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US 2022/0170640 A1Published application
Gas cooking appliance with electromechanical valves and rotary burner controls
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsJohn Kenneth Hooker, Gerard Alfred Mijares
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Abstract
A cooking appliance and method utilize a rotary burner control with a rotary control actuator, a position sensor, and an electronic burner control user interface to control an electromechanical valve unit that regulates gas flow to a gas burner.
Claims20
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a gas burner;
- a rotary burner control, the rotary burner control including:
- a rotary control actuator;
- a position sensor configured to output a position signal in response to rotation of the rotatable knob;
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- an electronic burner control user interface positioned on or adjacent to the rotary control actuator and configured to display status information for the rotary burner control;
- an electromechanical valve unit configured to couple the gas burner to a gas supply and to regulate an output level of the gas burner;
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- a control circuit in communication with the rotary burner control and the electromechanical valve unit, the control circuit configured to control the output level of the gas burner by controlling the electromechanical valve unit responsive to the position signal output by the position sensor and to control the electronic burner control user interface to indicate the output level of the gas burner.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a plurality of gas burners;
- a plurality of rotary burner controls, each rotary burner control dedicated to a respective gas burner from the plurality of gas burners and including:
- a rotary control actuator;
- a position sensor configured to output a position signal in response to rotation of the rotary control actuator;
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- an electronic burner control user interface positioned on or adjacent to the rotary control actuator and configured to display status information for the rotary burner control;
- a plurality of electromechanical valve units, each electromechanical valve unit dedicated to a respective gas burner from the plurality of gas burners and configured to couple the respective gas burner to a gas supply and to regulate an output level of the respective gas burner;
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- a control circuit in communication with the plurality of rotary burner controls and the plurality of electromechanical valve units, the control circuit configured to control the output levels of the plurality of gas burners by controlling the plurality of electromechanical valve units responsive to the position signals output by the position sensors of the plurality of rotary burner controls and to control the electronic burner control user interfaces of the plurality of rotary burner controls to indicate the output levels of the plurality of gas burners.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.