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US 11,963,637 B2Granted
Multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorPaul R. Staun
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Abstract
A multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance includes a controller configured to customize various aspects of the appliance based upon a type of attachment coupled to the appliance, e.g., to controllably vary a motor speed, to selectively disable an activation control, and/or to rotate a display based on a type of attachment and/or a gyroscope input.
Claims20
A multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a motor;
- an attachment removably coupled to the housing to form a unitary body therewith and configured to be driven by the motor when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- an attachment identifier coupled to the housing and configured to detect an attachment type of the attachment when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- a rotatable display;
- and
- a controller disposed in the housing and configured to:
- determine the attachment type of the attachment using the attachment identifier;
- in response to an activation input by a user, controllably vary a speed of the motor among a plurality of speeds based at least in part on the determined attachment type;
- and
- controllably rotate the display between first and second orientations.
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A multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a motor;
- an attachment removably coupled to the housing to form a unitary body therewith and configured to be driven by the motor when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- an attachment identifier coupled to the housing and configured to detect an attachment type of the attachment when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- and
- a controller disposed in the housing and configured to:
- determine the attachment type of the attachment using the attachment identifier;
- in response to an activation input by a user, controllably vary a speed of the motor among a plurality of speeds based at least in part on the determined attachment type;
- and
- disable a display on the housing based at least in part on the determined attachment type.
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A multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance, comprising:
- a housing including a motor and a first activation control that controls the motor;
- an attachment removably coupled to the housing to form a unitary body therewith and configured to be driven by the motor when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- an attachment identifier coupled to the housing and configured to detect an attachment type of the attachment when the attachment is coupled to the housing;
- and
- a controller disposed in the housing and configured to:
- determine the attachment type of the attachment using the attachment identifier;
- in response to an activation input by a user, controllably vary a speed of the motor among a plurality of speeds based at least in part on the determined attachment type;
- and
- disable the first activation control on the housing and activate a second activation control on the attachment that activates the motor based at least in part on the determined attachment type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.