COOKING APPLIANCE AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120103971A1
• Filed: 09/09/2009
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Oh, Doo Yong, Park, Byeong Wook
• Application Number:
  US13/266,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20120103971A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/465.1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2213/03 Heating plates made out of a matrix of heating elements that can define heating areas adapted to cookware randomly placed on the heating plate
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/062 for cooking plates or the like

Abstract

Provided are a cooking appliance and a control method thereof. A cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a top plate on which a cooking container is placed, a plurality of winding parts including a plurality of coils horizontally arranged under the top plate, a plurality of relay parts including a plurality of relays that each connected to the plurality of coils, and an inverter part for applying a voltage of high frequency to the plurality of winding parts.

Claims

1. A cooking appliance comprising:

a top plate on which a cooking container is placed;

a plurality of winding parts including a plurality of coils horizontally arranged under the top plate;

a plurality of relay parts including a plurality of relays that is each connected to the plurality of coils; and

an inverter part for applying a high frequency voltage to the plurality of winding parts.

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the plurality of coils are connected to the inverter part in parallel.

3. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the plurality of winding parts include a plurality of capacitors each connected to the plurality of coils.

4. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the coils are rectangular, and the plurality of coils are arranged to cover the bottom of the top plate, like a tile.

5. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising:

a control part for sequentially operating the plurality of relays.

6. The cooking appliance of claim 5, wherein the control part determines whether the cooking container is placed on any coil of the plurality of coils through the amount of load current generated when the plurality of relays are sequentially operated.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 5, wherein the control part adjusts an output by controlling a duty through the relay.

8. A cooking appliance control method, comprising:

sequentially operating a plurality of relay parts that is each connected to a plurality of coils horizontally arranged under a top plate on which a cooking container is placed;

determining whether the cooking container is placed on any coil of the plurality of coils through the amount of load current generated when the plurality of relays are sequentially operated; and

applying a high frequency voltage to coil on which the cooking container is placed.

9. The cooking appliance control method of claim 8, further comprising :

adjusting an output by determining a duty through the relay.