Cooking apparatus with weighing system
AssigneeVersuni Holding B.V.
InventorsHannes Uwe Floessholzer, Jan Vaupot
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Abstract
Provided is a cooking apparatus including a housing arranged around a cooking chamber. The cooking apparatus also includes a food holder. The food holder has a food support for supporting food ingredients received inside the cooking chamber. The food holder also has an extended portion that extends outside the cooking chamber to contact the housing. The cooking apparatus includes an air circulation system for circulating air to the food ingredients received inside the cooking chamber. A weighing system is coupled to the food support via the extended portion such that the extended portion exerts a force on the weighing system corresponding to a weight of the food support received in the cooking chamber and any food ingredients supported thereon.
Claims15
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a food support for supporting food ingredients;
- a cooking chamber for receiving the food support;
- an air circulation system activatable to circulate air in the cooking chamber and deactivatable to cease said circulating of air;
- a weighing system coupled to the food support;
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- one or more processors configured to:
- receive a first signal indicative of an initial weight of the food ingredients, the first signal being provided by the weighing system when said air circulation system is deactivated;
- receive a second signal indicative of the initial weight of the food ingredients influenced by said circulating of air, the second signal being provided by the weighing system following activation of said air circulation system;
- compare said first signal and said second signal to assess an influence of said circulating of air on the initial weight due to at least one of a buoyancy effect and an opposing downwards forcing effect of an airflow of the circulating air;
- receive a third signal indicative of a subsequent weight of the food ingredients influenced by said circulating of air, the third signal being provided by the weighing system while said air circulation system is activated;
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- determine a measure of the subsequent weight of the food ingredients by removing the assessed influence of said circulating of air from the subsequent weight based on the third signal and said comparison between the first signal and the second signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.