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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361303 | Medical waste treatment unit A method and apparatus for reducing organic waste. The apparatus comprises a conveyor to move waste to a first chamber for weighing waste and purging oxygen, a second chamber for treating, sterilizing and reducing waste by reverse polymerization, and a third chamber... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7326888 | Cooking apparatus, cooking system and cooking control method using the same Disclosed herein is a cooking apparatus and cooking system which allows a user to change cooking information that is suitable to the preferences of the user and the amount of food when cooking food using automatic cooking information, and a cooking control method us... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7238923 | Cooking apparatus having a bar code reader and a cooking method of the same A cooking apparatus and method thereof capable of performing a cooking process based upon a cooking condition corresponding to the amount of food introduced into a cooking chamber when the cooking process is performed using a bar code printed on a food package to be... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7223951 | Cooking control method of microwave oven and apparatus for performing the same A method for controlling microwave output depending upon food weight and food position so as to implement optimized cooking performance in a microwave oven and an apparatus for performing the same. According to the control method for cooking food placed on a turntab... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7202455 | Microwave oven Microwave oven including a case with a door, a cooking chamber in the case openable/closable with the door, and having a microwave applicable thereto, a first tray mounted in the cooking chamber to reciprocate therein, a second tray rotatably mounted on the first tr... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7053349 | Microwave oven A microwave oven according to the present invention includes a body, an inner case provided in the body and partitioning the interior of the body into an inner space defining a cooking chamber and an outer space defining an electric component chamber, and a magnetro... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6979804 | Automated oven calibration system A cooking appliance includes an oven cavity, an electric heating element, a control element for selecting an oven cavity temperature, a timer and a calibration system for regulating operational parameters of the cooking appliance. The calibration system adjusts oper... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6946632 | Cooking apparatus equipped with weight measuring device A weight measuring device having a lever structure, a cooking apparatus equipped with the weight measuring device, and a mounting structure of the weight measuring device. A weight sensor pushed by a lever is disposed on an outer bottom surface of a cooking cavity. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6911635 | Cooking apparatus and method A cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity to accommodate food to be cooked therein and a rotating unit to rotate while supporting the food. The rotating unit is installed within the cooking cavity to rotate by at least one roller which is in rolling contact with... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6911634 | Weight detecting device for microwave ovens A weight detecting device for microwave ovens is used to detect a weight of food placed on an exterior casing to minimize a space to install a weight sensor and to prevent heat from being transmitted from an interior casing through a top plate of the interior casing... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6906700 | 3D controller with vibration A hand operated controller or converter structured for allowing hand inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, the controller structured with a plate or platform moveable relative to a base or housing about two mutually perpendicular axes general... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6894258 | Microwave oven and method of controlling the same A microwave oven, and method of controlling the same, stores a weight of food in an external memory of the microwave oven through a simple manipulation of pressing a hold key, and applies the stored weight of the food for calculation of a cooking time. The microwave... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6862494 | Automated cooking system for food accompanied by machine readable indicia An automated cooking system (10) cooks food (12) accompanied by machine-readable indicia, such as a bar code (16) read by a reader (18). Cooking data, including function coefficients, are accessed from an Internet server (20) based... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6764702 | Thawing method in microwave oven A microwave oven and a method of processing frozen food in a microwave oven (1), which microwave oven comprises a microwave source (3), an oven cavity (2), and a control unit (5). The control unit is provided with an input signal containi... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6566637 | Microwave assisted content analyzer A method and associated apparatus are disclosed for microwave assisted content analysis. The method includes the steps of applying microwave radiation to a sample while concurrently rotating the sample while the microwave radiation is being applied and wh... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6489596 | Quantitative cooking device Quantitative cooking device including an electronic scale, a heater disposed on the electronic scale and a container to be heated by the heater. The heater is electrically connected with the electronic scale which controls powering on/off of the heater. T... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6472650 | Food amount detector of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing a food amount detector and a control method thereof A food amount detector for automatically detecting the amount of a food placed in a cooking chamber of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing the food amount detector, and control method thereof. Output voltage of a microwave generator is detected w... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6396035 | Microwave oven and data obtaining method therefor A data obtaining method for a microwave oven for processing a cooking status of food detected by a sensor into data, including the steps of: detecting data from food for a predetermined time period; calculating a summation of the detected data; and subtra... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6348680 | Food amount detector of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing a food amount detector and a control method thereof A food amount detector for automatically detecting the amount of a food placed in a cooking chamber of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing the food amount detector, and control method thereof. Output voltage of a microwave generator is detected w... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6320170 | Microwave volatiles analyzer with high efficiency cavity A volatiles analyzer is disclosed that includes a source of microwave radiation that can selectively produce at least one predetermined frequency of microwave radiation. A cavity is in communication with the source. The analyzer includes an analytical pan... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6268593 | Cooking apparatus capable of determining weight of food on turn table and method of detecting weight of food on turn table In a microwave oven, a turn table rotates once in a period TX. During one rotation of turn table, a control circuit usually detects six pulse signals. Control circuit detects a weight of food placed on turn table based on detected intervals TA, TB, and TC... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6247246 | Microwave moisture analyzer: apparatus and method A toploading weighing instrumentality which determines loss on drying by a cylindrical microwave. The cylindrical cavity of the microwave includes a power supply, a magnetron, a power module operatively coupled between said power supply and said magnetron... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6215112 | Food amount detector of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing a food amount detector and a control method thereof A food amount detector for automatically detecting the amount of a food placed in a cooking chamber of a microwave oven, a microwave oven employing the food amount detector, and control method thereof. Output voltage of a microwave generator is detected w... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6091057 | Broiler oven A broiler oven has a heating chamber 2, first and second movable heaters 61 and 62 formed out of tubular heaters and rotatably supported by the inner walls of the heating chamber 2 in such a way that their heating portions 61b and 62b and their shaft port... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091029 | Weight sensing device for a microwave oven A weight sensing device for a microwave oven. The device has a fixing bracket having a bottom wall defined by a depress portion and a pair of protuberance portions which are provided at both ends of the depress portion and vertically ascending therefrom, ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6013906 | Operating condition setting type microwave oven A frequency of input power is selected with a first keypad, and a weight unit is selected with a second keypad provided on a microwave oven. A displaying unit is connected with the key inputting devices and displays operating conditions of the microwave o... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5859413 | Method for controlling a microwave oven to prevent overcooking of small food portions A microwave oven prevents an overcooking of small food portions. The oven includes a weight sensing device for sensing the weight of food to be cooked. If the sensed food weight is greater than a reference weight, then a cooking time is set, e.g., manuall... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5831253 | Method of controlling a microwave oven having a vertically movable rotary tray and food weight sensor A microwave oven wherein at least a microwave cooking mode and an electric resistance heater cooking mode can be selected by a user. A tray for supporting foodstuff can be raised and lowered and rotated about a vertical axis. A weight measuring mechanism ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5828042 | Uniform heating apparatus for microwave oven and method thereof A uniform heating apparatus for a microwave oven and a method thereof which are capable of more uniformly heating food by generating various resonant modes based on the kind of food. The apparatus includes an oscillator unit having a wave guide tube for g... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5780821 | Method of controlling food thawing and cooking operations of a microwave oven A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber, a tray disposed in the cooking chamber upon which food can be placed, and a magnetron for supplying high frequency waves to the cooking chamber. The microwave oven has a food-thawing mode and a food-cooking mod... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5736716 | Method of controlling the operation of microwave oven having a rotary, vertically raisable food tray A microwave oven has a food tray which can be both rotated and elevated. A weight sensing unit senses the weight of the tray and any food thereon, for controlling the operation of a tray elevation/rotation mechanism. The tray is not elevated if the weight... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5712451 | Device for sensing food weight in a microwave oven A device for sensing food weight in a microwave oven includes a bracket formed into one body and mounted with a motor assembly having a motor axis, a movable electrode plate fixed to an extending piece separated from the bottom of the bracket and a printe... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5698126 | Microwave oven with food wrap film detecting function A heating apparatus such as a microwave oven includes a magnetron supplying microwaves into a heating chamber so that food accommodated in it is heated and a microcomputer-based control circuit. The control circuit discriminates the food among three condi... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5574261 | Circuit for precisely measuring the load of cooking food in microwave oven The invention discloses a circuit for precisely measuring the weight of the cooking food in a microwave oven. The circuit is capable of reducing the variation of the weight-voltage converted value due to the existence of the tray during the measurement of... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5565655 | Method of detecting food weight in microwave oven by processing weight sensor signals An apparatus for and a method of detecting a weight of a food in a microwave oven wherein a weight sensor is used which includes a pair of facing electrodes and an annular spacer interposed between the electrodes and is placed on a turning track of suppor... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5506390 | Thawing control apparatus and method for a microwave oven A control apparatus and method for a microwave oven capable of fixing an optimum thawing time, coping with unexpected voltage variation of an input AC source. According to the aforesaid apparatus and method, a weight factor corresponding to an input sourc... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5495095 | User-friendly cooking oven and method of operating same A combined oven for cooking foodstuffs having a control panel having, on the one hand, a selection device (11) for a heating sequence to be used, of a type of foodstuff and of its weight, and, on the other hand, a control device (8) connected to data proc... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5486685 | Oven with food presence indicator An oven includes a chamber for locating food for heating. An indicator is provided for signalling the existence of food in the chamber. A sensor may react to the weight of the food on a support in the chamber, or a light beam directed in the chamber and i... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5463207 | Weight sensing apparatus of a microwave oven having a turntable The weight sensing apparatus of this invention which is made for quick and exacting sensing of a foodstuff's weight to be cooked, includes a pair of arms extending downward from the bottom of a turntable and a pair of projections extending inward from the... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5455404 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus provided with a weight unit changing key for changing a weight unit and an operation detection means for detecting that the weight unit changing key has been operated plural times, wherein when the operation detection means detects tha... | 10/03/1995 |
