OVEN CONTROL SYSTEM WITH GRAPHICAL DISPLAY

• US 20100147823A1
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Original Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Inventors: ELDER, CHRISTOPHER D., KIRK, ANTONY JOHN, ANDERSON, JOHN ROBERT, SWAYNE, STEVEN MICHAEL, ELSTON, WALLACE JAMES III, JENKINS, ANTHONY EARL, SATANEK, BRANDON LYNN, BONUSO, JENNIFER L.
• Application Number:
  US12/336,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20100147823A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/391
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/082 on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination

Abstract

A cooking appliance includes an oven cavity adapted to be used in cooking foods and a control system includes a display device for presenting available programming options to a user through pictorial images, such as in prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked. The display device also presents graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product. A controller is provided for establishing a cooking operation within the oven cavity based on the selected programming options.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a cooking appliance comprising:

presenting in sequence a plurality of display screens, at least a series of said plurality of display screens having pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked and at least one of said plurality of display screens providing graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product;

determining appropriate cooking parameters based on the information input by the user; and

performing a cooking operation in an oven cavity of the cooking appliance using said appropriate cooking parameters.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of said plurality of display screens prompts a user to input a type of food product.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked prompts a user to input a desired degree of doneness for said food product.

4. The method according to claim 2 wherein said pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked prompts a user to input the type of cookware to be used.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said graphical instructions include an image of a user inserting a temperature probe in a food product.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said graphical instructions include an image of an oven rack in a particular position within an oven cavity.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of said plurality of display screens prompts a user to input a minimum cooking time for a cooking operation.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein one of said plurality of display screens prompts a user to input a maximum cooking time for a cooking operation.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein information inputs from the user are received through a touch screen.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the appropriate cooking parameters based on the information input by the user includes determining the appropriate settings for bake, broil and convection heating elements.

11. A method of controlling a cooking appliance comprising:

presenting a user with display screens presenting sequential pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked;

presenting a user with at least one display screen providing a graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product, said graphical instructions being dependent on the information input by the user;

determining appropriate cooking parameters based on the information input by the user; and

performing a cooking operation in an oven cavity of the cooking appliance using said appropriate cooking parameters.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said display screens having the pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to the food product to be cooked prompts a user to input a desired degree of doneness for said food product.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to the food product to be cooked prompts a user to input the type of cookware to be used.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said at least one display screen providing a graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product displays an image of a user inserting a temperature probe in a food product.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein said at least one display screen providing a graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product displays an image of an oven rack in a particular position within an oven cavity.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein one of said plurality of display screens prompts a user to input a minimum cooking time for a cooking operation.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein one of said plurality of display screens prompts a user to input a maximum cooking time for a cooking operation.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein information inputs from the user are received through a touch screen.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein determining the appropriate cooking parameters based on the information input by the user includes determining appropriate settings for bake, broil and convection heating elements.

20. In a cooking appliance including an oven cavity adapted to be used in cooking foods, a control system comprising:

a display device presenting available programming options to a user by displaying a sequence of pictorial images for prompting a user to input information relating to a food product to be cooked, said display device also presenting graphical instructions relating to cooking the food product; and

a controller for establishing a cooking operation within the oven cavity based on the selected programming options.