Patents Assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
  • Patent number: 11514811
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for generating at least one recipe suggestion (230) when using a kitchen appliance (10) for preparing food, comprising the following steps: Detection (102) of food data (210), especially on the kitchen appliance (10), Assigning (103) the food data (210) to a data history (220) of a user profile (200). Furthermore, the invention relates to a kitchen appliance (10) for preparing food and a system (1) for preparing food comprising a kitchen appliance (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Andrej Mosebach, Mirco Pieper, Christiane Stach, Wenjie Yan, Sarah Werhahn
  • Patent number: 11510285
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a heating element (210), in particular in a food processor (1) for the at least partially automatic preparation of foodstuffs, wherein the following steps are performed: a) detecting an electrical resistance of the heating element (210) such that at least one resistance value is determined, b) performing a heating operation on the heating element (210) based on the at least one determined resistance value to perform the heating operation depending on a temperature of the heating element (210).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Spitthöver, Torsten Lang
  • Patent number: 11497367
    Abstract: A floor processing device has a floor processing element, a detection device for detecting a surface parameter of the floor surface, and a data processing device. The data processing device has a data memory, which stores a recommended use belonging to a surface parameter of the floor surface for using a specific floor processing element. The data processing device retrieves the recommended use from the data memory and transmits it to a user via an interface. The data processing device compares the size of a first surface area that has a first surface parameter with the size of the remaining surface areas of the environment, which have a surface parameter that deviates from the first surface parameter, and retrieves the recommended use from the data memory corresponding to the surface parameter that corresponds to the largest surface portion from the entirety of the surface areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Holz
  • Patent number: 11484170
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a system consisting of a first floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively guided manually within an environment by a user and a second floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively operated automatically, wherein the second floor treatment apparatus is designed for orienting and localizing itself within an environment. The first floor treatment apparatus is designed for detecting a movement path of the first floor treatment apparatus during a movement of the first floor treatment apparatus that is manually guided by a user, as well as for transmitting information on the detected movement path to the second floor treatment apparatus by means of wireless communication. The second floor treatment apparatus is designed for receiving the information and for autonomously traveling along the movement path within the environment based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Arnold, Thomas Buening, Benjamin Fleczok, Robert Frielinghaus, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Kevin Schmitz, Fabian Vitz, Niklas Van Teeffelen, Uwe Kemker, Georg Hackert
  • Patent number: 11460859
    Abstract: A system has a first floor processing device guided manually by a user within an environment, a second, exclusively automatically operated floor processing device, and a computing device. The first floor processing device has a detection device for detecting a parameter of the environment and/or a surface to be processed, and the second floor processing device has a navigation device for navigating and self-localizing in the environment. In order to enable an optimal floor processing of the environment with as little assistance by the user as possible, the computing device is set up, based on the parameter detected by the detection device of the first floor processing device, to determine whether a specific partial surface area of the surface to be processed is suitable for floor processing by the second floor processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Arnold, Thomas Buening, Benjamin Fleczok, Robert Frielinghaus, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Kevin Schmitz, Fabian Vitz, Niklas Van Teeffelen, Uwe Kemker, Georg Hackert
  • Patent number: 11457789
    Abstract: An automatically moving robotic vacuum cleaner has a housing and a filter chamber for receiving suction material. The housing has a housing opening that is formed on the upper side of the housing and has a displaceable sealing element, which can be displaced from a closed position that closes the housing opening into a released position that releases the housing opening, so as to enable access to the filter chamber. The closure element can be mounted on the housing in a linearly movable manner. There is a detection device that is set up to detect the presence of an external vacuum cleaning apparatus to be connected with the housing opening in the area of the housing opening of the robotic vacuum cleaner. The robotic vacuum cleaner also has a control device that is set up to control an opening of the housing opening upon detection of the external vacuum cleaning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Roman Ortmann
  • Patent number: 11460192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the preparation of at least one food product (2) as well as a method for the same, wherein the system (1, 50) comprises a cooking chamber (3), in which the food product (2) can be prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Hendrik Koetz
  • Patent number: 11445861
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical kitchen appliance for preparing meals, preferably according to predetermined recipes, with an output interface (2) for outputting information data (4) to a user and an input interface (3) for inputting control commands for control of the electrical kitchen appliance (1) by the user, wherein the information data (4) are stored in a memory (5) connected with the electrical kitchen appliance (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Jutta Schomacher, Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Andres Sauerwald, Torsten Lang, Georg Hackert
  • Patent number: 11435747
    Abstract: A system is comprised of a floor processing device, an object located in the environment of the floor processing device, which has a partial object area and a displacement device for automatically displacing the partial object area, a detection device, which is suitable for detecting a presence of the floor processing device in a detection area of the detection device, and a control device for generating a control command for the displacement device as a function of the detection result of the detection device. In order to prevent a collision with the floor processing device given automatic displacement devices of objects, the control command is suitable for deactivating the displacement device, thereby preventing a displacement of the partial object area even if the floor processing device is present in the detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Roman Ortmann
  • Patent number: 11435239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for estimating (150) a temporally variable measurement variable of a system, in particular a temperature in a vessel (24), preferably in a food processor (10) for the at least partially automatic preparation of food, wherein at least one measurement information (210.1) is determined by means of a measurement (130), which measurement information differs, at least depending on at least one system parameter (230), from the true value of the measurement variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Wenjie Yan
  • Publication number: 20220245562
    Abstract: A system for cleaning an environment has least one self-propelled cleaning device, which has a status detection device, at least one environmental detection device, a computing device for defining a working activity to be performed as a function of the detected environmental parameter and/or detected operating status, and a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej MOSEBACH, Henning HAYN
  • Patent number: 11397437
    Abstract: A system with a first floor processing device and a second floor processing device that is designed to orient and localize itself within an environment based on an area map. The first floor processing device is set up to detect a movement path during a movement by the first floor processing device and transmit information about the detected movement path to the second floor processing device. The second floor processing device has a control and evaluation unit that is set up to analyze the received information and, based upon the movement path detected by the first floor processing device and/or a partial area of the environment not traversed by the movement path, enter a no-go area into the area map which the second floor processing device is not allowed to traverse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Arnold, Thomas Buening, Benjamin Fleczok, Robert Frielinghaus, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Kevin Schmitz, Fabian Vitz, Niklas Van Teeffelen, Uwe Kemker, Georg Hackert
  • Patent number: 11375870
    Abstract: A wet cleaning device, in particular a wet wiping device, has a cleaning roller which is rotatable about a roller axis and has a cleaning lining. In order to create a wet cleaning device in which the regeneration effect is optimized, in particular while using a minimum of liquid, the wet cleaning device has a decelerating element to assist the removal of liquid and/or of dirt from the cleaning roller, which element has an impact edge directed radially outwards with respect to the roller axis and is arranged between fibers of the cleaning lining during a regeneration operation in such a way that the free ends of the mechanically unloaded fibers project outwards in the radial direction beyond the impact edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Pia Hahn, Michael Blum, Jochen Jentsch, Sabine Schweppe
  • Publication number: 20220192446
    Abstract: A household appliance has a device housing, a blower arranged in the device housing, an outlet opening formed in the flow direction behind the blower in the device housing, and a flow channel. Soundwaves are generated by the blower, and produce resonances characterized by standing waves, which form between opposing inner walls of the flow channel. A sound reducing wall is positioned in the flow channel, the wall plane of which is oriented parallel to a primary flow direction of the air flow guided in the flow channel. The sound reducing wall is positioned in the flow channel so that a maximum for a fast amplitude of a sound particle velocity of the air flow guided in the flow channel lies in the wall plane of the sound reducing wall. The soundwaves form while interspersing the sound reducing wall between the opposing inner walls of the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Amin NEZAMI
  • Publication number: 20220192453
    Abstract: A method for operating an automatically moving floor treatment appliance, wherein at least one floor treatment activity to be performed by the floor treatment appliance in a surrounding area is pre-planned for performance in a first time window having a defined start time and a defined time period. In the event that the first time window is not sufficient, at least a second time window is pre-planned, in which the floor treatment appliance continues the floor treatment activity. The floor treatment activity not completed upon the expiration of the first time window is stopped at the end of the defined time period of the first time window and is continued upon reaching a start time predefined for the second time window. The floor treatment plan specifies a cyclically successive floor treatment of several surrounding area subregions of the surrounding area according to a defined sequence of the surrounding area subregions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej MOSEBACH, Henning HAYN
  • Patent number: 11357372
    Abstract: A vacuumed material collection station for receiving vacuumed material from a vacuum cleaning apparatus includes a vacuumed material collection container and an interface for connecting the vacuum cleaning apparatus to the vacuumed material collection station. The vacuumed material collection station comprises a receptacle space for receiving a filter chamber of a vacuum cleaning apparatus connected to the vacuumed material collection station and a feed device for feeding the filter chamber into the receptacle space. The receptacle space is designed for completely encompassing the filter chamber and/or at the most not encompassing a chamber side facing the interface with the vacuum cleaning apparatus. The receptacle space forms a partial volume within the housing of the vacuumed material collection station, and the feed device is designed for removing the filter chamber from the vacuum cleaning apparatus and displacing the filter chamber into the receptacle space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Buening, Benjamin Fleczok, Robert Frielinghaus, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Kevin Schmitz, Fabian Vitz, Niklas Van Teeffelen, Georg Hackert
  • Patent number: 11357373
    Abstract: A suction material collecting station for regenerating a filter chamber of a suction cleaner has an interface for connecting to the suction cleaner, a suction material collection container, a fan for generating a negative pressure in the suction material collection container, and an electric motor for driving the fan so that suction material contained in the filter chamber may be conveyed into the suction material collection container. The suction material collecting station has a control and evaluation unit that calculates a surroundings disturbance parameter and controls the operation of the electric motor automatically, depending on the surroundings disturbance parameter and a device parameter of the suction cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Buening, Benjamin Fleczok, Robert Frielinghaus, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Kevin Schmitz, Fabian Vitz, Niklas Van Teeffelen, Georg Hackert
  • Publication number: 20220179426
    Abstract: An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has an appliance housing, a drive, a computing element and a plurality of fall sensors. The computing element compares a detection result of a fall sensor with a known reference result, and when the detection result does not correspond with the reference result, determines a malfunctioning of the fall sensor. The computing element determines distances detected chronologically successively by the same fall sensor during a movement of the appliance with one another, and when the distances are identical, determines a malfunctioning of the fall sensor, and/or compares a detection result of the leading fall sensor with a detection result of a trailing fall sensor and when the trailing fall sensor detects a slope without the leading fall sensor having detected the slope before, determines a malfunctioning of the leading fall sensor and the trailing fall sensor takes over the from the leading fall sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej MOSEBACH, Henning HAYN
  • Publication number: 20220179427
    Abstract: An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has an appliance housing, a drive, a detector for detecting surrounding area features, and a computer that transmits control commands to the drive, based on the surrounding area features detected by the detector. The detector has a plurality of inner and outer fall sensors arranged on an underside of the appliance housing, which detect a distance of the floor treatment appliance from the surface. The computer controls the drive to change a movement of the floor treatment appliance when the distance detected by the fall sensor is greater than a threshold value defining a slope. The fall sensors are interconnected in an evaluation circuit of the detection means so that the detection signals of the totality of inner fall sensors can be evaluated independently of the detection signals of the totality of outer fall sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej MOSEBACH, Henning HAYN
  • Publication number: 20220142439
    Abstract: A self-propelled floor processing device has a drive unit for moving the floor processing device within an environment, a communication interface for outputting information to a user of the floor processing device, an obstacle detection unit for detecting obstacles within the environment and a computing device, which is set up to generate an area map based upon the obstacles detected by the obstacle detection unit, localize the floor processing device using the area map, and transmit control commands to the drive unit and the communication interface. The computing device defines at least one obstacle within the area map that cannot be independently overcome by the floor processing device as a transition obstacle, identifies the transition obstacle based upon a comparison of currently detected obstacles with the transition obstacle stored in the area map, and reports a manual transport requirement to the user upon reaching the transition obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Harald WINDORFER