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US 10,591,166 B2Granted
Automated temperature control method for a solid-fueled cooker
AssigneeIot Controls LLC
InventorEric D. Reinhart
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Abstract
An actuated vent valve external of, and in series with a vent port of, a solid-fueled cooker is automatically controlled by controlling a flow of air into a combustion region of the solid-fueled cooker so as to substantially regulate a first temperature within a cooking region of a solid-fueled cooker to a user-defined temperature level responsive to a first temperature signal measured within the cooking region of the solid-fueled cooker.
Claims16
A method of controlling a cooking temperature of a solid-fueled cooker, comprising:
- a. sensing a first temperature within a cooking region of the solid-fueled cooker and generating a first sensed-temperature signal responsive thereto as a measure of said first temperature;
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- b. automatically controlling a motor-actuated vent valve so as to substantially regulate said first temperature within said cooking region of said solid-fueled cooker to a user-defined temperature level responsive to said first sensed-temperature signal, wherein said motor-actuated vent valve is in series with a vent port of said solid-fueled cooker so as to provide for substantially regulating said first temperature by controlling an exclusively-naturally-occurring flow of air into a combustion region of said solid-fueled cooker, and said motor-actuated vent valve incorporates an actuator motor external of said solid-fueled cooker, wherein said actuator motor provides for controlling a position of a valve of said motor-actuated vent valve to a continuum of positions within a range of said positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.