Electric heating – Heating devices – With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
Patent
1999-03-01
2000-11-28
Paschall, Mark
Electric heating
Heating devices
With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
219506, 219492, 219413, 99325, 426465, H05B 102
Patent
active
061538604
ABSTRACT:
A food preparation system, a controller, a computer readable memory, and a method for providing precise on-line control of a heat transfer process on a food item is disclosed. The food preparation system comprises a heating and/or cooling chamber, a sensor, and a controller. The chamber is configured to transfer heat to or from the food item during a phase of the heat transfer process. The sensor is configured to sense an actual temperature in the heating and/or cooling chamber at each real time epoch of the phase. The controller is configured to control the heating and/or cooling chamber according to a scheduled time-temperature profile over the phase. It is also configured to, at each real time epoch of the phase, simulate an internal temperature in the food item based on the sensed actual temperature at that real time epoch. It is further configured to terminate the phase when the simulated internal temperature at a particular real time epoch reaches a target internal temperature.
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