Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
219489000 | Combined manual and automatic regulating or control means | 8 |
20080223847 | ELECTRIC GRILL AND METHOD OF USING SAME - An electric grill includes at least one grill pan having a first heating member, a second heating member, and a temperature sensing member for measuring the temperature of the grill pan; and the first heating member, the second heating member and the temperature sensing member connect with a control circuit. The temperature sensing member provides a temperature signal for the control circuit, and the control circuit controls the power on/off of the first heating member and the second heating member. | 09-18-2008 |
20090127248 | HEATING COOKER - When a timer period reaches an increase-stopping-time during the long-push state of a timer key, increase of the timer period is stopped once. Accordingly, even though a long-push state is continued due to a fault of the timer key, the indication of the timer period is not repeated. | 05-21-2009 |
20090139980 | Cooking Hob and Method for the Operation of a Cooking Hob - A cooking hob, especially an induction cooking hob, including a first heating zone having at least two independently heatable heating elements operable by a first power supply via a first switching device, and at least one additional heating zone operable by a second power supply via a second switching device in a normal mode of operation. The heating capacity of the first heating zone can be increased beyond a maximum power of the first power supply while the first heating zone and the additional heating zone are operated simultaneously in the normal mode of operation. The cooking hob includes a switching element for establishing a power supply connection between the second power supply and one of the heating elements of the first heating zone in a special mode of operation so as to increase the heating capacity of the first heating zone. | 06-04-2009 |
20090261088 | HEATING COOKER - An appliance including a top plate has its operability improved and prevents an operation error. The appliance includes electrostatic touch keys provided on a lower surface of the top plate, the electrostatic touch keys including electrodes made of conductive films having predetermined light-blocking property, respectively, operation-unit illuminators emitting light toward the electrodes, which are partially cut, from a direction opposite to the top plate, respectively, and an illumination controller controlling illumination of the operation-unit illuminators. The illumination controller changes the illumination state of the shapes of key indicators above the electrodes to allow a user to identify function and validity of the electrostatic touch keys. The illumination controller controls the illumination state of operation-unit illuminators, such as lighting-on, blinking, lighting-off, and adjusting the brightness, to provide information required for operation. | 10-22-2009 |
20090302026 | SAFETY DEVICE - A safety device for regulating the supply of electricity and/or fuel to an appliance. Electricity and/or fuel may be supplied to an appliance for a period of time responsive to a user operating a user operable control means, such as a button. The safety device will cut off the supply of electricity and/or fuel after a first period of time unless the user operable control means is operated again to extend the period of time for which the regulator means allows the supply of electricity and/or fuel. Thus, the user must periodically operate the user operable control means if the appliance is to continue functioning. The safety device may function differently at different times of the day. The safety device is particularly useful with electric or fuel burning cookers, to reduce the risk of fire when the cooker is inadvertently left unattended. | 12-10-2009 |
20110036827 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRICAL COOKER AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a micro-control device, which comprises a RC oscillator for generating a reference clock, a plurality of analog switches coupled to the touch switches for controlling transmission of the transition signal and a plurality of counters for counting time, all of the counters stop counting when one of the counters overflows and content of all counters being read, wherein ON/OFF of the analog switches controlled by a software. | 02-17-2011 |
20110062143 | SLIDING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A COOKING APPLIANCE - A control display for an oven includes an interactive cook time delay screen having a slide bar for selecting a cook time delay. The slide bar has a length corresponding to the total time of a cooking cycle, such that moving the slide bar along a timeline simultaneously adjusts the start time and the stop time of the cooking cycle, while also allowing a user to delay the start of a cooking cycle. A temperature select screen includes a slide bar for selecting a cooking cycle temperature, and a cook time select screen allows selection of a cooking cycle time. A control lock feature allows a user to lock and unlock the control display by moving a slide bar from a lock position to an unlock position along a track. A controller controls the operation based on the delay time, cooking temperature and cook time selected. | 03-17-2011 |
20130087549 | AQUARIUM HEATER - An aquarium heater includes a top cover, a ceramic heater plate arranged at the bottom side of the top cover, a temperature control knob arranged at the top side of the top cover, a circuit controller arranged at the bottom side of the top cover for controlling the ceramic heater plate to generate one of a series of watts of heat energy subject to setting of the temperature control knob, a metal heat sink surrounding the ceramic heater plate, and an insulative housing tightly attached to the bottom side of the top cover around the metal heat sink. | 04-11-2013 |