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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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