	US 12,153,390 B2
	Method for operating a kitchen system, kitchen system for preparing food, and computer program product
Robert Frielinghaus, Bochum (DE); and Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Leverkusen (DE)
Assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH, Wuppertal (DE)
Filed by Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH, Wuppertal (DE)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/381,220.
Application 18/381,220 is a continuation of application No. 17/206,780, filed on Mar. 19, 2021, granted, now 11,822,304.
Claims priority of application No. 20165869 (EP), filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0045392 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01)

CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [G06F 16/90335 (2019.01); G05B 2219/2643 (2013.01)]

9 Claims

1. A method to operate a kitchen system for at least partially automated preparation of food comprising:

connecting a data processing device to a database system comprising a recipe database with a plurality of recipes for preparing food and a food database with at least one food parameter for the food;

selecting, based on a user input via a user interface, a recipe from the recipe database, wherein the plurality of recipes of the recipe database each contain an indication of a recipe quantity of the food and a preparation parameter for one or more preparation steps;

specifying, based on another user input via the user interface, at least one of: the number of servings, and the number of persons for which the selected recipe is to be performed;

automatically scaling, by the data processing device, the recipe quantity of the food based on at least one of the number of servings and persons;

automatically setting or adjusting, by the data processing device, the preparation parameter as a function of the scaled quantity and by using the food parameter; and

automatically providing an instruction, at least based on the set or adjusted preparation parameter, to one or more kitchen appliances of the kitchen system to automatically perform at least a portion of the preparation of the food, the automatic performing of the at least a portion of the preparation of the food including one or more of:

automatically controlling a temperature of one or more of the one or more kitchen appliances of the kitchen system and a time for the food at the temperature,

automatically controlling a rotational speed or time for an electric motor of one or more of the one or more kitchen appliances of the kitchen system,

automatically controlling a rotational speed or time for a stirrer of one or more of the one or more kitchen appliances of the kitchen system, and

automatically controlling a heating time or a heating power of a heating system of one or more of the one or more kitchen appliances of the kitchen system.