Cooktop with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface
AssigneeSchott Glaswerke
InventorsMartin Taplan, Bernd Schultheis, Patrik Schober
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Abstract
Cooktops with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface include the usual multiple cooking zones and functional elements, like operating elements, display, etc. The cooking surface exhibits recesses, in which the operational zones, assigned to the elements, are mounted flush with the cooking surface. The operational zones are formed preferably by a glass or glass ceramic part, which is embedded in the cooking surface by means of a temperature stable, sealing connection. The cooking surface exhibits operational zones in the form of weighing, display and operating element zones.
Claims19
A cooktop with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface, which includes at least one cooking zone, and with at least one functional element, such as an operating or display element, to which a defined operational zone is assigned in the cooking surface, and said operational zone is mounted flush with said cooking surface in a recess, wherein
- the operational zone is formed by a part that is made of a hard material and that is embedded into the recess of the cooking surface by means of a thermally stable, sealing connection that compensates for the different coefficients of thermal expansion;
- and
- wherein the glass or glass ceramic part that forms the operational zone is mounted flexibly, relative to the movements perpendicular to the cooking surface, in the recess of the cooking surface by means of a permanently elastic connection;
- and
- the operational zone includes a weighing zone element that responds to the mass of the cooking device that may or may not contain food to be cooked and that is put on the weighing zone.
A cooktop with a glass or glass ceramic cooking surface, the cooktop comprising at least one cooking zone, and at least one functional element, such as an operating or display element, to which a defined operational zone is assigned in the cooking surface, and said operational zone is mounted flush with said cooking surface in a recess, wherein the operational zone is formed by a part that is made of a hard material and that is embedded into the recess of the cooking surface by means of a thermally stable, sealing connection that compensates for the different coefficients of thermal expansion;
- and wherein the operational zone includes a weighing zone, a functional element that responds to the mass of the cooking device that may or may not contain food to be cooked and that is put on the weighing zone, is assigned to the operational zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.