COOKING APPLIANCE FOR PROCESSING AND PREPARING FOODS

• US 20140345474A1
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Compania Espanola De Electromenaje S.A., Compania Espanola De Electromenaje S.L.
• Original Assignee: Compania Espanola De Electromenaje S.A.
• Inventors: Alet Vidal, Josep, Montraveta Montraveta, Fidel, Trench Rocha, Lluis
• Application Number:
  US14/285,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20140345474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 99/325
• 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 43/04 Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs, e.g. power-driven
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 44/00 Multi-purpose machines for preparing food with several driving units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor

Abstract

A cooking appliance for processing and preparing foods that includes a base structure (48) on which a support suitable for holding a container (2) containing foods to be processed is assembled, a motorized driving device suitable for rotating a detachable stirring or cutting device inside the container (2), an electronic circuit for powering and controlling the driving device and a heat energy transferring device which is controlled by an appliance microcontroller, and a dedicated computing device (85) integrating a user interface and a telecommunication interface, which, depending on the instructions provided by a user, is suitable for at least sending instructions containing cooking parameters and/or programs to the appliance microcontroller through a data bus and for displaying any anomaly detected by the appliance microcontroller through a multifunction touch screen.

Claims

1. A cooking appliance for processing and preparing foods of the type comprising:

a base structure (48) on which a support suitable for holding a container (2) containing foods to be processed is assembled;

motorized driving means suitable for rotating detachable stirring or cutting means inside said container (2);

heat energy transferring means suitable for heating said foods to be processed within the container (2);

an electronic circuit for powering and controlling said driving means and heat energy transferring means which is controlled by an appliance microcontroller depending on the instructions which are provided by a user through a user interface and contain cooking parameters; and

a telecommunication interface for communicating the appliance with a communication network,

characterized in that;

said user interface and said telecommunication interface are integrated in a dedicated computing device (85) installed in said appliance with access through a multifunction touch screen;

said appliance microcontroller is suitable for receiving cooking parameters and/or programs from said dedicated computing device (85) through a data bus; and

said dedicated computing device (85) is arranged in a front part on an inclined surface of a casing (1) assembled on said base structure (48) of said cooking appliance and is suitable for displaying any anomaly detected by said appliance microcontroller through said multifunction touch screen.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said dedicated computing device (85) interacts with said communication network by means of wireless technology selected from WiFi, 3G or Bluetooth.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, further comprising a non-volatile memory in which said instructions containing cooking parameters are stored.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said communication interface is enabled to retrieve instructions containing cooking parameters from a memory accessible through said communication network.

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said dedicated computing device (85) includes a voice recognition function for inputting operating instructions of the cooking appliance.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said data bus is a serial bus.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said data bus is a parallel bus.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said dedicated computing device (85) is a multiprocessor device.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, wherein said dedicated computing device (85) is a multiprocessor device.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 5, wherein said dedicated computing device (85) is a multiprocessor device.

11. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said appliance microcontroller is a multicontroller device.

12. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said user interface can be customized.

13. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said user interface is accessible by means of a user account and/or password.

14. The cooking appliance according to claim 12, wherein said user interface is accessible by means of a user account and/or password.

15. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein said instructions containing cooking parameters can be edited by said user, said instructions containing cooking parameters being edited, memorized in said non-volatile memory of the dedicated computing device (85) or in the memory accessible through the communication network.

16. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein said instructions containing cooking parameters can be edited by said user, said instructions containing cooking parameters being edited, memorized in said non-volatile memory of the dedicated computing device (85) or in the memory accessible through the communication network.

17. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein said instructions containing cooking parameters can be edited by said user, said instructions containing cooking parameters being edited, memorized in said non-volatile memory of the dedicated computing device (85) or in the memory accessible through the communication network.