Cook-top with automatic controls
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsJean-Pierre Hazan, Remy H. F. Polaert, Jean-Louis Nagel
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Abstract
A cook-top (10) is provided which includes at least one cooking section (12a) heated by at least one heating element which is activated by function controls (9). It includes at least one detector (20) which detects the presence of a cooking utensil on at least one cooking section (12a), the detector actuating a timing means (22) (24) in order to turn off or to reduce the heating of the cooking section when the utensil has been removed, and to turn on the heating of the cooking section when the utensil is put back on the cooking surface if the absence time has been shorter than a given time. The detector may be responsive (20) (26) to the weight of the utensil and/or the temperature of the heating surface.
Claims21
A cook-top (10) having at least one cooking section (12a) heated by at least one heating element which is actuated by function controls (9),
- at least one presence detector (20) which detects when at least one cooking section (12a) carries a utensil, and
- control means (18) for deactivating or reducing the heating of said cooking section when the presence detector (20) signals that the utensil has been removed,
- characterized in that it comprises:
- a timing means (22) which reactivates the heating of said cooking section when the presence detector (20) detects that the utensil has been put back onto said cooking section and that the time of absence is smaller than a given time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.