| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 219506000 | With signal or indicating means | 6 |
| 20090078696 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COOKER - The present invention relates to a oven and a method of controlling the same. In a method of controlling a oven for receiving a variety of operating and setting instructions and displaying various kinds of data related to the instructions, which comprises the steps of (A) displaying, by a control module, any one of menu lists included in a menu list image on a display unit to be relatively larger than the other menu lists; (B) receiving, by an input unit, an instruction to select any one of the menu lists displayed on the display unit at step (A); (C) displaying, by the control module, the menu list selected at step (B) on the display unit to be relatively larger than the other menu lists; (D) receiving, the input unit, an instruction to select any one of menus included in the menu list selected at step (B); (E) displaying, by the control module, a cooking method and image for the menu selected at step (D) on the display unit; (F) receiving, by the input unit, a cooking start instruction; and (G) performing a cooking operation in accordance with the cooking method for the menu selected at step (D) by means of the cooking start instruction received by the input unit at step (F). According to the present invention, there are advantages in that an item to be set can be easily discriminated and accurately selected, a cooking method can be easily discriminated and food can be easily cooked accordingly, and a variety of settings can be made according to users. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100213187 | OPERATING AN APPLIANCE BASED ON COOKING INSTRUCTIONS EMBEDDED IN AN RFID PRODUCT TAG - Method and computer program product for using an RFID antenna of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance selects one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing. Furthermore, the cooking appliance may then automatically cook the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. The selection of a cooking instruction set may consider the temperature of the food product or a determination whether the food product is frozen. Alternatively, cooking appliance settings may be interpolated between two cooking instruction sets or calculated on the basis of physical property information about the food product. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110089158 | OVEN CONTROL SYSTEM WITH OPERATING STAGE INDICATION - A cooking appliance includes a cabinet defining an oven cavity, a door attached to the cabinet for selectively exposing and sealing the oven cavity, a cooking element mounted to the cabinet for heating the oven cavity, a control system for controlling the cooking appliance and a display. The display is adapted to show a first series of images corresponding to a first operating stage and a second series of images corresponding to a second operating stage, wherein the first series of images is distinct from the second series of images such that a user may readily identify a current operating stage of the cooking appliance, even from a distance, based on the series of images being displayed. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20140131344 | SEAT HEATER AND CAPACITIVE OCCUPANCY SENSOR COMBINATION - In a combined seat heater and capacitive occupancy sensor, the present invention proposes to perform two measurements with two different frequencies. In a first step, the carrier frequency is set to a first known carrier frequency, the complex current through inductance and unknown capacitance and complex drive voltage are measured. In a second step, the carrier frequency is set to a second known carrier frequency, the complex current through inductance and unknown capacitance and complex drive voltage are measured. The measured complex values are used in a formula which yields the unknown capacitance. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140138374 | HEATING PAD ASSEMBLY - A heating pad assembly includes a pad and a heating plate is connected in the pad. A receptacle and a temperature control button unit are connected to the pad. The heating pad, the receptacle and the temperature control button unit are electrically connected to each other by wires. Electric power is provided to the heating pad assembly via the receptacle, and the temperature control button unit controls the operation of the heating pad. A fastening strip is cooperated with the pad to secure the pad to desired portion of the user's body. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140319123 | CONTROLLER FOR TEXTILE HEATING DEVICE - A controller for use in textile heating devices, such as heating pads, heating blankets, and the like is provided. The controller provides a display system for conveying to a user the selected heat setting. Such display system is useful in low light condition, where a user cannot readily see the heat setting indicia on the controller. The display system includes a plurality of lighted elements. The lighted elements are illuminated at different intensity levels to indicate the selected heat setting, In this manner, a user is provided with a visual frame of reference to indicate the selected heating setting. Namely, the differentiation between the intensity levels enables a user to visual determine the selected heating setting by the position of a higher intensity lighted element in relationship to lesser intensity lighted elements. | 10-30-2014 |
