Method of controlling a cooking appliance, cooking appliance, and heating element
AssigneesRational International AG, Rational AG
InventorsPascal Gluck, Annika Katharina Junghanns, Markus Lingenheil, Pascal Schmidlin
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Abstract
Described is a method of controlling a cooking appliance which includes at least one electrical load and a controller. The electrical load is variably connected to at least one of a plurality of phases of a power connection. The phase is selected from among the plurality of phases. Furthermore, a cooking appliance and a heating element are described.
Claims16
A method of controlling a cooking appliance which includes at least one electrical load and a controller, the electrical load being variably connected to at least one of a plurality of phases of a power connection, the phase being selected from among the plurality of phases, based on a future power demand of the electrical load, wherein the future power demand of the electrical load, which defines whether the at least one electrical load is connected or switched off in the future, is acquired by the controller which accesses an ongoing cooking program in order to determine said future power demand, and depending on said future power demand, the electrical load is connected to a selected one of the plurality of phases of the power connection.
A cooking appliance comprising at least one electrical load, a controller, and a variable phase switch which variably switches the electrical load with at least one of a plurality of phases of a power connection, the phase being selected from among the plurality of phases, based on a future power demand of the electrical load, wherein the controller is configured to access an ongoing cooking program in order to determine the future power demand of the electrical load, which defines whether the at least one electrical load is connected or switched off in the future and to connect the electrical load depending on said future power demand to a selected one of the plurality of phases of the power connection, via the variable phase switch.
A method of controlling a cooking appliance which includes at least one electrical load and a controller, the electrical load being variably connected to at least one of a plurality of phases of a power connection by the controller, which controller is configured to access an ongoing cooking program in order to determine a future power demand, the phase having a lowest load being automatically selected from among the plurality of phases of the power connection by the controller, in order to produce a phase load on the individual phases which is as uniform as possible.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.