| E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERAETEBAU GMBH Patent applications |
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| 20150086325 | PUMP WITH INTEGRATED HEATING ELEMENT - A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150033949 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT IN A COOKING VESSEL - By performing a method for transmitting to a reading device data of a sensor that is allocated to an inductively heated cooking vessel, a high frequency control voltage is generated from a mains alternating voltage by means of a converter, wherein the high frequency control voltage is applied to an oscillator circuit having an induction heating coil in order to generate a high frequency magnetic alternating field for heating the cooking vessel. The method includes the steps: interrupting the applying of the high frequency control voltage to the oscillator circuit during a predefined first time region covering a zero crossing point of the mains alternating voltage in order to cause a self-resonant oscillation of the oscillator circuit; changing an impedance of an antenna that is inductively coupled to the induction heating coil, which antenna is allocated to the cooking vessel, in dependence upon the data of the sensor, which data is to be transmitted, during a second time region that lies within the first time region; and decoding the transmitted data of the sensor in the reading device, in that a resonant frequency, in particular a resonant frequency change, of the self-resonant oscillation of the oscillator circuit is evaluated. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20140346022 | OPERATING ELEMENT - An operating element has an operating element housing, on the upper side of which a protruding rib made of elastic material is arranged, the rib, or its cross section, being formed for geometrical elasticity. This can be achieved by an elastically protruding section having an extent direction outward away from the rest of the rib, essentially obliquely with respect to a plane of the upper side of the operating element. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140216077 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR USE OF A PUMP WITH A HEATABLE PUMP CHAMBER IN A HEAT-PUMP APPARATUS AND FOR OPERATING THE HEAT-PUMP APPARATUS - A heat-pump apparatus for heating purposes has a collector circuit for a heat source with a collector pump for a collector fluid, also has a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser for a refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit and with a compressor and a pressure-relief valve, and additionally has a heating circuit with a heating pump for a heating fluid, with heating means for heating purposes. At least the collector pump and/or the heating pump are/is designed in the form of a pump with a heatable pump chamber for heating the fluid delivered by the pump. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140193260 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR A PUMP - A radial pump for water has a drive motor, a pump chamber and an impeller revolving in the pump chamber. The impeller has a plurality of impeller blades which are designed, at least in regions, to be elastic and have a fixed mounting arranged in a region located near the impeller axis of rotation. They can bend elastically radially outward from this fixed mounting counter to a spring force. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140193247 | IMPELLER PUMP - An impeller pump has a pump casing including a pump chamber and an inlet and an outlet thereon and an impeller therein, and including a heating device for heating the conveyed medium, which heating device forms an external wall of the pump chamber. The pump chamber extends annularly around the impeller and away from the pump chamber floor, wherein the outlet leads off on a region of the pump chamber which, viewed in the axial direction of the impeller pump, is pointing away from the pump chamber floor. The cross-sectional area of the pump chamber decreases in the axial direction of the longitudinal center axis of the impeller pump away from the pump chamber floor toward the outlet by virtue of an obliquely inwardly inclined external wall. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140154930 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR A PLUG CONNECTOR - A plug connector has a housing and a plurality of metallic plug connections in the housing together with a plurality of contact feet which project from the bottom face of the housing in order to make electrical contact and be mechanically fixed to a support of a heating apparatus which is electrically connected to the plug connector. A contact foot has a U-shaped foot end with two limbs and with a cutout in-between, an upper limb merging with the contact foot, and a lower limb being provided on that side which faces away from the housing. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140137751 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR A COOKING DEVICE - A cooking device, in particular a baking oven, includes a cooking chamber having cooking chamber walls and also a fan opening into the cooking chamber. This fan opening is provided on a fan plate fitted in front of a cooking chamber wall, an antenna being provided for wireless signal transmission with a measuring arrangement which is located in the cooking chamber and has a transceiving antenna. The antenna is arranged between the fan plate and cooking chamber wall and is thus covered or inwardly protected. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140072414 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR A PUMP - A pump having a pump chamber and an impeller which rotates therein has an inlet leading into the pump chamber and an outlet leading out of the pump chamber, the pump having a pump motor having a rotor. The rotor and the impeller are connected to each other, the impeller being supported in an axial direction towards the inlet and an axial support being provided therefor against an axial bearing. In this instance, the axial bearing is located on a rotation axis of the rotor and includes a centrally supported concave bearing shell in which a convex-curved bearing projection of the impeller is in abutment. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140029928 | HEATING DEVICE AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCE WITH HEATING DEVICE - A heating device for heating a liquid in the through-flow comprises a carrier with heating conductors thereon and at least two surface mounted device (SMD) temperature sensors. A first temperature sensor is arranged closed to the heating conductor at a distance of less than twice the heating conductor width. A second temperature sensor has a greater distance to the heating conductor than the first temperature sensor, preferably more than twice the distance of the first temperature sensor to the heating conductor. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140016046 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE - An operating device for an electric appliance has a plurality of display elements, a plurality of operating elements below a translucent operating surface in order to operate by applying a finger and drawing the finger over the operating surface. The operating elements are flat capacitive sensor elements and together with the display elements have common accommodation housings. The sensor elements are placed on top of the accommodation housings and the display elements are arranged in through-holes in the housings. The operating device has at least two accommodation housings that are arranged next to each other. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20130287561 | PUMP - A liquid pump has a rotor in a pump housing which has a pump chamber, a pump base, a pump-chamber wall and a cover. The rotor rotates just above the pump base, the pump-chamber wall being provided around the outside of and slightly spaced apart from the rotor and having a heating means thereon. An inlet to the rotor is provided centrally in the axial direction towards the rotor and an outlet from the pump housing is provided externally at the periphery of the pump-chamber wall. Blade-like guiding elements which are integrally injection-moulded thereon are arranged on the pump base, radially outside the impeller. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130270094 | OPERATOR CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD - An operator control device for functional adjustment of a functional device includes an operator control knob which has an off position in which the operator control device is deactivated. Said knob can be brought into a working position for functional adjustment purposes. The working position is predetermined by a lock-in position, and, starting from the working position, the operator control knob can be pulled out of the operator control device or pressed into the operator control device against a counterforce which increases as the distance from the working position increases. Here, the operator control device includes a movement detection means for detecting movement of the operator control knob out of the working position in one direction or in the other direction. The movement detection means is connected to a controller of the operator control device so as to carry out functional adjustment in a manner dependent on the detected movement. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130229492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN OPERATING UNIT FOR A HOME APPLIANCE - An offset operating unit for a home appliance includes a camera, an evaluation unit which evaluates picture data generated by the camera for recognition of an operating gesture from a predefined set of operating gestures, wherein the operating gestures serve for operator control of the home appliance, wherein the home appliance includes a control device for function control spaced apart from the operating unit, an interface for wireless data transmission between the operating unit and the control device, wherein information regarding the recognized operating gesture is transmitted to the control device via the interface in a wireless manner, and a housing in which the camera, the evaluation unit and the interface are integrated. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130229346 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A CAMERA MODULE FOR OPERATING GESTURE RECOGNITION AND HOME APPLIANCE - A camera module for operating gesture recognition includes a camera, an evaluation unit which evaluates picture data generated by the camera for recognition of an operating gesture from a predefined set of operating gestures, wherein the operating gestures serve for operator control of a home appliance, wherein the home appliance includes a control device for function control separate from the camera module, and an interface for coupling of the camera module with the control device, wherein information according to the recognized operating gesture is transmitted to the control device via the interface. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130009518 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PIEZOCERAMIC SENSOR AND CIRCUIT FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - In the case of a method for operating a piezoceramic sensor with an evaluation electrode, an electrical signal generated by the piezoceramic sensor at the evaluation electrode is evaluated to determine an actuating state of the piezoceramic sensor. The evaluation electrode is subjected to a predetermined reference potential during recurring time intervals, in order to reference the evaluation electrode with the reference potential during these time intervals. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20100006563 | INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING AND SAUCEPAN DETECTION METHOD - The invention relates to a method for operating an induction heating device, to a pot detection method for an induction heating device and to an induction heating device. The method for operating the induction heating device is characterized by determining a low point of a resonant cycle on a linking node (N | 01-14-2010 |
| 20090010302 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A TEMPERATURE SENSOR CONNECTED TO A CONTROL UNIT - A controller of a hob is connected to a temperature sensor of a radiation based heating element. In principle, two different groups of temperature sensors can be used, whose resistance values differ by approximately a factor of three. When the hob is first used, the resistance of the temperature sensor is measured at room temperature and is classified in one of the two groups of temperature sensors on the basis of a limit value between the two typical temperature profiles of the groups of temperature sensors. On the basis of this, calibration of the controller is carried out for the purpose of adjusting to the established group to which the temperature sensor belongs. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20080236404 | METHOD AND STEAM COOKING APPARATUS FOR REGULATING COOKING PROCESSES IN AN OVEN - A method for regulating a cooking process of a cooking product in an oven of a steamer, during which the moisture in the oven coming from the cooking product is at least periodically determined over time by a moisture sensor. During a measuring phase there is no introduction of steam into the steam oven and the moisture sensor is evaluated. For a given cooking process with fixed times for the supply of steam, on the basis of the moisture sensor evaluation during the measuring phase, the end of cooking is determined. Prior to the measuring phase and during a steam phase, steam is introduced into the oven, the steam supply being terminated following the steam phase and prior to the measuring phase during a ventilating phase. During the ventilating phase the steam concentration in the oven is greatly reduced. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080210681 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEATING DEVICE OF AN ELECTRIC HEATING APPLIANCE HAVING A PLURALITY OF HEATING DEVICES - In an operating method for a hob having a plurality of heating elements, an operating action for a heating element, such as heating with an additional region on the cooktop or invoking a parboiling step, is selected in an initial step by providing input to a general input sensor element that is not associated with any specific heating element. In a subsequent step, the selected operating action is allocated or associated with a specific heating element by operating a cooking element specific sensor element, for example when setting the power level for that heating element. Therefore, sensor elements can be provided with an advantageous multiple-use effect for general operating actions. Furthermore, the operating sequence permits simple and convenient operation. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080203087 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for operating an induction heating device. The induction heating device comprises an induction coil and a frequency converter for producing a control voltage for the induction coil. The frequency converter comprises a rectifier rectifying an alternating supply voltage (UN), an intermediate circuit capacitor, looped in between output terminals of the rectifier and equalizing the rectified voltage (UG), and at least one controllable switching element, looped in between the output terminals of the rectifier. According to the invention, in a predetermined discharge interval (INT) before a zero crossing (ND) of the alternating supply voltage (UN), the intermediate circuit capacitor is discharged to a threshold value by controlling the at least one switching element before the induction coil is controlled in order to produce an adjustable heating capacity. | 08-28-2008 |
