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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2003
Stephen Michael Bakanowski, Louisville, KY (US);
David Laurence Kinny, Louisville, KY (US);
Lawrence Michael Portaro, Louisville, KY (US);
Timothy Francis Powell, Mentor, OH (US);
Mark Patrick Schoenegge, Prospect, KY (US);
Joshua Stephen Wiseman, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
Charles Ray Smith, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Cecilia Maria Blanchard, Louisville, KY (US);
Stephen Michael Bakanowski, Louisville, KY (US);
David Laurence Kinny, Louisville, KY (US);
Lawrence Michael Portaro, Louisville, KY (US);
Timothy Francis Powell, Mentor, OH (US);
Mark Patrick Schoenegge, Prospect, KY (US);
Joshua Stephen Wiseman, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
Charles Ray Smith, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Cecilia Maria Blanchard, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A cooking platform includes at least one surface heating element having a first power consumption level and an oven located under the surface heating element. The oven includes a first heating element having a second power consumption level and a second heating element having a third power consumption level. The second heating element has at least two heating sub-elements. One of the two heating sub-elements is configured to be deenergized when a sum of the first, second, and third power consumption levels exceeds a power consumption limit of the cooking platform.