US Patent 7337706 Full automatic rice cooking apparatus

The present invention is made for the purpose of providing a full automatic rice cooking apparatus that can automatically carry out all of the steps from rice measuring to rice boiling and further washing of a rice kettle after use. This purpose is achieved by an automatic rice cooking apparatus, where a rice supplier supplies a predetermined amount of rice into a rice kettle, a rice rinsing means may rinse the rice, and then a rice boiling means boils the rice while placing the rice kettle at a predetermined position. The apparatus includes a rice kettle washing means for washing an inner wall of the rice kettle 32 placed at the predetermined position after the rice boiling and a controller for controlling the rice supplier, the rice rinsing means, the rice boiling means and the rice kettle washing means. By automatically performing the washing of the rice kettle after use in addition to the rice measuring, the rice rinsing and the rice boiling in a single apparatus, a significant laborsaving in the rice cooking can be produced. Further, it is possible to lower the cost and reduce the size.