Breville Pty Limited

Johnson Thie

Duncan Bruce Hellmers

Richard Lehonde Hoare

Stephen John Mcclean

Gerard Andrew White

Stephen J McClean

Con Psarologos

Tristan Brega

James George Morton

Ali Tofaili

Sathia Thangamuthu

Alastair Dover

Tee Smith

Sam Walker

Eugenie Barnet

Philip McKnight

A kitchen device () having: a base () with a coupling () for receiving an accessory (), the accessory () comprising a magnet and being configured for performing an operation when operated by the kitchen device (); a controller configured to operate the kitchen device (), and thereby the accessory (), to perform the operation; and a magnetometer located in the base () and configured to interact with the magnet when the accessory () is coupled to the base () to provide an accessory signal indicative of a presence of the accessory () to the controller, wherein the magnetometer comprises a magnetoresistor.

Kitchen device having a magnetometer

An appliance including: a vessel to receive a liquid, the vessel having a longitudinal axis, a bottom wall, and a side wall at least partly enclosing a chamber within which the liquid is heated, the chamber having an upper region axially spaced from the bottom wall, and a lower region located between the bottom wall and the upper region; a heating element within the chamber; a heater base including at least a portion of an induction coil; connections to deliver an alternating current to the induction coil to deliver a magnetic field to the lower region; the element being movable relative to the coil between an operative position at which the element is located within the lower region to be energised by the magnetic field to cause heating of the element, and an inoperative position at which the element is located in the upper region to not energize the element.

Induction kettle

An induction heating circuit for an appliance, the induction heating circuit comprising: an AC power supply with an AC monitoring output connected to the active line of the AC power supply, the AC monitoring output providing an indication of current being drawn from the AC power supply; a control circuit comprising at least one processor and a semiconductor current sensor, the semiconductor current sensor arranged to i) detect the current being drawn from the AC power supply and ii) output an output voltage based on the detected current; and an induction driving circuit for driving an inductor of the appliance comprising a semiconductor switch, wherein the semiconductor switch is controlled by the processor based on, at least, the output voltage.

Induction heating circuit, protection circuit and cooling system for an appliance

There is disclosed herein a toaster () including: a housing (); a pair of opposing food guards () located within the housing () and defining a toasting cavity () for receiving foodstuff to be toasted; a pair of heating elements () located within the housing (), each heating element () being located on a respective side of the pair of food guards (), wherein each food guard () is spaced from the corresponding heating element () by a clearance (); and wherein each food guard () has an upwardly-extending portion () that extends upwardly to a portion () that extends transversely from the upwardly-extending portion so as to extend above the corresponding heating element (), the transversely-extending portion () of each food guard () projecting away from the opposing food guard ().

Toaster

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Alexandria, Australia

Johnson Thie