An Appliance
AssigneeBreville Pty Limited
InventorsLochana Subasekara WIDANAGAMAGE DON, Con PSAROLOGOS, Richard YALLOP, Vinay KUMAR, Rey Anthony CARULLO
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Abstract
An appliance (100) has a vessel (120) for containing substance, the vessel (120) having an electrical energy storage component and at least one electrically powered device. The appliance (100) has a base (140) on which the vessel (120) is removably located. When the vessel (120) is located on the base (140), the base (140) is configured to charge the electrical energy storage component. The electrical storage component is configured to power the at least one electrically powered device of the vessel (120).
Claims20
An appliance including:
- a vessel for containing substance, the vessel having an electrical energy storage component and at least one electrically powered device;
- and
- a base on which the vessel is removably located,
- wherein, when the vessel is located on the base, the base is configured to charge the electrical energy storage component, the electrical storage component being configured to power the at least one electrically powered device of the vessel.
An appliance including:
- a vessel for containing substance, the vessel including a sensor arrangement for measuring a tilt of the vessel with respect to a reference plane,
- a control unit that is in electrical communication with the sensor arrangement, the vessel control unit being configured to determine an amount of substance in the vessel based on measurements from the sensor arrangement when the vessel is tilted;
- and
- a display unit that is in communication with the control unit, the control unit being configured to display the amount of substance in the vessel on the display unit.
An appliance including:
- a vessel for containing liquid to be heated, the vessel having:
- a sensor arrangement for measuring an amount of substance in the vessel, and
- a heating element for heating the liquid in the vessel, the heating element being operable to provide an adjustable amount of heating based on the amount of substance in the vessel.
An appliance control unit for determining an amount of substance in an appliance when the appliance is at a tilt, the appliance including a vessel for containing substance and a sensor arrangement with a plurality of sensors distributed along a height of the vessel, the control unit being configured to:
- determine an upper amount of substance in the vessel in an upper region, the upper region being a region in which a width dimension of the substance volume in the upper region at different height levels of the substance level in the upper region is less than a width of the vessel at those corresponding height levels;
- and
- determine a lower amount of substance in the vessel in a lower region, the lower region being a region in which the width dimension of the substance volume in the lower region at different height levels of the level in the lower region is equal to a width of the vessel at those corresponding height levels,
- wherein the amount of substance in the vessel is a summation of the upper amount of substance and the lower amount of substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.