Display-and-control panel for a cooking surface

US5528015A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Gaggenau-Werke Haus-und Lufttechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Georg von Blanquet · Baden-Baden, DE
• Gerhard Rothenberger · Gaggenau, DE
• Joachim Georg Roth · Dornbirn, AT
• Joachim Damrath · Gaggenau, DE
• Bruno Worner · Gaggenau, DE
• Helmut Bastian · Baden-Baden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 3, 1994
• Grant date: Jun 18, 1996
• Expiry date: Jun 3, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05B3/746
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An electric range top has a cooking surface with at least one hotspot and a display-and-control panel for the cooking surface. The panel accommodates display devices and manually operated control devices for regulating each hotspot. The cooking surface has a cutout in one corner wherein the panel is mounted. One area of the cooking surface is elevated and at least partly overlaps the cutout and the display and control devices are positioned in the vicinity of the elevated area.