Abstract: An electrically operated kitchen appliance includes a mixing container, an electric-motor operated mixer in the mixing container, and a lid for the mixing container, wherein the lid preferably can be locked by an electric motor. A combination of at least the following features is proposed: the electric motor (19) producing the locking has an output power of 1 to 10 watts; the electric motor acts on a locking part via a reduction gear train having a reduction greater than 50:1; the electric motor is a direct-current motor. A kitchen appliance of the type in question may furthermore have a first electric motor for locking the lid and a second electric motor for driving the mixer. The kitchen appliance may be designed in such a way that, when a rotational speed of the mixer is preselected, the first electric motor first performs the lid locking independently and the second electric motor is released to drive the mixer thereafter.

Abstract: A food processor having a standing surface at the bottom, a rear side and a front side, wherein the front side, starting from the highest location of the food processor, is formed obliquely and contains a holder for a cooking vessel. Freely projecting rod parts are formed in an upper region of the food processor, wherein the front ends of the rod parts are arranged on the same horizontal plane and are set back. To improve handling further, it is proposed that the set-back amount should correspond to 25% to 50% of the largest extent of the food processor as seen in the depthwise direction in the standing-surface region of the food processor. The amount also corresponds to approximately half the horizontal distance between the longitudinal centre axes of the rod parts. The contour of the front side is always rounded in the region of the rod parts.

Abstract: An electrically operated kitchen appliance includes a mixing container, an electric-motor operated mixer in the mixing container, and a lid for the mixing container, wherein the lid preferably can be locked by an electric motor. A combination of at least the following features is proposed: the electric motor (19) producing the locking has an output power of 1 to 10 watts; the electric motor acts on a locking part via a reduction gear train having a reduction greater than 50:1; the electric motor is a direct-current motor. A kitchen appliance of the type in question may furthermore have a first electric motor for locking the lid and a second electric motor for driving the mixer. The kitchen appliance may be designed in such a way that, when a rotational speed of the mixer is preselected, the first electric motor first performs the lid locking independently and the second electric motor is released to drive the mixer thereafter.

Abstract: A food processor having a standing surface at the bottom, a rear side and a front side, wherein the front side, starting from the highest location of the food processor, is formed obliquely and contains a holder for a cooking vessel. Freely projecting rod parts are formed in an upper region of the food processor, wherein the front ends of the rod parts are arranged on the same horizontal plane and are set back. To improve handling further, it is proposed that the set-back amount should correspond to 25% to 50% of the largest extent of the food processor as seen in the depthwise direction in the standing-surface region of the food processor. The amount also corresponds to approximately half the horizontal distance between the longitudinal centre axes of the rod parts. The contour of the front side is always rounded in the region of the rod parts.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic intermediate DC circuit which is to be used in brushless electric motors (1) such as reluctance motors and comprises a rectifier bridge (5) composed of diodes (4) and a capacitor that is connected downstream from the rectifier bridge (5). In order to improve the design of a circuit of this type in a structurally simple manner, two capacitors (6, 7) which have different capacities are connected downstream from the rectifier bridge (5).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for control of a reluctance motor which has a rotor (1) and a stator (4), the rotor (1) having a plurality of rotor segments (3) and the stator (4) having a number of coils (6), the number of coils being dependent on the number of rotor segments, thus in particular four coils (6) in the case of two rotor segments (3), and the motor having a control unit which applies a voltage to a coil (6) of a respective phase (PH1) of the stator (4) over a specific angular sector of the movement of the rotor (1) between a switch-on time (E) and a switch-off time (A). In order to provide an improved method of the kind in question by means of which control of an advantageous reluctance motor may be achieved, it is proposed that the switch-on time (E) of a phase (PH1) is selected to be delayed, so as to be different from a geometric pitch (G) of the angular sector of each coil (6), i.e.

Abstract: Electric moto operated kitchen device, especially a food processor, with a mixing vessel, the electric motor preferably being a reluctance motor, characterized in that a residual current sensor is disposed in the kitchen device and interrupts the current supply at least of the electric motor is a residual current is detected.

Abstract: A method for controlling a reluctance motor comprising a rotor (1) and a stator (10), the stator (10) having individual stator coils (22) and a predefined current flowing in the coils (22) according to loading of the motor, the method comprising the steps of applying different control methods depending on number of revolutions of the rotor (1), namely by prescribing a fixed rotary field with smaller number of revolutions.