US 11,917,742 B2
Method for a cooktop
Alberto Ballester Herrero, Saragossa (ES); Eduardo Imaz Martinez, Tudela (ES); Antonio Muñoz Fumanal, Utebo (ES); Esther Ondiviela Serrano, Saragossa (ES); Daniel Palacios Tomas, Saragossa (ES); Jorge Pascual Aza, Saragossa (ES); and David Valeau Martin, Saragossa (ES)
Assigned to BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed by BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/077,246.
Application 18/077,246 is a continuation of application No. 16/239,787, filed on Jan. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,553,564.
Claims priority of application No. 201830008 (ES), filed on Jan. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0099376 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H05B 6/12 (2006.01); H05B 6/06 (2006.01); F24C 7/08 (2006.01); H05B 3/68 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 6/1209 (2013.01) [F24C 7/083 (2013.01); H05B 3/68 (2013.01); H05B 6/062 (2013.01); H05B 6/065 (2013.01); H05B 2213/03 (2013.01); H05B 2213/05 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooktop, comprising:
a variable cooking surface configured such that in an operating mode the cooking surface is partitioned along a partitioning direction into a plurality of heating zones,
wherein an extent of a peripheral one of the heating zones is determined based on a selected cooking-utensil characteristic, and
wherein the variable cooking surface is further configured such that a heating parameter is assigned to each of the heating zones based on an absolute position on the variable cooking surface and the heating parameters are utilized to heat a cooking utensil deposited on the respective heating zones.