公开(公告)号：US12220081B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17303054

申请日：2021-05-19

Applicant: Nieco, LLC

Inventor： Joel S. Pittman ,  Michael D. Janney

IPC: A47J37/04 ,  A47J36/32

Abstract: A cooking system, including a product loader for dispensing uncooked food product; a broiler/oven having an inlet end, a cooking chamber, a discharge end, a motorized conveyor system for conveying food through said broiler from said inlet end to said discharge end, and heating elements for heating and cooking food products in said cooking chamber. Disposed at the input end between product feed belts and broiler conveyor belts is a photoelectric sensor system that detects the presence of food product passing from the feed belts to the broiler conveyor belts which, when tripped, locks in the cook time for a recipe under execution and prevents inadvertent user changes that would adversely affect the cooked product quality.

公开(公告)号：US20250040752A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18792867

申请日：2024-08-02

Applicant: Prashant Singh Sengar

Inventor： Prashant Singh Sengar

IPC: A47J36/32 ,  A47J43/044 ,  A47J43/07 ,  A47J44/00 ,  B01F27/091 ,  B01F27/112 ,  B01F27/90 ,  B01F33/501 ,  B01F35/21 ,  B01F35/22 ,  B01F35/221 ,  B05B7/24 ,  F24C15/20 ,  G06V20/50 ,  H05B6/06

Abstract: A portable IoT based food processing device for automated cooking and prepping of contents, is disclosed. The portable IoT based food processing device includes a stirring paddler device connected to a stirring shaft through a first coupler for adapting stirring paddler device to stir contents. The automatic stirring apparatus is connected to clamping arms to adapt for various container sizes using slider motion. The automatic stirring apparatus includes first microcontroller to: receive inputs from first user interfaces and touch buttons, of the automatic stirring apparatus, second user interfaces and touch screens, of IoT based hand blender device and applications in user devices; capture images from camera devices, receive sensor data from sensors; and match sensor data and type of contents, with computed load of contents to compute cooking time, control speed and direction of rotation of first variable speed DC motor for stirring contents using stirring paddler device.

公开(公告)号：US20250027654A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18907282

申请日：2024-10-04

Applicant: June Life, LLC

Inventor： Nikhil Bhogal ,  Nicholas Beyrer ,  Mathias Watson Schmidt

IPC: F24C7/08 ,  A47J27/04 ,  A47J27/10 ,  A47J36/06 ,  A47J36/32 ,  A47J37/06 ,  G01K1/08 ,  G01K1/14 ,  G05D23/19

Abstract: Aspects related to a cooking appliance with a temperature probe accessory are provided. A cooking appliance may include a cavity configured to receive a food to be cooked. A sensor, such as a temperature probe accessory, may be used to measure a temperature of the cavity. The cooking appliance may include an interface configured to receive cooking parameters. The cooking appliance may include a controller configured to identify cooking instructions based on cooking parameters. The appliance may perform actions in response to the cooking instructions.

公开(公告)号：US20250009168A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-09

申请号：US18890661

申请日：2024-09-19

Applicant: Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Qiang LIU ,  Jianliang MA ,  Taoli YANG

IPC: A47J36/32 ,  A47J37/04 ,  A47J37/06 ,  F24C7/08 ,  G05B13/02 ,  H05B1/02

Abstract: A method and system for locating food items and determining their outlines in the images captured by a food preparation system is disclosed herein. The method relies on reliable annotated data to determine locations and outlines of food items, with a higher accuracy than conventional methods, due to the additional constraints provided by food item identities and cooking progress levels of the food items. With the location and outline determination performed prior to the cooking progress level determination in a separate process, the disclosed methods and systems allow for different types of foods to be cooked simultaneously and monitored individually, and improving the functions of the cooking appliances and the convenience of the users.

公开(公告)号：US20240398163A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18806924

申请日：2024-08-16

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael Benjamin Daly ,  Blake William Ehrenbeck ,  Milica Gvozdjan ,  Seth Douglas Herndon ,  Bruce Wiatrak

IPC: A47J36/32 ,  A47J37/06 ,  G03B35/08 ,  G06V10/88 ,  G06V20/52 ,  H04N13/236

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a body defining a cooking cavity. A door is rotatably coupled to the body. An imager assembly is coupled to an interior surface of the door. The imager assembly includes an image sensor configured to obtain image data within a field of view, a first primary mirror positioned at a first angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view, and a second primary mirror positioned at a second angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view. A secondary mirror assembly includes multiple secondary mirrors coupled to the body within the cooking cavity. The secondary mirrors reflect image views within the cooking cavity to the first primary mirror and the second primary mirror which reflects the image views to the image sensor to be captured as the image data.

公开(公告)号：US12137838B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17138570

申请日：2020-12-30

Applicant: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLC

Inventor： Michaela Dubeau

IPC: A47J37/06 ,  A47J27/12 ,  A47J36/32

Abstract: A cooking system includes a housing having a first cooking zone and a second cooking zone and at least one heating element associated with said first cooking zone and said second cooking zone. The cooking system is operable in a synchronized mode, and in said synchronized mode a first cooking operation performed in said first cooking zone and a second cooking operation performed in said second cooking zone are synchronized to be completed simultaneously.

公开(公告)号：US20240358188A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18641012

申请日：2024-04-19

Applicant: One Hearth, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Hanuschik ,  Peng Chau Quah ,  Gregory Russ Goddard

IPC: A47J36/32 ,  G06F11/30

CPC classification number: A47J36/32 ,  G06F11/3013

Abstract: Generating a programmatic representation of a recipe for playback on a cooking device includes receiving a log of timestamped sensor events recorded during user control of a first cooking device. It further includes converting the log of timestamped sensor events into a recipe program that is executable on a second cooking device.

公开(公告)号：US12114809B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US17481769

申请日：2021-09-22

Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH

Inventor： Stefan Hilgers ,  Sarah Dittmann

IPC: A47J43/07 ,  A23L5/10 ,  A47J27/00 ,  A47J36/32 ,  A47J43/046

CPC classification number: A47J43/0772 ,  A23L5/15 ,  A47J27/004 ,  A47J36/32 ,  A47J43/046 ,  A23V2002/00

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food processor along with a corresponding method for performing a food preparation process by heating, chopping and/or mixing a food in a food preparation vessel. The food processor comprises a control device configured such that the control device ensures, based on one or more cooking parameters, that in a cooking mode a food is heated, chopped and/or mixed in the food preparation vessel. A sampling mode for taking a food sample is provided and the control device is configured such that at least one of the cooking parameters is modified compared to the cooking mode for a modified continuation of the food preparation process when the sampling mode is activated. A particularly reproducible cooking result can be achieved in this way despite taking a food sample.

公开(公告)号：US12102259B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US17229745

申请日：2021-04-13

Applicant: Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Qiang Liu ,  Jianliang Ma ,  Taoli Yang ,  Xuemei Yu

IPC: A47J37/04 ,  A47J36/32 ,  A47J37/06 ,  F24C7/08 ,  G05B13/02 ,  H05B1/02

CPC classification number: A47J36/321 ,  A47J37/041 ,  A47J37/0629 ,  F24C7/081 ,  G05B13/027 ,  H05B1/0263 ,  A47J2202/00

Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.

公开(公告)号：US12075942B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US16835576

申请日：2020-03-31

Applicant: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd

Inventor： Ireneusz Czapp ,  Andrzej Tusk ,  Marek Ormanin ,  Aleksander Majorek ,  Kamil Rachuba

IPC: A47J36/24 ,  A47J36/32 ,  B65D81/18 ,  B65D81/26 ,  F24C7/04 ,  F24C7/08 ,  F24C15/32

CPC classification number: A47J36/2483 ,  A47J36/32 ,  B65D81/18 ,  B65D81/26 ,  F24C7/046 ,  F24C7/087 ,  F24C15/325

Abstract: A device for storing food products at hot temperature, having an outer housing, an inner housing at least partially contained inside the outer housing, and a fan chamber defined within the inner housing, the fan chamber having at least one air inlet and outlet. A fan and a heating element are located inside the fan chamber. A food tray defines a space for holding the food products therein. A first air flow path for guiding a first air flow is defined from outside of the outer housing to the air inlet of the fan chamber, the first flow path extending between the outer housing and the inner housing, and a second air flow path for guiding a second air flow is defined from the air outlet of the fan chamber to the space inside the food tray, and the heating element is located in the second air flow path.