The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Jaekyung Yang, Seoul, KR;

Youngmin Lee, Seoul, KR;

Eunkyoung Yoon, Seoul, KR;

Jinyul Hu, Seoul, KR;

Heungsik Choi, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 27/00 (2006.01); F24B 1/00 (2006.01); A47J 27/62 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 27/62 (2013.01); A23L 5/15 (2016.08); A47J 37/0629 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cooking device is provided. The cooking device may include a cavity forming a space in which food may be received for cooking, a grill heater provided at one side of the cavity and having a plurality of heaters to heat the food, a food sensing device provided in the cavity to acquire information related to a size of the food received in the cavity, and a main controller to estimate the size of the food using information sensed by the food sensing device. The main controller may then operate a part or all of the plurality of heaters according to the estimated size of the food to perform a grill cooking operation.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…