Electric heating – Heating devices – Combined with container – enclosure – or support for material...
Patent
1993-04-05
1994-06-14
Reynolds, Bruce A.
Electric heating
Heating devices
Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...
219452, 219453, 219506, 34082516, 34082517, 341176, H05B 102, F24C 708
Patent
active
053212290
ABSTRACT:
A cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance and method of controlling the same includes a remote control unit having a built-in temperature sensor, positional switch and low-battery detection circuit is in two-way intermittent wireless communication with the appliance control unit. The appliance control unit includes a switch means for controlling the heating elements of the cooking appliance wherein the switch means for each heating element includes two power switches connected in series and coupled with a redundancy detection circuit for the detection of a failure of one of the two power switches. Two-way communication between the two control units of the present invention is constantly monitored to ensure proper operation of the cooking appliance and to provide a mechanism to report errors to the user or to shut down the cooking appliance, as appropriate, soon after an error is detected. Mechanisms are also provided whereby the wireless communication means of the control units may be diagnosed to ensure the control units are properly communicating with each other.
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Holling Ronald W.
Huener Jerome D.
Manson Larry J.
Jeffery John A.
Krefman Stephen D.
Reynolds Bruce A.
Roth Thomas J.
Turcotte Thomas E.
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