Operating Device For A Stove Top and Arrangement Of A Stove Top Having Such An Operating Device
AssigneeE.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
InventorsMartin Baier, Wolfgang Alfred Hamm
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Abstract
The invention relates to an operating device for a stove top, the device comprising rotary operating parts that are rotatably mounted in a base. The parts have a protruding region as a signal means, the region rotating in a plane of the stove top or a stove top plate when the rotary operating part rotates. In said plane, the stove top has a distance sensor, which can detect the rotation of the protruding region by means of the variable distance and evaluate the same as a rotational actuation or rotational movement for operating the stove top.
Claims22
An operating device for a stove top, said stove top including a stove top plate, said operating device comprising:
- a base arranged in a plane of said stove top plate or parallel thereto;
- at least one operating part being movably supported in said base, whereby said operating part comprises or is connected with signal means that move corresponding to a movement of said operating part, said signal means configured so as to interact with sensor means in said stove top for detection of a movement of said operating part, whereby said operating device is configured so as to comprise passive electronic components and is thus configured to function without its own power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.