Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Easy-Clean Cooking Surface and Culinary Article or Domestic Electrical Appliance Comprising such a Cooking Surface
    Publication number: 20130136920
    Abstract: Provided is a food-cooking surface for a culinary article or domestic electrical cooking appliance, consisting in depositing Zr and/or Nb and/or Ti on a substrate, the production process including a step of carburizing and/or nitriding at least one of the aforementioned elements, characterized in that the cooking surface also includes depositing Si so as to produce (Zr/Nb/Ti)—Si—(N/C) coatings. Also provided is a culinary article or domestic electrical or gas cooking appliance comprising such a cooking surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicants: SEB S.A., CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Stephane Tuffe, Jean-Francois Pierson
  • COOKING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130125763
    Abstract: A control device for a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including a cooking chamber designed to receive at least one predetermined food or a plurality of ingredients of a predetermined recipe, a heating component for heating the cooking chamber, the control device including a control unit arranged to determine at least one combination of predetermined cooking parameters as a function at least of the specific surface area of the at least one unitary element of the at least one predetermined food or the at least one ingredient of the plurality of ingredients of the predetermined recipe inserted into the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance, the specific surface area being estimated from descriptive parameters of the at least one unitary element of the predetermined food or the at least one ingredient from among the plurality of ingredients of the predetermined recipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventor: SEB SA
  • Automatic ground-coffee dispenser
    Patent number: 8439235
    Abstract: An automatic ground-coffee dispenser with a ground-coffee storage vessel designed to be mounted on an automatic coffee maker. The storage vessel includes rotary serving paddles for transferring a predetermined quantity of ground coffee through an outflow opening formed in the bottom of the storage vessel and a cone-shaped driver with rotary paddles located above the outflow opening turned by a motor about a vertical axis of the storage vessel. The internal wall of the storage vessel includes at least one longitudinal rib projecting into the storage vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Séverine Mih, Thierry Dutertre
  • Domestic appliance comprising a piezoelectric pump provided with a simplified power supply circuit
    Patent number: 8427033
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit (20) for supplying power to a piezoelectric pump (10) from the electric network (25). According to the invention, the circuit (20) supplies power to the pump (10) directly at the frequency of the electric network (25), and said circuit (20) comprises at least means for limiting the current absorbed by the pump (10) arranged in series with said pump (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seb S.A.
    Inventors: Franck Mandica, Serge Cubizolles, Olivier Lavillat, Bertrand Couet
  • Handle for cookware
    Patent number: 8413840
    Abstract: A handle attached to cookware piece configured to position the cookware piece within a larger cookware piece in a nested arrangement. The handle may include a body having a slot disposed within a bottom surface of the handle body. The slot may be configured such that when a smaller cookware piece is positioned within a larger cookware piece, an upper edge the smaller cookware piece is equal to or less than the same height of an upper edge of the larger cookware piece. The smaller cookware piece may be held by the slot within the larger cookware piece in a substantially horizontal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: SEB S.A., Groupe SEB USA
    Inventors: Paul Metaxatos, Bernard Maurer, Andy Padawer, Duane Kutsch
  • Vertically Depressible Joint and Pressure-Cooker Provided with One Such Joint
    Publication number: 20130068113
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing gasket for a cooking utensil, the utensil includes a vessel and a lid; at least one first locking member and at least one second locking member, the sealing gasket being designed to be interposed between the lid and the vessel and being characterized in that it is designed so that, while the lid is docking with the vessel, said sealing gasket fits over the top rim and comes into contact with said lid and with said vessel while the first locking member is situated at a first height (h61) greater than or equal to the height (h8) at which the second locking member is situated, and is then depressed under the weight of the lid alone to bring the first locking member to a second height (h62) that is less than the height (h8) at which the second locking member is situated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Michel Pierre Cartigny
  • Steam iron comprising a smoothing brush
    Patent number: 8387291
    Abstract: A steam iron having a boiling compartment (15) for producing steam and a steam distribution circuit with a smoothing brush (3) including a head (31) equipped with at least one hole (32) for emitting a flow of steam, characterized in that it contains a steam flow acceleration device (4) that generates a puff of air to increase the steam flow rate at the outlet of the smoothing brush (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Compeau, Denis Paccaud, Martin Krebs, Dierk Spatz
  • Household electric appliance lid having a filtration subassembly
    Patent number: 8381637
    Abstract: A lid for a household electric cooking appliance, the lid having: a lower face; an upper face; a flue extending between the upper face and the lower face for evacuating cooking fumes and having an entry and an exit; a seal carried by the lower face and surrounding the entry of the flue, the seal having a periphery; and a removable filtration subassembly extending across the flue, wherein the filtration subassembly is mounted in an opening of the lower face outside the periphery of the seal. A household electric appliance composed of: the lid described above, and a tank having an upper edge, wherein the seal of the lid is provided to cooperate with the upper edge of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Bizard
  • Pressure Cooker Gasket Having a Flexible Skirt Provided with Notches
    Publication number: 20130042765
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing gasket for a cooking utensil for cooking food under pressure, the utensil includes a vessel and a lid that define a cooking enclosure. The gasket having a heel from which at least a first lip projects that is provided with at least one escape window notch that passes through its thickness, and in that the first lip forms a differential movement member enabling the escape window notch to effect a relative movement relative to the heel when the pressure prevailing inside the cooking enclosure exceeds a predetermined threshold, which relative movement enables said escape window notch to open up a leakage orifice via which the cooking enclosure is put into communication with the outside of the utensil. Cooking utensils for cooking food under pressure such as a pressure cooker are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Michel Pierre Cartigny
  • Clothing iron comprising a sole having a recess equipped with steam exit holes
    Patent number: 8375611
    Abstract: Clothing iron including a sole (1) having a bottom side with a sliding surface (11) coming into contact with cloth and comprising at least one steam-supplied recess (10), the recess (10) being bounded on its entire periphery by the sliding surface (11) in such a manner that the recess (10) forms a steam diffusion cavity that is surrounded by the sliding surface (11) when the sole (1) is applied to the cloth being ironed, characterized in that the sliding surface (11) represents less than 50% of the total surface of the bottom side of the sole (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Franck Mandica, Dominique Gelus, Stéphanie Pessayre
  • Cooking item comprising a non-stick coating with improved properties of adhesion to the substrate
    Patent number: 8372496
    Abstract: A cooking item comprising a vitreous coating with improved impact-resistance properties. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Stéphanie Le Bris, Aurélien Dubanchet, Jean-Luc Perillon
  • Detachable grip device comprising button-activated gripping jaws
    Patent number: 8365948
    Abstract: A detachable grip device has a body, two jaw-forming elements which are mobile in relation to each other between an open position and a closed position, a system for displacing the jaw-forming elements which are designed in such a way as to be able to alternate between a stable closing state and a stable opening state, via an intermediate state of unstable equilibrium, and a system for opening the jaw-forming elements. The opening system is adapted in such a way as to drive the displacement system initially in their closed state past the intermediate state of unstable equilibrium. The opening system comprises at least one button which is arranged on a longitudinal side of the body and is mounted in a sliding manner according to a direction of displacement having a component in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Christophe Lorthioir
  • Electric Kitchen Appliance Comprising a Pressing Screw and a Pre-Cutting Device
    Publication number: 20120325946
    Abstract: Provided is an electric kitchen appliance including a housing which contains an electric motor connected to an upper drive output, a work chamber comprising a work container sealed by a lid with a chute for inserting food, the work container having a discharge outlet, a removable pressing screw which can be rotated by the upper drive output being arranged in the work chamber. Rotation of the pressing screw is provided by a rotary element removably mounted in the work chamber, the rotary element including a pre-cutting disc and a driving member which is rotated by the upper drive output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Charles, Augustin Dominguez
  • Expresso coffee machine
    Patent number: D675471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Electric deep fryer with handles
    Patent number: D676271
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Guillaume Reiner
  • Electric fryer
    Patent number: D677112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Philippe Piret
  • Electric deep fryer
    Patent number: D677113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Guillaume Reiner
  • Electric mixer
    Patent number: D677114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Cedric Ragot
  • Electric oven
    Patent number: D678711
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Guillaume Reiner
  • Electric mixer
    Patent number: D682015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Cedric Ragot