US 7,586,069 B2
Inner box for cooker and method of integrating the same
Takahiro Inoue, Nara (Japan); Kiyoto Ishida, Yamatokooriyama (Japan); and Susumu Idomoto, Yamatokooriyama (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/800,062.
Claims priority of application No. P. 2003-068221 (JP), filed on Mar. 13, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0232134 A1, Nov. 25, 2004
Int. Cl. H05B 6/64 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 219—756  [219/738; 219/739; 126/273 R] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inner box for a cooker, comprising:
a front plate having an opening portion; and
an inner main body bonded to a peripheral edge of the opening portion for cooking at inside of the inner main body;
wherein at least either one of bonding portions of the front plate and the inner main body includes a first fold-to-bend portion constituted by folding to bend an end portion thereof to invert to be brought into close contact therewith, and
a second fold-to-bend portion constituted by inverting a portion on a side of an end portion of the first fold-to-bend portion with a predetermined clearance therebetween, and
wherein other of the bonding portions of the front plate and the inner main body includes a flange portion inserted into the clearance between the first fold-to-bend portion and the second fold-to-bend portion, and calked to bond,
wherein the second fold-to-bend portion has a locking hole and the flange portion has a locking projection that extends through the locking hole,
wherein insulating films are formed on a surface of the front plate on a side opposed to a side of being connected with the inner main body and an outer side surface of the inner main body, and
wherein an inner peripheral portion of the locking hole is not formed with the insulating film and constitute a conducted face, and a surface of the main body portion of the locking projection is a metal face having conductivity, and wherein the locking projection is formed on the surface on which the insulating films are not formed, and therefore a front plate and a face plate of the inner box main body are electrically connected.