Title:
HEAT RESERVING CONTAINER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3815878
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable checking not only for the safety but also for the health condition of a person served by checking to see if the person served takes a meal from a long distance.
SOLUTION: A heat reserving container 1 for distributing meals for house holds is provided with a container body 2 for distributing the meals and a lid body 5 to detachably cover an upper part of the container body 2. In the container body 2, a means is arranged to detect changes in the condition of the container body 2 after delivered to the person served, a control section 12 and a wireless transmitter 13. The control section 12 judges that the person served takes the meal by detecting changes in the condition of the container body 2 by a detection means. The results of the judgment are transmitted to an external managing means outside the house hold by the wireless transmitter 13. The detection means herein used is a weight sensor 10 to detect the weight of food, a temperature sensor to detect the temperature of a housing part of the foods or a lid sensor to detects that a lid body is opened.
Inventors:
Ryuzo Umeda
Yoshiharu Sato
Kazuya Nishibayashi
Hiroki Yamada
Yoshiharu Sato
Kazuya Nishibayashi
Hiroki Yamada
Application Number:
JP144698A
Publication Date:
August 30, 2006
Filing Date:
January 07, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Zojirushi Corporation
International Classes:
A47J39/02; (IPC1-7): A47J39/02
Domestic Patent References:
| JP928681A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Aoyama Aoi
Yasumichi Furukawa
Atsushi Maeda
Yasumichi Furukawa
Atsushi Maeda