Household food processor
AssigneeVorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
InventorsRoman Ortmann, Gerhard Isenberg, Sarah Thutewohl, Samuel Möller
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Abstract
A household appliance includes the food preparation container, into which an ingredient for food preparation can be fed by the user. The household appliance includes at least one sensor for determining a feeding quantity of an ingredient as the ingredient is being fed into the food preparation container. A control device of the household appliance is configured to determine the feeding quantity based on a sensor signal of the at least one sensor such that a user can prepare particularly reliably and reproducibly a food that requires a uniform feed of an ingredient for a predetermined period of time.
Claims22
A household appliance for preparing food, the household appliance comprising:
- a food preparation container configured to receive an ingredient for food preparation,
- a rotatable tool connected to the food preparation container and configured to chop or blend the food in the food preparation container,
- at least one sensor configured to provide a sensor signal corresponding to a feeding quantity of the ingredient as the ingredient is fed into the food preparation container without the ingredient coming in contact with the at least one sensor, the at least one sensor being shaped as a closed contour and the food preparation container being disposed below the at least one sensor such that the ingredient moves past an inner face of the at least one sensor prior to entering an interior of the food preparation container, and
- a control device configured to determine a feed rate based on the sensor signal, the control device being configured to output an indication to a user to adjust the feed rate in response to determining, based on the sensor signal, that the feed rate of the ingredient is one of greater than or less than a predefined feed rate.
A household appliance for preparing food comprising,
- a food preparation container configured to receive an ingredient for food preparation,
- a rotatable tool connected to the food preparation container and configured to chop or blend the food within the food preparation container,
- an attachment configured to couple to the food preparation container and formed to include at least one sensor configured to cooperate with the food preparation container to emit a sensor signal indicative of a feeding quantity of the ingredient as the ingredient is fed into the food preparation container, the at least one sensor being shaped as a closed contour and the food preparation container being disposed below the at least one sensor such that the ingredient moves past an inner face of the at least one sensor prior to entering an interior of the food preparation container, and
- a control device configured to determine a feed rate based on the sensor signal, the control device being configured to output an indication to a user to adjust the feed rate in response to determining, based on the sensor signal, that the feed rate of the ingredient is one of greater than or less than a predefined feed rate.
A household appliance for preparing food, the household appliance comprising
- a food preparation container having an upper side arranged around an upwardly-opening aperture leading into the food preparation container configured to receive an ingredient moving into the food preparation container for preparation,
- an ingredient-entry opening in communication with the upper side of the food preparation container to conduct the ingredient moving into the food preparation container toward a lower side of the food preparation container for preparation, the ingredient-entry opening sized to fit within a footprint of the upwardly-opening aperture leading into the upper side of the food preparation container when the household appliance is viewed from above,
- a rotatable tool connected to the food preparation container and configured to chop or blend the food within the food preparation container,
- a sensor configured to provide a sensor signal corresponding to a feeding quantity of the ingredient moving into the food preparation container for preparation, the sensor being shaped to have a closed contour that surrounds the ingredient-entry opening when the household appliance is viewed from above and to be spaced apart from the food preparation container, and
- a control device configured to determine a feed rate based on the sensor signal, the control device being configured to output an indication to a user to adjust the feed rate in response to determining, based on the sensor signal, that the feed rate of the ingredient is one of greater than or less than a predefined feed rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.