KITCHEN APPLIANCE

• US 20130003490A1
• Filed: 11/19/2010
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Vorwerk & Company Interholding Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (Vorwerk & Company KG)
• Inventors: Kemker, Uwe, Lang, Torsten, Schomacher, Jutta
• Application Number:
  US13/521,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20130003490A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 366/142
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/004 with integral electrical heating means drinking cups with integral heating means A47J36/2466
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/62 by devices for automatically controlling the heat supply by switching off heaters or for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/32 Time-controlled igniting mechanisms or alarm devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/321 the electronic control being performed over a network, e.g. by means of a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/0716 for machines with tools driven from the lower side A47J43/0727 - A47J43/08 take precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a kitchen appliance (1) having a mixing vessel (2) and a stirrer located in the mixing vessel, wherein the mixing vessel can be heated and the kitchen appliance (1) has a time selector switch (5, 6) which enables a time selection in respect of the stirrer and/or the heating operation, wherein a pre-programmed sequence of preparation steps can furthermore be carried out. In order to carry out operation as safely as possible, according to the invention the sequence cannot be triggered until an active selection made by the user in respect of the time and/or stirrer and/or heating setting is made, insofar as a stir and/or heating operation is in the pre-programmed sequence, by means of the one or more selector switches. The invention further relates to a kitchen appliance (1) having a heatable mixing vessel (2) and a stirrer located in the mixing vessel (1), wherein the kitchen appliance allows for independent processing of preparation steps, wherein data can be transferred to the kitchen appliance (1) via a mobile device, in particular such as a mobile telephone. In order to increase safety in particular during automatic operation, another possible solution to the problem according to the invention is that the kitchen appliance (1) is connected to the mobile device by radio and an event such as a program end is reported to the mobile device, which triggers a signal of the mobile device.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. Kitchen appliance (1) having a mixing vessel (2) and a stirrer located in the mixing vessel, the mixing vessel being heatable and the kitchen appliance (1) having a time preselector switch (5, 6), which enables a time preselection in respect of the stirrer and/or the heating operation, furthermore it being possible to carry out a sequence of preparation steps in a pre-programmed manner, for the automatic operation of the kitchen appliance, wherein the kitchen appliance is so arranged that the sequence can only be triggered when the time for the stirrer setting and/or the heating setting has been made, in advance and by hand, by the user, at the selector switch provided for hand operation on the kitchen appliance itself, in so far as a stirring operation and/or a heating operation is provided in the pre-programmed sequence, by means of one or more preselector switches.

9. Kitchen appliance according to claim 5, wherein the kitchen appliance (1) can be remotely controlled by the mobile device.

10. Kitchen appliance according to claim 5, wherein a camera is provided on the kitchen appliance or separately from the kitchen appliance, but focused on this, and wherein this camera can be controlled by the mobile device in such a way that the camera is activated and pictures from the camera are transmitted to the mobile device.

11. Kitchen appliance according to claim 5, wherein the mobile device can be remotely controlled by the kitchen appliance (1).

6. Kitchen appliance (1) with a mobile device, the appliance having a mixing vessel (2) and a stirrer located in the mixing vessel (1), the mixing vessel being heatable, and the kitchen appliance allowing an automatic processing of preparation steps to be carried out, data being transmissible to the kitchen appliance (1) via a mobile device such as in particular a mobile telephone/cellphone, wherein the kitchen appliance (1) is arranged so that it is connected to the mobile device by radio, and is formed in such a way that one of the events:

termination of a program,

exceeding a prescribed temperature limit,

boiling-over detected by a sensor on the kitchen appliance,

blocking of the stirrer,

the start, carrying-out or completion of a processing step,

exceeding a prescribed limiting value of viscosity,

can be transmitted to the mobile device, and events such as the triggering of a signal or a camera function can be controlled there in dependence on prescribed threshold values.

7. Kitchen appliance according to claim 6, wherein when a prescribed limiting value for viscosity is exceeded, the speed of rotation of the stirrer is automatically reduced or the stirrer is stopped.

8. Method for operating a kitchen appliance (1) and a mobile device, the kitchen appliance (1) having a stirrer located in a mixing vessel (2), the mixing vessel being heatable, and the kitchen appliance allowing an automatic processing of preparation steps to be carried out, data being transmissible to the kitchen appliance (1) via a mobile device such as in particular a mobile telephone/cellphone, wherein the kitchen appliance (1) is linked to the mobile device by radio, and one of the events:

termination of a program,

exceeding a prescribed temperature limit,

boiling-over detected by a sensor on the kitchen appliance,

blocking of the stirrer,

the start, carrying-out or completion of a processing step,

exceeding a prescribed limiting value of viscosity,

is reported to the mobile device, and a signal is triggered in the mobile device in dependence on a prescribed threshold value, by such a report.