Cookware Handle for Housing Electronic Components
AssigneeMeyer Intellectual Properties Limited
InventorsJonathan A. Jenkins, Brenden Duncombe-Smith, Joshua Robert Buesseler, Jedediah Joaquin McCann, Eva Poon
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Abstract
A handle for a cookware device contains a power supply that is operative to energize one or more of a processor, transceiver and accelerometer, as well as a memory device. The processor is also connected to a one or more external leads that extend into the handle at least to the connection to a sidewall of cooking device for further connection to a sensing circuit or power harvesting circuit. The end of the handle holds at least the processor but is in removable engagement from the portion with the power supply with a resilient sealing member to form a water proof seal.
Claims26
A handle for a cookware article that comprises:
- a. a flange portion having a distal end for connection to one of a cookware vessel and a lid of a cookware vessel, the flange portion also having a proximal end opposing the distal end,
- b. an elongated cavity extending form the distal end of the flange portion toward a rim that defines a perimeter of an open distal end of the elongated cavity,
- c. an interconnection module disposed within the elongated cavity,
- d. an electronic module for sealing the open distal end of the elongated cavity at the rim to form at least a distal portion of the handle for the cookware article, the electronic module comprising at least one electronic component,
- e. one of the interconnection module and the electronic module comprising a male appendage that is received in the other module,
- f. at least one external lead that extends from the flange portion to the interconnection module to make a connection with a first terminal of the electronic module, wherein said first terminal is in one of signal and power connection to the at least one electronic component in which the connection is capable of being disengaged when the electronic module is rotated with respect to the interconnection module to disconnect a pair of contact terminal of which a first contact terminal of the pair is on the male appendage and a second contact terminal of the pair is on the other module that does not comprise the male appendage.
An article of cookware comprising one of a lid and vessel body that is attached to a handle in which the handle comprises a flange portion having a distal end for connection to one of a cookware vessel and the lid of a cookware vessel, the flange portion also having a proximal end opposing the distal end,
- a. an elongated cavity extending form the distal end of the flange portion toward a rim that defines a perimeter of an open distal end of the elongated cavity,
- b. an interconnection module disposed within the elongated cavity,
- c. an electronic module for sealing the open distal end of the elongated cavity at the rim to form at least a distal portion of the handle for the cookware article, the electronic module comprising at least one electronic component,
- d. one of the interconnection module and the electronic module comprising a male appendage that is received in the other module,
- e. at least one external lead that extends from the flange portion to the interconnection module to make a connection with a first terminal of the electronic module, wherein said first terminal is in one of signal and power connection to the at least one electronic component in which the connection is capable of being disengaged when the electronic module is rotated with respect to the interconnection module to disconnect a pair of contact terminal of which a first contact terminal of the pair is on the male appendage and a second contact terminal of the pair is on the other module that does not comprise the male appendage.
A handle for a cookware article that comprises:
- a. an elongated cavity with a rim that defines a perimeter of an open distal end thereof,
- b. flange insert disposed within the elongated cavity and set back from the open distal end of the elongated cavity,
- c. a battery module having an inner cavity for receiving a battery and an open distal end and a rim flange surrounding the open distal end for coupling to the flange insert, and further comprising a first circuit board and at least one external lead in which the battery module extends at least into the elongated cavity and has at least one internal battery terminal connected to the first circuit board and in which the first circuit board has a plurality of external terminals, each in one of a power or signal communication with the at least one internal battery terminal and the external lead,
- d. an end cap with one or more threaded sections for insertion into the battery module for connecting to mating threads of the battery module to seal the open distal end of the elongated cavity, the end cap being configured to house a second circuit board to connect to at least one external terminals of the first circuit board when the end cap seals the open distal end of the elongated cavity,
- e. a first generally annular outer gasket disposed to seal the rim of the elongated cavity on a proximal side and the end cap on a distal side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.