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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168925 | Glass-ceramic plate and method for the production thereof Glass-ceramic plates that may be used to cover or receive at least one heating element of a cooking apparatus include a coating comprising at least two contrasted zones. Methods and devices for producing such glass plates and cooking apparatus are provided. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7956309 | Cooking apparatus A burner for a glass top stove includes a heating element, and a reflector. The reflector is shaped to reflect heat and light emitted down and to the sides of the heater back up to the glass top of the burner. The reflector is shaped to form multiple images of the h... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7285757 | Bottom electric heating element systems and ovens A bottom electric heating element for an oven wherein the electric heating element is positioned in a recessed portion in the oven bottom and comprises at least one corrugated ribbon of conductive material partially embedded in an insulating base. A glass panel is p... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281715 | Cooktop gasket A cooktop gasket includes a sealing body having a stem extending from an upper portion of the gasket and terminating in a retention knuckle. A base is provided that includes a support portion integrally connected to a locking portion, the locking portion having an i... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7182654 | Method and apparatus for coupling a sheathed heater to a power harness A sheathed heater assembly includes a sheathed heating element and a cold pin electrically coupled to the sheathed heating element. The cold pin includes a free end including an electrical connector. The electrical connector is configured to mate with a mating conne... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7057139 | Electric heating assembly An electric heating assembly comprises a plate (2) having a front face (4) and a rear face (10), and at least one electric heater unit (8) located at the rear face (10) of the plate (2). The electric heater unit (8) i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7049552 | Ventilation system for a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes a frame having a bottom wall for supporting heating elements and a peripheral side portion that extends from and about an outer periphery of the bottom wall so as to define a chassis upon which is arranged a cooktop. The peripheral side ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040062 | Dismantable protective window A reinforced window system for mounting within an opening in a wall, the window system comprising a frame fixable to the wall and a second frame, which is removably installable in the first frame. The first frame is provided with a plurality of fixing members distri... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6998585 | Control unit for a household appliance A control unit for a household appliance, preferably a cooking device, containing a control device and regulating devices. The control device has a removable control element and a blocking device. The regulating devices have a change-over regulating device that allo... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995343 | Method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob A method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob having a ceramic cooking surface. The hob is heated by an energy source which includes a temperature limiter with a variable switching temperature. The switching temperature of the ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6936793 | Oven apparatus and method of use thereof A solder reflow oven with horizontal cyclonic convection air flow for enhancing equalized heating of printed circuit boards conveyed therethrough. Air circulation apparatus can include a first air movement fan for urging air to move horizontally laterally from the f... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6888107 | One-piece burner element/switch support for a cooktop A cooktop includes a frame including a central web portion having a plurality of burner openings adapted to receive a plurality of burner elements, a control opening adapted to receive a control element assembly, and a cooking panel. More specifically, each of the p... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6660980 | Top plate for cooking device having electromagnetic-induction heating unit A top plate is provided for use in a cooking device having an induction heater alone or an infrared heater in addition, which comprises a transparent crystallized glass plate, a light-shading film on a bottom surface of the glass plate and an ornamental f... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6455819 | Cooking apparatus The cooking apparatus has at least one cooking area including a glass-ceramic panel providing a cooking surface and at least one glass molded part made from glass with definite mechanical stability, such as technical glass or hardened glass. The glass mol... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6437297 | Kitchen appliance with a cooktop receptacle provided in a work surface A kitchen appliance with a work surface made of a temperature-resistant plastic material or composite plastic material, which has a cooktop receptacle. To reduce the installation effort for use in a row of kitchen appliances, a kitchen sink has cutouts fo... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6361858 | Mounting for a cooking surface A mounting for a cooking surface held at its periphery by at least one support part comprising a fiberglass reinforced duromer or thermosetting resin selected from the group consisting of an unsaturated polyester resin, a melamine resin, a phenol resin, a... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6313447 | Cook top positioning element for a heating device A cook top with a frame on which there is secured a cook top panel, in particular made of glass ceramic. A plurality of hot plates is provided which can each be heated by a heating element that is secured beneath the cook top panel. For the positioning of... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6281480 | Installation strip for a cooktop An installation strip for the surface-flush installation of a panel of a cooktop in a work-top includes a supporting section for supporting the cooktop. In order to ensure the surface-flush installation in the simplest possible manner, the installation st... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6276357 | Cooktop with a cooktop frame A cooktop includes a cooktop frame with at least one decorative frame strip, which entirely surrounds a one-piece cooktop panel, and with at least one decorative separating strip disposed on a top side of the cooktop panel and separating an operating area... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6129256 | Reflow furnace for an electronic assembly The invention provides a reflow furnace for an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly comprises a printed circuit board and a device on the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has solder at a first area near the device and a metallic su... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6085643 | Mounting arrangement for a cooking plate and related method Disclosed is a mounting arrangement for a cooking plate having a perimeter edge. The arrangement includes the plate and a frame around the plate, the frame having a support portion extending over the perimeter edge and a rib extending away from the suppor... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6050176 | Arrangement of a hot plate in a cook top Arrangement of an electrical heating element as a cooking zone, having as a carrier a ceramic of very high thermal conductivity, in a cutout of a surface consisting of glass-ceramic, glass, ceramic, metal or plastic. The ceramic carrier of the heating ele... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6043462 | Mounting arrangement for cooking surface and method of mounting cooking surface A mounting arrangement for a cooking surface is mounted in a cut-out of a work plate, such as in a kitchen range top, with the aid of a frame unit having a supporting section on which the mounting arrangement is supported. The mounting arrangement also in... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5977523 | Electric heating method An electric heating method is described for use with a glass-ceramic top cooking appliance. A first sensor coil is provided in a heater associated with a first heating element and a second sensor coil is provided associated with a second heating element, ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973303 | Induction cooking device with stone surface for use as a work surface top An induction cooktop is formed of a light construction of a stone surface. The surface of the induction cooktop can also be used as a robust work surface top. The cooktop includes a uniformly flat, sufficiently thin stone plate (1) being laid on an equall... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5958272 | Cooktop with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface Cooktops with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface include the usual multiple cooking zones and functional elements, like operating elements, display, etc. The cooking surface exhibits recesses, in which the operational zones, assigned to the elements... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5877475 | Radiant heating body There is provided a radiant heating body (1) in which the temperature sensor (thermocouple element 12) of a temperature limiter is fitted at the hottest point on the underside of a glass ceramic plate (3). By virtue of that specific arrangement of the tem... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5847364 | Radiant heater support system Ranges which include mounting systems for securing the heating elements so that the heating elements are maintained against an underside surface of the glass plate with a substantially constant force over a broad temperature range are described. In one em... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5844206 | Glass-ceramic cooktop A glass-ceramic cooktop includes a glass-ceramic plate having a periphery. At least one heating body is disposed below the glass-ceramic plate. A sprayed-on plastic frame embraces the periphery of the glass-ceramic plate and has an upper surface. A protec... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841109 | Glass supported heating elements for radiant cooktop ranges Ranges which include mounting systems for securing the heating elements so that the heating elements are maintained against an underside surface of the glass panel with a substantially constant force over a broad temperature range are described. In one em... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5785047 | Cooktop or hob top including a planar panel interlocked to an outboard frame by an injection molded encapsulation having injection molded encapsulation having integral fasteners A cooktop, hob top or the like includes a cooktop, hob top panel having a peripheral edge portion, a frame bordering the same and a substantially one-piece homogeneous injection molded polymeric/copolymeric encapsulation securing the peripheral edge porti... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5780817 | Retrofittable glass-top electric stove element Electrical resistance retrofittable stove heating elements are provided which include a metal oxide-containing cooking top and a sheathed resistance heating element spaced from the lower surface of the cooking top. The stove element can also contain a hou... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5768979 | Process for assembling a cooking unit plate with its support and resulting cooking unit In a cooking device composed of a frame for receiving a heating element, the device further including a cooking plate supported on the frame and elements for fixing the cooking plate to the frame, the fixing elements are constituted by at least one adhesi... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5717189 | Control arrangement for an electric heating appliance An electronic control arrangement for an electrical heating appliance with several separately heatable electrical loads, particularly cooking points or hotplates, contains an electronic master switch, which has its own power supply. The master switch is f... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5679273 | Cooktop having a flat surface, suitable for flush-mounting The invention relates to a flush-mountable cooktop having a steel support table covered on its two faces by a layer of an electrically insulating material, which table has openings in which burners are fixedly flush-mounted to the table by mounting elemen... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5571434 | Cooktop stamping having means for attaching heating elements and an integral trim ring A metal stamping for holding a glass ceramic cooktop, a control unit and a plurality of burner elements of an appliance having means for holding the glass ceramic cooktop, an element portion having a plurality of element holes wherein the burner elements ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5530224 | System and method for retrofitting cooktops with a ceramic glass cooking surface A stain-resistant, easy to clean member, having a substantially planar surface, is removably attached to frame that is previously removably installed on an electric cooktop. The member has thermal transfer characteristics such that heat is transferred fro... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528015 | Display-and-control panel for a cooking surface An electric range top has a cooking surface with at least one hotspot and a display-and-control panel for the cooking surface. The panel accommodates display devices and manually operated control devices for regulating each hotspot. The cooking surface ha... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5432320 | Cooking range Cooking ranges with cooking surfaces in the form of a glass ceramic cover include functional elements such as operation and signal elements integrated into the cooking range. For improved utility and maintenance these functional elements are combined in a... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5429114 | Cooktop unit for mounting in a frame structure or a cutout The invention is directed to a cooktop unit for mounting in a frame structure or in a cutout of a work surface. The cooktop unit includes a plate made of glass ceramic and this plate defines the cooking surface. The cooktop unit also includes a metal fram... | 07/04/1995 |
