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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120012010 | PRESSURE COOKER PROVIDED WITH AN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE The invention relates to a household cooking utensil having firstly at least a first control member (9) mounted to move between a plurality of positions and designed to enable the user to act on operation of said utensil, and secondly an information device (60... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110203461 | COOKING APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH PRODUCT RECOGNITION A method for controlling a clam grill that has first and second platens, said method comprising: moving said second platen toward said first platen; providing a signal in response to a detection of an impediment to the motion of said second platen; and stopping said sec... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110151072 | COOKING APPLIANCE WITH PROGRAMMABLE RECIPE SYSTEM A cooking appliance includes an oven cavity and a control system having a control display adapted to display an interactive sequence of display screens through which a user enters a cooking recipe. The sequence of display screens includes a cooking mode selection screen... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110132201 | Programmable cooking system and method A programmable cooking system includes a controller, at least one of a cooking range and an oven interfacing with the controller, a set of scales interfacing with the controller, a timer interfacing with the controller and at least one data entry component interfacing w... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110129577 | PROCESS AND MACHINE EQUIPMENT FOR THE CONTROL OF QUALITY OF BAKERY PRODUCTS In an industrial bakery system, the control of quality of bakery products is carried out by a process comprising submitting said products when present in their respective locations on a moulding plate to a first visiometric inspection step wherein they are inspected fro... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110088563 | MACHINE FOR PREPARING PASTA IN SINGLE PORTIONS A machine for preparing pasta in single portions comprises dosing means for dosing the pasta and at least a raw material suitable for dressing the pasta, a series of cooking pots (2) including an upper part (8) of the series of pots (2) for pre stea... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20100326286 | MULTI-PURPOSE COOKING DEVICE THROUGH HEATING OF A WATER BATH The device of this invention is a multi-purpose cooking device through heating of a water bath. It comprises means arranged so as to contain a water bath, means for heating the bath water and means for controlling the heating power, arranged so as to provide for cooking... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100313768 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING FOOD PREPARATION A system for facilitating the preparation of food comprising a database, a database storing recipe information regarding the process for preparing a particular food item in accordance with the recipe, and the database storing a visual cue corresponding to the performanc... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100211468 | Processor-Implemented System And Method Of Remotely Manipulating A Cooking Appliance Systems and methods are presented for adjusting a cooking program that is to be executed in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance. At least one of a plurality of parameters relating to a product to be cooked can be adjusted by means of at least one first display and ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100199854 | Method For Adjusting An Operating Program By Means Of Visualized Parameters Relating To The Product To Be Cooked, And A Cooking Appliance Therefor A method relates to adjusting a parameter of a process to be executed in a cooking appliance. The parameter has a range of values. The method includes displaying a set of pictorial depictions on a display. Each pictorial depiction represents one of the values in the ran... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100192784 | COOKING APPLIANCE, CONTROLLING SYSTEM FOR COOKING APPLIANCE AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR COOKING APPLIANCE Provided is a controlling system for a cooking appliance. The controlling system includes a cooking appliance, a server and a network. The cooking appliance includes at least a heating unit. The server receives reception information from the cooking appliance and is con... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100196561 | Method for Visualizing Programs And A Cooking Device For Said Method A method is provided for visualizing programs for cooking devices, in which after at least one program has been selected from a plurality of programs, the selected program is shown on at least one display device in the form of at least one program representative, wherei... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100183780 | Method For The Energy-Saving Control Of A Food Processing Process Or A Processing Chamber Cleaning Process And Cooking Device Used Therefor Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for the energy-saving control of at least one process in a food processing device including a processing chamber, at least one processing device, and a control or regulating device. The control or regulating device c... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100154652 | Electric Pot Keeping Food Warm and Infusing Aroma An electric pot keeping food warm and infusing aroma comprises a main body, a water storage device, a manifold and a control module. The main body has an outer pot, an inner pot, a pot lid and a water inlet. The water storage device has a first water outlet and a second... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100140248 | COOKING APPLIANCE, CONTROLLING SYSTEM FOR COOKING DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR COOKING DEVICE Provided are a cooking appliance, and a system and method for controlling a cooking appliance. The system includes a RF tag and a cooking appliance. The RF tag stores food information about foods as integrants of a dish and the cooking appliance having a RF reader reads... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100104703 | COOKER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME Provided are a cooker and a method for controlling the same. The cooker includes a cooking chamber in which a food is cooked and a heating source providing heat for cooking the food within the cooking chamber. The heating source maintains a temperature of the cooking ch... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100092625 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES A cooking appliance comprises one or more power consuming features/functions including at least one of a cooking cavity having a heating element and a cooking surface having a surface heating element. A controller is configured to receive and process a signal indicative... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100050119 | COOKING APPLIANCE HAVING AUTOMATIC COOKING PROGRAM PRESELECTION AND METHOD FOR SETTING SUCH A COOKING APPLIANCE The present invention relates to a cooking appliance in which a large number of programs can be preselected as a function of at least one parameter. One parameter relates to the time of day and/or the date and/or the season at the site of installation of the cooking app... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100000417 | COUNTERTOP APPLIANCE COOKING CONTROL UNIT WITH EJECTION FEATURE A cooking control unit for a kitchen-countertop appliance is configured to selectively engage the body of the appliance in operation and to selectively disengage from the appliance body for cleaning. The control unit includes an ejection mechanism that is operable to fo... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090324785 | FOOD COOKING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE The invention relates to a food cooking control method and device. The method includes the following steps in which: at least one temperature detection device is inserted into a food; a final equilibrium temperature is defined; the detection device is positioned inside ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090266241 | COOKING UTENSIL USING STEAM A cooking utensil using a steam is disclosed, which is characterized in that said steam inlet part and said steam outlet part includes a steam inlet tube and a steam outlet tube connected with a steam supply tube and a steam collection tube of the steam generator, respe... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090117237 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A WATER TEMPERATURE AND A PASTEURIZATION TUNNEL A method for adjusting or controlling the temperature of water released for product pasteurization, by taking into consideration the heat transfer into the products for the control of the water temperature. Further, a method for adjusting or controlling the water temper... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090092723 | AUTOMATIC MENU SWITCHING A system for controlling the process of cooking a variety of food items at a single cooking apparatus which includes a cooking computer for controlling the operation of the apparatus. A database is operatively connected to the computer recipes for controlling the cookin... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20080319560 | AUTOMATED RECIPE COMPOSER Disclosed in the present invention is a way to automatically combine a recipe with an automated recipe composer.... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080302253 | Vacuum cooking apparatus for household use A vacuum cooking apparatus for household use, comprising, on a supporting structure which has a column-like extension, at least one unit for packaging in pouches in vacuum food products to be cooked, at least one unit for cooking the food products arranged in pouches an... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080295702 | Cooking Device with a Predetermined Parameter, Program and/or Mode of Operation A cooking device has at least one pre-set parameter for at least one predetermined program, such as a cooking program, and/or cleaning program, and/or for at least one predetermined mode of operation, such as a cooking mode of operation or a cleaning mode of operation. ... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080282901 | Laser Cooking Apparatus An apparatus and method for cooking food directly with a CO2 laser (10). A CO2 laser (10), which is known to be much hotter the other types of laser is directed at a beam splitter (30) which splits the laser beam in half and th... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080237104 | FRYER DEVICE The present invention relates to a food fryer. The food fryer comprises a frying section where the food is fried in oil and an oil removal section where the oil content of the food is reduced. A basket located within the apparatus contains the food and is movable betwee... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080206420 | Air Fryer An accelerated cooking air fryer is disclosed comprising a cavity, controller, thermal heating source, blower assembly, gas directing means and a vent assembly. Hot gas is circulated by the blower motor assembly into the air fryer cavity where the hot air is directed in... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080196594 | Doner Kebab Slicing Robot The Doner Kebab Slicing Robot comprises of two linear slide assemblies preferably made of metal. The linear slides consist of track plate and wheel plate components. The vertical slide assembly contains a blade head (5) with a circular slicing blade (13) p... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080186142 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING IDENTIFICATION TAGS TO BUS SUBSCRIBERS ON A DATA BUS AND DEVICE WITH BUS SUBSCRIBERS PROVIDED FOR THE SAME Identification tags are allocated to devices comprising bus subscribers (12a-d) on a data bus (18). The bus subscriber devices are designed with receivers (24a-d) which are designed to receive wirelessly transmitted signa... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080105134 | APPLIANCE NETWORK FOR A NETWORKED APPLIANCE AND A COOKING SENSOR ACCESSORY An appliance network has a networked appliance configured to perform a food preparation operation on an article and a cooking sensor accessory in communication with the networked appliance and configured to sense a state of at least one of the article, the cooking senso... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080102175 | Cooking apparatus and method of displaying caloric information A cooking apparatus and method of displaying caloric information, capable of calculating fat removed by cooking in terms of caloric value, and displaying the removed caloric value information to a user. The cooking apparatus includes a main body having a cooking chamber... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080075823 | Cooking apparatus and control method thereof Disclosed are a cooking apparatus and a control method thereof, in which water remaining in a water feeding tube is rapidly removed when a water bucket storing water required to generate steam is separated from the cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a wat... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080035392 | WEIGHING DISH FOR ICING AND WEIGHING APPARATUS USING WEIGHING DISH FOR ICING A weighing dish for icing for use in a weighing apparatus including a load cell for weighing, a vertically extending frame having a lower end connected to the load cell, and a horizontally extending base provided at an upper end of the frame and for mounting the weighin... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080032012 | Assembly for producing wafer products, and water product produced by the assembly Wafer products are produced with two or more wafer sheets and food product in between. The food product, for instance confectionery, meat, fish, cheese, fruit or vegetable product or the like, nuts, or almonds, is applied to a first wafer sheet delivered still hot from ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080017046 | Adjusting Device With An At Least Two-Dimensional Sensor Area An adjusting device for a domestic appliance, in particular, a cooking appliance, has at least one at least two-dimensional sensor area for setting at least one set point. The adjusting device includes an arithmetic unit operable to take into account at least one charac... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070240583 | Roaster with a Door on an Upper Portion Disclosed is a roaster with an improved door structure and an improved charcoal ignition structure. The roaster includes a roaster box having a pair or guides fixed to an upper portion thereof; a heat generation installed in the roaster box to generate heat; a meat fixi... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070163448 | Food Warming or Cooling Package Thermometer Assembly The present invention is a thermometer assembly adapted to be utilized to sense the temperature of a material within a container, such as a food item heating or cooling container. The assembly includes a spout connected to the container, a closure releasably engageable ... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070125239 | Automatic grouping system for food products An automated grouping system of bakery products increases a quantity of bakery products that may be fed to equipment having a larger processing capacity. The automated grouping system includes a supporting structure laterally arranged adjacent to a conveyor of bakery pr... | 06/07/2007 |