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1.

Method for the Safe Operation of a Combination Cooking Appliance and Combination Cooking Appliance

      
Application Number 18927665
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-25
First Publication Date 2025-05-01
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Inventor
  • Koenen, Christian
  • Engelmann, Eugen
  • Müller, Peter
  • Selig, Peter

Abstract

A combination cooking appliance has a cooking chamber and a microwave source with a microwave power. In a method for the safe operation of the combination cooking appliance, a cooking chamber temperature prevailing in the cooking chamber is detected, and a convection-relevant parameter is determined. The detected cooking chamber temperature and the convection-relevant parameter are evaluated to determine a maximum permissible microwave power. The microwave power of the microwave source is limited to the maximum permissible microwave power.

IPC Classes  ?

2.

Core Temperature Detector and Combination Cooking Appliance Having a Core Temperature Detector

      
Application Number 18915657
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-15
First Publication Date 2025-04-17
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Inventor
  • Koenen, Christian
  • Selig, Peter

Abstract

A core temperature detector for a combination cooking appliance, has a measuring section and a handle section. Furthermore, a contacting tube is provided, a cable being guided in the contacting tube. The cable has an unsheathed area in the handle section, in which the contacting tube forms a contact point along with the cable, wherein the contact point has a distance to the handle-side end, which corresponds to an electrical length of the microwave radiation in the handle section, which is shorter than or equal to one quarter of the wavelength of the microwave radiation used in the combination cooking appliance. Also described is a combination cooking appliance comprising the core temperature detector as above described.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 6/64 - Heating using microwaves
  • G01K 1/08 - Protective devices, e.g. casings
  • G01K 1/14 - SupportsFastening devicesArrangements for mounting thermometers in particular locations

3.

Method of Determining the Status of a Cooking Appliance and Cooking Appliance

      
Application Number 18762165
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-02
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Inventor
  • Heim, Martin
  • Schreiner, Thomas

Abstract

A method of determining the status, in particular the tightness of a cooking appliance having a steam heating system, includes the steps of: determining an actual energy demand level of the steam heating system at which the energy demand of the steam heating system is constant during operation, and determining a deviation of the actual energy demand level from a desired energy demand level and/or a deviation of the course of a plurality of actual energy demand levels from a specific course of a plurality of desired energy demand levels. A cooking appliance having a steam heating system and a control unit is furthermore provided, which is set up to execute such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01M 3/26 - Investigating fluid tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by measuring rate of loss or gain of fluid, e.g. by pressure-responsive devices, by flow detectors
  • A23L 5/10 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying
  • A47J 27/04 - Cooking-vessels for cooking food in steamDevices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam

4.

IHEXAGON

      
Application Number 1790675
Status Registered
Filing Date 2024-02-28
Registration Date 2024-02-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus and appliances for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus; microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods included in this class.

5.

iClimateBoost

      
Application Number 1790677
Status Registered
Filing Date 2024-02-28
Registration Date 2024-02-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus and appliances for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus; microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods included in this class.

6.

IHEXAGON

      
Serial Number 98425327
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking apparatus, namely, cooking ovens for the treatment of food for professional catering; Apparatus for steam generating for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus, namely, microwave ovens for cooking.

7.

ICLIMATEBOOST

      
Application Number 232862800
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus and appliances for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus; microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods included in this class.

8.

IHEXAGON

      
Application Number 232862900
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus and appliances for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus; microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods included in this class.

9.

ICLIMATEBOOST

      
Serial Number 98394261
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-06
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking apparatus, namely, cooking ovens for the treatment of food for professional catering; Apparatus for steam generating for the treatment of food for professional catering; microwave ovens; microwave cooking apparatus, namely, microwave ovens for cooking

10.

Cooking apparatus socket part

      
Application Number 29702069
Grant Number D0980881
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-08-16
First Publication Date 2023-03-14
Grant Date 2023-03-14
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Inventor
  • Tinius, Michael
  • Diehl, Hannelore

11.

METHOD FOR VISUALISING A PROGRAMME PLANNING, DIALOGUE INTERFACE THEREFOR AND COOKING DEVICE THEREFOR

      
Application Number 17632872
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-08-07
First Publication Date 2022-09-01
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Agapkin, Tanja
  • Seemüller, Simon

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for visualizing programs for at least one cooking appliance, in which, after selection of at least two programs from a plurality of programs and their chronological order, the selected programs are displayed on at least one display device in a display area in each case in the form of at least one virtual receipt representing a program representative along a time axis to take account of the time sequence, wherein the extension of each displayed virtual receipt along the time axis is characteristic for a duration of the respectively associated program, and a time planning gap characterizing a pause region along the time axis between a first receipt and a second receipt following this first receipt in terms of time is at least partially closed automatically or triggered by a user by moving the second receipt towards the first receipt, in particular back to the left along the time axis extending in the x-direction, characterized by the following steps a) determining the presence of at least one planning gap between two chronologically consecutive receipts, b) displaying the determined planning gap at least once and/or outputting information about the determined planning gap and/or opening a dialogue interface to the determined planning gap, and c) at least partially closing the determined planning gap in response to a closure request. Furthermore, the invention relates to a dialogue interface and a cooking device for carrying out such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

12.

METHOD FOR VISUALIZING PROGRAMS AND A COOKING DEVICE USING SAME

      
Application Number 17487358
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-09-28
First Publication Date 2022-01-13
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Agapkin, Tanja

Abstract

A cooking device including a processor for executing a method and the method for displaying one or more cooking programs corresponding to cooking one or more foods includes displaying a virtual token board including a time scale which provides time information indicating a time when the one or more foods are cooking or will be cooked, and a space scale which provides levels indicating a location where the one or more foods are cooking or will be cooked, displaying one or more virtual tokens corresponding to the one or more cooking programs, and providing a leading virtual climate token in response at least one of the one or more virtual tokens being selected which provides information on cooking a plurality of food products of the one or more foods in a single cooking chamber with at least an overlap in cooking time.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A47J 36/32 - Time-controlled igniting mechanisms or alarm devices
  • G06F 3/0482 - Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
  • G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

13.

Cleaning chemical assembly, cleaning chemical modular system, and cooking appliance

      
Application Number 17369708
Grant Number 11980919
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-07-07
First Publication Date 2022-01-13
Grant Date 2024-05-14
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kufner, Christian
  • Lindell, Filip
  • Ulmer, Manuel

Abstract

A cleaning chemical assembly has a collection container, a pump, two ports for storage containers that contain the same cleaning chemical, and a switchover valve that can be switched between a first state, in which the pump can pump liquid from the collection container to the storage container connected to the first one of the two ports while the second port is disconnected in a liquid-tight manner, and a second state, in which the pump can pump liquid from the collection container to the storage container connected to the second one of the two ports while the first port is disconnected in a liquid-tight manner. A sensor is provided that can be used to detect whether one of the storage containers is empty.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B08B 3/08 - Cleaning involving contact with liquid the liquid having chemical or dissolving effect
  • A47J 27/04 - Cooking-vessels for cooking food in steamDevices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam
  • A47J 27/16 - Cooking-vessels for use in hotels, restaurants, or canteens heated by steam
  • A47J 36/32 - Time-controlled igniting mechanisms or alarm devices
  • B08B 13/00 - Accessories or details of general applicability for machines or apparatus for cleaning

14.

Cleaning chemical assembly, cleaning chemical modular system, and cooking appliance

      
Application Number 17369721
Grant Number 12247745
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-07-07
First Publication Date 2022-01-13
Grant Date 2025-03-11
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kufner, Christian
  • Lindell, Filip
  • Ulmer, Manuel

Abstract

A cleaning chemical assembly for a cooking appliance has a collection container, a pump, at least two ports for storage containers that contain different cleaning chemicals, and at least one device for identifying the cleaning chemical in the respective storage container. The device for identifying the cleaning chemical is a switching element that is designed to cooperate with a mechanical coding on the respective storage container. The switching element includes a plurality of microswitches at the ports.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 14/00 - Stoves or ranges having self-cleaning provisions, e.g. continuous catalytic cleaning or electrostatic cleaning
  • B08B 9/093 - Cleaning of containers, e.g. tanks by the force of jets or sprays
  • G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light

15.

Method for the detection of at least one loading parameter of a closed space by a detection device, training method, computer program, computer-readable data carrier, and detection device

      
Application Number 16978937
Grant Number 11844171
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-07
First Publication Date 2021-12-23
Grant Date 2023-12-12
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Meo, Fernando
  • Pizzolato, Elisa
  • Schwalb, Daniel
  • Roediger, Philipp

Abstract

A method of sensing at least one load parameter of a closed chamber by a sensing device by means of electromagnetic radiation is described, in which measurements of at least one measured variable are used. A first measurement is carried out when there is a first spatial distribution of the electric field generated by the electromagnetic radiation. At least a second measurement is carried out when there is a second spatial distribution of the electric field generated by the electromagnetic radiation, which differs from the first spatial distribution of the electric field.

IPC Classes  ?

16.

RATIONAL

      
Application Number 1631961
Status Registered
Filing Date 2021-10-19
Registration Date 2021-10-19
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services

Goods & Services

Installation, maintenance and repair of cooking apparatus and/or steam generating apparatus for the treatment of foods for large-scale catering kitchens; providing information relating to the repair and maintenance of electric and non-electric cooking apparatus and installations.

17.

RATIONAL

      
Serial Number 97084690
Status Registered
Filing Date 2021-10-20
Registration Date 2023-09-05
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services

Goods & Services

Installation, maintenance and repair of cooking apparatus and/or steam generating apparatus for the treatment of foods for large-scale catering kitchens; providing information relating to the repair and maintenance of electric and non-electric cooking apparatus and installations

18.

RATIONAL

      
Application Number 215285900
Status Registered
Filing Date 2021-10-19
Registration Date 2023-11-08
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services

Goods & Services

(1) Installation, maintenance and repair of cooking apparatus and steam generating apparatus comprised of cooking pots and pans, electric cooking steamer, commercial cooking ovens, cooking grills, deep fat fryers, electric pressure cookers, and double boilers all for the treatment of foods for large-scale commercial kitchens; providing information relating to the repair and maintenance of electric and non-electric cooking apparatus and installations, namely, cooking pots and pans, cooking steamer, commercial cooking ovens, cooking grills, deep fat fryers, electric pressure cookers, and double boilers

19.

Method for determining the moisture content within a cooking chamber of a cooking device, and cooking device

      
Application Number 16316960
Grant Number 11193911
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-07-11
First Publication Date 2021-02-11
Grant Date 2021-12-07
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Roosen, Petra
  • Schreiner, Thomas
  • Merker, Oliver

Abstract

e) the control unit determines the moisture within the cooking chamber by means of the temperature value and the speed of sound.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 29/024 - Analysing fluids by measuring propagation velocity or propagation time of acoustic waves
  • G01N 29/036 - Analysing fluids by measuring frequency or resonance of acoustic waves
  • G01N 29/32 - Arrangements for suppressing undesired influences, e.g. temperature or pressure variations
  • G01N 29/46 - Processing the detected response signal by spectral analysis, e.g. Fourier analysis

20.

METHOD FOR VISUALISING A PROGRAMME SCHEDULE, DIALOGUE INTERFACE THEREFOR, AND COOKING APPLIANCE THEREFOR

      
Application Number EP2020072294
Publication Number 2021/023875
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-08-07
Publication Date 2021-02-11
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Agapkin, Tanja
  • Seemüller, Simon

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for visualising programmes for at least one cooking appliance, in which method, after at least two programmes and their chronological order are selected from a plurality of programmes, the selected programmes are displayed, in each case in the form of at least one virtual ticket (40, 50, 60, 60', 60") constituting a representative of a programme, on at least one display device in a display area (1, 10) along a time axis in order to take into account the chronological order, wherein the extent of each displayed virtual ticket (40, 50, 60, 60', 60'') along the time axis characterises the duration of the associated programme, and a scheduling time gap (70), which characterises a pause region (17) along the time axis between a first ticket (40, 50) and a second ticket (50, 60, 60', 60'') that chronologically succeeds said first ticket (40, 50), is at least partially closed, either automatically or triggered by a user, by moving the second ticket (50, 60, 60', 60") towards the first ticket (40, 50), in particular back to the left along the time axis extending in the x-direction, said method being characterised by the following steps: a) determining the presence of at least one scheduling gap (70) between two successive tickets (40, 50, 60, 60', 60"); b) displaying the determined scheduling gap (70) at least once and/or outputting information concerning the determined scheduling gap (70) and/or opening a dialogue interface concerning the determined scheduling gap (70); and c) at least partially closing the determined scheduling gap (70) in accordance with a closure request. The invention also relates to a dialogue interface and a cooking appliance for carrying out such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

21.

Loading and unloading station and also loading and/or unloading method of a cooking apparatus to determine the load of the cooking chamber of the cooking device

      
Application Number 16646897
Grant Number 12064054
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-14
First Publication Date 2020-09-24
Grant Date 2024-08-20
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Waitz, Reimar
  • Schick, David
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Merker, Oliver
  • Schreiner, Thomas

Abstract

A loading and/or unloading station of at least one cooking device with a plurality of insertion levels defining insertion heights for food in at least one cooking chamber, the at least one insertion and/or food carrier which can be loaded with at least one food can be placed at each insertion height, the loading and/or unloading station including a sensing device for determining the loading of the cooking chamber, which has at least one camera device for recording images which are evaluated or can be evaluated in a data processing device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 15/16 - Shelves, racks or trays inside ovensSupports therefor
  • A21B 1/50 - Bakers' ovens characterised by having removable baking surfaces
  • A21B 3/07 - Charging or discharging ovens
  • A47J 27/13 - Tier cooking-vessels
  • A47J 36/16 - Inserts
  • A47J 36/32 - Time-controlled igniting mechanisms or alarm devices
  • F27D 3/12 - Travelling or movable supports or containers for the charge
  • F27D 21/02 - Observation or illuminating devices
  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis

22.

iProductionManager

      
Application Number 1532926
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-02-03
Registration Date 2020-02-03
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers; high-performance saute pans, namely refractory commercial cooking appliances for short frying of food at high heat; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins (parts of sanitary installations); all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

23.

iDensityControl

      
Application Number 1533044
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-02-03
Registration Date 2020-02-03
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers; high-performance saute pans, namely refractory commercial cooking appliances for short frying of food at high heat; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

24.

iCareSystem

      
Application Number 1532963
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-02-03
Registration Date 2020-02-03
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers; high-performance sauté pans, namely refractory commercial cooking appliances for short frying of food at high heat; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

25.

iZoneControl

      
Application Number 1533014
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-02-03
Registration Date 2020-02-03
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers; high-performance saute pans, namely refractory commercial cooking appliances for short frying of food at high heat; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

26.

iVarioBoost

      
Application Number 1523634
Status Registered
Filing Date 2019-12-04
Registration Date 2019-12-04
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

27.

IPRODUCTIONMANAGER

      
Serial Number 88838831
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-03-18
Registration Date 2020-10-13
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; High-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; Electric pasta and rice steamers; gas pasta and rice steamers; Cooking stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

28.

IDENSITYCONTROL

      
Serial Number 88838865
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-03-18
Registration Date 2020-10-13
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; High-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; Electric pasta and rice steamers; Gas pasta and rice steamers; Cooking stoves; Stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

29.

ICARESYSTEM

      
Serial Number 88838855
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-03-18
Registration Date 2020-10-13
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; High-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; Electric pasta and rice steamers; Gas pasta and rice steamers; Cooking stoves; Stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

30.

IZONECONTROL

      
Serial Number 88838875
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-03-18
Registration Date 2020-10-13
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; Installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; High-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; Electric pasta and rice steamers; Gas pasta and rice steamers; Cooking stoves; Stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

31.

IVARIOBOOST

      
Serial Number 88750826
Status Registered
Filing Date 2020-01-08
Registration Date 2020-07-28
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; electric pasta and rice steamers; gas pasta and rice steamers; cooking stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

32.

Method for operating a plurality of devices having electrical consumers or gas consumers, and system having a plurality of such devices

      
Application Number 16473025
Grant Number 11960256
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-12-08
First Publication Date 2019-11-21
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner
  • RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
  • RATIONAL INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland)
Inventor
  • Breunig, Manfred
  • Löw, Florian
  • Marek, Frank

Abstract

A method for operating a plurality of devices which each contain at least one electrical or gas consumer, with the following steps: before switching on the consumer, the device asks an allocation module whether the process can be started, on the basis of parameters of the requested process, parameters of currently running and/or planned processes of the other consumers and a predefined maximum power value, the allocation module decides whether the requested process is enabled, modified or at least temporarily disabled. A system having a plurality of devices which each have at least one electrical or gas consumer as well as a controller, and having an allocation module in which a maximum power value for the consumers is stored, wherein the controller of the devices can send information about planned and current processes via a communication link to the allocation module and receive an enable signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 15/02 - Systems controlled by a computer electric
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • H02J 3/14 - Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks for adjusting voltage in ac networks by changing a characteristic of the network load by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
  • H05B 1/02 - Automatic switching arrangements specially adapted to heating apparatus

33.

METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF AT LEAST ONE LOADING PARAMETER OF A CLOSED SPACE BY A DETECTION DEVICE, TRAINING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE DATA CARRIER, AND DETECTION DEVICE

      
Application Number EP2019055765
Publication Number 2019/170830
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-07
Publication Date 2019-09-12
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Meo, Fernando
  • Pizzolato, Elisa
  • Schwalb, Daniel
  • Roediger, Philipp

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the detection of at least one loading parameter of a closed space by a detection device by means of electromagnetic radiation, wherein measurements of at least one measured variable are used. A first measurement is performed at a first spatial distribution of the electric field generated by the electromagnetic radiation. At least a second measurement is performed at a second spatial distribution of the electric field generated by the electromagnetic radiation, which second spatial distribution of the electric field is different from the first spatial distribution of the electric field. The at least two measurements are evaluated with respect to the at least one measured variable by means of a mathematical operation and/or mathematical transformation in order to obtain at least one evaluation variable from the measurement results, by means of which evaluation variable the loading parameter is determined by applying a pattern recognition having the at least one evaluation variable as an input variable and/or applying a mathematical model comprising the at least one evaluation variable and comprising at least one training parameter, which has been determined by means of prior tests. The invention further relates to a detection device. The invention further relates to a training method, to a computer program and to a computer-readable data carrier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 22/00 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of microwaves or radio waves, i.e. electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of one millimetre or more
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

34.

LOADING AND UNLOADING STATION AND ALSO LOADING AND/OR UNLOADING METHOD OF A COOKING APPLIANCE FOR DETERMINING THE LOAD IN THE COOKING CHAMBER OF THE COOKING APPLIANCE

      
Application Number EP2018074959
Publication Number 2019/053222
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-14
Publication Date 2019-03-21
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Waitz, Reimar
  • Schick, David
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Merker, Oliver
  • Schreiner, Thomas

Abstract

The present invention relates to a loading and/or unloading station of at least one cooking appliance comprising a large number of insert levels, which define insert heights, for food in at least one cooking chamber, wherein at least one insert and/or food carrier which can be loaded with at least one item of food can be placed at each insert height, characterized by a sensing device for determining the load in the cooking chamber, which sensing device has at least one camera device for recording images which are evaluated or can be evaluated in a data-processing device, wherein the camera device comprises at least one camera which is attached or can be attached to a rack or frame and/or to a movable carrying and/or receiving device for at least one food carrier, in particular in the form of a tray rack trolley or a tray rack, wherein the carrying and/or receiving device, each insert and/or each food carrier are/is equipped with an optical mark and/or an element of an electromagnetic identification system and in this way can be identified, automatically and/or on request, by the loading and/or unloading station and/or the cooking appliance. The invention further relates to a loading and/or unloading method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A21B 3/07 - Charging or discharging ovens
  • F24C 15/16 - Shelves, racks or trays inside ovensSupports therefor

35.

METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OVERLOAD OF A COOKING APPARATUS WITH COOKING PRODUCTS, AND COOKING APPARATUS

      
Application Number EP2018072555
Publication Number 2019/038280
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-08-21
Publication Date 2019-02-28
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Klasmeier, Juergen
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Geschke, Christine
  • Reuter, Tim

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for detecting an overload of a cooking apparatus (10) with cooking products, in which the cooking products are optically detected and/or in which a cooking chamber moisture profile and/or cooking chamber temperature curve is/are detected and evaluated during an ongoing cooking process in order to conclude to an overload of the cooking apparatus (10) taking into account the selected cooking program. A warning signal is output if an overload of the cooking apparatus (10) has been detected. Further disclosed is a cooking apparatus (10).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • H05B 6/64 - Heating using microwaves

36.

COOKING APPLIANCE UNIT AND COOKING APPLIANCE SUPPORT FRAME

      
Application Number EP2018068274
Publication Number 2019/015985
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-05
Publication Date 2019-01-24
Owner
  • FRIMA INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland)
  • RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Assenbrunner, Jakob
  • Lingenheil, Markus
  • Wassmus, Reinhard
  • Spalholz, Kevin
  • Endres, Simon

Abstract

The invention relates to a cooking appliance (6) comprising a moveable support frame (8) via which the height of the attached cooking appliance (10) can be adjusted, and specifically in accordance with the operating mode of the cooking appliance (10). The invention also relates to a cooking appliance support frame (8).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • A47J 27/14 - Cooking-vessels for use in hotels, restaurants, or canteens

37.

Connected Cooking

      
Application Number 1436009
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-02-23
Registration Date 2018-02-23
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 38 - Telecommunications services
  • 41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services
  • 42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design

Goods & Services

Computer software. Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; accessories and parts for the aforesaid goods, included in this class. Telecommunication services; communication services, namely, providing push notifications and message notifications to mobile phone devices, portable media players, computers and handheld computers; providing of remote access to computer and communications networks; interconnection services of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; providing access to and between networks, broadband, ethernets, WAN's and/or LAN's for interconnection services of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens with smartphone or personal computer. Education, providing training, entertainment and sports; recipe library services; instruction [providing of training], also by video, for operation of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; arranging and conducting of training courses and tutorials (providing of training). IT services, namely updating of memory banks of computer systems, data migration services, updating of websites, for others, monitoring of computer systems by remote access; Software as a service (SaaS) services, namely the provision of online non-downloadable software for the use of real time messaging via Short Message Service (SMS) and push notification; computer services, namely providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for use with mobile telephones and other communication devices to facilitate group conversation, IP-based messaging, media sharing, online access, instant messaging, messaging platform, location messaging, messaging search, messaging advertising, cloud based messaging, messaging based loyalty programs, multimedia messaging, cross media messaging, and push messaging; software as a service (SaaS) services, namely the provision of software, enabling owners and users to connect remotely with their cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens to access setting information and control functions; remote programming of machine controls, installation of software updates for machine controls; development, maintenance, installation and updating of software and consultancy with regard thereto for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; monitoring, operation control, computer systems maintenance of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens via data cables (teleservices), including via the Internet, in particular remote control, remote fault diagnosis, fault elimination, including remote programming of machine controls for fault elimination, maintenance and installation of machine control software, installation of software updates for machine controls for fault elimination; computer services relating to the synchronisation of computers and mobile devices with cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; services relating to the installation, updating and maintenance of computer software enabling wireless communications between a variety of electronic apparatus, and software for receiving, recording, synchronisation, processing, storage, reproduction and transmission of information, data, sound and images; providing and hosting an interface for IP and cellular enabled devices that allows users to remotely store, manage, administer, synchronize, access, share, modify, and control cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens over a global and wireless computer network, and smartphones; development and operation of software for recording, documenting and managing data of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; quality checking of measuring devices, evaluation of measurements, documentation of measurement results, determination and collecting of HACCP data of all connected cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; electronic data storage and backup-services, cloud-based back-up services, online-backup services relating to customized installations of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens.

38.

IVARIO

      
Application Number 1423224
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-07-09
Registration Date 2018-07-09
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment; cooking apparatus heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; pasta and rice steamers; stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens.

39.

IVARIO

      
Serial Number 79240878
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-07-09
Registration Date 2019-07-09
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Combined hot-air and steam electric cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; combined hot-air and steam gas cooking ovens for preparing food in commercial kitchens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, electric cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; installations and apparatus for steam generation, cooking, refrigeration and ventilation for food treatment, namely, gas cooking ovens heated by means of pulsated air; high-performance electric deep fryers and sauté pans; electric pasta and rice steamers; gas pasta and rice steamers; cooking stoves; stainless steel wash-hand basins being parts of sanitary installations in commercial kitchen equipment; all the aforesaid goods for use in large-scale kitchens

40.

IVARIO

      
Application Number 190804900
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-07-06
Registration Date 2022-01-10
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Combined hot-air and steam ovens for use in large-scale catering kitchens; combination cooking oven and cooking steamer system for using dry heat and steam for use in commercial kitchens; multi-system cooking installations with pulsed hot air for use in large-scale catering kitchens; high-yield deep friers, large capacity electric skillets for use in large-scale catering kitchens, pasta and rice steamers for use in large-scale catering kitchens; stoves for use in large-scale catering kitchens

41.

METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLURALITY OF DEVICES HAVING ELECTRICAL CONSUMERS OR GAS CONSUMERS, AND SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF SUCH DEVICES

      
Application Number EP2017082053
Publication Number 2018/114403
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-12-08
Publication Date 2018-06-28
Owner
  • RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
  • FRIMA INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland)
Inventor
  • Breunig, Manfred
  • Löw, Florian
  • Marek, Frank

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a plurality of devices which each contain at least one electrical consumer (14) or one gas consumer, comprising the following steps: before the device (10) switches on the consumer (14), the device requests from an allocation module (20) whether the process can be started; the allocation module (20) decides whether the requested process is enabled, modified or at least temporarily disabled on the basis of parameters of the requested process, of parameters of currently running and/or planned processes of the other consumers and of a predefined maximum power value. The invention also relates to a system having a plurality of devices (10) which each have at least one electrical consumer (14) or one gas consumer and a controller (12), and having an allocation module (20) in which a maximum power value for the consumers (14) is stored, wherein there is a communication link (16) between the controller of the devices (10) and the allocation module (20), via which communication link the controllers (12) can send information about planned and current processes and receive an enable signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 15/02 - Systems controlled by a computer electric
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • H02J 3/14 - Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks for adjusting voltage in ac networks by changing a characteristic of the network load by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
  • H05B 1/02 - Automatic switching arrangements specially adapted to heating apparatus

42.

ICOMBI

      
Application Number 1401659
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-03-08
Registration Date 2018-03-08
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; accessories and parts for the aforesaid goods, included in this class.

43.

Energy transfer cooking device accessory, method of manufacturing an energy transfer cooking device accessory and cooking device

      
Application Number 15814160
Grant Number 10687394
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-11-15
First Publication Date 2018-05-17
Grant Date 2020-06-16
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Schick, David
  • Schreiner, Thomas

Abstract

An energy transfer cooking device accessory is described which includes a plastically deformed metal sheet (and a transformer-like power transfer unit which has a primary circuit and a secondary circuit. The plastically deformed metal sheet is arranged between said primary circuit and said secondary circuit. Simultaneously said plastically deformed metal sheet forms a magnetically permeable coupling point for said primary circuit and said secondary circuit, so that a magnetic flux from said primary circuit to said secondary circuit via said plastically deformed metal sheet is guaranteed. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing an energy transfer cooking device accessory and a cooking device are described.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 6/12 - Cooking devices
  • B21D 26/00 - Shaping without cutting otherwise than by using rigid devices or tools or yieldable or resilient pads, e.g. shaping by applying fluid pressure or magnetic forces
  • H01F 38/14 - Inductive couplings
  • F24C 15/00 - DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGESDETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION Details
  • H05B 6/36 - Coil arrangements

44.

Grilling accessory and grilling system

      
Application Number 15817818
Grant Number 10813495
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-11-20
First Publication Date 2018-05-17
Grant Date 2020-10-27
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor Holzapfel, Wolfgang

Abstract

A grilling accessory for use in a cooking space of a cooking appliance is described, which includes two food carriers with at least one cooking area each, which contact a food at the same time. The food carriers are arranged to each other such that the respective cooking areas face each other, wherein at least one of the food carriers has openings in the respective cooking area, wherein the two food carriers are connected with each other via a connecting element comprising a joint. Further, a grilling system is described.

IPC Classes  ?

45.

ICOMBI

      
Serial Number 79232064
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-03-08
Registration Date 2018-12-25
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens, namely, industrial cooking ovens and steam heating apparatus for industrial purposes; accessories for the aforesaid goods, namely, oven racks and mobile oven racks and plates and replacement parts for the aforesaid goods

46.

ICOMBI

      
Application Number 188535700
Status Registered
Filing Date 2018-02-28
Registration Date 2021-04-23
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Industrial cooking ovens; oven racks

47.

METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE MOISTURE CONTENT WITHIN A COOKING CHAMBER OF A COOKING DEVICE, AND COOKING DEVICE

      
Application Number EP2017067408
Publication Number 2018/011210
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-07-11
Publication Date 2018-01-18
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Roosen, Petra
  • Schreiner, Thomas
  • Merker, Oliver

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for determining the moisture content within a cooking chamber (12) of a cooking device (10), which method comprises the following steps: a) acoustic oscillation is produced in a resonance chamber (24), b) a control unit (38) receives the signals sensed by a microphone (34) in the resonance chamber (24), c) the control unit (38) determines the frequency spectrum of the acoustic oscillations present in the resonance chamber (24) on the basis of the received signals and determines the speed of sound within the cooking chamber (12) on the basis of the frequency spectrum, d) the control unit (38) receives a temperature value, e) the control unit determine the moisture content within the cooking chamber by means of the temperature value and the speed of sound. The invention further relates to a cooking device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A21B 3/04 - Air-treatment devices for ovens, e.g. regulating humidity
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • F24C 15/32 - Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens

48.

CONNECTEDCOOKING

      
Serial Number 87708361
Status Registered
Filing Date 2017-12-05
Registration Date 2019-03-12
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 38 - Telecommunications services
  • 09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services
  • 42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design

Goods & Services

Telecommunication services in the nature of transfer of data; communication services, namely, providing push notifications and rich message notifications to mobile phone devices, portable media players, computers and handheld computers via the internet; providing of remote access to computer and communications networks; interconnection services, namely, providing electronic transmission of data to cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; providing access to and between telecommunication networks and the internet for interconnection services with cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens with smartphone or personal computer computer software for managing cooking appliances in commercial kitchens via a server or a handheld device cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens, namely, combi-steamer ovens and multi-functional tilting pans; accessories and parts for the aforementioned goods included in this class, namely, oven racks and mobile oven racks and plates sold as parts of ovens and warming pans and frying baskets sold as parts of tilting pans Education services, namely, providing online courses in the field of cooking, providing training in the field of cooking, recipe library services; instruction, namely, providing of training by non-downloadable video, for operation of cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; arranging and conducting of training courses and tutorials in the field of cooking IT services, namely, data migration services, updating of websites, for others, monitoring of computer systems by remote access to ensure proper functioning; software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for the use of real time messaging via Short Message Service (SMS) and push notification; computer services, namely, providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for use with mobile telephones and other communication devices to facilitate group conversation, IP-based messaging, media sharing, online access, instant messaging, messaging platform, location messaging, messaging search, messaging advertising, cloud based messaging, messaging based loyalty programs, multimedia messaging, cross media messaging, and push messaging; software as a service (SAAS) services, namely, the provision of software, enabling owners and users to connect remotely with their cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens to access setting information and control functions; remote programming of machine controls of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens, installation of software updates for machine controls; development, maintenance, installation and updating of software and consultancy with regard thereto for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; monitoring of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens via data cables being teleservices, including via the Internet, in particular, monitoring of remote control, remote fault diagnosis, fault elimination; maintenance of machine control software for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; installation of software updates for machine controls for fault elimination for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; remote programming of machine controls for fault elimination for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; computer services, namely, providing a website featuring technology enabling user to connect with cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable middleweare for providing an interface between IP and cellular enabled devices and cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens that allows users to remotely store, manage, administer, synchronize, access, share, modify, and control cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens over a global and wireless computer network, and smartphones; development of software for recording, documenting and managing data of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; providing a website featuring technology enabling checking of measuring devices, evaluation of measurements, documentation of measurement results, determination and collecting of HACCP data, namely, batch numbers, cooking program name, time, temperature, cooking modes, cleaning, energy input of all connected cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; electronic data storage and backup-services, cloud-based back-up services, electronic online-backup services relating to customized installations of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens

49.

CONNECTEDCOOKING

      
Application Number 186964500
Status Registered
Filing Date 2017-11-24
Registration Date 2019-11-13
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 38 - Telecommunications services
  • 41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services
  • 42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design

Goods & Services

(1) Computer software for operating and programming industrial kitchen ovens; computer software for the remote monitoring, operating and programming of industrial kitchen ovens (2) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens, namely industrial kitchen ovens (1) Communication services, namely, providing push notifications and rich text message notifications to mobile phone devices, portable media players, computers and handheld computers; Providing of remote access to computer and communications networks; Providing telecommunication interconnection to the Internet to remotely access cooking and steam generating industrial kitchen ovens for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Providing access to and between networks, broadband, ethernets, WANs and LANs for interconnection services of cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens with smartphone or personal computer (2) Providing education and training in the field of tricks and tips from culinary chefs; Recipe library services; Instructional, also by video, for operation of cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Arranging and conducting of training courses and tutorials namely instructional videos on how to prepare different foods, how to clean industrial kitchen ovens, and how to prepare shopping lists (3) IT services, namely updating of memory banks of computer systems, data migration services, updating of websites, for others, monitoring of computer systems by remote access; Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for the use of real time messaging via Short Message Service (SMS) and push notification; Computer services, namely providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for use with mobile telephones, computers, tablets, laptops, notebooks and smartphones to provide online access to multimedia messaging boards for cloud based messaging in order to facilitate group conversation, to facilitate IP-based text messaging, to facilitate third-party video and photo sharing and instant messaging, to provide the location of third-party kitchens, to allow searching through text message and multimedia messaging board conversations, to permit third-party advertising of the goods and services of others and messaging based loyalty programs and push messaging; Software as a service (SAAS) services, namely the provision of software, enabling owners and users to connect remotely with their cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens to access setting information and control functions; Software as a service provider for the remote operation programming of industrial kitchen appliance controls; installation and update of computer software for the remote operation programming of industrial kitchen appliance controls; Development, maintenance, installation and updating of software and consultancy with regard thereto for cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Maintenance of computer software to remotely monitor and control cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens namely for electrical and cooking fault diagnosis, electrical and cooking fault reset, for the remote programming of industrial kitchen appliance operational controls to reduce electrical and cooking fault elimination, maintenance and installation of machine control software, installation of software updates for machine controls for fault elimination provided through telephone data lines and the Internet; Computer services namely the synchronisation of computer operational software and daylight savings time changes through computers, tablets, smartphones, laptops, and notebook computers to update cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Installation, updating and maintenance of computer software for the receiving, recording, synchronisation, processing, storage, reproduction and transmission of operational information of cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Providing web and hosting services using an interface for IP and cellular enabled devices that allows users to remotely store, manage, administer, synchronize, access, share, modify, and control cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens over a global and wireless computer network, and smartphones; Development of operating software for recording, documenting and managing data of cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Creation of control programs for automated measurement, assembly, adjustment, and visualisation of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) data to check that food will be free from biological and chemical contaminants in order to comply with foods safety standards for food consumption using the connected cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; Cloud computing provider services for general storage of electronic data and electronic data backup-services in the field of customized settings for connected cooking and steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens

50.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COOKING APPLIANCE, COOKING APPLIANCE, AND HEATING ELEMENT

      
Application Number EP2016075070
Publication Number 2017/072002
Status In Force
Filing Date 2016-10-19
Publication Date 2017-05-04
Owner
  • FRIMA INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland)
  • RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Gluck, Pascal
  • Junghanns, Annika Katharina
  • Lingenheil, Markus
  • Schmidlin, Pascal

Abstract

Described is a method for controlling a cooking appliance (10) comprising at least one electric load (16) and a controller (15). The electric load (16) is variably connected to at least one of a plurality of phases (L1, L2, L3) of a power connection (12). The phase (L1, L2, L3) is selected from among the plurality of phases (L1, L2, L3). A cooking appliance (10) and a heating element are also described.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 1/02 - Automatic switching arrangements specially adapted to heating apparatus
  • H02J 3/26 - Arrangements for eliminating or reducing asymmetry in polyphase networks
  • H02J 3/14 - Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks for adjusting voltage in ac networks by changing a characteristic of the network load by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading

51.

RATIONAL

      
Application Number 1337731
Status Registered
Filing Date 2016-12-13
Registration Date 2016-12-13
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 03 - Cosmetics and toiletries; cleaning, bleaching, polishing and abrasive preparations
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

Cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations; cleaning preparations, including cleaning preparations for cooking apparatus for industrial kitchens; soaps. Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; accessories and parts for the aforesaid goods, included in this class. Household or kitchen utensils and containers (not of precious metal or coated therewith); grills (as far as included in this class), grill supports; utensils for household purposes, not of precious metal; kitchen containers, kitchen utensils and kitchen ware, each not of precious metal; articles for cleaning purposes (as far as included in this class); brushes (except paint brushes).

52.

RATIONAL

      
Serial Number 79204533
Status Registered
Filing Date 2016-12-13
Registration Date 2018-05-15
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 03 - Cosmetics and toiletries; cleaning, bleaching, polishing and abrasive preparations
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

Cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations; cleaning preparations, including cleaning preparations for cooking apparatus for industrial kitchens; non-medicated soaps Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the preparation of meals in industrial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens and structural parts therefore, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; gas food cookers, gas food steamers and cooking ovens and structural parts therefore, all for commercial use and sold as a unit Household utensils not of precious metal or coated therewith, namely, cooking skewers for roasting, pans, and racks for grilling, roasting, steaming and baking, baking molds, baskets for deep frying and steamer baskets; Kitchen utensils not of precious metal or coated therewith, namely, cooking skewers for roasting, baking molds, baskets for deep frying, steamer baskets, and pans and racks for grilling, roasting, steaming and baking, oven trays; Kitchen containers not of precious metal or coated therewith; Grills in the nature of cooking utensils, as far as included in this class, namely, commercial kitchen grills; Commercial kitchen utensils, namely, pans and racks for grilling, roasting, steaming and baking; Grill supports; Kitchen utensils not of precious metal in the nature of manually actuated pump dispensers for attachment to containers for use in dispensing liquid descalers for commercial kitchen ovens; Articles for cleaning purposes as far as included in this class, namely, grill scrapers and manually actuated pump dispensers for attachment to containers for use in dispensing liquid descalers for commercial kitchen ovens

53.

RATIONAL

      
Application Number 181321900
Status Registered
Filing Date 2016-12-08
Registration Date 2020-12-14
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 03 - Cosmetics and toiletries; cleaning, bleaching, polishing and abrasive preparations
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

(1) Cleaning preparations, namely all-purpose cleaning preparations for kitchen use and oven cleaning preparations (2) Conventional ovens, microwave ovens, electric stoves and combination steamer ovens capable of cooking and steaming for preparing meals in industrial kitchens, and parts and accessories thereto namely oven racks, specially adapted steamer oven trays and specially adapted grease drip pans; cooking grills, roasting spits (3) Cooking utensils and food storage containers (not of precious metal or coated therewith); gridiron grill supports; utensils for household purposes, not of precious metal, namely, cooking pots and pans, baking pans and trays, cookery molds, and cooking skewers; accessories for conventional ovens, microwave ovens, electric stoves, and combination steamer ovens namely baking trays, cooling racks

54.

ILC

      
Application Number 181165800
Status Registered
Filing Date 2016-11-29
Registration Date 2019-03-13
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection oven steamers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit

55.

Kitchen utensil

      
Application Number 29466981
Grant Number D0734636
Status In Force
Filing Date 2013-09-13
First Publication Date 2015-07-21
Grant Date 2015-07-21
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Tinius, Michael
  • Hegmann, Roland
  • Holzapfel, Wolfgang

56.

Method for displaying parameters of a cooking process and display device for a cooking appliance

      
Application Number 14415272
Grant Number 10969111
Status In Force
Filing Date 2013-07-05
First Publication Date 2015-06-25
Grant Date 2021-04-06
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Kirchgaessner, Jana
  • Barby, Sascha
  • Funk, Gerd
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Marek, Frank
  • Meindl, Anton
  • Maerz, Wilhelm
  • Reich, Sonja
  • Minisini, Leonora
  • Schmidberger, Wolfgang
  • Stelljes, Meike

Abstract

A method of displaying parameters of a cooking process involves a step in which an information window is provided within an indicating window. Further, a cooking intelligence applied is temporarily displayed in the information window. A cooking appliance display device can be used for displaying various parameters and steps of a cooking process and for making these available to an operator for interaction, with an information window being provided in which a currently applied cooking intelligence is displayed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • A47J 27/62 - Preventing boiling over, e.g. of milk by devices for automatically controlling the heat supply by switching off heaters or for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels
  • G09G 5/377 - Details of the operation on graphic patterns for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns
  • G09G 5/38 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of individual graphic patterns using a bit-mapped memory with means for controlling the display position

57.

Food carrier and grilling accessory

      
Application Number 14567108
Grant Number 09848730
Status In Force
Filing Date 2014-12-11
First Publication Date 2015-06-18
Grant Date 2017-12-26
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Inventor Holzapfel, Wolfgang

Abstract

A food carrier for use in a cooking space of a cooking appliance has a first cooking area and a second cooking area on which a food to be cooked can be placed. The cooking areas can in particular be grilling areas. The first and the second cooking areas are arranged on opposite sides of the food carrier, and each of the first and second cooking areas has a structuring. The structuring of the first cooking area is different from the structuring of the second cooking area.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A47J 37/00 - BakingRoastingGrillingFrying
  • A47J 37/06 - RoastersGrills Sandwich grills
  • F24C 15/16 - Shelves, racks or trays inside ovensSupports therefor

58.

COOKING DEVICE WITH METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PROCESSING INFORMATION

      
Application Number EP2014076259
Publication Number 2015/082472
Status In Force
Filing Date 2014-12-02
Publication Date 2015-06-11
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Barby, Sascha
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Funk, Gerd
  • Kirchgaessner, Jana
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Marek, Frank
  • Meindl, Anton
  • Maerz, Wilhelm
  • Reich, Sonja
  • Schmidberger, Wolfgang
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Minisini, Leonora
  • Stelljes, Meike

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying processing information on a cooking process which is being carried out in a cooking device. A multifunctional display surface (10) is used which is divided into a main display region (12) and at least two auxiliary display regions (22, 24, 26, 28), and a pillar-like display element (14) is displayed in the main display region (12), said display element containing information on a moisture content of a cooking atmosphere in a cooking chamber of the cooking device and information on the temperature of the cooking atmosphere. The moisture information is displayed in the form of a display drum (16), the temperature information is displayed in the form of a temperature pillar (20) on the display drum (16), and the moisture information is additionally displayed as color information dependent on the moisture and the temperature. The invention also relates to a cooking device with a display device on which processing information on a cooking process that is being carried out in the cooking device can be displayed by means of the aforementioned method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

59.

iLC

      
Application Number 1241725
Status Registered
Filing Date 2015-01-20
Registration Date 2015-01-20
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Apparatus for cooking and/or steam generating for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods (as far as included in this class).

60.

ILC

      
Application Number 171158400
Status Registered
Filing Date 2015-01-20
Registration Date 2016-08-29
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection oven steamers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; parts and accessories therefor

61.

COOKING METHOD AND COOKING DEVICE

      
Application Number EP2014060129
Publication Number 2014/187747
Status In Force
Filing Date 2014-05-16
Publication Date 2014-11-27
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Fink, Michael
  • Funk, Gerd

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for cooking food in a cooking device (10). An operator can select a specific process from a plurality of specified automatic cooking processes and/or manually select parameters for a manual cooking process. At least one significant cooking process parameter is continuously logged in a memory unit (36) by a controller (22) of the cooking device (10) from the start of the cooking process, and it is possible for the operator to switch from a manual cooking process to an automatic cooking process and vice versa. The invention also relates to a cooking device for cooking food, comprising a controller (22) in which a plurality of specified automatic cooking processes are stored and an operating unit (30) by means of which an operator can select one of the automatic cooking processes and/or manually input parameters for a manual cooking process. The controller (22) has a memory unit (36) for at least one significant cooking process parameter, and the operating unit (30) offers a changeover switch (32), by means of which the operator can switch from an automatic cooking process to a manual cooking process and vice versa.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

62.

5 SENSES

      
Application Number 168873000
Status Registered
Filing Date 2014-08-08
Registration Date 2015-10-07
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection oven steamers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; parts and accessories therefore

63.

METHOD FOR MONITORING A COOKING DEVICE, AND COOKING DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE SENSOR

      
Application Number EP2013077650
Publication Number 2014/096342
Status In Force
Filing Date 2013-12-20
Publication Date 2014-06-26
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Fink, Michael
  • Funk, Gerd

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a temperature sensor (14) which is connected to a control unit (12) of a cooking device (10) via a wireless connection, said method having the following step: verifying whether the temperature sensor (14) is present by transmitting a signal and outputting an indicator signal dependent on the reception of the signal. In a cooking device with a control unit (12) and at least one temperature sensor (14) which is connected to the control unit (12) via a wireless connection, the control unit (12) and/or the temperature sensor (14) has at least one signal transmitter (22), which transmits an indicator signal, and the control unit and the temperature sensor (14) each have a transmitter and/or receiver for transmitting and/or receiving signals. The transmitter and receiver can transmit a signal and receive a signal, respectively, and the signal transmitter(s) (22) can output an indicator signal dependent on the reception of the signal in the control unit (12) and/or in the temperature sensor (14).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A47J 27/62 - Preventing boiling over, e.g. of milk by devices for automatically controlling the heat supply by switching off heaters or for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

64.

icc

      
Application Number 1206457
Status Registered
Filing Date 2014-03-24
Registration Date 2014-03-24
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Apparatus for cooking and/or steam generating for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens; accessories and parts of the aforesaid goods (as far as included in this class).

65.

ICC

      
Application Number 167882300
Status Registered
Filing Date 2014-05-28
Registration Date 2015-06-10
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection oven steamers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; parts and accessories therefore

66.

Method of conducting at least one cooking process

      
Application Number 14048642
Grant Number 09310085
Status In Force
Filing Date 2013-10-08
First Publication Date 2014-02-20
Grant Date 2016-04-12
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Breunig, Manfred
  • Greiner, Michael

Abstract

A method of operating a cooking appliance that includes performing at least one cooking process on a first item of a plurality of items in a first cooking chamber zone of the cooking chamber. The at least one cooking process being performed based on parameters entered through the input device. The method also includes identifying a second item to be cooked in the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance. The method further includes proposing, with an output device, cooking the second item in the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance, and displaying, with the output device, a loading request indicating a second cooking chamber zone in which the second item is to be loaded. Further, the method includes cooking the second item while the first item is already cooking such that the second item is cooked at least partially overlapping with the first item.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A01K 43/00 - Testing, sorting, or cleaning eggs
  • H05B 6/50 - Circuits for monitoring or control
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • A21B 3/07 - Charging or discharging ovens
  • A23L 1/01 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying (methods specialized to particular food, see the relevant subgroups);;
  • A47J 27/62 - Preventing boiling over, e.g. of milk by devices for automatically controlling the heat supply by switching off heaters or for automatically lifting the cooking-vessels
  • A47J 39/00 - Heat-insulated warming chambersCupboards with heating arrangements for warming kitchen utensils
  • F24C 3/12 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

67.

METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PARAMETERS OF A COOKING PROCESS, AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR A COOKING APPLIANCE

      
Application Number EP2013064303
Publication Number 2014/012806
Status In Force
Filing Date 2013-07-05
Publication Date 2014-01-23
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Kirchgaessner, Jana
  • Barby, Sascha
  • Funk, Gerd
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Marek, Frank
  • Meindl, Anton
  • Maerz, Wilhelm
  • Reich, Sonja
  • Minisini, Leonora
  • Schmidberger, Wolfgang
  • Stelljes, Meike

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying parameters of a cooking process, in which an information window (20) within an indicating window (12) temporarily displays an intelligent cooking system used during the cooking process. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance display device (10) which displays various parameters and steps of a cooking process and makes the same accessible to a user for interaction, in particular with the help of the method according to one of the preceding claims. Said display device is characterized in that an information window (20) is provided in which a currently used intelligent cooking system is displayed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

68.

VARIO SMOKER

      
Application Number 165410600
Status Registered
Filing Date 2013-11-28
Registration Date 2016-01-14
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation, including smoking, of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection ovens steamers, electric food steamer and cooking ovens, all for commerical use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit. (2) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation, including smoking, of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection ovens steamers, electric food steamer and cooking ovens, all for commerical use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; parts therefor.

69.

RATIONAL

      
Application Number 1169974
Status Registered
Filing Date 2013-05-23
Registration Date 2013-05-23
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens.

70.

FRIMA

      
Application Number 1167337
Status Registered
Filing Date 2013-04-12
Registration Date 2013-04-12
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 20 - Furniture and decorative products
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

Cooking apparatus and utensils and/or steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens; electric (high performance) deep fryers, gas (high performance) deep fryers, electric (high performance) frying pans, gas (high performance) frying pans, electric (high performance) broiling pans, gas (high performance) broiling pans as well as cookers; all the aforesaid goods for commercial kitchens; accessories and parts of all the aforesaid goods included in this class. Peripheral equipment made of stainless steel, namely tables, shelves and furniture. Kitchen utensils not of precious metals, including cooking pots, casseroles, frying pans, grills and grill supports, all the aforesaid goods for commercial kitchens.

71.

FRIMA

      
Serial Number 79132873
Status Registered
Filing Date 2013-04-12
Registration Date 2014-04-01
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 20 - Furniture and decorative products
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric high performance deep fryers, electric high performance frying pans, and gas and electric high performance food cookers; all the aforesaid goods for commercial kitchens; accessories and parts of all the aforesaid goods included in this class [ Peripheral equipment made of stainless steel, namely, tables, shelves and furniture ] [ Kitchen utensils not of precious metals, namely, cooking pots, casseroles, frying pans, cooking utensils, namely, grills and grill accessories therefore, namely, support stands, all the aforesaid goods for commercial kitchens ]

72.

Cooking device with fat drain

      
Application Number 13560013
Grant Number 10001283
Status In Force
Filing Date 2012-07-27
First Publication Date 2013-02-07
Grant Date 2018-06-19
Owner RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kramer, Gerhard
  • Brunner, Hubert

Abstract

In a cooking device having a cooking chamber including a plurality of side walls, a bottom, and a fat drain to allow fat and other cooking residues to be discharged therethrough from the cooking chamber outward, the fat drain is arranged in a side wall of the cooking chamber.

IPC Classes  ?

73.

METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE AND KITCHEN NETWORK

      
Application Number EP2012053662
Publication Number 2012/117100
Status In Force
Filing Date 2012-03-02
Publication Date 2012-09-07
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Lauterbach, Katrin
  • Klasmeier, Jürgen
  • Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

The invention relates to method for operating at lest one cooking appliance comprising a cooking chamber, an input device, a display and a memory device. According to said method, a plurality of work programs for the cooking appliance can be called up from the memory device, including a time that is characteristic of the execution of every work program. Said time is defined, in addition to the duration of the work program, by a preparation time for preparing the program sequence and/or a follow-up time for following up the execution of the work program. The display device is able to display a representative of every stored work program, the respective associated time being displayed above every representative displayed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

74.

CONTAINER FOR FOODSTUFFS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A CONTAINER

      
Application Number EP2011063639
Publication Number 2012/022651
Status In Force
Filing Date 2011-08-08
Publication Date 2012-02-23
Owner
  • RATIONAL AG (Germany)
  • FRIMA-T SAS (France)
Inventor
  • Lingenheil, Markus
  • Wassmus, Reinhard
  • Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

The present invention relates to a container (20, 40) for accommodating foodstuffs and/or heat-transfer fluids in an interior, which is bounded by at least one side wall (22, 24, 42) of material thickness b and at least one base element (26, 44), wherein the base element (26, 44), in a peripheral region (41) of the container (20, 40), is connected to the side wall (22, 24, 42) in a non-releasable manner by means of at least one connection (34, 34', 51), has a material thickness a, where a > b, outside the peripheral region (41) and has a material thickness b' in the region of the connection (34, 34', 51) to the side wall (22, 24, 42), the material thickness b' corresponding substantially to the material thickness b of the side wall (22, 24, 42); and to a method for producing such a container.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A47J 27/022 - Cooking-vessels with enlarged heating surfaces with enlarged bottom
  • B65D 85/72 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for edible or potable liquids, semiliquids, or plastic or pasty materials

75.

METHOD FOR PROVIDING COOKING PROGRAMMES

      
Application Number EP2011063960
Publication Number 2012/020129
Status In Force
Filing Date 2011-08-12
Publication Date 2012-02-16
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Lauterbach, Katrin
  • Machowetz, Anja
  • Klasmeier, Jürgen

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing cooking programmes for at least one selectable product to be cooked which can be cooked in at least two different charges in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance, wherein each charge has a respectively associated cooking program in which a cooking process is conducted as a function of at least one charge-dependent parameter at least once for each charge, a cooking process which leads to a specific cooking result is selected for each charge, and a cooking programme is stored for each selected cooking process after the charge-dependent parameter is replaced by a fixed parameter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

76.

RATIONAL COOKINGLIVE

      
Application Number 155500100
Status Registered
Filing Date 2011-12-05
Registration Date 2013-09-24
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 35 - Advertising and business services
  • 41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services

Goods & Services

(1) Advertising, namely product demonstration of electric food cookers for commercial use, electric food steamers for commercial use, commercial (cooking) ovens, all sold as a unit, and gas food cookers for commercial use, gas food steamers for commercial use and (cooking) commercial ovens, all sold as a unit since at least as early as November 21, 2011 and in association with the general class of services comprising the following specific services. (2) Education, namely teaching and demonstration of the use of the electric food cookers for commercial use, electric food steamers for commercial use, commercial (cooking) ovens, all sold as a unit, and gas food cookers for commercial use, gas food steamers for commercial use and (cooking) commercial ovens, all sold as a unit.

77.

RATIONAL GARENLIVE

      
Application Number 155500000
Status Registered
Filing Date 2011-12-05
Registration Date 2013-09-24
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 35 - Advertising and business services
  • 41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services

Goods & Services

(1) Advertising, namely product demonstration of electric food cookers for commercial use, electric food steamers for commercial use, commercial (cooking) ovens, all sold as a unit, and gas food cookers for commercial use, gas food steamers for commercial use and (cooking) commercial ovens, all sold as a unit since at least as early as November 21, 2011 and in association with the general class of services comprising the following specific services. (2) Education, namely teaching and demonstration of the use of the electric food cookers for commercial use, electric food steamers for commercial use, commercial (cooking) ovens, all sold as a unit, and gas food cookers for commercial use, gas food steamers for commercial use and (cooking) commercial ovens, all sold as a unit.

78.

whitefficiency

      
Application Number 154937600
Status Registered
Filing Date 2011-10-26
Registration Date 2013-10-24
Owner Rational Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

(1) Cooking and steam generating apparatus for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchens, namely, electric food cookers, namely, electric pressure cookers, electric slow cookers, electric steam cookers, electric stoves, microwave ovens, convection oven steamers, electric food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit, gas food cookers, namely, gas pressure cookers, gas slow cookers, gas steam cookers, gas stoves, gas food steamers and cooking ovens, all for commercial use and sold as a unit; parts and accessories therefore.

79.

Flow directing device for a cooking appliance

      
Application Number 13125793
Grant Number 09557066
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-10-23
First Publication Date 2011-10-20
Grant Date 2017-01-31
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Claussen, Ernst
  • Hylla, Joachim J.
  • Witt, Oliver
  • Xia, Yingan
  • Herner, Michael
  • Schreiner, Thomas
  • Kurth, Robert
  • Ring, Leonhard
  • Paintner, Aldo

Abstract

A cooking appliance including an interior, a fan mechanism having at least one fan wheel in the interior, at least one first flow directing member for subdividing the interior into a pressure chamber that houses the fan wheel and a cooking chamber, in which the first flow directing member includes at least one suction port for sucking atmosphere from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber when the fan wheel is in operation and at least one blow-off port for blowing atmosphere from the pressure chamber into the cooking chamber when the fan wheel is in operation; and at least one second flow directing member that is included with the fan mechanism in the area of the suction port of the first flow directing member in order to improve the flow from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber by forcing an axial main flow H in the suction zone of the fan mechanism, where the second flow directing member performs a nozzle function, extends from the fan mechanism into the cooking chamber, and overlaps the edge of the suction port of the first flow directing member, and where the first flow directing member extends into the second flow directing member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24B 1/00 - Stoves or ranges
  • F24C 15/32 - Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens

80.

VarioCooking Center

      
Application Number 1071213
Status Registered
Filing Date 2011-03-01
Registration Date 2011-03-01
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ? 11 - Environmental control apparatus

Goods & Services

Cooking and/or steam-generating apparatus and equipment for preparing meals in industrial kitchens; parts and fittings for the aforesaid goods, included in this class.

81.

Method for displaying, particularly a heating or cooling curve, and cooking appliance for carrying out such a method

      
Application Number 12518275
Grant Number 08269151
Status In Force
Filing Date 2007-12-06
First Publication Date 2010-08-26
Grant Date 2012-09-18
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Klasmeier, Juergen
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Breunig, Manfred
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Fink, Michael
  • Kling, Judith
  • Dietmayer, Cornelia

Abstract

1. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance for carrying out such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 1/00 - Details of electric heating devices

82.

Method for adjusting an operating program by means of visualized parameters relating to the product to be cooked, and a cooking appliance therefor

      
Application Number 12713838
Grant Number 08734877
Status In Force
Filing Date 2010-02-26
First Publication Date 2010-08-12
Grant Date 2014-05-27
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Hömme, Regina
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Kling, Judith

Abstract

A method relates to adjusting a parameter of a process to be executed in a cooking appliance. The parameter has a range of values. The method includes displaying a set of pictorial depictions on a display. Each pictorial depiction represents one of the values in the range. A manual selection from among the pictorial depictions is input. The process is executed in accordance with the value represented by the manually selected pictorial depiction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A23L 1/01 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying (methods specialized to particular food, see the relevant subgroups);;
  • G01N 33/02 - Food

83.

METHOD FOR SELECTING AND ARRANGING REPRESENTATIVES OF PROGRAMS AND COOKING APPLIANCE THEREFOR

      
Application Number EP2010050952
Publication Number 2010/086340
Status In Force
Filing Date 2010-01-27
Publication Date 2010-08-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Jürgens-Heinersdorff, Andrea
  • Seemüller, Simon
  • Klimm, Karin

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for arranging representatives of programs for cooking appliances each in the form of a virtual voucher in a virtual voucher board - after the voucher board has been stored by touching a first part or approaching said first part and/or - has been moved from the second to the third part by touching a second part or approaching said second part and moving or sweeping to a third part and/or - has been changed in the visual representation thereof by moving a fourth part or approaching or departing from said fourth part and/or by means of a further entry operation, wherein the virtual voucher board enables a representation within a multidimensional space based on a coordinate system - having at least two position axes for determining an operating zone of the cooking appliance or - having at least one position axis for determining an operating plane, operating column, or operating row of the cooking appliance and a time axis for determining at least one point in time of the operation of the cooking appliance; and a cooking appliance for performing such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

84.

Method for the energy-saving control of a food processing process or a processing chamber cleaning process and cooking device used therefor

      
Application Number 12697747
Grant Number 08475857
Status In Force
Filing Date 2010-02-01
First Publication Date 2010-07-22
Grant Date 2013-07-02
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for the energy-saving control of at least one process in a food processing device including a processing chamber, at least one processing device, and a control or regulating device. The control or regulating device can reduce the duration of at least the first process step or the duration of regulation in the first processing step or switch off the processing device during at least a part of the processing step to save energy, based on at least one first variable relating to the climate in the processing chamber or at least one second variable relating to the processing device or at least one third variable relating to the food item to be processed or at least one fourth variable relating to a degree of soiling of the processing chamber, during at least one second processing step directly after the first processing step.

IPC Classes  ?

85.

TriLax

      
Application Number 1041256
Status Registered
Filing Date 2010-04-23
Registration Date 2010-04-23
Owner RATIONAL Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
NICE Classes  ?
  • 11 - Environmental control apparatus
  • 21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware

Goods & Services

Accessories and parts of cooking and/or steam generating apparatuses for the treatment and preparation of food in commercial kitchen, as included in this class. Household or kitchen utensils and containers (not of precious metal or coated therewith), including grills (grids), grill supports, grill and pizza plates, roasting and baking sheets; cooking skewers and frying pans, all aforementioned goods not of precious metal or coated therewith and as included in this class; kitchen containers, kitchen utensils and cooking pot sets, each not made of precious metal or coated therewith, as included in this class.

86.

FLOW DIRECTING DEVICE FOR A COOKING APPLIANCE

      
Application Number EP2009064020
Publication Number 2010/046491
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-10-23
Publication Date 2010-04-29
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Claußen, Ernst
  • Hylla, Joachim, J.
  • Witt, Oliver
  • Xia, Yingan
  • Herner, Michael
  • Schreiner, Thomas
  • Kurth, Robert
  • Ring, Leonhard
  • Paintner, Alo

Abstract

The invention relates to a flow directing device for a cooking appliance comprising a fan mechanism that has at least one fan wheel in the interior of the cooking appliance in order to circulate atmosphere. The disclosed flow directing device comprises at least one first flow directing member for subdividing the interior into a pressure chamber containing the fan wheel and a cooking chamber. The first flow directing member has at least one suction port for sucking atmosphere from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber when the fan wheel is on, and at least one blow-off port for blowing atmosphere from the pressure chamber into the cooking chamber when the fan wheel is on. The flow directing device further comprises at least one second flow directing member which is mounted on or molded onto the fan mechanism in the area of the suction port of the first flow directing member in order to improve the flow from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber by forcing an axial main flow in the suction zone of the fan mechanism. Each second flow directing member (11, 236) has a nozzle function, extends from the fan mechanism (2, 3, 210) into the cooking chamber (8), and projects from or grips the edge of the suction port (10b) of the first flow directing member (7), while the first flow directing member (7) extends to each second flow directing member (11). The invention also relates to a cooking appliance for said flow directing device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 15/32 - Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens

87.

Process for conducting cleaning operations in a fluid-receiving device of a foodstuff-processing apparatus, and fluid-receiving device and foodstuff-processing apparatus therefor

      
Application Number 12162713
Grant Number 08025740
Status In Force
Filing Date 2007-01-30
First Publication Date 2010-03-18
Grant Date 2011-09-27
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Juergens, Andrea
  • Kramer, Gerhard
  • Kling, Judith
  • Gayer, Tobias
  • Holzapfel, Wolfgang
  • Maas, Bruno
  • Schuller, Erwin
  • Geiger, Kerstin
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

A process for conducting cleaning operations at predetermined time intervals in a chamber or container of a fluid-receiving device of a foodstuff-processing apparatus first comprises receiving a first fluid in the chamber or container. Then, first and second degrees of cleaning are determined at first and second moments in time, respectively. Then, a first difference between the first and second degrees of cleaning is determined. In a first case, in which the second degree of cleaning lies below a first limit value, the action duration of the at least one cleaning agent during at least one subsequent cleaning operation is set depending on the first degree of cleaning. In a second case, in which the second degree of cleaning lies above the first limit value, a greater amount of cleaning agent is supplied and/or the time interval between two subsequent, successive cleaning operations is shortened.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B08B 9/08 - Cleaning of containers, e.g. tanks
  • B08B 3/00 - Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam

88.

METHOD FOR THE INTELLIGENT EMISSION OF A WARNING SIGNAL FOR COOKING APPLIANCES

      
Application Number EP2009060939
Publication Number 2010/026081
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-08-25
Publication Date 2010-03-11
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Klasmeier, Jürgen
  • Lauterbach, Katrin

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for determining a timing for the emission of at least one optical and/or acoustical warning message for a cooking appliance, which has a cooking compartment that can be closed with a cooking compartment door and in which cooking products can be processes by means of a cooking product processing device and/or cleaned by a cleaning device. Said method is carried out as a function of at least one opening period of the cooking compartment door, wherein depending on an operating state of the cooking appliance, a working programme running in the cooking appliance, a load of the cooking compartment with cooking products, a load of the cooking appliance with cleaning agent, a temperatue in the cooking compartment and/or an energy consumption of the cooking appliance, one warning message is selected from a plurality of warning messages and a time for emitting the same is determined. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance for carrying out such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

89.

FOOD TREATMENT APPLIANCE

      
Application Number DE2009075037
Publication Number 2010/006598
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-07-10
Publication Date 2010-01-21
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Lichtenstern, Manfred
  • Otminghaus, Rainer
  • Rusche, Stefan
  • Schreiner, Thomas

Abstract

Food treatment appliance, in particular cooking appliance, for subjecting at least one product to be cooked to the action of hot air and/or steam, having at least one burner for burning fluid fuel so as to produce combustion gases, wherein the burner comprises at least one inner wall and the inner wall circumferentially surrounds at least one first cavity in at least one plane at least in regions, and the fluid fuel and/or the combustion gases can be supplied to the first cavity through the inner wall.

IPC Classes  ?

  • A21B 3/04 - Air-treatment devices for ovens, e.g. regulating humidity
  • F24C 3/08 - Arrangement or mounting of burners
  • F23D 14/34 - Burners specially adapted for use with means for pressurising the gaseous fuel or the combustion air

90.

METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A COOKING PRODUCT OR COOKING PROGRAM SELECTION, AND COOKING APPLIANCE THEREFOR

      
Application Number DE2009000800
Publication Number 2009/152802
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-06-05
Publication Date 2009-12-23
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Jürgens, Andrea
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Seemüller, Simon

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying a cooking product or cooking program selection during at least part of a cooking process taking place in a cooking compartment of a cooking appliance, said cooking process being determined by a plurality of cooking programs which are at least temporarily executed in parallel in the cooking compartment. In said method, at least one variable that is characteristic of the atmosphere in the cooking compartment during the cooking process is determined taking into account each change in at least one first parameter characteristic of the cooking compartment being loaded with cooking product during the cooking process if the cooking product selection is displayed or each change in at least one second parameter characteristic of cooking programs at least temporarily executed in parallel in the cooking compartment during the cooking process if the cooking program selection is displayed, and the display of the cooking product or cooking program selection is adjusted to each change in said variable. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance for carrying out said method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

91.

DISPLAY DEVICE AND COOKING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME

      
Application Number DE2009000750
Publication Number 2009/143831
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-05-27
Publication Date 2009-12-03
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Wiedemann, Peter
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Seemüller, Simon
  • Jürgens, Andrea

Abstract

The present invention relates to a display device (1) for a cooking device, wherein at least one parameter (71, 81) is preset for at least one prescribed program and/or for at least one prescribed operating mode, wherein the preset parameter (71, 81) can be changed, and after each change at least the changed parameter (70, 80) is displayed on the display device (1). The preset parameter (71, 81) is also displayed simultaneously with the changed parameter (70, 80) at least part of the time, wherein the preset and/or changed parameters (70, 71, 80, 81) can be changed more than once, and at least the last changed parameter is displayed simultaneously with the preset parameter, and the display device (1) can be operationally connect to both at least one operating device (1, 12, 13) for changing the preset and/or changed parameter (70, 71, 80, 81) and to a control or regulating device for self-learning changing of the preset and/or changed parameter as a function of a user classification, a program classification, a satisfaction of a user of the cooking device and/or a monitoring person, an operating language of the operating device and/or the cooking device, an installation location of the cooking device, and/or signals from at least one sensor device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 6/80 - Apparatus for specific applications

92.

Method for the intelligent continuous filling of a cooking device and cooking device therefor

      
Application Number 12279962
Grant Number 08147888
Status In Force
Filing Date 2007-02-15
First Publication Date 2009-11-05
Grant Date 2012-04-03
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Kling, Judith
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Klasmeier, Jürgen
  • Schuehler, Bernhard

Abstract

ki) for each treatment plane (k).

IPC Classes  ?

  • A23L 1/01 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying (methods specialized to particular food, see the relevant subgroups);;

93.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST TWO COOKING DEVICES, COOKING DEVICE AND SYSTEM CONSISTING OF AT LEAST TWO COOKING DEVICES

      
Application Number DE2009000082
Publication Number 2009/103258
Status In Force
Filing Date 2009-01-22
Publication Date 2009-08-27
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Pechaigner, Stefan
  • Kramer, Gerhard
  • Lingenheil, Markus
  • Hömme, Regina
  • Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling at least two cooking devices, an associated cooking device and an associated system consisting of at least two cooking devices. According to the invention, data is generated in a control unit of at least one cooking device, said data being suitable for influencing the operation of another cooking device. The data is transmitted to a control unit (24) of the other cooking device and the control unit of the other cooking device controls the operation of said other cooking device (24) in accordance with the transmitted data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

94.

METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE RESIDUAL TIME UNTIL A COOKING PROCESS HAS BEEN FINISHED

      
Application Number DE2008000346
Publication Number 2009/026862
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-02-27
Publication Date 2009-03-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Haas, Christine
  • Nielsen, Reinhard
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Kling, Judith
  • Sterzel, Roland
  • Heim, Martin

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying the residual time until a cooking process has been finished, using a cooking appliance which comprises a cooking chamber that can essentially be sealed by a door, a heating device, a display device, an operating device, a storage device, a control and regulation device and at least one sensor device. According to the invention, at least one desired cooking product variable and/or desired cooking variable can be set by means of the operating device, according to which the residual cooking time is determined and subsequently displayed on the display device. The invention is characterized in that, during a first phase I of the cooking process, a maximum and/or minimum value of the residual cooking time is displayed, which is estimated as a function of at least one set desired cooking product variable and/or set desired cooking variable. In at least one further phase II, III of the cooking process, a residual cooking time is displayed which has been determined as a function of the comparison between the values stored in the memory device and at least one value detected by the sensor device of at least one cooking product variable and/or cooking variable. The invention also relates to a display of the residual cooking time as a function of a caliber size of the cooking product, determined by, in particular, the point of time of the increase in temperature, preferably the core temperature, in the cooking product.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • G01K 7/42 - Circuits effecting compensation of thermal inertiaCircuits for predicting the stationary value of a temperature

95.

PRODUCT-INDEPENDENT AND LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT GRAPHIC DISPLAY AND CONTROL DEVICE OF A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE THEREFOR

      
Application Number DE2008001307
Publication Number 2009/026877
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-08-07
Publication Date 2009-03-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor Leuschner, Stephan, Michael

Abstract

The invention relates to a display and control device (100) for adjusting a food treatment program, especially a cooking program, of a cooking appliance, comprising a plurality of control elements (112-134), each of which allows at least one parameter of said program to be adjusted. The display and control device (100) is characterized in that a program parameter is graphically visualized on each control element (112-134) in order to control the cooking appliance regardless of the product and the language. A specific cooking appliance module symbolizing a preparation of a product to be cooked, such as flash roasting, roasting, frosting, sautéing, flash grilling, grilling, cooking, poaching, steaming, baking, braising, roasting, finishing, deep-frying, browning, fermenting, drying, or the like, is at least temporarily visualized on at least one first number of control elements (112-134), and a variable which relates to the way the product to be cooked is prepared and which is determined by an intensity, quantity, and/or duration, such as intense roasting by forming bubbles and/or forming a crust and/or generating smoke, poaching below 100°C without forming bubbles, classic cooking by forming a lot of bubbles, or the like is at least temporarily visualized on at least one second number of control elements. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance comprising at least one such display and control device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

96.

METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A COOKING PROGRAM, ELECTRONIC MENU, AND MOBILE TELEPHONE THEREFOR

      
Application Number DE2008001379
Publication Number 2009/026891
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-08-19
Publication Date 2009-03-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for adjusting a cooking program that is to be executed in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance. In said method, at least one of a plurality of parameters relating to a product to be cooked can be adjusted by means of at least one first display and control device, said parameter being determined by a type of product to be cooked, such as poultry, fish, game, beef, veal, pasta, dessert, soup, vegetarian dish, or the like, and a preparation of the product to be cooked, such as roasting, grilling, steaming, cooking, or the like, and/or a degree of cooking comprising a degree of internal cooking, which is especially determined by a core temperature or a cooking value, such as transparent, well-done, medium, or the like, and/or a degree of external cooking, which is especially determined by a surface temperature, such as crusty, breaded, browned, or the like. Said method is characterized in that each first display and control device graphically displays each parameter of the product to be cooked, can be actuated separately from the cooking appliance, and can transmit data to the cooking appliance. At least first data for adjusting parameters of the product to be cooked is transmitted from the first display and control device to the cooking appliance, a specific climate is generated in the cooking chamber in accordance with at least the first data, a request for loading the product that is to be cooked and is determined by at least the first data is output or a corresponding loading process is initiated as soon as the specific climate has been obtained in the cooking chamber, and a cooking program determined by at least the first data is executed once the specific product to be cooked has been loaded. The invention also relates to an electronic menu and a mobile telephone for carrying out such a method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices

97.

METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A COOKING PROGRAM BY MEANS OF VISUALIZED PARAMETERS RELATING TO THE PRODUCT TO BE COOKED, AND COOKING APPLIANCE THEREFOR

      
Application Number DE2008001390
Publication Number 2009/026895
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-08-22
Publication Date 2009-03-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Hömme, Regina
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Kling, Judith

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for adjusting an operating program that is to be executed in an interior of a cooking appliance and comprises at least one cooking program and/or at least one cleaning program. In said method, at least one of a plurality of parameters can be adjusted by means of at least one display and control device. The parameter, the adjustable values of the parameter, and the adjusted value are at least temporarily displayed in a visualized manner on the display and control device. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance for carrying out said method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • F24C 14/00 - Stoves or ranges having self-cleaning provisions, e.g. continuous catalytic cleaning or electrostatic cleaning

98.

Method and cooking appliance for cooking according to the C-value

      
Application Number 12198242
Grant Number 08344294
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-08-26
First Publication Date 2009-03-05
Grant Date 2013-01-01
Owner Rational AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

A method for the cooking of a cooking product in a cooking appliance with a cooking chamber that comprises at least one heating device, a computer device, a memory device and at least one sensor device, is carried out, in dependence on a degree of cooking of a cooking product and/or of a cooking duration, in particular determined by the core temperature, the browning, the pH value and/or the cooking value, from values measured by the sensor device with consideration of the at least occasionally deposited values in the memory device via the computer device, wherein at least two steps separated from one another in time, comprising a pre-cooking step, which is interrupted when a determined intermediate value of the degree of cooking and/or of the duration of cooking, in particular a determined remaining time for reaching the cooking duration is reached, and a finishing cooking step, in particular a finishing step that is recalled at a later time point in order to end the cooking of the cooking product with consideration of the intermediate value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05B 1/02 - Automatic switching arrangements specially adapted to heating apparatus

99.

METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE RESIDUAL TIME UNTIL A COOKING PROCESS HAS BEEN FINISHED

      
Application Number DE2008001363
Publication Number 2009/026887
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-08-18
Publication Date 2009-03-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor
  • Greiner, Michael
  • Haas, Christine
  • Nielsen, Reinhard
  • Brinkmann, Torsten
  • Kling, Judith
  • Sterzel, Roland
  • Heim, Martin

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying the residual time until a cooking process has been finished, using a cooking appliance which comprises a cooking chamber that can essentially be sealed by a door, a heating device, a display device, an operating device, a storage device, a control and regulation device and at least one sensor device. According to the invention, at least one desired cooking product variable of the product to be cooked and/or desired cooking variable of the cooking appliance can be set by means of the operating device, according to which the residual cooking time is determined and displayed on the display device. The invention is characterized in that, during a first phase I of the cooking process, at least one maximum value of the residual cooking time, a minimum value of the residual cooking time and/or an average value including fault tolerance of the residual cooking time are displayed, which are estimated as a function of at least one set desired cooking product variable and/or set desired cooking variable. In at least one further phase II, III of the cooking process, an estimated value of the residual cooking time is displayed which has been determined as a function of the comparison between the values stored in the memory device and at least one value detected by the sensor device of at least one cooking product variable and/or cooking variable.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • G01K 7/42 - Circuits effecting compensation of thermal inertiaCircuits for predicting the stationary value of a temperature

100.

METHOD FOR THE ENERGY-SAVING CONTROL OF A FOOD PROCESSING PROCESS OR A PROCESSING CHAMBER CLEANING PROCESS AND COOKING DEVICE USED THEREFOR

      
Application Number DE2008001239
Publication Number 2009/015651
Status In Force
Filing Date 2008-07-30
Publication Date 2009-02-05
Owner RATIONAL AG (Germany)
Inventor Breunig, Manfred

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the energy-saving control of at least one process in a food processing device comprising a processing chamber, at least one processing device and a control or regulation device. The method is characterized in that the process is subdivided into a plurality of processing steps, a first processing step being selected as one of these processing steps. The control or regulation device can reduce the duration of at least the first process step or the duration of regulation in the fist processing step and/or switch off the processing device during at least a part of the processing step to save energy, namely depending on at least one first variable relating to the climate in the processing chamber and/or at least one second variable relating to the processing device and/or at least one third variable relating to the food item to be processed and/or at least one fourth variable relating to a degree of soiling of the processing chamber, during at least one second processing step directly after the first processing step. The invention also relates to a cooking device for carrying out said method.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05D 23/19 - Control of temperature characterised by the use of electric means
  • F24C 7/08 - Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • H05B 1/02 - Automatic switching arrangements specially adapted to heating apparatus
  • A21B 1/40 - Bakers' ovens characterised by the means for regulating the temperature
  • A23L 1/01 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying (methods specialized to particular food, see the relevant subgroups);;
  • G05D 22/02 - Control of humidity characterised by the use of electric means
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