ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES
First Claim
1. A cooking appliance comprising:
- one or more power consuming features/functions including at least one of a cooking cavity having a heating element and a cooking surface having a surface heating element; and
a controller configured to receive and process a signal indicative of current state of an associated utility, the controller operating the cooking appliance in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, in response to the received signal, the controller being configured to at least one of selectively delay, adjust and disable at least one of the one or more power consuming features/functions to reduce power consumption of the cooking appliance in the energy savings mode.
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Abstract
A cooking appliance comprises one or more power consuming features/functions including at least one of a cooking cavity having a heating element and a cooking surface having a surface heating element. A controller is configured to receive and process a signal indicative of current state of an associated energy supplying utility. The controller operates the cooking appliance in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, in response to the received signal. The controller is configured to at least one of selectively delay, adjust and disable at least one of the one or more power consuming features/functions to reduce power consumption of the cooking appliance in the energy savings mode.
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25 Claims
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1. A cooking appliance comprising:
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one or more power consuming features/functions including at least one of a cooking cavity having a heating element and a cooking surface having a surface heating element; and a controller configured to receive and process a signal indicative of current state of an associated utility, the controller operating the cooking appliance in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, in response to the received signal, the controller being configured to at least one of selectively delay, adjust and disable at least one of the one or more power consuming features/functions to reduce power consumption of the cooking appliance in the energy savings mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A cooking appliance control method, comprising:
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a) determining a state for an associated energy supplying utility, the utility state being indicative of at least a peak demand period or an off-peak demand period; b) operating the cooking appliance in a normal mode during the off-peak demand period; c) operating the cooking appliance in an energy savings mode during the peak demand period; d) at least one of selectively delaying, adjusting and disabling any number of one or more power consuming features/functions of the cooking appliance to reduce power consumption of the cooking appliance in the energy savings mode, the one or more power consuming features/functions including a heating element located in a cooking cavity and individual heating elements located on a cooking surface; and e) returning to the normal mode after the peak demand period is over. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A cooking appliance comprising:
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a cooking cavity having a heating element; a cooking surface having individual surface heating elements; and a controller configured to receive and process an energy signal, the signal having a first state indicative of a utility peak demand period and a second state indicative of a utility off-peak demand period, the controller operating the cooking appliance in one of an energy savings mode and a normal operating mode based on the received signal being in the first and second states respectively, wherein the controller is configured to reduce the power of the cooking cavity heating element and reduce the power of at least one of the individual surface heating elements in the energy savings mode, and wherein the controller is configured to disable at least one of the individual surface heating elements in the energy savings mode. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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