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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7919736 | Heating device A heating device includes a main body with an opening, a magnetron for generating electromagnetic waves for heating, a door for putting in and taking out an object to be heated, a reader, and a barrier. The magnetron emits electromagnetic waves into the main body. T... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7723655 | Microwave oven using bar code and method for controlling the same A microwave oven cooking food using a bar code, and a method controlling same. The microwave oven comprises a bar code scanner for obtaining bar code data from the bar code attached to the food; and a controller for obtaining cooking data corresponding to the microw... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7381933 | System and probe for detecting at least one parameter A probe for detecting at least one parameter during thermal treatment of a food product comprises a sensor arrangement suitable for detecting a value of said at least one parameter, at least one antenna for communicating said value to a control device for controllin... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376485 | Method of remotely programming and updating food product holding apparatus using hand held computer A remotely programmable food product holding system includes a hand held computer (10) and a food product holding apparatus (12). The computer includes a processor (11), touch screen display (15), and a first communication interface (1... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372003 | System and method for monitoring food Systems and methods for monitoring conditions that affect the quality of food being served. Conditions such as temperature and elapsed time affect the quality of food and the safety of food consumers. Various embodiments of monitoring systems can be incorporated wit... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363031 | System for monitoring and controlling a set of household appliances A system for monitoring and controlling a set of power users, in particular household appliances, which users (U) are connected to a first communication network (RE) through appropriate interfacing means (N) for the exchange of information and/or instructions, where... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361866 | Cooking apparatus using barcode A cooking apparatus using barcodes, including: a barcode reader which reads a barcode including cooking information recorded in the barcode; a cooking information calculator which analyzes the basic cooking information based on an analysis rule for analyzing the coo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7312427 | High-frequency dielectric heating device and printed board with thermistor A high-frequency dielectric heating device includes: a microwave output unit including an inverter unit using a semiconductor switching element, heat-radiating fins for radiating the heat generated by an IGBT, and a printed board having a thermistor for detecting th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304275 | Cooking apparatus, cooking system, and cooking control method utilizing bar code A cooking apparatus, cooking system, and cooking control method using a bar code, in which automatic cooking of food is performed when the bar code attached to a package of the food is lost or damaged. The cooking apparatus for cooking food using cooking data includ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301130 | Oven system with automated messages In an in-store oven system audible customer messages are automatically generated based upon a food product cooked in an oven within the store. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7117937 | Combined refrigerator-oven apparatus A combined refrigerator-oven (20) includes an enclosed chamber (28) having a top wall (22), a bottom wall (24), and vertical side walls (26). The refrigerator-oven (20) further includes a heating unit (50) and a refri... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111247 | Device and method for controlling menu display of microwave oven The present invention relates to a device and method for displaying various menus of a microwave oven onto one screen. In the present invention, the various menus can be displayed onto one screen by using a tree structure or window structure. To this end, display co... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7060953 | Automatic cooking system and microwave oven A microwave oven and automatic cooking system uses a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, where the information about the food includes information about a method of heating the food and an am... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057142 | Oven control system Oven control system, comprising a display screen 9, a data input means 32 and a calculation unit 8 able to send instructions to the display screen 9 and to receive instructions from the data input means, the said calculation unit 8 | 06/06/2006 |
| 7043336 | Data processing method for a memory pack of an internet microwave oven A data processing method and apparatus of a memory pack of an Internet microwave oven. A computer is connected to a Web server and a detachable memory pack includes an interface unit performing an interface operation to access the computer. A memory pack control uni... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7015439 | Method and system for control of on-site induction heating A workpiece heating system having an induction heating power source and a controller. The controller is operable to control the operation of the power source according to programming instructions received from a user. The controller enables a user to establish a seq... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6998592 | Microwave oven and method of controlling the same A microwave oven and a method of controlling the same. The microwave oven includes a control unit having an internal storage unit to store cooking data and/or operational data to perform one or more existing cooking modes. An external storage unit is arranged indepe... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6962290 | Bread maker and control method thereof A bread maker including a pair of kneading drums inside an oven compartment, to which are attached opposite ends of a mixing bag containing bread ingredients, the kneading drums reversing rotary direction periodically; a bar code scanner to read a bar code on the mi... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6949729 | Methods and apparatus for controlling operation of a microwave oven in a network A microwave oven, a relay box communicating with the microwave oven and a personal computer communicating with the relay box are provided in private. The personal computer is connected to a host computer storing home page information, through the public Internet. A ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6938002 | System and method for product evaluation A method, system, and computer program product for evaluating a product is provided. In one embodiment, a product identification token associated with the product is optically scanned. The product identification token identifies a location from which a product evalu... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936802 | Microwave oven system operated based on received information received by it and microwave oven On a home page of a home page storing unit (421) of a host computer (4), information related to a plurality of recipes and recipe data (MI) corresponding to each of the plurality of recipes are included. The recipe data includes a heating control code ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6927373 | Cooking apparatus equipped with audio player A cooking apparatus including an audio player; a body with a player seat to which the audio player is attached and from which the audio player is detached; and at least one speaker to output sound signals reproduced by the audio player. The cooking apparatus of the ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924469 | Remotely operated microwave oven Apparatus and method for a microwave oven 12 having color-coded pressure switches 24, 26 applied to the face plate incorporating a receiver 14 for remotely operating the color-coded switches by means of a transmitter 16 having indicia and... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921888 | Microwave oven A microwave oven designed to open or close a front of a control panel, and to either supply power to the microwave oven or shut off power, depending on whether the front of the control panel is opened or closed. The microwave oven includes a control panel provided w... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922033 | Barbeque cover support device A cooking apparatus for controlling the opening of a cover over a barbecue grill includes a motor for opening and closing the cover over the barbecue grill, with the motor connected to the cover by a coupling rod. The cooking apparatus includes, in one embodiment, a... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6903318 | Programmable food service systems and method A programmable food service system including one or more food service devices and at least one data key. Each data key is provided with a data memory for storing program data corresponding to sequences of food service operations. Each food service device includes a ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6825453 | Microwave oven and method for controlling the same Disclosed herein is a microwave oven and method for controlling the same. The microwave oven is used to heat and cook food using high frequency waves generated by high frequency generating means provided in an oven body. The microwave oven includes body sensing mean... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6774345 | Method and device for preparing foodstuffs by baking inside an oven cavity The invention relates to a method and device for carrying out the automated preparation of foodstuffs by portions, especially french fries made of potato sticks or the like that are previously fried in oil, by baking them inside an oven cavity (15). The oven ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6744026 | Microwave oven for easily setting food menu required to be cooked Cooking information (CI) concerning different dishes is preliminarily registered as a standard in a mask ROM (11A) or the like of a microwave oven (1), to enable automatic cooking of a variety of dishes for every user. In practice, however, the dishes ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6730890 | Programmable remote controlled cooking or baking apparatus and method A programmable remote controlled apparatus and method for controlling the time and temperature of a cooking or a baking cycle. The apparatus comprises: a cooking or baking appliance, such as a conventional stove, broiler, conventional oven, convection oven, microwav... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6681137 | Communications medium for controlling the attributes of a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process An interpretive system architecture for a seamless transfer of energy to a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process stream, or microwave oven. The interpretive system architecture overlays the operational functions of the process stream or host microw... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6660982 | Programmable cooking systems A programmable cooking system comprising a plurality of programmable cooking devices and at least one data key. Each data key is provided with a data memory for storing program data corresponding to sequences of cooking operations, and the data memory is ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6653609 | Data transmission apparatus, data receiving apparatus, rule communication apparatus, rule communication method and program recording medium A one-way data transmission method is disclosed for transmitting a set of rules to data receiving apparatuses that each control a controlled apparatus. Also, a method is disclosed for controlling a controlled apparatus according to a specific rule and a s... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6552309 | Programmable cooking or baking apparatus and method A programmable apparatus and method for controlling the time and temperature of a cooking or baking cycle. The apparatus comprises; a cooking or baking appliance, such as a conventional stove, broiler, conventional oven, convection oven, microwave oven or... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550681 | Internet related appliances A cooking apparatus includes a scanning device for reading a tag disposed upon a cooking item, which tag includes cooking instructions, and a network connection for receiving updated information relative to a respective cooking item. Circuitry is coupled ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6497276 | Combined refrigerator-oven apparatus A combined refrigerator-oven (20) includes an enclosed chamber (28) having a top wall (22), a bottom wall (24), and vertical side walls (26). The refrigerator-oven (20) further includes a heating unit (50) and a refrigeration unit (70). A controller (118)... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6480753 | Communications, particularly in the domestic environment A domestic appliance (1) such as a microwave oven is adapted for interaction with a communications network (75) such as the Internet by the addition of a substantially self-contained discrete communications module (12) connectable to the communications ne... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6444965 | Microwave oven and controlling method for use with the internet A microwave oven and a controlling method therefor employ a data receiving section connected to an external device which is connectable to the Internet to receive cooking data from the external device, and a driving section for performing the cooking oper... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6420687 | Data transmitter, data receiver, rule communication device, rule communication method, and program recording medium An apparatus is disclosed to include a transmission device 151 having a rule generation device 101 for generating rules, and a data transmission device 102 for converting rules generated by the rule generation device 101 into rule data and for transmittin... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6388238 | Microwave oven control with external memory control data A microwave control unit that includes an external memory storage for storing, for example, control parameters, cooking parameters, and feature data is described. In one embodiment, the control unit includes a pre-programmed microprocessor coupled to a ke... | 05/14/2002 |
