US 12,302,910 B2
Cooking appliance
Wen Sun, Shanghai (CN); Yun Chen, Shanghai (CN); and Guangming Su, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 16/611,278
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed May 13, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/062279
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 6, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/206810, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2017/000352 (WO), filed on May 12, 2017; and application No. 17176844 (EP), filed on Jun. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0054024 A1, Feb. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. A21B 1/24 (2006.01); A21B 3/04 (2006.01); A47J 36/32 (2006.01); F24C 7/08 (2006.01); F24C 15/32 (2006.01)
CPC A21B 1/245 (2013.01) [A21B 3/04 (2013.01); A47J 36/321 (2018.08); A47J 2202/00 (2013.01); F24C 7/085 (2013.01); F24C 15/327 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a cooking chamber;
a heating stage for heating a food product within the cooking chamber;
a humidity adjustment stage for adjusting humidity within the cooking chamber;
a user interface configured to allow a user to specify a texture of said food product and a degree of browning of said food product;
a controller responsive to the user interface and configured to control, the heating stage and the humidity adjustment stage, in accordance with an algorithm having the user-specified texture of said food product and the user-specified degree of browning of said food product as parameters; and
a valve arrangement responsive to the controller, the valve arrangement having a first inlet fluidly coupled to the heating stage, a second inlet fluidly coupled to the humidity adjustment stage, and an outlet fluidly coupled to the cooking chamber, wherein the valve arrangement is configured to change a mixing ratio between dry heat from the heating stage and humid heat from the humidity adjustment stage, and wherein the valve arrangement is arranged as a switch such that the controller switches between the heating stage and the humidity adjustment stage in accordance with the algorithm.