Patents by Inventor Gerd Funk
Gerd Funk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10969111Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: RATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Peter Wiedemann, Jana Kirchgaessner, Sascha Barby, Gerd Funk, Torsten Brinkmann, Bruno Maas, Frank Marek, Anton Meindl, Wilhelm Maerz, Sonja Reich, Leonora Minisini, Wolfgang Schmidberger, Meike Stelljes
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Patent number: 9750089Abstract: A cooking device has at least one pre-set parameter for at least one predetermined program, such as a cooking program, and/or cleaning program, and/or for at least one predetermined mode of operation, such as a cooking mode of operation or a cleaning mode of operation. The preset parameter can be modified by means of at least one modification function element of a control element of the cooking device. During a particular time period, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored by means of at least one confirmation and/or storage function element of the control element of the cooking device, and after a particular time period has elapsed, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored automatically by the cooking device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2004Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Rational AGInventors: Peter Wiedemann, Andrea Jürgens, Cornelia Dietmayer, Michael Greiner, Erwin Schuller, Gerd Funk, Thomas Treu
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Publication number: 20160081510Abstract: In a method of cooking food in a cooking device, an operator is able to select a specific cooking process from a multitude of predefined automated cooking processes and/or manually select parameters for a manual cooking process, at least one significant cooking process parameter being continuously logged in a memory by a control unit of the cooking device from the start of the cooking process, and it being possible for the operator to change from a manual cooking process to an automated cooking process, and vice versa. Also provided is a cooking device for cooking food, having a control unit including a memory for at least one significant cooking process parameter, and the operating unit offering a changeover switch by which the operator can change from an automated cooking process to a manual cooking process, and vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Michael FINK, Gerd FUNK
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Publication number: 20150176846Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Rational AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Wiedemann, Jana Kirchgaessner, Sascha Barby, Gerd Funk, Torsten Brinkmann, Bruno Maas, Frank Marek, Anton Meindl, Wilhelm Maerz, Sonja Reich, Leonora Minisini, Wolfgang Schmidberger, Meike Stelljes
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Publication number: 20080295702Abstract: A cooking device has at least one pre-set parameter for at least one predetermined program, such as a cooking program, and/or cleaning program, and/or for at least one predetermined mode of operation, such as a cooking mode of operation or a cleaning mode of operation. The preset parameter can be modified by means of at least one modification function element of a control element of the cooking device. During a particular time period, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored by means of at least one confirmation and/or storage function element of the control element of the cooking device, and after a particular time period has elapsed, the modification can be confirmed, accepted and/or stored automatically by the cooking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2004Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: Rational AGInventors: Peter Wiedemann, Andrea Jurgens, Cornelia Dietmayer, Michael Greiner, Erwin Schuller, Gerd Funk, Thomas Treu
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Publication number: 20060289459Abstract: A cooking method for a cooking device with at least one cooking container, such as in the form of a pan or similar, which can be filled at least partly with a fluid cooking medium, especially water or milk, so that the cooking product can be cooked, especially boiled or poached in the cooking medium, including the following steps: selecting semi-automatic cooking or fully automatic cooking by an operator, selecting a cooking product and/or of a cooking process by an operator, automatically filling a first cooking container with a cooking medium in an amount determined as a function of the selected cooking product and/or selected cooking process, automatically heating the cooking medium in the first cooking container to a temperature determined as a function of the selected cooking product and/or the selected cooking process, automatically introducing the cooking product into the heated cooking medium, automatically cooking the cooking product in the heated cooking medium as a function of the selected cookingType: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicants: RATIONAL AG, FRIMA S.A.Inventors: Helen Schmidt, Peter Wiedemann, Gerd Funk
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Publication number: 20060185810Abstract: A cooking device for regenerating an item to be cooked includes a regeneration compartment, inside of which at least two regeneration levels are or can be arranged at different heights, in particular, while being fixed by being pushed in. A timer that trips an alarm after a set or settable regeneration time has elapsed is assigned to each regeneration level. Additionally, the cooking device includes an operational control with an input unit for manually initiating the timer of each regeneration level loaded with an item to be cooked and a display unit for displaying a period of time characteristic of an initiated timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: RATIONAL AGInventors: Andrea Juergens, Michael Greiner, Gerd Funk, Thomas Treu
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Publication number: 20060013933Abstract: In a method and system for conducting a cooking process in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance using a cooking process probe which is to be inserted at least partly into an item being cooked in the cooking chamber for detecting at least one variable of the item being cooked, at least at one predetermined point in time, non-insertion of the cooking process probe into the item being cooked is automatically monitored. If non-insertion is detected, at least one of a first warning signal is emitted, a changeover is made to an emergency program, and a cooking program is avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: January 19, 2006Applicant: Rational AGInventors: Michael Fink, Gerd Funk
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Patent number: 6318245Abstract: A cooking device has a cooking chamber, a ventilation device in the form of a ventilating fan wheel or the like and a heating device plus a catalyst. Air from the cooking chamber, including greasy vapors, odor particles, and/or hydrocarbons, can be directed in a finely-atomized form onto the catalyst by the ventilation device. The catalyst purifies the air directed thereon and releases energy in the form of heat during purification, which heat can be distributed inside the cooking chamber by the ventilation device.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Rational AGInventors: Wilfried Durth, Peter Wiedemann, Gerd Funk