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Electromagnetic cooker including load control

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TLDR
In this paper, an electromagnetic cooking apparatus includes a DC (direct current) power supply, a DC-to-AC inverting circuit coupled to the DC power supply and including a switching element and also a heating coil, for heating a metal pan by energizing the heating coil with the high-frequency AC power.
Abstract
In an electromagnetic cooking apparatus, low heating power control is carried out by turning ON/OFF a DC power supply circuit, or rectifier circuit, at a commercial frequency lower than an inverting frequency of DC/AC inverter. The electromagnetic cooking apparatus includes: a DC (direct current) power supply for producing DC power from low-frequency AC (alternating current) power; a DC-to-AC inverting circuit coupled to the DC power supply and including a switching element and also a heating coil, for inverting the DC power inputted from the DC power supply into high-frequency AC power so as to heat a metal pan by energizing the heating coil with the high-frequency AC power, thereby electromagnetically inducing eddy currents within the metal pan; a monitoring circuit for monitoring switching conditions of the switching element so as to output a switching condition signal; and an ON/OFF-controlling circuit for turning ON/OFF power supply operation of the DC power supply, or inverting operation of the DC/AC inverter circuit in response to the switching condition signal at a timing period defined by a time constant smaller than a thermal time constant determined by a heat capacity of a metal material of the pan.

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