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Automatic cooking appliance employing a neural network for cooking control

US5389764A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 31, 1992
Grant dateFeb 14, 1995
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Expiry dateAug 31, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF24C7/08
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A cooking appliance controls a cooking device on the basis of temperature information of an object to be cooked that is estimated from changes in physical characteristics. A neural network is taught, for a number of categories of food that are classified according to the temperature of the cooked and completed food, the relationship between changes in the physical characteristic, such as the temperature and humidity, generated during heating of the object to be cooked during cooking, and changes of temperature of the object at the center of the object and the surface of the object in order to provide for an automatic cooking operation.

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