Cooking appliance having automatic cooking program preselection and method for setting such a cooking appliance
AssigneeLechmetall Landsberg GmbH Edelstahlerzeugnisse
InventorsManfred Breunig, Michael Greiner
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a cooking appliance in which a large number of programs can be preselected as a function of at least one parameter. One parameter relates to the time of day and/or the date and/or the season at the site of installation of the cooking appliance. A large number of programs which are preselected by means of the parameters can be automatically displayed on a display device after the cooking appliance is switched on, and one of these displayed programs can be selected by means of at least one operator control device. The invention also relates to a method for setting a cooking appliance of this type.
Claims28
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- at least one display device;
- and
- at least one operating device configured to receive a selected parameter that is selected by a user from a group of parameters comprising a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter,
- wherein the at least one operating device automatically preselects, without user input, a plurality of cooking programs and/or cleaning programs in dependence on the selected parameter, each cooking program defining a cooking operation and each cleaning program defining a cleaning operation to be performed by the cooking appliance, wherein the plurality of cooking programs and/or cleaning programs that are preselected via the selected parameter are automatically displayed, without user input, on the at least one display device to a user after the cooking appliance is turned on,
- wherein one of these displayed programs is selectable by a user via the at least one operating device,
- wherein the first parameter is determined by the time of day at the installation location of the cooking appliance, the second parameter is determined by the day at the installation location of the cooking appliance, and the third parameter is determined by the season at the installation location of the cooking appliance, and
- wherein, in response to user selection of a displayed program, the cooking appliance is configured to perform the cooking operation or cleaning operation defined by the selected program.
A method for setting a cooking appliance including at least one display device and at least one operating device, the method comprising:
- receiving a selected parameter that is selected by a user from a group of parameters comprising a first parameter, a second parameter, a third parameter, a fourth parameter, a fifth parameter, and a sixth parameter;
- automatically preselecting a plurality of cooking programs and/or cleaning programs, by the operating device, from stored programs at an installation location of the cooking appliance, wherein the plurality of cooking programs and/or cleaning programs define cooking operations and/or cleaning operations, respectively, to be performed by the cooking appliance and are automatically preselected by the operating device, without user input, in dependence on the selected parameter,
- wherein the first parameter is determined by the time of day at the installation location of the cooking appliance, the second parameter is determined by the day at the installation location of the cooking appliance, the third parameter is determined by the season at the installation location of the cooking appliance, the fourth parameter is determined by the region of the installation location of the cooking appliance, the fifth parameter is determined by the religion of the customers to be served at the installation location of the cooking appliance, and the sixth parameter is determined by the language at the installation location of the cooking appliance;
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- automatically displaying, without user input, the plurality of cooking programs and/or cleaning programs preselected via the selected parameter on the at least one display device to a user after the cooking appliance is turned on,
- wherein one of the displayed programs is selectable by a user via the at least one operating device, and
- wherein the cooking appliance performs the cooking operation or cleaning operation defined by a selected displayed program in response to user selection of the program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.