SENSOR MEANS OR MODULE FOR DETERMINING A DISPLACEMENT OR DEFLECTION OR BENDING, HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE WEIGHT OF AN ITEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230137254A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17913486

    申请日:2021-03-17

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor means (11, 35, 49, 71) or module for determining a particularly elastic displacement or deflection or bending of a panel (3), in particular a glass panel, or of a section of a panel or of an insert in relation to the panel (3). The sensor means (11, 35, 49, 71) or module and the panel (3) or said section thereof forming a weighing means, in particular a scale. The sensor means (11, 35, 49, 71) or module is adapted to be integrated in or allocated to a household appliance (1), in particular a cooking hob, more in particular an induction cooking hob, and comprises or is connected to at least one processing and/or interpretation and/or compilation means, preferably for providing a particular high sensor sensitivity and/or evaluation unit accuracy. Further, a household appliance (1) is disclosed which comprises an at least approximately horizontal panel (3), in particular a glass panel. The panel (3) is part of or is in functional connection with a scale for weighing an item (15) placed on the panel (3). Finally, the invention relates to a method for determining the weight of an item (15) on an at least approximately horizontal panel (3) of a household appliance (1), in particular on a top panel (3) of a cooking hob. An acceleration of a panel (3) section or of a panel reference point or reference area, in particular a reference point or a reference area on a panel surface (7), is estimated or determined during a displacement or deflection or bending of the panel section or the panel reference point or reference area due to a placing of the item (15) on the panel.

    METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COOKING APPLIANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20220307695A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17615634

    申请日:2020-06-02

    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a cooking appliance (1) with a temperature sensor (5), the cooking appliance (1) comprising at least one heating power transferring element (2) for heating a cookware item (3) placed on a cooking support (4), the method comprising the steps of: —Gathering temperature information related to the cookware item (3) or its content with the temperature sensor (5) at or in the cookware item (3), —after a heat-up process, gathering information regarding a power reduction action initiated by a user input; —evaluating temperature information provided by the temperature sensor (5), said temperature information being correlated with the temperature of the cookware item (3) or the cookware content; —providing temperature lock information to the user if the variation of the temperature of the cookware item (3) or the cookware content is within a certain temperature variation range; —after providing temperature lock information, receiving temperature lock confirmation from the user; —after receiving temperature lock confirmation, controlling the provision of heat energy to the cookware item (3) or the cookware content based on temperature information provided by the temperature sensor (5) such that the temperature of the cookware item (3) is maintained within a given temperature range.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INDUCTION HOB AND INDUCTION HOB

    公开(公告)号:US20210267020A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-26

    申请号:US17255023

    申请日:2019-06-13

    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an induction hob (1), the induction hob (1) comprising a power circuit portion (2) with at least one switching element adapted to provide pulsed electric power to an induction coil (3) and a control entity (4) for controlling operating parameters of the switching element, the method comprising the steps of: performing a control loop with control cycles in order to detect coupling changes between the induction coil (3) and a piece of cookware, said control cycles comprising the steps of: o receiving frequency information (fcurr) and power information (Pcurr) at said control entity (4); o calculating at least one relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) based on said frequency information (fcurr) and said power information (Pcurr); and o comparing said relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) with a relation coefficient boundary, thereby de-riving a comparison result; deciding, based on the comparison result, whether to: o perform a new control cycle of said control loop or whether to o stop said control loop and said provision of pulsed electric power to the induction coil (3) and re-start said control loop after updating an operating parameter of the switching element.

    COOKING HOB
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210259069A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17256299

    申请日:2019-06-13

    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking hob comprising at least one heating power transferring element (2) including multiple concentrically arranged windings (2.1-2.n), one or more heating power energy units (3.1-3.n) for powering said windings (2.1-2.n) of the heating power transferring element (2) and a control unit (4) configured to control said one or more heating power energy units (3.1-3.n), wherein the cooking hob (1) comprises detection means configured to determine the coverage of the windings (2.1-2.n) of the heating power transferring element (1) by a cookware item (5), wherein the control unit (4) is configured to balance the heat provided to the cookware item (5) by determining a rescaled electric power for the windings (2.1-2.n) of the heating power transferring element (2) based on power requests and information regarding the coverage of the windings (2.1-2.n) and to establish an operating cycle by determining a duty cycle for one or more windings (2.1-2.n) of the heating power transferring element (2), said duty cycle defining the activation time of the respective winding (2.1-2.n), wherein the duty cycle is chosen such that the mean electric power provided to the respective winding (2.1-2.n) within the operating cycle is equal or essentially equal to the rescaled electric power associated with said winding (2.1-2.n).

    METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TWO COOKING ZONES OF AN INDUCTION COOKING HOB

    公开(公告)号:US20210212174A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-08

    申请号:US17059964

    申请日:2019-06-03

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a first cooking zone (18) and a second cooking zone (20) of an induction cooking hob, wherein each cooking zone (18, 20) is supplied by a corresponding generator (14, 16), and wherein the method comprises the steps of inputting a requested power (P1, P2) for each cooking zone (18, 20), activating a one-zone mode, if the requested power (P1, P2) for one cooking zone (18, 20) is bigger than zero and the requested power (P1, P2) for the other one cooking zone (18, 20) is zero, and activating a two-zones mode, if the requested powers (P1, P2) for both cooking zones (18, 20) are bigger than zero. If the two-zones mode is activated, then an algorithm (48, 50, 52, 54) is selected from a set of algorithms (48, 50, 52, 54) in dependence of the requested powers (P1, P2) for the cooking zones (18, 20).

    METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE AND A MOBILE DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190319816A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US16347669

    申请日:2017-10-04

    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for exchanging information between a household appliance (1) and a mobile device (2), the method comprising the steps of: providing optical information at a graphical user interface (3) of the household appliance (1) (S10); preferably, aligning the mobile device (2) with respect to the household appliance (1) based on one or more markers (4) displayed at a graphical user interface (5) of the mobile device (2) or based on a time-invariant portion of provided optical information (S11); receiving optical information at the mobile device (2) by capturing said optical information provided at the household appliance (1) by a camera (6) of the mobile device (2) (S12); processing said received optical information at the mobile device (1) in order to derive an information message included in said received optical information (S13); providing said information message or information associated with said information message at a user interface of the mobile device (2) (S14).

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