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US 2022/0186934 A1Published application
Cooking appliance user control integrated with rate of movement detection
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorRichard W. Cowan
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Abstract
A cooking appliance may use a sensor to sense a rate of movement of a user control and generate an alert when the rate of movement meets an alert criterion, thereby enabling detection of potential inadvertent movements of a user control.
Claims20
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a cooking element;
- a user control configured to control an output level of the cooking element through movement of the user control within a range of positions;
- a sensor configured to detect a rate of movement of the user control within the range of positions;
- and
- a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to determine that the rate of movement of the user control meets an alert criterion, and in response to determining that the rate of movement of the user control meets the alert criterion, selectively generate an alert for a user.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a plurality of cooking elements;
- a plurality of user controls configured to control output levels of the plurality of cooking elements through movement of each of the plurality of user controls within a range of positions;
- one or more sensors configured to detect a rate of movement of each of the plurality of user controls within the range of positions therefor;
- and
- a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to determine that the rate of movement of one of the plurality of user controls meets an alert criterion, and in response to determining that the rate of movement of the one of the plurality of user controls meets the alert criterion, selectively generate an alert for a user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.