Cooking Appliance
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Abstract
A cooking appliance, especially a built-in wall cooking appliance, which comprises at least one muffle, delimiting a cooking compartment and having a muffle opening, a door for closing said muffle opening and a drive device, controlled by a control device, for displacing the door and at least one switch which transmits actuation signals for determining a zero position of the door to the control device when the door touches the muffle. The control device is also configured in such a manner that the presence of the actuation signals of the at least one switch is required but not sufficient to determine the zero position.
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Citations
26 Claims
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1-13. -13. (canceled)
- 14. A cooking appliance, especially a built-in wall-mounted cooking appliance, having at least one muffle defining a cooking compartment and being formed with a muffle opening, a door for movement into and out of a covering relationship with the muffle opening, a drive device for moving the door, a control device for controlling operation of the drive device to control door movement, the cooking appliance comprising at least one switch operationally disposed for actuation when the door contacts the muffle and thereby provide a zero door position indication signal to the control device, wherein presence of the zero door position indication signal is required but not sufficient to fully establish a zero door position within the control device.
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24. A method for determining a zero position of a door of a cooking appliance, the method comprising the steps of providing at least one muffle defining a cooking compartment and being formed with a muffle opening, a door for movement into and out of a covering relationship with the muffle opening, a drive device for moving the door, a control device for controlling operation of the drive device to control door movement, and at least one switch operationally disposed for actuation when the door contacts the muffle and thereby provide a zero door position indication signal to the control device, wherein presence of the zero door position indication signal is required but not sufficient to fully establish a zero door position within the control device;
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determining the zero position of the door when the at least one switch has been actuated simultaneously with measuring a door displacement wherein the door displacement door corresponds to the zero position at least within a tolerance range and/or the door cannot travel further when the drive device is actuated. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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