System with a cooking device and several control devices and control device

• US 20070125363A1
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Published: 06/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EGO Elektro-Gerã¤Tebau GmbH (EGO Blanc und Fischer & Company GmbH)
• Original Assignee: EGO Elektro-Gerã¤Tebau GmbH (EGO Blanc und Fischer & Company GmbH)
• Inventors: Gassler, Holger
• Application Number:
  US11/655,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20070125363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 126/273.R
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/106 electric circuits
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/083 on tops, hot plates

Abstract

A cooking system with a hob and several heating elements has at least two control devices. One control devices is a master control device, and the one or more other control devices are slave control devices, wherein the master control device always has a functional priority relative to the slave control devices for controlling the heating elements of the cooking system. The master control device and the one or more slave devices allow two or more individuals to operates the cooking device using separate control devices.

Claims

1. A cooking system with a cooking device having several functions and with several mutually independently operable heating devices, in which the cooking system comprises at least two separate control devices wherein any one of the control devices can control all the functions of the cooking device, characterized in that a single control device is constructed as a master control device and the at least one other control device is constructed as a slave control device, the master control device having a functional priority compared with the at least one slave control device and is constructed for allocating functionalities to the slave control device.

2. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices are constructed in such a way that a control instruction to a cooking device by slave control device is overruled by a control instruction of the master control device diverging therefrom and the cooking device implements the instruction of the master control device.

3. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the master control device has functional priority over a slave control device at all times, the functional priority being such that control instructions with respect to the power level of a heating device of the cooking device during the operation of said heating device provided by the slave control device are modified by the master control device.

4. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the master control device grants a status to the slave control device for a certain time period or for a certain closed functional process, which can only be modified at the end of the time period or the functional process.

5. The cooking system according to claim 4, characterized in that the status is automatically changed back to an initial or original status following the given time period or following the given, closed functional process.

6. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices have a common basic structure and the master control device is transformed by modifying the configuration.

7. The cooking system according to claim 6, characterized in that the master control device is transformed by the introduction or removal of one or more components.

8. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices are mutually spatially separated and positioned adjacent to the cooking device.

9. The cooking system according to claim 8, characterized in that the control devices are constructed as modules separate from the cooking device.

10. The cooking system according to claim 8, characterized in that the control devices face are on opposite sides of the cooking device.

11. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one control device is separate and removable from the cooking device.

12. The cooking system according to claim 11, characterized in that at least one control device is constructed as a module separate from the cooking device.

13. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices are mutually spatially separated and at least one control device is located directly on the cooking device.

14. The cooking system according to claim 13, characterized in that one control device is located on the front or on a vertical front side of part of the cooking system.

15. The cooking system according to claim 13, characterized in that one other control device is positioned laterally alongside part of the cooking system.

16. The cooking system according to claim 13, characterized in that the control devices have differently constructed operating elements.

17. The cooking system according to claim 16, characterized in that, below a part of the cooking system, one control device has mechanical rotary knobs and the other control device has touch contact sensors or contact switches located laterally alongside said part of the cooking system.

18. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices are constructed without a direct connection to one another.

19. The cooking system according to claim 18, characterized in that in each control device is connected to a single central control of the cooking device, which differentiates and implements the inputted instructions on the basis of the control device priority.

20. The cooking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control devices have a direct connection to one another, wherein the master control device directly communicates with one or more with the slave control devices and the master control device decides which instruction of the one or more control devices enjoys priority and which instruction is supplied to said cooking device.

21. A control device for a cooking system with a cooking device having several functions and with several mutually independently operable heating devices, in which the cooking system comprises at master control device and a slave control device characterized in that the master control device has a functional priority over the slave control device for controlling the heating devices, wherein the control device is the basis for constructing either the master control device or the slave control device, wherein further the determination of whether the control device forms the master control device or the slave control device is determined by the software programmed into the control device.