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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7381930 | Reminder for convection cooking Provided is a cooking appliance, such as a convection cooking appliance. The appliance includes a heating element, an annunciator, and a user interface for receiving a plurality of control settings from a user. The control settings include a time setting. The applia... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378620 | Oven control system Oven control system, including a display screen, a data input means and a calculation unit able to send instructions to the display screen and to receive instructions from the data input means, the said calculation unit including a means for grading cooking programs... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7368693 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes a heating chamber for heating and cooking foods, a heating unit for supplying heat energy to the heating chamber; a controller for controlling an operation of the heating unit, and an input unit for inputting cooking information into the co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7348527 | Microwave oven having a door ventilation system A microwave oven for use in cooking food having a door and door mounted controls and a cooling system where the door mounted controls are disclosed. The microwave oven having an external enclosure defining an outer cabinet and an oven cavity supported within the ext... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7282677 | Menu selection device in microwave oven A menu selection device for a cooking device is provided which is constructed such that a single display device may be divided into a menu guide unit and a menu selection unit. The menu guide unit is used to display a variety of menus, whereas the menu selection uni... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270661 | Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for treatment and removal of tissue Apparatus and methods for ablating, severing, cutting, shrinking, coagulating, or otherwise modifying a target tissue to be treated. In a method for treating a target tissue, an active electrode of an electrosurgical probe is positioned in at least close proximity t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7258064 | Food product timing system A food timing system is disclosed that includes a number of timer modules associated with food holding devices in a restaurant. The timer modules are connected in a network for communicating information about the food being held in food holding compartments of the f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7247821 | Cooking device with luminous display A cooking device containing a housing with a cooking chamber and a door to close off the cooking chamber and at least one control and display panel with an optical luminous display. The control and display panel can display the different operation modes of the cooki... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235762 | Factory preset temperature warming appliance A warming appliance having factory preset temperature modes. The warming appliance comprises an enclosure having a wall. The enclosure defines an interior space having an opening. A drawer is configured to be reciprocally moved within the interior space. The drawer ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7214914 | Method of operating microwave oven and determining the cooking time A method of operating a microwave oven to determine the correct cooking time for a food item placed within the oven. A food package having a thermochromic element which changes color over a predetermined temperature range is placed in the microwave oven. Microwave e... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211775 | Door for microwave oven permitting the efficient use of space A microwave oven includes a door. The door includes a door unit for selectively opening/closing a cooking chamber and a control unit, for controlling an operation of the microwave oven, is arranged at a predetermined part of the door unit. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196298 | Device for achieving a temperature controlled heating of solid food by indicating a temperature change of the solid food caused by microwave heating A device is provided for temperature controlled heating of primarily solid food in a microwave oven, which includes a block of polymeric material which is thermally insulated with respect to the food and which is provided so as to be exposed to a same microwave radi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7183507 | Appliance having a timer A timer for an appliance is activated by the appliance user to display elapsed time on a time display device mounted on and/or integral with the appliance. The timer may be initialized by a separate initialization mechanism or simultaneously with the user activating... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176418 | Cooking stove The present invention provides a cooking stove that prevents an instruction from being given using the touch switch owing to a factor different from the user's operation, while hindering the user from having an incongruous or anxious feeling when operating the touch... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171727 | Method and apparatus for appliance control and status display A method and apparatus for an appliance control knob incorporating a microprocessor and a status display built into the control knob housing. Such a control knob gives the appliance a clean and uncluttered appearance, and allows a user of the appliance both to contr... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7150891 | Method for conducting a cooking process with a cooking process probe A method for managing a cooking process in a cooking chamber according to a cooking program with one cooking process probe inserted at least partially into a product to be cooked in the cooking chamber for the detection of at least two temperature values by at least... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7132926 | Smart tray system and method for restaurant inventory management A smart tray system includes a plurality of information tags and a plurality of communication devices, which can communicate with each of the information tags when the information tags are located in the proximity of the communication devices. Each information tag i... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7076324 | Directionless rotary encoder control system for a household appliance An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and processing the signals from the direction encoder according to a control ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069090 | Systems and methods for providing variable output feedback to a user of a household appliance An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and processing the signals from the direction encoder according to a control ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065714 | Graphical user interface for navigation, viewing and maintenance of recipes A computer implemented enterprise resource planning system comprising a recipe database contained within computer readable media and a graphical user interface for navigation, viewing and maintenance of recipes is disclosed. The database links all elements of a reci... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7060943 | Cooking apparatus having heaters A cooking apparatus having heaters and a cooking chamber defined in the cooking apparatus, the heaters are provided in the cooking chamber, and two or more buttons are provided representing different cooking temperatures. A temperature of the cooking chamber is set ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7057145 | Menu selection device in microwave oven A menu selection device for a microwave oven is provided which is constructed such that a single display device may be divided into a menu guide unit and a menu selection unit. The menu guide unit is used to display a variety of menus, whereas the menu selection uni... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7038181 | Microwave beverage and food preparation apparatus A microwave beverage and food preparation apparatus that, in one embodiment, converts a common fluid vessel such as a cup, mug, or bowl into a whistling kettle. A user places a lid having an alarm on a vessel containing liquid to be heated in a microwave. A member m... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7026589 | Microwave oven A microwave oven with a control panel including a case, a circuit board mounted to the case, and a coupling device adapted to couple the case and the circuit board. The coupling device includes a plurality of coupling members protruded from an inner surface of the c... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7011425 | Luminary product A decorated luminary product includes a candle holder containing a candle, wherein at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface of the candle holder has a hammered texture such that light passing through the candle holder varies substantially as a result ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012229 | Vacuum cooking apparatus and cooking method using the same A vacuum cooking apparatus and cooking method using the vacuum cooking apparatus, which automatically performs cold storage, thawing, cooking, and warming functions in a single cooking apparatus, thus improving cooking convenience. In the cooking method, a temperatu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6984811 | Door for microwave oven having integrally formed control unit A microwave oven includes a door. The door includes a door unit for selectively opening/closing a cooking chamber and a control unit, for controlling an operation of the microwave oven, is arranged at a predetermined part of the door unit. ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6953919 | RFID-controlled smart range and method of cooking and heating A system and method for providing multiple cooking modes and an ability to automatically heat cooking vessels and other objects using RFID technology, and an ability to read and write heating instructions and to interactively assist in their execution. An induction ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6946630 | Combined toaster and microwave oven and control method thereof Disclosed is a combined toaster and microwave oven, including: a plurality of heaters disposed close to both surfaces of a slice of bread so as to apply a heat to the slice of bread inserted into a slot in a toaster; a control panel for selecting a bread kind and a ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943321 | Convection oven with forced airflow circulation zones At least two blowers are controlled with baffles to create circulating zones of airflow which circulate in a substantially horizontal plane within a convection oven cavity. This airflow minimizes the potential for airflow paths to be broken up or blocked by the conf... | 09/13/2005 |
