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US 10,228,147 B2Granted
Automatic safety device and method for a stove
AssigneeInirv Labs, Inc.
InventorsRanjith Babu, Akshita Iyer, Patrick Thomas Bailey, Raeshon McNeil, Jeremy Losaw
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Abstract
Device and method are described for operational control of a knob on a stove or range. In some examples, a safety device, a sensor relay device, and method are described for automatically positioning an operational shaft of a burner to an Off position such that the power supplied to the burner is terminated upon the occurrence of a safety event.
Claims19
A device for operational control of a burner, the device comprising:
- a fixed base member, the fixed base member comprising a plurality of gear grooves;
- a motor member configured to be attached to an operational shaft of the burner, the motor member comprising:
- a gear train configured to engage the plurality of gear grooves of the fixed base member, the gear train comprising a gear with at least one gear tooth removed to create a rotation zone;
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- a motor connected to the gear train;
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- a controller configured to, in response to a signal caused by a sensor, control rotation of the motor member to cause rotation of the operational shaft of the burner by controlling rotation of the motor to turn the gear train to pass the rotation zone.
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A system for operational control of a burner, the system comprising:
- a safety device module comprising:
- a fixed base member, the fixed base member comprising a plurality of gear grooves;
- a motor member configured to be attached to an operational shaft of the burner and comprising:
- a gear train configured to engage the plurality of gear grooves of the fixed base member, the gear train comprising a gear with at least one gear tooth removed to create a rotation zone;
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- a motor connected to the gear train;
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- a controller configured to control rotation of the motor to cause rotation of the operational shaft of the burner by controlling rotation of the motor to turn the gear train to pass the rotation zone;
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- a sensor/relay module comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to generate one or more monitoring signals;
- a processor, wherein the processor receives the one or more monitoring signals and generates one or more control signals;
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- a communication unit configured to transmit the one or more control signals to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to interpret the one or more control signals to control rotation of the motor to cause rotation of the operational shaft of the burner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.