Household appliance, especially cooking apparatus, comprising a device for measuring a physical parameter

• US 8,222,578 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2006
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Miele & CIE KG
• Original Assignee: Miele & CIE KG
• Inventors: Beier, Dominic
• Primary Examiner(s): VAN, QUANG T
• Application Number:
  US11/910,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20080210685A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,316 Days
• Field of Search: 219/713, 219/720, 219/736, 219/748, 219/725, 219/749, 219/516, 219/518, 219/712, 219/497, 426/233, 426/234, 426/523
• US Class Current: 219/713
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/024 for remote indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 2207/02 for measuring food temperature

Abstract

A household appliance has a housing and a door that define an interior, and an electric controller. A measuring device is disposed in the interior for measuring a physical parameter and includes a measuring probe and a probe antenna. A lighting device for illuminating the interior of the household appliance includes a cover and a transmit or receive antenna. The transmit or receive antenna is disposed on the housing and sealed from the interior in a substantially airtight manner using the cover. The transmit or receive antenna is in signal communication with the electric controller allowing wireless signal transmission between the measuring probe and the electric controller.

Claims

1. A household appliance comprising:

an interior defined by a housing and a door;

an electric controller;

a measuring device disposed in the interior for measuring a physical parameter, the measuring device comprising a measuring probe and a probe antenna;

a lighting device operable to illuminate the interior, the lighting device including a cover and a transmit or receive antenna disposed on the housing and sealed from the interior in a substantially airtight manner using the cover, the cover permeable to electromagnetic radiation, the transmit or receive antenna being in signal communication with the electric controller for wireless signal transmission between the measuring probe and the electric controller.

2. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna extends substantially vertically relative to an operating position of the household appliance.

3. The household appliance as recited in claim 2 wherein the transmit or receive antenna comprises a loading coil.

4. The household appliance as recited in claim 2 wherein the cover comprises glass.

5. The household appliance as recited in claim 2 wherein a surface of the cover facing the interior is substantially flush with a surface of the housing facing the interior.

6. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna extends at least partially into an opening bounded by the interior and covered by the cover.

7. The household appliance as recited in claim 6 wherein the transmit or receive antenna comprises a loading coil.

8. The household appliance as recited in claim 6 wherein the cover comprises glass.

9. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna at least partially extends inside the cover.

10. The household appliance as recited in claim 9 wherein the transmit or receive antenna comprises a loading coil.

11. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna at least partially extends along one of an edge of the cover and the opening.

12. The household appliance as recited in claim 11 wherein the transmit or receive antenna comprises a loading coil.

13. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna comprises a loading coil.

14. The household appliance as recited in claim 13 wherein the cover comprises glass.

15. The household appliance as recited in claim 13 wherein a surface of the cover facing the interior is substantially flush with a surface of the housing facing the interior.

16. The household appliance as recited in claim 13 wherein the physical parameter includes a temperature.

17. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the transmit or receive antenna is operable as a transmit antenna and as a receive antenna.

18. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the cover comprises glass.

19. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein a surface of the cover facing the interior is substantially flush with a surface of the housing facing the interior.

20. The household appliance as recited in claim 1 wherein the physical parameter includes a temperature.