US 11,767,983 B2Granted

Automatic oven

AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation

InventorsAlexander L. Clayton, Vince Huang, Xiangxu Liu, Ken Lei, Hanks Hu, Juan Chen, Tracy Yu, Jack Li, Roy Qiu, Seth Herndon, Donald John Gilmore, Cristiano Vito Pastore, Dick Ge, Pallavi Manjrekar, Bruce M. Wiatrak, Andrea Ferrise, Blake Cartwright, Richard J. Hughes, Joel Fletty, Wyndham F. Gary, Jr., Joshua G. Abdoo, Collin A. Stipe, Nicholas Brenn, Casey L. McCuan, Christopher L. Carpenter

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Abstract

An automatic oven having a controller and a sensor assembly for automatically determining a food type for a food item placed in a cooking chamber of the automatic oven, and cooks the automatically determined food item according to a cooking profile selected based on the determined food type, while optionally accommodating a user input on the determining of the food type, and the cooking profile, including an optional degree of doneness.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A cooking appliance comprising:

a cabinet having an interior;
an insert having a port and positioned in the interior and at least partly forming a cooking chamber;
at least one radiant heating element located within the cooking chamber;
an infrared sensor having a sensing field including at least a portion of the cooking chamber;
a low emissive optical element located in the port between the radiant heating element and the infrared sensor;
and
at least one flange defining an opening in the insert and located between the optical element and the radiant heating element to prevent direct transmission from the radiant heating element into the optical element.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/319,727Filed 13 May 2021 · division
Priority: 4 Jan 2019
Published: US 2021/0262670 A126 Aug 2021
Granted: 26 Sep 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

F24C 7/046
With heat radiated directly from the heating element: ranges
F24C 7/085
On ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination: on baking ovens
A21B 1/06
Characterised by the heating arrangements: ovens heated by radiators
A21B 1/40
Bakers' ovens: characterised by the means for regulating the temperature

Family

Application16/240,224Parent of this division · filed 4 Jan 2019
US 2021/0262670 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Aug 2021
US 11,047,578 B2Parent of this division
US 2020/0217512 A1Published application
US 11,767,983 B2This patent

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