General Electric Company

Jon Arthur Roepke

Christopher G Hoppe

Derek Lee Watkins

Mark Weaver

Ziqiang Hu

Joshua Paul Kopecky

Bertram Joseph Stocker, Jr

Bertram Joseph Stocker

Christopher Gregory Hoppe

A coupling apparatus includes an inner shaft rotatably driven about a longitudinal axis of rotation, an outer shaft concentric with the inner shaft for selective rotation about the longitudinal axis, a coupling element movable between a first position engaging the inner shaft to the outer shaft for rotation therewith, and a second position disengaging the inner shaft from the outer shaft for relative rotation therebetween, and an actuating element connected to the coupling element and operable to move the coupling element between the first position and the second position.

Washing machine and coupling apparatus

An automated cooking system () cooks food () accompanied by machine-readable indicia, such as a bar code () read by a reader (). Cooking data, including function coefficients, are accessed from an Internet server () based on the information in the bar code. An oven () cooks the food in phases in response to the cooking data and one or more monitored food parameters of humidity, temperature and weight. The cooking is controlled by functions in which one or more food parameters are multiplied by coefficients that vary according to food type.

Automated cooking system for food accompanied by machine readable indicia

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Milford, MA, United States of America

Jon Arthur Roepke