Cooking aid device

• US 6,837,148 B1
• Filed: 09/15/2000
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SEB SA
• Original Assignee: SEB SA
• Inventors: Piolet, Anne-Maria, Deschenes, Laurent
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US10/088,361
• Time in Patent Office: 1,572 Days
• Field of Search: 99325-333, 993/48, 99509-513, 994/67, 994/68, 99486-492, 994/83, 366/314, 366/601, 241/37.5, 241/92, 241/282.1, 241/282.2, 219/492, 219494-497, 219/481, 219/412, 219/413, 219/506, 219/501, 219/702
• US Class Current: 99/325
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/00 Cooking-vessels A47J29/00 - A47J33/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/00 Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels A47J27/00 - A47J33/00 take precedence insofar as these parts, details or accessories are restricted to a particular kind of cooking-vessel provided for in a single one of these groups
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/082 on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0266 Cooktops
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/6435 Aspects relating to the user interface of the microwave heating apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for assisting in culinary preparation, comprising a plurality of electric household appliances (10, 20, 30) and a remote monitoring and control apparatus (2). According to the invention, the user can select a prerecorded culinary preparation that is modeled as a sequence of steps of preparation and, in the course of at least one step, the monitoring and control apparatus (2) receives a condition signal SE from certain of the electric household appliances, and emits toward certain others a control signal SC dependent on the one hand on condition signals SE and on the other hand of prerecorded operational parameters.

Claims

1. Device for assisting in culinary preparation, comprising a plurality of electric household appliances (10, 20, 30) and a remote monitoring and control apparatus (2) for said electric household appliances (10, 20, 30), the monitoring and control apparatus (2) being provided with display means (3) and selection means (4), and being adapted to receive condition signals (SE) characteristic of the condition of said electric household appliances and to emit toward them control signals (SC),

characterized in that the selection means (4) permit a user to select a prerecorded culinary preparation which is modeled as a series of steps of preparation, of which certain ones taken alone constitute an assisted elementary phase using a first group of electric household appliances by associating with each of them operating parameters, and in that, in the course of at least one assisted elementary phase, the monitoring and control apparatus (2) receives a condition signal (SE) from each of the electric household appliances of a second group, and emits toward each of the electric kitchen appliances of the first group a control signal (SC) dependent on the one hand on said condition signals (SE), and on the other hand on the operational parameters associated with each of the electric household appliances of the first group and with said assisted elementary phase.

2. Device for assistance in culinary preparations according to claim 1,

characterized in that the electric household appliances (10, 20, 30) and the monitoring and control apparatus (2) are interconnected by a cable network, by which the condition signals (SE) and the control signals (SC) are transmitted.

3. Device for assisting in culinary preparation according to claim 1,

characterized in that the condition signals (SE) or the control signals (SC) are optical signals.

4. Device for assistance in culinary preparation according to claim 1,

characterized in that the plurality of electric household appliances (10, 20, 30) comprises at least one of the following appliances:

electric food weighing appliance (10), food processor (20), oven (30).