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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8017890 | Continuous capacitive slider controller for a smooth surfaced cooktop A touch responsive capacitive control for a smooth surfaced ceramic cooktop provides a continuously variable control voltage which indicates the last touched position on an elongated control surface. An alternating current potential is applied between a transmitter ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7368686 | Apparatus and methods for operating an electric appliance An electric cooking appliance is provided. The electric cooking appliance includes a plurality of surface heating elements and a plurality of sensors configured to monitor an operational status of a corresponding surface heating element. The electric cooking applian... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7345259 | Circuit arrangement and method for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance. The arrangement includes a power circuit with a heating element and a control circuit with a coupling switch. The control circuit and the power circuit are... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7150278 | Multiple burner grill An improved barbeque grill having a plurality of gas-fueled cooking surfaces which can be stored in stacked relation, yet can be moved into essentially side-by-side relation for cooking. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7132626 | Radiant electric heater A radiant electric heater includes at least first (7) and second (11) adjacent heating zones. The first heating zone (7) includes a first heating element portion (5) and the second heating zone includes a second heating element portion ( | 11/07/2006 |
| 7109447 | Control system for cooking appliance employing convection and radiant cooking A cooking appliance includes a heating system which is preferably capable of combining radiant, convection, microwave and conduction heating techniques to perform a cooking operation. The cooking appliance includes a convection fan and at least one heating device. A... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7053340 | Heating device with two areas A radiant heater is provided, which is subdivided into three concentric areas and which can be mounted under a glass ceramic cooking area. It has a rod controller and the two innermost heating areas are jointly protected against excess temperatures by means of the r... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053339 | Ceramic heater A ceramic heater includes a ceramic substrate having a heating face, a resista nce heating element embedded in the substrate and a terminal electrically connected with the resistance heating element. The resistance heating element includes first and second coiled wi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7038176 | Infinite temperature control for heating element of a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes a cooktop having at least one heating zone having first and second heating elements and a control element for setting a desired cooking temperature for the heating zone. When the control element is rotated in a first direction, only the ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030342 | Electrical heating assembly An electrical heating assembly (2) comprises a glass-ceramic cooking plate (4) having an upper surface (6) for receiving a cooking vessel (8) and a lower surface (10). A radiant electric heater (12) incorporating at least on... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6812435 | Operating device for an electrical appliance In an embodiment of the invention an operating device for a glass ceramic hob (25) can be provided and has an operating unit (11). The operating unit (11) has a rotary toggle (12), which is magnetically mounted on a glass ceramic hob (... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6664519 | Touch-sensitive operating panel for cooking zones In order to be able to dispose the whole of the electrical circuitry of the operating panel (14) of a cooker top (11) on a single, single-layer circuit board (even if lined on both sides) of dimensions which do not project beyond the operating panel (14),... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6205648 | Electric heater unit and method of manufacture An electric heater unit is manufactured so as to form a base in a supporting dish by compacting powdered microporous insulation into the base. At least one electrical resistance heating element is supported on or adjacent to the base and a peripheral wall... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6046440 | Automatic burner actuation switch A stove burner activation device is included with a microswitch having an actuator arm. The microswitch is connected between a power source and the ends of a heating element of a burner for providing power thereto upon the closing of the microswitch's int... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6018149 | Radiant electric heater A radiant electric heater has first, second and third heating zones (1, 2, 3) arranged substantially side-by-side. The first heating zone (1) is provided with at least one first heating element (9). The second heating zone (2) is arranged adjacent to the ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5955795 | Apparatus for enclosing appliances An apparatus for enclosing appliances includes an enclosure having an access member movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. A power supply mechanism disposed within the enclosure and adapted to supply power to the appliance when ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5908571 | Radiant electric heater arrangement A radiant electric heater arrangement is provided for connection to a dual voltage supply which provides a first alternating current supply voltage and a second alternating current supply voltage higher than the first. The arrangement includes a heater ha... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5892206 | Radiant electric heater arrangement and method of operating the same A radiant electric heater arrangement for a glass-ceramic top cooking appliance includes a heater in the form of a dish-like support supporting a first heating element and a second heating element. The first heating element has a predetermined minimum ope... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5866879 | Infra-red heater arrangement An infra-red heater arrangement for a glass-ceramic top cooking appliance includes a heater connected to a manually adjustable cyclic energy regulator having a full power setting and a plurality of other, lower power, settings. The heater incorporates at ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5823099 | Grill A grid includes a rectangular rack, a drip plate mounted on the rack, a cooking grid supported on the drip plate, a plurality of halogen lamp tubes transversely arranged in parallel on the rack, a plurality of far-infrared ceramic tubes respectively sleev... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5786996 | Appliance control circuit comprising dual microprocessors for enhanced control operation and agency safety redundancy and software application method thereof An appliance control circuit comprising dual processor control for enhanced control operation and agency safety redundancy. A first processor is disposed in operative communication with operator control switches for primarily controlling the supply of pow... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5742031 | Method and apparatus for operating a downdraft cooking vapor withdrawal systems A downdraft cooktop includes an electrical switch having a plurality of cooking rate selections, a vapor withdrawal opening formed in the cooktop adjacent a grill element, a vapor withdrawal duct below and in communication with the withdrawal opening and ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5708255 | Prepared meal system with lower hotplate having a plurality of heating zones and an upper radiant heating element and operated in accordance with pre-programmed cooking programs selected by a user A prepared meals system has at least one food container and cooking unit. The food container has at least two compartments for different foods to be heated at different temperatures and/or times. The cooking unit has at least one cooking station having tw... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5693245 | Electric range temperature control with mandatory timer The disclosure relates to an integral electric range surface burner control switch user interface made up of two components. The first component, which controls the burner temperature setting, is a standard knob which is rotated to turn the burner on, as ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5572205 | Touch control system A touch control system that is responsive to a user input selection includes an electrically non-conducting substrate, such as glass ceramic, and at least one capacitive-responsive touch pad on the substrate. A source signal having a primary frequency tha... | 11/05/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5357080 | Cooktop with control surface on frame leg A cooktop includes a cooking surface preferably having a plurality of cooking locations. A cooktop frame to be inserted into a kitchen work counter surrounds the cooking surface and has a frame leg protruding above the cooking surface. The frame leg has a... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5347104 | Heater control circuit A heater control circuit is provided to control the heating condition of a cooking oven by means of a triac. In the heater control circuit, an electrical heater is incorporated. The heater further has a switch which is electrically connected in series wit... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5347609 | Method and assembly for converting a mobile gas range to combination gas-electric range A conversion assembly for converting a gas burner of a multi-burner gas operated cooking range of a recreational vehicle to an electric burner for operation by the electrical generator of the vehicle or by an external campground electrical power supply so... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5321229 | Remote control for a domestic appliance A cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance and method of controlling the same includes a remote control unit having a built-in temperature sensor, positional switch and low-battery... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5280152 | Electric stove with electromagnetic induction cooker and hot plate An electric heating stove including an electric hot plate made to slide in and out of a horizontal compartment in an electromagnetic induction cooker, and a positive temperature coefficient heater fastened to the electric hot plate and controlled by the c... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5183996 | Cook-top A cook-top (10) includes a plurality of heating elements (11a, 12a) which are activated by function controls. The heating elements are covered by a plate (15) which are fixedly connected to strain-guage modules (30) which detect the forces exerted on the ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5171973 | Radiant electric heaters A radiant electric heater arrangement for connection to a power supply system providing first and second different power supply voltages, for example 120 volts and 240 volts, includes a heater having at least first and second heating elements, a rectifier... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5155338 | Control device for heating sources of cooking appratus Control device for the heating sources of a cooking apparatus, in particular of a cooking surface, possessing a set of neighboring heating sources and a smooth sheet of vitroceramic glass, of uniform thickness, inparticular covering the entire surface, ha... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5149944 | Electric cooking appliance An electric cooking appliance includes a heater lamp such as a halogen lamp, a top plate on which a cooking pan is placed, the top plate being disposed over the heater lamp, a thermostat sensing an ambient temperature of the heater lamps, and a microcompu... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5129033 | Disposable thermostatically controlled electric surgical-medical irrigation and lavage liquid warming bowl and method of use A warming bowl for electrically heating lavage and irrigation liquid for use during medical-surgical procedures includes an electric heating device and an automatic thermostatic control to heat and maintain the liquid at a substantially constant temperatu... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5097113 | Touch switch arrangement for a heating cooking appliance A heating cooking appliance includes a heater for the cooking, a switch generating an operation signal while being touched or depressed with a finger or the like, and a microcomputer for controlling the heater so that energization of the heater is initiat... | 03/17/1992 |
