Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Cooking Utensil Comprising a Hard Base Made from Ceramic and/or Metal and/or Polymer Material and a Nonstick Coating Containing a Fluorocarbon Resin
    Publication number: 20120132655
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking utensil comprising a hollow bowl with a base and a side wall rising from the base, and including at least one fragile area. The bowl has a concave inner surface for receiving food, as well as a convex outer surface. The utensil is coated successively, from the bowl, with a hard base and a nonstick coating, which covers the hard base and includes at least one layer containing at least one fluorocarbon resin. The hard base has a layer that is at least broken at the fragile area. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a utensil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Perillon, Michel Fontaine
  • Method for measuring the quantity of coffee dispensed by a coffee mill and appliance comprising such a mill
    Patent number: 8181565
    Abstract: A method for measuring a quantity of coffee MNi or MTi that a grinding burr of a coffee mill driven in rotation by a motor dispenses in a predetermined number of revolutions Ni of the grinding burr or in a predetermined time interval Ti. According to the method: the average speed Vi of the grinding burr in a number of revolutions Ni or respectively in a time interval Ti is measured; and the quantity or mass MNi of coffee dispensed in the number of revolutions Ni or respectively the mass MTi of coffee dispensed in the time interval Ti is deduced as a function of the speed Vi from an experimentally obtained stored correspondence table (Vi, MNi) or (Vi, MTi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Mickaël Beule, Gilles Lebuffe
  • Method for counting the number of revolutions of a burr of a coffee mill and appliance comprising such a mill
    Patent number: 8179072
    Abstract: A method for counting the number of revolutions of a burr of a coffee mill driven in rotation by an electric motor. According to the method: at least one electrical parameter Pi of the motor that varies in proportion to the speed of said motor is measured in a regular time interval Ti; the speed Vi in each time interval Ti is calculated from the parameter Pi based on an experimentally obtained relation; and the number of revolutions Ni made by the burr in each time interval Ti is calculated from the speed Vi determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Mickaël Beule, Gilles Lebuffe
  • Steam Hairdressing Device Comprising a Base and a Portable Unit
    Publication number: 20120111355
    Abstract: Provided is a device intended for the styling of hair including: a base (1000) comprising a fluid reservoir (19), a portable unit (100) detached from the base (1000) and comprising fluid vaporization means (7), steam distribution means (7?, 7?) intended for hair, a cord set (21) comprising at least one line (215) intended for the passage of fluid and arranged between the fluid reservoir (19) and the vaporization means (7), the portable unit (1000) comprises a first treatment surface (4) intended to come into contact with the hair and the fluid vaporization means (7) are exclusively provided in the portable unit (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Vacheron, Jérôme Tougouchi, Martial Maisonneuve
  • Steam Hairdressing Apparatus
    Publication number: 20120111356
    Abstract: A steam hairdressing apparatus to style the hair, including: a first and a second jaw arranged facing one another, a first treatment surface borne by the first jaw and a second treatment surface borne by the second jaw, the surfaces intended to grasp a lock of hair, a reservoir of liquid, a means of vaporization of the liquid in fluid communication with the reservoir, a steam distribution means in communication with the means of vaporization, comprising one or more steam distribution orifices in the direction of a lock of hair, the means of vaporization comprising a first vaporization chamber forming a unique volume, a second vaporization chamber equipped with a plurality of baffles, said chambers in fluid communication, the internal volume (V1) of the first chamber being greater than the internal volume (V2) of the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Vacheron, Benoit Linglin, Régis Fereyre, Marc Legrain
  • Quick Frying Method Adapted for Using a Small Amount of Fatty Material and Apparatus Using Said Method
    Publication number: 20120107471
    Abstract: Provided is a method for frying food that comprises mixing said food with a fatty material in a cooking housing in association with the ventilation of said cooking housing and the heating of said cooking housing heating means capable of heating by radiation. The method comprises limiting the exposure of the food to the radiation of the heating means during an initial food drying and cooking step, and increasing the exposure of the food to the radiation of the heating means during a following food colouring step. The cooking apparatus comprising a cooking housing associated with food mixing means, with heating means capable of heating by radiation and with ventilation means, and to means for modulating the exposure of the food to the radiation of the heating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Celine Sobole, Jean-Marie Balandier
  • Automatic dispenser of ground coffee
    Patent number: 8161867
    Abstract: An automatic dispenser for ground coffee composed of a reservoir for grounds, the reservoir having a bottom provided with an outlet opening, rotatable dosing paddles at the bottom of the reservoir for dispensing a predetermined quantity of ground coffee through the outlet opening; a drive cone having rotatable blades disposed above the dosing paddles and adapted to be rotated about a vertical axis by a motor assembly, and a mixer in the form or a pyramid disposed above, and forming an extension of, the drive cone. An automatic coffee maker equipped with this dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Dutertre, Séverine Mih, Fabrice Reveillere
  • Mold for producing a batter-based food that swells under heat
    Patent number: 8151696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mold (1) for producing a batter-based food that swells under heat, which mold (1) comprises two cooking subassemblies (2, 3) capable of moving between an open position enabling the batter to be deposited and a closed position in which they define a cooking chamber, in which each cooking subassembly (2, 3) includes a cooking plate (4, 5), with the lower cooking plate (4) comprising a peripheral wall that delimits the cooking chamber and extends above the median plane of said chamber. According to the invention, the peripheral wall includes, on a discharge portion (11), a lowering forming an opening enabling an excess of expanding batter to be discharged, in which the discharge portion (11) extends vertically at least to the median plane of the cooking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Lubowicki, Rodolphe Touchard
  • Electric Cooking Appliance With a Pivoting Cover With a Condensate Recovery Mechanism
    Publication number: 20120079949
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical cooking appliance with a case (10) forming a cooking container with a vat closed by a pivoting cover (12) mounted on case (10); cover (12) includes a joint (21) forming a spout designed so that joint (21) includes a channel (40) which leads through an initial extremity into the spout and, through a second extremity, to near a condensate reservoir when cover (12) is raised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Florent Pontabry, Frédéric Seurat
  • Cooking Utensil with V-Shaped or U-Shaped Indentation
    Publication number: 20120061403
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking utensil of which the bottom wall comprises an even upper surface and a lower surface (1) comprising concave indentations (2). Each indentation (2) is constituted of two radial branches (3a) and of a central branch (4) connecting the two radial branches (3a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S A
    Inventor: Jean-Francois BRASSET
  • Cookware handle with a hollow structure
    Patent number: 8132689
    Abstract: A cookware handle designed to be grasped by a user's hand, consisting of a rigid structure attached to the cookware and a flexible grip surrounding the rigid structure. The rigid structure contains at least one hollow cavity positioned directly underneath the grip, facing the hand support area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Ludovic Pasquini
  • Heating Article Including Coloured Heat Indicator with Improved Visability and Precision
    Publication number: 20120052265
    Abstract: This invention relates to a heating article (1) comprising a substrate (2) of which one of the surfaces (21) is equipped with a design (4), in the form of a coating layer with at least one pattern (41, 42), which comprises a thermochromic pigment composition with at least one SC thermochromic pigment that is lipid-sensitive under heat. According to the invention, the thermochromic pigment composition includes at least one thermostable pigment and composite pigment grains (43), which each include a core (430) including the semiconducting thermochromic pigment, and a solid, transparent and continuous envelope (431), formed by a mineral or organomineral material. The thermochromic pigment composition shows a reversible change in colour in a thermal colour-change area with an amplitude of no more than 40° C. within the range of variation of said temperature T1 of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Stephanie Le Bris, Laurent Voisin, Jean-Luc Perillon
  • Gripping member for a magnetised lid
    Patent number: 8109207
    Abstract: A gripper for a removable lid of a kitchen utensil is provided, which can be fixed to a top of a lid through the action of a magnet on a magnetic component. The gripper comprises a base plate and an operating member that can move relative to the base plate between a magnetizing position in which the force exerted by the magnet on the magnetic component allows the gripper to be secured to the top, and an isolating position in which this force is not strong enough to secure the gripper to the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Christophe Lorthoir
  • Limited overflow waffle iron
    Patent number: 8109206
    Abstract: The inventive waffle iron has two baking sub-assemblies pivotable with respect to each other from an open position and a closed proximate position in which they define a baking chamber. At any position of the baking sub-assemblies between the closed proximate position and the closed offset position thereof, wherein they are offset from each other by a product expansion, a peripheral element of a baking sub-assembly slides along a corresponding peripheral element of the other baking sub-assembly in such a way that the variable volume baking chamber is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Seb SA
    Inventors: Roger Rosset, Guillaume Prieto, Jérôme Tranchant
  • Hair-Care Device with Jaws
    Publication number: 20120024311
    Abstract: A hair-care device includes at least: two jaws, first jaw and second jaw, which are elongated and hinged together so as to be able to shift between an open position and a closed position in which opposing working surfaces define a hair treatment region, and electric heating element attached to at least one of the working surfaces. The first jaw consists of at least one friction bar which is able to move along an adjacent working surface and which is adapted to engage with an opposing element of second jaw to create, when the jaws are closed, a traction region which generates a traction force which exceeds the traction force generated by the treatment region as the device is moved over a lock of hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Benoît Linglin, Régis Fereyre, Bénédicte Simond
  • Food Cooking Basket and Corresponding Cooking System
    Publication number: 20120017772
    Abstract: The invention relates to a basket (1) for cooking food for a cooking utensil designed to cook the food in an atmosphere charged with steam, said basket (1) having a bottom (6) that is permeable to steam and an upper annular side wall (8) extending upwards from said bottom (6) so as to co-operate therewith to form a receptacle for receiving said food, said basket being characterized in that it further has a lower annular side wall (9) extending downwards from said bottom (6), said lower annular side wall (9) being shaped to channel the steam towards said bottom (6) so that the steam channeled in this way passes at least locally through said bottom (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Guillaume Cohade, Richard Rocca
  • Electric fryer
    Patent number: D655971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Guillaume Reiner
  • Expresso coffee machine
    Patent number: D660071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Berlencourt
  • Electric toaster with two slots
    Patent number: D661940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Electric toaster with four slots
    Patent number: D661941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty