Electrolux Professional S.p.a.

Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Michele Toppano

Christoph Luckhardt

Franco Tassan Mangina

Giancarlo Arrigoni

Marco Ulian

Riccardo Furlanetto

Marino Fadelli

Federico Del Maschio

Fabio Sinatra

Alessandro Morassut

Daniele Mari

Volkmar Bunzel

Erika Menosso

Franco Tassan-Mangina

Klaus Wälzlein

Gabriele Stella

Thomas Schulz

Thorben Schiffler

Constantin Krausse

Flavio Corazza

Angelo Socal

Giuseppe Dreossi

An induction hob () includes a solid plate (), and a plurality of electrically activatable coil members (-) arranged underneath the plate. The define corresponding cooking zones (-) of the induction hob, and a control unit () is configured to select power levels for the cooking zones. Upon selection of first (P) and second (P) power levels for non-adjacent first () and second () cooking zones, respectively, the control unit is configured to automatically select for each intermediate cooking zone (-) between the first and second cooking zones a corresponding power level (P-P) obtained by interpolation of the first and second power levels with a predefined interpolating function.

Induction hob

An apparatus for cooking food products on both sides which has a food-support surface that is transparent to both microwave and infrared radiation, an electric heating device, and a microwave generator. The microwave generator is connected to a waveguide cavity for irradiating the food products. The apparatus also has a food-contact heating surface that, together with the food-support surface, forms a cooking chamber capable of retaining the microwaves inside. The electric heating device has a shielded resistor with the external shield electrically connected to ground. The apparatus has a partition element made of thermal-insulating and microwave-transparent material, a portion of which is below the shielded resistor to separate the resistor from the microwave generator. The waveguide cavity has a microwave launch aperture underneath the partition element. The microwaves exit the cavity and pass through the partition element, the shielded resistor, and the food-support surface and radiate into the cooking chamber.

Apparatus for cooking food products on both sides thereof

Deep-freezing apparatus for foodstuffs comprising a deep-freezing compartment, signal display means, sensor means adapted to detect the temperature inside the foodstuffs stored in said deep-freezing compartment, processing means for the signals generated by said sensor means, wherein the apparatus further comprises a neural network adapted to receive the signals issued by a temperature sensor situated inside the foodstuff being deep-frozen and by an information on the time elapsed from the beginning of the deep-freezing process, and further adapted to provide a signal representative of the residual time needed to reach a pre-set (deep-freezing) temperature, as well as processing means adapted to receive the signal output by said neural network and provide in response an information representative of the predicted time needed for a pre-determined temperature to be reached on said first temperature sensor.

Deep-freezer with neural network

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Mereto di Tomba, Italy

Michele Toppano