Method of controlling cooking apparatus with temperature display unit

• US 20100294752A1
• Filed: 04/15/2010
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung Soo, Lee, Tae Uk, Kwon, Yong Hyun, Sung, Han Jun, Kang, Han Seong, Kim, Sung Kwang, Han, Dae Sung, Cho, Pung Yeun, Kim, Tae Hun, Hong, Seok Weon
• Application Number:
  US12/662,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20100294752A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/494
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/082 on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination

Abstract

A method of controlling a cooking apparatus which includes a main body having at least one heating unit, a control panel installed on the main body, and a temperature display unit that is provided on the control panel, displaying a temperature of the heating unit through change in color, and having a plurality of light emitting elements, includes determining whether or not the heating unit is in operation; detecting a current temperature of the heating unit when the heating unit is in operation; and displaying a temperature section, to which the detected current temperature of the heating unit belongs, among a plurality of preset temperature sections through the change in the color of the temperature display unit.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a cooking apparatus, in which the cooking apparatus includes a main body having at least one heating unit, a control panel installed on the main body, and a temperature display unit that is provided on the control panel, displaying a temperature of the heating unit through change in color, and having a plurality of light emitting elements, the method comprising:

determining whether or not the heating unit is in operation;

detecting a current temperature of the heating unit when the heating unit is in operation; and

displaying a temperature section, to which the detected current temperature of the heating unit belongs, among a plurality of preset temperature sections through the change in the color of the temperature display unit.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset temperature sections are each divided into a fixed size within a maximum allowable heating temperature range of the heating unit.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset temperature sections are each varied within a target cooking temperature range set by a user according to the set target cooking temperature range.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the temperature of the heating unit is displayed by displaying an entire temperature display unit in a representative color of each of the preset temperature sections by means of turning on/off of the plurality of light emitting elements according to change in temperature of the heating unit.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising turning on some of the light emitting elements in a color different from the colors of remaining light emitting elements to thus form a highlight, and more precisely displaying the current temperature of the heating unit through a position of the highlight within the temperature section to which the current temperature of the heating unit belongs.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature to a maximum allowable heating temperature of the heating unit.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature of the heating unit to a target cooking temperature set by a user.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the temperature display unit displays the current temperature of the heating unit by increasing or decreasing a length of a turned-on portion of the temperature display unit in response to change in the temperature of the heating unit.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature to a maximum allowable heating temperature of the heating unit.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature of the heating unit to a target cooking temperature set by a user.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the temperature display unit displays that the temperature of the heating unit reaches a target temperature by allowing a highlight, formed by turning some of the light emitting elements on when the temperature of the heating unit reaches the target temperature, to reciprocate in the temperature display unit.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the temperature display unit displays that the temperature of the heating unit reaches a target temperature by allowing the light emitting elements to be turned on and off in a representative color corresponding to the current temperature of the heating unit, when the temperature of the heating unit reaches the target temperature.

13. A method of controlling a cooking apparatus, in which the cooking apparatus includes a main body having at least one heating unit, a control panel installed on the main body, and a temperature display unit that is provided on the control panel, displaying a temperature of the heating unit through change in color, and having a plurality of light emitting elements, the method comprising:

determining whether or not the heating unit in operation stops operating;

detecting a current temperature of the heating unit when determined that the heating unit stops operating; and

displaying a temperature section, to which the detected current temperature of the heating unit belongs, among a plurality of preset temperature sections through the change in the color of the temperature display unit.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the preset temperature sections are each divided into a fixed size within a maximum allowable heating temperature range of the heating unit.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the preset temperature sections are each varied within a target cooking temperature range set by a user according to the set target cooking temperature range.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the temperature of the heating unit is displayed by displaying an entire temperature display unit in a representative color of each of the preset temperature sections by turning on/off the plurality of light emitting elements according to change in temperature of the heating unit.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising turning on some of the light emitting elements in a color different from the colors of remaining light emitting elements to form a highlight, and displaying the current temperature of the heating unit through a position of the highlight within the temperature section to which the current temperature of the heating unit belongs.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature to a maximum allowable heating temperature of the heating unit.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature of the heating unit to a target cooking temperature set by a user.

20. The method according to claim 13, wherein the temperature display unit displays the current temperature of the heating unit by increasing or decreasing a length of a turned-on portion of the temperature display unit in response to change in the temperature of the heating unit.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature to a maximum allowable heating temperature of the heating unit.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein the current temperature of the heating unit is displayed in an entire temperature display range from a minimum temperature of the heating unit to a target cooking temperature set by a user.

23. The method according to claim 13, wherein the temperature display unit displays that the temperature of the heating unit reaches a safety temperature by allowing a highlight, formed by turning on some of the light emitting elements when the temperature of the heating unit reaches the safety temperature, to reciprocate in the temperature display unit.

24. The method according to claim 13, wherein the temperature display unit displays that the temperature of the heating unit reaches a safety temperature by allowing the light emitting elements to be turned on and off in a representative color corresponding to the current temperature of the heating unit when the temperature of the heating unit reaches the safety temperature.

25. A method of controlling a cooking apparatus, in which the cooking apparatus includes a main body having at least one heating unit, a control panel installed on the main body, and a temperature display unit that is provided on the control panel, displaying a temperature of the heating unit through a change in color, the method comprising:

determining whether or not the at least one heating unit is in operation;

comparing set temperatures of at least two heating units when the at least one heating unit is in operation;

detecting a temperature of one of the heating units having a highest preset target cooking temperature among the heating units; and

displaying the detected current temperature of the heating unit having the highest target cooking temperature through the change in color of the temperature display unit.

26. The method according to claim 25, wherein, when only one of the heating units is in operation, the temperature of the heating unit that is in operation is detected and is displayed through the color change of the temperature display unit.