Device for heating liquids

• US 7,257,321 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2004
• Issued: 08/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ferro Techniek Holding B.V.
• Original Assignee: Ferro Techniek Holding B.V.
• Inventors: Kaastra, Simon
• Primary Examiner(s): Campbell; Thor S.
• Application Number:
  US10/569,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20070000906A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 392/459
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/21 Water-boiling vessels, e.g. kettles

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for heating liquids, comprising: a liquid container, at least one electrical heating element connected to the liquid container for heating liquid received in the liquid container, at least one boiling sensor connected to, the inner side of the liquid container for detecting a boiling temperature in a part of the liquid container located above the liquid, at least one overheating sensor thermally connected to the heating element, and an electrical circuit in which the heating element, the boiling sensor and the overheating sensor are received such that a power supply to the heating element can be interrupted by the boiling sensor and the overheating sensor.

Claims

1. A device for heating liquids, comprising:

a liquid container,

at least one electrical heating element connected to the liquid container for heating liquid received in the liquid container,

at least one boiling sensor connected to the inner side of the liquid container for detecting a boiling temperature of the liquid present in the liquid container,

at least one overheating sensor thermally connected to the electrical heating element, and

an electrical circuit in which the heating element, the boiling sensor and the overheating sensor are arranged such that a power supply to the heating element can be interrupted by the boiling sensor and the overheating sensor, wherein when placed in parallel with the boiling sensor in the electric circuit is a time-controlled electric switch which, upon activation of the heating element, bypasses the boiling sensor for a determined time interval, irrespective of the state of the boiling sensor.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the time-controlled electric switch can be manually operated.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor and the time-controlled electric switch placed in parallel therewith, and the coil of a relay are arranged in a first power circuit, whereby a switching contact of the relay placed in a second power circuit is actuated, in which second power circuit the heating element is also included.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the overheating sensor is also included in the first power circuit.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor and the overheating sensor both comprise at least one thermistor.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least one of the thermistors is a PTC resistor.

7. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least one of the thermistors is an NTC resistor.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor is thermally connected to the inner side of the liquid container at a location lying above a maximum liquid level of the liquid container.

9. The device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the boiling sensor is placed in a chamber connected to the liquid container such that the chamber is in communication with the liquid container above the maximum liquid level.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor is screened in medium-tight manner from the liquid container.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor is located outside the liquid container, and is in thermal contact with the inside of the liquid container via a thermal conductor.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a circuit breaker for activating by means of overheating is included in a power circuit with which the electrical power is fed to the heating element.

13. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boiling sensor connected to the inner side of the liquid container for detection of a boiling temperature of the liquid present in the liquid container is placed in a part of the liquid container located above the liquid.