Whirlpool Corporation

Davide Gerola

Cristiano Vito Pastore

Fabrizio Dughiero

Daniele Turetta

Francesco Farachi

Salvatore Sanna

Rocco Galli

An electric oven includes a box casing presenting side walls, a rear wall, an upper wall and a lower wall, an opening and a closure door for this latter, the walls bounding an oven cavity heated by heating structure functionally associated with at least one of the walls. The heating structure is arranged to heat the cavity by induction and includes a generator arranged to generate an electromagnetic field, an electrically insulating material disposed between the generator and the oven wall at which the heating structure is positioned, and magnetically insulating structure is disposed on the outside of the oven with reference to the wall, the generator, the electrically insulating structure and the magnetically insulating structure defining a single, layered structure fitted to the oven wall.

Electric induction oven

A cooking hob with random positioning of pans or the like, comprising a plurality of electrical heating elements disposed within a cooking area and individually powered under the control of a control circuit, the heating elements also being used as position sensors for the pan or pans placed on the cooking area, in which a user interface is present, provided with a touch screen reproducing the cooking area and on which, for each pan placed on the cooking area, there is displayed an activatable region substantially representative of the position of the pan on the cooking area, this position being obtained from data provided by the electrical heating elements in their function as position sensors.

Random positioning cooking hob with user interface

A cooking hob comprising a glass ceramic plate and an underlying plurality of electrical heating elements disposed in matrix configuration and controlled by static switches in order to be able to use at will any region of said hob for heating the contents of one or more cooking utensils, in which a diode is present in series with each electrical heating element.

Cooking hob with discrete distributed heating elements

A device for determining the location of cooking utensils on a cooking hob comprising a plurality of thermal cells distributed in matrix formation below a heat-resistant surface on which the cooking utensil can be located in random manner, the determination of its location, form and dimensions enabling those thermal cells lying below the utensil to be energized, the same thermal cells being also individually used for this determination.

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Varese, Italy

Davide Gerola