Abstract:
A gas cooktop appliance includes a burner, a gas supply circuit in fluid communication with the burner, and a valve for controlling an amount of gas supplied to the burner from the gas supply circuit. An electrode is configured to provide an ignition spark and to obtain an ionization current. A control system is operably coupled with the valve and is configured to compare the ionization current to a setting of the valve and modify the amount of gas supplied to the burner when the difference between the ionization current and the setting of the valve is outside a predetermined threshold.
Abstract:
A cooktop assembly includes a cooking panel. A heating element is operably coupled to the cooking panel. The heating element forms a heating zone for said cooktop assembly. A support surface extends over the heating element for supporting a cooking vessel thereon. The support surface includes a heating zone surface in the heating zone, a surrounding surface outside the heating zone, and a surface discontinuity defining a kinesthetic feature providing feedback for demarcating the heating zone relative to the surrounding surface and positioning the cooking vessel relative to the heating zone and, consequently, the heating element.
Abstract:
A household appliance power supply device and method are disclosed. The power supply device comprises a switching converter having an input filtering stage; and a determining means configured to obtain estimation data indicative of the input current that is adsorbed from the a main power input, on the base of the rate of change of the bus voltage across said bus capacitor respectively, during a second switching period. The switching converter further comprises a bus capacitor, electrically connected with at least one output terminal of a rectifying stage, a resonant tank, electrically connected with said bus capacitor, and a switching device electrically connected with said resonant tank, said switching device being operated with a switching cycle having a first switching period, and a second switching period.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for controlling a current source converter (CSC) comprising one or more inverters with a series or parallel resonant load topology are provided. Pulse width modulation (PWM) signals are generated for driving switching devices of one or more inverters of the current source converter. Power delivered to an item of cookware is controlled by varying one or more of frequency, duty cycle, and overlap of the PWM signals.
Abstract:
A cooking article detection system for an induction cooktop having a first power-delivery induction coil includes a first detector coil overlying the first power-delivery induction coil and including a first conductive element revolving continuously around a centroid in a first tangential direction to define a shape of the first coil that extends in a first linear direction and a second linear direction along a plane and a second detector coil overlying the first power-delivery coil and including a second conductive element connected with the first detector coils and revolving continuously around a centroid in a second tangential direction, opposite the first tangential direction. The second detector coil is linearly arranged with the first detector coil and is spaced apart therefrom in the second linear direction. A controller drives the first and second detection coils, simultaneously, with a low-voltage, high frequency detection signal, and measures a voltage across the first and second detection coils to identify a cooking article on the induction cooktop.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board including (a) a heat sink projecting from a first primary surface and defining a first section and a second section of the first primary surface, (b) one or more rectifier components, (c) a smoothing component disposed at the first section in electrical communication with the one or more rectifier components, (d) inverter components in electrical communication with the one or more rectifier components and the smoothing component, the inverter components including (i) at least one capacitor and at least one connector for an induction coil both disposed at the second section and (ii) a controllable solid-state switching device functionally operable with the at least one capacitor and the at least one connector disposed at a second primary surface of the printed circuit board or second section of the first primary surface.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a switching includes a regulating the output power to be delivered to the at least one resonant load, adjusting a common switching frequency of all PWM control signals sent to a plurality of switches and the phase displacement of all said PWM control signals by adjusting a time delay between turning-on of diagonal switches of said two half-bridge switching stages connecting said resonant load within the same switching period. The phase displacement is carried out until hard-switching working conditions for said half-bridge switching stages are met, and when said hard switching working conditions are met, the common switching frequency of all said PWM control signals are adjusted to prevent hard-switching working conditions.