Particulates detection in a cooking instrument
AssigneeBrava Home, Inc.
InventorsJustin Alvey, Shih-Yu Cheng
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Abstract
Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can include a heating system. The heating system can include one or more heating elements capable of emitting wireless energy into the cooking chamber. The sensor can be positioned, configured, or shaped such that air within the cooking chamber flows over the sensor. The sensor can be adapted to detect particles given off by food under heat. The cooking instrument can also include a sensor and a control system. The control system can be configured to execute a heating process and determine a stage of the heating process based on sensor data from the sensor.
Claims22
A cooking instrument comprising:
- a heating system including a heating element;
- a cooking chamber with an air exhaust;
- a sensor positioned within the cooking chamber such that air passing toward the air exhaust flows over the sensor, wherein the sensor is adapted to detect particles given off by food under heat, wherein the sensor includes a light sensor and a light emitter, and wherein the sensor is capable of detecting in-air particles based on measurement of light scattering from a volume of air over the light sensor when the light emitter is emitting light toward the volume of air;
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- a controller configured to execute a heating process, to determine a stage of the heating process based on sensor data from the sensor, and to control the heating system dynamically according to the heating process and the determined stage.
A cooking instrument comprising:
- a heating system including a heating element;
- a cooking chamber with an air exhaust;
- a sensor positioned within the cooking chamber such that air passing toward the air exhaust flows over the sensor, wherein the sensor is adapted to detect particles given off by food under heat;
- a cooking platform to support a target food in the cooking chamber;
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- a controller configured to execute a heating process and to determine a stage of the heating process based on sensor data from the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to determine the stage of the heating process by at least determining a thermal state of the cooking platform within the cooking chamber.
A cooking instrument comprising:
- a heating system including a heating element;
- a cooking chamber;
- a sensor such that air within the cooking chamber flows over the sensor, wherein the sensor is adapted to detect particles given off by food under heat;
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- a controller configured to execute a heating process and to determine a stage of the heating process based on sensor data from the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to determine the stage of the heating process by at least determining quantity of a particular type of particles in the air passing over the sensor and the particular type of particles corresponds to a size range of particles in the air passing over the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.