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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jean-Marie Thevenin, Bourberain, FR;
Assignee:
SEB S.A., Ecully, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 3/712 ; A47J 2/762 ; H01H 3/732 ; H05B 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 3/712 ; A47J 2/762 ; H01H 3/732 ; H05B 1/02 ;
Abstract
An electric cooking appliance having a housing receiving a removable bowl, a heating element in thermal contact with the bowl when the bowl is seated in the housing, a heat adjuster, an ultimate safety switch to act in case of failure of the heat adjuster, and a thermal limit switch mounted in the housing. The thermal limit switch is set to be triggered before the ultimate safety switch if the bowl in not seated in the housing.