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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;
Richard W. Cowan, Louisville, KY (US);
John Kenneth Hooker, Louisville, KY (US);
MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;
Abstract
A cooking appliance that includes: a gas cooking element; an igniter located next to the gas cooking element to ignite the gas cooking element; a gas valve for regulating gas flow to the gas cooking element; a burner control coupled to the gas valve to vary the gas flow to the gas cooking element; and a control circuit coupled to the burner control and for activating the igniter when the burner control is positioned within a predetermined range of positions, where the control circuit detects when the burner control has been moved through the predetermined range of positions in less than a predetermined time, and in response to determining that the burner control has been moved through the predetermined range of positions in less than the predetermined time, generate an alert to a user.