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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420145 | Method for preventing overheating of microwave oven A method for preventing overheating of a microwave oven including a controller for controlling an output level of a magnetron is disclosed. The method includes: a) receiving information of cooking conditions and a cooking start command input by a user, the cooking c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7335858 | Toaster using infrared heating for reduced toasting time A toaster uses radiant heat at infrared wavelengths optimized for producing rapid and uniform toasting of a food product. The infrared wavelengths of the radiated heat are selected for optimum speed and quality (browning and moisture content) of the food product. Th... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7323663 | Multi-purpose oven using infrared heating for reduced cooking time An oven using radiant heat at infrared wavelengths optimized for producing rapid and uniform cooking of a wide variety of foods. The infrared oven toasts, bakes, broils, and re-heats food at a much faster speed while maintaining high quality in taste and appearance ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313874 | Dryer and method for controlling the same A dryer is disclosed. The dryer includes dryer includes a door opening sensing unit sensing an opening of a door, a heater heating air provided in a drum, and a microcomputer determining an error in the heater based on an internal temperature condition of the drum, ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7267833 | Apparatus and method of automatic cooking of buckwheat An apparatus and a method automatically cook food, for example, a hulled grain such as buckwheat, thereby conveniently providing the uniform and optimal cooking quality of the food to a user. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity that contains food to be c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268328 | Toaster with microwave oven and method for operating the same Toaster cum microwave oven having a heater for toasting bread, including a memory for storing a voltage level to a heater according to the function of the toaster the user selects, a temperature sensor for sensing an inside temperature of the toaster, and a microcom... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265747 | Optically based operating device for a household appliance An operating element can be used to operate or control a household appliance, for example a cook top heating element. A seven-segment display is arranged beneath a cover in the region of a contact surface. A light source and a light receiver are arranged inside resp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260485 | Method and systems for distinguishing between materials having similar spectra Various computer-implemented methods and systems are provided. One computer-implemented method includes determining a ratio between output signals generated by detecting spectra for a single event in two or more detection windows. The spectra are characteristic of d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7202454 | Method and device for determination of the time of turning of a cooking product A method for the determination of a turning time of at least one cooking product, to which heat is supplied from one side during a cooking process includes a) determination of a first temperature TA in the cooking product at the beginning of the cooking p... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7135662 | Method and apparatus for controlling microwave oven A method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a microwave oven, including a magnetron generating microwaves and a sensor sensing the state of air in the cooking cavity of the oven. The cooking period is determined by searching one of two data tables in acc... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132633 | Combination toaster microwave oven and method for operating the same Toaster cum microwave oven having a heater for toasting bread, including a memory for storing a voltage level to a heater according to the function of the toaster the user selects, a temperature sensor for sensing an inside temperature of the toaster, and a microcom... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7109454 | Microwave oven A microwave oven is provided with an integrated operating unit having an integrated function for power supply, power level control, and inrush current suppression. The integrated operating unit includes a rotary dial, a shaft fixed, at one end thereof, to the rotary... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7069109 | Systems and methods of using multiple microcontrollers for fail-safe control and enhanced feature operation of an appliance Multiple microcontrollers are used in controlling operation of an appliance thereby providing enhanced safety. User input deactivating the appliance is received and processed by a first and second microcontrollers, which separately and independently act to remove po... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067777 | Combined toaster and microwave oven and control method thereof The present invention relates to a combined toaster and microwave oven that can obtain uniformly toasted slices of bread even when the slices of the bread are toasted successively several times. The combined toaster and microwave oven includes a key input unit for s... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7053342 | Electric cooking apparatus and method of controlling heaters thereof An electric cooking apparatus and method of controlling heaters thereof, in which the heaters operate according to power-ON periods and power-OFF periods set in view of a temperature of the heaters, consumption of unnecessary power is reduced, and variations of heat... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053347 | Microwave oven and control method thereof A microwave oven, having a humidity sensor and a voltage detecting unit for detecting a change in an output voltage of the humidity sensor, includes: a control unit for receiving a compensated voltage according to a change in temperature supplied from the humidity s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7030350 | Microwave oven equipped with toaster and method of controlling the same A microwave oven equipped with a toaster and a method of controlling the same. Particularly, the microwave oven equipped with the toaster is provided with a plurality of heaters and a plurality of buttons each corresponding to one or more heaters to selectively oper... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7009147 | Operational modes for a cooking appliance employing combination cooking technology A cooking appliance includes a controller for establishing a plurality of operating modes for heating an oven cavity. Specifically, the controller establishes one of a pre-heat mode, a ready mode, a first low power mode and a second low power mode for controlling a ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6998591 | High frequency heating apparatus with displacement identifiable remaining heating duration and phase control based thereon In a high frequency heating apparatus, a microcomputer inputs the phase signal of a commercial AC power supply and determines whether a timer switch in a mechanical timer apparatus is in ON-state to determine whether the high frequency heating apparatus is in a heat... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6956190 | High-frequency heating apparatus with steam generating function and water supply controlling method therefor The object of the invention is to provide a water supply controlling method of a high-frequency heating apparatus and the high-frequency heating apparatus wherein water supplied to a heating chamber as steam is controlled in the quantity and the quality and power ca... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6953922 | Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the same A cooking apparatus having heaters which performs cooking by taking a remaining heat of the heaters in a cooking cavity into consideration if food is cooked using a heating method through the heaters. The cooking apparatus performs cooking based on an accumulative t... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945159 | Tray assembly for microwave oven incorporating toaster A microwave oven incorporating a toaster (400) includes a toaster door (440) provided on a toaster panel (430) for opening and closing at least one toaster entrance (421) and a tray assembly (460). The tray assembly (460) in... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6936801 | Methods and apparatus for rotary dial user entry in an appliance A cooking appliance includes a control panel which includes a rotary dial for selecting and entering control information to the cooking appliance, and a control interface for providing a prompt to guide a user through a selection process of the control information. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933474 | Electronic power control for cooktop heaters A power control system for an electric cooktop. The power level is set by a knob connected to a potentiometer. Potentiometer information is digitally communicated by a controller over a serial communication bus to a power unit. The power unit communicates power leve... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6878914 | Timer for microwave oven A timer for a microwave oven includes an actuating lever operating auxiliary power switch when pushed by a power control cam installed in a timer casing. A pushing unit is installed adjacent to the power control cam to move the power control cam up and down and push... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6878913 | Method of controlling microwave oven A method of controlling a microwave oven, in which the microwave oven includes a cooking chamber for containing food therein, a cooling fan which circulates air, a magnetron which generates microwaves and a humidity sensor which senses humidity of the cooking chambe... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6878912 | Method of controlling microwave oven A method of controlling a microwave oven, in which the microwave oven includes a cooking chamber for containing food therein, a cooling fan which circulates air, a magnetron which generates microwaves and a humidity sensor which senses humidity of the cooking chambe... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6875968 | Method of controlling microwave oven A method of controlling a microwave oven, in which the microwave oven includes a cooking chamber for containing food therein, a cooling fan which circulates air, a magnetron which generates microwaves and a humidity sensor which senses humidity of the cooking chambe... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6806449 | Apparatus and method of controlling a microwave oven An apparatus and a method of controlling a microwave oven includes performing a first heating until detection values of a humidity sensor reach a reference value, wherein the humidity sensor senses humidity of water vapor discharged from a cooking chamber. A second ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6791070 | Simmering control method in microwave oven A method of performing a simmer cooking operation in a microwave oven is based on detected levels of humidity from a sensor and an algorithm automatically calculating a cooking time such that a desired cooking operation is optimally performed. A third heating operat... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6747375 | Time controls with enhanced timing range A time control unit having both a time base dial that allows the user to set the cycle time duration and a duty cycle dial that allows the user to set the percentage of time a load connected to the time control unit in activated during each cycle time. The time base... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6696676 | Voltage compensation in combination oven using radiant and microwave energy An oven includes both radiant cooking elements and a microwave cooking element that are controlled to reduce cooking time in relation to known radiant ovens. The oven is operable in a speed cooking mode utilizing radiant and microwave cooking elements, a ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6670591 | Microwave oven A microwave oven performs a cooking operation in one of several cooking modes having a first cooking time period and a second cooking time period. The first cooking time period is determined in accordance with an output value of a sensor which senses a st... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6657172 | High frequency heating apparatus equipped with oven hood A high frequency heating apparatus equipped with the oven hood comprises a heating chamber, a power supply apparatus for controlling high frequency output power by way of a semiconductor element, ventilation, and illumination for illuminating an object to... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6593556 | Microwave oven and method of controlling the same A microwave oven accumulatively counts a cooking time by decreasing the cooking time where an actual cooking operation is not carried out, and various electrical parts, including a high voltage transformer, are cooled. The microwave oven increases the coo... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6538240 | Method and apparatus for controlling a microwave oven A microwave oven, and method of controlling the same, including a magnetron generating high-frequency waves and a sensor detecting the environmental state of air in a cooking cavity. During a first cooking time, outputs of the sensor are sampled at predet... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532195 | Clock saver apparatus and methods Clock saver apparatus and methods which enable the restoration of clock operations in the event that a power outage is brief and without requiring that an operator reset the clock are described. In one embodiment, the clock is restored to a time setting e... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6525301 | Combination oven with manual entry of control algorithms A speed cooking oven includes a combination of radiant cooking units and a microwave cooking unit manually controllable using a rotary dial input selector coupled to a control panel for user selection of desired oven features. An alphanumeric display disp... | 02/25/2003 |
| 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 |
