Exhaust hood and method for controlling the operation of an exhaust hood
AssigneeDiehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
InventorBRUNO FUHGE
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Abstract
An exhaust hood has a fan apparatus for drawing away discharge air from a cooking appliance, which is arranged beneath the exhaust hood and which has at least one cooking area. A temperature detection device detects a temperature of at least one cooking area of the cooking appliance and a cooking vapor detection device detects cooking vapors in the discharge air which is drawn away by suction by the fan apparatus. A control device of the exhaust hood switches on the fan apparatus depending on a temperature which is detected by the temperature detection device and controls a suction-removal power of the fan apparatus depending on cooking vapors which are detected by the cooking vapor detection device.
Claims9
An exhaust hood for placement above a cooking appliance having at least one cooking area, comprising:
- a fan apparatus for suctioning away discharge air from the cooking appliance arranged beneath the exhaust hood;
- a temperature detection device for detecting a temperature of the at least one cooking area of the cooking appliance;
- a cooking vapor detection device for detecting cooking vapors contained in the discharge air drawn away by suction with said fan apparatus;
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- a control device connected to receive information from said temperature detection device and from said cooking vapor detection device, said control device being configured for switching on said fan apparatus in dependence on a temperature detected by said temperature detection device and for controlling a suction-removal power of said fan apparatus in dependence on cooking vapors detected by said cooking vapor detection device.
A method of controlling an operation of an exhaust hood arranged above a cooking appliance having one or more cooking areas, the method comprising the following steps:
- detecting a temperature of at least one cooking area of the cooking appliance;
- switching on a fan apparatus of the exhaust hood depending on the detected temperature;
- detecting cooking vapors in the discharge air being drawn away by suction with the fan apparatus;
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- controlling a suction-removal power of the fan apparatus depending on the cooking vapors which are detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.