thereof to obtain a uniform browned surface, said heating means being responsive to irradiation of microwaves by said oven to generate heat for baking said expandable food in said vessel body.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 1, wherein said expandable food is dough and wherein said lid is movable so as to maintain contact between said heating element provided on the inner surface thereof and the outer surface of said rising dough during heating in the oven.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 2, wherein said lid is deformable according to swelling of said dough.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
38 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 1, wherein said lid has at least one hole which functions as a vent hole for preventing said vessel from swelling due to steam released by the heated expandable food therein.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 1, wherein said heating element is a dielectric element.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 5, wherein eddy currents are generated in said heating element by irradiation of microwaves by said oven.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 5, wherein said dielectric element comprises aluminum foil.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
30 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 5, wherein said heating element is in the form of a laminated sheet which is made of polyester film, aluminum foil, and paper.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
20 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 8, wherein the thickness of said aluminum foil is 50 to 60 angstroms.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
29 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 5, wherein said heating element is in the form of a laminated sheet which is made of polyethylene terephthalate, aluminum, and paper.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
126 words
A food vessel for baking an expandable food in a microwave oven comprising: providing an expandable food product; a vessel body having an opening, said vessel body receiving said expandable food therein; a lid section for covering said opening, said lid section being movable so as to allow said expandable food to expand in said vessel body; and heating means including a heating element, which is attached on the inner surfaces of said vessel body and said lid section and provided so as to maintain contact with the outer surface of said expanding food product to obtain a uniform brown surface wherein the temperature of said heating element can be brought to a desired value, by irradiation of microwaves by said oven, to bake said dough.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
126 words
A food vessel for baking an expandable food in a microwave oven comprising: providing an expandable food product; a vessel body having an opening, said vessel body receiving said expandable food therein; a lid section for covering said opening, said lid section being movable so as to allow said expandable food to expand in said vessel body; and heating means including a heating element, which is attached on the inner surfaces of said vessel body and said lid section and provided so as to maintain contact with the outer surface of said expanding food product to obtain a uniform brown surface wherein the temperature of said heating element can be brought to a desired value, by irradiation of microwaves by said oven, to bake said dough.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
38 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said lid has at least one hole which functions as a vent hole for preventing said vessel from swelling due to steam released by the heated expandable food therein.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
21 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said lid section is flexible for accommodating expansion of said expandable food.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
37 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said heating element is provided on the inner surfaces of said vessel body and said lid section so as to maintain contact with said expandable food during heating.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
27 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said heating element takes the form of a sheet which comprises at least one kind of dielectric material.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
26 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 15, wherein the thickness of said sheet may be selected for producing a desired thermal response to microwave irradiation.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
21 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 15, wherein said heating element is made of polyester film, aluminum foil, and paper.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
30 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 17, wherein said heating element is formed of laminated sheets of polyester film, aluminum foil, paper, polyester film, aluminum, paper arranged in sequence.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
20 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 15, wherein said heating element is made of polyethylene terephthalate, aluminum, and paper.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
29 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 19, wherein said heating element is formed of laminated sheets of polyethylene terephthalate, aluminum foil, paper, polyethylene terephthalate, aluminum, paper in sequence.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
29 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 19, wherein said heating element is formed of laminated sheets of polyethylene terephthalate, aluminum foil, paper, aluminum, polyethylene terephthalate, arranged in sequence.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
35 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said lid section comprises two lid members connected to the edge of said vessel body which lid members overlap to cover the opening of said vessel.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
29 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 22, wherein said lid members have a plurality of strip sections the ends of which are arranged so as to alternately overlap.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
22 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 22, wherein said vessel body is in the form of a generally rectangular parallelepiped box.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
20 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said vessel body is made of a heat resistant paper board.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
58 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said vessel body takes the form of a half cylinder whose ends are blocked and said lid section takes form of a half cylinder whose ends are blocked, said vessel body and said lid section are pivotably connected to each other at an edge thereof to open and shut.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
34 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 11, wherein said lid section has a groove for slidably receiving an edge of said vessel body so as to allow said dough to rise during heating.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
30 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 27, wherein said vessel body is in the form of a approximately rectangular parallelepiped box and a section of said lid is semi-cylindrical.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
17 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 28, wherein the major portion of said lid is flat.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
23 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 27, wherein said vessel body is generally cylindrical and a section of said lid is hemi-spherical.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
17 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 30, wherein the major portion of said lid is flat.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
51 words
A vessel as set forth in claim 30, wherein said vessel body includes a hollow cylindrical portion provided at the center thereof and said lid includes an opening positioned so as to partly receive the end of said cylindrical portion wherein the space defined within said food vessel is generally toroidal.
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