US 12,010,781 B2
Induction cooker
Romuald Gallorini, Toulouse (FR); Mingjie Fan, Shanghai (CN); and Shaoyong Wang, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and MEAS France, Toulouse (FR)
Filed by Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and MEAS France, Toulouse (FR)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/816,999.
Claims priority of application No. 201910184253.1 (CN), filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0296806 A1, Sep. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. H05B 6/06 (2006.01); H05B 1/02 (2006.01); H05B 6/12 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 6/062 (2013.01) [H05B 1/0266 (2013.01); H05B 6/1272 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An induction cooker, comprising:
a plurality of stoves each having a transmitting coil and a driver driving the transmitting coil;
a controller controlling the driver of each of the stoves to generate a drive signal, the drive signal of each of the stoves is a periodically cyclic modulation signal sequence, the stoves are identifiable and distinguishable from each other by the periodically cyclic modulation signal sequences that are different for each of the stoves; and
a plurality of pots each placed on one of the stoves, each of the pots has a receiving coil electromagnetically coupled with the transmitting coil of one of the stoves, the receiving coil receives the drive signal from the transmitting coil, one of the stoves corresponding to one of the pots is identified according to the periodically cyclic modulation signal sequence of the drive signal received at the receiving coil of the one of the pots.