Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

General Electric Company

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Paul Bryan Cadima

James Carter Bach

Bai Han

James Lee Armstrong

Shree Kumar

Paul E McCrorey

Gonzalo Luis Ocano

Brian S Henninger

John Thurl Pottenger

Payam Motabar

Timothy Scott Shaffer

Hans Juergen Paller

Justin Tyler Brown

Brian Michael Schork

Eric Kent Watson

Joshua Stephen Wiseman

John Mark Chilton

Sudeep Pradhan Sadananda Rao

Amelia Lear Hensley

Mark Heimerdinger

Eugenio Gomez

Omar Santana

Anthony Michael Shaw

Lawrence Michael Portaro

Dimitrios Iordanoglou

Azfar Kamal

Paul Newsom

Pranshu Saxena

Brian Scott Henninger

A cooktop appliance includes a top panel with a gas burner disposed on the top panel. The cooktop appliance also includes a grate with a plurality of fingers. The grate is removably positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers includes a sensor finger. The cooktop appliance also includes a hermetically sealed temperature sensor mounted to the sensor finger of the plurality of fingers of the grate. The hermetically sealed temperature sensor includes a base, a sheath extending from the base to a rounded tip, and a contact pad in the base.

Cooktop appliance with hermetically sealed temperature sensor

A cooktop appliance and a gas burner assembly are provided. The gas burner assembly includes an annular burner body forming a central combustion zone and a plurality of flame ports. An annular burner head is placeable onto the burner body to form a top wall of an annular mixing chamber upstream from the plurality of flame ports. A mixing tube extends along an axial direction and includes an inlet passage extending along the axial direction in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The mixing tube is configured to provide a flow of gaseous fuel to the mixing chamber. The burner head includes a tab extending along the axial direction into the mixing chamber. The tab is radially co-positioned to at least one flame port and the inlet passage.

Gas burner assembly and cooktop appliance

A cooking appliance includes a cooktop, a user interface provided on the cooktop, a manifold provided within the cooktop, the manifold including a gas input, a first burner supply line extending from the manifold, a second burner supply line extending from the manifold in fluid parallel with the first burner supply line, a gas burner, the gas burner including a first stage fluidly connected to the manifold via the first burner supply line and a second stage fluidly connected to the manifold via the second burner supply line, a connection line fluidly connecting the first and second burner supply lines, a connection line valve provided on the connection line between the manifold and the gas burner, and a controller operably coupled with the connection line valve, the controller being configured to selectively open the connection line valve.

Control systems and methods for cooktop appliances

A cooktop appliance may include a first gas heating element, a second gas heating element, a first supply valve, a second supply valve, a first supply valve, a second supply line, a first bypass line, a second bypass line, a supplemental valve, and a controller. The first supply line may extend between a first supply valve and the first gas heating element. The second supply line may extend between the second supply valve and the second gas heating element. The first bypass line may extend between the first supply line and the first supply valve at a first bypass outlet. The second bypass line may extend between the second supply line and the second supply valve at a second bypass outlet. The supplemental valve may be provided on the first bypass line. The controller may be operably coupled with the supplemental valve to selectively open the supplemental valve.

Cooktop including a single input control of multiple heating elements

A cooktop appliance includes a first heating element; a second heating element adjacent to the first heating element; a first supply line in upstream fluid communication with the first heating element to direct fuel thereto; a second supply line in upstream fluid communication with the second heating element to direct fuel thereto, the second supply line being in fluid parallel with the first supply line; a first supply valve provided on the first supply line upstream from the first heating element; a second supply valve provided on the second supply line; a supplemental line providing fluid connection from the first supply valve to each of the first supply line and the second supply line; a supplemental line valve provided on the supplemental line; and a controller operably coupled with the supplemental line valve, the controller being configured to selectively open the supplemental line valve.

A gas cooktop defining includes a gas burner for selectively generating a flow of heated air, a grate positioned over the gas burner, and a griddle assembly seated on the grate over the gas burner, the griddle assembly comprising a griddle defining an outer side and a probe receptacle defined in the outer side, a temperature probe configured for receipt within the probe receptacle, and one or more flow control features for directing the flow of heated air around or away from the probe receptacle.

Gas cooktop with griddle assembly including removable temperature probe

A gas cooktop includes a gas burner for selectively generating a flow of heated air, a griddle defining a probe receptacle, a griddle magnet positioned within the probe receptacle, and a temperature sensor configured for receipt within the probe receptacle. The temperature sensor includes a sensor housing, a temperature probe positioned within the sensor housing and being movable between an extended position and a retracted position, and a probe magnet mounted to the sensor housing, the probe magnet engaging and utensil magnet to secure the temperature sensor such that the temperature probe engages the contact pin and is pushed into the retracted position.

A cooktop appliance defining a reference center and a radial direction extending from the reference center, a circumferential direction extending relative to the reference center, and a vertical direction extending orthogonal to the radial direction is provided. The cooktop appliance includes a ceramic-glass plate, a heating assembly positioned below the ceramic-glass plate, and a programmed magnet centered at the reference center. The programmed magnet is configured to generate a magnetic force along the radial direction.

Cooking system with cooktop appliance and programmed magnet

An oven appliance includes a cooking chamber positioned within a cabinet, a heating assembly defining a plurality of heating zones, and a drawer assembly slidably positioned within the cooking chamber. The drawer assembly includes a drawer frame slidably mounted to sidewalls of the cooking chamber, a horizontal rack mounted proximate a bottom of the drawer frame, and one or more vertical dividers positionable within the drawer frame to define a plurality of cooking chambers, each of the plurality of cooking chambers being aligned with one or more of the plurality of heating zones.

Oven drawer having user configurable horizontally divided cavities

A gas burner assembly includes a gas burner and a grate with a plurality of fingers positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers include a sensor finger. The gas burner assembly also includes a temperature sensor mounted to the sensor finger of the plurality of fingers of the grate. The temperature sensor is thermally isolated from the sensor finger.

Cooktop appliance with a cantilevered temperature sensor

An oven appliance includes a two or more cooking chambers positioned within a cabinet and a heating assembly for independently and selectively heating those chambers. A controller is configured to obtain a cooking time for each cooking chamber, determine preheat statuses for each chamber, and generate adjusted cooking times for each chamber based at least in part on their respective preheat statuses. The heating assembly then heats each cooking chamber for its adjusted cooking time such that the heating processes in all cooking chambers end simultaneously.

Auto sequencing cooking events in an oven appliance including multiple cooking chambers

A cooktop appliance or heating element, as provided herein, may include a thermostat within the heating zone of the heating element. The thermostat may include a base and a top cap held on the base. The heat transfer disk may be joined to the thermostat at the top cap.

Cooktop appliance and heating element having a heat transfer disk and a thermostat

A cooktop appliance includes a panel with a burner disposed on the panel. A griddle plate is configured to be removably positioned over the burner. A hermetically sealed temperature sensor is embedded in the griddle plate. The temperature sensor includes a base, a probe extending from the base, a contact pad in the base, and a hermetic seal formed in the base.

A cooktop appliance defines a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction. The vertical direction, the lateral direction, and the transverse direction are mutually perpendicular. The cooktop appliance includes a top panel with a gas burner disposed on the top panel. A terminal block is positioned on the top panel adjacent to the burner. The cooktop appliance also includes a grate with a plurality of fingers removably positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers include a sensor finger. A temperature sensor is rotatably mounted to the sensor finger of the plurality of fingers of the grate whereby the temperature sensor is movable along the vertical direction between an elevated position and a lowered position.

Cooktop appliance with a hinged temperature sensor

A cooktop appliance includes a top panel with a gas burner disposed on the top panel. The cooktop appliance also includes a grate with a plurality of fingers. The grate is removably positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers includes a sensor finger. The cooktop appliance also includes a temperature sensor extending from the top panel adjacent to the gas burner. The temperature sensor is positioned outside of a footprint of the gas burner. The cooktop appliance further includes a thermally conductive probe extending from the temperature sensor to the sensor finger above the gas burner.

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