Cooking device having a sensor responsive to an indicia for exec

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1994-02-16

1995-06-20

Leung, Philip H.

Electric heating

Heating devices

With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...

219714, 219720, 99325, H05B 668

Patent

active

054262801

ABSTRACT:
A cooking device (10), such as a microwave oven, is provided with a sensor 16) that is responsive to an indicia (18) associated with a food that is to be heated or cooked. For example, the indicia may be a bar code (UPC barcode) that is provided as a part of the packaging of the food. In one embodiment of this invention the cooking device has a controller (14) that is responsive to the indicia being detected by the sensor for looking up in a memory (26) a stored cooking program that has one or more program steps. The controller is responsive to the cooking program to activate and operate a cooking chamber, such as a microwave oven compartment, in accordance with the program steps of the cooking program that is identified by the indicia. The cooking program steps can each include a predetermined cooking time, cooking temperature, and power level setting. A cooking program step can also be a message to an operator, for example a message that indicates that operator intervention is required before cooking can continue. The indicia can be used to identify a cooking program to be looked up. The indicia can also be used to convey cooking variables (time, temperature, etc.) and also constants, such as an identification of a prestored message to be displayed to the user. The indicia can also encode a specific and explicit set of cooking instructions for entry into and execution by the cooking device controller.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4323773 (1982-04-01), Carpenter
patent: 4568810 (1986-02-01), Carmean
patent: 4780588 (1988-10-01), Edamura
patent: 4924048 (1990-05-01), Bunce et al.

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