Cooking appliance cooling fan with optical speed sensor

    公开(公告)号:US10890333B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-12

    申请号:US16132077

    申请日:2018-09-14

    IPC分类号: F24C15/00 H05B6/66 G01P3/36

    摘要: An optical sensor is used in a cooling system of a cooking appliance to sense rotation of the cooling fan. For example, in one aspect a cooking appliance is disclosed as including a housing with a cooking enclosure and cooling passage for venting heat generated within the cooking enclosure; a cooling fan in fluid communication with the cooling passage in order to provide a directed airflow within the cooling passage; and an optical sensor to sense rotation of the cooling fan.

    Method and system for auto-adjusting an active range of a gas cooking appliance

    公开(公告)号:US11262069B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US16911999

    申请日:2020-06-25

    摘要: A cooking appliance includes a gas cooking element, an electromechanical valve fluidly coupled with the gas cooking element to regulate a flow of gas to the cooking element, a flame detector configured to detect an active state of a flame for the gas cooking element, a manually-actuated user control movable over a range of positions, and a controller coupled to the electromechanical valve, the flame detector, and the manually-actuated user control. The controller is configured to initiate a calibration process to determine an active range for the gas cooking element.

    COOKTOP BURNER ILLUMINATION
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190301745A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US15941796

    申请日:2018-03-30

    IPC分类号: F24C7/08 F24C15/10

    摘要: An illumination system for a cooking appliance is capable of illuminating generally downwardly onto the cooktop burners of the cooking appliance using multiple illumination schemes. One illumination scheme may be used to indicate which cooktop burner is controlled by a particular burner control that a user is interacting with prior to activation of the cooktop burner, e.g., to indicate to a user that a burner control that the user has touched or is otherwise proximate to controls a particular cooktop burner. Another illumination scheme may be used to indicate which cooktop burner is being adjusted when a user is adjusting a particular burner control, e.g., to indicate to a user that a burner control that the user is currently manipulating is changing the output of a particular cooktop burner.

    MINIMUM IGNITION PERIOD FOR GAS BURNERS

    公开(公告)号:US20230095549A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17490172

    申请日:2021-09-30

    IPC分类号: F23N5/20 F23N5/12

    摘要: A cooking appliance includes: a gas cooking element; an igniter disposed adjacent to the gas cooking element to ignite the gas cooking element; a gas valve for regulating gas flow to the gas cooking element; a burner control mechanically coupled to the gas valve to vary the gas flow to the gas cooking element; a sensor for detecting the positioning of the burner control in an ignition range of positions; and a control circuit coupled to the igniter and the sensor and to activate the igniter in response to detected movement of the burner control into the ignition range of positions, the control circuit further configured to maintain activation of the igniter for a predetermined minimum length of time once activated.