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5486685 Oven with food presence indicator  
An oven includes a chamber for locating food for heating. An indicator is provided for signalling the existence of food in the chamber. A sensor may react to the weight of the food on a support in...
5464965 Apparatus for controlling temperature of an element having a temperature variable resistance  
A fast and accurate temperature controller for a device heated by current through a resistive element, such as various air data probes, wherein the resistance of the element varies with...
5457302 Heat cooking apparatus with controllable heat source  
A heat cooking apparatus includes a gas burner, and a temperature sensor for sensing a food correlative temperature. A microcomputer determines a category of the food on the basis of a time...
5451747 Flexible self-regulating heating pad combination and associated method  
A flexible, electric heating pad having a self-limiting heating element is provided. The heating element includes a pair of relatively spaced conductors surrounded by a positive temperature...
5451746 Temperature control system for a cooking oven  
A temperature regulating control unit and method of making the same are provided, the unit comprising a RTD temperature sensor, a unit for applying electrical signals to the sensor, and a...
5449884 Overheating prevention apparatus of a boiling clothes washing machine and method thereof  
An overheating prevention apparatus of a boiling water washing machine including a heater for boiling clothes with hot water. The apparatus includes a first thermistor for sensing the temperature...
5444227 Heater apparatus for use in a liquid environment  
An improved heater and control apparatus (10) suitable for maintaining a proper temperature in a liquid environment such as an aquarium (12) is provided. The apparatus (10) includes a heater...
5438180 Electronic input control for a cooking oven having independent selection of function and sentence programming  
An electronic control for a cooking oven includes an input selection panel for receiving user input selections and control logic responsive to the input, selection panel for establishing a time and...
5434386 Electric circuit having a heater element and a night light  
An electric circuit is disclosed which includes a heater element for generating heat, a power switch for controlling the current to the heater element, a night light for providing illumination, and...
5432321 Oven with preheating phase and continued heating phase, and independent phase indicators  
An oven includes a normal heating device, a partial heating capacity device, a first indicator device associated with the normal heating device, a second indicator device associated with the...
5430272 Method and apparatus for heating food  
A heating apparatus comprises a microprocessor and an alcohol sensor detecting the amount of the alcohol gas generated from a food item to be cooked in a heating cavity of the heating apparatus....
5426280 Cooking device having a sensor responsive to an indicia for executing a cooking program  
A cooking device (10), such as a microwave oven, is provided with a sensor 16) that is responsive to an indicia (18) associated with a food that is to be heated or cooked. For example, the indicia...
5416301 Cooking appliance with automatic power-off switch  
A cooking appliance has a heater for cooking, and a switch which generating an operational signal. The cooking appliance automatically turns off the heater a predetermined time after a last pressed...
5413072 Vehicle starter and electrical system protection  
A protective control box is disclosure for providing protection for a starter system and other components of equipment, such as vehicles, incorporating internal combustion engines. Improved starter...
5410129 Arrangement for controlling the heating power for a cooking vessel  
In accordance with the invention an arrangement for controlling the heating power for a vessel (10) which can be heated by a cook-top (11), for example a light cook-top, by means of a...
5398597 Electronic control system for cooking system  
The present invention is directed to a computerized control system for use with a cooking system, such as a deep fat fryer. The control system has a plurality of separately accessible control...
5391860 Temperature-controlling method, for example in systems for injection of plastics materials, and respective system  
A method for controlling the temperature, for example in an injector of a thermoplastics injection system which uses a closed-loop servocontrol system in which the electrical heating resistor (R)...
5389764 Automatic cooking appliance employing a neural network for cooking control  
A cooking appliance controls a cooking device on the basis of temperature information of an object to be cooked that is estimated from changes in physical characteristics. A neural network is...
5382939 Cooking state displaying apparatus and method for a microwave oven combined with a television  
A cooking state displaying apparatus and method for a microwave oven combined with a television. The apparatus includes a body sensor for sensing if there is a person near the microwave oven, and...
5380985 Presence delector for controlling an electric range  
An apparatus for controlling an electric range having a plurality of range top heating elements includes a detector which reacts to a person being within a predetermined distance in front of the...
5378874 Diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance  
The present invention is a cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance and method of controlling the same. A remote control unit having a built-in temperature sensor,...
5373142 Control system for a heating apparatus  
A control control system for a heating apparatus such as a microwave oven. Manipulation, that is, selection of one of various menus and start of the operation thereof substantially completed by...
5369246 Temperature control for laminator  
A laminator temperature control includes a control circuit having a sensing amplifier that drives a triac to control power to PTC heating elements. A temperature sensor at an input of the sensing...
5367146 Method and circuit arrangement for monitoring and limiting the operating temperature of electrically heated equipment, as well as the use of the method  
A method and apparatus for monitoring and limiting the operational temperature of physical and technical equipment includes supplying a heating device with at least one test pulse of energy and the...
5361681 Program controlled cooking system using video data collection  
Cooking system comprising a cooking area (1) with actuators (2) which are adjustable to change relevant parameters determining the cooking process of a food. A television camera (3) monitors the...
5359178 Apparatus for detecting turn-on state of plural heat lamps of a thermal fixing unit of a copying machine  
In an apparatus for detecting turn-on state of plural heaters including an electric power source for supplying electric power to the plural heaters, a controller controls the electric power source...
5357082 Apparatus for providing visual indication in an electric cooking appliance  
A visual indication is provided in a heater of an electric cooking appliance which incorporates a user-operable multi-position switch for switching the heater from one power output to another. The...
5352867 Heat cooking apparatus with smell sensor  
When heat cooking of food placed in a heating chamber of a microwave oven is started, smell given out of the food is detected and a cooking sequence program suitable for the kind of the food is...
5352874 Apparatus for changing cooking control data of automatic cookers  
Apparatus for changing cooking data of an automatic cooker allowing the user to change to a desired level which is capable of serving a food tasting just right to the user. The apparatus includes a...
5349162 Fault detection method and apparatus for a domestic appliance  
A cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance and a method of controlling the same including a remote control which has built-in temperature sensor, positional switch and...
5349164 Cooking appliance with multifunction knobs  
An automatic cooking appliance has a magnetron to cook the food. The cooking appliance has a dial, which is rotatable and capable of being pressed, on an operation panel thereof. A cooking mode in...
5345064 Temperature probe conditioner circuit  
A temperature probe conditioner, while developing a voltage output proportional to probe temperature, generates a verify and a calibration output. A verify output to check the correctness of the...
5345067 Cooking menu selecting device of a heating apparatus  
A heating apparatus such as microwave ovens includes a menu display for displaying a plurality of cooking menu groups each including a plurality of cooking menus, a menu selecting dial turned in...
5339726 Hot air circulating oven and food heating apparatus  
A food heating oven comprising a plurality of perforate food baskets removably mounted to respective prongs of a rotating rod in an oven chamber. Hot air is blown through the oven chamber to heat...
5332886 Sensor correcting temperature regulator for electric heating apparatuses  
An electronic regulator (12) for electric heating apparatuses, such as baking ovens (11), is equipped with a microcontroller (20), which contains in fixed programmed form the process data for the...
5321232 Oven controlled by an optical code reader  
A programmable cooking system has a programming mode for reading an identifying code on a food product and for storing a user selected recipe as a function of the code. The system also has a...
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...
5317134 Microwave oven having preparation of menu assisting function  
A microwave oven includes a cooking unit for cooking a food according to a cooking program and a memory slot to which a first type of external memory and a second type of external memory are...
5308958 Circuit for controlling energizing of heating elements  
A circuit for controlling the energizing of heating elements (13), including transistors (12) for controlling the energizing of the respective heating elements, energizing start time counter...
5300757 Cooking apparatus providing accurate control of cooking process and capability for specifying hardness degree of cooked food  
A cooking apparatus such as a rice cooker includes means for obtaining a value or a combination of values indicative of an amount of food that is to be cooked, and a fuzzy inference section for...
5300759 Control system for an appliance or the like, control device therefor and methods of making the same  
A control system, a control device therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the control system comprising a source of energy, an output producing unit that uses the energy to produce...
5296684 Device for detecting a cooking vessel positioned in a heating zone of a cooker or heater  
The device comprises a sensor supplying a sensor signal which varies as a result of the placement of a cooking vessel in a heating zone of a heating appliance. The device includes evaluating...
5293028 Cooktop appliance with improved power control  
A cooking appliance adapted for energization by a standard domestic household power supply employs a power control arrangement which accommodates electric resistive heating units designed for...
5285053 Control system and methods of making and operating the same  
A control system and methods of making and operating the control system are provided, the system comprising an RTD temperature sensor, an applying unit operatively interconnected to the sensor for...
5274215 Portable electric food warming apparatus having a removable tray insert  
A portable food warming apparatus has a base container removably receiving a tray insert having a tray floor spaced from the base container floor to define a chamber therebetween filled with a heat...
5274209 Microwave oven  
A microwave oven includes a cooking unit for cooking food according to a cooking program for specifying cooking procedure, a cooking control data memory for storing cooking control data for...
5272300 Microwave oven with a microcomputer operated according to cooking programs stored in a memory  
A microwave oven has a control unit with a memory to control heat cooking process according to a cooking program for a menu name selected The control unit includes a liquid crystal display on which...
5262618 Heat/process control  
A heat/process control is disclosed which takes advantage of the characteristics of some plastics in that they absorb medium wavelength infra-red heat waves in a comparatively wide range of...
5227610 Process and device for indicating an anomalous thermal stress condition in a heating surface made from glass ceramic or a comparable material  
A process for detecting and indicating an anomalous thermal stress condition in a heating surface made from glass ceramic or a comparable material, especially a glass ceramic cooking surface, is...
5221817 Heating apparatus  
A heating apparatus such as microwave ovens includes a microcomputer incorporating a first storage storing data of a plurality of cooking menus and corresponding cooking information and a second...